21/02/2017

:00:00. > :00:08.This is Breakfast, with Steph McGovern and Jon Kay.

:00:09. > :00:10.Cuts to hospital services are planned in most

:00:11. > :00:14.A BBC investigation into 44 local plans reveals hospital

:00:15. > :00:33.The Government says it's about giving patients better care.

:00:34. > :00:38.Good morning. It's Tuesday, the 21st of February.

:00:39. > :00:42.The growing teacher supply crisis in our classrooms.

:00:43. > :00:46.A report by MPs says urgent action is needed to reduce the numbers

:00:47. > :00:54.Catastrophic engine failure is blamed after a light aircraft

:00:55. > :00:57.crashes into a shopping centre in the Australian city of Melbourne,

:00:58. > :01:08.Good morning. Profit at I'm Rico Hizon in Singapore's biggest bank

:01:09. > :01:14.HSBC fell by more than 60% last year, as growth slowed here and

:01:15. > :01:14.abroad. -- profit at Britain's biggest bank.

:01:15. > :01:18.In sport, Sutton United couldn't pull off what would have been one

:01:19. > :01:19.of the biggest FA Cup giant-killings.

:01:20. > :01:22.The non-league side from the fifth tier of English

:01:23. > :01:24.football were beaten 2-0 by Arsenal in the fifth

:01:25. > :01:30.It is about encouraging women from across the military but also

:01:31. > :01:31.civilians to give things ago and there is no ceiling.

:01:32. > :01:34.We meet the Ice Maidens, a team of British soldiers

:01:35. > :01:37.who are preparing to become the first all-female group to cross

:01:38. > :01:48.Hoping to be a bit warmer here? Good morning from the roof of

:01:49. > :01:53.broadcasting house in London, where it is down but mild. For much of

:01:54. > :01:57.southern England it remains damp, cloudy and wet. It will be

:01:58. > :02:02.rejuvenating through the day. Cold in the north but we will have rain

:02:03. > :02:03.and strong winds coming in from the north-west. More details in 15

:02:04. > :02:05.minutes. Fax. Most areas of England will see

:02:06. > :02:11.hospital services cut or moved under plans to save money

:02:12. > :02:13.and improve efficiency. Analysis by the BBC has also found

:02:14. > :02:17.that about a third of the proposals would see a reduction

:02:18. > :02:19.in the number of hospitals The government says patients

:02:20. > :02:24.will receive better care Our health reporter

:02:25. > :02:36.Sophie Hutchinson has the details. Protest outside this hospital in

:02:37. > :02:39.Oxfordshire just a few months ago where there are concerns about bed

:02:40. > :02:44.closures and cuts to stroke and critical care. It is not the only

:02:45. > :02:49.place. Right across England proposals for big changes are afoot

:02:50. > :02:53.in the NHS. The BBC has analysed 44 of the transformation and

:02:54. > :02:59.sustainability plans. Two thirds include either hospital closures are

:03:00. > :03:02.moving treatments to a new site. More than one third involve cuts to

:03:03. > :03:07.the number of hospitals providing nonemergency treatment is and around

:03:08. > :03:12.one third plan to reduce the number of hospitals offering emergency

:03:13. > :03:16.care. The post closures to hospital beds have been heavily criticised by

:03:17. > :03:20.the think tank The King's Fund. More generally it says the plans are the

:03:21. > :03:25.best hope of delivering essential reforms to the NHS, but it says it

:03:26. > :03:29.can't be done without extra funding. Ideally there ought to be an

:03:30. > :03:33.earmarked fund for new investment, to strengthen and improve the

:03:34. > :03:38.out-of-hospital services, and to shore up adult social care, which is

:03:39. > :03:41.really in crisis at the moment. If those additional funds are not

:03:42. > :03:45.forthcoming the government needs to be honest about the consequences for

:03:46. > :03:50.patients and what the offer to the public will be. The Department of

:03:51. > :03:53.Health says it is confident the NHS plans will help patients get better

:03:54. > :03:55.care, with improvements to Melbourne -- mental health and campus services

:03:56. > :04:02.and more access to GPs. The shortage of teachers in schools

:04:03. > :04:05.in England is getting worse, affecting key subjects

:04:06. > :04:07.like physics and maths, The Commons Education Committee says

:04:08. > :04:13.today that recruitment targets have been missed for five years in a row

:04:14. > :04:17.and there should be more focus on keeping teachers

:04:18. > :04:19.in the profession long-term. The actual sums are adding and

:04:20. > :04:26.taking... Maths class for these

:04:27. > :04:28.children with Mr Walton. But professionals like him

:04:29. > :04:31.are increasingly hard to come by, according to a group of MPs,

:04:32. > :04:34.who say school teachers shortages I think that's mainly due

:04:35. > :04:46.to workload, pressure, The Education Select Committee

:04:47. > :04:51.is calling for a long-term plan to recruit more teachers

:04:52. > :04:54.and a bigger emphasis to be placed on retaining them,

:04:55. > :04:59.warning many are leaving. Reasons include a lack

:05:00. > :05:01.of job satisfaction, Researchers have found

:05:02. > :05:06.teachers in England work nearly 20% more than they do

:05:07. > :05:09.in other similar countries, an average of nearly

:05:10. > :05:12.50 hours a week. 20 of those are spent

:05:13. > :05:17.here in the classroom teaching. MPs say secondary schools

:05:18. > :05:20.are hardest hit in subjects What we've got to get

:05:21. > :05:27.across is just how important teachers are to our

:05:28. > :05:30.society and to our economy. They need to feel

:05:31. > :05:32.valued, they need to The Department for Education says

:05:33. > :05:35.it is investing in teacher recruitment and development

:05:36. > :05:38.to make sure the best Five people have been killed

:05:39. > :05:44.after a light plane crashed into a shopping centre

:05:45. > :05:48.in the Australian city of Melbourne. The shops weren't open at the time

:05:49. > :05:51.and no-one on the ground Let's speak to our Sydney

:05:52. > :06:06.correspondent Hywel Griffith. The pictures are so dramatic. What

:06:07. > :06:10.do we understand happened here? Yes, we are still learning exactly what

:06:11. > :06:15.happened. What we know is that moments after takeoff this small

:06:16. > :06:18.plane with five people onboard, the pilot radioed through a Mayday

:06:19. > :06:22.message saying he had catastrophic engine failure. Within seconds

:06:23. > :06:26.eyewitnesses saw the plane swooped down from the sky and within sight

:06:27. > :06:30.of the runway hit the shopping centre, that's just at the periphery

:06:31. > :06:33.of the airport. Incredibly, although there were some stuff in the

:06:34. > :06:38.building, none of those were injured. But a fireball erupted.

:06:39. > :06:42.Some people driving on a freeway nearby report feeling the heat

:06:43. > :06:48.coming from there. Tragically all five people onboard died, including

:06:49. > :06:51.the pilot and we've just had confirmation from the US embassy in

:06:52. > :06:55.Australia that there were for American tourists on that plane.

:06:56. > :07:03.They were due to be going on a golfing holiday in the Tasmanian

:07:04. > :07:08.island of king -- King Island. You would have seen the huge area of

:07:09. > :07:12.devastation, crews were trying to dampen the flames. That will make

:07:13. > :07:15.the investigation harder, but already that key information that

:07:16. > :07:16.authorities say this was due to catastrophic engine failure. In Q4

:07:17. > :07:22.now. -- thanks for now. The world's sixth largest bank,

:07:23. > :07:25.HSBC, is reporting a bigger than expected fall

:07:26. > :07:34.in pre-tax profits. We won't expecting this. They are

:07:35. > :07:39.quite big numbers. Yes. They are still making billions of pounds of

:07:40. > :07:42.profit, but when they fall by 60% you will have to look at the

:07:43. > :07:48.business and wonder what is going on. They say it's a lot to do with

:07:49. > :07:51.the European business. They've had to write down some of the value

:07:52. > :07:57.because of unfavourable market conditions. But over 2016 HSBC's

:07:58. > :08:00.global bank saw some uncertainty. It mentioned the UK referendum on the

:08:01. > :08:05.European Union and on that it reminds us that it is thinking of

:08:06. > :08:09.moving 1000 jobs to Paris. That's slowing economic growth in the UK.

:08:10. > :08:15.We can actually drill down a little bit and you -- look at the UK

:08:16. > :08:20.business as well. Fewer customer accounts in 2016 and the year

:08:21. > :08:24.before. That felt like 40,000. But our savings balances with HSBC

:08:25. > :08:30.increased, so we saw more money coming in from the UK even though a

:08:31. > :08:33.few of us... They said they put more money into the call centres after

:08:34. > :08:37.lots of complex around the quality of its customer service.

:08:38. > :08:42.Interesting. What are you going to be talking about later? Food prices!

:08:43. > :08:46.Childcare. Anything you want. Excellent. Thanks very much.

:08:47. > :08:49.The Chancellor Philip Hammond has assured Conservative MPs that he's

:08:50. > :08:51.listening to concerns about a business rate revaluation

:08:52. > :08:54.in England and Wales, which will leave more than a quarter

:08:55. > :09:01.The rates are being updated for the first time in seven years,

:09:02. > :09:05.and Mr Hammond's facing pressure to do more to help those affected.

:09:06. > :09:10.Let's speak to our political correspondent Tom Bateman.

:09:11. > :09:15.Looking through the papers this morning, this seems to be an issue

:09:16. > :09:21.which the government is increasingly nervous about. It is potentially

:09:22. > :09:26.explosive, isn't it? I think so. These businesses, about a quarter of

:09:27. > :09:29.businesses in England and Wales are concerned about some of these rate

:09:30. > :09:32.rises. Some complaining that they could be quite steep. I think this

:09:33. > :09:37.is becoming a growing political issue for the government. Last night

:09:38. > :09:41.the Chancellor Philip Hammond was in a private meeting with Conservative

:09:42. > :09:46.MPs in Parliament. Many of those concerns were put to him. But what

:09:47. > :09:50.he said in response was that he was open to listening to the issues of

:09:51. > :09:55.the hardest hit, however, there was no commitment to make any changes by

:09:56. > :10:02.the way to this. There is room for manoeuvre. Bills will start going

:10:03. > :10:07.out to people this Friday. The government believes there is some

:10:08. > :10:11.scaremongering over this. That over 70% of businesses will face no

:10:12. > :10:15.change or even reductions in their business rates and they're saying

:10:16. > :10:20.they believe this is the biggest change, biggest change that had to

:10:21. > :10:23.be made, the business rate in a long time. Thanks for now.

:10:24. > :10:26.Specialist police teams are digging up the gardens of two

:10:27. > :10:31.One is believed to be the former home of Christopher Halliwell,

:10:32. > :10:35.who's serving a whole life sentence for the murders of two women,

:10:36. > :10:41.President Trump has named General HR McMaster as his

:10:42. > :10:46.He replaces General Michael Flynn, who resigned just three weeks

:10:47. > :10:48.into the job, after misleading the Vice-President over

:10:49. > :10:55.conversations with the Russian ambassador.

:10:56. > :10:57.Mr Trump's described his new appointment as a man

:10:58. > :11:05.You think going shopping doesn't seem like a scary experience, but

:11:06. > :11:07.have a look at this. A man in New York has had

:11:08. > :11:10.an extremely lucky escape while doing his weekly shop

:11:11. > :11:17.at a mini-mart in the Bronx. He was caught on CCTV,

:11:18. > :11:20.going about his business, He realises He realises he's

:11:21. > :11:39.forgotten something. He is unhurt, which is good news,

:11:40. > :11:44.obviously trying to catch his breath and clearly in shock. He and the

:11:45. > :11:46.driver were later taken to hospital, but thankfully neither of them had

:11:47. > :11:51.serious injuries. Terrifying!

:11:52. > :11:54.Just picking out your packet of biscuits and all of a sudden.

:11:55. > :11:59.Stay away from the biscuit! That's the lesson.

:12:00. > :12:06.Over to the sport. I think a lot of people were hoping

:12:07. > :12:10.there would be a lovely ending to the FA Cup story. That's what

:12:11. > :12:17.everyone said to me this morning. As you can see, just a little

:12:18. > :12:19.disappointed at not getting the big victory and the Arsenal fans were

:12:20. > :12:22.celebrating being into the quarter-finals.

:12:23. > :12:26.But that fairytale wasn't to be for Sutton United.

:12:27. > :12:29.Their attempt to cause one of the FA Cups biggest shocks was thwarted

:12:30. > :12:33.The lowest ranked team in the last 16 were beaten 2-0

:12:34. > :12:36.by Premier League side, who will now meet another non-league

:12:37. > :12:39.team in Lincoln City for a place in the semi finals.

:12:40. > :12:42.The Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has urged his side

:12:43. > :12:45.to enjoy their Champions League last 16 tie against Monaco tonight,

:12:46. > :12:47.but concedes the critics will "kill them" if they lose.

:12:48. > :12:49.Great Britain Badminton has admitted to being "staggered"

:12:50. > :12:53.after they were one of seven sports to lose appeals against UK

:12:54. > :12:57.It means they'll receive no financial support in the build up

:12:58. > :13:03.And Great Britain will have to play their next Davis Cup on clay

:13:04. > :13:07.after France decided it will be the surface for their quarter final.

:13:08. > :13:10.The two countries last met in 2015 when Great Britain went

:13:11. > :13:22.It will be interesting to see France play Great Britain again.

:13:23. > :13:25.We will look at the back page is in a moment. Our little ray of sunshine

:13:26. > :13:32.is on the roof! Good morning. It is still mild in

:13:33. > :13:36.the south, but if you compare the temperatures to yesterday in

:13:37. > :13:42.Aberdeen, this time yesterday it was 12- 13, 5-6 at the moment. So

:13:43. > :13:47.changes afoot. In London it is still 10-11. We've got a lot of cloud and

:13:48. > :13:52.some patchy and light rain. Through the day for many, away from the

:13:53. > :13:55.north, it will stay miles. Through the next few days that will change

:13:56. > :14:01.and we'll have returned to whether more like what we would expect this

:14:02. > :14:05.time of year. At 9am in Scotland you can see the first signs of rain

:14:06. > :14:10.coming in the north-west. Iniesta, somewhat brighter. The north-west

:14:11. > :14:14.England, a lot of cloud. The north-east of England having

:14:15. > :14:18.sunshine and Bennett extends into Norfolk. It all points to the west

:14:19. > :14:25.of that, through the Midlands, into Kent and southern counties. We have

:14:26. > :14:30.the cloud and patchy rain and that main content -- continues in the

:14:31. > :14:34.Southwest Wales. We have low-level fog and general damp is in the air.

:14:35. > :14:37.For Northern Ireland this morning it's a dry start. A little bit of

:14:38. > :14:41.brightness and some cloud, but that's going to change as we go

:14:42. > :14:45.through the course of the day. We've got a bit of a pincer effect going

:14:46. > :14:49.on. The rain in the south will rejuvenate as it starts to move

:14:50. > :14:53.northwards and it will be heavy over Wales and Northern Ireland. At the

:14:54. > :14:57.same time the rain in the north and the windy conditions will sink south

:14:58. > :15:02.and the two will merge. The brighter skies will be in the east. Very

:15:03. > :15:06.windy for a time, especially with exposure in the north-west. Heading

:15:07. > :15:10.into the evening and overnight the band of rain continue southwards.

:15:11. > :15:14.There will be a period of squally winds, especially across northern

:15:15. > :15:18.England, as it continues its descent southwards across the UK. Behind it

:15:19. > :15:23.under clearer skies we have snow showers, and snow on the mountains

:15:24. > :15:28.of Scotland. Still comparatively mild in the south, but colder in the

:15:29. > :15:32.north. For tomorrow southern areas will hang on to most of the cloud

:15:33. > :15:37.and some of the rain. Behind it there will be brighter skies, but

:15:38. > :15:44.very windy. Especially in the far north of mainland Scotland and

:15:45. > :15:48.southern parts of Shetland. 70- 80 locally, which could lead to some

:15:49. > :15:53.disruptions. If you are travelling check before you set out. As we head

:15:54. > :15:57.into Thursday if you are travelling on Thursday keep a close eye on the

:15:58. > :16:01.weather forecast because on Thursday we have low pressure moving across

:16:02. > :16:05.Northern Ireland, England as well. At the areas around it will be

:16:06. > :16:10.affected as well. We are looking at heavy rain and snow across central,

:16:11. > :16:14.southern Scotland and in the northern England. Not just on the

:16:15. > :16:20.hills, we could have some other levels. Very windy will stop up to

:16:21. > :16:23.70- 80 in northern England. Some atrocious travelling conditions,

:16:24. > :16:29.especially on higher ground. Good advice. Thanks very much.

:16:30. > :16:32.Let's have a look at this morning's papers.

:16:33. > :16:44.Tuesday morning. The Daily Mirror. The Lords have been discussing the

:16:45. > :16:56.Brexit bell. Here is a reproduction of that famous headline. Lords Still

:16:57. > :17:00.Leeching. And we will talk about life in the Lords as a documentary

:17:01. > :17:04.uncovers what goes on there. A picture of Prime Minister Theresa

:17:05. > :17:09.May in the House of Lords, unusual for the Prime Minister, as she waits

:17:10. > :17:18.to hear the Brexit deal being debated. And then life changing when

:17:19. > :17:23.you are 60. What happens that will last you a lifetime. Business rates

:17:24. > :17:31.are the front of the Times again. What else have you got? In terms of

:17:32. > :17:36.business, going to and fro with business rates. Are they benefiting

:17:37. > :17:41.businesses across the country? The Times and others have talked about

:17:42. > :17:51.fitness apps as being a step in the wrong direction for health. And one

:17:52. > :17:54.professor is saying that 10,000 steps that everybody... Don't tell

:17:55. > :18:02.me this. How many have you done today? What do you do when you get

:18:03. > :18:08.the "ping" when you have walked that far? Have a chocolate bar. They

:18:09. > :18:14.haven't named you. When you get to 10,000 steps you reward yourself,

:18:15. > :18:20.and maybe the net benefit is not as good. He says 10,000 steps was taken

:18:21. > :18:27.from a Japanese study in the 1960s as being the best number of steps to

:18:28. > :18:34.do in a day. Is that science? So the answer is do not treat yourself,

:18:35. > :18:39.great. A cricket story. Millionaires in the Indian Premier League.

:18:40. > :18:46.Auction for 1.4 million four Mills, who is only playing at 2020 level.

:18:47. > :18:53.And Ben Stokes was the highest paid foreign player, and they get to keep

:18:54. > :18:59.that money. Kevin Pietersen was the first... The Indian Premier League

:19:00. > :19:05.brings India to a standstill. All the children do not go to school and

:19:06. > :19:08.people come home early from work. That getting the most money from the

:19:09. > :19:16.foreign players. Big money, isn't it? You do not want to reward

:19:17. > :19:20.yourself with a chocolate bar, but maybe some cake. An interview with

:19:21. > :19:39.Mary and the Times. She said one thing she does not mess about Bake

:19:40. > :19:43.Off is the crying when their bottom goes soggy or a pie burns in the

:19:44. > :19:47.oven. But didn't she cry? Maybe that was only once. Maybe she doesn't cry

:19:48. > :19:50.when things go wrong, maybe only when things go right. She said

:19:51. > :19:54.another channel was not an option. A profound statement. Thank you so

:19:55. > :19:57.much. We will see you in a little bit. It is Tuesday morning. Another

:19:58. > :20:00.health story for you now. Eight years after it was criticised

:20:01. > :20:03.by inspectors for not having enough beds, operating theatres,

:20:04. > :20:05.or trained staff, Birmingham Children's Hospital has become

:20:06. > :20:08.the first of its kind to be The specialist hospital has

:20:09. > :20:11.been praised for turning Our health correspondent,

:20:12. > :20:27.Jane Dreaper, is there I bet a lot of people are happy

:20:28. > :20:34.there this morning, Jane. They certainly are. Flock to the Playing

:20:35. > :20:39.Room in Ward ten at Birmingham Children's Hospital. Across the

:20:40. > :20:44.hospital, 360 sleepy head are just waking up. They do a huge and

:20:45. > :20:49.special job staff if it is not just about dividing excellent care, but

:20:50. > :20:53.putting the young patients at ease, and looking after the whole family.

:20:54. > :20:58.-- providing. Play areas like this that are bright and provide toys are

:20:59. > :21:02.important, but it is also about how staff across the board relate to the

:21:03. > :21:04.children, parents, and siblings. That is just as important as saving

:21:05. > :21:13.lives. A mother's tender touch. Connacht is

:21:14. > :21:19.just seven months old, and recovering in intensive care from a

:21:20. > :21:23.liver transplant. -- Connor. His older brother James had to change

:21:24. > :21:27.school because they live so far away. It is a tough time for the

:21:28. > :21:31.whole family, but they still supported by the staff in

:21:32. > :21:37.Birmingham. We have nearly lost it so many times from being here. We

:21:38. > :21:41.have come close. Without them, we would not have a child playing in

:21:42. > :21:49.this bed. We have got him and he is here. We have faith we will get to

:21:50. > :21:54.take him home. That is the only ask as a parent of a sick child. This is

:21:55. > :22:01.the play and admission is centre, designed to distract young patients

:22:02. > :22:06.before their treatment. Their caring approach has been impressive for

:22:07. > :22:09.parents. This hospital has come a long way since it was criticised by

:22:10. > :22:15.inspectors eight years ago. Back then, the report found a shortage of

:22:16. > :22:21.beds, poor training, and can. Paying much closer attention to the views

:22:22. > :22:26.of parents and staff, and acting on their ideas, has helped change the

:22:27. > :22:30.culture in Birmingham and encourage better teamwork. Eight years ago we

:22:31. > :22:34.were in an organisation that certainly was not listening to our

:22:35. > :22:38.staff and not listening to what young people and families were

:22:39. > :22:43.saying, and was in a really difficult place. Through focusing on

:22:44. > :22:47.those areas of patient and staff engagement, we have now got an do a

:22:48. > :22:55.position where we are improving. Some of the children in our patients

:22:56. > :23:02.need increasing appointments. -- outpatients. So they need better

:23:03. > :23:07.care. I was talking to a doctor and it wasn't scary or anything a couple

:23:08. > :23:12.of weeks ago, it was relaxed. Is it scary when you come here, or do you

:23:13. > :23:17.feel OK? I feel OK. The emotional support given to bereave parents has

:23:18. > :23:22.also been praised in today's report. And they will now be able to use

:23:23. > :23:27.this new room when they are going through the worst of times. Rachel

:23:28. > :23:30.has helped raise thousands of pounds for this unit after the death of her

:23:31. > :23:37.older daughter, Molly from kidney cancer. When you are given news like

:23:38. > :23:43.that, you feel you cannot breathe sometimes. You need fresh air. You

:23:44. > :23:47.need to absorb new information that is being told to use. And there was

:23:48. > :23:53.not that opportunity within the existing building at Birmingham at

:23:54. > :23:59.that time, just to be ourselves as a family and be together. The staff

:24:00. > :24:03.here believe they can improve care even further, but today is a huge

:24:04. > :24:07.improvement in showing how this hospital has turned the corner. Jane

:24:08. > :24:14.Dreaper, BBC News, Birmingham. And a quick update on baby Connor who use

:24:15. > :24:19.or at the top of the film they are, he is showing some signs of

:24:20. > :24:25.progress, so that is good news. -- who you saw. Sharing this proud

:24:26. > :24:29.moment is the Chief Executive, Sarah marsh. You were here eight years ago

:24:30. > :24:34.during those difficult times. Tell me about what was going on then and

:24:35. > :24:37.what you have changed since. Thank you. Everyone here at Birmingham

:24:38. > :24:41.Children's Hospital is totally thrilled and delighted to be given

:24:42. > :24:45.this rating. We have worked so hard over the last eight years. There

:24:46. > :24:49.were things we did not get right, we did not have the right staff in the

:24:50. > :24:52.right place at the right time with the right equipment. Over the last

:24:53. > :24:56.eight years we have invested in staff and believed in them and

:24:57. > :25:00.empowered them every step of the way and that is what has made this

:25:01. > :25:04.improvement in the report. There are still things to do? We are not

:25:05. > :25:09.perfect. We need to do something is better. But we will keep working

:25:10. > :25:15.hard and working together and keep delivering care to our young people.

:25:16. > :25:20.This is the best and worst place to be, the best because you never want

:25:21. > :25:24.to have your child in this hospital, but the best because at least they

:25:25. > :25:29.are getting outstanding care. Back to you, Steph. And thank you to all

:25:30. > :25:34.the people there at Birmingham Children's Hospital. A lot of pride

:25:35. > :25:44.in that hospital. And today we're all also asking about pride. I love

:25:45. > :26:04.this land. This land I have found over the last two years. This land

:26:05. > :26:08.of silver rivers, this land of winding sheep tracks across the

:26:09. > :26:09.faces of escarpments and a wealth of butterflies and wild flowers.

:26:10. > :26:11.We'll meet the vicar who's so passionate about the place

:26:12. > :26:15.he calls home, the South Downs, that he's made a documentary about it.

:26:16. > :26:18.Are you passionate about where you live? We'd love to see your photos

:26:19. > :26:20.of where you call home. You can e-mail us at

:26:21. > :26:21.bbcbreakfast@bbc.co.uk or share your thoughts with other

:26:22. > :26:25.viewers on our Facebook page. And you can Tweet about today's

:26:26. > :26:27.stories using #bbcbreakfast or follow us for the latest

:26:28. > :26:36.from the programme. Right it is time to get the news,

:26:37. > :29:55.travel, and whether where you live and where you love.

:29:56. > :30:09.This is Breakfast, with Steph McGovern and Jon Kay.

:30:10. > :30:12.We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment.

:30:13. > :30:25.I think talking about it has certainly helped me and I think more

:30:26. > :30:35.broadly on getting the sense that it is helping quite a lot of people. He

:30:36. > :30:42.has covered a lot of stories, but the final story Steve Hewlett chose

:30:43. > :30:45.to share was when he was dying of cancer. We will talk about how it

:30:46. > :30:46.may have helped others. Do manufacturers need to come

:30:47. > :30:48.clean about formula milk? We'll meet the MP calling

:30:49. > :30:51.for companies to be banned from marketing it and

:30:52. > :30:54.the blogger who says mums shouldn't feel guilty

:30:55. > :31:02.if they don't breastfeed. He may only be human,

:31:03. > :31:05.but Rag N'Bone man's first album was the fastest-selling debut

:31:06. > :31:09.by a male artist in a decade. But now a summary of this

:31:10. > :31:20.morning's main news. Most areas of England will see

:31:21. > :31:23.hospital services cut or moved under plans to save money

:31:24. > :31:26.and improve efficiency. Analysis by the BBC has also found

:31:27. > :31:30.that about a third of the proposals would see a reduction

:31:31. > :31:32.in the number of hospitals The Government says patients

:31:33. > :31:38.will receive better care The shortage of teachers in schools

:31:39. > :31:45.in England is getting worse, affecting key subjects

:31:46. > :31:47.like physics and maths, The Commons Education Committee says

:31:48. > :31:51.recruitment targets have been missed for five years in a row

:31:52. > :31:54.and there should be more focus on keeping teachers

:31:55. > :31:56.in the profession long-term. The actual sums are

:31:57. > :32:03.adding and taking... Maths class for these

:32:04. > :32:05.children with Mr Walton. But professionals like him

:32:06. > :32:12.are increasingly hard to come by, that's according to a group of MPs,

:32:13. > :32:15.who say school teacher shortages I think that's mainly due

:32:16. > :32:28.to workload and pressure The Education Select Committee

:32:29. > :32:32.is calling for a long-term plan to recruit more teachers

:32:33. > :32:35.and a bigger emphasis to be placed on retaining them,

:32:36. > :32:36.warning many are leaving. Reasons include a lack

:32:37. > :32:39.of job satisfaction, Research has found teachers

:32:40. > :32:47.in England work nearly 20% more than they do in other similar

:32:48. > :32:50.countries, an average of nearly 50 20 of those are spent

:32:51. > :32:54.here in the classroom teaching. MPs say secondary schools

:32:55. > :32:57.are hardest hit in subjects What we've got to get across is just

:32:58. > :33:04.how important teachers are to our society

:33:05. > :33:06.and to our economy. They need to feel valued,

:33:07. > :33:10.they need to feel trusted. The Department for Education says

:33:11. > :33:13.it is investing in teacher recruitment and development

:33:14. > :33:15.to make sure the best Five people have been killed

:33:16. > :33:32.in a plane crash in Melbourne. All those on-board the small

:33:33. > :33:34.aircraft were killed when it suffered what is believed to be

:33:35. > :33:44.catastrophic engine failure and crashed a shopping centre, which was

:33:45. > :33:47.preparing to open. Four of those killed were thought to be US

:33:48. > :33:55.citizens. No one on the ground was killed.

:33:56. > :34:01.Rates are being updated for the first time in seven years and it

:34:02. > :34:04.will leave more than a quarter of companies facing higher bills.

:34:05. > :34:06.Philip Hammond is facing more pressure to do more to help those

:34:07. > :34:16.affected. HSBC has blamed slowing growth in

:34:17. > :34:21.the UK, linking it to uncertainty over Brexit, for a profit loss. It

:34:22. > :34:23.could move more than 1000 staff from London to Paris.

:34:24. > :34:27.A heterosexual couple will find out today if they can have a civil

:34:28. > :34:30.Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, from London,

:34:31. > :34:33.took their case to the Court of Appeal following a defeat

:34:34. > :34:38.They say it's unfair that only same-sex couples can have a civil

:34:39. > :34:41.Specialist police teams are digging up the gardens of two

:34:42. > :34:45.One is believed to be the former home of Christopher Halliwell,

:34:46. > :34:48.who's serving a whole life sentence for the murders of two women,

:34:49. > :35:07.Feeding your children blueberries might just put your them -- might

:35:08. > :35:11.put them in a better mood. A study carried out

:35:12. > :35:13.by the University of Reading found that, during two trials with young

:35:14. > :35:16.people, participants reported feeling better after drinking

:35:17. > :35:17.a wild blueberry-drink, which contained an entire

:35:18. > :35:20.punnet of the fruit. The researchers say they're

:35:21. > :35:26.impressed by the results, Are you a bit tight on your

:35:27. > :35:32.blueberries? A family of five, how many pundits

:35:33. > :35:39.will you get through? -- punnets.

:35:40. > :35:41.You are meant to have more than one type.

:35:42. > :35:45.It might put the rest of the house in a better mood but it won't make

:35:46. > :35:47.my wallet feel any better. You Scrooge!

:35:48. > :35:59.Good morning. Iron talking about whether fairytale didn't quite

:36:00. > :36:04.happen for Sutton United. On the right-hand side, in the yellow, not

:36:05. > :36:10.quite so happy. A milestone for Theo Walcott, who is in the picture as

:36:11. > :36:13.well. What it was a bit of a disappointment for Sutton United

:36:14. > :36:17.fans, as their FA Cup adventure is over.

:36:18. > :36:20.They were beaten 2-0 last night by Arsenal in the last 16

:36:21. > :36:23.The lowest ranked side left in the Cup didn't disgrace

:36:24. > :36:26.themselves against the 12 time winners, but a first half strike

:36:27. > :36:29.from Lucas Perez and Theo Walcott's 100th goal in an Arsenal

:36:30. > :36:32.shirt ensured that Arsene Wenger's side avoided an upset.

:36:33. > :36:38.But they do have more non-league opposition next in Lincoln City.

:36:39. > :36:46.20 years ago they weren't as fit as they were today. They didn't drop

:36:47. > :36:52.physically at all. They remained absolutely focused and organised.

:36:53. > :36:57.There was a huge desire in their game and I would say if you were not

:36:58. > :36:59.mentally prepared we would not have come through today.

:37:00. > :37:04.I think the players have been absolutely magnificent and so have

:37:05. > :37:08.the volunteers. They've given up Sunday to tell this -- to sell the

:37:09. > :37:13.tickets, everyone here is a volunteer. Remember that. We are not

:37:14. > :37:17.a League two internationally, we are traditional club. But Lincoln and

:37:18. > :37:24.Sutton have done our competition very, very proud and I hope... Best

:37:25. > :37:29.wishes to Danny and Nick. Go and have your day in the sun as we have

:37:30. > :37:31.done today. It is one of the best experiences you will ever have.

:37:32. > :37:34.The manager doesn't get paid, he does that job for free.

:37:35. > :37:36.Newcastle United have returned to the top of the Championship.

:37:37. > :37:44.They were also 2-0 winners last night over Aston Villa.

:37:45. > :37:46.Yoan Gouffran and this mistake from Henri Lansbury

:37:47. > :37:48.helped Newcastle leapfrog over Brighton

:37:49. > :37:51.Manchester City return to European action tonight,

:37:52. > :37:54.hosting Monaco in the last 16 of the Champions League.

:37:55. > :37:57.City reached the semi finals for the first time last season

:37:58. > :38:00.but host a Monaco side currently leading the French first division,

:38:01. > :38:03.having scored 76 league goals already.

:38:04. > :38:12.They are intelligent, physically strong, they arrived to the box a

:38:13. > :38:16.complete team, so it is the most successful team in Europe in terms

:38:17. > :38:24.of goalscoring. A tough draw. Looking forward to playing them.

:38:25. > :38:25.Just a compliment because they are a really good team.

:38:26. > :38:29.GB Badminton says it is staggered at the decision not to award them

:38:30. > :38:30.any funding during the next Olympic cycle.

:38:31. > :38:34.Despite meeting its target in winning a bronze medal in Rio,

:38:35. > :38:36.Badminton, along with six other sports including Fencing,

:38:37. > :38:38.Archery and Wheelchair Rugby, lost their appeals with UK Sport,

:38:39. > :38:46.the organisation which allocates the money.

:38:47. > :38:55.We just can't reach those sports that have got limited medal

:38:56. > :38:57.potential with, yes, a medal possibility, we do believe badminton

:38:58. > :39:04.and wheelchair rugby and other sports have medal potential, but

:39:05. > :39:07.it's not strong enough for it to be on the table and we've run out of

:39:08. > :39:15.resources to let it go that far. Whatever you want to call it, it

:39:16. > :39:19.should have the right to find that sport. Not cut it completely. We've

:39:20. > :39:23.got players in the top ten of the world and to say that that's not not

:39:24. > :39:27.possible chance of a medal, OK, they are the number one in the world, but

:39:28. > :39:31.I wasn't number one in the world when I got my medal, I was only an

:39:32. > :39:36.outside chance. I still believe we should do that and we lead to a

:39:37. > :39:38.sport to be able to do that. -- we owe it to a sport.

:39:39. > :39:41.Great Britain's next Davis Cup tie against France will be held on clay.

:39:42. > :39:44.The last time the two nations met in the Davis Cup,

:39:45. > :39:47.Andy Murray led Great Britain to victory on the grass at Queens.

:39:48. > :39:51.As often happens when they play away though, they'll be faced

:39:52. > :39:53.with the less familiar red dust, this time in Rouen.

:39:54. > :39:56.The decision by Muirfield to hold another vote on allowing female

:39:57. > :39:59.members has pleased the head of golf's ruling authority,

:40:00. > :40:01.Muirfield was dropped as an Open Championship venue

:40:02. > :40:04.after members voted against altering their male only membership policy.

:40:05. > :40:07.Martin Slumbers wants a positive outcome to help grow the game

:40:08. > :40:15.I do believe that if we are going to grow participation in the game,

:40:16. > :40:19.family golf is at the heart of that strategy. I still believe that

:40:20. > :40:24.getting more women as members of golf clubs, more women bringing

:40:25. > :40:29.children to play, clubs creating opportunities for young people to

:40:30. > :40:32.play, or even new facilities for children to learn to play, that's

:40:33. > :40:34.what's important for the future generations.

:40:35. > :40:43.He is now in charge of the R and they are trying to change things.

:40:44. > :40:47.Even having mentorship is a start. There's a long interview with Martin

:40:48. > :40:52.he talks about resident trump honour because he owns a golf course on the

:40:53. > :40:56.open rotation. -- President Trump. The sting to have a look on the BBC

:40:57. > :41:01.website. There are different issues facing that at the moment.

:41:02. > :41:02.Thanks very much indeed. They're billed as radical changes

:41:03. > :41:11.to secure the future of the NHS. The news this morning is that more

:41:12. > :41:14.than half of the 44 plans aimed at transforming healthcare in different

:41:15. > :41:15.parts of England include either closing the hospital or moving

:41:16. > :41:18.treatments to different sites. Professor Chris Ham

:41:19. > :41:21.is from the Kings Fund think-tank, which has given the plans a cautious

:41:22. > :41:33.welcome but says proper funding must Good morning. Just to explain first

:41:34. > :41:38.of all, the reason why there are 44 plans is because essentially NHS

:41:39. > :41:43.England split the country into 44 areas and asked each of them to look

:41:44. > :41:47.at what they could do to bring inefficiencies, cut costs and

:41:48. > :41:52.improve services in the area. Is that right? That's right. We heard a

:41:53. > :41:55.lot about the problems of the NHS, especially hospitals being

:41:56. > :41:59.overcrowded in recent weeks and also social care. About one year ago NHS

:42:00. > :42:05.England said 44 areas of the country should plan together. All the

:42:06. > :42:09.hospitals, community services, social care should sit round the

:42:10. > :42:12.table and say, how are we going to plan for the future and recognise

:42:13. > :42:16.that these pressures will continue to grow? We've only got a fixed

:42:17. > :42:21.budget, to develop land that set out what the priorities should be for

:42:22. > :42:24.your area. What we've done today in the report published today is read

:42:25. > :42:29.and review and analyse all 44 of those plans to read Ja the

:42:30. > :42:34.assessment of whether they have a chance of doing that. What do you

:42:35. > :42:39.think of them? We think they are the best hope for the NHS to find a way

:42:40. > :42:43.through the most difficult times I can remember facing the health and

:42:44. > :42:48.social care system. The issue is that demand is ever rising from a

:42:49. > :42:54.growing population and an ageing population. Our system is really

:42:55. > :42:57.struggling to cope and that in the headlines in your news reports ever

:42:58. > :43:03.since the Christmas break. Something has to be done. These plans are by

:43:04. > :43:06.no means perfect. We have our concerns about some of the

:43:07. > :43:10.proposals. But the fact that people have come together, they've

:43:11. > :43:15.collaborated around a county or city and said, if we work together and

:43:16. > :43:21.think about how we used all of our staff and our resources we can

:43:22. > :43:27.deliver better results. So our direction is one that we very much

:43:28. > :43:35.welcome. As they are localised to different areas, they are different

:43:36. > :43:40.in terms of things that are proposed. About one third say they

:43:41. > :43:44.will move other nonemergency services so they are provided in

:43:45. > :43:48.fewer hospitals in the area. Looking at them, a lot of them are involving

:43:49. > :43:52.taking the pressure away from hospitals and putting the services

:43:53. > :43:56.in the community. Do you think that's realistic? That the community

:43:57. > :44:00.can provide the services that are needed? The big common idea,

:44:01. > :44:04.accepting that difference between areas, is exactly to put more

:44:05. > :44:07.emphasis on preventing people becoming ill in the first place. If

:44:08. > :44:12.they do become ill providing care closer to home. The use of GPs,

:44:13. > :44:17.district nurse is, the social care staff. All working in a much more

:44:18. > :44:23.joined up way. -- better use of GPs, district nurses. This ought to be

:44:24. > :44:27.welcomed. The challenge is the one you have highlighted. Where will the

:44:28. > :44:32.resources,? There are couple of answers. One is making better use of

:44:33. > :44:35.what we've already got. There are many skilled professionals working

:44:36. > :44:39.in the community. We've invested a lot of money in those community

:44:40. > :44:43.services. Every area has to look at what it does and improve on that to

:44:44. > :44:48.reduce the overlap and duplication and some of the efficiency. We

:44:49. > :44:52.believe that can be done. Much more difficult is the second thing. There

:44:53. > :44:56.should be more funding to expand and improve the community services. We

:44:57. > :45:01.need more GPs and nurses working out there. We especially need more

:45:02. > :45:08.investment in social care, which is stretched beyond its limit.

:45:09. > :45:11.Government has provided more funding, which is welcome, but most

:45:12. > :45:15.of that is going towards cutting the deficit to hospitals which we heard

:45:16. > :45:19.about yesterday and leaves very little left over for the new Tom

:45:20. > :45:23.better services in the community. So we are calling on the government to

:45:24. > :45:28.back these plans because they do represent the best possibility of

:45:29. > :45:30.finding a way forward, but also to find some additional resource,

:45:31. > :45:35.especially for social care, because if we don't have that care closer to

:45:36. > :45:44.home will be a nice idea, not the reality. Thank you very much. You

:45:45. > :45:47.can find out by putting your postcode on the NHS England website

:45:48. > :45:51.to find out what impact it might have in your area.

:45:52. > :45:54.You can also do it on the BBC website this morning. You can find

:45:55. > :46:00.out what the plans are for the NHS in your area.

:46:01. > :46:11.Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather. She is up on the

:46:12. > :46:16.roof this morning. Is it dry? There is a bit of dampness in the air in

:46:17. > :46:22.London. We are looking at 10 degrees at the moment. In Aberdeen yesterday

:46:23. > :46:27.for comparison it was 13 degrees at this stage in the morning. It is now

:46:28. > :46:32.six. The temperature is going down. For most of the UK today it is still

:46:33. > :46:36.mild. Through the day, what will happen is especially in the west it

:46:37. > :46:42.will be quite wet. The forecast starts at 9am in Scotland. Rain in

:46:43. > :46:46.the north-west by nine, a lot of cloud in the west, brighter skies in

:46:47. > :46:51.the east. North of England has cloud as well this morning. North England

:46:52. > :46:56.seeing sunshine. That goes down towards the watch and East Anglia.

:46:57. > :47:01.Kent, the Midlands, southern counties, a weather front dangling

:47:02. > :47:05.across ringing patchy rain. Fairly light at the moment. South-west

:47:06. > :47:13.England and Wales as well. Murky light yesterday. Low fog and

:47:14. > :47:17.low-level fog as well. A damp feel. Northern Ireland, a dry start,

:47:18. > :47:23.cloudy with one or two breaks. That will change through the day. Through

:47:24. > :47:26.the day, we have got wet and windy weather moving in from the

:47:27. > :47:32.north-west of will and going south. -- Scotland. The weather front will

:47:33. > :47:37.rejuvenate as it goes north. Eventually the two will merge across

:47:38. > :47:42.Wales, Northern Ireland, and south across western Scotland. Here we

:47:43. > :47:48.will see the heaviest rain. It will become cloudier but brighter. The

:47:49. > :47:54.evening and overnight, the system takes the rain moving south and

:47:55. > :47:57.windy conditions as well. It will be especially windy in northern England

:47:58. > :48:02.for a time. Gusting at 60 miles an hour. The rain will continue to push

:48:03. > :48:07.down into the south of England again, weakening as it does so.

:48:08. > :48:12.Behind that, cold enough for some wintry showers at lower levels at

:48:13. > :48:17.times, and in the Scottish mountains as well. Tomorrow, we still have a

:48:18. > :48:21.weak band of rain in southern England. Quite a lot of cloud to be

:48:22. > :48:27.as it continues south it will brighten up behind it. A fairly

:48:28. > :48:30.windy day in Shetland, Orkney, the far north of England and Scotland,

:48:31. > :48:36.and possibly, as far south in Scotland as Peterborough. 80 miles

:48:37. > :48:40.an hour. That could lead to some disruption. Thursday, an area of low

:48:41. > :48:46.pressure crossing the central part of the UK will introduce some heavy

:48:47. > :48:50.rain and also some snow across central and southern Scotland and

:48:51. > :48:54.northern England. Not just with height. Some at lower levels. With

:48:55. > :48:56.the strength of the wind as well, because it will be pretty windy,

:48:57. > :49:01.some atrocious travelling conditions. If you are planning to

:49:02. > :49:11.travel on Thursday, stay tuned to the weather forecast. Back to you,

:49:12. > :49:21.Steph and John. You look so wonderfully well lit this morning.

:49:22. > :49:28.That is because of poor Cooper. The wonderful Cooper.

:49:29. > :49:40.I have some food here for everyone. Drew

:49:41. > :49:45.-- Blueberries and some alcohol. Good morning, everyone.

:49:46. > :49:47.Food and drink are big business for the UK.

:49:48. > :49:49.In total, it employs around 400,000 people

:49:50. > :49:53.This morning, we've got the latest figures on how much we're selling

:49:54. > :49:59.In total, food and drink exports grew by more than 10% last year,

:50:00. > :50:01.topping ?20 billion for the first time.

:50:02. > :50:04.There has been lots of talk recently about trading with America.

:50:05. > :50:06.It's our second largest export market after Ireland,

:50:07. > :50:10.and sales to the US also grew strongly, to more than ?2 billion.

:50:11. > :50:12.After alcohol and all that Scotch whiskey, the next bestsellers

:50:13. > :50:15.from the UK are chocolate, salmon, and cheese.

:50:16. > :50:17.Ian Wright is Director General of the Federation.

:50:18. > :50:27.That is what we have got here. These figures were put together by you.

:50:28. > :50:33.Good morning. Good morning. What has been a particular driver in 2016 for

:50:34. > :50:38.us selling these stuff around the world. The devaluation of the pound

:50:39. > :50:43.in the last several months has made us much more competitive with

:50:44. > :50:47.exports. But also UK business people going out into markets in trying to

:50:48. > :50:52.sell their products in a very organised and coherent way. It has

:50:53. > :50:57.been successful. This is the 16th year of consecutive growth in

:50:58. > :51:01.exports sales. That is a really amazing record. Who was buying this

:51:02. > :51:04.and where is this going? All around the world. The EU remains our

:51:05. > :51:09.biggest market and within that Ireland is absolutely critical.

:51:10. > :51:13.Within the Brexit debate we have to figure out what we are doing with

:51:14. > :51:17.the Irish border otherwise we will be in trouble. They are the most

:51:18. > :51:24.important market in food exports. Beyond that, we have seen an

:51:25. > :51:27.increase of a third in China, substantial increases in the US, and

:51:28. > :51:36.many, many markets around the world have seen big increases to put it

:51:37. > :51:42.cheese. With exports, what would the consequences be if we did not sort

:51:43. > :51:46.out these borders? The Prime Minister talks about frictionless

:51:47. > :51:51.borders, meaning they would stay as they are now. There are 200 roads to

:51:52. > :51:56.cross the border, the idea of releasing them with customs is

:51:57. > :51:59.ludicrous. What we need is a system that will allow people to pass over

:52:00. > :52:05.the border whether they have products or labour that works

:52:06. > :52:10.absolutely efficiently. Just on labour markets. The fishery industry

:52:11. > :52:16.will have many farmers concerned about how that plays out. Farmers

:52:17. > :52:19.are very concerned because they need seasonal workers to do the picking

:52:20. > :52:24.at harvest time. And right now that is not looking as good as it should.

:52:25. > :52:29.The manufacturing industry will be concerned about that. We have

:52:30. > :52:33.120,000 European workers here and we need to give them security and

:52:34. > :52:38.figure out how to replace them when they go home. Thank you very much.

:52:39. > :52:41.Exports in food and drink doing very well in 2016 partly to do with the

:52:42. > :52:45.weaker pound after the referendum. Thank you very much.

:52:46. > :52:47.A former teacher, a doctor, and a marketing manager are amongst

:52:48. > :52:51.a team of British soldiers hoping to become the first all-female group

:52:52. > :52:56.They'll have to endure temperatures of -40 and walk for up to nine hours

:52:57. > :52:59.a day carrying more than their own body weight in supplies.

:53:00. > :53:01.Our reporter, Phil Mackie, donned his skiis and joined them

:53:02. > :53:12.in Norway, where they're training for their 80-day challenge.

:53:13. > :53:19.The Ice Maiden team is heading out across a frozen Norwegian lake at

:53:20. > :53:23.the start of its final training exercise. In September, these

:53:24. > :53:27.soldiers will begin an historic journey, hoping they will now

:53:28. > :53:31.succeed and inspire a generation of women. It is not just about five

:53:32. > :53:36.women crossing the Antarctic, it is about encouraging women everywhere

:53:37. > :53:40.to get out there and realised the is no ceiling and you can achieve

:53:41. > :53:43.anything. I think we can inspire someone to get out there and be

:53:44. > :53:55.physically active. It doesn't have to be Antarctic us. Their 5k can be

:53:56. > :53:59.their version. Their home will be a small tent. It will be a bedroom,

:54:00. > :54:07.living room, and kitchen, for the next 80 days. High, mum dad. They

:54:08. > :54:12.are a doctor, a former teacher, and electrical technician on the team. I

:54:13. > :54:17.am just a normal person from Newcastle and I have just come

:54:18. > :54:22.across an incredible opportunity. If you and work for it you can just do

:54:23. > :54:25.it. They believe their families and partners behind to spend nearly

:54:26. > :54:29.three months together on the ice. There is important research being

:54:30. > :54:35.done as well. No one really knows what it would take to support and

:54:36. > :54:39.sustain an all-female team on a journey like this. It is about the

:54:40. > :54:42.composition of the rations, carbohydrates, protein, and trying

:54:43. > :54:47.to figure out how we can manipulate that, I suppose. And also for a

:54:48. > :54:51.group of women whose nutritional needs are different to men, there

:54:52. > :54:55.has been very little research done and certainly not published. We have

:54:56. > :55:01.little to go on. There are other more personal considerations,

:55:02. > :55:08.especially when they need to have the call of nature. We have pee

:55:09. > :55:12.funnels and that is straightforward. We can squat behind a little wall

:55:13. > :55:18.without trousers down and do our business into a bag. We have shoes

:55:19. > :55:24.to deal with. Then you can drag that rubbish for the rest of the journey.

:55:25. > :55:29.One of the hardest things will be maintaining morale as each hard day

:55:30. > :55:34.of marching goes by. They have just been for a two hour March. They will

:55:35. > :55:38.have to do so many a day carrying everything in the Antarctic they

:55:39. > :55:41.need along with them. It will be very, very tough, which is why they

:55:42. > :55:49.need to practise in conditions as harsh as these. There are seven Ice

:55:50. > :55:55.Maidens. Two will be reserves, as only five can cross the Antarctic,

:55:56. > :56:01.where they hope to break the ice ceiling, putting them alongside

:56:02. > :56:05.explorers like Scott and others. That looks tough, especially the

:56:06. > :59:29.toilet situation. This is Breakfast,

:59:30. > :00:08.with Steph McGovern and Jon Kay. Cuts to hospital services

:00:09. > :00:43.are planned in most Good morning. A report by MPs as

:00:44. > :00:49.urgent action is needed to reduce the numbers quitting teaching.

:00:50. > :00:52.Catastrophic engine failure is blamed after a light aircraft

:00:53. > :00:55.crashes into a shopping centre in Melbourne, killing all five people

:00:56. > :00:59.onboard. Good morning. Grandparents are

:01:00. > :01:03.saving British families about ?16 billion a year in child care costs,

:01:04. > :01:05.according to figures published this morning. Great for working parents,

:01:06. > :01:12.but is it just chip -- cheap labour? In sport, Sutton United couldn't

:01:13. > :01:15.pull off one of the biggest FA The non-league side

:01:16. > :01:18.from the fifth tier of English football were beaten 2-0

:01:19. > :01:25.by Arsenal in the fifth I'm just a normal person from

:01:26. > :01:28.Newcastle and I've just happened to come across this incredible

:01:29. > :01:32.opportunity. If you want it, you work for it, you can do it. But

:01:33. > :01:34.would you want it? a team of British soldiers

:01:35. > :01:38.who are preparing to become the first all-female group to cross

:01:39. > :01:46.the Antarctic unaided. Hopefully it will be a little bit

:01:47. > :01:50.warmer here. Carol can tell us. It certainly is mild in southern parts

:01:51. > :01:55.of the UK this morning. Also cloudy and damp. The rain we currently have

:01:56. > :01:58.in the south will move northwards through the day. In the north-west

:01:59. > :02:02.of Scotland we have another band of wet and windy weather coming in.

:02:03. > :02:06.They will merge and the driest conditions will be in the east. It

:02:07. > :02:08.will be windy and wind will be a feature of the weather for the next

:02:09. > :02:12.couple of days. More in 15 minutes. Most places in England will have

:02:13. > :02:26.hospital areas cut. Analysis by the BBC has also

:02:27. > :02:29.found that about a third of the proposals would see

:02:30. > :02:31.a reduction in the number of hospitals offering

:02:32. > :02:33.emergency care. The Government says patients

:02:34. > :02:35.will receive better care Our health reporter

:02:36. > :02:38.Sophie Hutchinson has the details. Protests outside Horton hospital

:02:39. > :02:41.in Oxfordshire just a few months ago where there are concerns about bed

:02:42. > :02:44.closures and cuts to stroke Right across England proposals

:02:45. > :02:50.for big changes are afoot The BBC has analysed 44

:02:51. > :02:54.of the transformation Two thirds include either hospital

:02:55. > :02:59.closures or moving treatments More than a third involve cuts

:03:00. > :03:09.to the number of hospitals providing non-emergency treatments and around

:03:10. > :03:12.one third plan to reduce the number of hospitals offering

:03:13. > :03:16.emergency care. Proposed closures to hospital beds

:03:17. > :03:18.have been heavily criticised More generally, though,

:03:19. > :03:24.it says the plans are the best hope of delivering essential

:03:25. > :03:26.reforms to the NHS, but it says it can't be done

:03:27. > :03:29.without extra funding. Ideally there ought

:03:30. > :03:31.to be an earmarked fund for new investment, to strengthen

:03:32. > :03:34.and improve the out-of-hospital services, and to shore up adult

:03:35. > :03:37.social care, which is really If those additional funds aren't

:03:38. > :03:41.forthcoming, the Government needs to be honest about the consequences

:03:42. > :03:44.for patients and what the offer The Department of Health says it's

:03:45. > :03:54.confident the NHS plans will help patients get better care,

:03:55. > :03:58.with improvements to mental health and cancer services

:03:59. > :04:04.and more access to GPs. The shortage of teachers

:04:05. > :04:07.in England's schools is getting worse, affecting key subjects

:04:08. > :04:09.like physics and maths, The Commons Education Committee says

:04:10. > :04:18.recruitment targets have been missed for five years in a row

:04:19. > :04:21.and there should be more focus on keeping teachers

:04:22. > :04:23.in the profession long-term. The Government says there are more

:04:24. > :04:26.teachers in schools than ever And we'll be speaking

:04:27. > :04:29.to a headmaster about why some teachers are still choosing

:04:30. > :04:31.to leave the profession. Five people have been killed

:04:32. > :04:38.after a light plane crashed into a shopping centre

:04:39. > :04:41.in the Australian city of Melbourne. The shops weren't open at the time

:04:42. > :04:44.and no-one on the ground is believed When the show the pictures it is

:04:45. > :04:55.hard to believe. Let's speak to our Sydney

:04:56. > :05:04.correspondent Hywel Griffith. What do we know about what happened?

:05:05. > :05:10.Well, this plane took off in the morning in Melbourne and seconds

:05:11. > :05:16.afterwards the pilot put out a mayday call, saying he had chronic

:05:17. > :05:22.and critical engine failure. It seems that just after takeoff he

:05:23. > :05:26.tried to turn around and come back into the airport but seconds later

:05:27. > :05:30.eyewitnesses saw a fireball go into the sky as the plane hit the side of

:05:31. > :05:34.the shopping centre. There was the black smoke and it took about 13

:05:35. > :05:38.fire engines to bring the fire under control. Tragically we know that all

:05:39. > :05:43.five of the people onboard died and we know one of them was the pilot, a

:05:44. > :05:48.man with 38 years flying experience and a good safety record, and defend

:05:49. > :05:53.four American tourists. That's been confirmed by the US embassy in

:05:54. > :05:56.Australia. However, because the shopping centre hadn't yet opened,

:05:57. > :06:02.incredibly no one inside, though members of the public, were injured.

:06:03. > :06:04.The investigation continues but already fingers pointing towards

:06:05. > :06:08.catastrophic engine failure. Thank you for the update.

:06:09. > :06:17.Let's talk about HSBC. They have results out this morning. Sean is

:06:18. > :06:21.here. A falling profits? And pretty important. They are our biggest dank

:06:22. > :06:27.in the UK is how they get on a fix people in the UK. -- bank. Most of

:06:28. > :06:32.the profits are made around the world and their profits are the 60%.

:06:33. > :06:38.In 2015 they made about ?15 billion. Last year about ?6 billion and they

:06:39. > :06:41.say a lot of that's about the uncertainty created the referendum

:06:42. > :06:45.on the EU. Market uncertainty, investors not sure where to put

:06:46. > :06:49.their money and that have a hit on especially the European business. It

:06:50. > :06:54.also reminded us that they might move on thousand jobs to Paris if

:06:55. > :06:59.negotiations don't play out the way they want. Even if they do, there

:07:00. > :07:03.has to be some contingency for them to do that. If you look at the UK

:07:04. > :07:06.business, they had a falling customer accounts, about 40,000 last

:07:07. > :07:12.year. But they say we are saving more with them. They also say they

:07:13. > :07:15.are putting more money into their call centres because of a lot of

:07:16. > :07:19.issues there with customer service. While you are here let's talk about

:07:20. > :07:23.business rates, because they are on the front pages also many papers

:07:24. > :07:28.this morning. What's going on? The latest move is that last night the

:07:29. > :07:32.Chancellor Philip Hammond spoke to a lot of his backbench Conservative

:07:33. > :07:35.MPs who are not happy with some of the writers that a lot of businesses

:07:36. > :07:40.in their constituencies are seeing. He says he is listening to them. We

:07:41. > :07:43.will find out in two weeks how much he is listening to the talk with

:07:44. > :07:46.Cinema papers, because that's when the budget is and that's when we

:07:47. > :07:50.might get clarity on what will happen with business rates because

:07:51. > :07:54.there is due to be a lot of changes coming in. Thank you very much.

:07:55. > :07:56.A day after declaring a famine in South Sudan,

:07:57. > :07:58.the United Nations has warned that other countries

:07:59. > :08:03.100,000 people are facing starvation as a result of the civil

:08:04. > :08:09.But the United Nations says almost 1.5 million children

:08:10. > :08:13.are at risk of dying of starvation in four countries in Africa

:08:14. > :08:28.In this Children's Hospital in the countries capital there is acute

:08:29. > :08:38.malnutrition. This boy gets one or maybe two meals a day. Her mother

:08:39. > :08:42.can't afford to feed her. In a country where the fighting goes on,

:08:43. > :08:48.even more people are affected. In Unity State, the rebel stronghold.

:08:49. > :08:53.100,000 people are now in the grip of famine, a further million in the

:08:54. > :08:57.country are on the brink. Some eight has been delivered but not enough is

:08:58. > :09:02.getting through. People are dying of starvation every day. -- some aid.

:09:03. > :09:07.Three years of civil war have taken their toll. The real tragedy is that

:09:08. > :09:13.this is largely man-made. We do have famine and food insecurity has

:09:14. > :09:17.worsened in many parts of this country. Largely because of this

:09:18. > :09:21.unfortunate conflict. And this is part of a bigger picture. The UN is

:09:22. > :09:28.warning three more countries, Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen, are at

:09:29. > :09:32.risk of famine. In South Sudan, over 3 million have been forced from

:09:33. > :09:36.their homes. 1.5 million have fled to neighbouring countries, like

:09:37. > :09:40.these people arriving in Uganda, creating one of the worst refugee

:09:41. > :09:45.crises in the world. As these mothers and children wait for help,

:09:46. > :09:47.the UN warns urgent action is needed or the situation will only get

:09:48. > :09:49.worse. A heterosexual couple will find out

:09:50. > :09:53.today if they can have a civil Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan

:09:54. > :09:58.from London took their case to the Court of Appeal

:09:59. > :10:01.following a defeat at They say it's unfair that only

:10:02. > :10:04.same-sex couples can The singer and actor

:10:05. > :10:12.David Cassidy has revealed He made the announcement

:10:13. > :10:16.after he forgot his words during some shows in

:10:17. > :10:18.California at the weekend. David Cassidy, who's 66,

:10:19. > :10:22.rose to fame in the TV series The Partridge Family before

:10:23. > :10:24.becoming a teen idol and recording a string

:10:25. > :10:30.of solo hits in the 1970s. A man in New York has had

:10:31. > :10:33.an extremely lucky escape while doing his weekly shop

:10:34. > :10:44.at a mini-mart in the Bronx. Have a look at this. It was all

:10:45. > :10:52.caught on CCTV. There he is, buying a few bits and bobs. But look at the

:10:53. > :10:56.window. Out of nowhere, a car appears and then straight through

:10:57. > :11:00.the window and into him. Fortunately he was OK and managed as you can see

:11:01. > :11:04.to stumble out. I imagine he was pretty shocked at the time.

:11:05. > :11:10.He was kind of protected by that first row of groceries. It gives him

:11:11. > :11:13.a natural barrier. Both he and the driver were taken to

:11:14. > :11:16.hospital but neither had serious injuries.

:11:17. > :11:20.Dramatic pictures! Very lucky to have come out of that I'm harmed. --

:11:21. > :11:24.unharmed. An unimaginable workload is a key

:11:25. > :11:27.reason for teachers leaving That's one of the findings

:11:28. > :11:31.of a highly critical new report It says the Government urgently

:11:32. > :11:35.needs to get to grips with the problem of teacher

:11:36. > :11:39.recruitment and retention. Joining us now is Andrew

:11:40. > :11:41.Shakos, headteacher at Parrs Wood High

:11:42. > :11:51.School, in Manchester. Good morning. It is half term for

:11:52. > :11:56.you? We are making you work! The issue! There lies the issue. The

:11:57. > :12:00.media's perception that we have so many holidays and don't do anything

:12:01. > :12:04.else. Actually, I will be going into work later, even though it is half

:12:05. > :12:08.term. Do you think that people don't understand how hard teachers work?

:12:09. > :12:13.There isn't a profession where you don't work hard. You go into

:12:14. > :12:17.teaching not to make money, you go into change lives and when you

:12:18. > :12:23.invest so much of yourself into that, and it isn't just about

:12:24. > :12:27.academic studies, it is about developing people socially as well,

:12:28. > :12:31.it takes it out of you. It is a tough profession but it is very

:12:32. > :12:34.rewarding. The government say, the statement from the department for

:12:35. > :12:38.education, they say there are more teachers than ever before and they

:12:39. > :12:42.are investing ?1 billion into recruitment. What's the reality of

:12:43. > :12:47.recruiting and retention? Retention is really good. We give our

:12:48. > :12:50.colleagues and really good experience in terms of ongoing

:12:51. > :12:56.professional development. I think if we can talk about... Deraa two

:12:57. > :13:03.sides. One says there aren't enough teachers. The other says we are

:13:04. > :13:09.meeting quotas. In management there are six new house -- in my area

:13:10. > :13:14.there are six new high schools because there is an increase in

:13:15. > :13:17.school-aged children. If that is replicated throughout England there

:13:18. > :13:21.could be a teacher shortage in key subjects on because the amount of

:13:22. > :13:25.school age children is increasing. So you look at certain subjects like

:13:26. > :13:30.maths, computing and science, there is a definite shortage, but also

:13:31. > :13:39.performance thresholds have an impact. One of the performance

:13:40. > :13:44.thresholds is eBack. So already there a focus on recruiting more of

:13:45. > :13:47.those teachers from certain subjects to make sure performance measures

:13:48. > :13:52.are met. Have you noticed when you are advertising jobs in your school,

:13:53. > :13:56.like the science subjects, but you don't have as many applicants as you

:13:57. > :14:02.used to? Absolutely. What can you do about it? You obviously go for the

:14:03. > :14:07.best that's out there and you've got to make sure that the best out there

:14:08. > :14:11.are supported in the school, that there is internal training. Like I

:14:12. > :14:15.said, it is stressful and you have to make sure that there are no

:14:16. > :14:19.members of staff who are in a position of self-doubt when it gets

:14:20. > :14:24.tough. They have a team around them and you ultimately work with them to

:14:25. > :14:28.get them to a better place and make sure they get out of education what

:14:29. > :14:35.you got out of it, which, like I said before, it's a highly rewarding

:14:36. > :14:40.job. You said lots of teachers will be going into work at half term.

:14:41. > :14:47.Others will say teachers have a nice and easy life and you get predicted

:14:48. > :14:51.breaks. Has it got tougher over the past 10- 20 years? I think if you

:14:52. > :14:55.are doing your job, they won't argue that teaching is a tough profession

:14:56. > :14:58.or more tough than other professions, but there is a big

:14:59. > :15:04.emotional investment in teaching. It has got tougher in the sense that we

:15:05. > :15:08.are working with families, people, a higher proportion of people with

:15:09. > :15:11.socio-economic challenges and health and well-being challenges and

:15:12. > :15:15.generally the solutions from the government are that schools can sort

:15:16. > :15:20.it out. You know what? We probably are the best to sort it out. There's

:15:21. > :15:25.quite a lot of comments coming in from people, some people who are

:15:26. > :15:29.teachers. Vicki says there's too much paperwork instead of

:15:30. > :15:33.concentrating on. Also some pupils can't be taught. Is that fair that

:15:34. > :15:49.there's more paperwork? Comparator when I went to school in

:15:50. > :15:54.the 80s. -- compare it to. There probably is more paperwork. But the

:15:55. > :15:57.system is more advanced. If paperwork means better lessons and

:15:58. > :16:03.reflective feedback where children can look at what they can do and

:16:04. > :16:09.getting support for what they cannot do, there is more administration to

:16:10. > :16:12.it. But I think administration is possibly in the best place it has

:16:13. > :16:19.been since I have known it. Interesting. And so many people are

:16:20. > :16:24.writing into art. One from Nick. He says he discourages his girls from

:16:25. > :16:29.becoming teachers as there is a lack of time and encouragement and change

:16:30. > :16:36.within education. Keep them coming. We will get to them later. Before we

:16:37. > :16:39.get the weather, some pictures. We were talking about being proud of

:16:40. > :16:44.where you are from earlier and we ask you to send in pictures of where

:16:45. > :16:51.you are and what you love. That is because of a vicar from the South

:16:52. > :16:55.Downs making a documentary about his home that he loves. Here are some

:16:56. > :17:06.pictures. That is from Andrea who lives in Scotland by the sea. What a

:17:07. > :17:12.view to wake up to. Beautiful. This is from Richard in Dorset from 12

:17:13. > :17:18.years ago. A teacher from the hills of... I cannot pronounce it. Imagine

:17:19. > :17:25.waking up to this every morning! Well, when the weather is good

:17:26. > :17:30.enough. That is over Retondon in Essex over the fields. And this is

:17:31. > :17:35.my home town. It was sent in by Paul who loves living in Middlesbrough,

:17:36. > :17:42.the famous bridge! Are you sure it was not straight off your phone this

:17:43. > :17:47.morning? One last one from Barry from Northumberland. Early in the

:17:48. > :17:51.morning in the morning mist. Thank you for those. We will show more

:17:52. > :18:03.later. We are talking about where you are proud of. We need to get you

:18:04. > :18:08.a Bristol picture in, don't we? And Carol has a beautiful picture this

:18:09. > :18:13.morning. It is not bad. Central London near Regent Street. Like mild

:18:14. > :18:18.outside. Not everywhere. Colder conditions coming in the far north

:18:19. > :18:23.of Scotland. That will be the trend through this week. Colder than it

:18:24. > :18:28.was. That is not difficult. Yesterday, the top temperature to

:18:29. > :18:34.the west of London was 18 degrees. Wind will be a feature for the next

:18:35. > :18:38.few days. Today, for many of us, staying mild. Temperatures higher

:18:39. > :18:42.than we would expect at this stage in February. Starting the weather

:18:43. > :18:46.forecast in Scotland at nine o'clock. The first signs of rain

:18:47. > :18:50.coming in from the north-west. Much of Scotland has a cloudy start but

:18:51. > :18:54.it is brighter in the east with sunshine. North-west England, a

:18:55. > :18:58.similar story. A cloudy start. North-east England, brighter skies.

:18:59. > :19:05.Does brighter skies continue down the east coast towards The Wash and

:19:06. > :19:11.Norfolk. South of that, a cloudy start. London, damp as well. The

:19:12. > :19:15.south-west, cloudy and damp. A weather front. That extends into

:19:16. > :19:19.Wales. Hill fog, murky conditions generally. At lower levels, patchy

:19:20. > :19:24.fog to watch out for as well. Northern Ireland, a dry start. Still

:19:25. > :19:30.fairly cloudy. Some bright spells as well. Through the course of the day,

:19:31. > :19:36.the across Scotland will have windy conditions will go steadily south.

:19:37. > :19:40.The rain in the south of England will rejuvenate as it goes north and

:19:41. > :19:43.they will meet in Wales, Northern Ireland, and western Scotland, where

:19:44. > :19:48.the heaviest rain will be for a time. It will be windy, especially

:19:49. > :19:52.behind the rain coming out of Scotland. For a time this evening, a

:19:53. > :19:57.limited amount of time where you will have especially windy

:19:58. > :20:01.conditions. The overnight period, rain coming down towards southern

:20:02. > :20:05.England. That is where it will be tomorrow morning. Brightening up

:20:06. > :20:09.behind that with some sunshine and showers in the north. It will be

:20:10. > :20:14.windy tomorrow in the Northern Isles. Southern part of Shetland and

:20:15. > :20:21.Orkney and mainland Scotland. That could be pretty windy. Especially in

:20:22. > :20:25.Peterborough, that kind of area. 70 miles an hour and locally 80 miles

:20:26. > :20:32.an hour. That could lead to some disruption. If you are planning to

:20:33. > :20:36.travel, Jack before you set out. As we go into Thursday, again, some

:20:37. > :20:40.disruption. An area of low pressure coming into Northern Ireland and

:20:41. > :20:44.northern England moving east. That will bring with it heavy rain and

:20:45. > :20:47.snow across central and southern Scotland and also northern England.

:20:48. > :20:55.Not just in the hills. Some will be at lower levels. Strong winds, some

:20:56. > :21:01.will be very atrocious. Watch out for that on Thursday. Back to you.

:21:02. > :21:09.Thank you. The air-conditioning behind you is making it look very

:21:10. > :21:12.windy. And the pigeon and the cranes. Beautiful.

:21:13. > :21:16.Eight years after it was criticised by inspectors for not having enough

:21:17. > :21:18.beds, operating theatres, or trained staff, Birmingham

:21:19. > :21:20.Children's Hospital has become the first of its kind to be

:21:21. > :21:24.The specialist hospital has been praised for turning

:21:25. > :21:26.Our health correspondent, Jane Dreaper, is there

:21:27. > :21:45.Good morning. Good morning. The young patients are just beginning to

:21:46. > :21:51.wake up here in the tenth ward, and arrests surgical ward, where some

:21:52. > :21:58.children will have serious disorders like brain disorders. --A

:21:59. > :22:03.neurosurgical ward. Parents need a lot of support in wards like this.

:22:04. > :22:05.You learn that that is an important part of the work they do here along

:22:06. > :22:06.with saving lives. Connor's just seven months old,

:22:07. > :22:12.and recovering in intensive care Home is 50 miles away,

:22:13. > :22:26.so Connor's older brother, It is a tough time for the whole

:22:27. > :22:35.family, but they are still supported We have nearly lost him so many

:22:36. > :22:39.times from being here. Without them, we would not

:22:40. > :22:45.have a child playing in this bed. We have got him and he is here,

:22:46. > :22:48.though quite poorly. We have faith we will

:22:49. > :22:50.get to take him home. That is the only ask

:22:51. > :22:54.as a parent of a sick child. This is the Play and Admissions

:22:55. > :22:57.Centre, designed to distract young Their caring approach has been

:22:58. > :23:03.impressive for parents. This hospital has come a long way

:23:04. > :23:06.since it was criticised Back then, the report

:23:07. > :23:10.found a shortage of beds, Paying much closer attention

:23:11. > :23:17.to the views of parents and staff, and acting on their ideas,

:23:18. > :23:20.has helped change the culture in Birmingham and encouraged

:23:21. > :23:24.better teamwork. Eight years ago we were in

:23:25. > :23:31.an organisation that certainly was not listening to our staff,

:23:32. > :23:34.that not listening to what young people and families were saying,

:23:35. > :23:38.and it was in a really difficult Through focusing on those areas

:23:39. > :23:44.of patient engagement, we have now gotten to a position

:23:45. > :23:54.where we are "outstanding." Some of the children in outpatients

:23:55. > :23:58.need repeating appointments. I was talking to a doctor a couple

:23:59. > :24:04.of weeks ago and it wasn't scary Is it scary when you come

:24:05. > :24:12.here, or do you feel OK? The emotional support given

:24:13. > :24:16.to bereaved parents has also been And they will now be able

:24:17. > :24:21.to use this new room when they are going

:24:22. > :24:25.through the worst of times. Rachel has helped raise thousands

:24:26. > :24:30.of pounds for this unit after the death of her older

:24:31. > :24:32.daughter, Molly, from kidney cancer. When you're given news like that,

:24:33. > :24:36.you feel you cannot breathe You need to absorb new information

:24:37. > :24:43.that is being told to you. And there wasn't that opportunity

:24:44. > :24:46.within the existing building at Birmingham at that time,

:24:47. > :24:49.just to be ourselves as a family The staff here believe they can

:24:50. > :24:58.improve care even further, but today is a huge moment

:24:59. > :25:13.in showing how this hospital has A quick update on baby Connor from

:25:14. > :25:16.the start of the film, he is showing some signs of progress. Some great

:25:17. > :25:22.news to add to the news from Birmingham Children's Hospital. And

:25:23. > :25:26.here is one of the parents who spent a night on a camp bed on the floor

:25:27. > :25:35.beside his son. Good morning. Good morning. Your son Olly is four years

:25:36. > :25:41.old. He has had a brain tumour and 14 operations in two years. How is

:25:42. > :25:46.he doing? Not too badly, thank you. Some signs of improvement, which is

:25:47. > :25:51.very encouraging a bite and he had his fourth birthday just last week.

:25:52. > :25:55.There are some cards appear. What did the staff do to make that

:25:56. > :26:01.special for you? It was wonderful. We had a small collection. Be

:26:02. > :26:07.brought in some presence and a nice card and Dae-sung happy birthday to

:26:08. > :26:12.him. And you want to get him home safe and well? That is my hope.

:26:13. > :26:16.Hopefully sooner rather than later. Well, hospitals like this just means

:26:17. > :26:21.so much to the parents whose children are in daycare. One mother

:26:22. > :26:25.said to me it is the best of bases in the worst of places because you

:26:26. > :26:28.do not want to have your child here, but they know that they are getting

:26:29. > :26:41.outstanding care. -- places. Back to you. Yes, and happy birthday

:26:42. > :26:42.to him. Best of wishes to everyone there.

:26:43. > :26:57.We are asking the questions that you need to have answered. How do you

:26:58. > :27:00.answer the call of nature when you're on a three-month expedition

:27:01. > :27:04.to the South Pole? Here is the answer. Do your business into the

:27:05. > :27:08.bag and used tissues and it goes on to your book and you dragged out for

:27:09. > :27:19.the rest of the expedition. Carrying it for three months? -- drag that.

:27:20. > :27:21.That is your answer! We'll meet the women preparing to become the first

:27:22. > :30:40.all-female group to walk across Antarctica.

:30:41. > :30:54.This is Breakfast, with Steph McGovern and Jon Kay.

:30:55. > :30:59.Most areas of England will see hospital services cut or moved under

:31:00. > :31:02.plans to save money and improve efficiency.

:31:03. > :31:05.Analysis by the BBC has also found that about a third of the proposals

:31:06. > :31:08.would see a reduction in the number of hospitals

:31:09. > :31:12.The Government says patients will receive better care

:31:13. > :31:25.The King's Fund gave the plans are cautious welcome but said proper

:31:26. > :31:30.funding has to be in place. Something has to be done. These

:31:31. > :31:33.plans are by no means perfect. We have our concerns about some of the

:31:34. > :31:39.proposals. But the fact that people have come together, they've

:31:40. > :31:43.collaborated around the country and city and said if we work together

:31:44. > :31:44.and think about how we use all of our staff and resources we can

:31:45. > :31:46.deliver better results. The shortage of teachers

:31:47. > :31:48.in England's schools is getting worse, affecting key subjects

:31:49. > :31:51.like physics and maths, The Commons Education Committee says

:31:52. > :31:56.recruitment targets have been missed for five years in a row

:31:57. > :31:59.and there should be more focus on keeping teachers

:32:00. > :32:04.in the profession long-term. The Government says there are more

:32:05. > :32:06.teachers in schools than ever Five people have died

:32:07. > :32:14.in a plane crash in Melbourne. All of those on board the small

:32:15. > :32:17.aircraft were killed when it suffered engine failure and crashed

:32:18. > :32:19.into a shopping centre, which was preparing

:32:20. > :32:22.to open for the day. Four of those killed

:32:23. > :32:24.were US citizens. No one on the ground is thought

:32:25. > :32:29.to have been injured. Here, the Chancellor Philip Hammond

:32:30. > :32:32.has assured Conservative MPs that he's listening to concerns

:32:33. > :32:34.about a business rate revaluation The rates are being updated

:32:35. > :32:39.for the first time in seven years, and will leave more than a quarter

:32:40. > :32:42.of companies facing higher bills. Mr Hammond's facing pressure to do

:32:43. > :32:47.more to help those affected. A heterosexual couple will find out

:32:48. > :32:50.today if they can have a civil Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles

:32:51. > :32:54.Keidan, from London, took their case to the Court

:32:55. > :32:57.of Appeal following a defeat They say it's unfair that only

:32:58. > :33:01.same-sex couples can have a The singer and actor

:33:02. > :33:10.David Cassidy has revealed He made the announcement

:33:11. > :33:18.after he was seen on social media forgotting his words

:33:19. > :33:20.during shows in California David Cassidy, who's 66,

:33:21. > :33:24.rose to fame in the TV series The Partridge Family before

:33:25. > :33:26.becoming a teen idol and recording a string

:33:27. > :33:31.of solo hits in the 1970s. Feeding your children

:33:32. > :33:33.blueberries might just put them A study carried out

:33:34. > :33:37.by the University of Reading found that, during two trials with young

:33:38. > :33:40.people, participants reported feeling better after drinking

:33:41. > :33:42.a wild blueberry-drink, which contained an entire

:33:43. > :33:50.punnet of the fruit. The researchers say they're

:33:51. > :33:57.impressed by the results, but further studies, and many more

:33:58. > :34:06.blueberries, are needed. You wonder if they could have felt

:34:07. > :34:10.better anyway. Can you imagine getting children to

:34:11. > :34:15.drink a glass full of Drew Brees? The parents will be exhausted! --

:34:16. > :34:17.blueberries. You don't have to squeeze them

:34:18. > :34:17.yourself... Carol will have your

:34:18. > :34:28.full weather forecast. We have this crazy miles weather.

:34:29. > :34:32.Will that continue? Does it help the blueberries grow?

:34:33. > :34:41.Good morning. In the FA Cup we had Sutton United

:34:42. > :34:48.plane. You can see the pitch they played on. There was a bit of hope

:34:49. > :34:53.for those looking for an upset, that Arsenal would take some time to get

:34:54. > :34:55.used to it, but the results were almost inevitable when they did get

:34:56. > :34:55.used to it. Sutton United's FA Cup

:34:56. > :34:57.adventure is over. They were beaten 2-0 last night

:34:58. > :35:01.by Arsenal in the last 16 The lowest ranked side left

:35:02. > :35:06.in the Cup did not disgrace themselves against the 12-time

:35:07. > :35:10.winners, but a first half strike from Lucas Perez and Theo Walcott's

:35:11. > :35:12.100th goal in an Arsenal shirt ensured Arsene Wenger's

:35:13. > :35:15.side avoided an upset. But they do have more non-league

:35:16. > :35:18.opposition next in Lincoln City. Let's hear first from the Sutton

:35:19. > :35:21.manager, speaking to our own Dan I think the players

:35:22. > :35:23.have been magnificent. They've given up Sundays

:35:24. > :35:30.to sell the tickets, everyone here is a volunteer,

:35:31. > :35:32.remember that. We're not a League Two club,

:35:33. > :35:35.international league, But Lincoln and Sutton have

:35:36. > :35:39.done our competition You know, go and have your day

:35:40. > :35:50.in the sun, as we've had today. It's one of the best

:35:51. > :35:53.experiences you will ever have. 20 years ago they weren't

:35:54. > :35:56.as fit as they were today. You could expect that they would

:35:57. > :36:00.drop much more physically. They remained absolutely

:36:01. > :36:02.focused, organised, I would say if we were not mentally

:36:03. > :36:07.prepared we would not have Newcastle United have returned

:36:08. > :36:17.to the top of the Championship. They were also 2-0 winners last

:36:18. > :36:20.night over Aston Villa. Yoan Gouffran and this mistake

:36:21. > :36:22.from Henri Lansbury helped Newcastle

:36:23. > :36:23.leapfrog over Brighton Manchester City return

:36:24. > :36:30.to European action tonight, hosting Monaco in the last 16

:36:31. > :36:35.of the Champions League. City reached the semi finals

:36:36. > :36:39.for the first time last season but host a Monaco side currently

:36:40. > :36:45.leading the French first division, They are intelligent,

:36:46. > :36:47.physically strong, they arrived to the box a complete team,

:36:48. > :36:50.so it's the most successful team Looking forward to playing

:36:51. > :37:04.against them, with our level. So just compliment,

:37:05. > :37:08.because they are a really good team. Great Britain Badminton says

:37:09. > :37:11.it is "staggered" at the decision not to award them any funding

:37:12. > :37:14.during the next Olympic cycle. Despite meeting its target

:37:15. > :37:17.in winning a bronze medal in Rio, Badminton, along with six other

:37:18. > :37:19.sports including fencing, archery and wheelchair rugby,

:37:20. > :37:22.lost their appeals against a cut in funding from UK Sport,

:37:23. > :37:24.the organisation which allocates We just can't reach those sports

:37:25. > :37:31.that have got limited medal potential with, yes,

:37:32. > :37:33.a medal possibility. We do believe badminton

:37:34. > :37:37.and wheelchair rugby and other sports have got medal potential,

:37:38. > :37:41.but it's not strong enough for it to be high on the table

:37:42. > :37:44.and we've run out of resources to be able

:37:45. > :37:50.to reach that far. Possible, probably, whatever word

:37:51. > :37:53.you would like to call it, then I think you should have th

:37:54. > :37:56.right toat fund that sport. We've got players in the top ten

:37:57. > :38:01.of the world and to say that that's OK, they aren't number one

:38:02. > :38:06.in the world, but I wasn't number one in the world when I won my

:38:07. > :38:10.medal, I was only an outside chance. We owe it to a sport

:38:11. > :38:16.to be able to do that. The decision by Muirfield to hold

:38:17. > :38:19.another vote on allowing female members has pleased the head

:38:20. > :38:21.of golf's ruling authority, Muirfield was dropped

:38:22. > :38:25.as an Open Championship venue after members voted against altering

:38:26. > :38:29.their male only membership policy. Martin Slumbers wants a positive

:38:30. > :38:32.outcome to help grow the game I do believe that if we are going

:38:33. > :38:39.to grow participation in the game, family golf is at the heart

:38:40. > :38:42.of that strategy. I still believe that getting more

:38:43. > :38:45.women as members of golf clubs, more women bringing children

:38:46. > :38:47.to play, clubs creating opportunities for young people

:38:48. > :38:50.to play, or even new facilities for children to learn to play,

:38:51. > :38:53.that's what's important Great Britain's next Davis Cup tie

:38:54. > :39:15.against France will be held on clay. That's not their best surface,

:39:16. > :39:21.although they did win the Davis Cup in 2015 on that surface.

:39:22. > :39:25.Interesting. Hopefully it will bring them the same luck.

:39:26. > :39:28.For many parents, formula milk is a convenient or necessary

:39:29. > :39:33.But one MP is calling for a change to the way these

:39:34. > :39:45.And here on the sofa is blogger and mum-of-two Becky Sappor,

:39:46. > :39:59.Alison, what are you think is the issue with the way formula milk is

:40:00. > :40:05.marketed? At the moment it is marketed very aggressively on

:40:06. > :40:10.television, magazines, through apps and websites and that's not giving

:40:11. > :40:17.impartial advice that parents need. You think that... Why is it a

:40:18. > :40:20.problem? When you say it isn't giving them the information it

:40:21. > :40:24.needs, what are they missing? At the moment there is no impartial advice

:40:25. > :40:32.that is given to parents, that parents can rely upon. Increasingly

:40:33. > :40:37.they are relying on marketing and information from the formula

:40:38. > :40:40.companies themselves. Health professionals are then advising

:40:41. > :40:47.parents. I think there's a role for a body that oversees those things

:40:48. > :40:50.and will regularly look at the information and make sure it is

:40:51. > :40:54.correct. So this isn't about rest feeding versus bottle feeding?

:40:55. > :40:59.Absolutely not. I appreciate parents will sometimes choose formula milk

:41:00. > :41:04.for a variety of reasons, we just want to make sure the information

:41:05. > :41:10.they get is right. Good morning to you two. Tell us about your

:41:11. > :41:16.experience and whether you had enough information and impartial

:41:17. > :41:21.advice available. I think when I made the decision to formula feed my

:41:22. > :41:26.first son there is very limited resource out there and I think when

:41:27. > :41:33.there is a small amount of readily available information for parents

:41:34. > :41:37.you can be led by advertising. You think you were led? I don't

:41:38. > :41:43.personally think I was, I did as much research as I could, but I do

:41:44. > :41:49.agree that that information isn't necessarily readily available and if

:41:50. > :41:54.that information is misleading in any way it needs to be fixed.

:41:55. > :42:01.My only concern is that we have to be so careful in the way we go about

:42:02. > :42:07.fixing that, so as not to create a stigma with formula-fed babies and

:42:08. > :42:12.so on. Obviously one of the precious as well, there are so many things

:42:13. > :42:18.when you are mum to think about and there's a certain stigma about if

:42:19. > :42:23.you're not breast-feeding. When I wrote my article about bottle

:42:24. > :42:27.feeding my first child, the response as you can imagine was completely

:42:28. > :42:32.buried. There were women who completely understood where I was

:42:33. > :42:36.coming from and there were women who thought I was a complete failure for

:42:37. > :42:40.not trying, so there is already a stigma attached to those parents who

:42:41. > :42:44.do for defeat, whether that's through choice or circumstance, and

:42:45. > :42:48.we have to be so careful in the way we go about this whole thing, so as

:42:49. > :42:53.not to encourage that stigma and not to alienate these parents that make

:42:54. > :42:57.that choice. Going back to Alison. On that subject of stigmatising, one

:42:58. > :43:01.of the things you are talking about is plain packaging, to remove the

:43:02. > :43:06.marketing and advertising from the packaging of baby formula milk.

:43:07. > :43:10.Doesn't that stigmatise? Is about treating it like cigarettes or

:43:11. > :43:15.almost like a crime, something to be embarrassed about? Absolutely not.

:43:16. > :43:19.That's not my intention that. At the moment if you look on a supermarket

:43:20. > :43:24.shelf you will see the formula on the shelf and there is a

:43:25. > :43:29.progression, they will be numbered from one to four. The intention is

:43:30. > :43:33.to instil in the minds of parents that when you finish with one you

:43:34. > :43:37.move onto the next, but the reality is you only really need that formula

:43:38. > :43:42.which is suitable for babies up to one year. Things like toddler milk,

:43:43. > :43:50.they aren't really necessary and they are being used as a way to get

:43:51. > :43:55.around regulations because the first milks can be advertised, whereas the

:43:56. > :43:59.others can't. We look similar, they look like Konica products. If you

:44:00. > :44:03.start removing information from packaging, don't you then take away

:44:04. > :44:06.the information which is exactly what you say you want parents to

:44:07. > :44:11.have? You want them to have that information? I am not saying you

:44:12. > :44:15.remove the information, absolutely not, I would like to see more

:44:16. > :44:26.information on the packaging. The things I am trying to tackle are the

:44:27. > :44:31.images on the packets as well. Images of crowns and shields and

:44:32. > :44:34.teddy bears, idealised images that make the packages look attractive.

:44:35. > :44:40.Because if you are standing there looking at a shelf a lot of

:44:41. > :44:46.parents... I spoke to over 300 people and many felt they were being

:44:47. > :44:52.led by the marketing and that's not good enough. And overseas industry

:44:53. > :44:55.says the law is already very strict and formula is amongst the strict

:44:56. > :45:00.the regulated of all foods and they are fairly critical of the

:45:01. > :45:04.proposals. It is true that there is a lot of regulation around formula

:45:05. > :45:08.and at the moment a lot of this is self-regulation by the industry

:45:09. > :45:13.complying with these rules. There is no independent verification and

:45:14. > :45:19.testing of the contents of formula. So it's a very cutthroat is this,

:45:20. > :45:26.and they want to attract parents to choose their brands. So you will see

:45:27. > :45:31.them say it has a certain amount of iron, or antibiotics. But there's no

:45:32. > :45:38.real reason why those need to be there. They haven't been verified

:45:39. > :45:42.and tested. If we tested those claims we would see if those things

:45:43. > :45:48.were necessary. Or are they just a marketing gimmick for parents?

:45:49. > :45:59.The official government advice is rest feed for the first six months

:46:00. > :46:04.if that is possible. -- breastfeed. Has that been made clear? Very

:46:05. > :46:09.clear. From advertising that is the message I have taken away for. It

:46:10. > :46:17.has been made plainly obvious that the breast is nutritionally best. I

:46:18. > :46:21.agree this misinformation needs to not be there. If we were to

:46:22. > :46:27.physically remove that choice for parents, it is only going to sort of

:46:28. > :46:31.embrace that stigma and allow it to continue. We have to be careful

:46:32. > :46:40.about the way we go about doing this and getting the right information to

:46:41. > :46:54.parents, that s my only fear. Thank all of you for that. Do we get a

:46:55. > :47:01.smile from him? No, only withering looks. And now for the weather. Good

:47:02. > :47:08.morning, Carol. This morning it is still mild. Yesterday to the north

:47:09. > :47:14.of London the temperature reached 8.3 Celsius. That is not a February

:47:15. > :47:18.record, but pretty good for February. Over the next few days,

:47:19. > :47:22.temperatures will continue to go down. For some of us, that will

:47:23. > :47:26.happen today, and it will be windy. It is still mild, but not everywhere

:47:27. > :47:34.today. The forecast starting at nine o'clock in Scotland. Rain in

:47:35. > :47:38.north-west Scotland with winds. And it will be cloudy with the brightest

:47:39. > :47:43.skies in the east. North-west England, a cloudy start. North-east

:47:44. > :47:46.England, sunshine. That goes down towards The Wash and parts of

:47:47. > :47:51.Norfolk. The rest of East Anglia and Kent and the Midlands and southern

:47:52. > :47:57.counties, eight weak weather front. --A. That is creating cloud, murky

:47:58. > :48:02.conditions, damp conditions with patchy rain, and it extends into

:48:03. > :48:07.Wales as well. Hill fog and patchy low-level fog as well. Northern

:48:08. > :48:13.Ireland. A dry start. A lot of cloud. Brighter breaks. It will not

:48:14. > :48:17.last. Take your umbrella. You will need it later. The rainy north-west

:48:18. > :48:22.Scotland and the gusty winds go south through the day. Meanwhile,

:48:23. > :48:28.the rain in southern England rejuvenates and will turn around and

:48:29. > :48:31.go north. The rain will be heaviest in Wales, Northern Ireland, and

:48:32. > :48:37.western Scotland. Some eastern areas will stay dry, but it will cloud

:48:38. > :48:40.over before the rain arrives later. Overnight, as the rain clears

:48:41. > :48:44.Northern Ireland and Scotland, windy around it, especially for a short

:48:45. > :48:49.time in the north of England. Then the rain continues its journey

:48:50. > :48:54.southwards. Behind that, under Keira skies, cold, cold enough for snow on

:48:55. > :49:00.the Scottish hills and mountains. -- clearer. Still mild further south.

:49:01. > :49:03.We start for the south with a lot of cloud and also that patchy rain.

:49:04. > :49:06.Increasingly through the day, brightening up. Brightening up into

:49:07. > :49:12.northern England. Extending south through the day. But for north-east

:49:13. > :49:16.Scotland, the Northern Isles, the far north of mainland Scotland, and

:49:17. > :49:24.perhaps Aberdeen show, gusty winds, 70 miles an hour. Locally, 80 miles

:49:25. > :49:28.an hour. -- Aberdeenshire. Thursday, an area of low pressure coming in.

:49:29. > :49:34.Northern Ireland and northern England, the North Sea, it will have

:49:35. > :49:39.heavy rain, snow in central and southern Scotland and northern

:49:40. > :49:45.England. Not just in the hills. It will be accompanied by very strong

:49:46. > :49:54.winds. Atrocious cover conditions. Stay in touch with the network to

:49:55. > :49:59.get more information on that. -- driving conditions. And you do not

:50:00. > :50:01.use the word atrocious lightly. Thank you so much for that.

:50:02. > :50:04.It's half-term in lots of places around the UK this week,

:50:05. > :50:07.and lots of nanas and granddads will be stepping up to take

:50:08. > :50:11.But new figures out this morning suggest grandparents are saving

:50:12. > :50:13.families around ?16 billion a year in childcare costs.

:50:14. > :50:22.That is not a surprise, isn't it? Good morning. Many families are

:50:23. > :50:25.grateful their grandparents around this week. Good morning.

:50:26. > :50:29.Grandparents have always played a big role in the upbringing of their

:50:30. > :50:31.grandchildren. But the rising cost of childcare

:50:32. > :50:34.means that role is becoming crucial According to the insurance company,

:50:35. > :50:38.Ageas, grandparents are spending about eight hours a week looking

:50:39. > :50:41.after their grandchildren. And that's saving families

:50:42. > :50:43.on average around ?2,000 a year We spoke to a few families to see

:50:44. > :50:57.how much they relied In the big school holidays, my mum

:50:58. > :51:05.comes to help. That saves money. But sometimes we just need to take time

:51:06. > :51:10.off. But I know people who need grandparents to do that. Happy days

:51:11. > :51:15.when you get time off for school. Happy times. But many families are

:51:16. > :51:22.dependent on grandparents to help out with childcare. Yeah. I am very

:51:23. > :51:27.lucky because I have grandparents to help and take care of her. But in

:51:28. > :51:31.circumstances they cannot, it leaves me stuck with work, and I absolutely

:51:32. > :51:32.cannot afford to pay for childcare at the moment.

:51:33. > :51:35.Megan Jarvie is Head of Policy at the Family and Childcare Trust.

:51:36. > :51:42.Good morning. Is it all about childcare and cost saving? That is

:51:43. > :51:47.part of the picture. Many families struggle to pay for childcare. Many

:51:48. > :51:52.cannot find it in their local area. That is why grandparents step in. It

:51:53. > :51:55.will be a positive choice for many families. Many parents will only

:51:56. > :52:01.want their own parents looking after their children. What we are worried

:52:02. > :52:04.about is when it is the only choice and there are no options. And some

:52:05. > :52:08.families do not have grandparents living nearby or who are working and

:52:09. > :52:15.cannot help out. Where will the whole be filled and where will the

:52:16. > :52:19.help come from and the money? -- hole be filled. The government is

:52:20. > :52:26.helping to boost outcomes for children and unable parents to go to

:52:27. > :52:31.work. We need that to be a strategy that makes sure every parent is

:52:32. > :52:35.better off working so they can pay for childcare and it is of high

:52:36. > :52:42.enough quality to boost children's learning. Grandparents helping out

:52:43. > :52:47.with grandchildren, that goes back, you know, to the beginning of time.

:52:48. > :52:51.Should we be worrying about this? For some families, it will be

:52:52. > :52:55.exactly what they want to do. Exactly what they choose. But we

:52:56. > :52:59.need to make sure they have the choice, whether they choose to go to

:53:00. > :53:05.grandparents, or have a childminder or a nursery. In most settings, they

:53:06. > :53:08.are professionals who are helping children to learn and boost

:53:09. > :53:12.learning. That can be a positive choice. It can be a good change for

:53:13. > :53:20.working grandparents coming in in the next year or so. You might be

:53:21. > :53:25.able to get grandparental leave, where it will be shared among

:53:26. > :53:30.parents and grandparents. The great thing about grandparental leave is

:53:31. > :53:37.that it allows grandmothers and grandfathers to share that and it

:53:38. > :53:46.rakes that idea of it being a female thing. -- breaks. We need to free up

:53:47. > :53:51.men to have the joy of helping to raise a child. Thank you. We should

:53:52. > :53:54.have more information on that soon. Now there is working and there is

:53:55. > :53:57."working." A former teacher, a doctor,

:53:58. > :54:00.and a marketing manager are amongst a team of British soldiers hoping

:54:01. > :54:04.to become the first all-female group They'll have to endure temperatures

:54:05. > :54:09.of -40 and walk for up to nine hours a day carrying more than their own

:54:10. > :54:12.body weight in supplies. Our reporter, Phil Mackie,

:54:13. > :54:14.donned his skiis and joined them in Norway, where they're training

:54:15. > :54:17.for their 80-day challenge. The Ice Maiden team is heading out

:54:18. > :54:23.across a frozen Norwegian lake at the start of its final

:54:24. > :54:25.training exercise. In September, these soldiers

:54:26. > :54:27.will begin an historic journey, hoping they will now succeed

:54:28. > :54:38.and inspire a generation of women. It's not just about five women

:54:39. > :54:47.crossing the Antarctic, it's about encouraging women

:54:48. > :54:50.everywhere from across the military but also in civilian life to get out

:54:51. > :54:54.there and realise there is no ceiling and you can

:54:55. > :54:55.achieve anything. I think we can inspire

:54:56. > :54:58.someone to get out there Their home will be

:54:59. > :55:07.a small tent. It will be a bedroom,

:55:08. > :55:10.living room, and kitchen, There are doctors, a former teacher,

:55:11. > :55:18.and an electrical technician I'm just a normal person

:55:19. > :55:22.from Newcastle and I have just come And if you want it and work

:55:23. > :55:32.for it you can just do it. They will leave their families

:55:33. > :55:35.and partners behind to spend nearly There's important research

:55:36. > :55:39.being done as well. No-one really knows what it

:55:40. > :55:42.would take to support and sustain an all-female team

:55:43. > :55:46.on a journey like this. It is about the composition

:55:47. > :55:49.of the rations, carbohydrates, protein, and trying to figure out

:55:50. > :55:52.how we can manipulate that, And also for a group of women whose

:55:53. > :55:56.nutritional needs are different to men, there has been very

:55:57. > :55:58.little research done So, I haven't got

:55:59. > :56:12.an awful lot to go on. There are other more

:56:13. > :56:14.personal considerations, especially when they need

:56:15. > :56:17.to answer the call of nature. We have individual pee funnels,

:56:18. > :56:19.and that is straightforward. We can squat behind a little wall

:56:20. > :56:22.without trousers down Then you can drag that rubbish

:56:23. > :56:34.for the rest of the journey. One of the hardest things will be

:56:35. > :56:37.maintaining morale as each hard day They have just been

:56:38. > :56:45.for a two-hour march. They are going to have to do nine

:56:46. > :56:48.hours a day in the Antarctic, carrying everything

:56:49. > :56:50.they need along with them. It is going to be very, very tough,

:56:51. > :56:54.which is why they need to practise Two will be reserves,

:56:55. > :57:00.as only five can cross the Antarctic, where they hope

:57:01. > :57:02.to break the ice ceiling, putting them alongside explorers

:57:03. > :57:19.like Scott and others. God, that is incredible, what they

:57:20. > :00:44.have to do. The winter here has been put into perspective. Now for the

:00:45. > :00:47.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Steph McGovern and Jon Kay.

:00:48. > :00:50.Cuts to hospital services are planned in most areas of England.

:00:51. > :00:53.A BBC investigation into 44 local plans reveals hospital

:00:54. > :00:58.The Government says it wants to give patients better

:00:59. > :01:17.Good morning, it's Tuesday, the 21st of February.

:01:18. > :01:22.The growing teacher supply crisis in our classrooms -

:01:23. > :01:25.a report by MPs says urgent action is needed to reduce the numbers

:01:26. > :01:40.We have every faith that we will get to take him home, that is the only

:01:41. > :01:43.ask as a parent of a sick child. The specialist children's hospital

:01:44. > :01:45.that's one of a kind. The care is outstanding -

:01:46. > :01:48.and we'll be live there later. Profits at Britain's biggest bank,

:01:49. > :01:51.HSBC, fell by more than 60% last year as growth slowed both

:01:52. > :01:55.here and abroad. I'll have all the details

:01:56. > :01:58.in a couple of minutes. In sport, Sutton United couldn't

:01:59. > :02:12.pull off one of the biggest Theo Walcott scored his 100th goal

:02:13. > :02:19.for Arsenal as they beat the non-league side 2-0.

:02:20. > :02:22.# I'm only human, after all. He may only be human,

:02:23. > :02:24.but Rag'n'Bone Man has a record breaking debut album and he's

:02:25. > :02:36.already picked up a Brit Award. And our award-winning weather

:02:37. > :02:41.presenter Carol has more. Good morning, a fairly cloudy start

:02:42. > :02:47.to date, murky in the West with Hill fog. For southern areas, there is a

:02:48. > :02:52.weak weather fronts which will move northwards, producing heavy rain and

:02:53. > :02:53.joint force with -- forces with another weather fronts coming from

:02:54. > :02:55.Scotland southwards. Most areas of England will see

:02:56. > :03:00.hospital services cut or moved under plans to save money

:03:01. > :03:02.and improve efficiency. Analysis by the BBC has also found

:03:03. > :03:05.that about a third of the proposals would see a reduction in the number

:03:06. > :03:08.of hospitals offering The Government says patients

:03:09. > :03:12.will receive better Our health reporter

:03:13. > :03:19.Sophie Hutchinson has the details. Protests outside Horton Hospital

:03:20. > :03:22.in Oxfordshire just a few months ago where there are concerns about bed

:03:23. > :03:24.closures and cuts to Right across England

:03:25. > :03:31.proposals for big changes The BBC has analysed 44

:03:32. > :03:36.of the transformation Two thirds include either hospital

:03:37. > :03:42.closures or moving treatments More than a third involve cuts

:03:43. > :03:48.to the number of hospitals providing non-emergency treatments and around

:03:49. > :03:51.one third plan to reduce the number of hospitals

:03:52. > :03:57.offering emergency care. Proposed closures to hospital beds

:03:58. > :04:00.have been heavily criticised More generally, though,

:04:01. > :04:05.it says the plans are the best hope of delivering essential reforms

:04:06. > :04:20.to the NHS, but it says it can't be The Government has provided more

:04:21. > :04:24.funding for the NHS, that is very much to be welcomed. But most of

:04:25. > :04:29.that is going into cutting the deficit in hospitals that we heard

:04:30. > :04:31.about yesterday. It leaves very little left over for the new, better

:04:32. > :04:35.services in the community. The Department of Health says it's

:04:36. > :04:38.confident the NHS plans will help patients get better care,

:04:39. > :04:39.with improvements to mental health and cancer services

:04:40. > :04:43.and more access to GPs. The shortage of teachers in schools

:04:44. > :04:46.in England is getting worse - affecting key subjects like physics

:04:47. > :04:48.and maths - according The Commons Education Committee says

:04:49. > :04:54.recruitment targets have been missed for five years in a row,

:04:55. > :04:56.and there should be more focus on keeping teachers

:04:57. > :04:58.in the profession long-term. The actual sums are

:04:59. > :05:05.adding and taking... Maths class for these

:05:06. > :05:09.children with Mr Walton. But professionals like him

:05:10. > :05:13.are increasingly hard to come by, that's according to a group of MPs,

:05:14. > :05:15.who say school teacher shortages I'm into my fourth

:05:16. > :05:22.year of teaching now. I think that's mainly due

:05:23. > :05:26.to workload and pressure The Education Select Committee

:05:27. > :05:31.is calling for a long-term plan to recruit more teachers

:05:32. > :05:33.and a bigger emphasis to be placed on retaining them,

:05:34. > :05:39.warning many are leaving. Reasons include a lack

:05:40. > :05:40.of job satisfaction, Research has found teachers

:05:41. > :05:47.in England work nearly 20% more than they do in other similar

:05:48. > :05:50.countries, an average 20 of those are spent

:05:51. > :05:58.here in the classroom teaching. MPs say secondary schools

:05:59. > :06:01.are hardest hit in subjects What we've got to get

:06:02. > :06:07.across is just how important teachers are to our society

:06:08. > :06:11.and to our economy. They need to feel valued,

:06:12. > :06:14.they need to feel trusted. The Department for Education says

:06:15. > :06:16.it is investing in teacher recruitment and development to make

:06:17. > :06:18.sure the best in the We've been getting a lot

:06:19. > :06:36.of your comments on this Lots of teachers getting into touch.

:06:37. > :06:41.One says teaching is an incredibly hard job, but very rewarding. She

:06:42. > :06:45.says she regularly works over 70 hour weeks and drink the holidays as

:06:46. > :06:49.well, that is one of the myths the told us, that teachers get loads of

:06:50. > :06:52.holidays, when lots of them work in that time.

:06:53. > :06:58.The head teacher we spoke to earlier said he to retain staff and keep

:06:59. > :07:01.people teaching, one teacher got in touch saying it is all very well

:07:02. > :07:05.talking to head teachers, there are rewards but you need to talk about

:07:06. > :07:09.the picture of workload, pressure and pay. I appreciate you don't want

:07:10. > :07:12.to scare off potential new recruits but we need to be honest if the

:07:13. > :07:15.teaching situation will ever improve.

:07:16. > :07:19.One of the big pressures as the paperwork, Gill says lead teachers

:07:20. > :07:32.be teachers, stop giving them more and more data to crunch and start

:07:33. > :07:34.bringing back respect in schools. If the upper echelons don't respect the

:07:35. > :07:37.teachers, why will the students? Lots of sarcastic people say that I

:07:38. > :07:39.hope those teachers complaining are enjoying their half term break. Join

:07:40. > :07:41.in on that debate on our Facebook page.

:07:42. > :07:43.Five people have been killed after a light plane crashed

:07:44. > :07:45.into a shopping centre in the Australian city of Melbourne.

:07:46. > :07:52.All of those on board were killed when it suffered engine failure and

:07:53. > :07:58.crashed into a shopping centre. Four of those killed were US citizens. No

:07:59. > :08:00.one in the ground is thought to have been injured.

:08:01. > :08:03.Which is unbelievable, looking at those pictures.

:08:04. > :08:05.The Chancellor Philip Hammond has assured Conservative MPs that he's

:08:06. > :08:07.listening to concerns about a business rate revaluation

:08:08. > :08:10.in England and Wales, which will leave more than a quarter

:08:11. > :08:14.The rates are being updated for the first time in seven years,

:08:15. > :08:19.and Mr Hammond's facing pressure to do more to help those affected.

:08:20. > :08:23.Let's speak to our political correspondent Tom Bateman.

:08:24. > :08:30.He is life in Westminster. He has been looking into this for us. It

:08:31. > :08:33.seems that the political pressure over business rates increases every

:08:34. > :08:39.day at the moment ahead of the Budget? I think it is. Some of those

:08:40. > :08:44.accounts of businesses, shop owners and others, small businesses in

:08:45. > :08:48.particular, worried about rate increases, I think that is fuelling

:08:49. > :08:52.some of the pressure on the Government at the moment, because

:08:53. > :08:56.Conservative MPs had a private meeting with Chancellor Philip

:08:57. > :08:59.Hammond in Parliament last night. I think there was quite a change of

:09:00. > :09:03.tone from the Government because just yesterday we heard about her

:09:04. > :09:06.ministers had written to MPs, talking about all of this as being a

:09:07. > :09:12.campaign of distortions and half-truths. Last night Philip

:09:13. > :09:16.Hammond, with quite a different tone from some colleagues, said he was in

:09:17. > :09:22.listening mode, prepared to hear about some of the issues, some of

:09:23. > :09:25.the most hard-pressed were facing. Crucially no word on any

:09:26. > :09:29.concessions. The Government for its part says this is the biggest cut in

:09:30. > :09:34.business rates it has ever put forward. And more businesses will

:09:35. > :09:38.face reductions than increases. Thank you, Tom.

:09:39. > :09:41.A heterosexual couple will find out today if they can have a civil

:09:42. > :09:45.Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan from London took their case

:09:46. > :09:47.to the Court of Appeal following a defeat at

:09:48. > :09:51.They say it's unfair that only same-sex couples can

:09:52. > :10:04.A man in New York has had an extremely lucky escape

:10:05. > :10:06.while doing his weekly shop at a mini-mart in the Bronx.

:10:07. > :10:10.We have some astonishing pictures. Look at what happened.

:10:11. > :10:14.Caught on CCTV, he is about to pay for his groceries when he realises

:10:15. > :10:27.Look in the window behind. That is unbelievable. As you can see from

:10:28. > :10:30.another angle, he is protected by the two shelves. But first one was

:10:31. > :10:37.like a barrier. He manages to get out unharmed. Both that man and the

:10:38. > :10:40.driver went to hospital but we understand that neither had a

:10:41. > :10:44.serious injury, which is unbelievable. You are going in for a

:10:45. > :10:46.couple of bits and bobs that happens.

:10:47. > :10:47.You are part of the story all over the world.

:10:48. > :10:51.Good point. "The more we talk about cancer,

:10:52. > :10:54.the better it is for all concerned". The words of Steve Hewlett,

:10:55. > :10:56.the broadcaster and journalist, Diagnosed with cancer

:10:57. > :11:03.of the oesophagus last March, Steve shared his story in a series

:11:04. > :11:06.of frank and moving In a moment we'll speak

:11:07. > :11:15.to a clinical psychologist who helps But first let's hear some of Steve's

:11:16. > :11:21.thoughts as told to both Radio 4 and to this programme

:11:22. > :11:38.during our Shine a Light I've got cancer, can of the

:11:39. > :11:45.oesophagus. It was discovered back in the very beginning of March.

:11:46. > :11:50.My body has become a battle ground. I am the unfortunate host of it. I

:11:51. > :11:54.don't even feel that the cancer is my enemy, I haven't given it a name

:11:55. > :11:59.or anything and not -- and I don't think of it like that, I don't see

:12:00. > :12:03.it in my dreams as an evil presence. It didn't feel like a big decision

:12:04. > :12:09.to me to talk about it, it felt obvious, in a way. Go people are

:12:10. > :12:13.surprised, they expect men to be" talk about it and I suspect both

:12:14. > :12:19.fathers would have done exactly that, I my dad would have.

:12:20. > :12:22.Those are very, very, very emotional moment that occur

:12:23. > :12:24.when you're trying to tell the children, when you're

:12:25. > :12:26.trying to tell the family, when you're trying to tell other

:12:27. > :12:30.Telling them is really hard, because you feel as if you're

:12:31. > :12:32.burdening them with this dreadful news that they don't need.

:12:33. > :12:36.Actually, of course, the truth is they do need it.

:12:37. > :12:38.You know what they mean to you, what you don't know

:12:39. > :12:42.So I think talking about it has helped.

:12:43. > :12:46.And I think, more broadly, I think I'm beginning to get

:12:47. > :12:56.the sense that it's helping quite a lot of people.

:12:57. > :13:06.Steven Hewitt. With this now is Robin Muir, a clinical psychologist

:13:07. > :13:11.at the Maggie's Respite Centre in Manchester. You met Steve when we

:13:12. > :13:14.broadcast from Maggie's. It is one thing talking about cancer to your

:13:15. > :13:18.friends and family but a whole other thing to talk about it to the

:13:19. > :13:24.nation, it is so personal that so important to do something like that?

:13:25. > :13:27.I think what Steve did was fantastic, giving people almost a

:13:28. > :13:33.role model to how people can talk about is that -- cancer, it is not

:13:34. > :13:36.something we had to be afraid of, we can open up conversations and

:13:37. > :13:41.dialogues about cancer and how people feel about it and the effect

:13:42. > :13:44.it has on them. He was a journalist, a storyteller throughout his career,

:13:45. > :13:49.but he did not talk like a journalist when telling this story,

:13:50. > :13:54.it was him as a man. An individual story. He spoke like a human and

:13:55. > :13:58.told his story. I think Steve shows is the value of talking and telling

:13:59. > :14:03.our stories around cancer, but also the value of being listened to,

:14:04. > :14:07.having an audience to listen to your story, whether that is Radio 4 or

:14:08. > :14:13.your partner and friends, there is an incredible value to being herds

:14:14. > :14:18.in that way. Why do you think people find it so hard to talk about it? It

:14:19. > :14:23.is a lot more, now, every day we hear about people who have it, it

:14:24. > :14:27.has touched most people's lives? It is something that can affect us all,

:14:28. > :14:33.it is something that we are perhaps on some level afraid of. So when we

:14:34. > :14:37.hear that somebody we know have cancer it reminds us of our own

:14:38. > :14:43.vulnerability, perhaps when somebody like Steve, who has a very

:14:44. > :14:46.successful career, a partner to somebody, a father, when he is

:14:47. > :14:50.diagnosed with cancer, perhaps it is the vulnerability that we see in

:14:51. > :14:55.somebody when they are diagnosed and treated that scares us as well, it

:14:56. > :14:58.can make it difficult for us to talk about what's cancer is and how it

:14:59. > :15:03.can affect us. The fact he was a bloke as well, men

:15:04. > :15:08.are notoriously... We know from statistics, not good at going to the

:15:09. > :15:16.doctor, talking about cancer or any other health problems? Definitely,

:15:17. > :15:19.some of our role models as men, how we aspire to be powerful, strong and

:15:20. > :15:21.other ideas, it can sometimes hold us back and make is more vulnerable

:15:22. > :15:26.than we are diagnosed with an illness, we find it difficult to

:15:27. > :15:29.seek support and open up difficult conversations, it makes it harder

:15:30. > :15:34.for others to hear the stories that men have when men become vulnerable.

:15:35. > :15:40.When you're talking to people and how to deal with it. What advice do

:15:41. > :15:44.you give to people who are struggling to talk to their family

:15:45. > :15:48.and friends about it? Try and be as open and honest as possible. Often

:15:49. > :15:51.people who are listening to somebody who is affected by cancer worry

:15:52. > :15:54.about what they need to say to make things better for that person, but

:15:55. > :15:58.often in my experience, it's perhaps not what you say, but it is how you

:15:59. > :16:02.listen which is most important. That it's the value of using your ears,

:16:03. > :16:07.and simply giving somebody that space to talk about it. So not

:16:08. > :16:11.necessarily come back with advice and things, it is more taking it on

:16:12. > :16:15.board? Sometimes we hear advice, people say all you need to do is to

:16:16. > :16:18.be positive. That's a hard thing to do all the time and often that's

:16:19. > :16:26.received badly by people with cancer. So often to try and give

:16:27. > :16:30.that space and in a non-judgemental way is the best thing to do. Where I

:16:31. > :16:33.work, it's something we try to offer. A place that people can come

:16:34. > :16:41.and tell their story. Robin, thank you very much indeed.

:16:42. > :16:46.It's 8.17am. Let's find out what's happening with the weather. It has

:16:47. > :16:56.been unusually mild. Yes, yesterday we had a temperature

:16:57. > :17:01.of 18 Celsius, it is not a February record, but it is a high temperature

:17:02. > :17:04.for February. This morning, it is mild across many parts of the

:17:05. > :17:07.country. We are looking at temperatures ten or 11 Celsius.

:17:08. > :17:10.That's not everywhere either because across parts of north-east Scotland

:17:11. > :17:15.and noEntion gland the temperature is one to six Celsius at the moment.

:17:16. > :17:19.By 9am, we'll have rain coming in across north-west Scotland. It will

:17:20. > :17:22.be cloudy except for in the east across north-west England you've got

:17:23. > :17:25.a cloudy start, but north-east England, you've got something

:17:26. > :17:30.brighter and colder. As we drift down the East Coast towards the Wash

:17:31. > :17:35.and north for folk, we're in sunshine. But for the rest of East

:17:36. > :17:37.Anglia and Kent and Midlands and heading across southern counties

:17:38. > :17:42.into Wales we have a weather front and that weather front is producing

:17:43. > :17:45.a lot of cloud and splashes of rain, and also murky conditions

:17:46. > :17:49.particularly in the south-west and Wales where we've got some hill fog

:17:50. > :17:53.and some patchy low level fog as wellment but for Northern Ireland,

:17:54. > :17:56.you've got a dry start. Quite a bit of cloud, but there are going to be

:17:57. > :18:00.brighter breaks. If you're setting out, take your brolly as you'll need

:18:01. > :18:03.it later on. What is happening the rain and the stronger winds across

:18:04. > :18:05.north-west Scotland will come south across all of Scotland and into

:18:06. > :18:11.Northern Ireland and Northern England. Meanwhile, the patchy rain

:18:12. > :18:15.in the south of England, it is a weather front, will pivot and come

:18:16. > :18:18.back northwards. There will be heavy rain across Wales and Northern

:18:19. > :18:22.Ireland and Western Scotland in particular. But you can see where

:18:23. > :18:26.else, we're looking at rain. Through this evening, what you'll find is

:18:27. > :18:29.the rain will continue to push steadily southwards getting down

:18:30. > :18:33.towards Southern England with a lot of cloud behind it. It will be windy

:18:34. > :18:36.across Northern England this evening for a time. In the colder

:18:37. > :18:40.conditions, overnight across Scotland, it will be cold enough for

:18:41. > :18:43.snow in some of the mountains. So we start tomorrow with that scenario.

:18:44. > :18:47.In the south, we've got the cloud and the rain. That continues to push

:18:48. > :18:50.southwards so brightening up all the time behind it across Northern

:18:51. > :18:54.England, North Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, but in Scotland,

:18:55. > :18:58.we will have some showers and it will be very windy across southern

:18:59. > :19:02.parts of Shetland, Orkney, the far north of mainland Scotland and

:19:03. > :19:07.towards Frazer brew and Peterhead and we're looking at gusts 70mph and

:19:08. > :19:11.80mph. If you're travelling bear that in mind. On Thursday an area of

:19:12. > :19:14.low pressure coming across Northern Ireland and Northern England heading

:19:15. > :19:18.towards the North Sea will bring with had yefy rain and some snow,

:19:19. > :19:22.particularly so across the Central Lowlands and the southern uplands

:19:23. > :19:25.and not just to higher levels, couple that with the strong winds

:19:26. > :19:31.and there will be nasty travelling conditions. So something else just

:19:32. > :19:44.to be aware of Steph and Jon. Carol, thank you very much.

:19:45. > :19:55.Profits at Britain's biggest bank, HSBC, fell by more than 60%.

:19:56. > :19:58.The bank has blamed slowing growth in the UK which it has linked

:19:59. > :20:02.It's also repeated a warning that it could move 1,000 staff

:20:03. > :20:12.The hotel giant, Intercontinental Group, the owner of Holiday Inn,

:20:13. > :20:14.reported a near 10% increase in profits for 2016.

:20:15. > :20:17.The group, one of the world's biggest hotel chains,

:20:18. > :20:19.said growth in China, new hotel deals and record

:20:20. > :20:38.room occupancy rates helped to boost results.

:20:39. > :20:40.Chocolate one of the British foods that helped drink

:20:41. > :20:43.exports grew by more than 10pc last year topping ?20 billion

:20:44. > :20:46.The industry is big business for the UK, employing

:20:47. > :20:47.around 400,000 people across nearly 7,000 businesses.

:20:48. > :20:54.Top of the table for sales abroad was Scotch whisky. That's all the

:20:55. > :21:01.business news for this morning. Thank you very much indeed.

:21:02. > :21:05.Chocolate factory, you don't know how relevant that is. We're talking

:21:06. > :21:12.Roald Dahl right now! You think I didn't know that.

:21:13. > :21:14.Roald Dahl's words have been adored by generations

:21:15. > :21:16.of children and parents alike, but it's Quentin Blake's

:21:17. > :21:23.illustrations that have helped bring many of his characters to life.

:21:24. > :21:27.There's just one Dahl story that he hasn't drawn until now.

:21:28. > :21:31.For the first time in nearly 20 years, he's put ink to paper

:21:32. > :21:36.and illustrated another classic written by his famous friend.

:21:37. > :21:42.We'll exclusively reveal the first illustration from that book -

:21:43. > :21:46.Billy and the Minpins in a moment - but first let's look back at some

:21:47. > :21:55.favourite Roald Dahl moments, with some young fans.

:21:56. > :22:01.I love Roald Dahl books because they're very unique and different to

:22:02. > :22:07.lots of other authors. He just makes a lot of them and the way he writes

:22:08. > :22:12.them. He makes them really good. Say like the BFG he uses his unmade up

:22:13. > :22:20.words as well. My favourite Roald Dahl book is the BFG because I love

:22:21. > :22:25.all the characters in it. They're just amazing. They're just

:22:26. > :22:30.really good. I love his style and he's just a really, really good

:22:31. > :22:34.author. Sometimes it's hard to picture things what the writer

:22:35. > :22:40.actually means. So looking at the pictures gives you a bit more help

:22:41. > :22:45.of thinking what it looks like. James And The Giant Peach because

:22:46. > :22:45.the characters are unique and it's special because they're very

:22:46. > :22:58.unusual. What's your favourite? Manchts till

:22:59. > :23:19.la. I'm a BFG man myself. What's your favourite? Danny The

:23:20. > :23:24.Champion Of The World. Danny is a great story about fathers and sons.

:23:25. > :23:29.I'm a father now. This is really exciting, isn't it? It is. Tell us

:23:30. > :23:35.why, Billy and the Minpins, it's not one that is as famous as some of the

:23:36. > :23:38.others that we've mentioned? It was Roald Dahl last children's books and

:23:39. > :23:41.at the time they went with a different illustrator and that seems

:23:42. > :23:45.odd because we see that powerful connection, but Roald Dahl worked

:23:46. > :23:50.with a range of illustrators. In the museum we've got records of 57

:23:51. > :23:54.different illustrators around the world. Quentin Blake we see as first

:23:55. > :24:01.amongst these, but he's not the only one. So last year was Roald Dahl's

:24:02. > :24:05.100th birthday. There was the Amazing BFG and the appetite is

:24:06. > :24:14.there for Quentin to complete the set and complete the story. This is

:24:15. > :24:18.the first time he has illustrated a Roald Dahl hero in 20 years. It is

:24:19. > :24:23.not a new book, but it is a new version of a classic book? It is a

:24:24. > :24:29.new interpretation. The original illustrations were by Patrick Benton

:24:30. > :24:40.and Patrick has spoken of the quality of the illustrations, but he

:24:41. > :24:44.has spoken the Minpins and doing one last piece of the collaboration with

:24:45. > :24:48.Roald Dahl. You've got the drafts of the Minpins books. That's right.

:24:49. > :24:55.This is fascinating. The reason we have the museum is to preserve Roald

:24:56. > :24:58.Dahl's archives. We can see how the stories went from the first idea, so

:24:59. > :25:03.we have that here. It is the first idea for the Minpins. You can see

:25:04. > :25:08.here the tiny humans in the hollow tree. So these are his initial ideas

:25:09. > :25:12.of what's going to be in it? When he had an idea he'd get it on paper and

:25:13. > :25:17.come back to it. Over years, we think he wrote this down in the

:25:18. > :25:20.1950s. Number three, the tiny humans in the hollow tree and that was the

:25:21. > :25:23.inspiration, that was what the book became about? That's right. That's

:25:24. > :25:27.right. That's Roald Dahl's handwriting. Didn't he use to write

:25:28. > :25:31.in a cabin or something when he was at home? We've got the preserved

:25:32. > :25:37.interior of his writing hut in the museum. His battered old armchair

:25:38. > :25:39.and all the things he kept around himself for inspiration and that's

:25:40. > :25:45.where he would have written these words. What's next? So this is the

:25:46. > :25:49.first full manuscript... Of Billy and the Minpins? Yes, he would have

:25:50. > :25:54.scratched around with all sorts of things, but when he settled down to

:25:55. > :25:59.it, this is the first full manuscript. What you can see is

:26:00. > :26:03.little Billy and the Minpins were his title. We have Billy and the

:26:04. > :26:13.Minpins to bring Billy the hero into the same light as we've got behind

:26:14. > :26:17.us, Charlie, Billy, Mctill da. Matilda. He has gone through

:26:18. > :26:20.generations. Children love him as much as we did when we were kids?

:26:21. > :26:24.That's right. That's right. OK we have seen the words. We have seen

:26:25. > :26:29.the handwriting. Let's see the pictures. For the first time

:26:30. > :26:32.anywhere, the big reveal, Quentin Blake's illustrations to go with

:26:33. > :26:36.Billy and the Minpins, what are we seeing there, Steve? So what we're

:26:37. > :26:41.seeing is the first one that Quentin has revealed. He doesn't normally do

:26:42. > :26:45.this, but he said just how excited he is. You can see little Billy in

:26:46. > :26:49.the tree in the forest where he has escaped from the villain of the

:26:50. > :26:54.peace. That tiny mark on the tree trunk is a window into a Minpins

:26:55. > :26:59.house in the hollow tree and what we will see when the book is published

:27:00. > :27:04.in September in time for Roald Dahl's birthday is Quentin Blake

:27:05. > :27:08.taking us through that tiny window into the Minpins world. It just

:27:09. > :27:12.feels right, doesn't it, to have those pictures with this story?

:27:13. > :27:14.There will be 50 illustrations in the boorks all in black and white.

:27:15. > :27:18.We look forward to seeing them. Billy and the Minpins

:27:19. > :27:20.with Quentin Blake's illustrations Time now to hand you back to Steph

:27:21. > :30:41.and John and I'll see Hello this is Breakfast,

:30:42. > :30:53.with Steph McGovern and Jon Kay. Most areas of England will see

:30:54. > :31:00.hospital services cut or moved under plans to save money

:31:01. > :31:02.and improve efficiency. Analysis by the BBC has also

:31:03. > :31:04.found that about a third of the proposals would see

:31:05. > :31:07.a reduction in the number of The government says patients

:31:08. > :31:12.will receive better The health care think tank,

:31:13. > :31:18.The King's Fund, gave the plans a cautious welcome but said proper

:31:19. > :31:27.funding must be in place. Something has to be done, these

:31:28. > :31:29.plans are by no means perfect, we have our concerns about some of the

:31:30. > :31:34.proposals, but the fact that people have come together, collaborated

:31:35. > :31:37.around the county or city and have said, if we work together and think

:31:38. > :31:40.about how we use all of our staff and resources, we can deliver better

:31:41. > :31:45.results. The shortage of teachers in

:31:46. > :31:48.England's schools is getting worse - affecting key subjects like physics

:31:49. > :31:50.and maths - according The Commons Education Committee

:31:51. > :31:53.says recruitment targets have been missed for five years

:31:54. > :31:57.in a row - and there should be more focus on keeping teachers

:31:58. > :31:59.in the profession long-term. The government says

:32:00. > :32:01.there are more teachers Five people have died

:32:02. > :32:09.in a plane crash in Melbourne. All those on board the small

:32:10. > :32:11.aircraft were killed when it suffered engine failure

:32:12. > :32:14.and crashed into a shopping centre, which was preparing

:32:15. > :32:17.to open for the day. Four of those killed

:32:18. > :32:21.were US citizens. No one on the ground is thought

:32:22. > :32:26.to have been injured. The Chancellor Philip Hammond has

:32:27. > :32:28.assured Conservative MPs that he's listening to concerns

:32:29. > :32:30.about a business rate revaluation The rates are being updated

:32:31. > :32:37.for the first time in seven years, and will leave more than a quarter

:32:38. > :32:39.of companies facing higher bills. Mr Hammond's facing pressure to do

:32:40. > :32:46.more to help those affected. Specialist police teams are digging

:32:47. > :32:48.up the gardens of two One is believed to be

:32:49. > :32:57.the former home of Christopher Halliwell,

:32:58. > :32:59.who's serving a whole life sentence for the murders of two women,

:33:00. > :33:02.Sian O'Callaghan and Becky Godden. The singer and actor,

:33:03. > :33:06.David Cassidy, has revealed He made the announcement

:33:07. > :33:12.after he forgot his words during shows in California

:33:13. > :33:14.at the weekend. David Cassidy, who's 66,

:33:15. > :33:17.rose to fame in the TV series The Partridge Family before

:33:18. > :33:19.becoming a teen idol, and recording a string

:33:20. > :33:21.of solo hits in the 1970s. Feeding your children

:33:22. > :33:23.blueberries might just put A study carried out

:33:24. > :33:32.by the University of Reading found that,

:33:33. > :33:34.during two trials with young people, participants reported feeling better

:33:35. > :33:41.after drinking a wild blueberry-drink, which contained

:33:42. > :33:47.an entire punnet of the fruit. We are not just talking about a

:33:48. > :33:52.couple of berries. The researchers say they're

:33:53. > :34:05.impressed by the results, And now we can have a look at what

:34:06. > :34:12.is on Victoria Derbyshire this morning. We will report on claims

:34:13. > :34:16.that plays in the House of Lords are clocking in to get their ?300 daily

:34:17. > :34:20.allowance and then clearing off without doing any work -- claims

:34:21. > :34:26.peers what can we do about it? Join us

:34:27. > :34:34.later. And coming up here

:34:35. > :34:45.on Breakfast this morning. He may only be human,

:34:46. > :34:48.but Rag N'Bone man's first album has scored him the fastest-selling male

:34:49. > :34:50.debut of the decade. We'll meet the priest

:34:51. > :35:01.who's so passionate about the South Downs that he's made

:35:02. > :35:06.a documentary about it. We are really just Parliamentary

:35:07. > :35:10.worms. There are more than 800 peers

:35:11. > :35:13.in the House of Lords, We'll be behind-the-scenes

:35:14. > :35:18.with a new programme looking at the weird and wonderful world

:35:19. > :35:20.of Westminster's second chamber. First, though, here's

:35:21. > :35:35.Karthi with the sport. The FA Cup dream is over for Sutton

:35:36. > :35:39.United. Yes, last night was a picture of brilliant fans, the

:35:40. > :35:47.atmosphere was fantastic. The night will go down in the club's history,

:35:48. > :35:54.forever remembered. But the fairy tale run for Sutton United is over.

:35:55. > :35:57.They were beaten 2-0 last night by Arsenal in the last

:35:58. > :36:00.The lowest ranked side left in the Cup did not disgrace

:36:01. > :36:06.themselves against the 12 time winners, but a first half strike

:36:07. > :36:09.from Lucas Perez and Theo Walcott's 100th goal in an Arsenal

:36:10. > :36:11.shirt ensured Arsene Wenger's side avoided an upset.

:36:12. > :36:14.But they do have more non-league opposition next in Lincoln City.

:36:15. > :36:16.Let's hear first from the Sutton manager, speaking

:36:17. > :36:18.I think the players have been magnificent.

:36:19. > :36:25.They've given up Sundays to sell the tickets, everyone

:36:26. > :36:38.We're not a League Two club, in the National League,

:36:39. > :36:41.But Lincoln and Sutton have done our competition very,

:36:42. > :36:47.You know, go and have your day in the sun, as we've had today.

:36:48. > :36:50.It's one of the best experiences you will ever have.

:36:51. > :36:52.Newcastle United have returned to the top of the Championship.

:36:53. > :36:54.They were 2-0 winners over Aston Villa.

:36:55. > :36:58.Yohan Gouffran and this mistake from Villa's Henry Lansbury

:36:59. > :37:00.helped Newcastle leapfrog over Brighton to return to

:37:01. > :37:03.Great Britain Badminton says it is "staggered" at the decision

:37:04. > :37:07.not to award them any funding during the next Olympic cycle.

:37:08. > :37:10.Despite meeting its target in winning a bronze medal

:37:11. > :37:16.in Rio, Badminton - along with six other

:37:17. > :37:18.sports including fencing, archery and wheelchair rugby -

:37:19. > :37:21.lost their appeals against a cut in funding from UK Sport -

:37:22. > :37:25.the organisation which allocates money to sports.

:37:26. > :37:27.The decision by Muirfield to hold another vote on allowing female

:37:28. > :37:30.members has pleased the head of the R which is one of golf's

:37:31. > :37:33.Muirfield was dropped as an Open Championship

:37:34. > :37:35.venue after members voted against altering their male

:37:36. > :37:39.Martin Slumbers wants a positive outcome this time to help grow

:37:40. > :37:55.That is an interview. They also talk about they are thinking about

:37:56. > :37:59.changing the prize money $2 because of the fall in the value of sterling

:38:00. > :38:04.and they need to stay in competition with the other competitions around

:38:05. > :38:13.the world -- the prize-money to dollars. That would be a big change

:38:14. > :38:17.in this country. That is what the pressure of the financial markets

:38:18. > :38:21.can do to things. Athletics are thinking about various things, as

:38:22. > :38:24.well, so this does have an impact on sport. Chocolate coins? I would play

:38:25. > :38:33.them. LAUGHTER He's packed a lot into a few short

:38:34. > :38:37.months, having just broken the record for the best-selling male

:38:38. > :38:43.debut album this decade, and been named the BRIT's

:38:44. > :38:47.Critics Choice for 2017. But it's been a long journey

:38:48. > :38:54.to success for the artist who goes Rory Graham, as he's

:38:55. > :38:58.known to his friends, has worked in the music industry

:38:59. > :39:00.for more than 15 years. We'll chat to him in

:39:01. > :39:03.a moment, but first, let's take a look at the song that's

:39:04. > :39:06.catapulted him into the limelight. # Oh, some people got

:39:07. > :40:33.the real problems Welcome along. Do we call you Rag n

:40:34. > :40:38.Bone Man? Rory? That is one of the interesting things. How the name

:40:39. > :40:53.came about. How did it end up Vladimir -- being Rag n Bone Man? I

:40:54. > :40:57.used to watch reruns of Steptoe and son at home and I always found it

:40:58. > :41:03.funny, and the name kind of sounded like a blues name, so it kind of

:41:04. > :41:10.stuck. Deliberately chosen for the music career? You were not known as

:41:11. > :41:16.that at school? No, it wasn't a nickname. You have got your ward. I

:41:17. > :41:24.take it everywhere with me now. Even to the post office. -- aboard. How

:41:25. > :41:29.did you feel winning it? Pretty surprised, I was certain I would not

:41:30. > :41:34.win it, actually, so when I did, I was outside my house, shouting.

:41:35. > :41:40.Scare the neighbours. The whole neighbourhood heard it. It is

:41:41. > :41:45.brilliant to get it, as we mentioned, you are not new to the

:41:46. > :41:51.industry. We might be seeing you for the first time, but... I've been

:41:52. > :41:58.around for a bit. How have you ended up here? I was interested in music

:41:59. > :42:06.as a kid and I was more into jungle and hip-hop, and I just started to

:42:07. > :42:13.play guitar and sing in pubs. I went to jam nights. I gradually got more

:42:14. > :42:21.interested in writing songs and had a few support slots and built my own

:42:22. > :42:28.fan base. And before I decided to sign to a major label. It worked out

:42:29. > :42:34.for me all right. There was a video which you sent which changed a lot

:42:35. > :42:39.for you? My girlfriend sent a song which I recorded in the toilet. Good

:42:40. > :42:45.acoustics. That was exactly the reason. That is why I recorded it in

:42:46. > :42:53.the toilet. It was a song my girlfriend sent in for a support

:42:54. > :43:01.slot I was going for and I got it. Supporting Joan Armatrading. Yes, in

:43:02. > :43:08.Brighton, that was really good. You have got this award? Yes, there are

:43:09. > :43:15.some marks on that from where my cat has been chewing it, she would leave

:43:16. > :43:23.it alone. How has life changed in the last couple of months? I don't

:43:24. > :43:26.get to go home any more. Not really. It makes you cherish the time that

:43:27. > :43:30.you have with your family and friends even more, which is quite

:43:31. > :43:35.nice. You go home for a couple of days and you get to see people. It's

:43:36. > :43:42.just really busy. It's like being on a train which doesn't stop. I love

:43:43. > :43:48.it. But yeah, it's nice to have a rest now and again. Given that you

:43:49. > :43:51.have worked for along time in the music industry, what are your

:43:52. > :43:58.thoughts on reality TV and people who make it that way? That is a

:43:59. > :44:03.valid way? Or you have earned your stripes doing it a different way? If

:44:04. > :44:10.you want to do the X factor, that is you. That is not my thing. I don't

:44:11. > :44:15.understand that world. It doesn't register with me, do you know what I

:44:16. > :44:23.mean. If that is you, that's fine, but it's not me. If your girlfriend

:44:24. > :44:29.had sent audio to the X factor, would you have followed it up? No.

:44:30. > :44:34.Simply no. Even if you have the call from Simon Cowell? I did get a call

:44:35. > :44:38.about going on the X factor, and I won't tell you what I said. Probably

:44:39. > :45:34.a good moment for a clip, I reckon. You have sold 117,000 albums so far,

:45:35. > :45:41.you must be well chuffed. I have been on the street selling them. The

:45:42. > :45:52.suitcase! What is next? My favourite bit is going out on tour. Towards

:45:53. > :45:58.the end of March we stopped going on tour. My life stuff does not stop

:45:59. > :46:03.until September, so I am doing constant festivals and tour dates,

:46:04. > :46:09.and that is what I love the most. You will have a lot more people

:46:10. > :46:12.going to see you. A few more! Before that, you are at the Brit awards

:46:13. > :46:20.tomorrow night, up for another award. Best British breakthrough. I

:46:21. > :46:22.am kind of nervous. If you win that, your cat can have her own! She can

:46:23. > :46:31.chew on it all she wants. Rag'n'Bone Man's album

:46:32. > :46:33.is called Human. Later in the programme

:46:34. > :46:35.we'll be talking to Reverend Peter Owen Jones,

:46:36. > :46:37.who loves his home in the South Downs so much,

:46:38. > :46:40.he's made a documentary about it. But before we do, all morning we've

:46:41. > :46:43.been asking you to send in pictures of the places you live,

:46:44. > :46:45.and tell us why you Kathy loves living in Somerset

:46:46. > :47:02.so much she started Somerset Day. Kev has sent in a picture

:47:03. > :47:07.of Cleethorpes beach Here is the view from

:47:08. > :47:20.Rachel's back garden Looking across the Chilterns

:47:21. > :47:32.to Bledlow Ridge. Lee loves living in Milton Keynes,

:47:33. > :47:35.and took this photo to show it's not This is the Millenium

:47:36. > :47:39.Wheel at Willem Lake. This is Port Talbot

:47:40. > :47:41.in South Wales, taken by Wayne. He says it's an industrial

:47:42. > :47:52.town with beauty. All of these different places, they

:47:53. > :47:56.all have beautiful elements, and it is lovely to show them off on the

:47:57. > :47:58.TV. Another person who always provides brilliant pictures is Carol

:47:59. > :48:09.and the weather watchers. This morning, my backdrop is of

:48:10. > :48:13.Regent Street, it is fairly cloudy, but it is mild across many parts of

:48:14. > :48:20.the UK. The temperature is around ten or 11, but for some it is

:48:21. > :48:24.between one and six. Today it stays mild, before the next few days,

:48:25. > :48:32.things are changing, and it will turn more likely would expect at

:48:33. > :48:36.this stage. At 9am, rain for north-west Scotland, accompanied by

:48:37. > :48:43.stronger wind. It is cloudy away from the East. North-west England,

:48:44. > :48:46.you have a cloudy start. For the north-east, it is brighter, and that

:48:47. > :48:54.continues towards the wash and Norfolk. For the rest of East

:48:55. > :48:59.Anglia, Essex camp --, Kent, the Midlands, a week weather front

:49:00. > :49:04.producing patchy, light rain and murky conditions in the South West

:49:05. > :49:08.and Wales, with hill fog, general dampness and low-level fog. For

:49:09. > :49:12.Northern Ireland, you have a dry start, a fair bit of cloud, but if

:49:13. > :49:19.you are just stepping out, take your umbrella. The rain in southern

:49:20. > :49:24.England will turn heavier. The weather front will pivot and head

:49:25. > :49:27.north. We are looking at heavy rain across Wales, Northern Ireland and

:49:28. > :49:33.western Scotland. As the weather front moves north, the front across

:49:34. > :49:38.Scotland comes south, and they will merge, hence the heavy rain. In the

:49:39. > :49:44.east, drier conditions, but the cloud will build. This evening, as

:49:45. > :49:46.the rain head out of Scotland and Northern Ireland and into England

:49:47. > :49:52.and way is, it will be gusting around it, especially across

:49:53. > :49:57.northern England. The rain continues south overnight. Behind it, it will

:49:58. > :50:02.be cold, cold enough for snow on the hills and mountains. We start in the

:50:03. > :50:08.south tomorrow with a lot of cloud and some rain. Through the day, as

:50:09. > :50:11.it moves south, it will brighten up not just in northern England but

:50:12. > :50:17.part of the Midlands and North Wales. For Northern Ireland, a fine

:50:18. > :50:22.day, but showers across Scotland and windy across the south Shetland,

:50:23. > :50:25.Orkney, the North Mainland of Scotland and around Fraser Brett and

:50:26. > :50:31.Peter Fred we will have costs of 70 mph, or 80, leading to disruption.

:50:32. > :50:35.On Thursday, low pressure across Northern Ireland and northern

:50:36. > :50:38.England, heading off into the North Sea, will produce heavy rain, snow

:50:39. > :50:45.across the central lowlands, Southern uplands and northern

:50:46. > :50:49.England. Even some of that at low levels, plus strong wind, so it will

:50:50. > :50:54.be blowing. Atrocious travel conditions. If you are planning on

:50:55. > :51:05.travelling in those areas, keep in touch with the weather forecast.

:51:06. > :51:08.Everybody can see her on the Victoria Derbyshire show.

:51:09. > :51:12.They will be talking about something else on the show as well.

:51:13. > :51:15.Many a Government has tried to reform it, but how many of us

:51:16. > :51:17.know exactly what goes on inside the House of Lords?

:51:18. > :51:21.That's something a new BBC documentary hopes to shed light on.

:51:22. > :51:26.Meet The Lords follows a number of the UK's 800 peers in an attempt

:51:27. > :51:30.to explain some of the quirks and eccentricities of

:51:31. > :51:37.In a moment we'll speak to Baroness Kath Pinnock

:51:38. > :51:40.and Javier Olivia, a constitutional expert from the University

:51:41. > :51:47.of Manchester, but first, let's take a look at the programme.

:51:48. > :51:51.We take all of the nonsense, the rubbish, legislation,

:51:52. > :51:55.and some of it is rubbish, that comes down from the other end

:51:56. > :51:59.And it disappears inside the House of Lords for six months

:52:00. > :52:07.I look at what the Lords does and what the Commons does

:52:08. > :52:12.and the comparative legislative chaos that is being sent

:52:13. > :52:14.from the Commons to the Lords, and I genuinely think,

:52:15. > :52:18.thank God the Lords are there to do the serious work

:52:19. > :52:22.without being inundated with the political point scoring.

:52:23. > :52:24.We're a bit like a composting machine.

:52:25. > :52:28.Whatever comes out the other end is always more fragrant and more

:52:29. > :52:33.So, you see, in the House of Lords, we're really just

:52:34. > :52:57.Tell us a bit about what it is like. We saw a clip of the documentary

:52:58. > :53:04.there, but what is it like day-to-day? It varies enormously,

:53:05. > :53:13.depending on who you are and what your role is within the House of

:53:14. > :53:16.Lords. Speaking for myself, every week I am involved in some

:53:17. > :53:20.legislation of some sort, I am currently involved in the

:53:21. > :53:27.neighbourhood planning Bill, which has a very big impact on local

:53:28. > :53:30.Government, which is my background, and so I am very interested in

:53:31. > :53:41.making sure that what comes out of that is fit for purpose for local

:53:42. > :53:44.councils across the country. You are fairly new to it, what was it like

:53:45. > :53:55.when you first went there, what was the first day like? Scary! I never

:53:56. > :53:58.imagined in my wildest dreams or nightmares that I would end up being

:53:59. > :54:05.asked to serve in the House of Lords. It is, of course, a huge

:54:06. > :54:08.honour and privilege. But I regard it as another opportunity to stand

:54:09. > :54:17.up for the people of Yorkshire and the North of England and to say from

:54:18. > :54:22.my basic Liberal Democrat principles that -- how I think the country

:54:23. > :54:30.should benefit from change. We are looking at the road 's and heraldry

:54:31. > :54:40.and stuff. When most of us see this, it is so alien... It is like Steph's

:54:41. > :54:44.life! But it is unlike daily life for most people, how relevant is it

:54:45. > :54:53.today? It is an extremely important chamber, because it is the revising

:54:54. > :54:56.chamber. It has to be understood in the way of the parliamentary context

:54:57. > :55:00.and the relationship at the House of Commons. It is the weakest house,

:55:01. > :55:06.the House of Lords. It plays an important role, it an men's and

:55:07. > :55:11.revises legislation, so it's input is vital. But it has to be

:55:12. > :55:16.understood that the primacy, the body which is in charge of the

:55:17. > :55:21.process, is in the House of Commons, so the fact that the House of Lords

:55:22. > :55:32.comes across as a bit idiosyncratic, unique, outdated, in the eyes of

:55:33. > :55:37.some people, it matters, but the role is smaller in comparison with

:55:38. > :55:41.the elected house. Yesterday, Theresa May and to the House of

:55:42. > :55:48.Lords to watch the Brexit debate, there was talk of them putting the

:55:49. > :55:50.Government... The House of Commons putting pressure on the House of

:55:51. > :55:57.Lords. Do we need the House of Lords? It another interesting

:55:58. > :56:04.question. Could we do better with only one house? At the end of the

:56:05. > :56:07.day, it should be borne in mind that the Government has such an important

:56:08. > :56:12.influence on the House of Commons, that the House of Lords is an

:56:13. > :56:18.important buttress, a safeguard mechanism, it will make sure that

:56:19. > :56:23.the proposals put forward by the Government are sufficiently

:56:24. > :56:26.scrutinised and revised, therefore... As a Continental Europe

:56:27. > :56:32.Ian, in the first instance I found the whole chamber surprising, even

:56:33. > :56:37.the world rain, but the more stay here, I realise that to Chambers are

:56:38. > :56:42.important. The role fulfilled by the House of Lords is crucial. I would

:56:43. > :56:45.not want to see it go. You talk about the scrutiny they put on

:56:46. > :56:47.things, but they face scrutiny themselves.

:56:48. > :56:49.In the documentary former Lords Speaker Baroness D'Souza

:56:50. > :56:51.described how a peer left a taxi waiting outside Parliament

:56:52. > :56:57.while he went inside to register for his daily allowance.

:56:58. > :57:06.There is a core of players who worked incredibly hard, who do that

:57:07. > :57:10.work, and there are, sad to say, many, many, many peers who

:57:11. > :57:15.contribute absolutely nothing but who claim the full allowance. I can

:57:16. > :57:18.remember one occasion when I was leaving the house quite late and

:57:19. > :57:24.there was a peer who shall be utterly nameless who jumped out of a

:57:25. > :57:29.taxi just outside the entrance and left the engine running. He ran in,

:57:30. > :57:30.presumably to show that he had attended, and then ran out again

:57:31. > :57:40.while the taxi was still running. What do you think when you hear

:57:41. > :57:44.things like that? It seems there are some peers who used the system for

:57:45. > :57:49.allowances and face a certain amount of criticism. It is not defensible

:57:50. > :57:54.in anyway. Unfortunately, in the House of Lords, because of the way

:57:55. > :58:01.it has developed over centuries, there is a sense among 80 people of

:58:02. > :58:06.entitlement -- among a fewer people. They have been given a title and

:58:07. > :58:13.feel that somebody owes them a living. That is not acceptable. What

:58:14. > :58:17.we need is to reform the House of Lords from top to bottom. We still

:58:18. > :58:27.need a second chamber, as the previous exhibit has said. Because

:58:28. > :58:33.the work of revising legislation and having a second look at things is

:58:34. > :58:37.really important. But we need to reform it, and as Liberal Democrats

:58:38. > :58:42.we have been committed to root and branch reform of the House of Lords

:58:43. > :58:46.for over a hundred years. But we have failed so far, but we will keep

:58:47. > :58:53.trying, because it is important to have a second chamber of our

:58:54. > :58:58.Parliament which is accountable to the people who pay for it, the

:58:59. > :59:02.general public. Rather like a parliamentary debate, I will have to

:59:03. > :59:10.step in and hold you. But thank you for talking to us. That programme,

:59:11. > :59:13.so we can get more of a sense of the House of Lords, is on BBC Two next

:59:14. > :59:16.Monday night. Meet The Lords.

:59:17. > :59:19.Eight years after it was criticised by inspectors for not having enough

:59:20. > :59:21.beds, operating theatres or trained staff, Birmingham Children's

:59:22. > :59:23.Hospital has become the first of its kind to be

:59:24. > :59:31.The specialist hospital has been praised for turning

:59:32. > :59:36.Our Health Correspondent Jane Dreaper is there

:59:37. > :59:51.I bet it is busy. Yes, it has started getting really busy. The day

:59:52. > :59:54.shift for nurses has started and they have been busy checking on the

:59:55. > :59:58.children and some of the parents have been helping to give them

:59:59. > :00:01.breakfast. This is a neurosurgical ward, a high level of specialism,

:00:02. > :00:07.and the young patients can come here from many different parts of the UK,

:00:08. > :00:11.but things like epilepsy surgery. I spent a day looking at the work that

:00:12. > :00:15.the hospital does and one thing that strikes you is how much supporting

:00:16. > :00:17.the families and making them part of things is just as important as

:00:18. > :00:30.saving lives. Connor's just seven months old,

:00:31. > :00:34.and recovering in intensive care Home is 50 miles away,

:00:35. > :00:37.so Connor's older brother, It is a tough time for the whole

:00:38. > :00:44.family, but they are still supported We have nearly lost

:00:45. > :00:52.him so many times. Without them, we would not have

:00:53. > :00:56.a child who is laying in this bed. We have got him and he is here,

:00:57. > :00:59.though quite poorly. We have faith we will

:01:00. > :01:04.get to take him home. That is the only ask

:01:05. > :01:07.as a parent of a sick child. This is the Play and Admissions

:01:08. > :01:10.Centre, designed to distract and relax young patients

:01:11. > :01:14.before their treatment. Inspectors have been impressed by

:01:15. > :01:22.the caring approach. This hospital has come a long way

:01:23. > :01:24.since it was criticised Back then, a report found a shortage

:01:25. > :01:31.of beds, and poor training and care. Paying much closer attention

:01:32. > :01:34.to the views of patients and staff, and acting on their ideas,

:01:35. > :01:37.has helped change the culture in Birmingham

:01:38. > :01:40.and encouraged better teamwork. Eight years ago we were in

:01:41. > :01:44.an organisation that certainly was not listening to our staff,

:01:45. > :01:48.that not listening to what young people and families were saying,

:01:49. > :01:52.and was in a really difficult place. Through focusing on those areas

:01:53. > :01:57.of patient engagement, staff engagement, we have now gotten

:01:58. > :02:00.to a position where Some of the children in outpatients

:02:01. > :02:09.need repeated appointments. I was talking to a doctor

:02:10. > :02:18.a couple of weeks ago and it wasn't scary or anything,

:02:19. > :02:19.it was relaxed. Is it scary when you come here,

:02:20. > :02:27.or do you feel OK about it? The emotional support given

:02:28. > :02:30.to bereaved parents has also been And they will now be able to use

:02:31. > :02:36.this new room when they are going Rachel has helped raise thousands

:02:37. > :02:43.of pounds for this unit after the death of her older

:02:44. > :02:46.daughter, Molly, from kidney cancer. When you're given news

:02:47. > :02:48.like that, you feel that You need to absorb new information

:02:49. > :03:01.that is being told to you. And there wasn't that opportunity

:03:02. > :03:04.within the existing building at Birmingham at that time,

:03:05. > :03:06.just to be ourselves The staff here believe they can

:03:07. > :03:12.improve care even further, but today is a huge moment

:03:13. > :03:26.in showing how this hospital Yes, they are all very excited and

:03:27. > :03:36.proud. I'm here with one of the young patients. All the term for

:03:37. > :03:41.last week and his dad is here -- Ollie turned four last week. He has

:03:42. > :03:51.had a brain shimmer, how is he doing? Not too badly, he is getting

:03:52. > :03:59.better slightly every day, something as simple as picking up able, he is

:04:00. > :04:10.progressing, doing OK. -- he has had a brain tumour. You have got to give

:04:11. > :04:14.him the attention that he needs, but there are other children here that

:04:15. > :04:20.need reassurances, as well. Great support from the staff? Yes, they

:04:21. > :04:25.are always up for a laugh and a joke and I'm always up for that. They

:04:26. > :04:31.made his fourth birthday last week very special. I was told. Sarah runs

:04:32. > :04:34.the hospital and she was in charge of things and she took over just

:04:35. > :04:39.eight years ago when things were proving difficult. Sarah Jane, what

:04:40. > :04:45.makes you so proud to get this outstanding rating? Everybody at the

:04:46. > :04:49.hospital is so thoroughly proud and alighted at this rating, it is for

:04:50. > :04:56.the staff who work here and the patients and families that use the

:04:57. > :05:01.services -- delighted. It is just the icing on the cake for us and we

:05:02. > :05:06.could not be more proud. A few areas where you want to improve?

:05:07. > :05:10.Absolutely, we never give up at this hospital and we know there is always

:05:11. > :05:13.more to do and we strive continually everyday to provide world leading

:05:14. > :05:18.care and we will continue in all the areas where we know we need to

:05:19. > :05:21.improve. Thanks for joining us. Thanks to all of the staff 11 made

:05:22. > :05:29.us feel very welcome as they start their morning shifts and go about

:05:30. > :05:30.another busy day -- thanks to all of the staff who have made us feel very

:05:31. > :05:44.welcome. Thanks. In a moment: we'll be chatting about

:05:45. > :07:28.the beautiful South Downs, Welcome back, it is now time to get

:07:29. > :07:32.some fresh air. They were famously

:07:33. > :07:35.described by William Blake as England's Mountains Green,

:07:36. > :07:36.and officially made It's also home to the film maker

:07:37. > :07:42.and vicar Peter Owen Jones. He's spent the last 12 months

:07:43. > :07:44.on a journey like no other, reacquainting himself with one

:07:45. > :07:48.of the UK's most diverse landscapes We'll speak to Peter

:07:49. > :07:57.in just a moment. But first let's

:07:58. > :08:05.hear why the South Downs The South Downs is

:08:06. > :08:08.seared into our psyche. The land that I've found

:08:09. > :08:12.over the last year, this This land that has

:08:13. > :08:25.a wealth of butterflies, But most of all what I've learned

:08:26. > :08:35.is that this land has been formed And you can see their

:08:36. > :08:44.influence through history, through the landscape,

:08:45. > :08:47.which they clearly love, in every single aspect,

:08:48. > :09:01.of this extraordinary national park. Thanks for coming in. It must have

:09:02. > :09:07.been a wrench to get you to leave the South Downs. Always, always.

:09:08. > :09:15.Although Manchester is a fabulous town. Where are we talking about in

:09:16. > :09:22.terms of the South Downs? Stretch of land going from East to West,

:09:23. > :09:27.Eastbourne to Winchester, 100 miles, you can walk either way and it is

:09:28. > :09:32.pretty much bang on 100 miles. You have travelled all over the world.

:09:33. > :09:39.Wide EU love the South Downs so much? -- why do you love. We all

:09:40. > :09:45.have a different sense of what is home. Some of us are fortunate

:09:46. > :09:50.enough to find it. When I got out of the car I knew that this was where I

:09:51. > :09:56.was going to be the sometime. That sense of home, you can be where

:09:57. > :10:04.ever, but it is personal and intimate to each of us. I love it

:10:05. > :10:14.because of the light and the people. It's got everything. Sea, hills,

:10:15. > :10:18.wildlife, farmland. It's got towns. Lovely pictures from the

:10:19. > :10:22.documentary. You grew up not far from the South Downs but you have

:10:23. > :10:28.only got to know this as intimately as you have more recently. What is

:10:29. > :10:35.your connection? I'm a parish priest and I looked after three small

:10:36. > :10:38.parishes underneath the Downs and I've been looking after these

:10:39. > :10:42.parishes and they have been looking after me in the last ten and a half

:10:43. > :10:48.years. I've been pretty much embedded there in that time. You are

:10:49. > :10:54.in a great position, you have been able to make a documentary about it.

:10:55. > :11:02.What are the highlights? I'm not sure I can name them. Too many. I

:11:03. > :11:07.don't want to say, look out for this bit, just kind of take it in and see

:11:08. > :11:11.which bits you like. It is quite a responsibility. Parishioners will be

:11:12. > :11:19.given new feedback, that you didn't mention this or that. -- giving you

:11:20. > :11:28.feedback. Yes, lots of stick, but that is fair. If I go into the pub,

:11:29. > :11:33.of course I'm going to get ripped. You are a parish priest, but this is

:11:34. > :11:40.a step away, documentary making. How did that come about? Communication.

:11:41. > :11:49.Fair play. Did you just pitch the idea? I was lambing at the time and

:11:50. > :11:55.turned up. We got talking and we both had wanted to make a film about

:11:56. > :12:00.the South Downs. So we just did it. No one had commissioned it. We did

:12:01. > :12:05.it because we wanted to. It was an act of complete foolishness. The BBC

:12:06. > :12:15.Ben came along and liked it. And they have put it on -- the BBC then

:12:16. > :12:20.came along. You sort of let yourself go, describing your love for this

:12:21. > :12:28.area. It is obvious in every word of the script. Our relationship with

:12:29. > :12:32.the land at best is intimate. Home is somewhere that we feel intimately

:12:33. > :12:37.about. That we can actually fall in love with the landscape. Can you

:12:38. > :12:43.feel that about anywhere? No, only about particular places, depending

:12:44. > :12:48.on who we are and what excites us. But it is a love affair. If you

:12:49. > :12:54.listen to poets come what ever they might be writing about, they are

:12:55. > :13:04.eulogising, expressing that what we feel, but can't quite get out of our

:13:05. > :13:08.mouths and hearts. We saw this does morning, and we were asking people

:13:09. > :13:13.to send their pictures of the places they love. Good. What is

:13:14. > :13:19.interesting, people are from areas which might be taken the Mick out

:13:20. > :13:22.of, like my hometown, people from Middlesbrough will say it is not

:13:23. > :13:29.very nice, but every place has a beautiful element. Absolutely. You

:13:30. > :13:35.have got the lakes in the North, Northumberland, we are so blessed in

:13:36. > :13:38.this country. Thanks for joining us. Good luck with the documentary.

:13:39. > :13:41.South Downs: England's Mountains Green is on BBC 4 tonight 9pm.

:13:42. > :13:48.Dan and Louise will be back with Breakfast tomorrow from 6am.

:13:49. > :13:50.Now it's time for Britain's Home Truths.

:13:51. > :13:51.We'll leave you with Alison Steadman, who's taking

:13:52. > :13:55.a look at how suburbia has changed throughout history.

:13:56. > :13:59.We Brits have a passion for property and, of course,

:14:00. > :14:03.our national obsession is house prices.

:14:04. > :14:08.You're looking at about 1.7 million for an apartment like this.