24/02/2017

:00:00. > :00:07.This is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern.

:00:08. > :00:10.An historic by-election win for the Conservatives as they gain

:00:11. > :00:29.In the first by-election win by a governing party for more

:00:30. > :00:31.than 30 years, Trudy Harrison takes the Cumbrian constituancy

:00:32. > :00:43.UKIP leader Paul Nuttall coming a distant second.

:00:44. > :00:46.We're live in both constituencies this morning and we have the latest

:00:47. > :01:03.Also this morning: Shock as Leicester City sack

:01:04. > :01:12.It's no happy ever after for the fairytale of Leicester City

:01:13. > :01:15.or Claudio Ranieri, as the manager who masterminded the most unlikely

:01:16. > :01:18.of Premier League titles is dropped by the club.

:01:19. > :01:24.After weeks of front page campaigns and political protest,

:01:25. > :01:27.the government has promised help for thousands of companies facing

:01:28. > :01:30.sharp increases in the amount they pay in business rates.

:01:31. > :01:33.Storm Doris brought us near misses like this,

:01:34. > :01:35.and disruption to roads, rail and air travel.

:01:36. > :01:37.As many people try to complete their journeys,

:01:38. > :01:39.Nick has the details on what the weather's

:01:40. > :01:52.Yes, good morning. Storm Doris is gone. It is cold and calm this

:01:53. > :02:00.morning. Many places will be dry. It will turn letter later. It is

:02:01. > :02:03.nowhere near as nasty as Storm Doris. I will be back with the full

:02:04. > :02:04.forecast. "A truly historic victory" -

:02:05. > :02:13.the words of new Conservative MP Trudy Harrison after taking

:02:14. > :02:16.the Labour seat of Copeland in last nights by-election, the first gain

:02:17. > :02:19.by a governing party since 1982. In the night's other result Labour

:02:20. > :02:23.did hold on to Stoke Central, with Ukip leader Paul Nuttall

:02:24. > :02:25.finishing in second place. Here's our political

:02:26. > :02:41.correspondent Tom Bateman. Harrison, Trudy. The Conservative

:02:42. > :02:47.Party candidate, 13700 and 48. Voters chose a Labour MP for the

:02:48. > :02:53.last 80 years. It all changed in a dramatic night as the Conservatives

:02:54. > :02:58.won by 2000 votes. What has happened tonight is a truly historic event.

:02:59. > :03:02.You would have to go back more than a century to find an example of a

:03:03. > :03:11.governing party taking a seat from the opposition party in an election

:03:12. > :03:16.like this. Labour said the vote was on a knife edge. In the aftermath of

:03:17. > :03:21.defeat the departing candidate tries not to face questions. This is a

:03:22. > :03:27.moment in history. The first time a conservative has represented the

:03:28. > :03:30.area since the 1930s. And for them tonight, jubilation. Serious

:03:31. > :03:35.questions for Labour under Jeremy Corbyn. It took place after the

:03:36. > :03:40.resignation of a Labour MP critical of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

:03:41. > :03:44.Theresa May may be rare move of visiting a by-election seat vacated

:03:45. > :03:49.by an opposition MP. It was a hardfought campaign of the nuclear

:03:50. > :03:54.jobs and hospital services. The result leaves Labour assessing its

:03:55. > :03:58.electoral prospects. But there was better news for Labour in the

:03:59. > :04:01.by-election in Stoke-on-Trent, and other traditional seat for the

:04:02. > :04:06.party. They held on with a reduced majority. The people of

:04:07. > :04:10.Stoke-on-Trent when provided with a range of candidates have opted a

:04:11. > :04:14.Labour candidate and me as a Member of Parliament. This campaign has

:04:15. > :04:20.been about many issues. While there might have been a slight decrease in

:04:21. > :04:23.our share of the vote, turnout was down on the last election, but I am

:04:24. > :04:32.happy with the result this evening. This by-election was a test for UKIP

:04:33. > :04:37.in a heavenly working-class area. It has increased its vote share. It was

:04:38. > :04:41.a bitter campaign during which the UKIP Leader attempted to fend off

:04:42. > :04:50.mounting personal criticism. UKIP's time will come. This will happen.

:04:51. > :04:54.Hang on. Hang on. This seat was number 72 on our hit list. A lot

:04:55. > :04:58.more will happen. There is a lot more to come. We are not going

:04:59. > :05:03.anywhere. I am not going anywhere. So we move on. There will be

:05:04. > :05:07.jubilation for Theresa May at the resort in Copland. Jeremy Corbyn

:05:08. > :05:11.promised he would reconnect with voters. He might have to try

:05:12. > :05:14.inspired offer the opposition for his own MPs.

:05:15. > :05:17.So let's just take a closer look at those results for the Copeland

:05:18. > :05:20.It was a conservative gain for Trudy Harrison

:05:21. > :05:30.Labour's Gill Troughton received 11,601.

:05:31. > :05:32.The Liberal Democrats' Rebecca Hanson got 2,252 votes.

:05:33. > :05:34.And Ukip's Fiona Mills received 2,025 votes.

:05:35. > :05:37.We can now speak to our political correspondent Tom Bateman

:05:38. > :05:42.who is in Whitehaven for us this morning.

:05:43. > :05:50.So, the Conservatives have said it is a truly historic victory. How

:05:51. > :05:56.significant is it? I think it is an astonishing moment because you have

:05:57. > :06:01.to go so many years back to find a Tory MP who represented this area.

:06:02. > :06:05.The last Tory before Trudy Harrison was born in the 1870s. That gives

:06:06. > :06:12.you a sense of just how dominant Labour has been in this area. And

:06:13. > :06:15.why, of course? We are talking about that. Normally at a by-election we

:06:16. > :06:20.would be talking about the governing party given a pummelling by voters.

:06:21. > :06:23.That is how it normally goes. It is rare to have this turn of events

:06:24. > :06:28.when an opposition party is defending a seat it has vacated and

:06:29. > :06:32.to lose it. Yet it has happened overnight. First of all I think

:06:33. > :06:36.there is going to be some happy faces in Downing Street this

:06:37. > :06:42.morning. Theresa May will be jubilant. She visited in a rare move

:06:43. > :06:47.last week. And it raises questions for Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. We

:06:48. > :06:52.have heard him say since the result Labour will reconnect with voters.

:06:53. > :06:59.The difficulty is he must do that knowing that many of his own MPs

:07:00. > :07:02.will use this to continue to argue the case perhaps privately and

:07:03. > :07:06.increasingly in public again that they believe he is an electoral

:07:07. > :07:10.liability for the party. Thank you very much.

:07:11. > :07:12.And just after 7am this morning we'll be speaking

:07:13. > :07:15.to the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell about the results.

:07:16. > :07:18.Leicester City has sacked manager Claudio Ranieri just nine months

:07:19. > :07:20.after he led the club's to its first Premier League title.

:07:21. > :07:23.The Foxes are only one point above the relegation zone

:07:24. > :07:36.He masterminded one of sport's greatest miracles, but less

:07:37. > :07:39.than a year after Claudio Ranieri's Leicester City became

:07:40. > :07:45.the most unlikely Premier League winners ever,

:07:46. > :07:47.the man who achieved the dream has been dismissed.

:07:48. > :07:49.Leicester City are the Premier League champions!

:07:50. > :07:54.Last season's celebrations have turned to fears of relegation.

:07:55. > :08:02.Having swept all before them, this season of the euphoria evaporated.

:08:03. > :08:06.And with Leicester languishing one point above the relegation zone the

:08:07. > :08:21.club decided to act. In a statement the chairman said...

:08:22. > :08:28.Managerial loyalties are notoriously short in supply in the Premier

:08:29. > :08:31.League but given what Ranieri achieved many will be dismayed.

:08:32. > :08:41.Former Leicester star Gary Lineker described it as... Ranieri's last

:08:42. > :08:45.game in charge was a 2-1 defeat against Sevilla in the last 16 of

:08:46. > :08:48.the Champions League. The managers seemingly unaware of his fate when

:08:49. > :08:55.he spoke after the match. We know, we know they are better than us,

:08:56. > :09:00.very high quality team, highly experienced team, everything, OK.

:09:01. > :09:08.But we have a very big part, and a very big effort, we help each other.

:09:09. > :09:11.And I think we deserve this. It is Leicester's poor performances in the

:09:12. > :09:14.Premier League that could see them become only the second English

:09:15. > :09:18.champions in history to see a title defence and in relegation and it is

:09:19. > :09:22.that which ultimately cost Ranieri his job. Their memories of what he

:09:23. > :09:34.achieved will always be cherished but the fairytale is now over.

:09:35. > :09:36.Malaysian police say they have found the highly toxic nerve agent,

:09:37. > :09:40.VX, on the face of Kim Jong-nam, the murdered half brother

:09:41. > :09:43.VX is the most toxic of the chemical warfare agents,

:09:44. > :09:46.and just a drop on the skin can kill in minutes.

:09:47. > :09:49.CCTV footage shows two women briefly holding something over

:09:50. > :09:51.Kim Jong Nam's face while he was preparing to board

:09:52. > :09:54.a flight at Kuala Lumpur airport last week.

:09:55. > :09:57.Donald Trump has said he wants to expand America's nuclear arsenal.

:09:58. > :10:00.In his first comments on the issue since taking office,

:10:01. > :10:09.the President said America had, "Fallen behind on nuclear weapon

:10:10. > :10:12.capacity," and must be, "Top of the pack."

:10:13. > :10:14.Police investigating the escape of a convicted murderer from custody

:10:15. > :10:16.have arrested two people on suspicion of assisting

:10:17. > :10:20.Merseyside Police detained a 27-year-old man and a 26-year-old

:10:21. > :10:22.woman in Liverpool in connection with Shaun Walmsley's escape.

:10:23. > :10:25.Walmsley, who is 28, went on the run when two men armed

:10:26. > :10:28.with a knife and a gun confronted prison officers guarding him

:10:29. > :10:32.at Aintree University Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

:10:33. > :10:35.The clear-up continues this morning after Storm Doris battered much

:10:36. > :10:38.of the UK leaving one woman dead after being hit by flying debris.

:10:39. > :10:42.Winds of up to 94mph caused power cuts and travel chaos as flights

:10:43. > :10:43.were grounded and train services disrupted.

:10:44. > :10:48.Drivers are being warned to be wary of ice on the roads in the north

:10:49. > :10:51.Our correspondent Nick Quraishi is at London Euston where many

:10:52. > :11:14.We are told things will get back to normal today. Services were

:11:15. > :11:19.suspended for several hours yesterday. Things started running

:11:20. > :11:24.around 5pm but obviously there was huge backlog. The station stayed

:11:25. > :11:28.open overnight to cater for many stranded passengers. People are

:11:29. > :11:32.being told they can use tickets which they didn't use yesterday this

:11:33. > :11:36.morning and tomorrow. Similar situations down the road at King's

:11:37. > :11:42.Cross and St Pancras. There were wins of 94 mph, there were trees on

:11:43. > :11:47.the line and even a shed in Nuneaton on the West Coast Main Line. --

:11:48. > :11:52.winds. With the strong winds, it brought the death of a 29-year-old

:11:53. > :11:58.woman in Wolverhampton city centre. She was walking past Starbucks and

:11:59. > :12:02.this masonry fell on her, something the size of a copy to help could be

:12:03. > :12:07.seen being taken away. West Midlands Police and Wolverhampton City

:12:08. > :12:10.Council investigated in. And a schoolgirl is in a life-threatening

:12:11. > :12:15.condition we understand after a ceiling at a sports hall in Milton

:12:16. > :12:21.Keynes fell on her. Two other women were injured, a woman in her 60s

:12:22. > :12:25.when a carport fell on her and a man in Victoria Station in London. On

:12:26. > :12:31.the roads, many drivers had a lucky escape. One driving instructor, in

:12:32. > :12:35.fact, a tree fell in front of him as he was driving. Problems started in

:12:36. > :12:40.Scotland on the M80 with snow and there was no escape for air

:12:41. > :12:47.travellers too. Passengers on a flight in down to Manchester had a

:12:48. > :12:50.bumpy landing. And Heathrow and Aer Lingus cancelled flights. 24,000

:12:51. > :12:56.homes in Northern Ireland were without power. 40,000 in East

:12:57. > :13:01.Anglia. This morning, the problem is for ice in Northern Ireland,

:13:02. > :13:03.Scotland and north-west England. Thank you very much.

:13:04. > :13:06.It turns out the bee's knees are even better than we thought -

:13:07. > :13:09.it's been discovered bumblebees can teach each other how to score goals

:13:10. > :13:12.with a tiny ball, displaying a learning ability never before

:13:13. > :13:21.They surprised scientists by working out how to obtain a food reward

:13:22. > :13:26.In the experiment, the bees were placed on a platform and had

:13:27. > :13:29.to roll a yellow ball to a specific location in order to obtain

:13:30. > :13:39.Those that observed the success of other bees were better

:13:40. > :13:48.at learning the task than those that didn't.

:13:49. > :14:08.LAUGHTER. Why? Who cares? It is more like bee curling. Especially with

:14:09. > :14:15.Bumble Bee 11, Buzzy Izzard, in the B Top 11. You have been a busy bee.

:14:16. > :14:20.Buzzy Izzard once played for Leicester. And another thing that we

:14:21. > :14:30.can't explain, this fairytale, this match made in heaven. There is no

:14:31. > :14:34.happy ending for Claudio Ranieri. It seems so harsh. Especially the

:14:35. > :14:42.timing. They put in a good performance away in Seville. Even

:14:43. > :14:47.Jamie Vardy scored! And then he was gone the next day. You would have to

:14:48. > :14:50.think they have something lined up their sleeves.

:14:51. > :14:52.There's no room for sentiment in football -

:14:53. > :15:00.the harsh reality is that in 2017 Leicester have the worst record

:15:01. > :15:02.of any of the 92 football league clubs.

:15:03. > :15:06.No goals scored, and they've fallen to just one place and one point

:15:07. > :15:08.above the relegation zone, and so the miracle man,

:15:09. > :15:14.Claudio Ranieri, has paid the ultimate price with his job.

:15:15. > :15:17.As for who takes over, fellow Italian and former Man City

:15:18. > :15:21.boss Roberto Mancini is an early front runner.

:15:22. > :15:24.Elsewhere, Tottenham's Wembley woes struck again as they went out

:15:25. > :15:28.of the Europa League to Gent - they'd had England star Dele Alli

:15:29. > :15:32.sent off by the time the Belgian side made it 2-all on the night

:15:33. > :15:38.Flanker Jon Barclay will captain the Scotland side to face Wales

:15:39. > :15:40.in the Six Nations at Murrayfield tomorrow.

:15:41. > :15:43.Barclay, who plays his rugby in Wales, will lead the team

:15:44. > :15:50.in the absence of the injured Greig Laidlaw.

:15:51. > :15:54.World champion constructors Mercedes have unveiled their new car

:15:55. > :16:06.Hamilton said the car felt incredible.

:16:07. > :16:12.I will be back with Leicester reaction later on. Let's have a look

:16:13. > :16:18.at the weather. Nick, a day yesterday. How does it look today?

:16:19. > :16:23.Yesterday was completely horrible, today is a different story. This is

:16:24. > :16:27.a storm Doris, well away from the UK now. It has been taking strong winds

:16:28. > :16:32.across Germany into pollen but look how far away it is, how quickly it

:16:33. > :16:36.has moved. The UK this morning is finding itself in the gap between

:16:37. > :16:41.weather systems. It is colder this morning and there may be a risk of

:16:42. > :16:44.ice across parts of Scotland and northern England but, more

:16:45. > :16:48.importantly, it is much calmer and many of us will see dry and sunny

:16:49. > :16:54.weather for a time today here is the picture today. There may be a lot of

:16:55. > :16:57.cloud some patchy rain, sleet or snow across parts of Scotland. We

:16:58. > :17:01.have a few early showers brushing the eastern coast of England. They

:17:02. > :17:07.will pull away to the North Sea. One or two on the breeze pushing through

:17:08. > :17:11.into the Midlands. They will tend to die away but you concede a cloud

:17:12. > :17:14.this morning a lot of fine weather into southern England and notice,

:17:15. > :17:18.wherever you are um the strength of wind is down compared to yesterday.

:17:19. > :17:22.This is the picture through this morning. When you start with an

:17:23. > :17:26.early shower it will tend to fade. By midday nearly everyone is dry but

:17:27. > :17:29.there is another weather system coming into Northern Ireland,

:17:30. > :17:32.pushing and western Ireland and this is going to bring not only wetter

:17:33. > :17:38.weather but freshening the wind again. Nowhere near as messy as

:17:39. > :17:41.storm Doris. Temperatures around 5- 10 Celsius. Taking it through

:17:42. > :17:45.tonight there will be wet weather pushing through across the UK

:17:46. > :17:48.preceded by snow on the hills free time in Scotland. Gales develop

:17:49. > :17:52.again in north-west Scotland. Very little rain reaching southern

:17:53. > :17:55.England and it is a mild night to come because with this weather

:17:56. > :17:59.system coming in we have a flow of milder coming back into the UK. That

:18:00. > :18:04.is how we start the weekend and throughout the week and for most of

:18:05. > :18:08.us it will be on the mild side. It will be quite windy and there will

:18:09. > :18:12.be some rain around at times but not all the time. I will show you

:18:13. > :18:15.Saturday now, so we can see what to expect, a windy start with outbreaks

:18:16. > :18:18.of rain spreading south eastwards. Heavy as towards the hills of

:18:19. > :18:22.Scotland, moving into Cumbria. Easing a little bit into the

:18:23. > :18:26.afternoon. Brighter skies with a few showers. Very little rain reaching

:18:27. > :18:30.south-east England. Eastern areas generally not seeing as much rain as

:18:31. > :18:35.you would see further west. For part two of the weekend on Sunday we see

:18:36. > :18:37.another weather system coming in taking outbreaks of rain south

:18:38. > :18:40.eastwards with the breeze as well. Very little in the south-east

:18:41. > :18:44.England and notice that the temperatures for many of us are in

:18:45. > :18:47.two double figures. It will be calling to the start of next week.

:18:48. > :18:53.Weather systems around this weekend, it will be unsettled but nothing

:18:54. > :18:54.like storm Doris. That is how it looks.

:18:55. > :19:02.I think a lot of people will be pleased to hear that. It is 18

:19:03. > :19:03.minutes past six o'clock. The main stories this morning-

:19:04. > :19:06.A shock defeat for Labour - they lose their Copeland seat

:19:07. > :19:09.stories this morning- seat for the first time in more

:19:10. > :19:12.The Conservative victory is the biggest by a governing

:19:13. > :19:16.In a separate election, Labour hold onto their seat in Stoke.

:19:17. > :19:32.warehouse people with us now for a look through the papers. Letter look

:19:33. > :19:36.at the front pages first. Main story on the front page of the Daily Mail,

:19:37. > :19:40.we were covering the story yesterday, the news that Whirlpool,

:19:41. > :19:44.this is about tumble dryers in what the Mail is calling the deathtrap

:19:45. > :19:49.tumble dryers. The information out from Whirlpool is that they should

:19:50. > :19:52.not be used. If you have these particular tumble dryers, the fire

:19:53. > :19:56.risk now is so great that they should not be used recently. Over 15

:19:57. > :20:01.months here at they have been saying that you could use them and keep an

:20:02. > :20:06.eye on them when they were in use. In the Guardian this morning they

:20:07. > :20:13.pick up on the by-election results saying that labour saw off the

:20:14. > :20:16.challenge from UKIP in Stoke. The picture from yesterday, the storm

:20:17. > :20:22.yesterday which brought the worst weather of the winter. The Met

:20:23. > :20:27.Office referred to it as a weather bomb. From head to the Daily Mirror

:20:28. > :20:36.has the storm as well. Cars crushed by trees and on the front page of

:20:37. > :20:39.the times as well. Sean? Many of the newspapers are covering John Lewis

:20:40. > :20:45.cutting back on positions across the business. People in administration

:20:46. > :20:48.and customer restaurant, they will be consulted about their roles. A

:20:49. > :20:54.little bit of restructuring going on and we have heard a lot about that.

:20:55. > :20:59.A very nice picture in the Telegraph of the Royal mints, the new ?1

:21:00. > :21:05.coins. 12 sided, they will be. There is a nice pile of them. They are

:21:06. > :21:09.coming in in October. Now, they will be steadily brought in and there

:21:10. > :21:13.will be a period where you can use both coins. After October, however,

:21:14. > :21:18.the new ones, the old ones will cease to be legal tender. Do you

:21:19. > :21:25.think they will have a secret thing on again so will be worth more? Not

:21:26. > :21:39.at the moment, no. There is only 15 left. Did you say 12 sided? What is

:21:40. > :21:43.that? Dodecyl gone? Sounds good. Well, no surprise in the papers they

:21:44. > :21:48.are trying to make sense of why Leicester have gotten rid of rainy

:21:49. > :21:56.area. The back page of the Times blames the players. They forced him

:21:57. > :22:01.out, the special bond had gone and they had a meeting with the players

:22:02. > :22:06.in Spain and it was the players that convinced the board that he should

:22:07. > :22:19.go. Why do players never get the sack? They just get moved on. Is

:22:20. > :22:24.this a joke? No. They get moved on eventually but the manager pays the

:22:25. > :22:28.price first of all. The players are a collective, the manager is the one

:22:29. > :22:32.who got shot down. The other story is... There is a lot of anger about

:22:33. > :22:38.the players in the mail, saying the snakes, how could the snakes betray

:22:39. > :22:45.Ranieri. The day the game lost its soul. It seems quite mean, does it?

:22:46. > :22:52.Yes but in terms of form, there is only so much that fans can take full

:22:53. > :22:54.think very much. It is just coming up to 23 minutes past six.

:22:55. > :22:57.There are growing calls from patients, experts and nurses

:22:58. > :23:00.for better training and awareness of Sickle Cell disease.

:23:01. > :23:02.It's an inherited blood disorder that affects thousands of mostly

:23:03. > :23:04.African and Caribbean people in the UK.

:23:05. > :23:07.During a so-called Sickle Cell crises or episode, red blood cells

:23:08. > :23:14.change shape, causing intense pain and organ damage.

:23:15. > :23:18.And as Noel Phillips reports, just having the condition can make

:23:19. > :23:32.This boy was six when he died from organ failure, sepsis and sickle

:23:33. > :23:41.disease in 2015. He just kept saying mum, I want to lie Simone called

:23:42. > :23:50.emergency. Over the next hour his condition worsened. What happened on

:23:51. > :23:55.that day... I don't feel it was treated urgently enough when that

:23:56. > :24:00.person on the phone told me I would have to probably wait up to 45

:24:01. > :24:04.minutes for an ambulance. In an ambulances and a rapid response unit

:24:05. > :24:08.were dispatched but then cancelled and sent to more urgent cases.

:24:09. > :24:13.Shortly after paramedics arrived, the child went into cardiac arrest.

:24:14. > :24:21.I was a little bit panicked but I was not trying to show that I was

:24:22. > :24:32.panicked. But I was... It was serious then. Lola is one of the

:24:33. > :24:35.country's most senior sickle cell nurses. You combine vomiting,

:24:36. > :24:40.diarrhoea, that the mother said the child had a fever. You can buy most

:24:41. > :24:43.things together with the fact that the child has sickle cell disease

:24:44. > :24:47.and that should be a trigger sufficient to say that that child

:24:48. > :24:51.needs attention. In a statement, the ambulance service apologise for the

:24:52. > :24:56.delay in getting to the child. The medical director added that over the

:24:57. > :25:00.last few years they had worked closely with the sickle cell society

:25:01. > :25:03.to improve care to patients. They regularly ordered the care they

:25:04. > :25:11.provide and sickle cell training is given to all ambulance crews. It is

:25:12. > :25:18.like being stabbed while someone is pouring acid on you. This man is one

:25:19. > :25:22.of 15,000 people in Britain living with sickle cell disease. It causes

:25:23. > :25:27.crippling pain but he claims he has had to wait hours in hospital for

:25:28. > :25:37.treatment. Waiting in a cubicle for two plus hours. Jo Howard is a

:25:38. > :25:41.sickle cell consultant. In a recent report she says that staff shortages

:25:42. > :25:45.mean that patients are not getting the right care. Patients should not

:25:46. > :25:48.be left in pain. Patients should be treated within 30 minutes. I think

:25:49. > :25:53.that is an absolutely reasonable thing that we should be doing for

:25:54. > :25:58.every patient. I think all trusts should be aiming to do that. It is

:25:59. > :26:02.swelling up. I have had to teach the doctors about it. Lavinia has been

:26:03. > :26:11.living with the disease for 30 years. The understanding and the

:26:12. > :26:15.Korea is not there. Nurses don't learn while they are training, they

:26:16. > :26:18.learn on the job. The NHS as they are committed to providing patients

:26:19. > :26:24.with the high standards of treatment care and support. But she says the

:26:25. > :26:25.condition remains largely overlooked and like a sickle cell sufferers

:26:26. > :26:36.will remain difficult. Thank you to the families who took

:26:37. > :26:37.part in that report, reporting on the problems with sickle cell. We

:26:38. > :26:38.have reached 26 Plenty more on our website

:26:39. > :30:01.at the usual address. Now, though, it's back

:30:02. > :30:04.to Steph and Charlie. Hello, this is Breakfast

:30:05. > :30:07.with Charlie Stayt and Steph We'll bring you all the latest news

:30:08. > :30:12.and sport in a moment, After the author Helen Bailey

:30:13. > :30:17.was murdered by a man she met while grieving for her first

:30:18. > :30:20.husband, we'll speak to a charity for people whose partners have died,

:30:21. > :30:23.and ask if they can be particularly vulnerable when starting

:30:24. > :30:27.new relationships. After victory in Stoke

:30:28. > :30:29.and defeat in Cumbria, we'll ask the Shadow Chancellor John

:30:30. > :30:32.McDonnell what a mixed night for Labour means for the party

:30:33. > :30:37.and Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. And they've been in decline

:30:38. > :30:40.for years, but we'll find out about a new plan to save the UK's

:30:41. > :30:44.last remaining red squirrels and how But now a summary of this

:30:45. > :30:49.morning's main news. The Conservatives have won

:30:50. > :30:52.the Cumbrian seat of Copeland which had been in Labour's hands

:30:53. > :30:55.for more than 80 years. In the night's other result Labour

:30:56. > :30:58.held on to Stoke Central, with UKIP leader Paul Nuttall

:30:59. > :31:00.finishing in second place. This report from our political

:31:01. > :31:02.correspondent Tom Bateman contains Harrison, Trudy Lynn,

:31:03. > :31:16.the Conservative Party Voters here had chosen a Labour MP

:31:17. > :31:36.for the last 80 years. But all that changed in a dramatic

:31:37. > :31:39.night as the Conservatives took What has happened tonight

:31:40. > :31:43.is a truly historic event. You would have to go back more

:31:44. > :31:46.than a century to find an example of a governing party taking a seat

:31:47. > :31:49.from the opposition party Labour said the vote

:31:50. > :32:00.was on a knife edge. In the aftermath of defeat,

:32:01. > :32:02.the departing candidate chose not The first time a conservative has

:32:03. > :32:07.represented the area But serious questions for Labour

:32:08. > :32:14.under Jeremy Corbyn. Theresa May made the rare move

:32:15. > :32:17.of visiting a by-election seat It was a hardfought campaign

:32:18. > :32:21.of the nuclear jobs The result leaves Labour

:32:22. > :32:24.assessing its electoral prospects. But there was better news

:32:25. > :32:29.for Labour in the by-election in Stoke-on-Trent, another

:32:30. > :32:31.traditional seat for the party. They held on with

:32:32. > :32:37.a reduced majority. This by-election was a test

:32:38. > :32:39.for UKIP for UKIP in It just managed second place,

:32:40. > :32:53.but did increase its vote share. This seat was number

:32:54. > :32:58.72 on our hit list. So therefore, you know,

:32:59. > :33:18.we move on and our time will come. There will be jubilation

:33:19. > :33:22.for Theresa May at the result in Jeremy Corbyn promised

:33:23. > :33:24.he would reconnect with voters. He might have to try inspired offer

:33:25. > :33:27.the opposition for his own MPs. Our political correspondent

:33:28. > :33:33.Alex Forsyth joins us Talk us through what happened last

:33:34. > :33:41.night. And the thirsting notice is the UKIP campaign office behind you.

:33:42. > :33:46.This was where the campaign has been based over the last few weeks. The

:33:47. > :33:50.office is shut up. And when we have arrived, there is a red cross on the

:33:51. > :33:54.door, the significance is unclear, though some might say UKIP is not

:33:55. > :33:59.welcome in Stoke. This was a test for UKIP. This was their leader

:34:00. > :34:05.standing in a seat where people supported Brexit. And UKIP after the

:34:06. > :34:08.EU Referendum promised they would eat into the Labour vote in the

:34:09. > :34:13.heartlands, in areas like this in Stoke and they failed. UKIP have

:34:14. > :34:19.played down the significance this morning and said they did eat into

:34:20. > :34:24.the majority. It leaves questions for the party about what they stand

:34:25. > :34:27.for post EU Referendum and if they can't win in places like Stoke,

:34:28. > :34:37.where can they win? Talk through what happened in Copeland and the

:34:38. > :34:43.scale of the conservative victory? I don't think it could be

:34:44. > :34:48.underestimated. It was a very significant win in Copeland, long

:34:49. > :34:51.held by Labour, and Labour have said there were local issues dominating

:34:52. > :34:56.his campaign. We know that Jeremy Corbyn at the moment has some of the

:34:57. > :35:01.lowest ratings for a Labour leader for sometime, so it will renew

:35:02. > :35:05.questions over his leadership. We are some way off a leadership

:35:06. > :35:09.challenge. This will lend credibility to his critics who say

:35:10. > :35:10.Labour under Jeremy Corbyn isn't performing as it should. For the

:35:11. > :35:12.moment, thank you. Malaysian police say they have found

:35:13. > :35:16.the highly toxic nerve agent, VX, on the face of Kim Jong-nam,

:35:17. > :35:19.the murdered half brother VX is the most toxic

:35:20. > :35:26.of the chemical warfare agents, and just a drop on the skin

:35:27. > :35:29.can kill in minutes. CCTV footage shows two women briefly

:35:30. > :35:31.holding something over Kim Jong-nam's face

:35:32. > :35:34.while he was preparing to board a flight at Kuala Lumpur

:35:35. > :35:39.airport last week. Donald Trump says he wants to expand

:35:40. > :35:42.America's nuclear arsenal. In his first comments on the issue

:35:43. > :35:44.since taking office, Mr Trump said it would be

:35:45. > :35:48."wonderful" if no nation had nuclear arms, but otherwise the US must

:35:49. > :35:54.be "top of the pack." The government is announcing plans

:35:55. > :35:57.for more universities to offer degree courses which last

:35:58. > :35:59.for just two years. The universities minister Jo Johnson

:36:00. > :36:02.will say students want more flexible courses which enable them to get

:36:03. > :36:05.into work more quickly. In return, universities will be able

:36:06. > :36:08.to increase annual tuition fees to more than ?13,000,

:36:09. > :36:10.although the overall cost of a degree will still

:36:11. > :36:14.be capped at ?27,000. The clear-up continues this morning

:36:15. > :36:17.after Storm Doris battered much of the UK leaving one woman dead

:36:18. > :36:20.after being hit by flying debris. Winds of up to 94mph caused power

:36:21. > :36:23.cuts and travel chaos as flights were grounded

:36:24. > :36:27.and train services disrupted. Drivers are being warned to be wary

:36:28. > :36:30.of ice on the roads in Scotland, Northern Ireland,

:36:31. > :36:34.and north-west England. And we've just got time to show

:36:35. > :36:37.you some amazing pictures of a modern day version

:36:38. > :36:44.of cat and mouse. But in this instance,

:36:45. > :36:47.the mouse was a drone and the cats, The rare tigers in north-east China

:36:48. > :36:56.were chasing a bird before spotting It didn't take long before

:36:57. > :37:00.the electronic device became prey, the drone at least managing

:37:01. > :37:21.to capture some incredible pictures It was down, yeah. Wow. It is quite

:37:22. > :37:26.scary, isn't it, when you see them come toward you. Now, where to

:37:27. > :37:32.start, with Leicester and Claudio Ranieri. The dream, the fairytale,

:37:33. > :37:35.is over. You'd have to think the board saw something, a breakdown

:37:36. > :37:40.between the players and Claudio Ranieri, the special relationship.

:37:41. > :37:44.Because a new manager coming in can't assign any players, so all he

:37:45. > :37:49.can do is try to motivate the set, so it has to be something they have

:37:50. > :37:54.seen. Already, people are asking about loyalty, where is loyalty in

:37:55. > :37:59.football? Yes, because Claudio Ranieri in summer had the chance to

:38:00. > :38:03.go to Italy, it was such a famous story, his stock rose to

:38:04. > :38:07.unprecedented heights, but he stayed at Leicester, turning that down,

:38:08. > :38:09.because he thought the special thing they had going could continue.

:38:10. > :38:16.We can remind ourselves of the special times, only nine months ago

:38:17. > :38:22.when he was king Claudio, defying the odds of 5000 to one, to do what

:38:23. > :38:28.many regarded as impossible, winning the Premier League title. Here he

:38:29. > :38:33.is, crowned by Kasper Schmeichel, but then they only really lost one

:38:34. > :38:37.main player to Chelsea, so you would have thought they could have stayed

:38:38. > :38:41.in the top six, but form has been abysmal, it has got worse, and he

:38:42. > :38:46.really is looking rather concerned. No away wins in the Premier League

:38:47. > :38:51.this season, no goals in the Premier League this year, the worst record

:38:52. > :38:56.of 92 Football League clubs in terms of form, although they offered hopes

:38:57. > :39:04.for fans against Seville in Spain just two nights ago when Jamie Vardy

:39:05. > :39:10.scored, but the border out there and according to some papers they spoke

:39:11. > :39:27.with players. And we have a statement, indeed.

:39:28. > :39:33.So, that is the harsh reality, that is what the board has set, but of

:39:34. > :39:37.course, you said there is no room for sentiment in football, and that

:39:38. > :39:40.is a feeling of hurt some up by a lot of the fans.

:39:41. > :39:42.Gary Lineker, former Leicester City player tweeted: "After all that

:39:43. > :39:45.Claudio Ranieri has done for Leicester City, to sack him now

:39:46. > :39:48.is inexplicable, unforgivable and gut-wrenchingly sad."

:39:49. > :39:51.Former Leicester forward Dion Dublin was also shocked by the news,

:39:52. > :39:55.Sacking the manager that won you the Premiere League title!

:39:56. > :40:02.And Manchester United's Manager Jose Mourinho offered his condolences

:40:03. > :40:04.to Mr Ranieri: "Sacked, that's the new football Claudio.

:40:05. > :40:17.Nobody can delete the history you wrote."

:40:18. > :40:22.I suppose the straw poll of Leicester fans I spoke with

:40:23. > :40:29.overnight, two thirds of think it was too soon and harsh, but there

:40:30. > :40:33.are some fans, like Chris in Bristol, Bristol-based Leicester

:40:34. > :40:40.fan, it is right for survival, he said, I can handle defeat but not

:40:41. > :40:44.the 92nd in form out of 92 clubs, and maybe Roberto Mancini is lined

:40:45. > :40:47.up already, we don't know, but the timing would suggest they have a

:40:48. > :40:54.plan in place. Roberto Mancini played for Leicester, he had the

:40:55. > :40:57.Premier League at all, but what is he like with relegation, in which

:40:58. > :41:03.Leicester is certainly involved in now. And some other sports as well?

:41:04. > :41:07.Oh, yes, we have. (LAUGHTER).. It was a busy night already.

:41:08. > :41:10.It was a dismal night for Tottenham - out of the Europa League

:41:11. > :41:13.after they could only draw 2-2 against Gent of Belgium at Wembley,

:41:14. > :41:19.Dismal especially for two of their England stars -

:41:20. > :41:27.His own goal making it 1-1 on the night.

:41:28. > :41:29.Then another of Spurs' England players, Dele Alli,

:41:30. > :41:35.was sent-off for this horrendous tackle.

:41:36. > :41:37.Tottenham out, leaving just Manchester United as the sole

:41:38. > :41:42.England captain Wayne Rooney says he is staying at Manchester United

:41:43. > :41:44.after being linked with a move to China.

:41:45. > :41:47.The 31-year-old striker said in a statement: "It's an exciting

:41:48. > :41:50.time at the club and I want to remain a part of it."

:41:51. > :41:53.Rooney's agent had travelled to China to see if he could

:41:54. > :41:56.negotiate a deal, which could still happen in the summer.

:41:57. > :41:59.Coach Vern Cotter has made five changes to Scotland's side that

:42:00. > :42:02.will face Wales in the Six Nations at Murrayfield tomorrow.

:42:03. > :42:05.Flanker Jon Barclay plays his rugby in Wales with the Scarlets,

:42:06. > :42:08.and will captain the team in the absence of the injured Greig

:42:09. > :42:13.Ali Price will take over from Laidlaw at scrum half.

:42:14. > :42:16.Fly half Johnny Sexton returns to the Ireland side for tomorrow's

:42:17. > :42:20.Sexton missed Ireland's first two games with a calf injury,

:42:21. > :42:26.but is back with Paddy Jackson dropping to the bench.

:42:27. > :42:31.Catalans Dragons beat Hull FC 16-14 to go top of rugby league's

:42:32. > :42:34.Luke Walsh kicked six out of six in a scrappy game

:42:35. > :42:36.and his last penalty confirmed victory for Catalans.

:42:37. > :42:53.I love the feeling when you get the keys to your new car, and that was

:42:54. > :42:53.the feeling for Lewis Hamilton yesterday.

:42:54. > :42:56.World champion constructors Mercedes have unveiled their new car

:42:57. > :43:01.It will be going a lot faster than this when the season starts

:43:02. > :43:05.But for now Lewis Hamilton, who was joined by new team-mate

:43:06. > :43:08.Valtteri Bottas, took the car for a few laps around

:43:09. > :43:15.Hamilton said the car felt incredible.

:43:16. > :43:25.That is a good sign, then. It is, yeah, he is happy. Thank you.

:43:26. > :43:28.Police in Malaysia say a powerful nerve agent called VX appears

:43:29. > :43:31.to have been used in last week's killing of Kim Jong Nam,

:43:32. > :43:34.the half brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un.

:43:35. > :43:36.In a statement, officials said traces of the agent,

:43:37. > :43:40.which is used in chemical warfare, were found on Kim Jong Nam's face.

:43:41. > :43:42.Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes joins us now

:43:43. > :43:55.This is a story which is quite baffling, really, and now this

:43:56. > :44:03.information about is highly toxic nerve agent, what more can you tell

:44:04. > :44:08.us? Yeah, this story continues to get more extraordinary as the days

:44:09. > :44:13.go by. So, what the authorities are telling us is after Kim Jong-nam

:44:14. > :44:17.died at the airport, on the way to the hospital from the airport last

:44:18. > :44:21.week, they took him to the morgue and did an autopsy, during which

:44:22. > :44:26.they swapped his face, especially cheeks and eyes, and they tested the

:44:27. > :44:30.swabs and it has taken 11 days to come back with the results but they

:44:31. > :44:38.said they found traces of the VX nerve agents on those swabs, which

:44:39. > :44:44.is serious, because VX is considered the most toxic nerve agent invented,

:44:45. > :44:47.invented in Britain in the 1950s. Large quantities were produced in

:44:48. > :44:53.America and the Soviet Union in the Cold War. It has subsequently been

:44:54. > :44:57.banned under UN chemical convention, so the fact it has been used in this

:44:58. > :45:07.killing makes this a whole new level on this killing. Yeah, and also

:45:08. > :45:11.looking at what the Malaysians have said, they don't blame the North

:45:12. > :45:19.Korean state, but they say North Korea was clearly behind it, so

:45:20. > :45:24.what's happening? Well, it is very unclear, is the short answer. They

:45:25. > :45:28.are not at the moment accusing the North Korean state of direct

:45:29. > :45:34.involvement. However, circumstantial evidence so far points to a plot

:45:35. > :45:39.based in North Korea, or at least in the North Korean and busy in Kuala

:45:40. > :45:43.Lumpur. There are women in custody thought to have been carrying out

:45:44. > :45:47.the killing, they are not North Korean, but the other suspects named

:45:48. > :45:53.are North Korean nationals, and one of them they want to talk to is a

:45:54. > :45:57.diplomat from the embassy here, but the North Koreans are refusing to

:45:58. > :46:05.hand him over. What happens next? There is this other person they want

:46:06. > :46:10.to talk to. What happens next? Well, we are locked in a stalemate. North

:46:11. > :46:16.Korea will not back down or hand over people who are wanted. There is

:46:17. > :46:21.the potential for a diplomatic rift. I have heard people say they will

:46:22. > :46:25.have to do something in retaliation, even kicking the North Korean

:46:26. > :46:31.ambassador out of here. This is now very, very serious. And, as you say,

:46:32. > :46:37.a really extraordinary story. Thank you very for your time.

:46:38. > :46:46.The table that the weather. Things have calmed down? Absolutely. A

:46:47. > :46:51.different story now. These is storm Doris with very fast wind speeds,

:46:52. > :46:57.the whole system was moving very quickly so look where it is now. It

:46:58. > :47:01.has taken those stormy conditions through Germany and into pollen. It

:47:02. > :47:06.is weakening and we find ourselves between weather systems as morning.

:47:07. > :47:12.A higher it pressure ridge and a cold flow of air. Watch out few icy

:47:13. > :47:16.patches on untreated surfaces. A far more calm story this morning and a

:47:17. > :47:21.brighter story as well. Some cloud around in Scotland and a little bit

:47:22. > :47:25.of patchy light rain in a few spots are not amounting to very much. Icy

:47:26. > :47:30.in places again. Some showers coast to the eastern coast of England. One

:47:31. > :47:35.or two filtering through parts of north Wales in north-west England

:47:36. > :47:38.into the Midlands. Quite hit and miss. At eight o'clock in the

:47:39. > :47:42.morning a lot of dry and sunny weather and look at the wind speed

:47:43. > :47:49.here. They are much lower compared with yesterday. A fine day for many

:47:50. > :47:52.of us, even where you start with a shower roundabout midday the vast

:47:53. > :47:55.majority is to be dry with sunshine. Another weather system is coming in

:47:56. > :47:59.and back this afternoon will bring rain across Northern Ireland and by

:48:00. > :48:03.the end of the day into western parts of Scotland. Nowhere near as

:48:04. > :48:09.nasty as storm Doris. Temperature is down compared to yesterday so maybe

:48:10. > :48:12.five to 10 degrees. We will take some wet weather, particularly

:48:13. > :48:16.across the northern half of the UK, preceded by snow urban ills in

:48:17. > :48:20.Scotland. Back to the rain, the wind freshening and our strengthening

:48:21. > :48:23.again cross north battling north-west Scotland. Lottery but

:48:24. > :48:28.milder with plenty of cloud around as we start of Saturday morning. It

:48:29. > :48:32.takes is on to the weekend and what can we expect? Mild compared to

:48:33. > :48:36.today. It will be windy again, nothing like the storm, most of us

:48:37. > :48:40.will see rain at some stage but not all the time. It is quite a messy

:48:41. > :48:44.picture as we start off on Saturday morning. Windy wherever you are.

:48:45. > :48:48.Dales for some of us, if this were close to the west and inner

:48:49. > :48:52.north-west Scotland. Rain heading south-east, not much down the

:48:53. > :48:55.eastern side of the UK and into Saturday afternoon expected to turn

:48:56. > :48:58.will be brighter in Scotland and Northern Ireland just a couple of

:48:59. > :49:02.showers around and temperatures for many back into double figures the

:49:03. > :49:06.whiz by blustery. On Sunday we bring in another wet weather system so

:49:07. > :49:12.gets wet for a time. Scotland into Cumbria, quite wet throughout the

:49:13. > :49:14.weekend, pushing south -- south eastwards. The breeze nothing

:49:15. > :49:17.compared to storm Doris and temperatures hitting double figures

:49:18. > :49:21.although will be turning colder the start of next week. The main message

:49:22. > :49:27.to the weekend, it is looking unsettled and quite blustery at

:49:28. > :49:29.times but we put storm Doris behind us. A lot of people will be pleased

:49:30. > :49:31.to hear that. Thank you, Nick. Sean's here - and he's looking

:49:32. > :49:48.at business rates this morning It is a fair thing to call this one

:49:49. > :49:51.an argument because it has been backbench MPs of the Conservative

:49:52. > :49:55.parties, many newspapers here, the mail the Telegraph and the Times

:49:56. > :49:57.last week to have let on this several times. It has has been a big

:49:58. > :50:01.talking point. Well it was all about over

:50:02. > :50:03.the government's proposals to increase business rates that

:50:04. > :50:10.are due to come about in April. There are nearly 2 million

:50:11. > :50:15.businesses across the UK that will see rates come in at some point.

:50:16. > :50:18.This is all about the proposal of the government to see those rates

:50:19. > :50:22.increase next month. Those properties in England and Wales are

:50:23. > :50:26.liable for business rates. Our tax is charged on properties like

:50:27. > :50:29.offices and factories. The amount is based on how much rain could be

:50:30. > :50:35.charged on those buildings that they are rain. If this are currently

:50:36. > :50:38.playing rates on property valuations from 2008. They have now been

:50:39. > :50:43.revalued in the raids recalculated with many winners and losers.

:50:44. > :50:46.According to the government, over 1 million ratepayers will see no

:50:47. > :50:51.change. Or, their bill will go down. But it is as loud half a million

:50:52. > :50:55.businesses will see them go up, and some of them significantly. We have

:50:56. > :50:59.had a lot of pressure we have heard this week that there may be some

:51:00. > :51:02.help announced in the budget in just under a couple weeks time. We can

:51:03. > :51:05.talk now to Christian spencer was head of research and policy at the

:51:06. > :51:12.greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Christian, because it is

:51:13. > :51:16.so closely linked to property prices is it just about the south-east and

:51:17. > :51:20.London think Robbie prices go up and rates go up in the rest of the

:51:21. > :51:22.country benefiting? As a broad generalisation that is a reasonable

:51:23. > :51:28.assumption that the proper market across the UK is highly varied. We

:51:29. > :51:32.feel of fluctuation in Manchester amongst the city and the outlying

:51:33. > :51:36.areas. At a high level, yes, but with the winners and losers appear

:51:37. > :51:39.in all sorts of odd places. People who expect changes to come in next

:51:40. > :51:43.month, you still hear from businesses that I talk to that they

:51:44. > :51:46.don't know the exact figure that they will be paying. As the

:51:47. > :51:50.government run this as smoothly as it could have done? There have been

:51:51. > :51:54.many challenges. This goes to the heart of some of the complexity and

:51:55. > :52:01.the system we have been working with government with over several years

:52:02. > :52:05.now. There are still some rates outstanding from the 2010 in grief.

:52:06. > :52:12.That gives a sense of how collocated things are. Businesses have seen a

:52:13. > :52:16.draft revaluations to 2017. Businesses are looking at those many

:52:17. > :52:20.are already that these do not appear to be in line with where we would

:52:21. > :52:24.expect them to be and we can expect a large set of appeals. Businesses

:52:25. > :52:27.who are your members will have known that these revaluations were coming

:52:28. > :52:30.in and they will have known how much the property price would have

:52:31. > :52:34.changed since 2008, 2010. Is it fair to say that some businesses could

:52:35. > :52:37.have been more prepared for these changes? It is difficult because the

:52:38. > :52:42.process can take so long and bills can arrive close to the start of a

:52:43. > :52:45.new financial year. There is also a question about many businesses about

:52:46. > :52:50.how the valuations are arrived at themselves by the body who does it.

:52:51. > :52:53.Even though once businesses know, of course, what the rent their pain is

:52:54. > :52:57.on the valuation of a property is, sometimes the weather 's calculation

:52:58. > :53:01.is are arrived at and give a very different number to what they

:53:02. > :53:04.actually pay. And there has been a little bitter criticism that big

:53:05. > :53:07.companies like Amazon have big warehouses that around town, seen

:53:08. > :53:11.reductions on the business rates there while small shops on high

:53:12. > :53:20.Street may see rises. You see that as well? Absolutely. And it is the

:53:21. > :53:26.idea that people operating with his taxes similar to that of a land tax,

:53:27. > :53:29.business rates is not about land it is about the business itself, the

:53:30. > :53:32.building itself and even the kinds of machinery that sits within the

:53:33. > :53:38.business. That means you can get buried peculiar distortions. Thank

:53:39. > :53:41.you for your time. We got there in the end. About 500,000 businesses

:53:42. > :53:45.will see a rate rise and that is where much of the talk is coming

:53:46. > :53:49.from. Or in the budget in all just over a week. 653 now.

:53:50. > :53:53.We've known for years that the red squirrel population is in decline,

:53:54. > :53:54.and conservationists have been working hard

:53:55. > :53:59.Now animal lovers are getting a chance to do their bit,

:54:00. > :54:02.the Wildlife Trusts are uniting to recruit thousands of volunteers

:54:03. > :54:06.Aisling McVeigh has been to Mere Sands Wood nature reserve

:54:07. > :54:14.Red squirrels were once a common sight across much of the UK.

:54:15. > :54:17.The introduction of their grey cousins 141 years ago spelt disaster

:54:18. > :54:24.Carrying a disease which killed reds,

:54:25. > :54:27.the greedy grey squirrel dominates our landscape more

:54:28. > :54:32.than a century on, with more than 2.5 million of them around.

:54:33. > :54:37.There are just 140,000 reds in comparison.

:54:38. > :54:40.But in recent years efforts to protect reds have had some

:54:41. > :54:45.success and now for the first time the wildlife trusts are combining

:54:46. > :54:51.to recruit 5,000 volunteers to help with these conservation efforts.

:54:52. > :54:53.People will be asked to monitor and record data and,

:54:54. > :54:56.if they're willing, they'll be given training on how to cull

:54:57. > :55:05.They're hoping the Red Squirrels United project will not only

:55:06. > :55:07.maintain but maybe even increase numbers.

:55:08. > :55:09.We can train people to help with the monitoring,

:55:10. > :55:12.using cameras and tubes, we also need people to record

:55:13. > :55:15.their sightings and report them to us and also help

:55:16. > :55:19.It's a really great opportunity for people to get involved

:55:20. > :55:22.in a large-scale conservation project at a local level and really

:55:23. > :55:32.Most of us will never get this close to a baby squirrel.

:55:33. > :55:39.This map shows how many red squirrels were around. The campaign

:55:40. > :55:44.had to focus efforts of volunteers on the nine areas where there are

:55:45. > :55:48.already reads oral including the Glens of Northern Ireland, Anglesey

:55:49. > :55:53.in ways of Wales and Merseyside in England. The volunteer project of

:55:54. > :55:58.saving the red squirrels in Scotland will also got under way. Most of us

:55:59. > :56:00.will never get this close to a baby 's

:56:01. > :56:04.-- Most of us will never get this close to a baby squirrel.

:56:05. > :56:06.Rachel is nursing this one back to health.

:56:07. > :56:09.But with this campaign there's a chance to make sure this native

:56:10. > :56:12.species survives and maybe even flourishes once again in the UK.

:56:13. > :56:18.We will talk more about how you can get involved in this project at

:56:19. > :59:36.around ten minutes to nine this morning.

:59:37. > :59:38.of next week with sunny spells and showers.

:59:39. > :59:41.I'm back with the latest from BBC London newsroom

:59:42. > :59:44.Plenty more on our website at the usual address.

:59:45. > :59:46.Now, though, it's back to Steph and Charlie.

:59:47. > :00:00.Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph

:00:01. > :00:03.An historic by-election win for the Conservatives as they gain

:00:04. > :00:26.Harrison, Trudy, the Conservative Party candidate, 13,748.

:00:27. > :00:29.In the first by-election gain by a governing party for more

:00:30. > :00:31.than 30 years, Trudy Harrison takes the Cumbrian constituancy

:00:32. > :00:40.UKIP keep their seat with Paul Nuttall. We have the latest

:00:41. > :00:48.reaction. Good morning, it's Friday,

:00:49. > :00:55.the 24th of February. Also this morning:

:00:56. > :00:59.Shock as Leicester City sack their Premier League winning

:01:00. > :01:01.manager. There's no happy ever

:01:02. > :01:03.after for the fairytale of Leicester City or Claudio Ranieri

:01:04. > :01:06.as the manager who masterminded the most unlikely of Premier League

:01:07. > :01:14.titles is dropped by the club. The Royal Bank of Scotland

:01:15. > :01:17.which also owns NatWest and Ulster Bank is just

:01:18. > :01:20.about to publish its full The bank which is 73% owned

:01:21. > :01:23.by the taxpayer is widely expected I'll bring you the full

:01:24. > :01:27.details when I get them. Storm Doris brought us

:01:28. > :01:29.disruption to roads, As many people try to complete

:01:30. > :01:33.their broken journeys today, Nick has the details

:01:34. > :01:40.on what the weather's Yes, good morning. Some disruption

:01:41. > :01:45.may continue into today but Storm Doris has gone. We are in a calm,

:01:46. > :01:49.cold spell of weather as we start this Friday morning. Rain coming to

:01:50. > :01:54.Northern Ireland and western Scotland later with freshening wind.

:01:55. > :01:55.I have the Friday forecast and a look at the weekend of weather

:01:56. > :01:58.coming up. "A truly historic victory" -

:01:59. > :02:02.the words of new conservative MP Trudy Harrison after taking

:02:03. > :02:05.the Labour seat of Copeland in last nights by-election, the first gain

:02:06. > :02:08.by a governing party since 1982. In the night's other result Labour

:02:09. > :02:12.did hold on to Stoke Central, with UKIP leader Paul Nuttall

:02:13. > :02:14.finishing in second place. This report from our political

:02:15. > :02:16.correspondent Tom Bateman Harrison, Trudy Lynn,

:02:17. > :02:25.the Conservative Party candidate, Voters here had chosen a Labour MP

:02:26. > :02:34.for the last 80 years. But all that changed in a dramatic

:02:35. > :02:38.night as the Conservatives took What has happened here tonight

:02:39. > :02:54.is a truly historic event. You'd have to go back more

:02:55. > :02:57.than a century to find an example of a governing party taking a seat

:02:58. > :03:01.from the opposition party Labour had said the vote

:03:02. > :03:06.was on a knife edge. In the aftermath of defeat,

:03:07. > :03:09.their departing candidate chose not The first time a Conservative has

:03:10. > :03:15.represented the area But serious questions for Labour

:03:16. > :03:22.under Jeremy Corbyn. Theresa May made the rare move

:03:23. > :03:25.of visiting a by-election seat It was a hardfought

:03:26. > :03:31.campaign over nuclear jobs The result leaves Labour

:03:32. > :03:37.assessing its electoral prospects. But there was better news

:03:38. > :03:40.for Labour in the by-election in Stoke-on-Trent, another

:03:41. > :03:42.traditional seat for the party. They held on with

:03:43. > :03:52.a reduced majority. This by-election

:03:53. > :04:01.was a test for UKIP in a working-class area that voted

:04:02. > :04:03.hard for Brexit. It just managed second place,

:04:04. > :04:06.but did increase its vote share. This seat was number

:04:07. > :04:11.72 on our hit list. So therefore, you know,

:04:12. > :04:21.we move on and our time will come. There will be jubilation

:04:22. > :04:24.for Theresa May at the result in Jeremy Corbyn promised

:04:25. > :04:32.he would reconnect with voters. He may have to try in spite

:04:33. > :04:34.of futher opposition We can now speak to our political

:04:35. > :04:40.correspondent Tom Bateman who is in Whitehaven

:04:41. > :04:46.for us this morning. A lovely scene behind you and one

:04:47. > :04:50.that the Conservative Party will be very pleased with today. Absolutely.

:04:51. > :04:54.I think the calm waters and the gulls circling above are not

:04:55. > :04:58.reflective of the political tsunami which has taken place in this part

:04:59. > :05:03.of the world overnight. It is astonishing. Normally these mornings

:05:04. > :05:07.we talk of the pummelling the governing party has taken. And yet

:05:08. > :05:11.here we are in Copeland, it has been Labour for as long as anyone can

:05:12. > :05:18.remember, and we are talking about Labour losing the seat to the

:05:19. > :05:22.Conservatives. As for the candidate, Trudy Harrison, she was clear that

:05:23. > :05:26.this meant the Tories were the party of the working people. That will cut

:05:27. > :05:31.to the heart of what Labour MPs are concerned about, that they believe

:05:32. > :05:38.Jeremy Colburn has failed to cut through to those Labour heartlands,

:05:39. > :05:43.especially in working-class areas. Labour say there are specific

:05:44. > :05:47.dynamics. It is about jobs in the nuclear industry. When you look at

:05:48. > :05:51.the victory in Stoke it shows that they can win. However, at the end of

:05:52. > :05:55.this, we are looking at more political trouble for Jeremy Colburn

:05:56. > :05:57.from his own MPs. Thank you very much. It looks gorgeous.

:05:58. > :06:00.In a few minutes we'll be speaking to the Shadow Chancellor John

:06:01. > :06:04.Leicester City has sacked manager Claudio Ranieri just nine months

:06:05. > :06:07.after he led the club's to its first Premier League title.

:06:08. > :06:09.The Foxes are only one point above the relegation zone

:06:10. > :06:20.He masterminded one of sport's greatest miracles, but less

:06:21. > :06:24.than a year after Claudio Ranieri's Leicester City became the most

:06:25. > :06:27.unlikely Premier League winners ever, the man who achieved the dream

:06:28. > :06:32.Leicester City are the Premier League champions!

:06:33. > :06:43.Last season's celebrations have turned to fears of relegation.

:06:44. > :06:50.Having swept all before them, this season the euphoria has evaporated.

:06:51. > :06:52.The champions losing their last five league matches.

:06:53. > :06:54.And with Leicester languishing one point above the relegation zone

:06:55. > :07:05.In a statement, the club's chairman said...

:07:06. > :07:13.Managerial loyalties are notoriously short in supply

:07:14. > :07:16.in the Premier League but, given what Ranieri achieved,

:07:17. > :07:26.Former Leicester star Gary Lineker described it as...

:07:27. > :07:29.Ranieri's last game in charge was this 2-1 defeat against Sevilla

:07:30. > :07:31.in the last 16 of the Champions League.

:07:32. > :07:34.The manager seemingly unaware of his fate when he spoke

:07:35. > :07:40.We know, we know they are better than us, very high quality team,

:07:41. > :07:46.highly experienced team, everything, OK.

:07:47. > :07:49.But we have a very big heart, and a very big effort,

:07:50. > :07:56.But it is Leicester's poor performances in the Premier League

:07:57. > :07:58.that could see them become only the second English

:07:59. > :08:00.champions in history to see a title defence and in relegation

:08:01. > :08:03.champions in history to see a title defence end in relegation

:08:04. > :08:06.and it is that which ultimately cost Ranieri his job.

:08:07. > :08:08.Their memories of what he achieved will always be cherished

:08:09. > :08:23.Well, we just have news in from RBS, Sean is here, another year of

:08:24. > :08:29.losses, I mean, nine years of annual losses. And it is a lot bigger than

:08:30. > :08:35.last year as well, so last year it was ?2 billion, but today we have

:08:36. > :08:39.seen ?7 billion the Royal Bank of Scotland lost in 2016, a lot of it

:08:40. > :08:43.to do with what they call one off costs, but when you're talking about

:08:44. > :08:50.nine years of not making a profit, it seems to happen on a regular

:08:51. > :08:54.basis. So, litigation costs in the US, PPI compensation, that is still

:08:55. > :08:58.in as well, they are trying to get rid of a lot of their branches,

:08:59. > :09:03.Williams unclean branches, which they had to sell, and they have to

:09:04. > :09:12.try to get rid of, which didn't work, it has cost ?1 billion as well

:09:13. > :09:16.-- Glynn. It is important for two reasons. The taxpayer owns three

:09:17. > :09:21.quarters of the bank. Any losses that banks make, three quarters is

:09:22. > :09:24.effectively taxpayers. It is important that banks do well. They

:09:25. > :09:28.need to lend to small businesses and be able to give customers

:09:29. > :09:32.confidence. When you think ?7 billion is being lost over the year,

:09:33. > :09:36.that money could be used in much better ways. And is interesting

:09:37. > :09:40.because we have Lloyd's results and that was a bank that we pumped money

:09:41. > :09:44.into in the financial crisis and that is a different story

:09:45. > :09:48.completely. Completely the opposite. Lloyds didn't have the legacy issues

:09:49. > :09:53.from the financial crisis which RBS has had and that is why RBS said,

:09:54. > :09:57.these are legacy problems, fundamentally, the bank is doing OK

:09:58. > :10:01.but they don't expect to make a profit until 2018. Thank you very

:10:02. > :10:03.much. I know that you will talk about it more a little later on.

:10:04. > :10:09.Malaysian police say the highly toxic nerve agent,

:10:10. > :10:12.VX, has been found on the face of Kim Jong-nam,

:10:13. > :10:14.the murdered half brother of North Korea's leader.

:10:15. > :10:19.VX is an extremely toxic Chemical warfare agent and just a drop

:10:20. > :10:23.CCTV footage showed two women briefly holding something over

:10:24. > :10:26.Kim Jong-nam's face while he was preparing to board

:10:27. > :10:31.a flight at Kuala Lumpur airport last week.

:10:32. > :10:34.More on one of the main stories this morning, reaction to the

:10:35. > :10:39.by-elections last night. Lets get some reaction

:10:40. > :10:41.from the Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, who joins us

:10:42. > :10:47.now from Westminster. Thank you for your time this

:10:48. > :10:51.morning. We want to talk about your Labour success in Stoke. What

:10:52. > :10:57.reflections can you draw on that victory? Well, I think it is a

:10:58. > :11:00.significant victory. I don't think just for the Labour Party, a

:11:01. > :11:06.significant victory for politics in this country overall. Remember, what

:11:07. > :11:11.was predicted by a lot of the media was UKIP would win the seat, it

:11:12. > :11:16.would be the start of them destroying the Labour Party in the

:11:17. > :11:21.north, and what the people Stoke done for all of us is they have

:11:22. > :11:24.rejected the politics of division and dishonesty, so I think the

:11:25. > :11:28.people of Stoke have done this country real service. I am pleased

:11:29. > :11:36.that we won the seat. Obviously it was a hard campaign. And I am

:11:37. > :11:42.pleased we turned back UKIP. They threw everything at it. The people

:11:43. > :11:48.of state have done us a service. Do you think Paul Nuttall is finished?

:11:49. > :11:52.Well, that is for UKIP and him, but, I tell you, on the streets of Stoke,

:11:53. > :11:57.when I was up there, people were very angry about, well, the

:11:58. > :12:01.dishonesty of the UKIP campaign, and the way in which they try to divide

:12:02. > :12:05.the community. What the people of Stoke said last night is that we

:12:06. > :12:09.will not be divided, and they concentrated on the issues which

:12:10. > :12:14.concern them, and it was the same, well, jobs, the NHS and the future

:12:15. > :12:19.public services. So, I am pleased we won last night. Their more work to

:12:20. > :12:23.do in Stoke, developing the economy, supporting the community, and we

:12:24. > :12:27.will work in that community to develop local plans, work with local

:12:28. > :12:32.people, with a terrific local MP. People might detect there isn't

:12:33. > :12:36.celebration in your time this morning, and they will know of

:12:37. > :12:41.course it will be linked with what happened in Copeland. Now, to put

:12:42. > :12:44.this in perspective, effectively, not in living memory has a

:12:45. > :12:50.conservative being an MP in that area. To what do you attribute what

:12:51. > :12:54.happened? Well, just to comment on what you said, I don't think in

:12:55. > :13:01.Stoke, for example, we should be triumphant, in any way. It was a

:13:02. > :13:05.hardfought campaign. I am so please we defeated UKIP and turn them back

:13:06. > :13:09.and I think Stoke has done us all, politics in general and his country,

:13:10. > :13:13.a real service, but yes, it was mixed fortunes, and I am

:13:14. > :13:17.disappointed about Copeland. If you were to choose two constituencies

:13:18. > :13:22.which would be the most difficult to fight at the moment, one would be

:13:23. > :13:25.Stoke, with the UKIP threat, and remember, that was the largest

:13:26. > :13:28.Brexit vote in the whole of the country, when we were campaigning to

:13:29. > :13:31.remain, which would have been difficult, and Copeland was the

:13:32. > :13:36.other one, with unique circumstances, the Labour vote has

:13:37. > :13:39.eroded over a number of elections now, but this issue around the

:13:40. > :13:43.future of the nuclear industry clearly dominated election

:13:44. > :13:47.campaigns. Not that we campaign very hard on the NHS, and although we

:13:48. > :13:53.gave the community assurances on the future of nuclear in the area, a lot

:13:54. > :13:55.of the disinformation, misinformation from the

:13:56. > :14:00.Conservatives really meant we couldn't convince people about that.

:14:01. > :14:04.So, yes, I'm disappointed, but it is not unexpected given the unique

:14:05. > :14:08.circumstances in Copeland itself. Is that really the best you have got,

:14:09. > :14:14.blaming the defeat on misinformation and disinformation? Not at all, we

:14:15. > :14:19.are in the most difficult circumstances as a party for a

:14:20. > :14:23.series of reasons. For the last, what, 20 months since Jeremy Corbyn

:14:24. > :14:27.was elected, we have been through two leadership elections. It has

:14:28. > :14:31.been a major distraction. We are coming out of the Brexit vote, which

:14:32. > :14:36.we lost, we campaigned to remain and the country voted to Brexit.

:14:37. > :14:41.Difficult circumstances. And it says clearly as well that people will not

:14:42. > :14:43.vote for a divided party. We have looked divided over the last 20

:14:44. > :14:50.months with the leadership challenges. The lesson is, we have

:14:51. > :14:55.to unite. In Copeland, there were special circumstances over the

:14:56. > :15:00.nuclear issue and we could link up through. One of the circumstances is

:15:01. > :15:04.not very special, is it, the NHS, and the issue your party campaigned

:15:05. > :15:12.over, specifically, a maternity unit in that area. This is one of your

:15:13. > :15:15.core subjects, in an area you campaigned hard on, Jeremy Corbyn in

:15:16. > :15:21.the House of Commons talked about it directly. Now, if you can't get some

:15:22. > :15:26.kind of leverage under those circumstances, people were thinking,

:15:27. > :15:30.well, when? Well, it is interesting, because campaigning on the NHS has

:15:31. > :15:33.been near the top of people's concerns in opinion after opinion

:15:34. > :15:38.poll, so we are having a breakthrough on the NHS as an issue

:15:39. > :15:42.itself, but in Copeland, unfortunately, the nuclear industry

:15:43. > :15:45.and the future of jobs, especially the issue about the Moorside

:15:46. > :15:50.development which was in jeopardy, people concentrated on the issue of

:15:51. > :15:54.jobs. I think the NHS was a matter of concern in Copeland and I am

:15:55. > :16:00.hoping the government does not take his victory in Copeland as a green

:16:01. > :16:03.light to close the maternity services and attack the accident and

:16:04. > :16:07.emergency services, and we will continue to campaign to protect the

:16:08. > :16:11.NHS against the conservative cuts. I have to ask whether you spoke with

:16:12. > :16:15.Jeremy Corbyn directly, and the other question for you, as a friend

:16:16. > :16:21.of his, a colleague and a friend, are you prepared to have that

:16:22. > :16:25.conversation one day, which is, do you know what, as your friend, and

:16:26. > :16:30.as your colleague, Soomin Lee get about the Labour Party, maybe, just

:16:31. > :16:35.maybe, now is the time to think about stepping down? This isn't

:16:36. > :16:39.about Jeremy Corbyn, this is about the position of the Labour Party for

:16:40. > :16:43.the future. We have had a difficult period over the last 20 months with

:16:44. > :16:47.the leadership talent is, because of divisions which have been sown

:16:48. > :16:52.within the party. The vast majority of members, the vast, vast majority,

:16:53. > :16:56.want us to unite and campaign and hold the government to account, and

:16:57. > :17:00.that is what we will do. These by-elections were difficult ones. We

:17:01. > :17:05.knew that. We have lost Copeland. We will learn lessons from that. But we

:17:06. > :17:09.have won in Stoke and we have defeated I think something which was

:17:10. > :17:13.really dangerous politics in this country. We have turned back the

:17:14. > :17:19.politics of dishonesty and division and, as I say, the people of Stoke,

:17:20. > :17:24.by supporting Labour, have done us all a service in this. John

:17:25. > :17:25.McDonnell, thank you for your time this morning.

:17:26. > :17:33.You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:17:34. > :17:36.To storm to the Doris continues this morning.

:17:37. > :17:45.Flights grounded, trains disrupted. Let's find out the forecast in a

:17:46. > :17:50.couple of minutes but first let's talk to our correspondent outside

:17:51. > :17:54.Euston station. It was a dramatic day yesterday with many trains

:17:55. > :17:59.cancelled and delayed. What is it like there today? We are told that

:18:00. > :18:06.things will get back to normal today. Late yesterday morning the

:18:07. > :18:09.station effectively ground to a halt because there were no services

:18:10. > :18:15.operating. People were told not to trouble. Things started to return at

:18:16. > :18:19.about five in the afternoon that you will understand there is a backlog

:18:20. > :18:22.of travellers and, in fact, the station remained open through the

:18:23. > :18:27.night to cater for stranded passengers. People who could not

:18:28. > :18:30.travel yesterday, are allowed to use their tickets this morning and

:18:31. > :18:36.tomorrow morning. Other problems on the roads which I will come to an

:18:37. > :18:40.and it, with the wind there was a fatality, a woman in her 20s, a

:18:41. > :18:45.29-year-old woman died in Wolverhampton city centre after

:18:46. > :18:48.masonry fell on her. A number of other people were injured including

:18:49. > :18:52.a 13-year-old schoolgirl when a ceiling fell on her at a sports

:18:53. > :18:58.hall. On the road is a driver instructor in Spalding had a lucky

:18:59. > :19:02.escape when a tree fell in front of him. Problems at the airport is and

:19:03. > :19:05.power was out to thousands of homes in Northern Ireland in East Anglia.

:19:06. > :19:09.Most of those have now been restored. Thank you very much. An

:19:10. > :19:15.important part of all of this is what is happening with the weather

:19:16. > :19:20.today. Let's find out. Good morning. We heard there about the wind gust

:19:21. > :19:25.of 94 MPh yesterday. If you wonder about some of the wind speaking EU

:19:26. > :19:30.here are a selection of the thunderstorm. As fast as these winds

:19:31. > :19:35.were blowing, storm Doris was moving quickly across the UK. It is now

:19:36. > :19:38.actually long gone. This is where Doris is at the moment, taking no

:19:39. > :19:43.stormy conditions through Germany and Poland and we have a look reach

:19:44. > :19:48.of high pressure built across the UK. It is far calmer this morning.

:19:49. > :19:52.And relaxed. It is also cold out there this morning. A touch of frost

:19:53. > :19:57.across parts the northern half of UK. Watch out through few patches of

:19:58. > :19:59.ice on untreated services. Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern

:20:00. > :20:03.England this morning. A bitter sunshine to come for many of us as

:20:04. > :20:08.we go through this morning. Here is a picture from nine a.m.. A fair

:20:09. > :20:12.amount of cloud around and had to light rain in a couple of spots. Not

:20:13. > :20:16.amounting to very much. Early showers across the eastern parts of

:20:17. > :20:21.England. Pulling away into the North Sea so it is becoming dry and sunny.

:20:22. > :20:24.We have one or two showers scattered about parts of north-west England

:20:25. > :20:28.and Wales and the Midlands. These will fade away and become very few

:20:29. > :20:32.and far between during the day. It is the wind arrows as we go round

:20:33. > :20:36.the UK. A colder direction but the numbers at lower and it is far

:20:37. > :20:40.calmer this morning. A lot of dry weather was sunny stuff to come

:20:41. > :20:43.today. Just an isolated shower. You will notice the Northern Ireland you

:20:44. > :20:47.have rain coming back in this afternoon. They will push into

:20:48. > :20:50.western Scotland by the end of the afternoon. A freshening wind again

:20:51. > :20:56.although nothing on the scale of storm Doris. Temperatures down

:20:57. > :21:00.compared with yesterday. Most of us will not get that high. We would

:21:01. > :21:04.take wet weather across the northern half of the UK tonight. Ren preceded

:21:05. > :21:07.by snow and the Scottish hills but turning back to rain. When

:21:08. > :21:10.strengthening across the UK the gales into the north-west Scotland

:21:11. > :21:14.and those to temperatures are higher tonight compared with last night

:21:15. > :21:17.where we're switching the wind around with a cold north-westerly to

:21:18. > :21:21.a milder south-westerly. That mild weather will stay with us into the

:21:22. > :21:27.weekend. It will be a blustery weekend to come and there will be

:21:28. > :21:30.some outbreaks of rain around at times. The picture for Saturday,

:21:31. > :21:34.taking rain south eastwards across the UK. Not much down the eastern

:21:35. > :21:39.side. Heavy births in the hills of western Scotland and Cumbria. --

:21:40. > :21:47.heavy gusts in the hills. Iraqi government forces have

:21:48. > :21:50.begun their attack on the western Yesterday they managed to recapture

:21:51. > :21:54.Mosul airport as part of the government's offensive

:21:55. > :21:56.to drive so-called Islamic State Our correspondent Quentin

:21:57. > :21:59.Somerville is the only foreign journalist

:22:00. > :22:01.with the Iraqi troops. He captured the intense

:22:02. > :22:37.fighting as it took place, Mosul airport may be in ruins but

:22:38. > :22:42.more importantly it is back in government hands. The Iraqi flag is

:22:43. > :22:47.flying here again. A landmark moment. The Iraqi forces now have

:22:48. > :22:51.the Islamic State group on the run. Right now here in Iraq we are

:22:52. > :22:53.witnessing the final days of the caliphate.

:22:54. > :22:56.Joining us now in the studio is Dr Afshin Shahi, Senior Lecturer

:22:57. > :22:58.in International Relations Middle East Politics

:22:59. > :23:11.Looking at that piece there are, there are clearly dramatic scenes.

:23:12. > :23:15.What are your thoughts on these developments? The operation

:23:16. > :23:23.deliberate Mosul started last October. It took them two about

:23:24. > :23:30.January two only liberate the eastern side. But when you think

:23:31. > :23:33.about it, over the last 2.5 years, ISIS has dedicated most of its

:23:34. > :23:39.defence preparation to the western side. So if, basically liberating

:23:40. > :23:42.the eastern side proved to be that difficult, the western side is

:23:43. > :23:46.probably going to be even more complex and probably will take some

:23:47. > :23:52.very long time. Quentin tweeted last night as he was covering the ongoing

:23:53. > :23:58.situation that the next step was going to be the hardest. Why some

:23:59. > :24:02.scale of difference. What is the significance of Mosul to ISIS? It is

:24:03. > :24:12.the largest urban centre controlled at the moment. Over the last 15

:24:13. > :24:16.months they have lost 60% of the territory that they controlled in

:24:17. > :24:20.2014 in Iraq. And a lot of their territory in Syria. They have lost a

:24:21. > :24:26.lot of important urban centres in the country and Mosul is the last

:24:27. > :24:31.one. As we speak, most 700,000 people are living there. It has a

:24:32. > :24:35.lot of strategic and symbolic significance for the organisation.

:24:36. > :24:39.If they lose it, it will be a game changer. That does not mean they

:24:40. > :24:43.will be irrelevant. Even if they lose territory the conditions, the

:24:44. > :24:47.factors that are part of the cause of the structure that made the

:24:48. > :24:52.emergence of possible four years ago are still in place. Even if they

:24:53. > :24:55.lose territory, unfortunately they are still going to cause a major

:24:56. > :24:58.threat to the security of the country and nation as a whole.

:24:59. > :25:02.Looking at the military hardware they are, how about the civilian

:25:03. > :25:07.population that is still within the areas held by Islamic State? As I

:25:08. > :25:13.mentioned, we do not know how many people are living there but assuming

:25:14. > :25:19.that up to seven thousand people are living in the city. As ISIS has

:25:20. > :25:23.proved over the last two or three years they are absolutely capable of

:25:24. > :25:26.using a kind of human shelter. This is the main complexity because the

:25:27. > :25:32.majority of people are still living in the western side. The western

:25:33. > :25:37.side is very difficult to operate in and over the last two years they

:25:38. > :25:41.have dedicated most of the defence preparation to this specific part of

:25:42. > :25:45.the city. Obviously the implications for the civilian life is going to be

:25:46. > :25:50.very profound and problematic. What does this mean for the strength of

:25:51. > :25:54.ISIS at the moment? ISIS, if you are talking about their financial

:25:55. > :26:02.position, they are under a great deal of pressure. In their peak, in

:26:03. > :26:08.about 2014, they are having an annual income of $1.9 million a

:26:09. > :26:11.year. -- $1.9 billion a year. That has dropped to about 800 million.

:26:12. > :26:17.Financially they are not as strong as what they used to be in 2014.

:26:18. > :26:20.Nonetheless they are still the richest terrorist organisation in

:26:21. > :26:23.the world. You have to remember that some of the atrocities that they

:26:24. > :26:27.conducted in your blood the attack in Paris, they did not require that

:26:28. > :26:31.much money. It did not cost them much. So the very fact that they are

:26:32. > :26:34.financially under pressure in the fact that they are losing territory

:26:35. > :26:38.is not going to make them irrelevant. I think as they lose

:26:39. > :26:44.more and more territory they may resort to more problematic tactics

:26:45. > :26:49.and methods that are paid has been using. Potentially they can

:26:50. > :26:54.constitute a greater security threat not only to the Middle East but to

:26:55. > :26:58.Europe as well. Thank you very much for your time this morning. Time now

:26:59. > :30:18.to find out what is Now, though, it's back

:30:19. > :30:21.to Steph and Charlie. Hello, this is Breakfast

:30:22. > :30:28.with Charlie Stayt and Steph The Conservatives have won

:30:29. > :30:36.the Cumbrian seat of Copeland which had been in Labour's hands

:30:37. > :30:40.for more than 80 years. In the night's other result,

:30:41. > :30:42.Labour held on to Stoke Central, with UKIP leader Paul Nuttall

:30:43. > :30:50.finishing in second place. And in the last few minutes we spoke

:30:51. > :30:54.with the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell about the by-elections.

:30:55. > :31:00.These by-elections were difficult ones, we knew that. We lost Copeland

:31:01. > :31:05.and we will learn lessons from that. But we won in Stoke and we have

:31:06. > :31:10.defeated I think something which was really dangerous for politics in

:31:11. > :31:15.this country. We have turned back the politics of dishonesty and

:31:16. > :31:16.division. And, as I say, the people Stoke, by supporting Labour, have

:31:17. > :31:18.done us all a service in that. Our political correspondent

:31:19. > :31:30.Alex Forsyth joins us Morning to you. You may have heard

:31:31. > :31:34.John McDonnell speaking about UKIP, and that is the story from Stoke,

:31:35. > :31:41.isn't it, Labour holding onto the seat and where it leaves UKIP.

:31:42. > :31:45.Undoubtedly, that is the story, there will be Labour relief from

:31:46. > :31:50.John McDonald, that they saw off the challenge from UKIP, but it has

:31:51. > :31:53.raised questions for UKIP now, and that is because after the EU

:31:54. > :31:58.Referendum and the victory for UKIP and what it stood for, there were

:31:59. > :32:02.questions about where the party goes from there. UKIP said it wanted to

:32:03. > :32:06.eat into the Labour vote in the Midlands and in the north of England

:32:07. > :32:12.as well. This was a big test for UKIP. Here in Stoke, 70% of people

:32:13. > :32:17.backed Brexit, this is exactly the seat UKIP wanted to target. They

:32:18. > :32:21.even put their leader, Paul Nuttall, up to stand, so the fact they didn't

:32:22. > :32:25.win will pose questions for what the party represents and where it will

:32:26. > :32:30.go from here. And the story in Copeland is Conservatives have an

:32:31. > :32:37.empty, effectively, for the first time in that area in living memory,

:32:38. > :32:44.what does that say about where Labour is and about the Conservative

:32:45. > :32:49.Party? Well, the significance of the result shouldn't be underestimated,

:32:50. > :32:53.because it is incredibly rare for a governing party, the Conservatives

:32:54. > :32:57.in this case, to take a seat from the opposition, Labour in this case,

:32:58. > :33:01.especially when it has been such a strong Labour seat for such a long

:33:02. > :33:07.time. Labour said there were local issues in play, in that Copeland

:33:08. > :33:12.by-election, but undoubtedly it will leave questions for Jeremy Corbyn

:33:13. > :33:17.and his party, and fuel critics who say he is not the man for the

:33:18. > :33:21.moment. Thank you. Let's have a look at some of the other stories this

:33:22. > :33:26.morning. The Royal Bank of Scotland reported a loss of ?7 billion, that

:33:27. > :33:28.is its ninth consecutive year in the red.

:33:29. > :33:31.The figure represents a hefty increase on the ?2 billion pound

:33:32. > :33:35.loss the bank reported last year and is one of the group's biggest

:33:36. > :33:36.since its Government bailout in 2008.

:33:37. > :33:39.Malaysian police say they have found the highly toxic nerve agent,

:33:40. > :33:42.VX, on the face of Kim Jong-nam, the murdered half brother

:33:43. > :33:46.VX is the most toxic of the chemical warfare agents,

:33:47. > :33:49.and just a drop on the skin can kill in minutes.

:33:50. > :33:52.CCTV footage shows two women briefly holding something over

:33:53. > :33:54.Kim Jong-nam's face while he was preparing to board

:33:55. > :34:05.a flight at Kuala Lumpur airport last week.

:34:06. > :34:13.Traces of this VX nerve agent on those swabs, that is a very, very

:34:14. > :34:17.serious thing to have found out, because VX is considered the most

:34:18. > :34:22.toxic nerve agent ever invented, it was actually invented in Britain in

:34:23. > :34:26.the 1950s, large quantities produced in America and the Soviet Union in

:34:27. > :34:30.the Cold War, but it has subsequently been banned under UN

:34:31. > :34:34.chemical convention, and so the fact that it has been used here in this

:34:35. > :34:37.killing makes this just a whole new level on this killing.

:34:38. > :34:40.Donald Trump says he wants to expand America's nuclear arsenal.

:34:41. > :34:43.In his first comments on the issue since taking office,

:34:44. > :34:46.Mr Trump said it would be "wonderful" if no nation had nuclear

:34:47. > :34:52.arms, but otherwise the US must be "top of the pack."

:34:53. > :34:55.The government is announcing plans for more universities to offer

:34:56. > :34:57.degree courses which last for just two years.

:34:58. > :35:00.In return, universities will be able to increase annual tuition fees

:35:01. > :35:02.to more than ?13,000, although the overall cost

:35:03. > :35:05.of a degree will still be capped at ?27,000.

:35:06. > :35:08.The clear-up continues this morning after Storm Doris battered much

:35:09. > :35:16.of the UK leaving one woman dead after being hit by flying debris.

:35:17. > :35:19.Winds of up to 94mph caused power cuts and travel chaos as flights

:35:20. > :35:21.were grounded and train services disrupted.

:35:22. > :35:25.Drivers are being warned to be wary of ice on the roads in Scotland,

:35:26. > :35:34.Northern Ireland, and north-west England.

:35:35. > :35:42.Those are the main stories this morning. And are you ready with

:35:43. > :35:47.bumblebee football? Thank you to the Breakfast audience, we have some

:35:48. > :35:49.excellent suggestions. It turns out that the bees knees were better than

:35:50. > :35:52.we thought. It's been discovered bumblebees can

:35:53. > :35:55.teach each other how to score goals with a tiny ball, displaying

:35:56. > :35:58.a learning ability never before They surprised scientists by working

:35:59. > :36:05.out how to obtain a food reward In the experiment, the bees

:36:06. > :36:11.were placed on a platform and had to roll a yellow ball to a specific

:36:12. > :36:14.location in order to obtain Those that observed the success

:36:15. > :36:18.of other bees were better at learning the task

:36:19. > :36:32.than those that didn't. That would make for some legwork. It

:36:33. > :36:40.reminds me of golf or curling, a hole on the putting green. The

:36:41. > :36:52.bumblebee 11. The manager has to be Max Busby, Hive Allen and Gordon

:36:53. > :37:00.McQueen Bee. Not bad. Let's talk about Claudio Ranieri. For the

:37:01. > :37:03.people who follow football, a lovely thing that happened, the players

:37:04. > :37:08.delivering for the manager, wonderful moment, and now he is

:37:09. > :37:12.gone. The way to explain it, it is like a fairytale with a dream

:37:13. > :37:16.marriage, the fairy princess and the Prince of meat and go to the top and

:37:17. > :37:20.have a wonderful honeymoon, they defy the odds, they defeat the

:37:21. > :37:24.Dragons, if you want to continue the metaphor, and then when it gets to

:37:25. > :37:29.the nitty-gritty, when things go wrong, it all falls apart, and there

:37:30. > :37:33.is no happy ever after in this fairy tale. It is so mean. Well, it is

:37:34. > :37:38.mean, and the board would say that you have to look at the facts, the

:37:39. > :37:40.club form has been the worst of any 92 football clubs.

:37:41. > :37:43.It's such a contrast to the euphoria of nine months ago,

:37:44. > :37:46.but however harsh it may seem, the Leicester owners felt they had

:37:47. > :37:49.to act now, with relegation for the champions a real danger.

:37:50. > :37:52.Claudio Ranieri has cut an increasingly isolated figure,

:37:53. > :37:56.and has not been able to lift his players to stop the slide.

:37:57. > :37:59.It's not just the fact that the club are one place and one point

:38:00. > :38:02.above the relegation zone, but they haven't won away

:38:03. > :38:04.in the league all season, and haven't even scored

:38:05. > :38:09.It's the worst form of any of the 92 Football League clubs.

:38:10. > :38:11.The Leicester board have released a statement explaining

:38:12. > :38:16."Domestic results in the current campaign have placed

:38:17. > :38:20.the Club's Premier League status under threat,

:38:21. > :38:22.and the Board reluctantly feels that a change of leadership,

:38:23. > :38:25.while admittedly painful, is necessary in the Club's greatest

:38:26. > :38:45.Joining us now from Leicester City's stadium is BBC Football commentator

:38:46. > :38:56.So, well, the rest of the football world may be full of shock, may be

:38:57. > :38:59.fuelled by sentiment, but what do the diehard fans think, is it a

:39:00. > :39:10.surprise for them, given the woeful form? I hosted a radio show last

:39:11. > :39:14.night from 8:30pm until 10pm and we were struggling for people to come

:39:15. > :39:19.and confirm they thought it was a good idea. This time yesterday I was

:39:20. > :39:23.in Seville with hundreds, thousands of fans, talking about the Jamie

:39:24. > :39:28.Vardy goal being a lifeline here in the King Power Stadium in March,

:39:29. > :39:31.that they could overturn the deficit and the Italian could see them into

:39:32. > :39:36.the quarter-finals of the Champions League. I looked into Claudio

:39:37. > :39:41.Ranieri's eyes after the game, he had no idea, he thought it was a

:39:42. > :39:45.good result. Clearly he has fallen on his sword. People on air were

:39:46. > :39:53.gutted, very emotional people. He gave this club the best years in

:39:54. > :39:57.133. So, you were in Spain, and the board was also, and you saw no

:39:58. > :40:01.evidence of this supposedly down in the bond between the players and

:40:02. > :40:06.Claudio Ranieri. It has to be to blame. Whoever comes in can only

:40:07. > :40:09.work with the same players? Absolutely right, there is no

:40:10. > :40:14.transfer window until the summer, you would expect Craig Shakespeare

:40:15. > :40:20.to take over on Monday, what an enormous game. The manager is going

:40:21. > :40:25.to walk in and take charge of a Champions League last 16 second leg,

:40:26. > :40:30.which in itself defies belief and a 1-0 win and they are through, the

:40:31. > :40:33.away goal will count and they are through to the quarter-final. The

:40:34. > :40:37.relationship with the players has been spoken about. They looked like

:40:38. > :40:42.they were together in Sir Bill earlier on Wednesday night but I am

:40:43. > :40:48.led to believe his fate was probably sealed before the game after the

:40:49. > :40:54.Millwall defeat. He was given the bad news after landing from the trip

:40:55. > :40:57.yesterday afternoon, and he will be packing his bags, saying his

:40:58. > :41:05.goodbyes, and the King is dead, long live the king. Yes, indeed. Do you

:41:06. > :41:10.think the timing, it was improved in Spain, we saw the spirit, Jamie

:41:11. > :41:15.Vardy scored, would it suggest the board have a plan up their sleeve

:41:16. > :41:22.and a certain Roberto Mancini? Roberto Mancini was a legend here, I

:41:23. > :41:26.say legend, he was on loan for a short period. 100 yards behind, I

:41:27. > :41:32.watched him as a young boy play online for Leicester City, the crowd

:41:33. > :41:35.loved him. Would he come to a relegation threat and Leicester City

:41:36. > :41:41.in the Premier League? I don't know. I follow this club for nine years,

:41:42. > :41:46.their been times when they have been burnt getting rid of managers

:41:47. > :41:51.without a replacement, thinking of venue and Ericsson, Nigel Pearson,

:41:52. > :41:59.it took them a while to appoint Claudio Ranieri. To sack him after a

:42:00. > :42:04.good defeat in Sevilla smacks of the possibility of a replacement lined

:42:05. > :42:09.up. Maybe not having been spoken to, but there might be at a replacement

:42:10. > :42:12.relatively soon. Thank you very much indeed, fascinating to hear about

:42:13. > :42:18.that last night, it seems a lot of emotion was poured out because it is

:42:19. > :42:26.such a bizarre state of affairs. And even as he was celebrating. Remember

:42:27. > :42:30.how loyal he was when he stopped, he was offered the Italian national,

:42:31. > :42:32.his country's job, but he stayed at Leicester. Plenty of other sport

:42:33. > :42:33.news as well. It was a dismal night for Tottenham

:42:34. > :42:37.- out of the Europa League after they could only draw 2-2

:42:38. > :42:40.against Gent of Belgium at Wembley, Dismal especially for two

:42:41. > :42:43.of their England stars - His own goal making

:42:44. > :42:52.it 1-1 on the night. Then another of Spurs'

:42:53. > :42:55.England players, Dele Alli, was sent-off for this

:42:56. > :42:56.horrendous tackle. Tottenham out, leaving just

:42:57. > :42:59.Manchester United as the sole England captain Wayne Rooney says

:43:00. > :43:03.he is staying at Manchester United after being linked

:43:04. > :43:05.with a move to China. The 31-year-old striker said

:43:06. > :43:08.in a statement: "It's an exciting time at the club and I want

:43:09. > :43:12.to remain a part of it." Rooney's agent had travelled

:43:13. > :43:15.to China to see if he could negotiate a deal, which could still

:43:16. > :43:20.happen in the summer. Coach Vern Cotter has made five

:43:21. > :43:23.changes to Scotland's side that will face Wales in the Six Nations

:43:24. > :43:25.at Murrayfield tomorrow. Flanker Jon Barclay plays his rugby

:43:26. > :43:28.in Wales with the Scarlets, and will captain the team

:43:29. > :43:32.in the absence of the injured Greig Ali Price will take over

:43:33. > :43:40.from Laidlaw at scrum half. Fly half Johnny Sexton returns

:43:41. > :43:43.to the Ireland side for tomorrow's Sexton missed Ireland's first two

:43:44. > :43:47.games with a calf injury, but is back with Paddy Jackson

:43:48. > :43:54.dropping to the bench. I love the feeling when you get

:43:55. > :43:57.the keys to your new car, and that was the feeling

:43:58. > :44:00.for Lewis Hamilton yesterday. World champion constructors Mercedes

:44:01. > :44:02.have unveiled their new car It will be going a lot faster

:44:03. > :44:07.than this when the season starts But for now Lewis Hamilton,

:44:08. > :44:11.who was joined by new team-mate Valtteri Bottas, took the car

:44:12. > :44:14.for a few laps around Hamilton said the car

:44:15. > :44:29.felt incredible. So, more reaction from a former

:44:30. > :44:34.Leicester player at 8:30am and from the tweets, it is what Ian has said,

:44:35. > :44:39.two thirds has said it is a mistake, and Gary Lineker says it is

:44:40. > :44:46.inexplicable. And you have a sense of the passion locally, it will be

:44:47. > :44:57.fascinating to see what is happening next. Thank you. It is just coming

:44:58. > :45:00.up to 7:45am. It is fair to say it was a bit of a crazy day yesterday.

:45:01. > :45:11.The calm after the storm with the sum up in Devon. A horrible day

:45:12. > :45:17.yesterday that such a contrast this morning. Calder, mind you, but it is

:45:18. > :45:22.much calmer. Doris is long gone. The area of low pressure losing the make

:45:23. > :45:26.moving so quickly it has moved into pollen and towards Russia where as

:45:27. > :45:30.we are in between weather systems, a little bridge of high pressure.

:45:31. > :45:33.Although there is some disruption continuing today there are many

:45:34. > :45:38.things to clear up, the weather today is not making any of that any

:45:39. > :45:41.worse. I must say, watch out for ice patches this morning. Scotland,

:45:42. > :45:46.Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland. Indications of how

:45:47. > :45:50.temperatures have dropped after storm Doris but there is plenty of

:45:51. > :45:55.dry and, for many of us, sunny weather to come to day. This view

:45:56. > :46:00.are nine o'clock this morning. No frost, widespread into Scotland.

:46:01. > :46:03.Areas of cloud producing patchy rain and snow. Early showers are pulled

:46:04. > :46:07.away from most of northern England at this stage. The couple were

:46:08. > :46:11.scattered about throughout Wales and Internet England. Hit and miss and

:46:12. > :46:15.if you are keeping an eye on the wind arrows here, far lighter winds

:46:16. > :46:19.compared to yesterday. For many of us, sunshine. Although there is a

:46:20. > :46:23.chance to catch an odd shower here and there look at the picture. At

:46:24. > :46:26.midday, mostly dry with sunny spells. We will see another wet

:46:27. > :46:29.weather system bringing rain into Northern Ireland this afternoon.

:46:30. > :46:33.Double reached a western Scotland by the end of the day. A freshening

:46:34. > :46:38.wind with that. Nothing on the scale of storm Doris. A call today for

:46:39. > :46:41.many of us. The temperatures drop back to single figures. We will take

:46:42. > :46:45.rain away from Northern Ireland and pushed across Scotland this evening.

:46:46. > :46:49.Some hill snow for a time becoming rain. Outbreaks of rain in Wales and

:46:50. > :46:54.the Midlands. Not much at all into the south of England. All areas

:46:55. > :46:56.overnight the wind is picking up, gales developing again in north-west

:46:57. > :47:01.Scotland. Overnight the temperatures will not be as low as they were last

:47:02. > :47:04.night. Taking a look at the where the menu for the weekend. Mild

:47:05. > :47:08.compared with two today. Windy, not on the scale of storm Doris. There

:47:09. > :47:12.will be wet weather around at times. Here Saturday. Outbreaks of rain

:47:13. > :47:16.spinning south eastwards. Not a lot down the eastern side of the UK,

:47:17. > :47:19.heavy and the winds of western Scotland. Brightening into Scotland

:47:20. > :47:24.and Northern Ireland. The leader in the day. Double-figure temperatures,

:47:25. > :47:28.four to the weekend on Sunday brings another weather system south

:47:29. > :47:30.eastwards, not much at all in the south-east England until much a

:47:31. > :47:35.later in the day. Unsettled this weekend but storm Doris is not on

:47:36. > :47:40.that scale. That is how it looks. Thank very much and we will see you

:47:41. > :47:44.later. Let's return to our lead story now. The Conservative victory

:47:45. > :47:49.in the Copland by-election has been hailed as historic. We speak now to

:47:50. > :47:53.Sir Patrick McLaughlan. Good morning. How important is this to

:47:54. > :48:00.the Conservative Party? It looks calm there but I imagine it has been

:48:01. > :48:06.a night of celebration? It is a very important game. By-elections come

:48:07. > :48:10.and go but this is truly historic. To have won a by-election of the

:48:11. > :48:14.major opposition party two years into government is really

:48:15. > :48:17.unprecedented. I would like to congratulate Trudie Harrison on the

:48:18. > :48:21.fantastic campaign she waged. The campaign she fought is also an

:48:22. > :48:25.endorsement on the work that the Prime Minister is doing. Do you

:48:26. > :48:28.think, however, that this is not about how well the Conservatives are

:48:29. > :48:35.doing but more about how badly everyone else is doing? Well, no. If

:48:36. > :48:39.we had not have won the seat it would not be the question you would

:48:40. > :48:42.be putting to me. The truth is that this is about the campaign that we

:48:43. > :48:47.fought. We fought at positive campaign and in Trudie Harrison we

:48:48. > :48:51.got an exceptional candidate whom fought the campaign from local

:48:52. > :48:56.issues and also on the wider National front as well. Yes, there

:48:57. > :49:00.were problems as far as the Labour campaign were concerned. But I would

:49:01. > :49:04.like to come this morning, and congratulate Trudie on her

:49:05. > :49:08.remarkable victory and also acknowledge the work that has been

:49:09. > :49:13.done by the Prime Minister in ensuring that this was a victory

:49:14. > :49:16.which was possible. Looking at what Trudie Harrison said in her

:49:17. > :49:20.campaign, she made a commitment during the campaign to keep the

:49:21. > :49:23.maternity services in west Cumbria open, this was not something that

:49:24. > :49:27.the Prime Minister, Theresa May, could commit to where she came to

:49:28. > :49:30.the area. What would you say to the people of Copland had now about

:49:31. > :49:36.these services? Will Trudie Harrison be able to keep her word? Trudie

:49:37. > :49:40.made a very clear promise that she was going to make the case and fight

:49:41. > :49:45.the campaign for the retention of the services in the hospital. There

:49:46. > :49:49.is a consultation that has closed. We have yet to see the results

:49:50. > :49:54.about. The issue that is being looked at is how do you service the

:49:55. > :49:57.hospital in the best possible way? That is obviously a very important

:49:58. > :50:01.local issue which Trudie will be campaigning hard on. We spoke to the

:50:02. > :50:06.Shadow Chancellor earlier in the programme. He accused yourselves of

:50:07. > :50:12.misinformation and disinformation during the campaign. What do you say

:50:13. > :50:15.to that? I would say that I was rubbish. If that is the best excuse

:50:16. > :50:19.he can come up with then my estimation of him is going down by

:50:20. > :50:24.the second. The truth of the matter is that if I looked at some of the

:50:25. > :50:27.literature in the light of the make that the Labour Party were putting

:50:28. > :50:31.out this campaign, it was outrageous. The governing party to

:50:32. > :50:37.take a seat off the main opposition party in nine years into Parliament

:50:38. > :50:42.is just unbelievable. And if he and this party cannot actually hold

:50:43. > :50:45.seats like this now then they are going to be in serious trouble over

:50:46. > :50:49.the coming years. I would like to focus on a very positive campaign

:50:50. > :50:56.which was fought by the Conservative candidate. A campaign which was not

:50:57. > :50:59.so positive, however, was the by-election in Stoke-on-Trent where

:51:00. > :51:02.the Conservatives came third. Is it fair to say that there are still

:51:03. > :51:08.many people it can not connect with the Conservative Party? Well, there

:51:09. > :51:13.are two very different constituencies. In Stoke there was a

:51:14. > :51:17.lower turnout. In Copland we had a high turnout for by-elections, a 51%

:51:18. > :51:24.turnout which is a higher turnout than we had in recent by-election.

:51:25. > :51:27.In Stoke was far lower. We increased our share of the vote in

:51:28. > :51:35.Stoke-on-Trent. We have a very good candidate they are. The issues were

:51:36. > :51:39.different. It came third but, you know, it he was 100 votes behind

:51:40. > :51:49.Ukip. The Labour Party, overall... Sorry? Sorry, I interrupted you.

:51:50. > :51:53.Please finish a sentence. Sorry, I was saying that the share of the

:51:54. > :52:00.vote for the Labour Party went down. If you are trying to say somehow

:52:01. > :52:03.that it was a bad result for us in Stoke, no, we improved our share of

:52:04. > :52:07.the vote. I congratulate our candidate on what he did in that

:52:08. > :52:15.campaign. Thank you very much for your time. You got there in the end.

:52:16. > :52:19.We have figures from the RBS and the reason Tom shone, that we care about

:52:20. > :52:27.these figures is that we still own three quarters of it?

:52:28. > :52:30.The bank that us taxpayers own almost three quarters

:52:31. > :52:32.of has just reported its full year financial results.

:52:33. > :52:39.because of litigation costs in America, the failure to spin

:52:40. > :52:41.off its business in England and Wales.

:52:42. > :52:44.It is the ninth year in a row it's made a lost.

:52:45. > :52:47.And it's announced ? 2 billion of cost cutting over

:52:48. > :52:59.Frances Coppola is an independent banking analyst and she's

:53:00. > :53:11.Good morning. I don't know where to start. Let's begin with a ?7 billion

:53:12. > :53:15.loss. We were expecting that? Yes. I think it had been widely singled in

:53:16. > :53:19.advance that there would be a loss and we were at expecting that.

:53:20. > :53:26.Possibly a little bit more than we thought but it is in the ballpark.

:53:27. > :53:30.Why does it matter? We talk about companies making profit and losses

:53:31. > :53:33.or the time but as the Royal Bank of Scotland particularly important to

:53:34. > :53:38.us? It is important for us because we own most of it. When there is a

:53:39. > :53:42.loss like this it means that our lives as our ownership of it, how

:53:43. > :53:47.equity is reduced because, you know, when companies make losses it is the

:53:48. > :53:53.shareholders of those companies that takes a hit. As the Royal Bank of

:53:54. > :53:57.Scotland, that is us, mostly. And when you look at cost-cutting as

:53:58. > :54:00.well for workers at the Royal Bank of Scotland... They said ?2 billion.

:54:01. > :54:04.We hear from the bank this morning, they use the terms back-office and

:54:05. > :54:08.middle office of the bank. Where it cuts going to be, do you think? Back

:54:09. > :54:14.office and middle office basically means what we might call the

:54:15. > :54:18.plumbing, the bits that go on behind the scenes in banks that makes the

:54:19. > :54:26.system work. The people who we do not see in the branches but who work

:54:27. > :54:30.in call centres and in processing centres who basically keep the whole

:54:31. > :54:35.system running. That is where the cuts will fall. It may be that they

:54:36. > :54:43.will be expected to work harder and also that there will be some

:54:44. > :54:46.streamlining of efficiencies in the actual processes themselves both in

:54:47. > :54:50.the way people work and in the IT systems. When I spoke to the

:54:51. > :54:54.Bangalore earlier they were at pains to stress that these were legacy

:54:55. > :54:57.issues from the financial crisis. Underneath it all, there is a bank

:54:58. > :55:04.that is doing well. How does that argument a hold-up? You can see we

:55:05. > :55:09.are doing getting thin but looking at the figures I would have to agree

:55:10. > :55:12.with them. Underneath it, there is a solid performance being turned in,

:55:13. > :55:16.particularly in the retail bank which is really good news for

:55:17. > :55:24.everybody and, particularly also in what is left of RBS's investment

:55:25. > :55:30.bank. The profits have gone up by 16%. Thank you very much for your

:55:31. > :55:35.time, Francis. Percy Marks there over some people's jobs there in

:55:36. > :55:37.those ?2 billion worth of cuts, never mind the losses that it has

:55:38. > :55:39.already announced this morning. Time Hello, this is Breakfast with

:55:40. > :55:39.Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern. An historic by-election win

:55:40. > :55:39.for the Conservatives as they gain Harrison, Trudy Lynn, the

:55:40. > :55:39.Conservative Party candidate, 30700 and 48.

:55:40. > :55:39.In the first by-election gain by a governing party

:55:40. > :55:39.for more than 30 years - Trudy Harrison takes

:55:40. > :55:39.the Cumbrian constituency with a majority of more than 2,000.

:55:40. > :55:39.In Stoke - Labour keep their seat - Ukip leader

:55:40. > :55:39.We're live in both constituencies this morning and we have the latest

:55:40. > :55:39.Good morning, it's Friday 24th February.

:55:40. > :55:39.Also this morning, a big loss for Royal Bank of Scotland.

:55:40. > :55:39.?7 billion in lost last year. The ninth year in a row without a

:55:40. > :55:39.profit. I will have more on those figures in a couple of minutes.

:55:40. > :55:39.In sport there is no happy ever after in the fairy tale of Claudio

:55:40. > :55:39.Ranieri. It is the calm after the Storm Doris. We will see some sunny

:55:40. > :55:39.weather later. I have the Friday forecast and the whole weekend of

:55:40. > :55:39.whether coming up. "A truly historic victory" -

:55:40. > :55:39.the words of new Conservative MP Trudy Harrison after taking

:55:40. > :55:39.the Labour seat of Copeland in last night's by-election,

:55:40. > :55:39.the first gain by a governing In the night's other result Labour

:55:40. > :55:39.did hold on to Stoke Central, with Ukip leader Paul Nuttall

:55:40. > :55:39.finishing in second place. This report from our political

:55:40. > :55:39.correspondent Tom Bateman Harrison, Trudy Lynne,

:55:40. > :55:39.the Conservative Party candidate, Voters here had chosen a Labour MP

:55:40. > :55:39.for the last 80 years. But all that changed in a dramatic

:55:40. > :55:39.night as the Conservatives took What has happened here tonight

:55:40. > :55:39.is a truly historic event. You'd have to go back more

:55:40. > :55:39.than a century to find an example of a governing party taking a seat

:55:40. > :55:39.from the opposition party Labour had said the vote

:55:40. > :55:39.was on a knife edge. In the aftermath of defeat,

:55:40. > :55:39.their departing candidate chose not The first time a Conservative has

:55:40. > :55:39.represented the area But serious questions for Labour

:55:40. > :55:39.under Jeremy Corbyn. Theresa May made the rare move

:55:40. > :55:39.of visiting a by-election seat It was a hard-fought campaign over

:55:40. > :55:39.nuclear jobs and hospital services. The result leaves Labour

:55:40. > :55:39.assessing its electoral prospects. But there was better news

:55:40. > :55:39.for Labour in the by-election in Stoke-on-Trent, another

:55:40. > :55:39.traditional seat for the party. They held on with

:55:40. > :55:39.a reduced majority. This by-election was a test for UKIP

:55:40. > :55:39.in a working-class area that voted It just managed second place,

:55:40. > :55:39.but did increase its vote share. This seat was, what,

:55:40. > :55:39.number 72 on our hit list. So therefore, you know,

:55:40. > :55:39.we move on and our time will come. There will be jubilation

:55:40. > :55:39.for Theresa May Jeremy Corbyn promised

:55:40. > :55:39.he would reconnect with voters. He may have to try in spite

:55:40. > :55:39.of futher opposition We can now speak to our political

:55:40. > :55:39.correspondent Iain Watson, who is in Whitehaven

:55:40. > :55:39.for us this morning. It looks absolutely lovely there

:55:40. > :55:39.behind you. Tell me a little about those words, political history in

:55:40. > :55:39.the making. Always a little bit wary when people say that but in relation

:55:40. > :55:39.to Copeland, put it in perspective for us. OK, very happy to do so. It

:55:40. > :55:39.is lovely here. The calm after the storm. A tightly fought by-election

:55:40. > :55:39.campaign. This seat was formed in 1983. It has always been Labour but

:55:40. > :55:39.in Whitehaven it has been Labour since the 1930s. It is historic for

:55:40. > :55:39.that reason that Labour have lost a seat, but also historic that a

:55:40. > :55:39.governing party has gained a seat from the opposition. That has not

:55:40. > :55:39.happened since 1982. So historic for both those reasons. Labour so there

:55:40. > :55:39.are indeed reasons for the defeat. They say there is a campaign on the

:55:40. > :55:39.future of the nuclear industry which contain Sellafield. They also say in

:55:40. > :55:39.this particular seat, with the Labour majority would go down year

:55:40. > :55:39.after year. That is true but Jeremy Corbyn's opponents inside his own

:55:40. > :55:39.party say these are excuses and not reasons and his leadership came up

:55:40. > :55:39.on the doorstep here in Whitehaven and the surrounding areas and that

:55:40. > :55:39.to some extent this was a verdict on his leadership of the Labour Party.

:55:40. > :55:39.From Labour's point of view, what they will be delighted to see is the

:55:40. > :55:39.success in Stoke, holding not that seat and seeing off Ukip. There will

:55:40. > :55:39.be questions asked about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership but there will

:55:40. > :55:39.also be questions about Paul Nuttall's. I don't expect either man

:55:40. > :55:39.to throw in the towel but there will be questions from their parties.

:55:40. > :55:39.Thank you. Royal Bank of Scotland has reported

:55:40. > :55:39.an annual loss of ?7 billion, its ninth consecutive year

:55:40. > :55:39.in the red. We were sitting here last year

:55:40. > :55:39.talking about ?2 billion and that was a big figure, this year, 2016,

:55:40. > :55:39.?7 billion. A lot of that is because of one-off costs that the bank talks

:55:40. > :55:39.about but after nine years of losses that argument might start to wear

:55:40. > :55:39.thin. That is to do with litigation charges in the United States, part

:55:40. > :55:39.of the financial problems to deal with mortgage products it sold

:55:40. > :55:39.around the world. Here in the UK there is still the remnants of the

:55:40. > :55:39.PPI compensation it is paying out people. Businesses in England and

:55:40. > :55:39.Wales needed to spin that. All of these things amounting to big

:55:40. > :55:39.problems for the bank, even though they say things are ticking along

:55:40. > :55:39.OK. The reason why we care is because as taxpayers, we have a big

:55:40. > :55:39.stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland? Three quarters of it is owned by

:55:40. > :55:39.taxpayers and these losses will hit shareholders and we are one of the

:55:40. > :55:39.biggest shareholders. We need banks to do well to lend to businesses to

:55:40. > :55:39.be able to give us decent customer services and rates. Cost cutting

:55:40. > :55:39.comes in somewhere. We have been hearing about ?2 billion of cost

:55:40. > :55:39.cutting and that could well hit jobs across the business. Thank you.

:55:40. > :55:39.Leicester City has sacked manager Claudio Ranieri just nine months

:55:40. > :55:39.after he led the club's to its first Premier League title.

:55:40. > :55:39.The Foxes are only one place above the relegation zone

:55:40. > :55:39.He masterminded one of sport's greatest miracles,

:55:40. > :55:39.but less than a year after Claudio Ranieri's Leicester

:55:40. > :55:39.City became the most unlikely Premier League winners ever,

:55:40. > :55:39.the man who achieved the dream has been dismissed.

:55:40. > :55:39.Leicester City are the Premier League champions!

:55:40. > :55:39.Last season's celebrations have turned to fears of relegation.

:55:40. > :55:39.Having swept all before them, this season the euphoria has evaporated.

:55:40. > :55:39.The champions losing their last five league matches.

:55:40. > :55:39.And with Leicester languishing one point above the relegation zone

:55:40. > :55:39.In a statement, the club's chairman said...

:55:40. > :55:39.Managerial loyalties are notoriously short in supply

:55:40. > :55:39.in the Premier League but, given what Ranieri achieved,

:55:40. > :55:39.Former Leicester star Gary Lineker describing the dismissal as...

:55:40. > :55:39.Ranieri's last game in charge was this 2-1 defeat against Sevilla

:55:40. > :55:39.in the last 16 of the Champions League.

:55:40. > :55:39.The manager seemingly unaware of his fate when he spoke after the match.

:55:40. > :55:39.We know, we know they are better than us, very high quality

:55:40. > :55:39.team, highly experienced team, everything, OK.

:55:40. > :55:39.But we have a very big heart, and a very big effort,

:55:40. > :55:39.But it is Leicester's poor performances in the Premier League

:55:40. > :55:39.that could see them become only the second English champions

:55:40. > :55:39.in history to see a title defence end in relegation and it is that

:55:40. > :55:39.which ultimately cost Ranieri his job.

:55:40. > :55:39.Their memories of what he achieved will always be cherished

:55:40. > :55:39.Malaysian police say the highly toxic nerve agent, VX,

:55:40. > :55:39.has been found on the face of Kim Jong Nam -

:55:40. > :55:39.the murdered half brother of North Korea's leader.

:55:40. > :55:39.VX is an extremely toxic chemical warfare substance and just a drop

:55:40. > :55:39.CCTV footage showed two women briefly holding something

:55:40. > :55:39.over Kim Jong Nam's face while he was preparing to board

:55:40. > :55:39.a flight at Kuala Lumpur airport last week.

:55:40. > :55:39.Donald Trump says he wants to expand America's nuclear arsenal.

:55:40. > :55:39.In his first comments on the issue since taking office,

:55:40. > :55:39.Mr Trump said it would be "wonderful" if no nation had nuclear

:55:40. > :55:39.arms, but otherwise the US must be "top of the pack".

:55:40. > :55:39.More universities in England will be soon be able to offer degree courses

:55:40. > :55:39.which last for just two years under new plans.

:55:40. > :55:39.In return they will be able to increase annual tuition fees

:55:40. > :55:39.to more than ?13,000 - although the overall cost

:55:40. > :55:39.of a degree will still be capped at ?27,000.

:55:40. > :55:39.Those are the main stories this morning. Let's go back to the

:55:40. > :55:39.by-election results. Early this morning Ukip's hopes of gaining

:55:40. > :55:39.another MP in Parliament were thwarted as Labour's Gareth Snell

:55:40. > :55:39.won the by-election. We can speak now to the director of Ukip Peter

:55:40. > :55:39.Whittle. You had a real chance of beating

:55:40. > :55:39.Labour here but you did not, what went wrong? Hello. Can you hear us?

:55:40. > :55:39.Yes, I can. You had a real chance of beating Labour, what went wrong? I

:55:40. > :55:39.think the thing is that obviously, we are disappointed, disappointed

:55:40. > :55:39.that we didn't get Paul across the line this time. But in terms of what

:55:40. > :55:39.we can win in Ukip, in terms of our if you like win ability of seats,

:55:40. > :55:39.Stoke was quite away down the list. It would have been fantastic if we

:55:40. > :55:39.had done it this time. This is the first of many by-elections we will

:55:40. > :55:39.be coming up to now in 2020 and we are already getting ready now for

:55:40. > :55:39.the next fight which will be in Leeds. We are in pretty good

:55:40. > :55:39.spirits. Obviously, it is no doubt it was a disappointing night. You

:55:40. > :55:39.say it was far down the list in priority of winning it but it was

:55:40. > :55:39.not long ago that Nigel Farage told Ukip's conference the victory in

:55:40. > :55:39.Stoke was fundamental to the party's future, so what now? It is not right

:55:40. > :55:39.at all. I think people, whether it is the media or in this case Nigel,

:55:40. > :55:39.or always tending to put huge amounts of significance on things

:55:40. > :55:39.which are obviously very significant that at the same time, this is not

:55:40. > :55:39.some life or death situation. The fact is that Ukip regrouped and

:55:40. > :55:39.became United last year when Paul was elected leader and it stayed

:55:40. > :55:39.that way. That was after an extraordinary year last year of ups

:55:40. > :55:39.and downs. But we are going forward now in a way we have not been

:55:40. > :55:39.before, very united, and indeed, in the polls nationally, we were 15%,

:55:40. > :55:39.we had gone up by 2%. That is the sign of a party which has lost its

:55:40. > :55:39.way, the public support for the party is huge. But if you cannot win

:55:40. > :55:39.in Stoke if you have your party leader standing and Labour it is

:55:40. > :55:39.fair to say on the ropes, where are you going to win? Well, there are

:55:40. > :55:39.many different places we are going to be standing in. Many different

:55:40. > :55:39.places. Give us some examples of where you might win. Stoke was

:55:40. > :55:39.obviously a very big Brexit constituency, there is no question

:55:40. > :55:39.about that. Not everything obviously is about Brexit, but I think what

:55:40. > :55:39.happened in this particular case is because we as a party obviously

:55:40. > :55:39.posed a considerable threat to Labour, very much the attack was put

:55:40. > :55:39.onto Paul personally as leader, quite personal. In fact, in some

:55:40. > :55:39.ways it was a bit of a new low in what was actually done in this

:55:40. > :55:39.campaign. So obviously, that made things very difficult. But we are

:55:40. > :55:39.not aiming to whinge about that, that is what happened. We are very

:55:40. > :55:39.much looking to the future and we are going to go on and we will

:55:40. > :55:39.gather strength and be fighting by-elections this year going up to

:55:40. > :55:39.the general election in three years' time. You mentioned Paul Nuttall's

:55:40. > :55:39.leadership there, he said he's not going anywhere but as you rightly

:55:40. > :55:39.said there has been a lot of controversy around this campaign,

:55:40. > :55:39.about where he lives, his comments on Hillsborough, don't you want a

:55:40. > :55:39.less controversial leader? I am finding it difficult to hear you but

:55:40. > :55:39.I think the gist of your question really is yes of course, things were

:55:40. > :55:39.brought up very personally about Paul. He dealt with them very

:55:40. > :55:39.clearly but there is no question about it, this was a pretty

:55:40. > :55:39.orchestrated smear campaign against Paul. A lot of people want to see us

:55:40. > :55:39.disappear, wherever they are from, and the fact is therefore they will

:55:40. > :55:39.particularly hold us to a particularly high standard. In the

:55:40. > :55:39.case of what happened with Paul, he certainly apologised for errors, ie

:55:40. > :55:39.not reading his website, he made that very clear. But of course, that

:55:40. > :55:39.was followed by other things and all the rest of it that we know. I think

:55:40. > :55:39.this was definitely very much not a policy thing, it was a kind of

:55:40. > :55:39.personal attack on him and obviously, it was difficult for him,

:55:40. > :55:39.but at the same time, Ukip remains united around him. When he came back

:55:40. > :55:39.from the count yesterday, a huge cheer went up for him, so Paul is

:55:40. > :55:39.absolutely here to stay and we will be united around him. Thank you for

:55:40. > :55:39.your time. You're watching

:55:40. > :55:39.Breakfast from BBC News. A bruising by-election defeat

:55:40. > :55:39.for Labour as they lose their Copeland seat for the first

:55:40. > :55:39.time in more than 80 years. The Conservative victory

:55:40. > :55:39.is the first by a governing Royal Bank of Scotland has reported

:55:40. > :55:39.an annual loss of ?7 billion, its ninth consecutive year

:55:40. > :55:39.in the red. After a very stormy day yesterday,

:55:40. > :55:39.how is it looking today? Good morning. We have heard there is

:55:40. > :55:39.still disruption following storm Doris, but the weather is in a

:55:40. > :55:39.completely different mood today. This is one view from one of our

:55:40. > :55:39.early rising weather Watchers in Cumbria this morning. Doesn't it

:55:40. > :55:39.look lovely? It is cold. Storm Doris has moved away very quickly, taken

:55:40. > :55:39.those strong winds through Germany and Poland, heading through Eastern

:55:40. > :55:39.Europe. We are in a gap between weather systems and a breach of high

:55:40. > :55:39.pressure. At the moment we can relax. Quite a bit of dry and sunny

:55:40. > :55:39.weather to come today. A widespread frost in Scotland, some icy patches

:55:40. > :55:39.in Northern Ireland and northern England. We've had a few early

:55:40. > :55:39.showers down the eastern side of England. They've just about pulled

:55:40. > :55:39.away into the North Sea. One or two coming into north-west England and

:55:40. > :55:39.North Wales and filtering into Midlands but very hit and miss, the

:55:40. > :55:39.exception to the rule. If you are looking at the wind speeds these are

:55:40. > :55:39.much lower compared with yesterday. A completely different picture out

:55:40. > :55:39.there. As you can see as we go on through the morning and to the

:55:40. > :55:39.middle of the day, a lot of dry unfairly sunny weather. In Northern

:55:40. > :55:39.Ireland, a change coming back this afternoon with rain coming in. That

:55:40. > :55:39.will reach western Scotland and the breeze will freshen again, not on

:55:40. > :55:39.the scale of Storm Doris. The temperatures are stuck in single

:55:40. > :55:39.figures for many of us, just ten across parts of southern England.

:55:40. > :55:39.This evening rain in southern Scotland preceded by hill snow.

:55:40. > :55:39.Drying up for a time in Northern Ireland. Not much rain at all in

:55:40. > :55:39.southern England overnight. Turning windy across all parts, Gail is

:55:40. > :55:39.developing in north-west Scotland. But a change of wind direction,

:55:40. > :55:39.south-westerly, milder air coming into the UK, so we will notice that

:55:40. > :55:39.over the weekend. Temperatures back up again. A blustery weekend but not

:55:40. > :55:39.stormy and there will be some rain around, clearly, as you can start

:55:40. > :55:39.Saturday morning. Thoroughly wet in the hills of western Scotland and

:55:40. > :55:39.Cumbria as well. The rain pushing south-eastwards. Not much down the

:55:40. > :55:39.eastern side of the UK. Northern Ireland and Scotland brightening up

:55:40. > :55:39.in the afternoon, a few showers following and the temperature is

:55:40. > :55:39.widely back into double figures. Part two of the weekend, on Sunday

:55:40. > :55:39.another weather system coming in, taking outbreaks of rain Southeast,

:55:40. > :55:39.not reaching East Anglia or Southeast England until after dark.

:55:40. > :55:39.Fairly blustery again. For many of us those temperatures in double

:55:40. > :55:39.figures. It will turn colder into the start of next week. That's how

:55:40. > :55:39.it's looking this weekend, unsettled but not stormy.

:55:40. > :55:39.Thanks very much. Just coming up to 8:20am.

:55:40. > :55:39.Police in Malaysia say a powerful nerve agent called VX appears

:55:40. > :55:39.to have been used in last week's killing of Kim Jong-nam,

:55:40. > :55:39.the half brother of North Korean's dictator Kim Jong-un.

:55:40. > :55:39.In a statement, officials said traces of the agent,

:55:40. > :55:39.which is used in chemical warfare, were found on Kim Jong-nam's face.

:55:40. > :55:39.Earlier our correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has been

:55:40. > :55:39.following the story from Kuala Lumpur.

:55:40. > :55:39.This story continues to get more and more extraordinary as the days go

:55:40. > :55:39.by. What the authorities are telling us now is that after Kim Jong-nam

:55:40. > :55:39.died at the airport or on the way to the hospital from the airport last

:55:40. > :55:39.week, they took him to the morgue and did an autopsy, during which

:55:40. > :55:39.they swapped his face, particularly his cheeks and eyes and then they

:55:40. > :55:39.tested those swabs and it's telling them about 11 days to come back with

:55:40. > :55:39.these results but they say they have found traces of this VX nerve agent

:55:40. > :55:39.on those swabs. That's a very serious thing to have found out

:55:40. > :55:39.because VX is considered to be the most toxic nerve agent ever

:55:40. > :55:39.invented. It was invented in Britain in the 1950s. Large quantities were

:55:40. > :55:39.produced in America and the Soviet Union during the Cold War but it has

:55:40. > :55:39.subsequently been banned under UN chemical convention, and so the fact

:55:40. > :55:39.it's been used here in this killing makes it a whole new level on this

:55:40. > :55:39.killing. STUDIO: Also, looking at what Malaysia are saying about this,

:55:40. > :55:39.they are not blaming the North Korean state for his death, but

:55:40. > :55:39.saying North Koreans were clearly behind it. What's happening here?

:55:40. > :55:39.Well, it's very unclear, is the short answer. They are not at the

:55:40. > :55:39.moment accusing the North Korean state of direct involvement however

:55:40. > :55:39.although circumstantial evidence so far points towards a plot, based in

:55:40. > :55:39.North Korea or at least based on the North Korean Embassy here in Kuala

:55:40. > :55:39.Lumpur. There are two people in custody, while women, thought to

:55:40. > :55:39.have carried out the actual killing. They are not North Korean but all

:55:40. > :55:39.the other suspects named are North Korean national scum and one of them

:55:40. > :55:39.they want to talk to is a North Korean diplomat from the embassy

:55:40. > :55:39.here, all the North Koreans are refusing to hand over. These two

:55:40. > :55:39.women and that other person they want to speak to, what happens next?

:55:40. > :55:39.Diplomatically we are locked in a bit of a stalemate. The North

:55:40. > :55:39.Koreans are refusing to back down or hand over these people wanted. There

:55:40. > :55:39.is potential now for a diplomatic rift. I've heard people here today

:55:40. > :55:39.say they will have to do something in retaliation, even as high as

:55:40. > :55:39.perhaps kicking the North Korean ambassador out of here. No

:55:40. > :55:39.confirmation that will actually happen but this is now very, very

:55:40. > :55:39.serious. It is a 21 AM. There are growing calls

:55:40. > :55:39.from patients, experts and nurses for better training and awareness

:55:40. > :55:39.of Sickle Cell Disease. It's an inherited blood disorder

:55:40. > :55:39.that affects thousands of mostly African and Caribbean people

:55:40. > :55:39.in the UK. During a so-called Sickle Cell

:55:40. > :55:39.crises or episode, red blood cells change shape,

:55:40. > :55:39.causing intense pain And as Noel Phillips reports,

:55:40. > :55:39.just having the condition can make This boy was six when he died

:55:40. > :55:39.from organ failure, sepsis He just kept saying "Mum,

:55:40. > :55:39.I want to lie down." SHE TOLD OPERATORS HER SON WAS

:55:40. > :55:39.VOMITING AND HAD A TEMPERATURE. Over the next hour his

:55:40. > :55:39.condition worsened. I don't feel it was treated urgently

:55:40. > :55:39.enough, when that person on the phone told me I would have

:55:40. > :55:39.to probably wait up to 45 minutes Two ambulances and a rapid response

:55:40. > :55:39.unit were dispatched but then cancelled and sent

:55:40. > :55:39.to more urgent cases. But shortly after paramedics

:55:40. > :55:39.arrived, the child went I was a little bit panicked,

:55:40. > :55:39.but I was not trying to show that Lola is one of the country's most

:55:40. > :55:39.senior sickle cell nurses. You combine vomiting, diarrhoea,

:55:40. > :55:39.that the mother said the child You combine those things together

:55:40. > :55:39.with the fact that the child has sickle cell disease and that should

:55:40. > :55:39.be a trigger sufficient to say that In a statement, the ambulance

:55:40. > :55:39.service apologised for the delay The medical director added that over

:55:40. > :55:39.the last few years they had worked closely with the Sickle Cell Society

:55:40. > :55:39.to improve care to patients. It is like being stabbed

:55:40. > :55:39.while someone is pouring This man is one of 15,000

:55:40. > :55:39.people in Britain living It causes crippling pain,

:55:40. > :55:39.but he claims he has had to wait Waiting in a cubicle

:55:40. > :55:39.for two plus hours. Jo Howard is a sickle

:55:40. > :55:39.cell consultant. In a recent report she says that

:55:40. > :55:39.staff shortages mean that patients Patients should be treated

:55:40. > :55:39.within 30 minutes. I think that is an absolutely

:55:40. > :55:39.reasonable thing that we should be I think all Trusts should

:55:40. > :55:39.be aiming to do that. I have had to teach

:55:40. > :55:39.the doctors about it. Davinia has been living

:55:40. > :55:39.with the disease for 30 years. The understanding and

:55:40. > :55:39.the care is not there. Nurses don't learn

:55:40. > :55:39.while they are training, NHS England say they are committed

:55:40. > :55:39.to providing patients with the high standards of treatment

:55:40. > :55:39.care and support. But Davinia says the condition

:55:40. > :55:39.remains largely overlooked and, like sickle cell sufferers,

:55:40. > :55:39.will remain difficult. That was no Phillips there with that

:55:40. > :55:39.report. Coming up in a moment on the BBC

:55:40. > :55:39.News Channel is Business Live. He's gone from lifting

:55:40. > :55:39.the Premier League trophy to collecting his P45

:55:40. > :55:39.in just nine months. We'll get reaction from a former

:55:40. > :55:39.Leicester player to the club's There is already lots of reaction

:55:40. > :55:39.coming in from fans and other people as well. It's one of those stories,

:55:40. > :55:39.even if you are not interested in football, the story, the rise and

:55:40. > :55:39.fall of Leicester City is quite interesting to a lot of people.

:55:40. > :55:39.Comments here, one saying, let's be honest, Leicester over achieved last

:55:40. > :55:39.season. Did they really expect they'd be able to repeat it? It's

:55:40. > :55:39.not Claudio Ranieri's fault. And another viewer said, players to

:55:40. > :55:39.blame. They think they've arrived, performances have dropped, not

:55:40. > :55:39.staying hungry. And another viewer said instead of sacking managers,

:55:40. > :55:39.why not sack the players? Catherine says the same, nobody ever

:55:40. > :55:39.blames the overpaid players, they should hang their heads in shame.

:55:40. > :55:39.They have let down Claudio Lots of comments coming in, thank you for

:55:40. > :55:39.those. We will be talking about them with Mike

:55:40. > :55:39.I am back with the latest in half an hour.

:55:40. > :55:39.Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern.

:55:40. > :55:39.The Conservatives have won the the Cumbrian seat of Copeland

:55:40. > :55:39.The Conservatives have won the Cumbrian seat of Copeland

:55:40. > :55:39.which had been in Labour's hands for more than 80 years.

:55:40. > :55:39.In the night's other result Labour held on to Stoke Central,

:55:40. > :55:39.with UKIP leader Paul Nuttall finishing in second place.

:55:40. > :55:39.Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell gave us his reaction. This

:55:40. > :55:39.issue around the future of the nuclear industry clearly dominated

:55:40. > :55:39.that election campaign, although we campaign very hard on the NHS and

:55:40. > :55:39.although we gave the community assurances about the future of

:55:40. > :55:39.nuclear in that area. A lot of misinformation put out by the

:55:40. > :55:39.Conservatives meant we could not convince people by that. I am

:55:40. > :55:39.disappointed, but it is not unexpected given the unique

:55:40. > :55:39.Our political correspondent Alex Forsyth joins us

:55:40. > :55:39.Interesting hearing John McDonnell's take on what happened first. Tell us

:55:40. > :55:39.what you make of that result. It is a victory for the Conservatives. It

:55:40. > :55:39.is very rare that a governing party can take a seat from an opposition

:55:40. > :55:39.party, particularly in Copeland, which is a Labour stronghold. There

:55:40. > :55:39.is a recognition that is a very disappointing loss for them, but

:55:40. > :55:39.they are saying local issues on the ground came into play. That will

:55:40. > :55:39.fuel the critics of Jeremy Corbyn who will ask the question is he the

:55:40. > :55:39.right man to lead Labour at this time? John McDonnell is pointing out

:55:40. > :55:39.they are not celebrating their win in Stoke either. He is saying it is

:55:40. > :55:39.significant. We can see behind you Paul Nuttall's HQ. It is a relief

:55:40. > :55:39.for labour that they held onto this seat. Had they lost both, it would

:55:40. > :55:39.have been a bad result. As much as it is a sense of relief, for Ukip it

:55:40. > :55:39.is a sense of disappointment. They had framed this by-election as a

:55:40. > :55:39.test for whether or not they could do what they wanted to do after the

:55:40. > :55:39.referendum, which is eaten into the labour heart in the Midlands and the

:55:40. > :55:39.north of England. The fact they have not taken this seat will be

:55:40. > :55:39.disappointing for them. They ate into Labour's majority, but it was

:55:40. > :55:39.not enough. Royal Bank of Scotland has reported

:55:40. > :55:39.an annual loss of ?7 billion pounds, its ninth consecutive year

:55:40. > :55:39.in the red. It is not great news because it is a

:55:40. > :55:39.big rise in that loss. They have tripled the from 2016. Not very good

:55:40. > :55:39.figures. We own three quarters of the bank and it also owns NatWest

:55:40. > :55:39.and Ulster bank as well. It said it had ?10 billion of one of costs in

:55:40. > :55:39.2016, partly litigation costs in America, and partly because of the

:55:40. > :55:39.cost of its failure to spin off many of its branches in England and Wales

:55:40. > :55:39.into another business. Some pressure on its boss and we have heard from

:55:40. > :55:39.the chief executive of RBS, Ross McEwing. We are having to deal with

:55:40. > :55:39.a lot of issues from the past and my strategy is to deal with those

:55:40. > :55:39.things as quickly as possible and restructure the bank so becomes back

:55:40. > :55:39.into the UK as a core part of the bank. ?2 billion worth of costs over

:55:40. > :55:39.the next four years. That could mean job cuts and changes in branches, we

:55:40. > :55:39.have not had details. Malaysian police say the highly

:55:40. > :55:39.toxic nerve agent VX has been found on the face of Kim Jong-nam,

:55:40. > :55:39.the murdered half brother VX is an extremely toxic chemical

:55:40. > :55:39.warfare substance and just a drop CCTV footage showed two women

:55:40. > :55:39.briefly holding something over Kim Jong-nam's face

:55:40. > :55:39.while he was preparing to board a flight at

:55:40. > :55:39.Kuala Lumpur airport last week. More universities in England will be

:55:40. > :55:39.soon be able to offer degree courses which last for just two years

:55:40. > :55:39.under new plans. In return they will be able

:55:40. > :55:39.to increase annual tuition fees to more than ?13,000

:55:40. > :55:39.although the overall cost of a degree will still

:55:40. > :55:39.be capped at ?27,000. The clear-up continues this morning

:55:40. > :55:39.after Storm Doris battered much of the UK leaving one woman dead

:55:40. > :55:39.after being hit by flying debris. Winds of up to 94mph caused power

:55:40. > :55:39.cuts and travel chaos as flights were grounded

:55:40. > :55:39.and train services disrupted. Drivers are being warned to be

:55:40. > :55:39.wary of ice on the roads in Scotland, Northern Ireland,

:55:40. > :55:39.and North West England. And coming up here on Breakfast this

:55:40. > :55:39.morning: After the author Helen Bailey was murdered by a man

:55:40. > :55:39.she met whilst grieving for her first husband,

:55:40. > :55:39.we'll speak to a charity for people whose partners have died

:55:40. > :55:39.and ask if they can be particularly vulnerable

:55:40. > :55:39.when starting new relationships. Legendary promoter Harvey Goldsmith

:55:40. > :55:39.will be here to tell us about his new project,

:55:40. > :55:39.that tells the story of British pop music

:55:40. > :55:39.from The Beatles through to Adele. And they've been in decline

:55:40. > :55:39.for years, but we'll find out about a new plan to save the UK's

:55:40. > :55:39.last remaining red squirrels and how We are going to talk about the

:55:40. > :55:39.sport. The story is Claudio Ranieri. You do not have to be a follower of

:55:40. > :55:39.football to embrace that story, that moment, when Leicester did so

:55:40. > :55:39.wonderfully against all the odds, but right now it is he to zero. He

:55:40. > :55:39.is sacked. It did capture the hearts of the world and those are far

:55:40. > :55:39.beyond the world of football, that is why there is so much emotion and

:55:40. > :55:39.even anger around this morning. Their form in the league may be

:55:40. > :55:39.woeful, but the timing of Claudio Ranieri's sacking has shocked many.

:55:40. > :55:39.Gary Lineker, former Leicester striker, tweeted,

:55:40. > :55:39."After all that Claudio Ranieri has done for Leicester City, to sack him

:55:40. > :55:39.now is inexplicable, unforgivable and gut-wrenchingly sad."

:55:40. > :55:39.Former Leicester forward Dion Dublin was also shocked by the news saying

:55:40. > :55:39.Sacking the manager that won you the Premiere League title!

:55:40. > :55:39.And Ranieri has had support from his peers.

:55:40. > :55:39.Manchester United's Manager Jose Mourinho offered his condolences.

:55:40. > :55:39.Sacked, that's the new football Claudio.

:55:40. > :55:39.Nobody can delete the history you wrote.

:55:40. > :55:39.We can join David Ornstein in Leicester who I hope will explain it

:55:40. > :55:39.all to us. We are here at the King Power Stadium were just in May last

:55:40. > :55:39.year we were seeing such scenes of celebration as Leicester City won

:55:40. > :55:39.the first and only league title in their 133 year history against all

:55:40. > :55:39.odds. 5000-1 shots. A victory masterminded by Claudio Ranieri, and

:55:40. > :55:39.Joining us now from Leicester City's stadium is former Leicester City

:55:40. > :55:39.What is the reaction today? The majority of the fans had a great

:55:40. > :55:39.deal of respect, and also the people working inside the King Power

:55:40. > :55:39.Stadium, they had a beautiful affiliation with the crowd. I know

:55:40. > :55:39.how well he got on with the majority of the staff inside. What is the

:55:40. > :55:39.right decision? Have they made the correct decision in your eyes? This

:55:40. > :55:39.is the $6 million question. What you have got to do is look at it from

:55:40. > :55:39.both sides of the quarrying. But the owners' point of view they have to

:55:40. > :55:39.make sure that the club stays in the Premier League, they invested a lot

:55:40. > :55:39.of money in the summer in recruitment. That has not gone to

:55:40. > :55:39.plan. You have to take into consideration where they went in the

:55:40. > :55:39.league. On the other side, you have to take the fans into consideration

:55:40. > :55:39.and the players. Time will only tell if it is the right decision. Where

:55:40. > :55:39.do Leicester City go from here? Do they go for a big-name manager or do

:55:40. > :55:39.they stick with the caretaker manager? The most important thing is

:55:40. > :55:39.they have got to stay in the league. It has to be short-term. They have

:55:40. > :55:39.got to get somebody into the dressing room who will give the

:55:40. > :55:39.players a shock and get them up the table. There is a mixture of

:55:40. > :55:39.emotions here today, but a huge amount of disappointment, although

:55:40. > :55:39.some fans feel it is the right decision to make with Leicester City

:55:40. > :55:39.just one point above the relegation zone. By the time they play against

:55:40. > :55:39.Liverpool on Monday they could be in the bottom three and that is what

:55:40. > :55:39.has cost Claudio Ranieri his job. That fairy tale for him is now over.

:55:40. > :55:39.David and Jerry, thank you. We will watch this space.

:55:40. > :55:39.It was a dismal night for Tottenham - out of the Europa League

:55:40. > :55:39.after they could only draw 2-2 against Gent of Belgium at Wembley,

:55:40. > :55:39.Dismal especially for two of their England stars.

:55:40. > :55:39.His own goal making it 1-1 on the night, then another

:55:40. > :55:39.of Spurs' England players, Dele Alli, was sent-off

:55:40. > :55:39.Tottenham out, leaving Manchester United as the only

:55:40. > :55:39.British side in today's last 16 draw.

:55:40. > :55:39.World champion constructors Mercedes have unveiled their new car

:55:40. > :55:39.It will be going a lot faster than this when the season starts

:55:40. > :55:39.But for now Lewis Hamilton, who was joined by new team

:55:40. > :55:39.mate Valtteri Bottas, took the car for a few laps around

:55:40. > :55:39.You can see the wind shaking the camera.

:55:40. > :55:39.Hamilton said the car felt incredible.

:55:40. > :55:39.He approved, as he got the keys to his new car. He also went on to say

:55:40. > :55:39.that he does not think all the changes for the new season will mean

:55:40. > :55:39.more excitement and more overtaking, which is a big worry. It is not as

:55:40. > :55:39.if we are in the car! That is it really. Do you want me to

:55:40. > :55:39.say something else? It has always been the remain of

:55:40. > :55:39.trendy, young people, free running. Are you having a go? Yes, plus

:55:40. > :55:39.76-year-old George and some people in their 80s. That is tomorrow

:55:40. > :55:39.morning. We've known for years that the red

:55:40. > :55:39.squirrel population is in decline, and conservationists have been

:55:40. > :55:39.working hard to try to Now animal lovers are getting

:55:40. > :55:39.a chance to do their bit, the Wildlife Trusts are uniting

:55:40. > :55:39.to recruit thousands of volunteers Aisling McVeigh has been

:55:40. > :55:39.to Mere Sands Wood nature reserve Red squirrels were once a common

:55:40. > :55:39.sight across much of the UK. The introduction of their grey

:55:40. > :55:39.cousins 141 years ago spelt disaster Carrying a disease which killed

:55:40. > :55:39.reds, the greedy grey squirrel dominates our landscape more

:55:40. > :55:39.than a century on, with more There are just 140,000

:55:40. > :55:39.reds in comparison. But in recent years efforts

:55:40. > :55:39.to protect reds have had some success and now for the first time

:55:40. > :55:39.the wildlife trusts are combining to recruit 5,000 volunteers to help

:55:40. > :55:39.with these conservation efforts. People will be asked to monitor

:55:40. > :55:39.and record data and, if they're willing, they'll be given

:55:40. > :55:39.training on how to cull They're hoping the Red Squirrels

:55:40. > :55:39.United project will not only maintain but maybe

:55:40. > :55:39.even increase numbers. We can train people to help

:55:40. > :55:39.with the monitoring, using cameras and tubes,

:55:40. > :55:39.we also need people to record their sightings and report

:55:40. > :55:39.them to us and also help It's a really great opportunity

:55:40. > :55:39.for people to get involved in a large-scale conservation

:55:40. > :55:39.project at a local level This map shows how many red

:55:40. > :55:39.squirrels were around compared to 2010.

:55:40. > :55:39.The saving Scotland's red squirrels volunteer project is also going to

:55:40. > :55:39.get under way. Most of us will never get close to a baby 's Grill. Rachel

:55:40. > :55:39.is nursing this one back to health. With this campaign there is a chance

:55:40. > :55:39.to make sure this native species survives and maybe even flourishes

:55:40. > :55:39.once again in the UK. We're joined by Cathleen Thomas

:55:40. > :55:39.from The Wildlife Trusts. You either programme manager of this

:55:40. > :55:39.great programme called red squirrels united, which sounds like a football

:55:40. > :55:39.team! Tell us about it. It is the first nationwide programme to

:55:40. > :55:39.conserve red squirrels across the UK. We work in England, Wales and

:55:40. > :55:39.Northern Ireland and in partnership with Scotland as well to look after

:55:40. > :55:39.them. You are looking for volunteers, what would they do?

:55:40. > :55:39.There are lots of different ways they can help out. One of the main

:55:40. > :55:39.things they can do is to help us with monitoring and survey in. We

:55:40. > :55:39.have a lot of trail cameras we put out every year and from March until

:55:40. > :55:39.maybe they can help with that. After that they can keep an eye on where

:55:40. > :55:39.the red squirrels and the grey squirrels are. There is an

:55:40. > :55:39.educational component and they can help us get the message across about

:55:40. > :55:39.this really iconic species for the UK.

:55:40. > :55:39.This will sound like a silly question, that Red Square will looks

:55:40. > :55:39.incredibly red, in the wild is it obvious whether they are bred or

:55:40. > :55:39.square? The grey squirrels can sometimes be a bit ginger, the red

:55:40. > :55:39.ones can sometimes be grey. Red squirrels sometimes have tufts of

:55:40. > :55:39.hair on their years. They don't have them all year round and juveniles do

:55:40. > :55:39.not always have them. But if you look at the tail of a red squirrel,

:55:40. > :55:39.it is a solid colour, a grey squirrel has a white halo around its

:55:40. > :55:39.because the hairs in the tailor the grill -- grey squirrel have

:55:40. > :55:39.multiplied. Most people will be accustomed to seeing these? The garb

:55:40. > :55:39.especially in the south of England. Does this not mean the grey

:55:40. > :55:39.squirrels are being treated quite harshly? Gulp we don't treat them

:55:40. > :55:39.harshly. Unfortunately we are in a position where the two species can't

:55:40. > :55:39.live together. We have grey squirrels everywhere with no red

:55:40. > :55:39.squirrels living alongside them. We do not treat Grace Krul 's harshly,

:55:40. > :55:39.we treat them humanely. There is culling, that is pretty harsh? We

:55:40. > :55:39.have evidence that it works. As a wildlife trust we would not do

:55:40. > :55:39.something like that if we did not know it worked, the project has a

:55:40. > :55:39.big scientific component where we look at the populations to make sure

:55:40. > :55:39.that what we're doing is worthwhile, otherwise we would not do it.

:55:40. > :55:39.On the graphic we saw areas with some red squirrels, where are they?

:55:40. > :55:39.We work across nine different stronghold areas, two in England,

:55:40. > :55:39.Kielder Forest and around Formby woodlands in Merseyside. There are

:55:40. > :55:39.three main areas in Wales, Anglesey and Gwinnett, and a couple of

:55:40. > :55:39.forests, and four areas in Northern Ireland. Are there any red squirrels

:55:40. > :55:39.in woodland in urban areas? In Merseyside, that is quite an urban

:55:40. > :55:39.area. Lots of people in that area do not realise, there is a red squirrel

:55:40. > :55:39.population in Formby woodlands but also in the urban area surrounding,

:55:40. > :55:39.places like Southport and is often have red squirrels and we are doing

:55:40. > :55:39.and awareness programmes so that people realise that. When you are

:55:40. > :55:39.looking for volunteers, is it for people across the UK or specific

:55:40. > :55:39.areas? Mainly around the nine stronghold areas, we need people to

:55:40. > :55:39.help with the survey. But people living in areas where there are only

:55:40. > :55:39.grey squirrels can help us by adopting squirrels and visiting

:55:40. > :55:39.squirrels in those areas, there is a big thing about red squirrel

:55:40. > :55:39.tourism, they can look at them and help us that way. There is just

:55:40. > :55:39.something about them, is it because they are fluffy? You know what I

:55:40. > :55:39.mean, certain animals, people are naturally fond of. They are fluffy

:55:40. > :55:39.and have big eyes, they are playful, they run around and chase each other

:55:40. > :55:39.and nothing really beats that when you are walking and you see them

:55:40. > :55:39.running around. Thank you very much for coming in, Cathleen Thomas, the

:55:40. > :55:39.programme manager of Red Squirrels United.

:55:40. > :55:39.Here's Nick with a look at this morning's weather.

:55:40. > :55:39.I wonder if the red squirrels are resident genius is getting on bird

:55:40. > :55:39.feeders as the grey squirrels are in my area.

:55:40. > :55:39.This is the calm after storm Doris, look how far it has gone overnight

:55:40. > :55:39.and into this morning. We have a quiet spell of weather behind it. It

:55:40. > :55:39.is colder this morning, we had some icy patches and parts of Scotland,

:55:40. > :55:39.Northern Ireland and northern England. Still close to freezing in

:55:40. > :55:39.Aberdeen and Edinburgh, many of us are getting some sunshine. There are

:55:40. > :55:39.some shell is to be found in Scotland, clearing away from East

:55:40. > :55:39.Anglia and pushing into parts of North Wales, north-west England and

:55:40. > :55:39.the Midlands, very few and far between. Looking at the wind speed,

:55:40. > :55:39.nothing compared to yesterday. A colder, calmer, sunny morning.

:55:40. > :55:39.A really quiet day to come for many. Patchy cloud building where you

:55:40. > :55:39.start with sunshine, the risk of an isolated shower, most places staying

:55:40. > :55:39.dry. There is a change in Northern Ireland and western Scotland, we

:55:40. > :55:39.have a weather system bringing outbreaks of rain and a freshening

:55:40. > :55:39.wind, not on the scale of Storm Doris. Temperatures for many will be

:55:40. > :55:39.in single figures, feeling colder. Overnight, we take rain away from

:55:40. > :55:39.Northern Ireland and into southern Scotland. Pop-up -- for parts of

:55:40. > :55:39.northern England and the Midlands as well, not much in southern England.

:55:40. > :55:39.Miles in the south-west, not as chilly tonight. Gill is developing

:55:40. > :55:39.into north-west Scotland, a very gusty start to the weekend. -- gales

:55:40. > :55:39.are developing. This weekend, mild, blustery, not on the scale of Storm

:55:40. > :55:39.Doris, we will all see rain at some stage. The heaviest rain will be on

:55:40. > :55:39.the hills of western Scotland into north-west England. Slipping

:55:40. > :55:39.Southeast Woods on Saturday, not much reaching south-east England.

:55:40. > :55:39.The afternoon brightens up the Scotland and Northern Ireland, the

:55:40. > :55:39.wind eases, going into double figures, but quite windy. In Tea

:55:40. > :55:39.Party the weekend, another weather system coming in, a north-west

:55:40. > :55:39.south-east process, a breezy picture, I don't think we will see

:55:40. > :55:39.the rain reaching East Anglia and the south-east into after dark.

:55:40. > :55:39.Double-figure temperatures. That will not last into next week, it

:55:40. > :55:39.will be turning colder again and quite showery on Monday.

:55:40. > :55:39.Unsettled and windy at times for the weekend, but we are putting Storm

:55:40. > :55:39.Doris behind us. Disruption continuing, plenty of clear up but

:55:40. > :55:39.we do not have another storm on the horizon, just regular UK type

:55:40. > :55:39.occasionally unsettled weather in the forecast.

:55:40. > :55:39.Regular is what we like to hear at the moment, thank you very much.

:55:40. > :55:39.The murder of author Helen Bailey by her fiance Ian Stewart has thrown

:55:40. > :55:39.a spotlight on how people who've lost their partners can be

:55:40. > :55:39.vulnerable when trying to start new relationships.

:55:40. > :55:39.Helen was grieving for her husband when she met Ian Stewart and both

:55:40. > :55:39.were active members of the support group Widowed and Young -

:55:40. > :55:39.Georgia Elms, chairman of Widowed and Young,

:55:40. > :55:39.Thank you so much for your time. First of all, I know you got to know

:55:40. > :55:39.Helen Little bit through the various organisations, tell us a little bit

:55:40. > :55:39.about your with her? Just to highlight, she didn't meet EN

:55:40. > :55:39.through WAY, she was a member of WAY. -- she didn't meet Ian through

:55:40. > :55:39.WAY. Helen had a fantastic blog that I saw on another grief website that

:55:40. > :55:39.I knew would help our members, I asked her she would share her blog,

:55:40. > :55:39.Planet Agrees with members of WAY because I knew it would help. --

:55:40. > :55:39.share her blog, Planet Grief. She presented at one of our conferences

:55:40. > :55:39.in Edinburgh, which is mentioned in her book When Bad Things Happen In

:55:40. > :55:39.Good Bikinis. She and my family both had DAX ands, so we send each other

:55:40. > :55:39.silly pictures concerning that breed of dog. Her blog helped many people

:55:40. > :55:39.who did not know her. She said how it was, what it is like to grieve.

:55:40. > :55:39.The raw grief that she said, but the things you are going through. When

:55:40. > :55:39.you are grieving, one of the things as you do not get an instruction

:55:40. > :55:39.booklet and to read her blog and see what she was saying made you realise

:55:40. > :55:39.that some of the feelings I am having real, it is OK, other people

:55:40. > :55:39.are having them. It is interesting hearing you

:55:40. > :55:39.describe how she spoke, this is a little sequence from an interview we

:55:40. > :55:39.did with Helen. This was last year. We did a series focusing on death

:55:40. > :55:39.and how people cope with bereavement. We spoke to her.

:55:40. > :55:39.My husband died in an accident in Barbados in February 2011

:55:40. > :55:39.and when I got back to the UK I try to write about it.

:55:40. > :55:39.I'm a professional writer and I found I was completely

:55:40. > :55:39.and utterly blocked with grief, I had total writer's block.

:55:40. > :55:39.About four months after he died I started a blog

:55:40. > :55:39.I started writing about the little things that are huge in bereavement,

:55:40. > :55:39.so the loneliness of buying a single Scotch egg, putting the wheelie bins

:55:40. > :55:39.It was interesting because when the blog became public one

:55:40. > :55:39.of the things that came that were other widows and widowers

:55:40. > :55:39.sharing their stories and saying, I'm not actually mad.

:55:40. > :55:39.I was doing things like still setting a place at the table,

:55:40. > :55:39.still stacking the dishwasher exactly as he would like it

:55:40. > :55:39.Georgia, that was Helen taking part in that discussion, very much

:55:40. > :55:39.reflecting what you were talking about earlier. I remember very well

:55:40. > :55:39.that day because Ian Stewart was with her for the 24-hour period when

:55:40. > :55:39.she was talking with us in her capacity, talking about her blog. It

:55:40. > :55:39.is only human to think about your reflections and what he was like.

:55:40. > :55:39.Did she share with you anything about her new relationship, as it

:55:40. > :55:39.was then? No, I said I didn't want to talk

:55:40. > :55:39.about the case but no, everything was what was in the blog, that was a

:55:40. > :55:39.very public thing and people saw. We all read that. Yeah, we knew what

:55:40. > :55:39.was happening. I know it is very important for you

:55:40. > :55:39.and your organisation to talk about how people deal with bereavement,

:55:40. > :55:39.that very difficult sequence of events afterwards. Right at the

:55:40. > :55:39.beginning of the interview, you are very keen to point out that there is

:55:40. > :55:39.a danger that people think of the people as being fun rubble, as such.

:55:40. > :55:39.Talk is through how you think about that very difficult period of time

:55:40. > :55:39.-- there is a danger that people think about bereaved people as being

:55:40. > :55:39.vulnerable. Your life changes forever. I was widowed ten and a

:55:40. > :55:39.half years ago and it is still like that. Obviously not the total raw

:55:40. > :55:39.grief that you get at the beginning, but especially when you are widowed

:55:40. > :55:39.young, which is why we are specifically for widows bereaved

:55:40. > :55:39.under the age of 51, your life is just... What you planned has changed

:55:40. > :55:39.and you are stuck there and everything and it is a panic.

:55:40. > :55:39.Regards to... WAY is not a dating agency, the same way that people

:55:40. > :55:39.vulnerable, what you are going through is so horrendous that most

:55:40. > :55:39.people are not even thinking about a relationship at that time. They are

:55:40. > :55:39.just trying to get through each day with the loss of somebody that was

:55:40. > :55:39.their partner. 75% of WAY members have got children, they are having

:55:40. > :55:39.to cope with children, most people are struggling for money because

:55:40. > :55:39.they have lost another income, 25% of members do not have children and

:55:40. > :55:39.are having to deal with the fact that they planned to have children

:55:40. > :55:39.and that is gone. There is so much going on when you are first

:55:40. > :55:39.bereaved, then by joining WAY you speak to other people in that

:55:40. > :55:39.situation, however much your friends and family wants to help you, they

:55:40. > :55:39.don't understand. By joining WAY you meet people who actually understand.

:55:40. > :55:39.We always say to people that we have a code of conduct, we are a

:55:40. > :55:39.membership organisation, you need to be careful, don't give out personal

:55:40. > :55:39.details, that is not just on WAY, that is on anything. There are other

:55:40. > :55:39.Internet things which are dating agencies where people can meet

:55:40. > :55:39.people who are not safe. People are vulnerable, but not as in to be

:55:40. > :55:39.targeted, I think, it is just when you are grieving your whole life

:55:40. > :55:39.just changes so much. Thank you very much for taking the

:55:40. > :55:39.time for us, Georgia Elwiss, chairman of WAY, Widowed and Young.

:55:40. > :55:39.-- thank you very much, Georgia Elms.

:55:40. > :55:39.Purchasing big brands can come with big price tags,

:55:40. > :55:39.but do we really need their products and are

:55:40. > :55:39.I've teamed up with The One Show's Alex Jones for a new series

:55:40. > :55:39.of Shop Well for Less, where we try to help families

:55:40. > :55:39.In yesterday's programme we were with the Rodger family.

:55:40. > :55:39.Here's a clip after we took away some of their favourite gadgets.

:55:40. > :55:39.If it doesn't do kids' stuff, we're off to my mum's.

:55:40. > :55:39.It's like the same, but it's not the same.

:55:40. > :55:39.And to reduce those utility bills, some energy-saving tactics.

:55:40. > :55:39.I can turn the heating down from anywhere.

:55:40. > :55:39.I'm definitely sceptical about it, but if we're going to save money

:55:40. > :55:39.that we can save up and go on holiday, that would be amazing.

:55:40. > :55:39.And Mum Karen Rodger - with her three-year-old twins

:55:40. > :55:39.and two of her boys - joins us now.

:55:40. > :55:39.Thank you very much. Karen, can you explain to people what it is like in

:55:40. > :55:39.your house? I remember when we turned up, three sets of twins. It

:55:40. > :55:39.is a house full of fun and laughter, but so busy. It is a very busy

:55:40. > :55:39.house, me and my husband are out working, these two are at university

:55:40. > :55:39.and the boys are at school and it is chaos all the time and you never get

:55:40. > :55:39.time to relax. The washing in particular is the thing that shocked

:55:40. > :55:39.me the most. We do about five washes a day because the boys are all I'm

:55:40. > :55:39.doing sport and the girls are three, so they end up with chocolate and

:55:40. > :55:39.orange juice all over them, so the washing machine is never off. Living

:55:40. > :55:39.in Scotland you can imagine the weather, you cannot hang your

:55:40. > :55:39.washing outside, so we use the tumble drier. To be clear, Stanford

:55:40. > :55:39.comes in and says, you should not use that tumble drier, I have got a

:55:40. > :55:39.cheaper alternative, but you reject that. I tried, and I gave it a go,

:55:40. > :55:39.but it did not logistically work for us. I have not got time to put it on

:55:40. > :55:39.the hangers and hang it up. It is constant, I do not stop for a

:55:40. > :55:39.minute. Out of the washing machine and into the tumble drier. You are

:55:40. > :55:39.at an age where stuff matters. We all know that. It might be your

:55:40. > :55:39.phone or your trainers. Someone comes in and says, you do not need

:55:40. > :55:39.that, you can buy cheaper things that are just as good. Was it

:55:40. > :55:39.something instinctive that made you feel, I do not want to do that, I

:55:40. > :55:39.want my products. At first it was strange because you are getting your

:55:40. > :55:39.things taken off you. When we came home things were all taped up and

:55:40. > :55:39.things were missing, so it was a shock at first. You got used to it

:55:40. > :55:39.and then you settled down and you could use it more. It is about

:55:40. > :55:39.brands as well. That is a big part for me. I was going from wearing all

:55:40. > :55:39.these branded shoes and then going to the non-branded ones and looking

:55:40. > :55:39.at the shoes it was horrible and I thought I could not do it to be

:55:40. > :55:39.honest. But with the technology I can understand because to me it is

:55:40. > :55:39.just about getting used to it. We were given the phones and I was a

:55:40. > :55:39.bit wary at first, but as we used it more I got used to it. Nobody likes

:55:40. > :55:39.changing, but when you do change it is about how long it takes. The

:55:40. > :55:39.shoes were quite a sight for all of us. Shall we have a look at that?

:55:40. > :55:39.Karen and Colin might be surprised to see their belongings...

:55:40. > :55:39.It's certainly tidier than our house.

:55:40. > :55:39.But they're going to be more surprised at the amount of money

:55:40. > :55:39.So how many shoes do you think you've got in your family?

:55:40. > :55:39.So, you have over 200 pairs of shoes.

:55:40. > :55:39.I can't believe you've just told on me!

:55:40. > :55:39.You can see that is when we took all the stuff out of your house and put

:55:40. > :55:39.it in a pop-up shop. It is about you wanting a holiday and you want to

:55:40. > :55:39.save money to do that. Yes, the shoes for me, I have got shoes that

:55:40. > :55:39.I have had since I was 18. For me I collect my shoes and I look after

:55:40. > :55:39.them, so that is my thing, that is why I have so many. It rubs off on

:55:40. > :55:39.the boys, etc, but we have rain in things you guys have been. Sure?

:55:40. > :55:39.Honestly, we have bought a couple since Christmas and that is it. They

:55:40. > :55:39.are out working now and they are earning their own money. That is my

:55:40. > :55:39.excuse to buy shoes. She is making herself very comfortable. The big

:55:40. > :55:39.question is, has anything genuinely changed? It is one thing when you

:55:40. > :55:39.have got the cameras there and the production team is putting pressure

:55:40. > :55:39.on you, but have things changed? I would have never changed my washing

:55:40. > :55:39.powder, I know it sounds ridiculous. I have always used what my mother

:55:40. > :55:39.use, and I have never changed it. I just about finished the big box I

:55:40. > :55:39.bought before you guys came, so I am definitely swapping it. She will

:55:40. > :55:39.come back and check. And I noticed some Disney princess dresses as

:55:40. > :55:39.well. She is very busy chatting. Do you remember your Disney princess

:55:40. > :55:39.dresses? Have you still got them? Did you like as being at your house?

:55:40. > :55:39.Thank you for coming to see us and good luck. Good luck with university

:55:40. > :55:39.as well. Shop Well for Less is on at 8pm,

:55:40. > :55:39.Thursday evenings on BBC One. We will speak to Harvey Goldsmith in

:55:40. > :55:39.a moment. First, the I'll be back at half past one

:55:40. > :55:39.with the lunchtime news. I am reading things and looking at

:55:40. > :55:39.things and Harvey Goldsmith has joined us. You are involved in the

:55:40. > :55:39.launch of a museum. I am chairman of the British Music Experience

:55:40. > :55:39.trustees. We are launching our museum in Liverpool and we are

:55:40. > :55:39.opening on March nine. It is the most spectacular art deco palace

:55:40. > :55:39.that we are going into. The building is one thing and then it is the

:55:40. > :55:39.stuff. Talk us through this. I thought this was just a gold disc

:55:40. > :55:39.and it was a celebration of chart success, but this is Buddy Holly,

:55:40. > :55:39.dated 1957. This is the original recording of That Will Be The Day by

:55:40. > :55:39.Buddy Holly. His wife and the trustees of the state wanted us to

:55:40. > :55:39.have a Buddy Holly exhibit, so we have a lot of staff. Our celebration

:55:40. > :55:39.is primarily about British music of course. But we also have artists for

:55:40. > :55:39.whom the UK was a serious influence to them and Buddy Holly was as

:55:40. > :55:39.popular here as he was in America. This is a letter from him, where he

:55:40. > :55:39.is writing a letter trying to get his first gig. It is signed. He has

:55:40. > :55:39.done it in block capitals. Yes, you will see he signed it at the bottom.

:55:40. > :55:39.He is pleading to get his first show going. If you are interested in

:55:40. > :55:39.this, we would appreciate it if you would write to me. Buddy Holly. He

:55:40. > :55:39.was such an influence on the early pop stars from the Beatles even to

:55:40. > :55:39.these days. Everybody loved by the loved Buddy Holly. I would like to

:55:40. > :55:39.come to your school and play a stage show. Tell us about the guitars we

:55:40. > :55:39.have got on the sofa as well. This is a guitar made by Gibson. There is

:55:40. > :55:39.only one, and this is it. It is for live aid and was made in 2000 and

:55:40. > :55:39.five and it is signed by the artists. This is the logo and Gibson

:55:40. > :55:39.made it for us. It is offender. That is Rick Parfitt's original guitar.

:55:40. > :55:39.It was made in 1962. He had two or three very favourite guitars and

:55:40. > :55:39.this is one of them. That is signed by Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt.

:55:40. > :55:39.Rick tragically passed away last year as well. It is not just things

:55:40. > :55:39.from the past, it is the present as well. It starts in 1946 with the end

:55:40. > :55:39.of the big band era and it goes into jazz, skiffle and then rock and the

:55:40. > :55:39.Cliff Richard days and Joe Brown and so on. That goes into the Beatles

:55:40. > :55:39.and it takes you all the way through until today. We have an area for the

:55:40. > :55:39.Brits were we will be showing clips from the Brits that was on two days

:55:40. > :55:39.ago. We have got the X Factor represented as well. It is rich

:55:40. > :55:39.talent that only the UK could provide. We have a fantastic exhibit

:55:40. > :55:39.from David Bowie, we have Cilla Black and Dusty Springfield's

:55:40. > :55:39.dresses and outfits. We have got about 800 artefacts and we tell the

:55:40. > :55:39.story in three different ways. We tell it through the history and you

:55:40. > :55:39.can see how music morphed from one form to the other. But we also tell

:55:40. > :55:39.it by the way it is transmitted and the way it was broadcast, so you can

:55:40. > :55:39.see all the history from the early TVs right up until today. Ordinary

:55:40. > :55:39.people, people not in your business, if they go to a concept they will

:55:40. > :55:39.keep a bit of memorabilia, maybe the brochure from the event or the

:55:40. > :55:39.ticket from a gig. As a promoter you have been in some extraordinary

:55:40. > :55:39.moment in time going back many years. Did you do that? Did you say,

:55:40. > :55:39.I have got to get a little something because this will not happen again?

:55:40. > :55:39.I did, actually, yes. I have got all sorts of things. Tickets, passes,

:55:40. > :55:39.signed programmes, posters and leaflets. What are the ones you most

:55:40. > :55:39.value either emotionally or in terms of their musical significance? I

:55:40. > :55:39.worked with some of the very old blues musicians and muggy Waters

:55:40. > :55:39.signed an album sleeve for me which I did not ask for. He just gave it

:55:40. > :55:39.to me at the end of a tour we did. He wrote some really nice things.

:55:40. > :55:39.Bob Dylan wrote some stuff for me and so on. They all do, really. I

:55:40. > :55:39.have kept them all and one day I will have my own museum. I am trying

:55:40. > :55:39.to work out what to do with it because it spans quite a way back.

:55:40. > :55:39.It is fascinating. Part of what we are trying to do is celebrate the

:55:40. > :55:39.richness of the most amazing talent we have in the UK, and also to get

:55:40. > :55:39.young people, to stimulate them for them to say, I want to get into it.

:55:40. > :55:39.We have an instrument room as well where you can go and play every

:55:40. > :55:39.single instrument and you can record it. So you can have a go. We have a

:55:40. > :55:39.dance room as well. And an exhibit from live aid. Yes, we are still

:55:40. > :55:39.giving out money on live aid, believe it or not. Lovely to see you

:55:40. > :55:39.and thank you for bringing in these various things.

:55:40. > :55:39.The British Music Experience opens in Liverpool on the 9th March.

:55:40. > :55:39.We're back from 6am tomorrow on BBC One.

:55:40. > :55:39.Now it's time for Britain's Home Truths with Nicki Chapman.

:55:40. > :55:39.Us Brits have a passion for property

:55:40. > :55:39.and of course our national obsession is house prices.

:55:40. > :55:40.But housing is about so much more than bricks and mortar.