16/03/2017 Breakfast

Hello - this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

MPs are to be banned from employing their relatives

The new rules will come in after the next election

but there's been an angry reaction from some at Westminster.

The Dutch Prime Minister sees off the challenge of the far right -

he says the voters have rejected "the wrong sort of populism."

We are talking about getting more people involved in science and

engineering. facing a skills shortage

over the next few years. In sport, Manchester City are out

of the Champions League despite holding a two goal

cushion from the first leg, losing 3-1 in Monaco last night

to be knocked out on away goals. we meet the twelve year

old who's using dance And he even had time

to teach me a few moves. When you have no one, you get

bullied, you go to the corner, you are on your own but if you have

someone, you go over there and they are like, but you all right? And Cal

has the weather. As a cold front goes through, colder conditions will

follow. With England and Wales, cloudy and fog to the southern half

of England. I will tell you where in 15 minutes.

MPs are to be banned from employing relatives using taxpayers' money.

says the new rules will be brought in after the next election

and will encourage fair and open recruitment.

Relatives employed by MPs up until this time won't be affected

For years, the amount of taxpayers money paid to MPs relatives has been

under scrutiny. In 2010, a limit of one family member was introduced

following the expenses scandal. Now the Independent authority has gone

further. From the next election due in 2020, no new staff relatives will

be allowed to work at Westminster. The watchdog says the employment of

connected parties is out of step with modern employment practice

witching -- which requires Berendt opening recruitment to encourage

diversity in the workplace. 151 of the 650 MPs are known to employ

family members. This includes 84 conservatives, 50 from Labour and

ten from the SNP. Last year ?4.5 million of public funds was paid to

relatives. Family members employed by MPs were paid on average ?5,600

more than other stuff. One Tory MP -- and P, Sir Roger Gale, who has

employed his wife for more than 30 years, says the block on spouses is

crass and says Parliament will regret it.

Let's talk to our political correspondent Mark Lobel -

Mark how is this likely to go down with MPs?

No evidence of a big scandal, some may be very surprised, to be honest.

Around one in four MPs employs a relative at the moment and as

someone who we have spoken too stressed, it's great value for

money, they can get hold of our partner 24- seven and they can trust

them, key factors in an office and one conservative MP says he employed

his wife at far less than the market rate to underline what great value

it was. A Labour MP said those MPs with constituents outside of London,

it's not only await to work together with constituents but also to work

together, so it is good for marriages. The Independent

Parliamentary watchdog does not say it's a terrible system. There is one

logged abuse of the system. But they also agree it's good value but they

say it's inappropriate and they want to change recruitment practices.

The Chancellor has sought to support a U-turn by saying it is good for

taxpayers. Writing in the Sun, the Chancellor says the Conservatives

are determined to keep to the spirited their commitments.

Early results show Prime Minister Mark Rutte has come out

on top, after parliamentary elections were held

His liberal VVD party won 31 out of 150 seats,

seeing off competition from Geert Wilders and the anti-Islam

The Dutch election is the first of three crucial eurozone

Within a couple of hours of polls closing, Mark Rutte was wearing a

smile which confirmed he will serve another term as Prime Minister. His

centre-right party may have lost seats but they remain by far the

largest in the Dutch Parliament. In his speech he chose to focus on what

voters had rejected. It's also an evening where the Netherlands, after

Brexit, after the US election, said stop to the wrong kind of populism.

This election drew international attention over the prospect of huge

gains for Geert Wilders, the man nicknamed the Dutch Trump. With this

anti-EU, anti-Islam platform, he was predicted to win one quarter of the

vote but he made few gains, bringing relief across Europe. A state from

the French Foreign Minister congratulated the Dutch people. The

President of the European Commission called this, a vote for Europe, a

vote against extremists. Another standout result is the breakthrough

of the pro- immigration Green Party who made the biggest gains of the

night. It is likely to be several weeks before a coalition government

is formed that this outcome keeps the Netherlands committed to the EU

and keeps populism on the fringes of this country's politics.

The Queen will sign government legislation into law

today, which clears the way for Theresa May to begin talks

The bill was passed by MPs and peers on Monday.

It's thought the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50,

the legal mechanism to begin the withdrawal, before the end

President Donald Trump's new travel ban has been blocked by a judge

just hours before it was due to begin.

The government wanted to stop people from six

predominantly Muslim countries from travelling

Mr Trump has reacted angrily, accusing the judge

Police in the southern Indian state of Goa

have charged a man with the murder of an Irish woman.

28-year-old Danielle McLaughlin's body

We can now speak to our India Correspondent,

Yogita Limaye who is in Goa for us.

Behind me as the field were Daniele's body was found. Yesterday

evening, of the jewel for her here with a lot of local people who lay

down flowers and photographs and candles. This is quite an isolated

spot but to my left a couple of 100 metres is the main busy highway

which connects north and south Goa. Lots of big beaches and restaurants

which Goa is known for. Police said when her body was discovered, she

had facial and head injuries. Speaking with an officer involved in

the investigation who has told the police believe they have found the

main culprit. They say they have compelling evidence which includes

CCTV camera footage which shows the victim walking with the accused.

They also say they have seized a vehicle which has black stains on it

and some clothes with black smears on them. They are still questioning

the man to find out if he was working alone or with someone else.

Work is set to begin on the refurbishment

of Buckingham Palace after MPs approved an increase in the funding

the queen receives from the Treasury.

The grant will increase by 66% to pay for the works

which are expected to take ten years and cost ?369 million.

Officials say without the repairs there's a risk of catastrophic

building failure being inflicted on a cherished national monument.

A team of mine-hunting US navy dolphins have been brought out

of retirement to help scientists work out why whales get stranded

The sounds of shipping and sonar have long been blamed

but the research suggests it could be more complicated

I do like the idea of a team of Dolphins coming out of retirement.

It is a bit like the team. The DTN. Police in New Zealand are worried

about beehive theft. Experts say soaring prices the native manuka

honey is driving the bat. Have you ever tried to buy manuka honey? You

need a mortgage. Very special. 6:10am is the time. Have you been

preparing maps? Just like that. I am talking about Manchester City

unsurprisingly. If you are a fan, you might be waking up dealing a bit

like Pep Guardiola looks in that picture. A 2- goal cushion thrown

away, if you like. Pep Guardiola said he struggled to get his play at

-- players to attack. It must be very frustrating. Watching your

chances bickering away into the distance. They didn't play his style

of football. What is the reason? Pep Guardiola will be asking some

serious questions. Manchester City have been knocked

out of the Champions League in the last 16 Despite

winning the first leg, a 3-1 defeat at Monaco last night

means they exit the competition The result leaves Leicester City

as the last remaining British side There was a big surprise

in the feature race on Day Two of the Cheltenham Festival,

where Special Tiara - ridden by Noel Fehily -

won the Queen Mother Champion Chase. Favourite Douvan finished seventh,

costing one punter ?500,000. Could the Commonwealth Games be

coming back to the UK in 2022? Glasgow hosted the last games

and now the organisers say they would consider a joint bid

from UK cities after Durban Rory McIlroy says he'll have a bad

taste in his mouth when he plays at Muirfield again despite the club

voting to accept female He says it's obscene and ridiculous

they had taken so long to allow Rory McIllroy said he will not be

having a cup of tea with the members. It left a bad taste in his

mouth. Rory came out and as usual, very outspoken and very honest. That

is have a look at the weather. Good morning to you, Carol. Good morning,

all. Mild start of the day. Yesterday, the warmest day of this

year so far. London, Kew Gardens to be precise, 18.8. Widen, 17.4dC.

That individually for Wales was its warmest day. In other parts of the

UK, pretty good for March. Today not as warm as it was yesterday but

still mild for many. Also looking at some cloudier skies. We do have a

weather front, a cold front which is coming in from the north-west,

slowly sinking south-west. We will see the temperatures tumble. This

morning, here is cold front. Patchy light rain in drizzle. Across

northern England and Northern Ireland, edging in with the

temperatures around ten, 11, maybe 12. As we go south across England

and Wales, more murky conditions. Fog affecting parts of the South of

England. Also some fog in the English Channel. That should lift. A

weather front continues its descent. But we -- weaker as it moves into

northern England and northern Wales. We are looking at bright spells and

sunshine and showers but some of those showers will be wintry in

nature and still windy across the north. Ahead of this weather front,

the cloud will build. The skies will be in the south-east. That is where

the highest temperatures will be. There is the weather front, moving

south. Behind, we will see a plethora of showers. Driven him in

this brisk wind. Quite wintry. You could see a little bit with the low

levels in parts of the Highlands. A chilly night to come in the north.

Certainly more than the night that has just gone. That is how we start

the day tomorrow. We have rain coming in across Northern Ireland.

Moving in across parts of Scotland and northern England. South of that,

we are looking at the cloud building. Behind it, across

Scotland, much fresher. Looking at some sunshine and wintry showers.

Their bridges further south. Then the weekend, an array of weather

fronts. That means through the course of this weekend, the world --

the weather will be fairly unsettled. At times, windy and wept.

Some dry interludes as well. All that glorious sunshine yesterday was

just a tease. Some of us will see it again today.

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MPs will be banned from employing family members at the taxpayer's

expense under new rules aimed at encouraging fair

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MPs will be banned from employing family members at the taxpayer's

expense under new rules aimed at encouraging fair

The Dutch Prime Minister has hailed his victory over

the far-right in the country's elections as a rejection

Now for a quick look at the front pages. The Daily Mail following the

story you will have seen yesterday, Alexander Blackman's conviction

changed yesterday, his murder conviction overturned. That is

Claire Blackman who cannot conceal her happiness, a great deal of joy

amongst her family. The Daily Mirror have the expenses story that at

least 12 MPs face possible charges over election claims. If convicted,

it could trigger damaging by-elections. Many of the papers

musing over a sequence of events, a week since Philip Hammond did an

interview with us after the budget talking about changes to the

National Insurance, and looking at some of the quotes yesterday as he

gave his statement to the Commons, his quote asked about who first

realise the government had been in flagrant breach of the manifesto

commitment - Philip Hammond says, he said it in the Commons, I think it

was Laura Kuenssberg. Well done, Laura. Theresa May has forced Philip

Hammond into the U-turn over the budget, and lots of pictures like

this in the papers with him looking and little downcast leaving number

11 Downing St. I have some good rugby stories, one from union and

one from league. A big weekend in the Six Nations with England going

for the back-to-back Grand Slam for the first time since 1991 - 1992,

and the Times have an interview with Will Carling, looking back at his

time, he said his kids found out he was England captain because one of

his school friends told them, and they were like, no, dad, you are too

fat. There must be lots of parents who did something cool in the past

and their kids are like, no, you just do my washing, don't you? That

is funny. And in the Daily Express, groundbreaking moment for rugby

league, what is it like to play rugby league, the big sell is it is

fast, there are big tackles, 13 on the pitch rather than 15 in union.

What they will do tonight when Warrington play against Lee, they

will put a camera on a player's shirt, so you can see when they are

in the tackle. Will it not...? No, it is like a flat camera, it is in

the vest, brand-new technology, and for the first time you can see what

it is like to play the sport. Will we get the sound as well? That is a

bit of a problem, isn't it? There might be some fruity language. You

never know. I have this in the Times is about Newquay, a beautiful place

to go, not so much if you live there. If you take your family,

there are a lot of stag and hen dos. Fancy dress has been banned because

it is, what they say, killing the nightlife. How? The parties go in

the fancy dress and it puts local people off going out so much, it

puts local families off because it gets rowdy. It sounds a little bit

like they are trying to stop the fun, doesn't it? It does, yes. You

can't ban fancy dress. What would Victoria Beckham do, it would be a

disaster? Right down at the bottom, can you see the scale of the suit?

Wow. Is this the new fashion? Don't look at me, Charlie. She is well

known for wearing things that are big in proportion to her, so she

will often wear a huge coat or jacket. I have to say, this is the

biggest I have seen her go so far. It looks like a return to the 70s

with the platform shoes. Nothing wrong with that. See you later on,

thank you. 12-year-old Junior loves

to dance but it made him He's since gone on to become

the UK's Freestyle Street Dance Champion and has been

on stage with Justin Beiber! Now he says he wants

to use his experience to help others and has raised ?300,000

for anti-bullying charities. I've been to meet him

as part of the BBC's annual # I go head over heels. We have been

invited here to talk to Junior. He has got a really important message

about bullying. In the past he had lots of problems with people having

a go at him because he is really an ass dancing. Let's go and meet him.

-- he is brilliant at dancing. Are you going to show me? Yeah. Junior's

dancing has always been an escape. From the age of seven he was bullied

relentlessly, kicked, punched and ridiculed for the street dance that

he loved. They were really difficult, lonely times. It all

started in Year 3 when a group of boys used to call me names like gay,

they called me gay because they didn't have think that boys could

dance, it was girls and women. You seem like a confident young man. I

have seen you dancing and you are brilliant at it. Would there have

been a time when if I was talking to you, you would have been a different

person? If you were to talk to me at primary school now I was not very

confident, I was a bit nervous, really, really nervous, I might not

know what to say. One thing you've got now which is so great is

friends. They always believed in me, they always tell me to go succeed,

go and succeed in your dream and not to be sad or put down by people, you

should always succeed and achieve. Junior, just talk me through who we

have got here, anyway, who are your mates? This is Ewan, this is George,

this is another Ewan and this is Dylan. So, these guys are important

to you? Yes. Why? Because we are in the same football team. They always

look out for each other. Clearly, having friends around helps a lot.

Yes, because when you have not got anyone and you get bullied, it is

one of them things, you get bullied, you go to the corner, like, you are

on your own. Whereas if you have got someone, if someone says something

to you which hurts you, you go over and they will be like, are you all

right, what happened, what do they say? And they would be like, it is

OK, it is all right. I think everyone needs a mate like you. Oh,

thank you. Junior's friends now support him in his dream to become a

professional dancer and he has already been on stage with Justin

Bieber, raising ?300,000 for anti- bullying charities. And today he

even finds time to help and middle-aged man learn some steps.

Embarrassing? Oh, yes. Junior, do I need to warm up? Oh, no, you will be

all right. OK. What are you going to teach me? This move. You make it

look so easy. Go on, talk me through it. Put your hand up, you start with

your hand, it goes like that. Up and down? And then your elbow. And then

your shoulder. And then it goes into that shoulder and that one comes out

that comes out. Yes, so you go, like... Yeah. No!

Oh, Charlie, well done, you were quite good. The point is, that is an

embarrassing moment at the end of an important piece about bullying and

how one young man and his mates have completely overdone a bunch of

bullies who have tried to make their lives hell. We got you to dance on

TV. It happened. Yes, it really did. The UK's engineering sector employs

almost six million people but it's facing a major skills shortage

over the next few years. Steph is at Britain's biggest

science and technology fair to find out how the industry is hoping

to inspire the engineers If there is one woman who can do it,

it is Steph. Well, I am certainly wearing the right top for it.

Morning, everybody. I am at a Big Bang science fair and it won't be

long before this place is packed with 20,000 young people coming to

learn about the careers you can have in science and engineering. And it

is certainly going to be busy with lots of people coming in. And also

as part of it they run a big competition so that young people

from around the country have been inventing things. One of the

products, you can see here, this is Rees, who will show off this

product. Come on, show us how to do it. This is one of many inventions

made by boys from a school in Thirsk, for a school with the boys

on the autistic spectrum, and we can talk to Cameron, tell me what you

have got? Well, basically, it is a ride on toy for the disabled and

visually impaired, and it has brakes and it has parking sensors from a

car. And also it has a rod if someone is unsure. And it also has

an optional, well, it has a light as well, although that is just for fun.

Yes, how did you come up with the idea? Well, so that visually

impaired people don't like to ride bikes, like we do, we thought we

would make it so they can have fun as well. Yes, well, it looks

excellent, and we will show off a lot more of the experiment here.

Thank you very much, Cameron, I appreciate it. More from me a little

bit later on. I think Steph should win the best transportation prize.

Absolutely, I look forward to Plenty more on our website

at the usual address. Now, though, it's back

to Charlie and Sally. Hello this is Breakfast,

with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent We'll have the latest news

and sport in just a moment After the government's budget

U-turn, we'll ask what this means for the Chancellor's reputation

and how he plans to balance Also, this morning, from charity

fundraisers to memorial services, mass balloon releases

are increasingly popular. We'll hear claims they pose a risk

to wildlife and should be banned. And, he's spent years memorising

opera and he's only 11. We'll speak to the schoolboy

who is set to make musical history and become one of the world's

youngest conductors. But now a summary of this

morning's main news. MPs are to be banned

from employing husbands, wives, partners or any member

of their family under new rules. The oarliamentary expenses watchdog

says it will encourage fair After the expenses scandal MPs

were limited to employing only one relative and around a quarter

of MPs still do so. For years, the amount of taxpayers

money paid to MPs relatives has In 2010, a limit of one family

member was introduced Now the independent

authority has gone further. From the next election due in 2020,

no new staff relatives will be The watchdog says the employment

of connected parties is out of step with modern employment

practice which which requires Berendt opening

recruitment to encourage diversity 151 of the 650 MPs are known

to employ family members. This includes 84 Conservatives,

50 from Labour and 10 from the SNP. Last year, ?4.5 million of public

funds was paid to relatives. Family members employed by MPs

were paid on average ?5,600 more One Tory MP, Sir Roger Gale,

who has employed his wife for more than 30 years, says

the future block on spouses is crass and warns Parliament

will likely regret the decision. The Chancellor has sought to justify

a U-turn on tax rises for the self-employed

by saying it was necessary to maintain public trust

in the government. Philip Hammond dropped a planned

increase in national insurance contributions yesterday,

a week after announcing it Writing in The Sun, he says

the Conservatives are determined to keep to the spirit

of their commitments. The Dutch Prime Minister,

Mark Rutte, has claimed victory in his country's general election,

saying the Netherlands rejected what he described as "the wrong

sort of populism". Votes are still being counted,

but Mr Rutte's centre-right party is on course

to win the most seats. The indications are that

the far-right candidate, Geert Wilders, performed

worse than expected although his Freedom Party

is projected to gain seats. The Queen will sign government

legislation into law today, which clears the way for Theresa May

to begin talks on Britain The Bill was passed by MPs

and peers on Monday. It's thought the Prime Minister

will trigger Article 50, the legal mechanism to begin

the withdrawal, before the end President Donald Trump's new travel

ban, has been blocked by a judge just hours before

it was due to begin. The government wanted

to stop people from six predominantly Muslim

countries from travelling Mr Trump has reacted angrily -

accusing the judge of This is the opinion of many, an

unprecedented judicial overreach. This ruling makes us look weak

which, by the way, we know longer are, believe me.

Police in the southern Indian state of Goa,

have charged a man with the murder of an Irish woman.

28-year-old Danielle McLaughlin's body was discovered

in an isolated area close to a tourist resort, on Tuesday.

Police said a 24-year-old man has been arrested

While the Dolphins are helping them to understand how marine animals

behave around Sonar and shipping sounds. Researchers from The

University of California Santa Cruz think panicked Wales from the noise

and end up exhausted, causing them to drift off course and then into

trouble. And those are the main stories this morning. Now for sport.

I have heard of Navy SEALs but never Navy Dolphins. Retired Navy

Dolphins. What are they doing to mark they were on the beach, playing

bingo. Who knows? I am talking about Manchester City unsurprisingly.

Fans, after the hectic first leg, where city came back to score in 11

minutes, they were on a bit of a high. They thought city had the

momentum but were crushing down to work with a bit of a bump this

morning. Manchester City have been knocked

out of the Champions League by Monaco on away goals -

they've failed to reach They held a two goal advantage

going into the match but Monaco through, but Manchester City

pressure brought a Leroy Sane goal came in final quarter of an hour

and it finished 3-1 on the night, with Monaco through

on the away goals rule. We play 45 minutes in created a lot

of chances but we missed 45 minutes and we spoke lots of times but these

days, you try to be, our strength is to be aggressive without the ball in

the first half, we were a little bit slow in everything which is why we

could not do it, because it is so complicated.

So Leicester are the only British team left in the Champions League,

and Manchester United will be hoping to be the only British side

in the quarter finals of the Europa League,

but they have to get past Rostov at Old Trafford tonight.

The game's one-all after the first leg and manager

Jose Mourinho has spent the build-up defending world record signing

He thinks his critics are a bit jealous.

It's not that he gets ten times the money, but some very good players.

It's not his fault that some of the pundits are in real trouble with

their lives and they need every point to survive and Paul is a

multimillionaire. It is not his fault. Envy is everywhere.

Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford will be named

Injuries to Harry Kane and Daniel Sturridge mean the United

frontman - who scored on his senior England debut against Australia last

year will be in Gareth Southgate's squad to face Germany next week

It was one of the biggest shocks in the history of the Cheltenham

Festival after the odds-on favourite Douvan missed out on the places

One punter put ?500 million on Douvan -

but saw his money slipping away as the horse struggled and the race

came down to a tight finish won by Special Tiara.

Muirfield Golf Club may have scrapped its all-male policy

and been welcomed back onto to books of the Open

but Rory McIlroy says he is not ready to toast a new era.

The world number three has been very critical that women were denied

They sort of source sense. I still think the fact that it got to the

stage is horrendous. And yeah, we will go back and play the open

because they have let the members in but every time I go to Muirfield, I

will have a bad taste in my mouth. The former world champion,

Stuart Bingham has been charged with breaking snooker's

betting rules. Bingham admitted placing bets

on other players' matches but said he thought the rules only applied

to matches he was involved in. The world number three must wait

for the investigation into him to finish before finding

out his punishment. With England on the brink of a world

record 19th straight victory this weekend, the RFU has confirmed it

wants to arrange a match against the World Number Ones

New Zealand later this year and athings stand, England

are not due to play the All Blacks until the autumn

Internationals NEXT year. However, unless Premiership clubs

receive compensation they may not Wales have named an unchanged side

again - that's three matches in a row that they've gone

with the same fifteen Hooker Ken Owens will win his 50th

cap against France in Paris. Could the Commonwealth Games

be coming back the UK? Durban were stripped of the 2022

Games earlier in the week. Liverpool had already put themselves

forward as a replacement, and now London and Birmingham have

also expressed an interest Officials want to make a quick

decision about the new host and said Glasgow hosted

the Games 3 years ago, It is so sad to Durban that they

have these difficulties. They were going to be the first African nature

in to post, while games. It will be fun to see it in the UK. It used to

be a joint bid. They do not need more velodrome is in the country.

They were having to share a bit. That means it might be a bit

desperate. You might have to travel around the country. It's not a done

deal yet. With crucial elections in France

and Germany in the next few months, the result of a parliamentary vote

in the Netherlands is seen as a key barometer of the political mood

in Europe and the strength Early results show Mark Rutte

is expected to remain The anti-Islamist Freedom Party,

led by Geert Wilders, had been gaining support but early

indications suggest he performed who is a politics lecturer

at Loughborough University. I know the results are not

definitely finalised but from what we know, are you surprised by what

you've seen? The big surprise is that the Liberals, with Mark Rutte,

ended so far ahead. For the rest, the field looks very fragmented. A

lot of parties with an equal amount of seats at the same parliament.

This election has been watched very closely, hasn't it? After the recent

Brexit vote. There was some nervousness, wasn't there?

Certainly. That election got so much international media because of Geert

Wilders and because it fell between Brexit, Trump and the elections in

France and Germany but this election result points to nothing new. This

is definitely not a landslide result for Dutch politics. The radical

Right has been around for ten years. Since 2002, we saw strong populist

contenders. It's difficult to analyse. Can you explain why the

result is looking like this now? Normally in previous elections, we

have seen two parties would finish on top. Most voters would would

rally around one centre-right party. It's a bit of a surprise that the

Liberals had so far ahead of the rest. But the rest, it is very

fragmented. A lot of parties with around 20, 20 seats also. Is it fair

to call Geert Wilders as someone like Donald Trump? You shed a lot of

characteristics. The antiestablishment, the appeal to the

ordinary people, but there are a lot of policy differences. Thank you

very much indeed. Our main stories this morning. MPs

will be banned from employing family members at the taxpayers expense of

the new rules aimed at in courage in fair and open recruitment. The Dutch

Prime Minister has claimed a victory over the far right in the country's

elections, calling it a rejection of the wrong sort of populism. Time for

a look at the weather. This morning, a mild start the day across the

northern half of the country. Not as mild further south. Let us look at

what we had yesterday. The warmest day of this year so far. That was

recorded in Kew Gardens in London. Gravesend, not too far behind it.

Hawarden in North Wales reached 17.4, making it the warmest day

Wales has had so far this year. Today, it will still be mild but not

as mild as yesterday. Cloudy skies. Starting with some fog patches.

Particularly across southern parts of England. A cold front coming in

as well. As it moves across Scotland and Northern Ireland, you will

notice the temperature is going to go down. It's also going to in some

rain. Here it is by eight o'clock. Some patchy rain ahead of it. Across

northern England, some murky conditions. The rain extending in

from Northern Ireland. You can see some patchy rain across the West of

Wales. As we move in across the West of England, towards the south-west,

some patchy fog and quite a bit of cloud. The patchy fog will lift

through the morning and as a band of rain descends across Scotland and

Northern Ireland, into northern England and North Wales, we return

to sunshine and showers, some of which in Scotland will be wintry. A

fair bit of cloud around. Locally, across parts of East Anglia,

especially East London and Kent, possibly 16 or more. As we head on

through the thing, here is the weather front. Continuing to push

down into the south-east. A fair bit of cloud. It's going to be a cold

night, a windy one of a lot of showers. Not just on high ground. We

could see a little bit of wet snow at low levels. That is how we start

tomorrow. Through the morning, more rain comes in from the Atlantic. But

he ran across Northern Ireland, parts of southern and central

Scotland and northern England and Wales. Cold enough to see some snow,

especially in the Scottish hills. Not unusual now. Ahead of that band

of rain, it will cloud over. But note that temperatures. 6-8 as we

push into the north. Heading into the weekend, a plethora of weather

fronts coming our way. You consider just romping in from the Atlantic,

squeezing in the isobars, telling you it's going to be windy at times.

So in summary, the weather for this weekend is looking unsettled. It

will be windy at times, the leftist conditions will be where these

fronts arrived but there will be some dry spells in between.

Just a quick look at the front pages, the front of the Daily Mail

following yesterday's events in the courts, Alexander Buttner and's

appealed against his conviction for shooting at a wounded Taliban.

Readers for the Daily Mail raised money in connection with that

appeal. Remember sitting on the sofa one week ago when you asked the

Chancellor might he consider changing his mind on national

insurance contributions? Well, yeah, did he answer that? Well, he

repeated at the time he was adamant they were doing the right thing for

the right reasons, but a week is a long time in politics and a great

deal has changed. The front of the Times and the U-turn. The front of

the Daily Mirror and the Guardian that look into the funding of the

general election with 12 MPs, conservative MPs, questioned in

connection with how the money was spent, that is also on the front of

the Guardian newspaper. The Daily Express says the Queen is to sign

the EU except Bill today, and a fantastic picture of glorious

sunshine yesterday McCarroll explaining that even though

yesterday was beautifully sunny, it won't be late that everywhere else

today. They're the brains behind

our bridges, buildings Engineers make up about one

in five jobs in the UK. But engineering's trade body

is warning of a major skills shortage if more don't

join the profession. Steph is at Britain's biggest

science and technology fair to find out how young people

are being inspired to become Morning to you, Steph. Good morning,

Sally and Charlie, and everybody, I am at the Big Bang science fair,

where they expect 20,000 young people to come and visit over the

next couple of days, all, as you say, on expiring people into

science, technology, engineering and mathematics, what we need skilled

people in, and it is all about telling them the different jobs in

the industry. Another big part of it is on the inventions here. Lots of

young people from around the country have been competing with lots of

different inventions and science project ideas. Let's go and meet

some of them. Gia, tell us what you have come up with. I have done an

app which will help you with your transport, there is an alarm to help

read music or... So, if you are on the train, like me, quite often, you

are sitting on the train and all of a sudden you might not off, this

will help to make sure you don't miss your stop? Definitely, and

there is a seating feature on the busy days when you don't know which

carriage to get on. And there is whether information, travel

information and general lost property. The difference is this is

all in one place, you don't have to go to different websites, you don't

have to e-mail 100 people over a lost umbrella. How did you come up

with it? I catch the train every day to go to school, I have to wake up

at a disgusting ally, then I saw a guy Misi stop and I saw the horror

on his face, and I thought, it could to anyone. We need to make it a

positive experience. And Ellen, tell us about yours, this looks

interesting? It is a glove for deaf people which uses motion sensors to

translate it into speech, and a microphone which picks up the spoken

language from a response and it notes it down on the screen on the

inside wrist so that the deaf person can read it. Point out how that

would work? The sensors will be in the fingers and across the hand and

there will be a screen on the inside, this is where the sensors

will be converted into speech. And how did you come up with this, it is

incredible? I read an article about how deaf people struggle with

communication and it might lead to depression and anxiety. And I

thought it would be good for deaf people to become more independent in

society. Yeah, so you came up with this cracking idea. Good luck to

you. We are moving onto Louis with his teacher dressed as a beekeeper.

What is this all about? My project is about re- populating bees in the

north-east. People might not know but these are extremely important,

without then the economy would have crashed a long time ago and a lot of

them have been declining over recent years. So, what does the project

involved? We have four project aims, one, a safe habitat for the bees,

the second is to find out what's causing the decline in the bees, the

third one is to raise awareness in the local community and the fourth

is to possibly try and increase... And it means regularly putting your

teacher in the beehive outfits, which is always a laugh. Thank you.

How good are they? We have loads more. Let's chat with Paul from

EngineeringUK on why this is so important. Morning. Great to see

these inventions. What is it all about? It allows children to bring

their inventions to take part, and 75,000 people here will find out

about science and engineering. They will be lots of jobs in future so

this is an opportunity for the young people to bring alive the maths and

science they do in the classroom by making people who use it everyday.

Often, criticism of the engineering sector is it has an image of people

that it is quite outdated, isn't it, so tell us all about the jobs,

because they vary a lot, don't they? Well, they do, and here we have

clean water to sub Saharan Africa, the way in which biology and

engineering Company gather for human health in the future, and we have

things like the aeroplanes and diggers and things you may associate

with engineering on a large scale. So, it is the things that will

change the world and change macro lies in future that we want to be

part of. -- change our lives in future. Thank you. And here is Rhys

from one of the schools which has come up with this excellent design.

We will tell you about more of them. Show us your best moves, Rees. Look

at him go! No, I think a screw has come off. Oh, note! If anyone can

fix that, it is you. -- oh, no! Quick, running repairs. And we are

going to talk about Formula 1. Those youngsters will probably end up

working in Formula 1, where they? Yes. Kristian Horner from the Red

Bull team. And we are staying with children's health.

An increasing number of 11-16 year olds struggle with feeling unhappy,

self conscious and frightened but many don't ask for help,

that's the findings from a special survey carried out as part

Many of the young people questioned said they would prefer to talk

confidentially to someone at school about their concerns.

Bryony MacKenzie caught up with Jordan Stevens,

from the Rizzle Kicks, who started his own social media

campaign to get young people talking openly about mental health.

# Mama do the hump, mama do the hump hump, mama.

# Won't you please let me do the hump hump...

He found fame with a hip-hop duo, Rizzle Kicks, now Jordan

is being asked tough questions by school reporters about the tough

Have you or someone close to you experienced either mental

health issues or the stigma attached to that?

In school during my GCSEs I got diagnosed with ADHD.

I was always the hyper kid, I got told to calm down all the time

and it is the most infuriating thing for someone who cannot calm down.

Jordan began his own social media campaign to get young people talking

Becoming like famous gives you all this kind of stuff,

you know, and I was able to afford a flat and these kind of things that

people are like working day in day out to try and get but the reality

is that does not compensate for any kind of emotional stability,

in fact, it can often contribute to quite poor emotional stability.

According to a School Report survey, half of all pupils admit to having

negative feelings but do not ask for help.

Being in Year 9, sort of changing as a person,

it is a way to control change and it was something that

Florence developed anorexia when she was 14.

The reason I did not come out and say what I had been

through and what happened was because people did not

understand where I was coming from and, you know, it took a lot

of guts for me to say I had a problem and also I was in denial

because I was embarrassed and I thought that it was not normal

and it was not something that was OK.

Jordan wants his message to reach primary aged children.

To just remove the idea that it is kind of like some taboo,

to be open about how you feel and your mentality is,

Giving help to those who need it even earlier.

If you've been affected by any of the issues raised in that report

you can visit bbc.co.uk/schoolreportadvice.

I'm back with the latest from the BBC London newsroom

Plenty more on our website at the usual address.

Hello this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

MPs are to be banned from employing their relatives

The new rules will come in after the next election -

but there's been an angry reaction from some at Westminster.

The Dutch Prime Minister sees off the challenge of the far right -

he says the voters have rejected "the wrong sort of populism."

I am at the big bang science fair to find out how we get more young

people interested in science and engineering. About 45,000 rent --

apprentice in graduate engineers. despite holding a two goal

cushion from the first leg, losing 3-1 in Monaco and they're

out of the competition. We meet the twelve year old who's

using dance to spread the message When you can not got anyone and you

get bullied, you go to the corner come you are on your own were as if

you've got someone, you go over there and they will always ask if

you are all right? And good morning. Mild start of the day across

Scotland and Northern Ireland. Rain, fresh conditions behind it. Ahead of

it, for England and Wales, fairly cloudy for most of us. What you will

find is we see rain in the north later on. The best of the sunshine

and the south-east. More details on 15 minutes.

MPs are to be banned from employing husbands,

wives, partners or any member of their family under new rules.

The parliamentary expenses watchdog says it will encourage fair

After the expenses scandal MPs were limited to employing only one

relative and around a quarter of MPs still do so.

For years, the amount of taxpayers' money paid to MPs relatives has

In 2010, a limit of one family member was introduced

Now the independent authority has gone further.

From the next election due in 2020, no new staff relatives will be

151 of the 650 MPs are known to employ family members.

This includes 84 Conservatives, 50 from Labour and 10 from the SNP.

Last year, ?4.5 million of public funds was paid to relatives.

IPSA found family members employed by MPs were paid on average ?5,600

One Tory MP, Sir Roger Gale, who has employed his wife for more

than 30 years, says the future block on spouses is crass and warns

Parliament will likely regret the decision.

Let's talk to our political correspondent Mark Lobel.

Mark, how is this likely to go down with Mps?

It is curious in some ways. There is no evidence of abuse yet it's been

deemed to be slightly out of step with what people think would be

right. No evidence of a big scandal so I think some MPs are going to be

surprised to hear this news this morning, particularly as it is quite

a big change. A quarter of MPs employs a relative. It will not

affect them. It will affect new employees up to the next election.

Current relatives will be safe in our jobs. Still, MPs we have spoken

to say it will be a handy scheme, to have relatives in the office,

allowing Tustin them. You can get hold of them 24- seven and they are

great value for money. One conservative MP told us if they

travel outside of London, four constituencies that are far away,

it's not just useful for constituents to have this connection

with their constituents but also the partner. Scrape and marriages.

Another MP told us he employs his wife for far less. Underlining the

value for money and the good things about this system. The watchdog does

not dispute it is good value for money. They said there has only been

one instance of abuse. They say it is inappropriate and they want more

modern recruitment practices. A bald from you about Philip Hammond's

situation. The National Insurance climbdown. Last week he was telling

us why it was a good decision and he defended breaking the pledge. A lot

has changed. I think the damage on his credibility is bad. It's yet to

be determined. He has rowed back a bit in the sun, -- you wrote in the

Sun newspaper saying he wanted to restore faith in politics. The

people saw this as a breach of a manifesto commitment, he wanted to

pull back from that. I suspect it was more he did not want to have a

fight with his own side, but conservative MPs lining up to oppose

this measure and the normally more favourable press. I don't think he

wants that relationship to sour as they approach these very crucial

Brexit negotiations. The Dutch Prime Minister,

Mark Rutte, has claimed victory in his country's general election -

saying the Netherlands rejected what he described as "the wrong

sort of populism". The indications are that

the far-right candidate, Geert Wilders, performed

worse than expected although his Freedom Party

is projected to gain seats. Let's talk to our Europe

Correspondent Damian Grammaticas A beautiful sunny morning it is

there. Actually, no big shock result. Something of a surprise but

no big surge from the populist far right. The Prime Minister had framed

this in that way as an election that potentially could see that. He had

warned about the potential for the far right leader toppling the polls.

At the beginning, Geert Wilders had been at the top of the opinion

polls. All eyes internationally and across Europe had been on the

election here for that reason. What actually happened, Geert Wilders

significantly underperformed expectations. He secured something

like 13% of the vote. He has done better in previous elections,

particularly in 2010 and has gained a few seats but he is far behind the

Prime Minister who secured 20% of the vote. A sort of sigh of relief

from around European capitals at what has happened.

The Queen will sign government legislation into law today,

which clears the way for Theresa May to begin talks on Britain leaving

The Bill was passed by MPs and peers on Monday. It's thought the Prime

Minister will trigger Article 50, the legal mechanism to begin the

withdrawal, before the end of the month.

President Donald Trump's new travel ban, has been blocked by a judge

just hours before it was due to begin.

The government wanted to stop people from six predominantly Muslim

countries from travelling to the United States.

This is, in the opinion of many, an unprecedented judicial overrich.

This ruling makes us look week which, by the way, we know longer

write, believe me. Police in the southern Indian state of Gpa have

charged a man with the death of an Irish woman. We earlier spoke with

our Indian correspondent to is in Goa. Behind me is the fields where

Daniel's body was found. A lot of local people came. There are lots of

big beaches and restaurants that Goa is known for. Police say there were

injuries. I spoke with an officer was involved in the investigation.

They have compelling evidence which shows the victim walking with the

accused. They say they have seized a 2- wheeled vehicle with black stains

on it. Also some clothes with blood smears. They are questioning this

man to find out whether he was alone or there were others involved.

Work is set to begin on the refurbishment

of Buckingham Palace after MPs approved an increase in the funding

the Queen receives from the Treasury.

The grant will increase by 66% to pay for the works

which are expected to take ten years and cost ?369 million.

Officials say without the repairs there's a risk of "catastrophic

building failure" being inflicted on a "cherished national monument".

A team of US navy dolphins have come out of retirement to help scientists

investigate why whales become stranded in shallow water.

The dolphins are helping them to understand how marine animals

behave around sonar and shipping sounds.

Researchers from the University of California Santa Cruz think

panicked whales dive away from the noise and end up exhausted,

causing them to drift off course and into trouble.

Do you remember the whale in the Thames River? Stranded on the

Thames? It is really sad. Twin foals, a rarity in forcing world,

have been born on the farm in Suffolk.

called Tilly and Lilly, are just over a week

old and are doing well under the watchful eye of mum Rose

It is unusual for a mare to be allowed to carry twins to full-term

as it can be dangerous and lead to complications,

but Rose's pregnancy was too far developed to safely intervene.

The odds of survival for twin foals is usually just one-in-10,000.

Putting mobile cancer screening units in shopping centre car parks

could quadruple the number of people whose lung cancer is caught early,

according to research by leading cancer charity Macmillan.

Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK and around

three-quarters of cases are usually diagnosed at a late stage.

Michael Brady was offered a free scan at a supermarket in Manchester

and is currently receiving treatment.

My name is Michael Brady, I am 64 years of age and recently, I went

for a lung check. I have been diagnosed with cancer at the very,

very early stages. I am really grateful that I went to this check.

It's definitely saved my life because I could have gone maybe two,

three years and it could have spread everywhere. I feel a lot more

relaxed now I know that I know what I've got and we know we can treat it

and hopefully, they will treat it and it will go away. I hope there

are more of these scams about rather people to get the benefit and they

are definitely nothing to be scared about.

Dr Phil Barber is a lung cancer specialist at

the University Hospital of South Manchester and was involved

Really interesting to pick up on something. Don't be afraid to go and

get tested because lung cancer is one of those things, if you don't

think about it, it might not happen to you but if you start thinking

about it, you could get very worried. How much does having a scan

really accessible encourage people to go and get tested? That was a big

factor. The thing about lung cancer in general, not only is it the most

common cause of cancer death in the city of Manchester, it's the most

common cause of premature death of all. It's more common than heart

attack and stroke. A massive problem. The problem we face with it

is that when we investigate patients in the normal way, with symptoms,

75% of them are at the late stage. They cannot be jawed. It is

treatable but not curable. When somebody goes into one of these

scanners what happens? We sent letters of invitation to patients in

the right age range the cancer. We invited them to come for what we

call a lung health check. That's like a lung MOT, if you like. We did

the cheque, with questions about chest symptoms, lifestyle, smoking

habits and we used that to calculate the risk score. If patients were

above a certain risk, they went on to have a scan immediately with the

mobile scanner that was there in the supermarket car park. The whole

thing was done in a few minutes as a one-stop event. Talk as to what

happens. You do this can and Wendy find out the information? About the

patient? The image comes up immediately and they reported by

radiologists. You get the report in a few days. They are either normal

or intermediate or sometimes we find what we are looking for a non- duels

in lung tissue. Those patients have a positive scan and they have

further in this division. How important is it to spot them

immediately? Very important. We scan 1400 patients and found a cancer for

every 32 scans. Very importantly, 80% of those patients had

early-stage cancer, stage one and two, and they were nearly all

offered treatment. Interesting to hear the statistics when we heard

from Michael and moment a goat and you think it is a no-brainer,

obviously, it is a great idea, so if you have those facilities on hand,

should everyone beyond a certain age say, you know, why not, you

mentioned the procedures to make it worthwhile, why shouldn't everyone

do that? Well, we can look at the results of this pilot project and

see where to go from here. That is what we are doing. I think the fact

that the secret force -- for success was the health check, it is no

frightening thing. We did the ground work beforehand spreading the news

in the community before we started the project and I think the fact

that it is in the locality and that it is done straightaway, patients

don't have to cross town, you know, six miles to the hospital, whatever

it is, so I think they were the factors. The fact it was available

there and then made it... The patient didn't want to have it done?

More generally if you don't have any symptoms, you mentioned the age and

if you have been a smoker in the past, should people present

themselves to have these checks? Well, this is targeted screening. It

is possible, these risk calculators are quite sophisticated. You can

calculate risk of lung cancer within five or six years. And they are the

people who we have to consider looking at. Interesting project.

Thank you for talking through it. Here's Carol with a look

at this morning's weather. Morning. Good morning. Lovely

Weather Watchers pictures already in. We have a misty photo from

Shropshire. There is also some fog around this morning and we have a

variety of temperatures at the moment too. In Edinburgh and

Belfast, nine or ten, Exeter eight, Cardiff seven, London and Leeds six.

Today we have a weather front out in the north-west at the moment. As it

moves south, taking rain with it, the temperatures are high and it

will start to drop. This morning we have some rain across the Outer

Hebrides into the north-west of Northern Ireland preceded by patchy

rain and murky conditions especially on the hills. For northern England

it is a murky start with cloud around in places. Merck in Wales,

especially the west, dampness around, dampness in south-west

England and southern counties into the Midlands and East Anglia there

is patchy mist and fog around. That will lift gradually through the

course of the morning. The weather front across Scotland and Northern

Ireland will move south into northern England and north Wales.

Behind it will be blustery with sunshine and showers, some wintry,

whereas the head of it with a cloud around temperatures widely 11-13.

Where we hang on to sunshine, East Anglia into Kent and London, we

might hit 16, possibly a little more than that. As we go through the rest

of the afternoon and overnight, the weather front to the south-east, a

week feature with patchy rain but clear skies behind means it will be

a cold night with showers around, some of which will be wintry over

high ground. In Scotland we could see wet snow over low levels with

the risk of ice and frostbite it will be very patchy. Tomorrow we

start with bright skies for southern England and Wales. Showers to start

in Scotland but then we have rain across Northern Ireland, central

southern Scotland, northern England and Wales and ahead of that for the

Midlands and southern Midlands the cloud will build but still

temperatures hang on at 11-13 whereas under front we are looking

at cooler conditions around eight, so it will feel fresher. Then for

the weekend we have an array of whether funds zooming in from the

Atlantic one after the other and you can see from the squeeze on the

isobars it is going to be windy at times. So to put more detail on that

you can expect this weekend unsettled weather that will be windy

at times, also wet, especially in the wet, and we will see some dry

spells. It isn't going to be raining all the time. Thanks very much. And

one piece of breaking news that in the last few minutes of the

Conservative Party has been fined ?70,000 for a breach of election

expenses. You are aware that the election commission has been looking

into alleged misreporting of expenses during the general election

campaign. We also know separately that there was a police

investigation ongoing and that a number of MPs will be questioned,

conservative MPs, questioned as part of that investigation. It concluded

significant failures by the party to report accurately on how much it

spent on campaigning in three by-elections in 2014 and in 2015 on

the general election. And we will bring more news on that as soon as

we can. The time is 7:20am. Steph is at Britain's biggest

science and technology fair this morning to find out how the industry

is hoping to inspire the engineers I might let Charlie say what she has

with her. Well, I called it a Carbeque. That is spot on. It is a

Carbeque. We are outside but it is worth it because someone has

breakfast on the go and this is Fraser's invention. Lots of young

inventions. Tell us what this is about, this is your idea? We made

something outside the box and this is kind of what we came up with. The

car was ruined when we got it, so we chopped it in half and put a

barbecue where the engine should be. So it is just helped to inspire them

and stop them from thinking they are failure. You show them the kind of

engineering that has gone into it with all of the welding skills as

part of this? Yes. And you have bacon on the go. Well done, thank

you. I have some of the inventors I want to introduce you to. You have

solved a problem a lot of us have? Yes, at school we took a survey to

find the problem with most people and how they West Arnhem, so

everyone said that the bus queues and congestion is what most people

waste time doing, so we thought we could do much more on the time

marking, school clubs, lots of things. To solve the problem we used

a BBC Micro bit, the RFID reader and tag, radio frequency identification,

so if every student and teacher had the RFID tag with information on it,

then the reader will read it and it can tell them whether they can go in

or not. Science at its best. I love that. I am going to take you back

indoors. We will get some Sam Wood is to take back with us and this

event, this science fair, is going on for the next few days with

thousands of young people expected, 20,000, all about inspiring them in

science and engineering. We need more people in the area. More from

me a little bit later on. Thank you very much. Enjoy the bacon butties.

12-year-old Junior loves to dance but it made him

He's since gone on to become the UK's Freestyle Street Dance

Champion and has been on stage with Justin Beiber!

Now he says he wants to use his experience to help others

and has raised ?300,000 for anti-bullying charities.

I've been to meet him as part of the BBC's annual School Report

We have been invited here to talk to Junior.

He has got a really important message about bullying.

In the past he had lots of problems with people having a go at him

Are you going to show me a little dancing?

Junior's dancing has always been an escape.

He's 12 now, in a new school, but from the age of seven

he was bullied relentlessly, kicked, punched and ridiculed

They were really difficult, lonely times.

It all started in year three when a group of boys used to call me

names like gay, they called me gay because they didn't have think

boys could dance, it was girls and women.

I have seen you dancing and you are brilliant at it.

Was there a time when if I was talking to you,

you would have been a different person?

If you were to talk to me at primary school now I was not very confident,

I was a bit nervous, really, really nervous,

One thing you've got now which is so great is friends.

They always believe in me, they always tell me to go succeed,

go and succeed in your dream and not to be sad or put down by people,

you should always succeed and achieve.

Junior, just talk me through who we have got here,

This is Ewan, this is George, this is another Ewan

Because we are in the same football team.

Clearly, having friends around helps a lot.

Yeah, because when you have not got anyone and you get bullied,

it's one of them things, you get bullied, you go

to the corner, like, you're on your own.

Whereas if you have got someone, if someone says something

to you which kind of hurts you, you go over and they will be like,

are you all right, what happened, what do they say?

And they would be like, it's all right, it's all right.

I think everyone needs a mate like you.

Junior's friends now support him in his dream to become

a professional dancer and he's already been on stage

with Justin Bieber, he's raised ?300,000

And today he even finds time to help and middle-aged man

Put your hands up, you start with your hand, it goes like that.

And then it goes into that shoulder and that one comes out

I look like I have dislocated my shoulder in part of that. Is your

shoulder OK? It is OK and I am best not to dwell on that, and more about

the message which is all these don't win, do what you do, love what you

do and everything will be all right in the end, but it is not always

easy. His friends are great, really lovely. He told his story as part of

the BBC School Report, and you can see that [email protected]/

I'm back with the latest from the BBC London newsroom

Now, though, it's back to Charlie and Sally.

with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

The Conservative Party has been fined ?70,000 for breaching

The Conservative Party has been fined ?70,000 for breaching

The decision by by the Electoral commission

follows an investigation into alleged mis-reporting

of expenses during the 2015 general election campaign.

Our political correspondent is Mark Lobel.

Local activists have been bussed in to fight marginal seats but when

they get there, that spending, not being accounted for in the local

expenses, which have their own limits. Essentially breaking the

rules there. The Electoral Commission's verdict is the maximum

fine on the Conservative Party of ?70,000, they have gone through it,

three details as to what they have found guilty of. The first is that

the conservative was missing payments worth at least ?104,000 in

the UK 2015 general election spending. Then this on the thing I

was mentioning to you, the idea that the party with spending money,

national money, on local campaigns are not declaring it. Separate

payments worth up to ?118,000. A third, payments to the value of

?52,000 for receipts and invoices which were not included in the

records. All of this undermining, they say, voters confidence in the

democratic process. If political parties are seen to act in this way.

Any response from the Conservative Party? We're just waiting to hear

from Conservative Party. What will be interesting is not just their

response to this but also how separate police investigations

continue which also look into these allegations first bought up by

Channel 4 News and something that's been going through the press over

the last year. Into great detail about how new people were bussed

into these marginal constituencies at what those records, those

expenses records actually show. A little more detail about the

findings. They have established the party 's general election returned

no longer complete all correct. The commission has reason to suspect

that an offence may have been committed but it is a matter for the

police as to what steps they will take.

MPs are to be banned from employing husbands,

wives, partners or any member of their family under new rules.

The parliamentary expenses watchdog -

IPSA - says it will encourage fair and open recruitment.

After the expenses scandal, MPs were limited to employing only

relative and around a quarter of MPs still do so.

The Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, has claimed victory

in his country's general election, saying the Netherlands rejected

what he described as "the wrong sort of populism".

Votes are still being counted, but Mr Rutte's centre-right

party is on course to win the most seats.

The indications are that the far-right candidate,

Geert Wilders, performed worse than expected -

although his Freedom party is projected to gain seats.

The Queen will sign government legislation into law today,

which clears the way for Theresa May to begin talks on Britain

The Bill was passed by MPs and peers on Monday.

It's thought the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50,

the legal mechanism to begin the withdrawal, before the end

President Donald Trump's new travel ban has been blocked by a judge

just hours before it was due to begin.

The government wanted to stop people from six

predominantly Muslim countries from travelling

Mr Trump has reacted angrily, accusing the judge

Work is set to begin on the refurbishment

of Buckingham Palace after MPs approved an increase in the funding

the Queen receives from the Treasury.

The grant will increase by 66% to pay for the works

which are expected to take ten years and cost ?369 million.

Officials say without the repairs there's a risk of "catastrophic

building failure" being inflicted on a "cherished national monument".

A team of US navy dolphins have come out of retirement

to help scientists investigate why whales

The dolphins are helping them to understand how marine

animals behave around sonar and shipping sounds.

Researchers from the University of California Santa Cruz think

panicked whales dive away from the noise and end up exhausted,

causing them to drift off course and into trouble.

it's just the thought of retired Dolphins. What are they doing? Are

like a C said they had been called in. The phone rang in the retirement

village. C, it is for you. Come in, come in. What have you got?

A sad looking Pep Guardiola. In adapting something bad happens to

you the night before and you wake up and go, oh, there is something I

should be feeling bad about, it's in the back of your head and all of a

sudden, that's what it is. My team got knocked out last night. A lot of

fans will be feeling that way. Manchester City have been knocked

out of the Champions League by Monaco on away goals -

they've failed to reach City held a 2-goal advantage

going into the match but Monaco through, but Manchester City

pressure brought a Leroy Sane goal with Monaco through

on the away goals rule. We played 45 minutes and we created

a lot of chances there but we missed 45 minutes and we thought we spoke

lots of times but these with or without the ball

in the first half, we were a little bit slow in everything

which is why we could not do it, So Leicester are the only British

team left in the Champions League, and Manchester United will be hoping

to be the only British side in the quarter finals

of the Europa League, but they have to get past Rostov

at Old Trafford tonight. The game's 1-all after

the first leg and manager Jose Mourinho has spent the build-up

defending world record signing He thinks his critics

are a bit jealous. It's not Paul's fault that he gets

ten times the money, that some players, that

some very good players, It's not his fault that some

of the pundits are in real trouble with their lives and they need every

point to survive and Paul Manchester United striker

Marcus Rashford will be named Injuries to Harry Kane

and Daniel Sturridge mean the United frontman - who scored on his senior

England debut against Australia last year - will be in Gareth Southgate's

squad to face Germany next week- It was one of the biggest shocks

in the history of the Cheltenham Festival after the odds-on favourite

Douvan missed out on the places One punter put half

a million pounds on Douvan - and saw his money slipping away

as the horse struggled. The race came down to a tight finish

won by Special Tiara. Former snooker world champion

Stuart Bingham says he'll accept after admitting he broke

the sport's betting rules. Bingham admitted placing bets

on other players' matches but said he thought the rules only applied

to matches he was involved in. With England on the brink of a world

record 19th straight victory this weekend, the RFU has confirmed it

wants to arrange a match against the World's Number One side

New Zealand later this year abd as things stand,

England are not due to play the All Blacks until the autumn

Internationals next year. However, unless Premiership clubs

receive compensation they may not Wales have named an unchanged side

again, that's three matches in a row that they've gone with the same

fifteen in the Six nations. Hooker Ken Owens will win his 50th

cap against France in paris Could the Commonwealth Games

be coming back the UK? Durban were stripped of the 2022

Games earlier in the week. Liverpool and Manchester had already

put themselves forward as a replacement, and now London

and Birmingham have also Officials have said they'd

consider a joint bid. Glasgow hosted

the Games 3 years ago, Muirfield golf club may have

scrapped its all-male policy and been welcomed back

onto to books of the Open - but Rory McIlroy says he is not

ready to toast a new era. The world number three has been very

critical that women were denied I still think the fact that it got

to the stage is horrendous. And yeah, we will go back and play

the open because they have let the members in but every

time I go to Muirfield, Always a brilliant interview. He

just says what he thinks. Christian Horner from rebel racing talking

Formula 1 later this morning. They have made the cars faster, will it

be more interesting? From charity fundraisers to birthday

parties releasing hundreds of multi-coloured balloons has

long been a popular way But what goes up must come down,

and animal welfare charities say that the events create

lots of litter that can pose a real Jennifer Birtwhistle

from York was left devastated when her three-year old horse died

after choking on the string This balloon he landed in the field

and it has with long of very sharp string which he was very curious and

a very brave little horse and he swallowed all this, so he was

choking on this and at the same time, this had got jammed around her

head as well and she outward, absolutely from choking, she would

have been panicking and in terrible fear and crashed into the gate in

panic. It has become a major issue in the major cause of concern and

after this, we are desperately worried about it. Really distressing

story. who organises balloon releases

for schools and charities. Cathy, if I could ask you, how often

do you hear stories like that? We get regular reports of animals being

frightened by balloon releases and it's not just domestic. Our hearts

go out to this lady who lost a horse but also wildlife because when these

balloons land, they are quite inquisitive, wild animals, as are

all animals, and they will ingest them and they will die a slow,

painful death. We have major concerns. And the release of

lanterns, but can cause real problems with livestock being

startled. There are two issues. The fear issues and also when they come

to land, is the possibility of ingesting it or getting into it.

Balloons have been around for a long time. Are you sensing there will be

more problems? They're becoming more the thing to do. We are seeing them

at parties and funerals. I understand it as a mark of respect

or celebration but because it's happening more, it's having more of

an impact on the animals. Paul, this is your business. A lot of people,

they have done this. Maybe at a back garden or an organised event.

Firstly, it is sad what has happened. The balloon that was shown

on the footage is actually a foil balloon. It's not what we would

recommend. As an industry, we have guidelines saying they should be a

certain size, they should be biodegradable. The balloon is

natural latex. The foil balloon we saw something that is more

dangerous. It's not biodegradable, it will float, go up at the same

time. They are 18 inches across. They go up, they burst, they are the

same size. If you put to metallic ribbon on them, they could conduct

electricity. They are a no-no. It's the rubber balloons we would release

at schools and fundraisers. And a massive response from everybody at

home. Lucy has written and said, we released both balloons at our

celebration of life services for our boys. It is an important part of the

grieving process. A hugely popular and for some important thing to do.

It is two different things. These balloons are not biodegradable. The

guidelines in the industry say that you should only use items that are

biodegradable. These balloons are not

biodegradable. One balloon could be over 15 square

miles. The pieces that come back down are very small. Where does this

leave you and your thinking about this, because you described well

what should happen, but clearly some balloons will and up where you don't

want them, in a field somewhere, that will happen? We fully

appreciate the grieving process celebration type situations and

there has been massive improvements over the type of balloons used, but

that doesn't take away the fact that horses, livestock and domestic

animals can be frightened from the balloon releases, and not everyone

is being responsible, as happened here. You mentioned lanterns as

well, you think they are as much of a problem as balloons, so the paper

lanterns people light up, surely that disappears? Unfortunately,

wildlife are in fact it by that because the frame of the balloon is

on paper. They have introduced ones that are cane rather than a wooden

frame, but we have had livestock ingesting the frames, or they are

caught in them, and there is also the fear factor when they are

released. They look beautiful, you know, no one is going to argue with

that, but the impact, you know, when the beauty is gone, is massive. We

were looking at the images, part of what works is when you have lots of

the balloons, it is the kind of scale of it that makes it so

impressive. Latex balloons at release at 500 with a ticket, with

nothing else, once they come back down to earth they will spread. We

have had releases where they have gone to France, Germany, Holland and

beyond, quite a way, and they will come down over 15 or so miles with

only one shattered balloon in the area, but they are a nice spectacle,

a good fundraiser, and balloons have been around for a long time. Foil

balloons in America cannot be sold so it can't be accidentally

released. It might have been that a child was given it. Thank you both

for your time this morning. Thank you. Let's go to Carol with this

morning's weather. Good morning. This morning it is a messy weather

picture, as you can see from the Weather Watchers pictures, this

taken outside broadcasting house in London. And there is mist as well,

this early Sunrise in Essex, and further north in Shropshire, you can

see blue skies. It is a little misty. What is happening is we have

mist and fog across southern areas. This cold weather front coming in

from the north-west is introducing some rain. And behind it you will

find a return to some sunshine and showers. Some of those will be

wintry. Here comes the rain across Scotland and Northern Ireland

eventually into northern England and north Wales. And after a bright

start the cloud will build and we will lose the mist and fog. The

south-east will hang onto the sunshine. We also have sunshine in

Scotland and Northern Ireland. Quite breezy at times and showers will be

wintry in nature. Here is a weather front across England and were,

taking rain with it as it moves south-east. Quite murky conditions

around parts of the coast of Wales, dampness in the air and the same for

north coast of Devon, for example. There will be quite a bit of cloud

generally across England and Wales with temperatures 10- 12. Likely to

hang on to the sunshine in East Anglia, Essex, Kent and eastern

London generally. The weather front tonight pushes south-east, taking

cloud with it and behind it we have clear skies with a touch of frost.

Showers pack in across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Wintry in Scotland

mostly on the hills and we might see it at low levels, but nothing too

substantial, so there is the risk of ice first thing. We start on a windy

note with, replaced by heavy rainfall or the, into central and

southern Scotland, northern England and then Wales. The cloud building

in, eradicating the bright start and temperatures tomorrow in double

figures across the south, but you will notice the difference as we

pushed further north, back into the cold air. 4-8 in the north, sunshine

and showers, some of which will be wintry. Then as we move on into the

weekend, weather front coming this way through Saturday and Sunday, and

look at the squeeze on the isobars, that tells you it is going to be

windy at times too. So, to put that into words this week and we are

looking at windy conditions with rain around, the wettest in the west

with the weather fronts coming in, but brief dry spells, so it is not

going to be raining all the time. Thank goodness, thank you very much.

Britain's biggest science and to the chief air stars to encourage young

people to become engineers and scientists were not for the future,

we head straight to the correspondent for us this morning,

explained for us the nature of the problem. Good morning, everyone, I

am here at the science fair, my name is Owen and I do BBC News School

Report, and I am here with Steph. Morning, everyone. This event is all

about encouraging young people do have a career in science and

engineering. This is obviously people learning about the body parts

and the medicine. I have never seen that in a body before. That is

something unusual as well. It is about encouraging and inspiring

young people. And I think I want is with a couple of inventors. I am

here with Joe and key. What have you invented? Creating a system

recognising the colour of glass balls. -- Keith. Why is it useful?

-- bottles. It eliminates the human workforce. It will help with health

and said he. Why did you come up with the idea? The University

approach us with a problem and we can't a solution for them. Thank

you. And we have Roxanne, she won the Young scientist of the year last

year, you have to hand that over to whoever has got it this year. I did

a project about past climate change in south Wales, 16,000- 8000 years

ago. And for you, what was it like to win? It was a rollercoaster,

really, but I loved the year since then, I've been able to talk to

young scientists and come here to meet all of the competitors again -

it has been a wonderful experience to win and to inspire other young

people. Excellent. Do you want to ask what she is doing? What are you

doing our? I am on a gap year volunteering but I am starting

geology in Bristol University in September. Excellent, and another

guest, a space scientist no less, Doctor Maggie. So, why are you here?

It is a fantastic place to come and we are trying to inspire the next

generation of scientists. I met Roxanne last year, because I am a

judge on the panel, and we need to get scientists in everyone, signing

up to do wonderful experiments and join us in the pursuit for science.

How can we encourage young people like myself to get into science and

engineering. Good question. It is a good question and we want to show

that there is a scientist in everyone. It covers a range of

things from climate change two satellites in space. There is

something for everyone, which is what we want to show, and the

relevant. When you do and if there and in school, what is the

relevance? That is what it is all about. We have kids doing relevant

science which is going to be used by scientists, so we want everyone to

participate. And we have more young inventors here as well. Tell us your

name, where you are from and your invention? My name is Emma and I

came up with a glove for deaf people which uses motion sensors to detect

sign language and then it speaks it through a speaker and it has a

microphone picking up a response and dictating it on the screen on the

inside screen for the deaf person. So, why is this useful? It helps

deaf people become independent in society and allows them to

communicate with other people without feeling stressed or anxious

or worried about anyone understanding them. How did you come

up with it? I read an article about deaf people and how they struggle

with anxiety and depression because of a lack of communication, and how

a lot can only communicate with family and friends. Fantastic, and

would you like to be a scientist? Yeah, definitely. That is what we

want to do, encourage young people? That is a fantastic idea, which is

what we need, ideas today four tomorrow, so we want to encourage

everybody and that is a prime example. One more to show you before

we go, we will head over here, we looked at this earlier, this is a

device which is for young disabled people, so that is another invention

we will find out more about later on, but would you like to hand it

back to the studio? Thank you for joining us. Back to you in the

studio. Nicely done, thank you very much, we will see you later on.

Thank you. We are just going to bring you some breaking news in the

last half hour about the Tory election expenses and the

Conservative Party, just to remind you, was fined ?70,000 for a breach

in election expenses rules from the Electoral Commission following an

investigation into alleged misreporting of expenses during the

general election campaign. Just to establish, looking at the detail of

the report, the investigation as to the party's general election return

was not complete or correct and it is significant because making a

false declaration under the section of the act is a criminal offence. We

know as well separate to this that there is a police investigation

ongoing and a number of Conservative MPs have been investigated. We have

a statement from the Conservative Party that says that the

Conservative Party has complied with the Electoral Commission's

investigation which began more than one year ago and they will pay the

fines imposed. Much more on that coming up on BBC Breakfast in

Hello this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

The Conservative Party has been fined ?70,000 for breaching

The investigation by the Electoral Commission found

that there were significant failures to report accurately

Good morning, it's Thursday 16th March.

The Dutch Prime Minister sees off the challenge of the far right -

he says the voters have rejected the wrong sort of populism.

Good morning, I am at the science fair where they are trying to

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The Conservative Party has been fined ?70,000 for breaching

The decision by the Electoral Commission follows an investigation

into alleged mis-reporting of expenses during the 2015

And also during three by-elections in 2014.

We can speak now to our political correspondent Mark Lobel.

Tell us about the firing of its significance. It is embarrassing for

the Conservative Party and it is the record fine that the Electoral