27/03/2017

:00:09. > :00:16.This is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:00:17. > :00:19.Face to face: Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon meet for talks

:00:20. > :00:22.as the Scottish Parliament prepares to back a second vote

:00:23. > :00:25.The Prime Minister will urge unity, ahead of Brexit,

:00:26. > :00:41.describing a united UK as an "unstoppable force".

:00:42. > :00:49.BT is hit with a record fine of ?42 million,

:00:50. > :00:54.because of delays in installing high-speed business lines.

:00:55. > :01:04.Buildings were destroyed. Locals had described seeing Brix reading down

:01:05. > :01:09.from the sky. We will have all the latest on Saturday night's

:01:10. > :01:19.explosion. Good morning. We are on the road this morning. We are on the

:01:20. > :01:21.A50, talking about Article 50. We will be looking to find out what

:01:22. > :01:25.businesses and workers think. In sport, England, Scotland

:01:26. > :01:29.and Northern Ireland all win Jermain Defoe returns from nearly

:01:30. > :01:33.four years out with a goal The new pound coin and tomorrow

:01:34. > :01:43.it enters circulation. We'll be finding out why

:01:44. > :01:45.not everyone is happy And the weather's been so lovely

:01:46. > :01:58.we've sent Matt out and about. We have had some problems

:01:59. > :02:07.adjudications, but he will whether Slater. -- problems with

:02:08. > :02:08.communications, but he will be with us later.

:02:09. > :02:12.Theresa May will meet Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon later

:02:13. > :02:14.today for the first time since she rejected calls

:02:15. > :02:16.for a second referendum on Scottish independence.

:02:17. > :02:20.The visit is part of a tour of all four nations of the UK before

:02:21. > :02:22.the process of leaving the European Union formally

:02:23. > :02:29.Brexit was top of the agenda when these two leaders met for the first

:02:30. > :02:33.time, shortly after Theresa May took office. Later today, they are said

:02:34. > :02:36.to meet again. But first, the Prime Minister will meet at the office for

:02:37. > :02:41.national development. On Wednesday, she will trigger Article 50,

:02:42. > :02:55.triggering the UK's exit from the EU. But 52% of Scots voted to

:02:56. > :02:58.remain. Nicola Sturgeon has therefore called for a second

:02:59. > :03:03.referendum on Scottish independence. Not only is there no UK wide

:03:04. > :03:09.agreement on the week ahead, but the UK government has not moved even an

:03:10. > :03:14.inch in pursuit of compromise and agreement. But Theresa May has said

:03:15. > :03:18.not now. We should be working together to get that right deal for

:03:19. > :03:22.Scotland and the UK. So I say that is my job as the Prime Minister. So

:03:23. > :03:28.for that reason, I seated the SNP that now was not the time. Lastly,

:03:29. > :03:33.the Scottish Parliament started debating whether to seek permission

:03:34. > :03:36.from the UK government for a second independence referendum. It was

:03:37. > :03:40.halted due to the terror attack on London. It is expected that with the

:03:41. > :03:48.backing of the Scottish Green Party, the First Minister will achieve a

:03:49. > :03:52.majority in favour. A representative for the Scottish government says

:03:53. > :03:58.they understand the UK government wants to discuss Article 50, and

:03:59. > :04:06.they hope there are areas that the minister can provide answers. --

:04:07. > :04:08.Prime Minister can. BT has been fined a record ?42

:04:09. > :04:11.million by the communications It found BT's Openreach division

:04:12. > :04:13.had cut compensation payments to other telecoms providers

:04:14. > :04:16.for delays in installing high speed The company said it

:04:17. > :04:24."apologised wholeheartedly" Whether at home or at work, cable

:04:25. > :04:29.switch connectors are still provided by BT. Some carry large amounts of

:04:30. > :04:32.data at great speed. But there are cases where the company has been

:04:33. > :04:38.slow to deliver the lines. And the UK relies on the bigger cables which

:04:39. > :04:41.make up the network, as they support mobile and broadband operators, as

:04:42. > :04:47.well as big businesses, schools, and hospitals. Where BT ousted meet

:04:48. > :04:51.deadlines for ever net services, they need to pay compensation to the

:04:52. > :04:55.likes of Vodafone and talk talk. But they have been using a clause in the

:04:56. > :05:02.contract to reduce payments. Now, BT has been hit with a huge extra bill.

:05:03. > :05:07.Any record fine, Ofcom has ordered them to pay ?42 million on

:05:08. > :05:11.penalties. The scale of the fine is said to reflect the importance of BT

:05:12. > :05:15.to other companies, who offers services such as broadband. BT has

:05:16. > :05:19.apologised saying that it should never have happened and measures

:05:20. > :05:24.have been put in place to stop it happening again. At an addition to

:05:25. > :05:26.define, it will need to find the additional ?300 million owed to

:05:27. > :05:32.companies in compensation. It has emerged that people living

:05:33. > :05:36.close to the site of a major explosion on Merseyside reported

:05:37. > :05:38.smelling gas at least 24 The National Grid has confirmed

:05:39. > :05:42.that reports of leaks were probed, before the suspected

:05:43. > :05:45.gas blast in Wirral on Saturday. Clare Fallon is live

:05:46. > :05:47.in Bebington, close to where Clare, are the emergency

:05:48. > :05:57.services still on the scene? We can see behind your emergency

:05:58. > :06:04.services are still on the scene. -- behind you that. Yes, this is as

:06:05. > :06:07.close as we can get to the site of the explosion this morning.

:06:08. > :06:10.Emergency workers are still here this morning. People who are here on

:06:11. > :06:14.Saturday night had described how they thought that they had been an

:06:15. > :06:20.earthquake or a bomb blast, such was the forced to make force of the

:06:21. > :06:23.explosion. Emergency workers have said that it was astonishing that

:06:24. > :06:25.Norm was killed, especially bearing in mind that the building was

:06:26. > :06:34.completely destroyed in this explosion and that it was a game

:06:35. > :06:38.studio. Only hours earlier, it was used for children's dance lesson. A

:06:39. > :06:42.police investigation is now under way. What we do know is that in the

:06:43. > :06:46.hours before the explosion, people had called out engineers from the

:06:47. > :06:49.National Grid, saying they could smell gas. We've been told by the

:06:50. > :06:55.National Grid that engineers came out and could not find anything

:06:56. > :07:01.amiss. But of course, now, in the light of the explosion, a major

:07:02. > :07:03.investigation under way to try and establish what caused Saturday

:07:04. > :07:09.night's blast and so much devastation. Thank you very much for

:07:10. > :07:10.the moment. We will have more on that later.

:07:11. > :07:13.Attempts to end the political stalemate in Northern Ireland have

:07:14. > :07:16.Unionist parties and Sinn Fein have until later

:07:17. > :07:19.today to broker a deal but talks have broken down.

:07:20. > :07:21.Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Page is in Belfast

:07:22. > :07:31.Chris where does this leave the Northern Ireland assembley?

:07:32. > :07:36.Louise, in Northern Ireland, negotiations this part and parcel of

:07:37. > :07:40.politics. And usually, the talking is right to the deadline and

:07:41. > :07:43.sometimes beyond. Today it is slightly different because Sinn Fein

:07:44. > :07:46.have decided they will not be putting ministers into the devolved

:07:47. > :07:53.goverment. And that means that there is no prospect a devolved government

:07:54. > :07:57.because normal work. The sticking points, there seemed to be too.

:07:58. > :08:03.Firstly, legal recognition of the Irish language. And then there is

:08:04. > :08:07.also a long running issue which has proved impossible to resolve, and

:08:08. > :08:14.that is the operation of new agencies to investigate killings

:08:15. > :08:22.from the Troubles. Essentially, there are three options. Under the

:08:23. > :08:25.law, another election is to be called within a reasonable time

:08:26. > :08:28.period. But I think most of the parties in the public would not.

:08:29. > :08:33.Secondly, new legislation could be passed in the House of Commons to

:08:34. > :08:38.impose direct rule Northern Ireland, so Northern Ireland would be run by

:08:39. > :08:41.Westminster. Or, thirdly, the deadline could be extended for more

:08:42. > :08:45.time. The matter what happens, Northern Ireland is expecting an

:08:46. > :08:48.uncertain political future. The government must do more

:08:49. > :08:51.to reduce the number of cut-price offers on unhealthy food to help

:08:52. > :08:54.curb childhood obesity, The Health Select Committee,

:08:55. > :08:58.also calls for rules on junk food It argues the government's official

:08:59. > :09:01.obesity plan contains "vague But ministers say the strategy

:09:02. > :09:05.is the world's "most ambitious plan The number of first-time buyers

:09:06. > :09:13.relying on gifts or loans from their parents in order to get

:09:14. > :09:16.on the housing ladder is at an all-time high,

:09:17. > :09:20.according to new research. One in three young people

:09:21. > :09:24.are relying on the so-called "bank of mum and dad" in order

:09:25. > :09:26.to buy their first home. The Social Mobility Commission warns

:09:27. > :09:29.that families on lower incomes A broken braking device may have

:09:30. > :09:38.been to blame for an Hong Kong escalator suddenly reversing

:09:39. > :09:40.direction and increasing its speed Video footage shot by witnesses

:09:41. > :09:46.captured the incident as dozens of passengers

:09:47. > :09:57.lost their balance and tumbled down Several ambulances rushed

:09:58. > :10:00.to the scene and took That is terrifying. It has one job,

:10:01. > :10:12.doesn't it? An American airline has been

:10:13. > :10:14.criticised after two young girls were stopped from boarding a flight

:10:15. > :10:18.because they were wearing leggings. The incident at the airport was seen

:10:19. > :10:20.by another passenger, who took to social media

:10:21. > :10:23.to tweet United Airlines. The airline responded

:10:24. > :10:25.by saying they had the right to refuse passengers for not

:10:26. > :10:28.following their dress code. They later clarified that the girls

:10:29. > :10:31.were not on a general ticket and had But there's been criticism with some

:10:32. > :10:35.celebrities wading in, some people have called

:10:36. > :10:43.the decision sexist. Sarah Silverman said she would not

:10:44. > :10:55.be flying with the airline. And this was one model's responds, there. I

:10:56. > :11:02.think this is leggings-gate. I am so confused. Because they won a special

:11:03. > :11:05.ticket? With a first-class? No, I think they were related to summary

:11:06. > :11:09.from the airline. It was for friends and family. And there were special

:11:10. > :11:13.restrictions on just because of that. That is what they said. Who

:11:14. > :11:21.knew? Anyway. Good morning. It was a successful night

:11:22. > :11:24.for the home nations in World Cup qualifying with wins for England,

:11:25. > :11:27.Scotland and Northern Ireland Jermaine Defoe scored on his first

:11:28. > :11:34.appearance for England Some people said he would never play

:11:35. > :11:38.for England again. He ended up getting called back, and there he is

:11:39. > :11:46.with a goal. So who knows? He might be there at the World Cup next year.

:11:47. > :11:48.Jamie Vardy added a second for Gareth Southgate's side

:11:49. > :11:57.as England maintained their unbeaten run in qualifying.

:11:58. > :11:59.Scotland, though, left it late to beat Slovenia 1-0.

:12:00. > :12:02.Substitute Chris Martin scored in the 88th minute in their must-win

:12:03. > :12:10.The victory moves Gordon Strachan's side up to fourth in Group F.

:12:11. > :12:13.Northern Ireland stay second in Group C after a 2-0 win over

:12:14. > :12:21.First-half goals from Jamie Ward and Conor Washington were enough -

:12:22. > :12:24.it means they remain five points behind group leaders Germany.

:12:25. > :12:27.And British number one Johanna Konta eased through to the last 16

:12:28. > :12:32.It took her just over an hour to beat France's Pauline Parmentier

:12:33. > :12:55.CS. You had a Konta doing great again. What more can we say about

:12:56. > :12:59.her? -- So, yes. Johanna Konta doing great again. We would go to the

:13:00. > :13:08.headlines. Theresa May will meet Scotland's

:13:09. > :13:11.First Minister Nicola Sturgeon later today for the first time

:13:12. > :13:13.since she rejected calls for a second referendum

:13:14. > :13:21.on Scottish independence. BT has been fined a record ?42

:13:22. > :13:30.million by the communications And we will be talking about that

:13:31. > :13:39.later. All of that highlighted in green. I need to get a running order

:13:40. > :13:43.like that. You always get one. I have this really nothing that tells

:13:44. > :13:50.a what is coming up in the programme. Anyway, let's Pegula to

:13:51. > :14:02.be front pages. Talk about Jermaine Defoe, there he is. -- let's take a

:14:03. > :14:06.look. The main story is that Internet giants hired the

:14:07. > :14:10.terrorist's finds note. This is about the WhatsApp message is being

:14:11. > :14:13.kept secret. Can you pass the Guardian in regards to that? She was

:14:14. > :14:17.saying that she wants to know what is on WhatsApp. And they have a

:14:18. > :14:22.response here. The Guardian is talk about it. Please access, Amber Rudd

:14:23. > :14:26.calling for police and intelligence agencies to be given access to

:14:27. > :14:30.WhatsApp. But liberties group said it was unrealistic and

:14:31. > :14:37.disproportionate as a request. We go to the Daily Mirror. Top cop claim

:14:38. > :14:44.someone is protecting Madeline McCann's kidnapper. The Daily

:14:45. > :14:48.Express are talking about a possible big council tax rise. A lovely

:14:49. > :14:53.picture of the weather, there. It was such an hour stay where I was in

:14:54. > :14:57.a survey. I think we'll get on pitches. -- where I was yesterday.

:14:58. > :15:05.There are a lot of things that you know that I do not. -- pictures.

:15:06. > :15:07.We want to know how you enjoyed the weather.

:15:08. > :15:10.If you've got any pictures summing up your sunny weekend,

:15:11. > :15:18.I am getting really confuses morning. Did you look at the Mail?

:15:19. > :15:22.You haven't done the Mail, have you? The front page of the Mail, their

:15:23. > :15:30.stories about David Cameron at Downing Street, a cover-up over

:15:31. > :15:31.Uber. They also tell you about Prince Harry and his girlfriend. Are

:15:32. > :15:41.they setting up a home together? Over here we have the boat race on

:15:42. > :15:47.Sunday, that means that spring is officially here. Oxford versus

:15:48. > :15:52.Cambridge, it is very them and them. What do we have to do with this,

:15:53. > :15:56.most of us think but, apparently, this is ill feeling ahead of the

:15:57. > :16:02.boat race this year because one of the crew has swapped. He used to row

:16:03. > :16:06.for Cambridge and now he swapped and roads for Oxford which means that

:16:07. > :16:15.there is a lot of ill feeling and nobody is speaking to him. A weigh

:16:16. > :16:19.in at some time last week, two strokes were eyeballing each other

:16:20. > :16:26.like boxes. People do swap football teams... Yes, but is it an Oxford

:16:27. > :16:34.versus Cambridge type rivalry? Have a list on the back era of

:16:35. > :16:39.footballers who crossed the big divide. One player who represented

:16:40. > :16:44.both Old Firm football clubs. Someone who played squash for

:16:45. > :16:48.Scotland and for England. A bit of buildup to the boat race, really but

:16:49. > :16:54.I thought it was an interesting read. I have one more here. This is

:16:55. > :17:08.big. Have you ever stolen lunge from someone at work? I am outraged by

:17:09. > :17:20.that. I have been on this receiving end. A carton of soup stall on. It

:17:21. > :17:23.is a growing concern. I put this on social media this morning and

:17:24. > :17:27.somebody admitted to taking a bite of a quiche and then putting the

:17:28. > :17:36.rest of the quiche back in the fridge. Apparently, 29% of us admit

:17:37. > :17:44.to having lunch stolen stealing or having had stolen? Set to 1% stuff

:17:45. > :17:52.favourite mug has been stolen, 29% say their lunch is stolen. 5% of

:17:53. > :17:59.people admit to booby trapping their belongings. Using things like motion

:18:00. > :18:05.triggered cameras. And 5% of people leave a strongly worded note will if

:18:06. > :18:13.you have a strongly worded note could you please let us know? Let us

:18:14. > :18:19.know about your fridge theft. Quite a pandemic. 30%. I have never... I

:18:20. > :18:27.don't put my food in the fridge nor do I take that of anybody else. It

:18:28. > :18:35.was in the fridge for many weeks that I ended up beating, because I

:18:36. > :18:39.thought it needed a home. -- eating. It has been a wonderful spring

:18:40. > :18:43.weekend. This morning we look at how would you can make your garden

:18:44. > :18:48.friendlier for bees. Pollinators are under pressure due to loss of

:18:49. > :18:59.habitat. Let's find out what we can do to help. Good morning I am in the

:19:00. > :19:04.centre of London at the London wildlife trust's centre for wildlife

:19:05. > :19:10.gardening. A stunning oasis, a haven, a specially designed about

:19:11. > :19:15.the little things we can do to help protect our native ease. Not just

:19:16. > :19:20.the honeybees but the solitude bees. All the things we can do to help

:19:21. > :19:27.them. This centre has been here since 1989. It is behind a set of

:19:28. > :19:32.residential housing and the smell from some of the pollinating plants

:19:33. > :19:37.smells fantastic at the moment. We will look at it more detail later

:19:38. > :19:41.but let's get on to the forecast because it was a stunning weekend

:19:42. > :19:48.where temperatures reached 19.9 degrees Celsius in northern Scotland

:19:49. > :19:53.and why we have had warm days, there have also been cold nights. Misty in

:19:54. > :19:58.places as well and a lot more cloud to begin with than we saw yesterday

:19:59. > :20:02.morning. A little fog around, murky over the hills to begin with and it

:20:03. > :20:07.will take a little while for some of that green is to disappear. Best of

:20:08. > :20:12.the morning she sunshine for western parts of the UK in Scotland. A touch

:20:13. > :20:17.of frost this morning to get you off on your morning commute. Plenty of

:20:18. > :20:23.sunshine to go with it and it starts across central and southern parts of

:20:24. > :20:27.England. By the afternoon the cloudiness will be towards the

:20:28. > :20:31.coast. A warm day across the south of the country. Like Winston

:20:32. > :20:39.yesterday but it will feel a little cooler times. The temperature for

:20:40. > :20:42.some is still in single figures. The sunshine will be out and across the

:20:43. > :20:46.western parts of England and into Scotland we could see temperatures

:20:47. > :20:51.peak not only in the mid-teens but the upper teens, reaching around 18

:20:52. > :20:56.or 19 Celsius. Wales looks good as well and we will see sunshine out

:20:57. > :21:00.here. Sunny spells, possibly a little more cloud than we saw

:21:01. > :21:06.through yesterday and Northern Ireland should have a fine day some

:21:07. > :21:09.sunny spells. Through tonight low cloud will be more abundant again

:21:10. > :21:15.across the central and eastern parts of the UK and that will creep to the

:21:16. > :21:19.west. Breaks in the cloud will cause of frost once again but most of us

:21:20. > :21:25.will be frost beat as we begin Tuesday. It will take a while for

:21:26. > :21:31.some of the slow cloud to break up but better tomorrow compared to

:21:32. > :21:34.today. Clouds will drift away northwards particularly across the

:21:35. > :21:39.western half of the UK and some of those could be a little on the heavy

:21:40. > :21:42.and thundery side. But with the wind going south-westerly, for all of us

:21:43. > :21:46.it will be a warm day. Warm across eastern part in a single warm day

:21:47. > :21:51.for southern parts of England we could see temperatures reach 20

:21:52. > :21:59.degrees. Continuing with a warm scene, particularly with the

:22:00. > :22:05.sunshine western areas are prone to of rain on Wednesday. The eastern

:22:06. > :22:09.areas stay dry and later in the week will see rain across East Anglia and

:22:10. > :22:12.the south-east. The rain we do see tomorrow and Wednesday will be

:22:13. > :22:17.sporadic. Only a small portion of the day for many of you with a lot

:22:18. > :22:21.of dry weather as well on a bit of sunshine and a bit of warmth as well

:22:22. > :22:23.which will assist those these across the UK. More details throughout the

:22:24. > :22:24.morning. Later this week, the Prime Minister

:22:25. > :22:27.will trigger Article 50 - beginning the formal

:22:28. > :22:29.process of Britain leaving So what does it all mean,

:22:30. > :22:32.and what happens next? We've sent Sean for

:22:33. > :22:53.a roadtrip down the A50. Good morning. We have a sign, just

:22:54. > :22:59.to remind us where we had over the next few days. This is an insulated

:23:00. > :23:04.manufacturer in Stoke, on the 8050. We will be going all the way out and

:23:05. > :23:09.all the way back talking about Article 50. We discussed that,

:23:10. > :23:15.because, it triggers on Wednesday. The negotiations will formally start

:23:16. > :23:18.their and we have sent back along the road already to talk to

:23:19. > :23:24.businesses to see what they want from the negotiations. In the

:23:25. > :23:31.referendum as June divided the country. 52% voted to leave and 48%

:23:32. > :23:35.voted to remain. Since then not a lot has changed but this week the

:23:36. > :23:39.process of an picking our relationship with the EU begins. And

:23:40. > :23:45.it is certainly fuelling debate about the road that lies ahead. Now

:23:46. > :23:52.EU members have rules that they must stick to. Part of the Lisbon Treaty.

:23:53. > :23:55.Article 50 is the bit of it which tells you how countries can actually

:23:56. > :24:03.leave. So, essentially, it is the divorce ruling. But the whole

:24:04. > :24:07.process is quite vague because no country has left before. It is a

:24:08. > :24:13.little bit like travelling down a road without any clear signs of

:24:14. > :24:17.where you are going. Now we already know that the UK will be leaving the

:24:18. > :24:23.single market, which is the agreement between EU countries

:24:24. > :24:26.allows goods, services and people to move freely between them. Ending

:24:27. > :24:33.that arrangement is potentially a big problem for exporters. For this

:24:34. > :24:41.industry, the potteries, 50% of their stuff goes to the EU. They

:24:42. > :24:46.think there is a lot at stake. But one of the big businesses here is

:24:47. > :24:53.JCB which makes industrial vehicles and sells them to work 150

:24:54. > :25:05.countries. The boss, a long standing Conservative Party donor does not

:25:06. > :25:08.believe that trade will be affected. Immigration is another issue.

:25:09. > :25:11.Theresa May said one of the main messages she had taken from the

:25:12. > :25:15.leave vote was that British people want to see a reduction in

:25:16. > :25:20.immigration. Now it is not clear yet how the government will achieve it

:25:21. > :25:23.and many businesses who rely on migrant workers are worried that

:25:24. > :25:29.tighter controls will mean they will not be able to get the workers they

:25:30. > :25:35.need. But it is not just a dish people and British businesses will

:25:36. > :25:39.have a say in what happens next. The UK car industry is worth ?70 billion

:25:40. > :25:43.and employs thousands of people. Most of the likely to hear it in

:25:44. > :25:47.Derby is foreign owned so when it comes to lobbying for the best deal,

:25:48. > :25:55.what the bosses of these companies think really matters. Once Article

:25:56. > :25:59.50 has been treated there is a ten year time frame in order to get all

:26:00. > :26:05.of that Brexit negotiation done. -- to yeah. Bites, this is a road we

:26:06. > :26:11.have never been down before so that time frame could easily slip. -- two

:26:12. > :26:21.year time frame. And we have 27 countries we need to negotiate with.

:26:22. > :26:27.That will not be easy. It will not be straightforward, particularly for

:26:28. > :26:29.businesses like this one. This business here manufactures

:26:30. > :26:33.installation. This is the stuff behind your walls and under the

:26:34. > :26:43.floorboards. Pretty much all of the chemicals in these products are all

:26:44. > :26:47.imported yet they hardly export anything here. And on top of that

:26:48. > :26:51.they are owned by a Belgian company. What companies like think about how

:26:52. > :26:55.negotiations go on Wednesday? That's what we will be doing over the

:26:56. > :26:59.morning, we will be talking to the bossy and local businesses about

:27:00. > :27:04.what Stokes thinks, about what businesses think about what Theresa

:27:05. > :27:08.May well say on Wednesday. More on the 850 from Sean... I like that.

:27:09. > :27:10.Article 5080 50. The new 12 sided one pound coin

:27:11. > :27:15.enters circulation tomorrow We'll find out why some businesses

:27:16. > :27:29.believe the change could cost 12 signs and made of two metals. It

:27:30. > :27:44.even has an hologram on the front. I cannot see it. My eyesight, my age?

:27:45. > :31:04.Oh, a ? now! I can see the pound. While we sort that out, here is

:31:05. > :31:15.Hello this is Breakfast with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:31:16. > :31:23.We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment,

:31:24. > :31:25.but also on Breakfast this morning...

:31:26. > :31:30.The road out of the EU - as the Prime Minister prepares

:31:31. > :31:33.Hello this is Breakfast with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:31:34. > :31:38.We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment,

:31:39. > :31:39.but also on Breakfast this morning...

:31:40. > :31:43.The road out of the EU - as the Prime Minister prepares

:31:44. > :31:45.to trigger Article 50, we'll find out

:31:46. > :31:47.what it means for businesses along the A50 trunk road.

:31:48. > :31:49.Laura James is a successful writer and journalist.

:31:50. > :31:53.She'll be here to tell us how a routine hospital visit lead

:31:54. > :31:57.And unlocking the secrets of gravity.

:31:58. > :31:59.Physics professor Jim Al-Khalili will be

:32:00. > :32:02.here to tell us where in Britain gravity is weak and where

:32:03. > :32:10.Very interesting. Probably someone the south, I would think. Because of

:32:11. > :32:12.the equator type thing. You know? It is along the right lines.

:32:13. > :32:16.But now a summary of this morning's main news.

:32:17. > :32:18.Theresa May will meet Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon later

:32:19. > :32:21.today for the first time since she rejected calls

:32:22. > :32:25.for a second referendum on Scottish independence.

:32:26. > :32:30.The PM's visit is part of a tour of all four nations of the UK before

:32:31. > :32:32.the process of leaving the European Union formally

:32:33. > :32:38.BT has been fined a record ?42 million by the communications

:32:39. > :32:42.It found BT's Openreach division had cut compensation payments to other

:32:43. > :32:49.telecoms providers for delays in installing high speed business

:32:50. > :32:53.The company said it "apologised wholeheartedly" for the mistakes.

:32:54. > :32:57.It has emerged that people living close to the site of a major

:32:58. > :32:59.explosion on Merseyside, reported smelling gas at least

:33:00. > :33:02.The National Grid has confirmed that reports of leaks

:33:03. > :33:04.were investigated, before the suspected gas blast

:33:05. > :33:08.Two people were seriously hurt and dozens others injured

:33:09. > :33:18.Attempts to end the political stalemate in Northern Ireland have

:33:19. > :33:24.Three weeks of talks to form a power-sharing coalition

:33:25. > :33:26.between Unionist parties and Sinn Fein, have broken down,

:33:27. > :33:29.with the Republican party saying it won't be nominating anyone

:33:30. > :33:33.for the post of Deputy First Minister.

:33:34. > :33:37.The government must do more to reduce the number of cut-price

:33:38. > :33:39.offers on unhealthy food to help curb childhood obesity,

:33:40. > :33:46.The Health Select Committee also calls for rules

:33:47. > :33:49.on junk food advertisements to be made tougher.

:33:50. > :33:51.It argues the government's official obesity plan contains "vague

:33:52. > :34:00.But ministers say the strategy is the world's "most ambitious plan

:34:01. > :34:11.And these are extraordinary pitches. -- pictures.

:34:12. > :34:14.A broken braking device may have been to blame for an Hong Kong

:34:15. > :34:16.escalator suddenly reversing direction and increasing its speed

:34:17. > :34:29.Video footage shot by witnesses captured the incident as dozens of

:34:30. > :34:30.passengers lost their balance and tumbled down to the ground.

:34:31. > :34:32.Several ambulances rushed to the scene and took

:34:33. > :34:41.You just see it from a different angle in a moment. That must have

:34:42. > :34:45.been terrifying. Exactly. And that happened in Hong Kong. It is 6:34.

:34:46. > :34:51.Here's Katherine again with all the sport.

:34:52. > :35:01.Yes we have all the World Cup qualifying football action. That is

:35:02. > :35:05.a bit of a phrase, is that? Scotland are the only ones with anything to

:35:06. > :35:09.worry about. But that one at the weekend kids there when is a live a

:35:10. > :35:15.little bit. So all very positive after a weekend of international

:35:16. > :35:17.action. Yes, all three of the home nations in action won last night.

:35:18. > :35:20.England beat Lithuania 2-0 in a world cup qualifier at Wembley.

:35:21. > :35:22.Five-year-old Bradley Lowery, who has cancer, led out the England

:35:23. > :35:25.team alongside the man he describes as his best friend -

:35:26. > :35:36.We will be hearing more about that a little later. It was his first goal

:35:37. > :35:37.for England in four years. Defoe was replaced by Jamie Vardy

:35:38. > :35:40.in the second half, and the Leicester striker

:35:41. > :35:43.took his chance when it came. England's manager says Defoe can't

:35:44. > :35:46.be ruled out of competing in next summer's World Cup,

:35:47. > :35:52.if England qualify. It is really important that we are

:35:53. > :35:56.able to call on people like Jermaine Defoe. Clean to have the impact that

:35:57. > :36:00.he had any game like he did today. If he has been playing as well as he

:36:01. > :36:04.has this season, there is no reason why he could not. -- just for him to

:36:05. > :36:05.have the impact. They beat Slovenia 1-0

:36:06. > :36:12.at Hampden Park in a game manager Gordon Strachan had

:36:13. > :36:14.described as a 'must-win'. They left it late,

:36:15. > :36:17.Chris Martin came off the bench The victory moves them up to fourth

:36:18. > :36:22.and keeps their slim hopes Northern Ireland remain in second

:36:23. > :36:29.place in Group C after a 2-0 win Goals from Jamie Ward

:36:30. > :36:32.and Conor Washington The victory leaves Northern Ireland

:36:33. > :36:37.five points off group leaders Germany and two clear of third

:36:38. > :36:43.place Czech Republic. Results build confidence and

:36:44. > :36:46.momentum and believe. And we have carried out on. We had that

:36:47. > :36:51.experience of qualification for France, and the express of the

:36:52. > :36:55.credit -- that is a credit to the players. They did not let their

:36:56. > :36:58.standards drop. And a dream they can go to Russia, as well. And with

:36:59. > :37:03.every game, you are closer to reality.

:37:04. > :37:07.World number one Dustin Johnson beat Jon Rahm in the World Match Play

:37:08. > :37:09.American Johnson won on the final hole

:37:10. > :37:11.against the 22-year-old Spaniard in Texas.

:37:12. > :37:14.It means Johnson becomes the first player to win all four World Golf

:37:15. > :37:19.British number one Johanna Konta is through to last 16

:37:20. > :37:23.It took her just over an hour to beat

:37:24. > :37:25.Pauline Parmentier of France in straight sets.

:37:26. > :37:27.Konta will now play Spain's Lara Arrua-Barrena

:37:28. > :37:34.Rugby, and Wasps are five points clear at the top

:37:35. > :37:39.Premiership after a 40-33 win at home over Worcester

:37:40. > :37:43.The visitors had winger Bryce Heem sent off at the start

:37:44. > :37:46.of the second half - and from there Wasps made the extra

:37:47. > :37:50.man count, running in six tries in total for the bonus point win.

:37:51. > :37:52.Saracens scored eight tries to condemn Bath to their biggest

:37:53. > :38:00.That means Saracens stay in third place.

:38:01. > :38:02.Now, you might remember her from last year's

:38:03. > :38:06.Claudia Fragapane is back to her day job.

:38:07. > :38:09.She's been quoted this week saying her time on the show has

:38:10. > :38:11.improved her routines, but she had to settle for second

:38:12. > :38:18.That was the slip that saw her go out of bounds cost her the title

:38:19. > :38:22.event, which went instead to Maisie Methuen.

:38:23. > :38:31.And back to that heartwarming story of the five 25-year-old who led

:38:32. > :38:35.England out onto the pitch at Wembley. This is been some of the

:38:36. > :38:40.reaction. -- to the five-year-old. Jermaine Defoe himself said I hope

:38:41. > :38:48.you had amazing day. It was perfect to walk out at Wembley with you.

:38:49. > :38:59.Best mates, he said. Sunderland also tweeted this. And BBC sport said

:39:00. > :39:04.this. As a pitches on the front and back pages of the papers of Bradley

:39:05. > :39:06.out they were Jermaine Defoe. They really built quite a relationship.

:39:07. > :39:11.Thank you very much. 6:39. Endometriosis and Fibroids

:39:12. > :39:13.are conditions that affect millions of women, but according

:39:14. > :39:17.to a new report they need to be Over 2,500 people

:39:18. > :39:22.across the UK were asked Fibroids - the most common

:39:23. > :39:31.non-cancerous growths that develop in or around the womb

:39:32. > :39:34.affect up to 70% of women. The survey found 12% of women

:39:35. > :39:40.had to wait up to two Endometriosis can cause painful

:39:41. > :39:43.periods and lower back pain. It is estimated to affect 1

:39:44. > :39:46.in 10 women in the UK. 40% of women said they

:39:47. > :39:49.needed 10 or more GP appointments before being referred

:39:50. > :39:52.to a specialist for the condition. Paula Sheriff is the

:39:53. > :39:54.chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group

:39:55. > :40:01.on Women's Health. Good morning. Thank you for joining

:40:02. > :40:05.us. So many people affected by these kind of issues. Are you concerned?

:40:06. > :40:11.What is your biggest concern about them? I think so much of the report

:40:12. > :40:17.has caused concern. I think the fact that as you alluded to, 40% of women

:40:18. > :40:22.took 10 gigabytes upon us to be referred to specialist. 46% said

:40:23. > :40:27.they were not treated with dignity and respect. And I think 67% of that

:40:28. > :40:31.cohort also said that they left their appointment not feeling like

:40:32. > :40:35.they had adequate information about their condition and also about the

:40:36. > :40:40.treatment plan thereafter. What is behind those issues, then? Is that a

:40:41. > :40:45.lack of knowledge or care in the way these people are being dealt with?

:40:46. > :40:50.It is easily affecting 70 women in the country. That is. One in ten

:40:51. > :40:58.women will be subject to and addresses. -- endometriosis. I think

:40:59. > :41:02.the fact is there is some stigma about this in society. One of the

:41:03. > :41:09.things that came out of the report was to have these issues discussed

:41:10. > :41:12.in schools. I think many doctors, unfortunately, the feedback we got

:41:13. > :41:16.is that women were told to get on with it. You have period, get on

:41:17. > :41:20.with it, it is a fact of life. Go away and do not bother us. And we

:41:21. > :41:24.know there is an excellent practice out there, that we identified, that

:41:25. > :41:29.some doctors are providing, with excellent empathetic care. But

:41:30. > :41:33.sadly, this appears to be desperate. It is interesting about women having

:41:34. > :41:37.to go back to ten different appointments. And that sort of

:41:38. > :41:41.judgement, AGP making a judgement when something is normal and when it

:41:42. > :41:47.needs to be tested. How do you sort that out? Again, we identified some

:41:48. > :41:54.good practice, where people were being referred almost immediately,

:41:55. > :41:58.but sadly, a big percentage reported having to have as many as ten

:41:59. > :42:01.appointments. -- a GP. That is almost unimaginable. Imagine the

:42:02. > :42:07.pain and the mental torture. Again, one of our recommendations is that

:42:08. > :42:14.an approved pathway be followed when a woman goes to a GP with these

:42:15. > :42:21.problems. What is the likelihood of that being taken on and use? Is very

:42:22. > :42:25.cost indication? Is this a simple way of saying this works, this is a

:42:26. > :42:32.serious issue for millions of women across the country, please, can you

:42:33. > :42:35.put this into place? Absolutely. It should be more cost-effective to

:42:36. > :42:38.follow the pathway. Because you can imagine that ten GP appointments has

:42:39. > :42:43.not come cheaply. And it is important that a woman is diagnosed

:42:44. > :42:50.earlier to avoid things that fertility province, which can be

:42:51. > :42:56.very expensive in the long run. We'll be working with experts and

:42:57. > :43:02.most importantly with patients to make sure that these issues are

:43:03. > :43:08.taken on. -- a avoid things like fertility problems. We'll be

:43:09. > :43:13.speaking to a woman who suffers from fibroids later on. But NHS spokesman

:43:14. > :43:15.said that they take women's health very seriously and will carefully

:43:16. > :43:22.consider the report and recommendations. Do let us know if

:43:23. > :43:31.there is anything else that you would like to tell us about that.

:43:32. > :43:38.Matt is out there somewhere in London. Not sure exactly where. Can

:43:39. > :43:43.you tell us how it is out there? It is not bad at all. We are in central

:43:44. > :43:47.London. We are in Packenham. We are at the London wildlife trust's

:43:48. > :43:52.centre for wildlife gardening. It is a stunning location, all set up

:43:53. > :43:56.around gardens that promote the habitats of native wildlife. This

:43:57. > :44:01.week, the Royal horticultural Society and the London wildlife

:44:02. > :44:06.trust have joined forces for the big creative initiative. It is all about

:44:07. > :44:09.protecting the habitat of our native bees, both of which have been in

:44:10. > :44:15.drastic decline over recent years. Take London alone. The size of lawns

:44:16. > :44:22.and gardens around 2-and-a-half times the size of Hyde Park had

:44:23. > :44:26.disappeared -- disappear every year in the capital. We are trained to

:44:27. > :44:30.amend that and give you some tips and advice on what you can do to

:44:31. > :44:38.help encourage and protect our bees. And there are more details on that.

:44:39. > :44:42.There is a free fax the Mac fact sheet -- there is a free fact sheet

:44:43. > :44:47.out there. Will have more information about protecting the

:44:48. > :44:51.bees. On slightly important well. We go to the forecast. It is a little

:44:52. > :44:56.cloudy after a stunning weekend in which we saw warmers conditions of

:44:57. > :45:01.the year so far. Warm by day, but Corbynite. Chilly today in the

:45:02. > :45:04.morning across the UK. Mist low cloud across parts of the Midland

:45:05. > :45:11.and is in England in particular. So some of you are still waking up to

:45:12. > :45:22.Eccles R. -- cold by night. Lots of sunshine to start the day. Peter

:45:23. > :45:25.Rossi across parts of Scotland into the afternoon. Shetland will

:45:26. > :45:29.continue to see clouded skies. And mist low cloud around the borders

:45:30. > :45:33.later on, particularly for the goes. But most, warned they had.

:45:34. > :45:37.Temperatures 17 degrees or 80 degrees. North-west of England blue

:45:38. > :45:41.skies for south-eastern coasts could hold onto mist low cloud. Single

:45:42. > :45:45.figure highs if you do. But away from that, those that start off the

:45:46. > :45:50.mist low cloud will see the sunshine come out. I warm day across parts of

:45:51. > :45:54.England, given the winds are a little bit lighter. And a fine day

:45:55. > :45:59.two for Wales. Temperatures there could reach 18 or 19 degrees through

:46:00. > :46:02.the afternoon. Of Northern Ireland, there will be high cloud at times,

:46:03. > :46:07.but some good sunny spells throughout. So another warm and

:46:08. > :46:11.sunny day for the mist majority. The night, though, will be a little cold

:46:12. > :46:14.again across northern and western areas, especially where the skies

:46:15. > :46:27.are clear. That low cloud from last night returns a night at a bit more

:46:28. > :46:30.extensively, particularly across central and eastern England and

:46:31. > :46:33.eastern parts of Scotland. It will keep temperatures up, and turning

:46:34. > :46:37.milder towards the south-west later on as winds come up from a southerly

:46:38. > :46:40.direction. That will bring changes for Tuesday. The mist low cloud will

:46:41. > :46:44.break up. But a Day of Seychelles and clear skies for many of you.

:46:45. > :46:47.Just to begin with in Wales and the south-west. These will develop

:46:48. > :46:49.across parts of central and south-west England, Northern

:46:50. > :46:54.Ireland, and England. Some of those will be heavy at times. -- heavy.

:46:55. > :46:57.But wherever you are, it will be dry and warm. Temperatures in England on

:46:58. > :47:00.Tuesday could get up to around 20 degrees. And we would be far off

:47:01. > :47:04.that on Wednesday, with sunshine, the best of which will be across

:47:05. > :47:07.parts of East Anglia and eastern England. But in the west, cloud at

:47:08. > :47:10.times, with outbreaks of rain coming and going, and a strengthening

:47:11. > :47:16.breeze. Between the showers, it should feel warm. It will hopefully

:47:17. > :47:21.encourage some of the bees out. And more details on what you can do to

:47:22. > :47:22.help protect our native bees to the programme. But now, back to you

:47:23. > :47:34.guys. Look at the start! How cute they

:47:35. > :47:47.landed on cue to at the start of your cross. -- look at the ducks.

:47:48. > :47:58.But that was the first sunny day we have had for a while. Is this your

:47:59. > :48:01.dog? Yes. She was out sniffing the flowers yesterday.

:48:02. > :48:04.We want to know how you enjoyed the weather -

:48:05. > :48:06.if you've got any pictures summing up your sunny weekend,

:48:07. > :48:11.You can get in touch in all the usual ways.

:48:12. > :48:12.E-mail us at bbcbreakfast@bbc.co.uk tweet us @bbcbreakfast

:48:13. > :48:15.or share your images on our Facebook page.

:48:16. > :48:18.Later this week, the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50 -

:48:19. > :48:20.beginning the formal process of Britain leaving

:48:21. > :48:28.So what does it all mean, and what happens next?

:48:29. > :48:30.We've sent Sean for a roadtrip down the A50.

:48:31. > :48:47.Good morning, Sean. Good morning. We have thought about this and that is

:48:48. > :48:52.why here at this insulation manufacturer in Stoke. They have

:48:53. > :48:58.levelled off a little bit but it is baking hot in here. It is literally

:48:59. > :49:03.an oven. This began as liquid at one or end of the factory, goes to a

:49:04. > :49:08.baking area and comes out like this. Are talking to businesses like this

:49:09. > :49:12.this week along the A50 about Article 50 because of the triggering

:49:13. > :49:16.of that on Wednesday. It will be an important time to see what Theresa

:49:17. > :49:21.May does with the negotiations, what will business be like in a couple of

:49:22. > :49:27.years. Let's speak now to Kevin who runs this place. You put new

:49:28. > :49:31.investment into this plan, you are owned by Belgians. You're watching

:49:32. > :49:36.what Theresa May says on Wednesday? I think it shows confidence that we

:49:37. > :49:39.have the European owned business here willing to invest another ?20

:49:40. > :49:44.million in the UK construction industry as it sees it is still a

:49:45. > :49:50.strong country to invest in. You do not export much but you import quite

:49:51. > :49:54.a lot. Have you noticed a big change since the vote to leave in the cost

:49:55. > :49:57.of everything? Unfortunately with the change of the foreign exchange

:49:58. > :50:03.rate we have seen duty increases in our raw materials. So in the short

:50:04. > :50:07.term, has been bad? It has been a challenge because we have had to

:50:08. > :50:11.incur a hike in costs that we were not expecting and it has been far

:50:12. > :50:17.beyond what we were expecting at that point. A challenge for the

:50:18. > :50:23.whole industry. Just squeeze past you here. That is why it is

:50:24. > :50:27.important. In the short term it may not have that much affected in the

:50:28. > :50:31.long-term there will be quite a lot of negotiation. Let's stick to poor

:50:32. > :50:35.mouth. You are an expert on all things Brexit. What sort of things

:50:36. > :50:39.will change on Wednesday that businesses need to look at over the

:50:40. > :50:45.next few years? I don't think much will change on Wednesday. We know

:50:46. > :50:50.the EU call for a summit on April 29 and nothing will really happen until

:50:51. > :50:55.after the German election. And then everything needs to be concluded by

:50:56. > :51:00.about October 2018 so we will be quite rapid. Slow to start with but

:51:01. > :51:07.after October it will become quite rapid. What will business be looking

:51:08. > :51:10.for? What changes to the manufacturer like this see? The

:51:11. > :51:14.first thing is for Whitehall and Westminster to understand we have is

:51:15. > :51:19.that it will manufacturing sector and the service industries related

:51:20. > :51:23.to that. When we begin negotiations we need to understand that those

:51:24. > :51:28.processes and I think the big problem is not negotiating free

:51:29. > :51:32.trade agreement it is just stimulating trade and in the region

:51:33. > :51:39.here, what we really need to do is to look at infrastructure so we can

:51:40. > :51:44.provide a competitive infrastructure across all transport options and

:51:45. > :51:47.skills to make us more competitive. Is there one thing in these

:51:48. > :51:51.negotiations in the next 18 months where we finally get a deal at it

:51:52. > :51:57.that businesses think we will need? Infrastructure. The problem is in

:51:58. > :52:00.the region here we are close to capacity in terms of transport

:52:01. > :52:05.infrastructure. The government needs to put some real money into

:52:06. > :52:10.investment in the region here. Thank you very much. We will be talking

:52:11. > :52:13.about this all morning. Infrastructure clearly important.

:52:14. > :52:18.What about labour and staffing? All of this kind of stuff? That will

:52:19. > :52:24.start on Wednesday when Article 50 gets under way and that is why are

:52:25. > :52:27.on the A50. Thank you very much. Fantastic goggles as well.

:52:28. > :52:30.The new 12-sided one pound coin comes into circulation tomorrow.

:52:31. > :52:33.The Treasury says the currency will be much harder to forge,

:52:34. > :52:40.but how ready are the nation's parking meters, vending

:52:41. > :52:55.I still could not see the hologram. One has a ? and the other one is the

:52:56. > :52:56.digit number one. You can see the scratch a bit there underneath the

:52:57. > :53:03.head of the Queen. Breakfast's Tim Muffett has been

:53:04. > :53:05.finding out if the small change is going to cost

:53:06. > :53:17.businesses a fortune. Since 1983 the pound coin has flowed

:53:18. > :53:23.through our economy. Down high Street into shops, vending machines,

:53:24. > :53:29.shopping trolleys, parking meters. But the days of the round pound are

:53:30. > :53:35.numbered. From October 15 these will no longer be legal tender and from

:53:36. > :53:43.tomorrow these, the new 12 sided coins, will enter circulation. It

:53:44. > :53:53.looks pretty. Can I keep it? I like it. It reminds leave the old

:53:54. > :53:59.Threepenny bid. -- it reminds me. It is thought that 3% of the old pound

:54:00. > :54:06.coins were fake but the total cost of switching over will exceed ?100

:54:07. > :54:08.million. All that expense of changing every vending machine,

:54:09. > :54:14.shopping trolley, everywhere you put pound coin in will need to be

:54:15. > :54:22.changed and it costs someone. The industry did not know until we saw

:54:23. > :54:27.red on the news. This man runs a supplier of vending machines. He

:54:28. > :54:31.says that upgrades to 4000 of them have cost his company ?200,000. We

:54:32. > :54:37.have been blatantly told thank you, new coin and it is your job to put

:54:38. > :54:43.in the relevant mechanisms. We have not been given a relevant time frame

:54:44. > :54:47.to do this, it will not be completed until the end of the year. The

:54:48. > :54:50.Treasury decided to switch. In a statement it said he worked with

:54:51. > :54:55.business every step of the way to help them prepare for the new pound

:54:56. > :55:01.coin which it says it will be the most secure of its kind in the

:55:02. > :55:06.world. At the Royal Mint in South Wales, 3 million of them are being

:55:07. > :55:09.produced every day. We had some issues with the old Pound coin. The

:55:10. > :55:16.technology was 30 years old. It is made from two different coloured

:55:17. > :55:20.metal, a white coloured metal and a brass coloured outer. In addition

:55:21. > :55:23.there is a hologram. When you look in one direction you will see the

:55:24. > :55:28.number one and in the other direction you will see the ?. I

:55:29. > :55:35.think it is important that the public can feel confident, that they

:55:36. > :55:42.know that when they hand this from me to you it is worth a pound and it

:55:43. > :55:45.is genuine. A leisure centre in Birmingham where the lockers need

:55:46. > :55:50.upgrading. He has been a busy man full done nearly 4000 now across the

:55:51. > :55:54.country. Things could soon get even busier. There is still a lot of work

:55:55. > :55:58.and a lot of bloggers out there that still need to be changed over. As of

:55:59. > :56:03.tomorrow there will probably be a wave of leisure centres are waking

:56:04. > :56:07.up to the fact that the coin-operated lockers will no longer

:56:08. > :56:12.operate. Most businesses are ready for the change and the long-term

:56:13. > :56:21.benefits of the new pound coin are worth the short term cost. We have a

:56:22. > :56:28.first here. I have my pound coin. Dan has lost his. The first pound

:56:29. > :56:34.coin down the back of the sofa already. I went to do a heads and

:56:35. > :56:35.tails and it sort of disappeared down here somewhere. I haven't found

:56:36. > :56:36.it yet. Time now to get the news,

:56:37. > :00:11.travel and weather where you are. Hello this is Breakfast,

:00:12. > :00:15.with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. Face to face: Theresa May

:00:16. > :00:18.and Nicola Sturgeon meet for talks as the Scottish Parliament prepares

:00:19. > :00:23.to back a second vote Hello this is Breakfast,

:00:24. > :00:26.with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. Face to face: Theresa May

:00:27. > :00:28.and Nicola Sturgeon meet for talks as the Scottish Parliament prepares

:00:29. > :00:37.to back a second vote The Prime Minister will urge

:00:38. > :00:41.unity ahead of Brexit, describing a united UK

:00:42. > :00:43.as an unstoppable force. in installing high-speed

:00:44. > :01:09.business lines. good morning. We're on the road the

:01:10. > :01:12.morning on A50. We are looking at what manufacturers like this one is

:01:13. > :01:18.that whatever the Brexit deal. And in sport, England, Scotland, and

:01:19. > :01:21.Ireland, all we are World Cup qualifying. Jermain Defoe returns

:01:22. > :01:27.after four years out as England beat little when you to nil. -- England

:01:28. > :01:31.beat little when you 2-0. The new pound coin, and tomorrow it

:01:32. > :01:38.enters circulation - we'll be finding out why

:01:39. > :01:41.not everyone is happy And the weather's been so lovely

:01:42. > :01:50.we've sent Matt out and about. Good morning, yes. I'm at the

:01:51. > :01:53.wildlife trust wildlife garden in south-east London. We are looking at

:01:54. > :01:58.what we can do to protect our native bee species this morning and look at

:01:59. > :02:01.the forecast as well. After a stunning weekend, where we have more

:02:02. > :02:03.of the sunshine today? The answer for some is yes. But the rest of the

:02:04. > :02:05.details are in 15 minutes. Theresa May will meet Scotland's

:02:06. > :02:09.First Minister Nicola Sturgeon later today for the first time

:02:10. > :02:11.since she rejected calls for a second referendum

:02:12. > :02:13.on Scottish independence. The visit is part of a tour

:02:14. > :02:17.of all four nations of the UK before the process of leaving

:02:18. > :02:20.the European Union formally Let's speak to our Scotland

:02:21. > :02:23.Correspondent Lorna Gordon, Lorna, what do we expect

:02:24. > :02:35.to happen today? It would be so fascinating to hear

:02:36. > :02:39.exactly what is said in this meeting, would that? It really work.

:02:40. > :02:43.There is this constitutional stand-off ongoing, and I think the

:02:44. > :02:47.key question today is world has been a day that compromise can be found.

:02:48. > :02:52.The two leaders will meet later today. Before that, Theresa May is

:02:53. > :02:56.meeting staff at the Department of International develop and, where she

:02:57. > :03:04.will set out her aim of setting a global Britain with a strong union.

:03:05. > :03:08.She was a host -- she will say how post-Brexit plan will involve

:03:09. > :03:13.strengthening the devolution settlement. She is also meeting with

:03:14. > :03:16.Police Scotland to discuss counterterrorism, after the attack

:03:17. > :03:21.last week at Westminster. The issue of security will also be on the

:03:22. > :03:26.agenda, with her meeting with Nicola Sturgeon. Inevitably, though, a lot

:03:27. > :03:29.of their discussion will be about Article 50. A spokesperson for the

:03:30. > :03:33.Scottish government said that two days before Article 50 is triggered,

:03:34. > :03:37.there hasn't yet been no discussion with the Scottish government over

:03:38. > :03:41.what would be in the latter starting a process, and no discussion of how

:03:42. > :03:44.Scotland's edges will be represented, and no discussion of

:03:45. > :03:49.what role the Scottish government will play in the negotiations. There

:03:50. > :04:00.will be a lot to discuss. There will indeed. Thank you. Talking a bit

:04:01. > :04:06.more about that with a few MPs soon. But BT has been fined a record ?42

:04:07. > :04:12.-- the communications regulator Ofcom.

:04:13. > :04:14.It found BT's Openreach division had cut compensation

:04:15. > :04:17.payments to other telecoms providers for delays in installing high speed

:04:18. > :04:19.business lines.The company said it "apologised wholeheartedly"

:04:20. > :04:25.Whether at home or at work, cable switch connectors

:04:26. > :04:29.Some carry large amounts of data at great speed.

:04:30. > :04:31.But there are cases where the company has been

:04:32. > :04:36.And the UK relies on the bigger cables, which make up the network,

:04:37. > :04:38.as they support mobile and broadband operators,

:04:39. > :04:44.as well as big businesses, schools, and hospitals.

:04:45. > :04:48.Where BT fails to meet deadlines for ethernet services,

:04:49. > :04:53.as they are known, they need to pay compensation to the likes

:04:54. > :04:56.But they have been using a clause in the

:04:57. > :05:00.Now, BT has been hit with a huge extra bill.

:05:01. > :05:03.In a record fine, Ofcom has ordered them to pay ?42

:05:04. > :05:07.The scale of the fine is said to reflect the importance of BT

:05:08. > :05:13.to other companies, who offer services such as broadband.

:05:14. > :05:19.BT has apologised, adding that it should

:05:20. > :05:21.never have happened, and that measures have been put

:05:22. > :05:29.But in addition to the fine, it will need to find the additional

:05:30. > :05:31.?300 million owed to companies in compensation.

:05:32. > :05:34.It has emerged that people living close to the site of a major

:05:35. > :05:37.explosion on Merseyside reported smelling gas at least 24

:05:38. > :05:41.Two people were seriously hurt and more than 30 others were injured

:05:42. > :05:45.The National Grid has confirmed that reports of leaks

:05:46. > :05:47.were investigated, before the suspected gas blast

:05:48. > :05:50.Clare Fallon is live in Bebington, close to where

:05:51. > :05:57.Clare, are the emergency services still on the scene?

:05:58. > :06:07.You have moved little bit ) now. What is the latest? Yes, this is

:06:08. > :06:11.where the cord and is this morning. This is as close as we can get to

:06:12. > :06:16.the scene of the explosion on Saturday night. And now that the sun

:06:17. > :06:20.is up, we can get a better idea of the scale of the devastation coming

:06:21. > :06:23.here, really. It is a scene of devastation here this morning. And

:06:24. > :06:27.people who are here on Saturday evening have described how they

:06:28. > :06:33.thought that this was an earthquake, or a bomb blast, so loud was the

:06:34. > :06:40.explosion, that they heard. They describe seeing bricks raining down

:06:41. > :06:45.from the sky. Let me bring in this man, Aaron. Your church was opened

:06:46. > :06:49.up and became a refuge centre on Saturday? You were a couple of miles

:06:50. > :06:54.away, but you heard it committed new? Yes, I was 3.5 miles away. But

:06:55. > :06:58.we heard it from where we were. Of course, you came back here, your

:06:59. > :07:05.church was opened up. Just tell me what was going on. We came down five

:07:06. > :07:08.or ten minutes after the blast happened. And with inside half an

:07:09. > :07:13.out, there were people beginning to come into the church, people with so

:07:14. > :07:17.many different injuries. Families coming in and, getting the church,

:07:18. > :07:22.really. And we were able to give them shelter and give them tea and

:07:23. > :07:26.coffee, and it ended up being a trio centre, where paramedics were able

:07:27. > :07:33.to help those who are injured at the time. -- triage. We can see from the

:07:34. > :07:40.damage to the houses are that there will be a lot of people not waking

:07:41. > :07:47.up in their own beds. Yes, I think for the foreseeable future, it will

:07:48. > :07:52.be so -- sometime before people can get back in there. We need to do we

:07:53. > :07:56.can as a community to give people food and shelter and any resources

:07:57. > :07:59.we can at the time. Thank you for your time this morning. A police

:08:00. > :08:03.investigation is under way as you mentioned before. We have been told

:08:04. > :08:06.by the National Grid that people did report the smell of gas in the hours

:08:07. > :08:11.this explosion. Engineers came out and found nothing was amiss. But the

:08:12. > :08:16.priority will now be to establish exactly what happened. Thank you for

:08:17. > :08:20.that. Those aerial pictures are incredible. It is amazing that more

:08:21. > :08:24.people weren't injured. Or that it did not happen at a different time

:08:25. > :08:25.of day. We will have more on that little later.

:08:26. > :08:27.Attempts to end the political stalemate in Northern Ireland have

:08:28. > :08:31.Unionist parties and Sinn Fein have until later

:08:32. > :08:33.today to broker a deal but talks have broken down.

:08:34. > :08:36.Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Page is in Belfast

:08:37. > :08:45.Chris where does this leave the Northern Ireland assembley?

:08:46. > :08:50.In Northern Ireland, political negotiations have a habit of going

:08:51. > :08:53.right up to the deadline and often beyond. This time, though, things

:08:54. > :08:56.have turned out differently. Talks have finished ahead of the deadline,

:08:57. > :09:00.but that has happened because there has been a breakdown, but a

:09:01. > :09:03.breakthrough. Sinn Fein say they are not going to put any ministers

:09:04. > :09:06.fought to go into the power-sharing devolved government, and the garment

:09:07. > :09:11.cannot function without Sinn Fein, because they are the largest Irish

:09:12. > :09:16.nationalist party. So when the deadline officially passes at 4pm

:09:17. > :09:20.this afternoon, there is a decision which is broken Shah. He must call

:09:21. > :09:24.another Stormont assembly election within a reasonable period, but the

:09:25. > :09:28.last assembly election happened just earlier this month, and the one

:09:29. > :09:34.before that happened just last year. So there is a another election, they

:09:35. > :09:38.will be third in less than a year. He could pass legislation and have

:09:39. > :09:41.Stormont run from Westminster, all you could try to resurrect the

:09:42. > :09:44.negotiations. Either way, Northern Ireland is facing more instability.

:09:45. > :09:47.The government must do more to reduce the number of cut-price

:09:48. > :09:50.offers on unhealthy food to help curb childhood obesity,

:09:51. > :09:54.The Health Select Committee, also calls for rules

:09:55. > :09:57.on junk food advertisements to be made tougher.

:09:58. > :09:59.It argues the government's official obesity plan contains "vague

:10:00. > :10:03.But ministers say the strategy is the world's "most ambitious plan

:10:04. > :10:18.At least eight people thought to have died after an avalanche has

:10:19. > :10:22.struck in central Japan. Seven teachers and one teacher feared dead

:10:23. > :10:28.and 38 others injured. It took place during a climbing session near a

:10:29. > :10:33.popular ski resort for students. For other teachers and students are

:10:34. > :10:37.missing. The area has received heavy snow over the last few days.

:10:38. > :10:41.A broken braking device may have been to blame for an Hong Kong

:10:42. > :10:43.escalator suddenly reversing direction and increasing its speed

:10:44. > :10:46.We will show you some pictures from mobile phones.

:10:47. > :10:53.Video footage shot by witnesses captured the incident

:10:54. > :10:55.as dozens of passengers lost their balance and tumbled down

:10:56. > :10:59.Several ambulances rushed to the scene and took the injured

:11:00. > :11:04.People have tumbled to the ground on top of each other. Several

:11:05. > :11:14.ambulances have easily made their way there. It is just coming up to

:11:15. > :11:19.7:11. Now, we speak a lot about Article 50. Later today, the Prime

:11:20. > :11:24.Minister will meet Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon.

:11:25. > :11:26.This a day before Holyrood is expected to vote

:11:27. > :11:29.in favour of seeking a new referendum on independence.

:11:30. > :11:31.The meeting will coincide with Theresa May setting

:11:32. > :11:34.out her plans for a more united nation ahead of triggering Article

:11:35. > :11:37.50, when she formally begins the process of leaving the EU.

:11:38. > :11:41.To discuss this, we are joined from Westminster by the SNP MP,

:11:42. > :11:43.Stephen Gethins and Annie Wells from the Scottish Conservatives

:11:44. > :11:51.Thank you very much real-time on Breakfast. Stephen, first of all,

:11:52. > :11:55.wouldn't be sensible to see what the deal is before talking about a

:11:56. > :12:00.second referendum? Yes, you are right. That is why the First

:12:01. > :12:04.Minister has set out a timetable that would mean that we would have

:12:05. > :12:07.to see what the deal is for leaving the European Union. Michelle Bunny,

:12:08. > :12:16.the commission will be dealing with this, has said that we would need to

:12:17. > :12:21.see something by autumn 2018. But critically, before that, as well, we

:12:22. > :12:27.need answers from the UK government. We are just hours away from

:12:28. > :12:30.triggering Article 50, and there are still significant questions over

:12:31. > :12:34.what role the Scottish government will play, and what is deal with

:12:35. > :12:37.Europe will look like that will have such an impact on jobs in the

:12:38. > :12:43.economy. So difficult questions today and the next 48 hours, as

:12:44. > :12:47.well. Annie, such an important time for Scotland. Why, with that in

:12:48. > :12:51.mind, is this meeting taking such a long time to put together? I don't

:12:52. > :12:55.think the meeting is taking too long to put together. When the primer is

:12:56. > :13:01.the first began the Prime Minister, she spoke to the union on the steps

:13:02. > :13:05.of Downing Street. So we knew that Article 50 was good to be triggered

:13:06. > :13:08.before the end of March. The Prime Minister is coming to speak to the

:13:09. > :13:12.Scottish government. She was to work with them. What is wrong with a

:13:13. > :13:17.second referendum? Scotland did vote to remain committed and a? Scotland

:13:18. > :13:24.did vote to remain, yes, but it was a UK wide vote. We have to that when

:13:25. > :13:27.we go through the process of triggering Article 50 and

:13:28. > :13:33.negotiating with 27 other EU states, that we don't actually want any more

:13:34. > :13:38.upset and divisive campaigning in Scotland. We need to be democratic

:13:39. > :13:43.and support the vote of the UK people. Stephen, on that point, is

:13:44. > :13:48.this a distraction? Shouldn't be focused be allowed to be on getting

:13:49. > :13:55.the best deal, and this then to be easily after that? Adding wet --

:13:56. > :13:58.Artic we all need to recognise a significant change is coming. That

:13:59. > :14:03.will have a significant effect on jobs, the economy, the moment, and

:14:04. > :14:06.opportunities for young people. What we need to recognise is that people

:14:07. > :14:11.should be given the choice about what kind of change they want to

:14:12. > :14:14.see. And that is why I said earlier on that the First Minister's

:14:15. > :14:19.timetable follows the Prime Minister's timetable about what

:14:20. > :14:22.happens next. This is about giving people the choice. Remember that

:14:23. > :14:27.taking Scotland out of the EU could cost up to 80,000 jobs, according to

:14:28. > :14:31.economic think tank. That is really significant. The Scottish government

:14:32. > :14:35.has the responsibility to try and protect those jobs and the economy

:14:36. > :14:38.as far as they possibly can, which is why the Scottish governance or

:14:39. > :14:41.become promoters of the membership of the civil market. And the single

:14:42. > :14:49.mother was also some it was important to Scottish Conservatives.

:14:50. > :14:54.Annie, what is your response? Do they have the support of this is

:14:55. > :14:58.people? Poll after poll had shown no appetite for a second independence

:14:59. > :15:02.referendum. And that is not just the people who vote in 2014. But also

:15:03. > :15:07.some people who voted yes, they want easy the SNP get on the job. They

:15:08. > :15:10.have significant powers devolved, and even now, they asking

:15:11. > :15:15.Westminster to hold onto them for another years. A giver and much

:15:16. > :15:21.real-time. Stephen, too want to come back on that, quickly? No, just on

:15:22. > :15:26.that, the Scottish government is outperforming the English

:15:27. > :15:30.government. The First Minister is as not had trouble to seek. This is

:15:31. > :15:36.about protecting jobs and protecting the economy. Stephen, Annie, thank

:15:37. > :15:39.you for your time this morning. As we heard earlier, it could be a

:15:40. > :15:44.constitutional stand-off. So it could be a frosty meeting, today. I

:15:45. > :15:48.wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall for that one. It is quarter

:15:49. > :16:01.past seven. And it has been a lovely spring.

:16:02. > :16:10.This is the London wildlife Centre. They have joined forces for this be

:16:11. > :16:15.creative in the garden initiative. It is all about creating habitats to

:16:16. > :16:20.help protect and preserve declining bee numbers here in the UK. Will

:16:21. > :16:25.things you can do, such as planting nectar filled wildflowers. But the

:16:26. > :16:35.children involved, get them to build insect hotels. We have more details

:16:36. > :16:49.about advice on the garden. There will be details on the BBC breakfast

:16:50. > :17:00.site later on. Warmest day of the year so far yesterday. The forecast,

:17:01. > :17:05.starting on a chilly now this morning. For some of you, a nifty

:17:06. > :17:09.and great start. Parts of central and eastern England in particular.

:17:10. > :17:14.Some of our great club will linger close to the coast but notice in

:17:15. > :17:18.mind how the cloud fins and breaks in the sunshine comes through. For

:17:19. > :17:22.most there will be a blue sky day yet again and another fairly warm

:17:23. > :17:27.one. After a frost filled style in Scotland and project could hit 17 or

:17:28. > :17:38.18 degrees easily for a couple of spots. Shetland holds on to more

:17:39. > :17:43.cloud. Elsewhere across England and certainly into Wales you will see a

:17:44. > :17:47.long to the afternoon, clear blue skies for many and across the South

:17:48. > :17:51.Coast competitor yesterday, winds will be lighter so may feel warmer

:17:52. > :17:59.there. Even we can see temperature around 17 or 18 degrees. 19 is

:18:00. > :18:04.possible across Wales. Maybe you will more cloud than we saw through

:18:05. > :18:08.the weekend but still a fine day with sunny spells. Through tonight,

:18:09. > :18:11.missed and low cloud will return across many central and eastern

:18:12. > :18:16.parts so once again it will be murky across some of the hills. Into

:18:17. > :18:20.south-east Scotland as well. Clear skies in the west will lead to

:18:21. > :18:24.temperature dropping a touch. A little frost around into the morning

:18:25. > :18:29.but maybe not as much as you have seen for the last few mornings.

:18:30. > :18:34.Tuesday, for some of you, it begins like it did today with the sunshine

:18:35. > :18:39.around. Low cloud and green across eastern parts of England. Generally

:18:40. > :18:47.speaking tomorrow, cloud across the UK with sunny spells. Showers first

:18:48. > :18:50.thing, they will push northwards Northern Ireland and eventually

:18:51. > :18:54.southern Scotland. Some could be heavy even with the odd bit of

:18:55. > :18:57.thunder that will only be a small part of your day in the balk will

:18:58. > :19:00.mostly be dry particular across the north of Scotland. In England we

:19:01. > :19:05.could see temperature reached 20 degrees tomorrow. Warmly we see the

:19:06. > :19:09.sunshine again on Wednesday, the best that will be across the eastern

:19:10. > :19:13.areas. In the west there will be more breeze, cloud of time and

:19:14. > :19:18.outbreaks of rain. Shari was dry weather and sunshine around but when

:19:19. > :19:24.that sunshine is out it will feel very pleasant. If you have got a

:19:25. > :19:28.sunshine, get out and take a photo. If you were out this weekend, taking

:19:29. > :19:38.photographs and enjoying nature across the UK, send them into a zero

:19:39. > :19:48.BBC breakfast via Twitter or e-mail. We will try to your pictures later

:19:49. > :19:51.on air. It was quite a lovely day for many parts of the country.

:19:52. > :19:53.Elsewhere for you... The communications regulator,

:19:54. > :19:55.Ofcom has fined BT Openreach a record ?42 million after it

:19:56. > :19:58.reduced compensation payments in connecting high-speed

:19:59. > :20:00.business lines. It was found the telecoms giant had

:20:01. > :20:03.committed a "serious breach". Gaucho Ramussen is Ofcom's

:20:04. > :20:17.Investigations Director and he joins Good morning and thank you for

:20:18. > :20:20.joining us. Could you explain to us what had been going on and why this

:20:21. > :20:27.level of fine? These are high-speed lines are the

:20:28. > :20:32.digital backbone of the country and BP rolls them out and they have 30

:20:33. > :20:36.days to do so when companies ordered lines to be rolled out. Sometimes

:20:37. > :20:40.they can get that deadline, possibly for valid reasons, but they need to

:20:41. > :20:45.provide notice and they need the right reason for doing so. It is a

:20:46. > :20:48.matter of the tea, that DT can control, then they need to pay

:20:49. > :20:55.compensation for a delay. And what was the problem? We found that they

:20:56. > :20:59.had used a mechanism for delaying the rollout and not paying

:21:00. > :21:07.compensation in an inappropriate manner. Now we have learned they

:21:08. > :21:13.have done to tune of 330 million pounds in compensation to providers

:21:14. > :21:19.who are out of pocket. You find them ?42 million. Why did you set that

:21:20. > :21:24.level? It is a record fine. The highest fine we have imposed. We

:21:25. > :21:28.feel that it very much reflects the seriousness of the breach in

:21:29. > :21:38.question and the importance of this sector of the UK economy. Of course,

:21:39. > :21:42.the Fai needs to be seen in context. In line with a significant

:21:43. > :21:49.compensation package. We spoke to the chief executive from BET. And he

:21:50. > :21:53.said the investigation revealed that they felled short of the high

:21:54. > :21:57.standards they expect. They take it very seriously. He goes onto say

:21:58. > :22:01.they put place matters to control and people to prevent it from

:22:02. > :22:08.happening again. Are you happy that this is the end of it now? We see

:22:09. > :22:13.this as an investigation into historic contact. We have seen

:22:14. > :22:16.tangible change at the tea and of course Beattie has met our

:22:17. > :22:22.requirements in full in terms of improving the independence of

:22:23. > :22:25.overreach and we welcome that. We know that they will now separate.

:22:26. > :22:32.You mentioned earlier that they will now need to pay other money to

:22:33. > :22:37.people who they have provided a service to? That is correct.

:22:38. > :22:42.Beattie, as part of settling these allegations, have also agreed to a

:22:43. > :22:50.compensation package and we understand that that amounts, it is

:22:51. > :23:00.estimated to amount to 330 pounds. And the ?42 million, we are to go

:23:01. > :23:05.to? That money goes to Treasury. Now a story that shock to this morning

:23:06. > :23:10.was a survey but said the 29% of us have had our lunch stolen. People

:23:11. > :23:18.are all wondering out there and they just take someone else's lunch? I

:23:19. > :23:23.get the feeling, 5% of people occurred in to the survey to send a

:23:24. > :23:30.strongly worded. The thing is I don't even put my food in the

:23:31. > :23:34.fridge. I just don't leave it there. Gordon says that he is to write the

:23:35. > :23:44.name of his manager on the food to deter thieves. Delia says they can

:23:45. > :23:50.keep the pork pie but if my special sandwich was pinched I would be

:23:51. > :23:56.fuming. It is so cute to see languages with their name written on

:23:57. > :24:00.them. And Malisse said a vegetable bake was once stolen 50 years ago.

:24:01. > :24:06.The shock and horror is still with her today. You've taken it in, you

:24:07. > :24:27.have purchased it, so I just takes it! Leonardo says that and

:24:28. > :24:36.occasional lift of milk is OK. If you still some work says Susan,

:24:37. > :24:42.where do you eat it? Under the desk? I accidentally, says Kate, once

:24:43. > :24:47.stole a banana. How do you do it accidentally? It either is or is not

:24:48. > :24:53.yours? Somebody else says that they once drank half a bottle of Lucozade

:24:54. > :24:59.to put the rest back in the fridge. Tracy says that she was starving and

:25:00. > :25:03.she was skint. She was innocent but she did want to take a bite out of

:25:04. > :25:13.someone's quiche and put it back in the fridge. I don't know... I don't

:25:14. > :25:15.know what you can do. Tony five minutes past seven. What is the

:25:16. > :25:21.world coming to? -- 25 minutes. As the Prime Minister prepares

:25:22. > :25:24.to trigger Article 50 what does it it mean for businessess along

:25:25. > :25:27.the 'A50' trunk road? Sean is in Stoke-on-Trent

:25:28. > :25:36.for us this morning. This sign is not stolen. I should

:25:37. > :25:44.make that clear. It is our own a 50 signed because we are discussing

:25:45. > :25:49.Article 50 all this week. It is the start of the formal Brexit

:25:50. > :25:56.negotiation. We are at a stoped manufacturing plant today. They

:25:57. > :26:00.manufacture instillation. Chris is watching this. Chris, where would

:26:01. > :26:06.you find this stuff in your house? Under your floor, in the cavities of

:26:07. > :26:11.your walls and in the loft. And everything is the right shape this

:26:12. > :26:15.morning? Thank you. Things like this. The chemicals in this will be

:26:16. > :26:20.imported. Some countries will export these kind of things. If you are a

:26:21. > :26:23.business that does that, you will be watching what Theresa May says to

:26:24. > :26:27.the European Union on Wednesday in her letter and what her

:26:28. > :26:31.priorities... Do you have staff from the European Union? All those things

:26:32. > :26:33.will be looked out over the next few days just to see how much businesses

:26:34. > :29:53.is keeping an eye on it. For Hello, this is Breakfast

:29:54. > :30:17.with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. It is exactly 7:30. Let's bring you

:30:18. > :30:17.up-to-date with the latest news stories.

:30:18. > :30:20.Theresa May will meet Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon later

:30:21. > :30:23.today for the first time since she rejected calls

:30:24. > :30:24.for a second referendum on Scottish independence.

:30:25. > :30:28.The Prime Minister's visit is part of a tour of all four

:30:29. > :30:31.nations of the UK before the process of leaving the European Union

:30:32. > :30:39.BT has been fined a record ?42 million

:30:40. > :30:41.by the communications regulator Ofcom.

:30:42. > :30:43.It found BT's Openreach division had cut compensation

:30:44. > :30:46.payments to other telecoms providers for delays in installing high speed

:30:47. > :30:48.The company said it "apologised wholeheartedly"

:30:49. > :30:57.We have investigated the source of bridges before, but this is the

:30:58. > :31:01.largest find we have imposed. We feel it reflects the seriousness of

:31:02. > :31:06.the breach in question and the importance of this particular sector

:31:07. > :31:12.of the UK at Konta me. Of course, the find needs to be seen in

:31:13. > :31:16.context, with the significant connotation package. -- compensation

:31:17. > :31:17.package. Two people were seriously hurt

:31:18. > :31:20.and dozens more were injured when several buildings collapsed

:31:21. > :31:22.following a major explosion It has emerged that residents

:31:23. > :31:25.reported smelling gas at least 24 hours before

:31:26. > :31:28.the suspected gas blast You can see what happened here in

:31:29. > :31:35.these pictures. The National Grid confirmed that

:31:36. > :31:44.reports of leaks were investigated, They are amazing pictures. It is

:31:45. > :31:50.incredibly lucky that more people would hope. I know people were hurt,

:31:51. > :31:50.but... Yes, it could have been horrific.

:31:51. > :31:53.Attempts to end the political stalemate in Northern Ireland have

:31:54. > :31:57.Three weeks of talks to form a power-sharing coalition

:31:58. > :31:59.between Unionist parties and Sinn Fein, have broken down,

:32:00. > :32:02.with the Republican party saying it won't be nominating anyone

:32:03. > :32:23.for the post of Deputy First Minister.

:32:24. > :32:26.The rail company First MTR has been awarded the franchise to run

:32:27. > :32:28.South West Trains for seven years from August 2017,

:32:29. > :32:30.the Department of Transport have announced.

:32:31. > :32:32.Transport secretary Chris Grayling said the firm

:32:33. > :32:35.will deliver the improvements that people say they want right

:32:36. > :32:36.across the Southern Western franchise area.

:32:37. > :32:42.Matt is out and about their talking about these. We will be talking

:32:43. > :32:46.about that in about ten minutes. -- talking about bees. And ducks. That

:32:47. > :32:47.was a spectacular landing from those ducks. It is almost like we queued

:32:48. > :32:57.them. We will be talking about getting a

:32:58. > :33:01.ducks in a row. Yes, it is to be going that way for England. Top of

:33:02. > :33:05.the group. Playing little any, as they did in their World Cup

:33:06. > :33:09.qualifier, no disrespect to live away near, but they are obviously

:33:10. > :33:18.not as good as the world champions, Germany, it seems a little bit

:33:19. > :33:24.unfair to say that you got out a few years ago and now you to go play the

:33:25. > :33:30.world champions, Germany. -- Lithuania. Positive for Lithuania.

:33:31. > :33:35.It seemed a bit mean to say Gareth Southgate, at your first game in

:33:36. > :33:43.charge, time to face the world champions. A win is a win. Will it

:33:44. > :33:47.All three of the home nations in action won last night.

:33:48. > :33:50.England beat Lithuania 2-0 in a world cup qualifier at Wembley.

:33:51. > :33:52.Five-year-old Bradley Lowery, who has cancer, led out the England

:33:53. > :33:55.team alongside the man he describes as his best friend -

:33:56. > :34:00.We'll be hearing a little bit more from Defoe later on.

:34:01. > :34:06.And it was the Sunderland man who opened the scoring -

:34:07. > :34:08.his 20th for his country but his first for England

:34:09. > :34:12.He was replaced by Jamie Vardy in the second half,

:34:13. > :34:14.and the Leicester striker took his chance when it came.

:34:15. > :34:17.England's manager says Defoe can't be ruled out of competing in next

:34:18. > :34:22.summer's World Cup, if England qualify.

:34:23. > :34:25.It is really important that we are able to call on people

:34:26. > :34:29.like Jermain Defoe, so he can have the impact that he help

:34:30. > :34:34.If he has been playing as well as he has this season,

:34:35. > :34:38.Back to the really heartwarming story now of the five-year

:34:39. > :34:46.Bradley, who has cancer, led the England team out along

:34:47. > :34:48.with his hero Jermain Defoe last night.

:34:49. > :34:51.This has been some of the reaction on social media...

:34:52. > :35:00."It was perfect to walk out at Wembley Stadium with you."

:35:01. > :35:02.Sunderland said "Two Sunderland heroes lead the way"

:35:03. > :35:09.BBC Sport said "This little hero was an England mascot today".

:35:10. > :35:15.Jermain Defoe has a vision not played for England to the last

:35:16. > :35:17.years. So to walk out with Bradley was a special occasion for both of

:35:18. > :35:18.them. They beat Slovenia 1-0

:35:19. > :35:24.at Hampden Park in a game manager Gordon Strachan had

:35:25. > :35:26.described as a "must-win". They left it late,

:35:27. > :35:29.Chris Martin came off the bench The victory moves them up to fourth

:35:30. > :35:34.and keeps their slim hopes Up next, though, they

:35:35. > :35:42.host England in June. Or you can ask as a manager is to go

:35:43. > :35:47.certain things. They did everything were asked. And they push themselves

:35:48. > :35:52.to another level, there. Whatever will be will be. I was enjoying

:35:53. > :35:55.their performance as a manager. Northern Ireland remain in second

:35:56. > :36:00.place in Group C after a 2-0 win Goals from Jamie Ward

:36:01. > :36:03.and Conor Washington The victory leaves Northern Ireland

:36:04. > :36:07.five points off group leaders Germany and two clear

:36:08. > :36:09.of third-place Czech Republic. Results build confidence,

:36:10. > :36:12.and momentum, and belief. You know, we had that

:36:13. > :36:16.experience of qualification France, and the experience

:36:17. > :36:23.for the finals, and that is a credit They didn't let

:36:24. > :36:25.their standards drop. And they hold onto the dream

:36:26. > :36:29.they can go to Russia, as well. And with every game,

:36:30. > :36:31.you are closer to There's only one Brit left

:36:32. > :36:34.in at the Miami Open, and Johanna Konta is

:36:35. > :36:36.still going strong. It took her just over an hour

:36:37. > :36:40.to beat Pauline Parmentier of France Finally, now, you might

:36:41. > :36:50.remember her from last year's Claudia Fragapane is

:36:51. > :36:54.back to her day job. She's been quoted this week

:36:55. > :36:57.saying her time on the show has improved her routines,

:36:58. > :36:59.but she had to settle for second It was a slip that saw her go out

:37:00. > :37:05.of bounds cost her the title event, which went instead

:37:06. > :37:11.to Maisie Methuen. So a big upset there. Four gold

:37:12. > :37:15.medals at the Com world games, you are expected to win the British

:37:16. > :37:18.Championships. But a bit of a mistake from her, there. Talking of

:37:19. > :37:25.mistakes, that from the fridge. The work fridge, which I think is

:37:26. > :37:30.outrageous. Very quickly, Key said that somebody has padlocked his milk

:37:31. > :37:35.to the shell. Justin said he is damages and says in a note that he

:37:36. > :37:42.has done so. Somebody stole a cream and here, and said an e-mail to

:37:43. > :37:48.staff. She got more back. And Rachel writes breastmilk on her green top

:37:49. > :37:56.to stop someone... That would definitely do. All the ideas. I do

:37:57. > :37:58.that you need to go as far as to lick a sandwich. You could you say

:37:59. > :38:05.you did it. , and later this week,

:38:06. > :38:07.the Prime Minister will trigger beginning the formal process

:38:08. > :38:15.for Britain to leave Loads of questions we have been

:38:16. > :38:26.asking. What does it mean? What happens next? The man with all the

:38:27. > :38:32.answers, we hope, is Sean, coming from the A50. Yes, we are in Stoke

:38:33. > :38:36.today. We are going to be going along the A50. Here, they are

:38:37. > :38:40.manufacturing installation. There are lots of businesses right across

:38:41. > :38:44.the country they will be winding what Theresa May once out of the

:38:45. > :38:48.negotiations when they finally get under way on Wednesday. --

:38:49. > :38:50.wondering. So we said Steph out on the A50 to find out what is to

:38:51. > :38:54.happen these negotiations. The referendum last June

:38:55. > :38:55.divided the country. 52% voted to leave and

:38:56. > :38:58.48% voted to remain. Since then not a lot has changed

:38:59. > :39:01.but this week the process of unpicking our relationship

:39:02. > :39:03.with the EU begins. And it is certainly fuelling debate

:39:04. > :39:09.about the road that lies ahead. Now EU members have

:39:10. > :39:11.rules that they must And Article 50 is the bit of it

:39:12. > :39:27.which tells you how countries So, essentially, it

:39:28. > :39:32.is the divorce rules. But the whole process

:39:33. > :39:35.is quite vague, because no So it is a little bit

:39:36. > :39:40.like travelling down a road without any clear signs

:39:41. > :39:44.of where you are going. Now we already know that the UK

:39:45. > :39:47.will be leaving the single market, which is the agreement

:39:48. > :39:51.between EU countries that allows goods,

:39:52. > :39:53.services and people to move Ending that arrangement

:39:54. > :39:56.is potentially a big For this industry,

:39:57. > :40:03.the potteries, 50% of So they think there

:40:04. > :40:11.is a lot at stake. But one of the big

:40:12. > :40:16.businesses here is JCB, which makes industrial vehicles

:40:17. > :40:19.and sells them to work 150 The boss, a long-standing

:40:20. > :40:34.Conservative Party donor, does not

:40:35. > :40:36.believe that trade will be affected. Theresa May said one of the main

:40:37. > :40:42.messages she had taken from the Leave vote

:40:43. > :40:44.was that British people want to see a reduction

:40:45. > :40:50.in immigration. Now, it's not clear yet how

:40:51. > :40:53.the government will achieve it and many businesses who rely

:40:54. > :40:55.on migrant workers are worried that tighter controls will mean

:40:56. > :40:59.they will not be able to get But it is not just British people

:41:00. > :41:02.and British businesses who will have a say

:41:03. > :41:05.in what happens next. The UK car industry

:41:06. > :41:07.is worth ?70 billion Most of them, like Toyota

:41:08. > :41:11.here in Derby, are foreign-owned so when it comes to lobbying

:41:12. > :41:15.for the best deal, what the bosses of these companies

:41:16. > :41:27.think really matters. Once Article 50 has been triggered,

:41:28. > :41:30.there is a 2-year time frame in order to get all of that

:41:31. > :41:33.Brexit negotiation done. But this is a road we have never

:41:34. > :41:37.been down before so that time frame And we have 27 countries

:41:38. > :41:56.we need to negotiate with. It is not to be easy. There are lots

:41:57. > :42:02.of businesses like this one here. Kevin Rudd is this place. We were on

:42:03. > :42:05.the breakfast plus, we're calling at the A50 bus. You are the first

:42:06. > :42:18.passenger, Kevin. We are going to have a quick tour around here. --

:42:19. > :42:22.Keven runs. -- Kevin. The construction industry as a sole

:42:23. > :42:26.place to invest in the UK. We have hundreds of thousands of houses that

:42:27. > :42:29.need to be built in the UK. So we are investing tens of millions of

:42:30. > :42:32.pounds to build a new plant to ensure there is enough material

:42:33. > :42:36.available for the construction needs of the UK. All right. So does it

:42:37. > :42:42.actually help you guys, the fact that you do not export? All your

:42:43. > :42:46.tradies Prayad much in the UK. We do do exports. -- all of your trade is

:42:47. > :42:50.pretty much done in the UK. The domestic market is strong. We want

:42:51. > :42:53.to support that to the best of our ability. So these negotiations get

:42:54. > :42:57.under way on Wednesday between Theresa May and the European Union.

:42:58. > :43:01.We are going to sort out what that relationship will look like in a few

:43:02. > :43:04.years time. What would be a priority at about? Party-goer be asking the

:43:05. > :43:08.government to negotiate as hard as they possibly can to ensure that we

:43:09. > :43:12.do not get hit with high tariffs that damage business further than

:43:13. > :43:18.some of the import prices are ready have. In terms of import prices, if

:43:19. > :43:26.you are an importer in your painful all of this, what is this chemical

:43:27. > :43:34.again? It is MDI. Well, prices go up, though they? They do. And it has

:43:35. > :43:39.had an impact in the UK on the Rosa good. I need to kick you off now,

:43:40. > :43:43.echo free, and welcome David. We now talk to David Frost, who represents

:43:44. > :43:50.tons of businesses right across Stoke. Welcome aboard. You represent

:43:51. > :43:54.loads of businesses in Stoke. Stoke, generally, voted pretty considerably

:43:55. > :43:58.to leave the European Union. Our business is here pretty happy with

:43:59. > :44:02.how it is going? Businesses had just gone on with the job of creating

:44:03. > :44:07.wealth and jobs. They have been doing that usually successfully over

:44:08. > :44:11.40,000 jobs having been credited in the last two years. Unemployment has

:44:12. > :44:15.plummeted and continues to fall. Businesses are getting on with it.

:44:16. > :44:18.We have heard a lot about the car industry and what might happen to it

:44:19. > :44:22.in the future just because the lack of Nissan, they have at some kind of

:44:23. > :44:26.deal. But we have not heard much about the potteries. Is a concern

:44:27. > :44:29.amongst businesses that they are not being Pinery ties as much as other

:44:30. > :44:35.sectors? This will be a big issue for us. -- prioritise. Geely, it

:44:36. > :44:42.governments are going to focus on big businesses. -- Clearly.

:44:43. > :44:46.Potteries are vital to our economy. What the govern has you do is to try

:44:47. > :44:53.and understand that certain key sectors that are based

:44:54. > :44:57.geographically are understood. So certain sectors of idling creaking

:44:58. > :45:01.and exporting around the world. We need to be to do that around it

:45:02. > :45:09.world into the future. We are going to be on the road on the A50

:45:10. > :45:12.investigating Article 50 before the Article 50 is triggered on

:45:13. > :45:22.Wednesday. Whoever is driving it doing wonderfully. Well done, Andy.

:45:23. > :45:26.Can we look at the driver? Thank you very much. See you a little bit

:45:27. > :45:37.later. A reluctant driving style there.

:45:38. > :45:44.many of us in this week we're looking at how to make your garden

:45:45. > :45:48.more be friendly. We have a cheeky fluffy be in the background here

:45:49. > :45:54.with Matt. Yes, the only brave enough to come out this morning but

:45:55. > :46:01.we are at the London wildlife Centre for wildlife gardening in Hackham. A

:46:02. > :46:05.joint initiative launched this week between the RHS and the London

:46:06. > :46:09.wildlife trust to find out more about what we can do to protect the

:46:10. > :46:14.bee population of the nation. Joining me is Mike Waller, an

:46:15. > :46:21.ecologist. Can you tell us more about the initiative? It is very

:46:22. > :46:27.simple, it is all about improving your garden or your balcony or any

:46:28. > :46:30.green space, for bees. Making it better for wild bees such as

:46:31. > :46:33.bumblebees and solitary bees of which there are many different

:46:34. > :46:39.kinds. Because their habitat has been disappearing? Absolutely. Many

:46:40. > :46:43.people are taking over their gardens but we need to create little nooks

:46:44. > :46:47.and crannies where they can breed and thrive and have plenty of wild

:46:48. > :46:57.flowers to feed from. So a few little simple steps. It is all about

:46:58. > :47:06.creating the right space and also a lot of nice wild flowers for pollen

:47:07. > :47:10.and nectar. Even leaving a few wild areas in corners of the garden is

:47:11. > :47:18.vitally important as well. What else can be done? Simple things. Solitary

:47:19. > :47:25.is like looks crannies and holes in which they can live and breathe. Cut

:47:26. > :47:29.a bottle in half, stuff it with bamboo cane like this and it creates

:47:30. > :47:34.tiny little holes for them to enter and breed in. Or, if you feel more

:47:35. > :47:39.ambitious, you can get a bit of shelf like this and fill it up with

:47:40. > :47:46.bits of cardboard, bar, bamboo, to create spaces. Children can easily

:47:47. > :47:52.get involved with this as well. Thank you very much. We will discuss

:47:53. > :47:58.more about what we can do to help preserve the bees of the nation will

:47:59. > :48:03.talk more about the weather. It has been a wonderful weekend across the

:48:04. > :48:06.UK. The temperature yesterday peaked at 20 Celsius in the north of

:48:07. > :48:10.Scotland. The forecast today is for more sunshine for some of you but we

:48:11. > :48:15.will have a more cloud here and there. A chilly start, misty but

:48:16. > :48:18.great conditions across central and eastern parts of England this

:48:19. > :48:23.morning. That grey cloud will take awhile to shift and burn away but it

:48:24. > :48:26.will last through much of day across eastern coastal counties of England,

:48:27. > :48:31.unlike what we saw on the weekend. But after what has been a frosty

:48:32. > :48:34.staff are a couple of view, another cracking spring day ahead. Much

:48:35. > :48:38.sunshine around. Certainly across Scotland where we saw temperatures

:48:39. > :48:41.reach close to 20 degrees yesterday, could hit 1819 again today through

:48:42. > :48:45.parts of the Highlands. Cut across the shell and is potentially a

:48:46. > :48:49.little but a cloud goes to the coast but it is across the eastern

:48:50. > :48:55.counties where the cloud will linger and the temperature will not only be

:48:56. > :48:57.around 19 Celsius. Elsewhere in the sunshine temperatures will happily

:48:58. > :49:02.reach the teams, could reach around 19 Celsius across western part of

:49:03. > :49:05.England and Wales. Even across southern counties of England with

:49:06. > :49:09.the light breeze. It will feel a little warmer. Another fine day as

:49:10. > :49:13.world come across in Northern Ireland. Here, however, a lot more

:49:14. > :49:17.cloud than we saw yesterday so there will be case of sunny spells rather

:49:18. > :49:21.than clear blue skies. But really, for the vast majority of the shaping

:49:22. > :49:24.up to be another beautiful day. That sets us into a lovely evening. But

:49:25. > :49:29.what will happen through tonight, is much like what happened last night.

:49:30. > :49:31.Low cloud across the eastern coastal counties will become more expensive

:49:32. > :49:35.once again, particularly across England into parts of south-east

:49:36. > :49:40.Scotland as well. Keep it averages up here but in clear skies towards

:49:41. > :49:43.the west you could see a touch of frost to take us into the morning.

:49:44. > :49:48.Into Tuesday there will be some changes once again. We start quite

:49:49. > :49:51.grey and misty, particular cross and eastern areas. But into the

:49:52. > :49:57.afternoon will probably be funnier. Into the west will cease and showers

:49:58. > :50:00.into the morning commute. Fairly sporadic and they would develop

:50:01. > :50:03.further across other central western part of England into Northern

:50:04. > :50:07.Ireland by the end of the afternoon across southern. For most of you the

:50:08. > :50:13.bulk of the day will be dry. In the sunshine between the showers,

:50:14. > :50:17.temperatures could hit 20 degrees in parts of south-east England. Into

:50:18. > :50:20.Wednesday, more showers developing across the west, were more frequent

:50:21. > :50:29.and we have seen on Tuesday. Eastern areas they dry and bright for the

:50:30. > :50:37.longest. How nice for the bees. They will be happy. More later on and as

:50:38. > :50:40.he said, it has been a beautiful weekend for many parts of the

:50:41. > :50:46.country. We asked for photographs and you have not disappointed us.

:50:47. > :50:52.First of all this photo has been sent in of Slater 's Bridge in

:50:53. > :50:58.Little Langdale. David has a e-mail this picture of his family in the

:50:59. > :51:06.sunshine. Oh, look at those three! Janet says her dog enjoyed the sand

:51:07. > :51:16.dunes. That is in Devon yesterday. And, finally... A 80 gram which is

:51:17. > :51:24.clearly smiling. It made her smile all this weekend as well. -- a baby

:51:25. > :51:29.lamb which is clearly smiling. I had wanted to see this brave few weeks.

:51:30. > :51:35.Logs, I have the new pound point! Since Dan lost a coin in... It is

:51:36. > :51:39.allowed to touch them. These are some of the first that have ever

:51:40. > :51:44.been seen. This is what they look like, 12 sites, two different

:51:45. > :51:51.metals. A hologram along the bottom. There is a hologram below the head

:51:52. > :51:56.of the Queen. It has a ? and the number one on it as well. If utility

:51:57. > :52:04.you can seek the number one turn into a pound. It is there. They're

:52:05. > :52:07.coming to circulation tomorrow but there are some issues about parking

:52:08. > :52:11.meters, vending machines, lockers and some people say it will cost an

:52:12. > :52:17.awful lot of money to change this over to the new pound coin. You can

:52:18. > :52:18.to spend the old coins until October but the change would cost businesses

:52:19. > :52:24.of fortune. Since 1983 the pound coin has flowed

:52:25. > :52:27.through our economy. Down High Street into

:52:28. > :52:29.shops, vending machines, But the days of the round

:52:30. > :52:34.pound are numbered. From October 15 these will no longer

:52:35. > :52:38.be legal tender and from tomorrow these, the new 12-sided coins,

:52:39. > :52:44.will enter circulation. It reminds me of the

:52:45. > :53:05.old threepenny bit. The shape and structure of the new

:53:06. > :53:08.corn make it harder to forge. -- new coin.

:53:09. > :53:10.It is thought that 3% of the old pound

:53:11. > :53:14.coins were fake but the total cost of switching over will exceed ?100

:53:15. > :53:16.All that expense of changing every vending machine,

:53:17. > :53:20.shopping trolley, everywhere you put a pound coin in will need to be

:53:21. > :53:23.The industry did not know until we saw

:53:24. > :53:27.This man runs a business, supplying vending machines.

:53:28. > :53:30.He says that upgrades to 4000 of them

:53:31. > :53:37.We have been blatantly told thank you,

:53:38. > :53:41.new coin and it is your job to put in the relevant mechanisms.

:53:42. > :53:44.We have not been given a relevant time frame

:53:45. > :53:48.to do this, it will not be completed until the end of the year.

:53:49. > :53:55.In a statement it said they worked with

:53:56. > :53:58.business every step of the way to help them prepare

:53:59. > :54:01.for the new pound coin which it says it will be the most secure

:54:02. > :54:08.At the Royal Mint in South Wales, 3 million of them are being

:54:09. > :54:13.We had some issues with the old Pound coin.

:54:14. > :54:16.It is made from two different coloured

:54:17. > :54:22.metal, a white coloured metal and a brass coloured outer.

:54:23. > :54:29.When you look in one direction you will see the number one

:54:30. > :54:34.and in the other direction you will see the ?.

:54:35. > :54:37.I think it is important that the public can feel confident,

:54:38. > :54:41.that they know that when they hand this from me to you it is worth

:54:42. > :54:46.A leisure centre in Birmingham where the lockers need

:54:47. > :54:54.Done nearly 4000 now across the country.

:54:55. > :55:00.There is still a lot of work and a lot of lockers out there that

:55:01. > :55:05.As of tomorrow there will probably be a wave of leisure centres waking

:55:06. > :55:07.up to the fact that the coin-operated lockers

:55:08. > :55:24.The Treasury is confident that most businesses are ready for the change

:55:25. > :55:28.for the change for the change and the long-term

:55:29. > :55:32.benefits of the new pound coin are worth the short term cost.

:55:33. > :55:43.now, you can bank your old coins now or spend an till October. It has

:55:44. > :55:49.smooth edges and milled edges. If you look, I know this is getting

:55:50. > :55:54.quite boring now. It is 12 sides and alternate sides have grooves and

:55:55. > :55:59.then flat sides. It feels a bit strange if you rub your finger

:56:00. > :56:06.around it. Do you like it? What is not to like about a shiny coin? The

:56:07. > :56:16.old girl was... I do prefer the new ones. It does spin quite well. Look,

:56:17. > :56:21.you are going to lose another one. Did you see that perfect spin!

:56:22. > :59:45.Vanessa has a breakfast show on BBC regions.

:59:46. > :59:47.Vanessa has a breakfast show on BBC breakfast radio London and I will be

:59:48. > :00:29.back in half an hour. Hello, this is Breakfast

:00:30. > :00:33.with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. Face-to-face - Theresa May

:00:34. > :00:35.and Nicola Sturgeon meet for talks as the Scottish parliament prepares

:00:36. > :00:37.to back a second vote The Prime Minister will urge unity

:00:38. > :00:41.ahead of Brexit describing a united Good morning, it's

:00:42. > :01:03.Monday 27th March. BT is hit with a record

:01:04. > :01:06.fine of ?42 million because of delays in installing

:01:07. > :01:18.high-speed business lines. The investigation continues into a

:01:19. > :01:21.suspected gas explosion here in Wirral which destroyed buildings and

:01:22. > :01:29.injured dozens of people. We will be live with some of those affected.

:01:30. > :01:33.Good morning. We are on the road this week, the A50, talking about

:01:34. > :01:36.Article 50 and that vote to leave the European Union. Negotiations

:01:37. > :01:41.kick off and we look at what businesses like this one in Stoke

:01:42. > :01:43.want to get out of it. In sport, England, Scotland and

:01:44. > :01:48.Northern Ireland all win in World Cup qualifying. . Vp

:01:49. > :01:51.Jermaine Defoe returns from nearly four years out with a gel

:01:52. > :01:54.And, there's a new quid on the block.

:01:55. > :02:00.The new pound coin and tomorrow it enters circulation.

:02:01. > :02:05.We will be finding out why not everyone is happy

:02:06. > :02:12.And the weather's been so lovely we have sent Matt out and about.

:02:13. > :02:25.Thank you, good morning. We are looking to what we can do to protect

:02:26. > :02:29.the nation's bees this morning. More tips on what you can do to

:02:30. > :02:32.preserve the nation's bees and a forecast that contains sunshine for

:02:33. > :02:36.many but with a few expectations, all the details coming up.

:02:37. > :02:44.Theresa May will meet Scotland's First Minister,

:02:45. > :02:47.Nicola Sturgeon, later today for the first time since

:02:48. > :02:50.she rejected calls for a second referendum on Scottish independence.

:02:51. > :02:53.The visit is part of a tour of all four nations of the UK before

:02:54. > :02:55.the process of leaving the European Union formally

:02:56. > :02:58.Let's speak to our Scotland correspondent Lorna Gordon

:02:59. > :03:09.So potentially this could be a frosty meeting today, couldn't it? I

:03:10. > :03:13.think that's entirely possible, yes. Good morning. What's interesting is

:03:14. > :03:17.Downing Street this morning said of the meeting between the two leaders,

:03:18. > :03:22.the Prime Minister and the First Minister, that they hoped the talks

:03:23. > :03:27.would prove constructive but on the relationships between MrsMay and

:03:28. > :03:31.MrsNicola Sturgeon they would only say every political relationship has

:03:32. > :03:36.its own dimension. These two leaders will have a lot to discuss. We get a

:03:37. > :03:40.sense of some of the issues in Theresa May's comments ahead of that

:03:41. > :03:42.meeting. She's going to meet staff at the Department for International

:03:43. > :03:48.Development where she will set out her aim of building a global Britain

:03:49. > :03:53.with a strong union. She will vow never to allow the UK to become

:03:54. > :03:56.looser and weaker. She's also meeting officers from Police

:03:57. > :03:58.Scotland to discuss counterterrorism, that after that

:03:59. > :04:03.attack in Westminster last week. Security will be on the agenda with

:04:04. > :04:06.her talks with Nicola Sturgeon and also Article 50, the Scottish

:04:07. > :04:09.Government says two days before that process starts there's been no

:04:10. > :04:14.discussion yet over the Scottish Government's role in that process,

:04:15. > :04:18.how Scotland's interests will be represented. Critically, Theresa May

:04:19. > :04:23.is also saying she will forcefully reiterate her view that now is not

:04:24. > :04:26.the time for a second independence referendum. That an area which

:04:27. > :04:30.Nicola Sturgeon will want to push her on later today. Thank you. We

:04:31. > :04:31.will have more details on that meeting throughout the day on the

:04:32. > :04:37.News channel. BT has been fined

:04:38. > :04:39.a record ?42 million by the communications regulator

:04:40. > :04:41.Ofcom. It found BT's Openreach division had

:04:42. > :04:43.cut compensation payments to other telecoms providers for delays

:04:44. > :04:45.in installing high The company said it apologised

:04:46. > :04:50.wholeheartedly for the mistakes. Whether at home or at work,

:04:51. > :04:54.cable switch connectors Some carry large amounts

:04:55. > :05:01.of data at great speed. But there are cases where

:05:02. > :05:03.the company has been slow And the UK relies on the bigger

:05:04. > :05:10.cables, which make up the network, as they support mobile and broadband

:05:11. > :05:12.operators, as well as big Where BT fails to meet deadlines

:05:13. > :05:20.for ethernet services, as they are known, they need to pay

:05:21. > :05:22.compensation to the likes But they have been using a clause

:05:23. > :05:29.in the contract to reduce payments. Now, BT has been hit

:05:30. > :05:32.with a huge extra bill. In a record fine, Ofcom

:05:33. > :05:46.has ordered them to pay This is the highest fine we have

:05:47. > :05:51.imposed. We feel it reflects the seriousness of the breach in

:05:52. > :05:57.question and the importance of this sector of the UK economy. Of course,

:05:58. > :05:59.the fine needs to be seen in context in the round with the significant

:06:00. > :06:03.compensation package. The scale of the fine is said

:06:04. > :06:06.to reflect the importance of BT to other companies,

:06:07. > :06:08.who offer services BT has apologised, adding that it

:06:09. > :06:14.should never have happened, and that measures have been put

:06:15. > :06:17.in place to stop it happening again. But in addition to the fine,

:06:18. > :06:20.it will need to find the additional ?300 million owed

:06:21. > :06:27.to companies in compensation. Two people were seriously hurt

:06:28. > :06:29.and dozen more were injured when several buildings collapsed

:06:30. > :06:31.following a major explosion It has emerged that residents

:06:32. > :06:43.reported smelling gas at least 24 hours before the suspected gas blast

:06:44. > :06:46.in Bebbington in Wirral on Saturday. The National Grid confirmed that

:06:47. > :06:48.reports of leaks were investigated Attempts to end the political

:06:49. > :06:52.stalemate in Northern Ireland Unionist parties and Sinn Fein have

:06:53. > :06:56.until later today to broker a deal Our Ireland correspondent Chris Page

:06:57. > :07:14.is in Belfast this morning. In some ways this was expected but

:07:15. > :07:17.what happens now to the Assembly? This stalemate is difficult to

:07:18. > :07:22.solve, the parties had until 4pm this afternoon to form a new

:07:23. > :07:26.power-sharing Executive here. As you say, the process has ended in

:07:27. > :07:30.breakdown, not breakthrough. Sinn Fein say they won't be putting

:07:31. > :07:33.forward ministers to go into the Government here and because they're

:07:34. > :07:37.the largest Irish nationalist party then Stormont cannot function

:07:38. > :07:39.without them. When the deadline passes the Northern Ireland

:07:40. > :07:43.Secretary has a tricky decision to make. As the law stands at the

:07:44. > :07:46.moment he has to call another Stormont Assembly election within

:07:47. > :07:51.what's described as a reasonable period but the last election was

:07:52. > :07:53.just over three weeks ago. Alternatively, he could pass

:07:54. > :07:57.emergency legislation in the House of Commons and take over running

:07:58. > :08:02.Northern Ireland from Westminster. As neither of those options seem

:08:03. > :08:06.particularly appealing, he may play for time, try to get the parties

:08:07. > :08:09.back around the table for a deal. No matter what, Northern Ireland is

:08:10. > :08:12.facing more political uncertainty and it's been without a functioning

:08:13. > :08:18.Government for three months now. Thank you very much.

:08:19. > :08:19.MPs must introduce tougher measures to tackle childhood obesity

:08:20. > :08:24.in England, including controlling supermarket price promotions on junk

:08:25. > :08:31.A report out today by the Health Select Committee argue

:08:32. > :08:37.that plans published by Government Ministers last year

:08:38. > :08:38.missed several important opportunities and

:08:39. > :08:42.Here's our health correspondent Dominic Hughes.

:08:43. > :08:45.A levy on sugary drinks was the main element of the government's

:08:46. > :08:49.childhood obesity strategy when it was announced last year.

:08:50. > :08:52.While many health experts and campaigners said it was a start,

:08:53. > :08:54.they also thought the government could and should have gone further.

:08:55. > :08:58.Now a group of MPs has agreed that much more needs to be done

:08:59. > :09:04.In particular, they want action to curb discounts and price

:09:05. > :09:08.The committee also calls for clear goals on reducing overall levels

:09:09. > :09:12.of childhood obesity and for the levy on sugary drinks

:09:13. > :09:17.to be extended to milk-based products that have added sugar.

:09:18. > :09:19.We know that one in three 11-year-olds are overweight

:09:20. > :09:21.or obese, and that's not just about individual choices,

:09:22. > :09:23.it's about the environment that children are growing up

:09:24. > :09:26.in and really the key thing that's missing from the current strategy

:09:27. > :09:36.is regulation around marketing and the promotions to children.

:09:37. > :09:41.Representatives from the food industry itself told the committee

:09:42. > :09:43.that responsible retailers are being disadvantaged by those

:09:44. > :09:50.who continue to offer big discounts on food high in sugar and fat.

:09:51. > :09:54.In a statement, the Department of Health in England

:09:55. > :09:57.defended its use of a largely voluntary approach from the food

:09:58. > :10:00.industry to the reduction of sugar and fat, and said ministers had not

:10:01. > :10:02.ruled out further measures if results are not seen.

:10:03. > :10:04.But the MPs argue the situation with childhood obesity

:10:05. > :10:06.is so serious and urgent, ministers need to take

:10:07. > :10:24.The rail company First MTR has been awarded the franchise to run

:10:25. > :10:27.South West Trains for seven years from August 2017 with ?1.2 billion

:10:28. > :10:29.of investment the Department of Transport have announced.

:10:30. > :10:31.Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the firm will deliver

:10:32. > :10:33.the improvements that people say they want right across

:10:34. > :10:44.At least eight people are thought to have died after an avalanche

:10:45. > :10:47.Seven teenagers and one teacher are feared dead

:10:48. > :10:51.It took place during a climbing session near a popular ski resort.

:10:52. > :11:03.Four other students and teachers are missing.

:11:04. > :11:06.The area has received heavy snow over the last two days.

:11:07. > :11:09.A broken braking device may have been to blame for an Hong Kong

:11:10. > :11:11.escalator suddenly reversing direction and increasing its speed

:11:12. > :11:16.Video footage shot by witnesses captured the incident as dozens

:11:17. > :11:19.of passengers lost their balance and tumbled down to the ground.

:11:20. > :11:21.Several ambulances rushed to the scene and took

:11:22. > :11:47.Endometriosis and fibroids are conditions which affect millions

:11:48. > :11:50.of women but according to a new report they are not

:11:51. > :12:01.Over 2,500 people across the UK were asked about their treatment.

:12:02. > :12:03.Fibroids, the most common non-cancerous growths that develop

:12:04. > :12:06.in or around the womb, affect up to 70% of women.

:12:07. > :12:10.The survey found 12% of women had to wait up to two

:12:11. > :12:13.Endometriosis can cause painful periods and lower back pain.

:12:14. > :12:16.It is estimated to affect one in ten women in the UK.

:12:17. > :12:19.40% of women said they needed ten or more GP appointments before

:12:20. > :12:30.being referred to a specialist for the condition.

:12:31. > :12:32.Joining is now is Dr Geeta Nargund, senior consultant gynaecologist,

:12:33. > :12:34.and Anne Little who was diagnosed by fibroids.

:12:35. > :12:39.Lots of people getting in touch with us and it's something that's not

:12:40. > :12:43.discussed a lot, is it? Anne, let's talk about you, first of all. You

:12:44. > :12:47.had ongoing issues and how long did it take you to find out what was

:12:48. > :12:52.wrong? It took a while because it's a sensitive area and topic, so, I

:12:53. > :12:57.teach exercise in the community and I was getting symptoms when I was

:12:58. > :13:02.exercising. I put up with it for about 12 months. Then I eventually

:13:03. > :13:07.went to see the GP and she diagnosed fibroids and that was confirmed with

:13:08. > :13:11.a scan. Right. How long did the whole process take? The actual scan?

:13:12. > :13:14.Until you managed to find out? It was very quick. Over a year before

:13:15. > :13:20.you found out what was wrong? Yes, that was because I was reluctant to

:13:21. > :13:24.pursue it because it's a sensitive area and sensitive topic. It's

:13:25. > :13:30.understandable but I suppose the problem trying to get to the bottom

:13:31. > :13:34.here is that some women are going with different problems and having

:13:35. > :13:38.to see a doctor on many occasions before they get to the bottom of

:13:39. > :13:44.things. Yes, Dan, this report highlights key gaps, I suppose in a

:13:45. > :13:48.way to demonstrate in the system and also has some robust recommendations

:13:49. > :13:54.which I am delighted about. First of all, as Anne said, you put up with

:13:55. > :13:59.it. Women don't talk about it, don't go to the GP quickly. They really

:14:00. > :14:03.feel they can't talk about it, feel isolated and they wait longer, but

:14:04. > :14:08.having said that the report also highlights they have to have repeat

:14:09. > :14:15.GP appointments before they could actually get a diagnosis. So, those

:14:16. > :14:24.findings are extremely important. One thing it does show is that Nice

:14:25. > :14:29.guidelines and best practice guidelines recommended are not used

:14:30. > :14:33.across the nation. That's a problem in healthcare we are having, in

:14:34. > :14:42.fertility it's a huge problem. I am saying if Nice guidance was used

:14:43. > :14:46.across the nation to reduce this unacceptable regional variations we

:14:47. > :14:52.have got we could swallow a lot of this rather than having a patchy

:14:53. > :14:56.treatment options and all of this, that's fundamental to ensuring that

:14:57. > :15:01.we get consistent treatment options, information throughout the nation.

:15:02. > :15:04.Anne, I know that once you were diagnosed there was the treatment

:15:05. > :15:09.options, you found that confusing, didn't you? I was worried about it.

:15:10. > :15:14.The first option was to do nothing and wait for the menopause because I

:15:15. > :15:18.was told fibroids can shrink during the menopause. The other option was

:15:19. > :15:27.to possibly pursue surgery which frightened me. There was no mention

:15:28. > :15:32.at that point about... That's the one. No mention of that. I did

:15:33. > :15:38.research myself really because I was scared about having the surgery.

:15:39. > :15:42.So, I was lucky, because I was a lecturer at the university at the

:15:43. > :15:47.time so I had access to research papers and a database so I did my

:15:48. > :15:52.own research and that's how I came across that process.

:15:53. > :16:00.Lots of people are having to do the research themselves on the internet.

:16:01. > :16:07.To touch on what Ann said. You didn't use the word "Embarrass" But

:16:08. > :16:14.it was something you didn't feel comfortable talking about. How much

:16:15. > :16:17.is it a taboo subject? It is quite common for women not to talk about

:16:18. > :16:22.it and what I think from this report, it is clear that we need

:16:23. > :16:27.education OK and one of the things that I would actually highly

:16:28. > :16:31.recommend is to include more details about menstrual health, what is

:16:32. > :16:38.normal period, what is normal period flow and menstrual health and pelvic

:16:39. > :16:43.pain, to include more about it in the secondary school curriculum. If

:16:44. > :16:47.we look at it and if young women are empowered with this information and

:16:48. > :16:51.knowledge they are more likely to do something about it if symptoms come.

:16:52. > :16:55.You know this ten appointments. Somebody maybe embarrassed and they

:16:56. > :16:59.go to their GP and it will be weeks before they perhaps go back, ten

:17:00. > :17:03.appointments before they get a diagnosis. If the Nice gloids were

:17:04. > :17:12.in place, do you think it would help with that number for example? It

:17:13. > :17:15.would. We could go into one-stop clinics, like one-stop diagnosis

:17:16. > :17:20.clinics so a scan is done quickly and there are no delays. Lots of

:17:21. > :17:25.people getting in contact and saying they've had issues like this. Debbie

:17:26. > :17:29.said it took seven years for a GP to refer me to a consultant which

:17:30. > :17:35.resulted in major operation. Kim said she was fobbed off by a GP and

:17:36. > :17:42.finally got a hospital appointment and it turned out she had fib fib.

:17:43. > :17:47.Ali says, "When they investigated my concerns, I ended up having a

:17:48. > :17:51.hysterectomy aged 35." An NHS England spokesperson said,

:17:52. > :17:53."The NHS takes women's health and satisfaction with the services

:17:54. > :17:56.provided extremely seriously and will carefully consider

:17:57. > :18:02.the report and recommendations". Thanks for getting in touch today.

:18:03. > :18:10.It is clearly an issue that's very important for so many people.

:18:11. > :18:12.A lovely spring weekend for many of us.

:18:13. > :18:15.This morning, we're looking at how you can you make your garden

:18:16. > :18:25.This is important stuff for pollinators everywhere.

:18:26. > :18:33.The habitat of our wild bees are in drastic decline. 97% of low land

:18:34. > :18:37.meadow in the countryside has disappeared and the habitats in the

:18:38. > :18:43.towns and the cities is disappearing rapidly. Particularly as people

:18:44. > :18:46.start to pave over their front gardens for parking, but there is

:18:47. > :18:51.little things we can do to help preserve the bees and encourage

:18:52. > :18:58.them. Anything from some planting to something a little bit more drastic.

:18:59. > :19:01.This is a living willow sculpture and the bee approximates, especially

:19:02. > :19:04.when this comes into flower, the bees just love it and the bees

:19:05. > :19:08.probably loved the sunshine of the weekend as I think many of us did. A

:19:09. > :19:11.stunning weekend in which we saw the warmest conditions of the year so

:19:12. > :19:16.far. Temperatures reached 20 Celsius in Scotland yesterday. We will be

:19:17. > :19:21.getting close to that again today for some of you. We start on a

:19:22. > :19:24.chilly note. The warmth by day is replaced by clear skies and chilly

:19:25. > :19:29.conditions by night. It is mistier this morning for central and eastern

:19:30. > :19:32.parts of England. Lots of low cloud at the moment. It will take a while

:19:33. > :19:39.for some of you to see the sud shine. That low cloud will remain

:19:40. > :19:43.across eastern coastal counties, but for most, the sun will be out all

:19:44. > :19:47.day even if there is a few more pockets of cloud in the sky above.

:19:48. > :19:51.That makes for another warm day. We reached 20 Celsius in Scotland

:19:52. > :19:55.yesterday. We could see 18 or 19 Celsius in the Highlands through

:19:56. > :19:58.today. Shetland seeing more cloud. The potential for more cloud in

:19:59. > :20:03.across the South East of Scotland later. Eastern coastal counties of

:20:04. > :20:07.England may remain grey and misty all day long. Temperatures only nine

:20:08. > :20:11.or ten Celsius. If you're in southern counties of England, you

:20:12. > :20:16.will probably notice a breeze. That chilled things down a bit, but the

:20:17. > :20:19.breeze is lighter today so it will feel warmer today and there will be

:20:20. > :20:22.plenty of it towards the south-west of England and indeed, across Wales.

:20:23. > :20:26.It is shaping up to be another fine day. Sunny spells and temperatures

:20:27. > :20:31.along the West Coast and across parts of Gwyneth could get to 19

:20:32. > :20:36.Celsius. Northern Ireland also seeing good, sunny spells.

:20:37. > :20:39.Temperatures 17 or 18 Celsius. Of course, warmth by day, quickly

:20:40. > :20:43.disappears as we head into the evening. The evenings are lighter at

:20:44. > :20:49.the moment. Your commute home should be lighter than it was on Friday

:20:50. > :20:52.with the sun setting after 7.30pm tonight. Tonight, with clear skies

:20:53. > :20:57.in the west, there will be a touch of frost. Mist and low cloud becomes

:20:58. > :21:01.abundant once more. It will keep temperatures up into the morning and

:21:02. > :21:04.notice in Plymouth things turning milder into the morning. That's

:21:05. > :21:09.because here the air is coming from the south. With it a few showers to

:21:10. > :21:13.start the day across south-west England and Wales. Most will start

:21:14. > :21:17.dry and grey and misty in many parts. Into the afternoon eastern

:21:18. > :21:27.areas will be sunniest and showers breaking out across central parts of

:21:28. > :21:31.England. Highs of 20 Celsius in the South East corner. Warm where you

:21:32. > :21:35.have got the sunshine on Wednesday. Showers more abundant in the west. A

:21:36. > :21:39.breeze to go with it. In the sunnier moments it should still feel warm,

:21:40. > :21:44.but not quite as sunny as that stunning weekend. Back to you both.

:21:45. > :21:53.Two people were seriously hurt and dozens more were injured

:21:54. > :21:55.when several buildings collapsed following a major explosion

:21:56. > :21:58.A children's dance studio, being used just an hour

:21:59. > :22:03.The scene has been likened to an earthquake.

:22:04. > :22:05.It has since emerged that residents reported smelling gas at least 24

:22:06. > :22:08.hours before the blast in Bebbington in Wirral on Saturday.

:22:09. > :22:13.Our reporter Clare Fallon is at the scene.

:22:14. > :22:20.Lots of people had a really lucky escape, didn't they? Good morning.

:22:21. > :22:24.This is as close as we can get to the scene of the explosion this

:22:25. > :22:29.morning. A cordon is still in place. Emergency crews are still here, but

:22:30. > :22:33.now that the sun is up, even from this distance you can get an idea of

:22:34. > :22:38.the scale of the devastation here. As you mentioned two people were

:22:39. > :22:42.seriously hurt. Many more walking wounded as they were described by

:22:43. > :22:46.the emergency services who were here on Saturday night when this

:22:47. > :22:51.explosion happened and let me bring in for you at this point Christopher

:22:52. > :22:55.Power, you were at home on Saturday night, weren't you, watching the

:22:56. > :22:59.telly. It was 9.15pm and suddenly all the windows came in. I heard a

:23:00. > :23:03.loud bang and initially I thought it was a bomb. So I ran outside. There

:23:04. > :23:08.was screaming. People were crying. And then someone mentioned that a

:23:09. > :23:12.building had collapsed to my right. When I went back home, all the glass

:23:13. > :23:17.from our windows were out. The door was off. Devastation everywhere. But

:23:18. > :23:24.what was great is that the whole community came together and helped

:23:25. > :23:28.and the pastor down the road in Life Church called people in. Although it

:23:29. > :23:33.was devastating, it was great to see the spirit of New Ferry coming

:23:34. > :23:37.together and helping support each other. What's your situation at the

:23:38. > :23:41.moment. You can't get back home? We have been in touch with people and

:23:42. > :23:45.they said we are not allowed back for a few more days until they have

:23:46. > :23:49.checked everything so at the moment we're being put up by a friend. When

:23:50. > :24:01.I call out of the house, I collapsed on the floor with shock and all I

:24:02. > :24:06.had was my pyjamas. You're worried about your cat? Yes, I saw him run

:24:07. > :24:10.and I haven't seen him for two days. I'm worried. Hopefully we can get

:24:11. > :24:15.someone in to find him which would be great. People are talking about

:24:16. > :24:19.the timing involved. This happened late on Saturday evening. It was

:24:20. > :24:28.9.15pm. That's a dance club over there. And young people were dancing

:24:29. > :24:33.hours before. So you can think of disaster if they were there an hour

:24:34. > :24:37.later. So people are really thinking this could have been a lot worse

:24:38. > :24:43.Absolutely and you have to think that people walk up the preSint

:24:44. > :24:46.every day to go to the pub or the shops and we're fort national that

:24:47. > :24:49.didn't happen. We did have casualties so that was terrible of

:24:50. > :25:01.the Thank you so much for your time. I know it has been a really

:25:02. > :25:06.difficult couple of days. Let's bring in pastor Partington, you

:25:07. > :25:13.opened up your church? Our church became' refuge centre for the people

:25:14. > :25:19.of New Ferry and Bebbington. For the people who lost their homes and the

:25:20. > :25:22.injured and we looked after them and until yesterday afternoon there was

:25:23. > :25:25.still people there that stayed there overnight and we supported them

:25:26. > :25:29.through that time. Christopher was talking about the way the community

:25:30. > :25:33.really rallied. Is that something you saw as well? The biggest thing

:25:34. > :25:37.and the biggest impression is the fact that it hasn't been just one

:25:38. > :25:42.group of people that have come together, it has been a plethora of

:25:43. > :25:47.people from the emergency services. Obviously to Life scam church, but

:25:48. > :25:51.to the wider community that's been involved in this from the outset.

:25:52. > :25:55.Thank you for your time. It has been a really tricky couple of days and

:25:56. > :25:59.much more difficulty ahead, I think, for this community. There is a

:26:00. > :26:06.police investigation that's underway here. As you mentioned a few moments

:26:07. > :26:09.ago, in the hours before this explosion people reported the smell

:26:10. > :26:13.of gas. Engineers were called out and they couldn't find any problems,

:26:14. > :26:16.but clearly, now the focus is going to be trying to investigate exactly

:26:17. > :26:20.what happened here and what the cause was. Clare, thank you very

:26:21. > :26:23.much. Best of luck to Chris and everybody else affected as well.

:26:24. > :26:30.Thank you very much. Every time you see those pictures,

:26:31. > :26:38.it is amazing. So lucky there wasn't a dance class going on at the time.

:26:39. > :26:43.We are talking about the new pound coin today. They come into

:26:44. > :26:48.circulation tomorrow. Lots of people say they are worried about their old

:26:49. > :26:52.pound coins. What happens? Fear not. You can spend your old pound coins

:26:53. > :26:57.until 15th October or take them to the bank and get them swapped. Our

:26:58. > :27:01.the Post Office can sort that out. There is 1.5 billion of these new

:27:02. > :27:08.coins which will come into circulation from tomorrow. There is

:27:09. > :27:12.a hologram underneath the Queen's head which Louise cannot see it! I

:27:13. > :27:21.cannot see the hologram. It could be something to do with my contact

:27:22. > :27:23.lenses or my age! Anyway, if you can't see the thing, the hologram,

:27:24. > :27:26.let me now. Time now to get the news,

:27:27. > :30:49.travel and weather where you are. more unsettled from midweek onwards.

:30:50. > :30:51.Not too bad. I will be back just after nine o'clock on BBC One with

:30:52. > :31:00.our next update. Hello, this is Breakfast

:31:01. > :31:08.with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. It is 8:30am, it is Monday morning,

:31:09. > :31:12.let's bring you up to date with the news and sport.

:31:13. > :31:13.Theresa May will meet Scotland's First Minister,

:31:14. > :31:16.Nicola Sturgeon, later today for the first time since

:31:17. > :31:18.she rejected calls for a second referendum on Scottish independence.

:31:19. > :31:22.The visit is part of a tour of all four nations of the UK before

:31:23. > :31:23.the process of leaving the European Union formally

:31:24. > :31:29.BT has been fined a record ?42 million

:31:30. > :31:31.by the communications regulator Ofcom.

:31:32. > :31:35.It found BT's Openreach division had cut compensation payments to other

:31:36. > :31:36.telecoms providers for delays in installing high

:31:37. > :31:47.The company said it apologised wholeheartedly for the mistakes.

:31:48. > :31:52.We have investigated these breaches before but this is the highest fine

:31:53. > :31:55.that we have imposed. We feel that it very much reflects the

:31:56. > :32:01.seriousness of the breach in question and the importance of this

:32:02. > :32:07.particular sector in the UK economy. The fine needs to be seen in context

:32:08. > :32:12.of course, in the round, with the significant compensation package.

:32:13. > :32:15.A Chinese company will operate one of the biggest rail franchises

:32:16. > :32:17.in the country after a surprise announcement by the Government.

:32:18. > :32:20.The rail company First MTR, which also runs the Hong Kong metro,

:32:21. > :32:23.has been awarded the franchise to run South West Trains for seven

:32:24. > :32:26.years from August, with ?1.2 billion of investment.

:32:27. > :32:30.They'll take over from Stagecoach, which currently runs services

:32:31. > :32:40.across south east England to and from London Waterloo.

:32:41. > :32:42.Two people were seriously hurt and dozen more were injured

:32:43. > :32:44.when several buildings collapsed following a major explosion

:32:45. > :32:50.It has emerged that residents reported smelling gas at least 24

:32:51. > :32:53.hours before the suspected blast in Bebbington in Wirral on Saturday.

:32:54. > :32:55.The National Grid confirmed that reports of leaks were investigated

:32:56. > :33:05.That is aerial shots of the buildings and there was a massive

:33:06. > :33:09.dance class in there just an hour before the explosion took place.

:33:10. > :33:11.Attempts to end the political stalemate in Northern Ireland

:33:12. > :33:20.Three weeks of talks between Unionist parties and Sinn Fein have

:33:21. > :33:24.broken down with the Republican party saying it will not be

:33:25. > :33:32.nominating anyone for the post of Deputy First Minister.

:33:33. > :33:35.The number of golden eagles is set to soar after a scheme

:33:36. > :33:37.to double their numbers was given more than a million

:33:38. > :33:41.There are currently around four pairs of the bird of prey

:33:42. > :33:44.in the south of Scotland but a study has shown there is suitable

:33:45. > :33:46.habitat for between 10 and 16 breeding pairs.

:33:47. > :33:48.The increase will be seen in Dumfries and Galloway

:33:49. > :33:59.Have you ever had an eagle on your arm? No. I did a television

:34:00. > :34:02.programme. Good morning! A TV programme at Crystal Palace ones and

:34:03. > :34:08.their mascot is the eagle and it was there. I was feeling terrified as I

:34:09. > :34:12.had to do this line down the camera with the eagle on my arm. Get off! I

:34:13. > :34:17.nearly got bitten by the horse that one Mac with a Grand National a few

:34:18. > :34:28.years ago. I was talking to the groom afterwards. He took a little

:34:29. > :34:31.nip! And if you are not a horsey person, and I are not, you can still

:34:32. > :34:37.wake up in the middle of the night after that. We will get more animal

:34:38. > :34:41.news later! The Victoria Derbyshire Programme

:34:42. > :34:43.is on at nine o'clock Let's find out what's

:34:44. > :34:50.coming up today. A forum designed to keep music event

:34:51. > :34:55.is safe is being described as racist and divisive because people in

:34:56. > :35:01.industry feel it targets music performed by black and Asian artists

:35:02. > :35:06.wearers pop acts don't have to fill out the form. People start thinking

:35:07. > :35:10.that this music means there will be more problems because it will mean

:35:11. > :35:13.these types of people. This programme understands that the

:35:14. > :35:18.culture minister raised concerns with the London Mayor about the use

:35:19. > :35:19.of the form. Join us on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel and online

:35:20. > :35:22.after Breakfast. Thank you. Coming up here on

:35:23. > :35:24.Breakfast this morning: Laura James is a successful

:35:25. > :35:26.writer and journalist. She'll be here to tell us how

:35:27. > :35:31.a routine hospital visit led The new 12-sided ?1 coin enters

:35:32. > :35:40.circulation tomorrow We'll find out why some

:35:41. > :35:44.businesses believe the change Physics professor

:35:45. > :35:51.Jim Al-Khalili will be here to tell us where in Britain

:35:52. > :36:10.gravity is weak and where It was a home nations international

:36:11. > :36:14.weekend. Republic of Ireland and Wales played as well. Really good

:36:15. > :36:16.all round. Scotland have still got something to worry about because

:36:17. > :36:20.they are fourth in their group and they have a chance of qualifying for

:36:21. > :36:24.the World Cup but a lot of work to do and their next game is against

:36:25. > :36:27.England of course, who were playing pretty well yesterday. They played

:36:28. > :36:32.pretty well against the world champions Germany last week, not bad

:36:33. > :36:37.at all, then coming in against Lithuania, quality opposition, and a

:36:38. > :36:40.pretty good performance from Jermaine Defoe especially.

:36:41. > :36:44.All three of the home nations in action won last night.

:36:45. > :36:47.England beat Lithuania 2-0 in a World Cup qualifier at Wembley.

:36:48. > :36:49.Five-year-old Bradley Lowery, who has cancer, led out the England

:36:50. > :36:52.team alongside the man he describes as his best friend - Jermaine Defoe.

:36:53. > :36:55.And it was the Sunderland man who opened the scoring -

:36:56. > :36:57.his 20th for his country but his first for

:36:58. > :37:00.He was replaced by Jamie Vardy in the second half,

:37:01. > :37:04.and the Leicester striker took his chance when it came.

:37:05. > :37:06.England's manager says Defoe can't be ruled out of competing

:37:07. > :37:15.in next summer's World Cup, if England qualify.

:37:16. > :37:18.It is really important that we are able to call

:37:19. > :37:22.on people like Jermain so he can have the impact

:37:23. > :37:25.that he has in a game, like he did today.

:37:26. > :37:28.If he has been playing as well as he has this season,

:37:29. > :37:32.Back to the really heart-warming story now of the five-year

:37:33. > :37:39.This has been some of the reaction on social media.

:37:40. > :37:41.Jermain Defoe - I hope you had an amazing day.

:37:42. > :37:45.It was perfect to walk out at Wembley Stadium with you.

:37:46. > :37:57.He Says They Are Best Mates. Two Sunderland Heroes Said The Little

:37:58. > :38:00.Mascot Was A Hero. He Regularly Appears On The Pitch With Jermain

:38:01. > :38:01.Defoe At Sunderland And There He Is At Wembley Singing The National

:38:02. > :38:05.Anthem As Well. They beat Slovenia 1-0

:38:06. > :38:10.at Hampden Park in a game manager Gordon Strachan had

:38:11. > :38:14.described as a must-win. Chris Martin came off the bench

:38:15. > :38:19.to score in the 88th minute. The victory moves them up to fourth

:38:20. > :38:30.and keeps their slim hopes All you can ask of a manager is that

:38:31. > :38:33.they do certain things and they did everything they were asked and they

:38:34. > :38:39.push themselves to another level there. Whatever will be will be. I

:38:40. > :38:44.was enjoying the performance as a manager.

:38:45. > :38:48.Northern Ireland remain in second place in Group C after a 2-0 win

:38:49. > :38:51.Goals from Jamie Ward and Conor Washington

:38:52. > :38:55.The victory leaves Northern Ireland five points off group leaders

:38:56. > :38:59.Germany and two clear of third place Czech Republic.

:39:00. > :39:01.Results build confidence, momentum, and belief.

:39:02. > :39:08.We had that experience of qualification for France,

:39:09. > :39:11.and the experience of the finals is a credit to the players.

:39:12. > :39:15.They didn't let their standards drop.

:39:16. > :39:18.And they hold onto the dream and they can go to Russia, as well.

:39:19. > :39:20.And with every game, you are closer to reality.

:39:21. > :39:22.There's only one Brit left in at the Miami Open,

:39:23. > :39:24.and Johanna Konta is still going strong.

:39:25. > :39:27.It took her just over an hour to beat Pauline Parmentier

:39:28. > :39:33.Now you might remember her from last year's Strictly Come Dancing but now

:39:34. > :39:35.Claudia Fragapane is back to her day job.

:39:36. > :39:38.She's been quoted this week saying her time on the show has

:39:39. > :39:41.improved her routines, but she had to settle for second

:39:42. > :39:47.A slip that saw her go out of bounds cost her the title in the floor

:39:48. > :39:54.event, which went instead to Maisie Methuen.

:39:55. > :39:59.She came second at the British championships. Minute margin for

:40:00. > :40:04.error in gymnastics. Just one slip cost her the title. You don't want

:40:05. > :40:11.to be making mistakes when you are tumbling from those heights. If you

:40:12. > :40:19.want a great gymnastics moment, look at the Montreal Games in 1972. Where

:40:20. > :40:23.do you get these from? Maybe 1976. I can't tell the full story. I will do

:40:24. > :40:33.it another time. I knew him at school and he was the most

:40:34. > :40:36.inspirational gymnastics story. Earlier we were talking about

:40:37. > :40:40.endometriosis and fibroids, which affect millions of women, and a

:40:41. > :40:43.report out today says they are not taken seriously enough and thank you

:40:44. > :40:47.so much for getting in touch. Many of you sending messages. In the

:40:48. > :40:52.report they found it can take ten appointments before somebody can be

:40:53. > :40:56.sent to a specialist. And what is really clear is that so many people

:40:57. > :41:01.are suffering with this, which has been backed up by the amount of

:41:02. > :41:05.contact we have had. I was diagnosed in 2010 and it took me two

:41:06. > :41:08.appointments to be referred to a gynaecologist. What has surprised me

:41:09. > :41:13.was that I had never heard of fibroids. Since hearing other

:41:14. > :41:15.stories I realise I was lucky to have a GP that understood but it

:41:16. > :41:20.needs to be talked about at school so people can know what to do.

:41:21. > :41:25.Kathleen says it took 20 years to be diagnosed and then three years of

:41:26. > :41:28.appointments are nine different consultants before I found a

:41:29. > :41:33.consultant who gave me a hysterectomy. Joanna says that women

:41:34. > :41:37.in Poland have direct access to a gynaecologist without having to beg

:41:38. > :41:42.a GP for a referral. Endometriosis is treated regularly and we are in

:41:43. > :41:47.the dark ages in the UK. Helen said she was diagnosed with fibroids and

:41:48. > :41:51.endometriosis at 49 and she ended up living on painkillers. Lucky enough

:41:52. > :41:54.we had a private consultation and the surgery took six and a half

:41:55. > :42:25.hours and now I feel ten years younger

:42:26. > :42:28.and I am loving life again. Claire is pleased to see this being

:42:29. > :42:30.discussed. She struggled with endometriosis for years and the pain

:42:31. > :42:33.gradually got worse. She had a cartel of ineffective pain relief. I

:42:34. > :42:35.was refused a hysterectomy because they said I was too young. My worst

:42:36. > :42:39.experience was a specialist who told me it was only one week every month

:42:40. > :42:42.and to get on with it. He didn't have a clue and I was too weak to

:42:43. > :42:45.argue. A gynaecologist that we spoke to earlier said go to your GP and

:42:46. > :42:47.you can be helped and there are examples of good practice out there

:42:48. > :42:49.as well. We will continue following that story.

:42:50. > :42:51.Later this week, the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50

:42:52. > :42:53.beginning the formal process for Britain to leave

:42:54. > :42:57.But what does it all mean, and what happens next?

:42:58. > :43:00.In our quest for answers, we've sent Sean for a road trip down the A50.

:43:01. > :43:03.This morning he's in Stoke-on-Trent.

:43:04. > :43:10.It is Article 50 say the A50. Thank you for explaining that! We are

:43:11. > :43:14.travelling up and down this road over the next few days speaking to

:43:15. > :43:17.businesses in Stoke and Derby and in between because on Wednesday Article

:43:18. > :43:23.50 will be triggered, meaning the formal process for leaving the

:43:24. > :43:27.European Union will begin. All those negotiations. What will the world

:43:28. > :43:34.look like? Stephanie has been out and about on the A52 seat what it

:43:35. > :43:38.means for businesses in those negotiations. -- on the A50 to see

:43:39. > :43:41.what it means. The referendum last June

:43:42. > :43:43.divided the country. 52% voted to leave and

:43:44. > :43:45.48% voted to remain. Since then not a lot has changed

:43:46. > :43:48.but this week the process of unpicking our relationship

:43:49. > :43:50.with the EU begins. And it is certainly fuelling debate

:43:51. > :43:53.about the road that lies ahead. Now EU members have rules

:43:54. > :43:56.that they must stick to. Article 50 is the bit

:43:57. > :44:06.of it which tells you how So, essentially, it

:44:07. > :44:12.is the divorce rules. But the whole process is quite vague

:44:13. > :44:15.because no country has left before. It is a little bit like travelling

:44:16. > :44:19.down a road without any clear signs Now we already know that the UK

:44:20. > :44:29.will be leaving the single market, which is the agreement between EU

:44:30. > :44:32.countries that allows goods, services and people to move

:44:33. > :44:33.freely between them. Ending that arrangement

:44:34. > :44:35.is potentially a big For this industry, the potteries,

:44:36. > :44:47.50% of their stuff goes to the EU. So they think there

:44:48. > :44:51.is a lot at stake. But one of the big businesses

:44:52. > :44:54.here is JCB which makes industrial vehicles and sells them

:44:55. > :45:02.to work 150 countries. The boss, a long standing

:45:03. > :45:04.Conservative Party donor, does not Theresa May said one of the main

:45:05. > :45:20.messages she had taken from the Leave vote was that

:45:21. > :45:23.British people want to see Now it is not clear yet how

:45:24. > :45:31.the government will achieve it but a lot of businesses who rely

:45:32. > :45:34.on migrant workers are worried that tighter controls will mean

:45:35. > :45:37.they will not be able to get But it is not just British people

:45:38. > :45:41.and British businesses who will have a say

:45:42. > :45:43.in what happens next. The UK car industry is worth

:45:44. > :45:45.?70 billion and employs Most of them, like Toyota

:45:46. > :45:52.here in Derby, are foreign-owned so when it comes to lobbying

:45:53. > :45:55.for the best deal, what the bosses of these companies

:45:56. > :46:05.think really matters. Once Article 50 has been triggered,

:46:06. > :46:12.there is a two-year time frame in order to get all of

:46:13. > :46:15.the Brexit negotiations done. But this is a road we have never

:46:16. > :46:35.been down before so that time It is not going to be easy, that is

:46:36. > :46:40.a lot of countries to persuade about what we want. Joined on our Bass,

:46:41. > :46:45.this is not how we are travelling all week, by the way, we are joined

:46:46. > :46:50.by Paul from the Midlands economic Forum. We just heard, 27 countries

:46:51. > :46:55.will be part of these negotiations with us from Wednesday. What are

:46:56. > :47:00.they negotiating. The first thing is the political exit of Britain from

:47:01. > :47:04.the European Union. As a consequence, we'll probably have to

:47:05. > :47:07.leave the single market and European customs union. When that is

:47:08. > :47:12.completed, hopefully in parallel, we will have to negotiate a trade

:47:13. > :47:16.agreement. Let me stop you there, single market and Customs union. We

:47:17. > :47:19.are in the single market at the moment which makes it easy to trade

:47:20. > :47:24.around Europe and Theresa May says we are out of it. What might the

:47:25. > :47:30.customs union change? At the level of tariffs you can agree. If we've

:47:31. > :47:34.got a Department of trade setting up terrace with other countries you

:47:35. > :47:37.can't be part of the customs union. We look around at all these

:47:38. > :47:41.products, the chemicals that imported and some of the

:47:42. > :47:47.installation is exported, and that could be more expensive? It could

:47:48. > :47:52.be, that is why we are looking at trade, preferential access and

:47:53. > :47:55.currently 40% of imports into the customs union come from countries

:47:56. > :48:00.that don't have trade agreements like China so they can't have

:48:01. > :48:04.punitive tariffs against us but will have to negotiate fairly hard. We

:48:05. > :48:09.are coming to the end so I'm afraid you'll have to get off in a moment.

:48:10. > :48:14.Just wait for it to pull up. It's important for business which is why

:48:15. > :48:22.we will be talking to David Frost from Stoke. If you would like to

:48:23. > :48:28.join us? Good morning. Stoke voted Pradeep comprehensively to leave the

:48:29. > :48:32.EU. Our businesses in Stoke prepared for what might come in the next few

:48:33. > :48:37.months? It's been about getting on with it, doing the job, investing,

:48:38. > :48:42.creating wealth, creating jobs, and it's been making huge success of

:48:43. > :48:46.that. 40,000 new jobs in the last five years, unemployment is

:48:47. > :48:49.permitted in this area and business has no confidence. When you hear

:48:50. > :48:53.about these negotiations beginning on Wednesday between Theresa May and

:48:54. > :48:56.her team and the rest of the European Union do you think some

:48:57. > :49:01.sectors might be more favourably looked at? We've heard a lot about

:49:02. > :49:06.the car industry. More so than others? Rightly so, these are the

:49:07. > :49:10.big sectors. But the government must listen to sectors like ceramics

:49:11. > :49:15.which are important to this area, big companies like Emma Bridgewater

:49:16. > :49:18.are vital employers. They must be aware of the issues that these

:49:19. > :49:22.businesses are concerned about because it is business that creates

:49:23. > :49:26.the wealth and the jobs here. What would be top of the list for

:49:27. > :49:32.businesses in Stoke, if you needed to tell Theresa May, make sure this

:49:33. > :49:37.happens, what would you say. Access to skilled employees must be key and

:49:38. > :49:40.tariffs will play a part as well but overall it's about investing in

:49:41. > :49:45.success and understanding the contribution is this makes to the

:49:46. > :49:50.economy in Stoke. Making sure it all works out. David, thank you.

:49:51. > :49:54.Unbelievable timing from Andy on the wheels come he's got it nailed this

:49:55. > :49:58.morning. He's been the main style. Whatever comes out of these

:49:59. > :50:01.negotiations and he will be the driver of this for a long time to

:50:02. > :50:07.come! He's got a very steady hand. Thank you, Andy, and John! Last time

:50:08. > :50:13.whistle and it wasn't wearing a high viz jacket. But -- last time we saw

:50:14. > :50:17.Andy and he was not winning a high viz jacket, this time he is.

:50:18. > :50:25.Many of us had lovely sunshine this weekend, will it continue? Let's

:50:26. > :50:31.find out. Have a look, this is our Belfast studio. Look at that.

:50:32. > :50:37.Gorgeous sky. It looks a little foreboding. But sometimes it is hard

:50:38. > :50:41.to tell. Shall we look at the picture from outside here? This is

:50:42. > :50:52.Breakfast headquarters in Salford. Looks like a beautiful morning.

:50:53. > :50:55.Makes me want to swim! Let's find out what is happening today and for

:50:56. > :51:00.the rest of the week with Matt. You are in London.

:51:01. > :51:09.I certainly am, it makes you want to look after bees. And at the Centre

:51:10. > :51:14.for wildlife gardening. We are all about bees this morning helping to

:51:15. > :51:19.do our bid to protect the dwindling population of bees, especially wild

:51:20. > :51:34.bees across the country. We can all do our bit. The Royal horticultural

:51:35. > :51:35.Society has joined forces with them for the Gravity And Me, The Force

:51:36. > :51:42.That Shapes Our LIves initiative. We can't hear Matt very well so we

:51:43. > :51:50.are going to sort out the technology. Shall I lend you this

:51:51. > :51:55.one more time? These are the new 12 sided one point coin set come into

:51:56. > :52:00.circulation tomorrow. But at ?1 coin. We have been allowed to borrow

:52:01. > :52:05.two. They not yet legal tender. Don't worry if you have lots of the

:52:06. > :52:10.old ones. You can still use them until October and then you can take

:52:11. > :52:15.the old ones down to the post office or the bank and switch them for the

:52:16. > :52:20.new ones. Pretty much the same size. You think the new one is lighter?

:52:21. > :52:26.Slightly, although I could be wrong. It has 12 sides and a hologram, very

:52:27. > :52:31.shiny and brand-new. Some businesses are worried about it because you

:52:32. > :52:36.might not be able to put your change in vending machines or parking

:52:37. > :52:37.machines or lockers. We've been finding out, this small change is

:52:38. > :52:43.going to cost as Mrs a fortune. Since 1983 the pound coin has flowed

:52:44. > :52:48.through our economy. Down High Streets, into shops,

:52:49. > :52:50.vending machines, shopping But the days of the round

:52:51. > :52:56.pound are numbered. From October 15th these will no

:52:57. > :53:04.longer be legal tender and from tomorrow, these,

:53:05. > :53:06.the new 12-sided pound coins, It reminds me of the

:53:07. > :53:33.old threepenny bit. It's like Monopoly

:53:34. > :53:35.money, it's weird! It is thought that 3%

:53:36. > :53:37.of the old pound coins were fake but the total cost of switching over

:53:38. > :53:40.will exceed ?100 million. All that expense of changing every

:53:41. > :53:43.vending machine, shopping trolley, everywhere you put a pound coin

:53:44. > :53:46.in will need to be changed The industry did not know

:53:47. > :54:04.until we saw it on the news. Paul Ure runs a business,

:54:05. > :54:06.supplying vending machines. He says that upgrades

:54:07. > :54:08.to 4000 of them have We have been blatantly told thank

:54:09. > :54:13.you, new coin and it is your job We have not been given a relevant

:54:14. > :54:17.time frame to do this, it will not be completed

:54:18. > :54:20.until the end of the year. In a statement it said it had

:54:21. > :54:25.worked with businesses to help them prepare

:54:26. > :54:29.for the new pound coin which it says will be the most secure

:54:30. > :54:32.of its kind in the world. At the Royal Mint in South Wales,

:54:33. > :54:35.three million of them are We had some issues

:54:36. > :54:40.with the old pound coin. It is made from two different

:54:41. > :54:57.coloured metal, nickel, When you look in one direction

:54:58. > :55:11.you will see the number one and in the other direction

:55:12. > :55:13.you will see the other. I think it is important

:55:14. > :55:15.that the public can feel confident, that they know that when they hand

:55:16. > :55:19.this from me to you it is worth A leisure centre in Birmingham

:55:20. > :55:23.where the lockers need upgrading. Done nearly 4000 now

:55:24. > :55:26.across the country. There is still a lot of work

:55:27. > :55:31.and a lot of lockers out there that As of tomorrow there will probably

:55:32. > :55:36.be a wave of leisure centres waking up to the fact

:55:37. > :55:38.that the coin-operated locks Most businesses are ready

:55:39. > :55:41.for the change and the long-term benefits of the new pound coin

:55:42. > :55:54.are worth the short term cost. And ours are going back, we are not

:55:55. > :56:00.allowed to keep them. We promised you the weather. The thing has been

:56:01. > :56:01.repaired, it's back to London, good morning again, Matt.

:56:02. > :56:12.Technology! We are talking about saving the nation 's bee population.

:56:13. > :56:15.Gravity And Me, The Force That Shapes Our LIves has been set up by

:56:16. > :56:23.the wildlife trust and the RHS. What is it about, -- Bee Creative has

:56:24. > :56:29.been set up. Planned a lot of wild flowers, as many as you can, put

:56:30. > :56:38.some water in the garden, make a lot of Berg hotels, all of this can be

:56:39. > :56:48.found on our pack which you can download. -- bug hotels. We have

:56:49. > :56:52.details on the BBC Facebook page. Get yourself out and do your bit if

:56:53. > :56:56.you can, the weather is looking fine again today. With Easter approaching

:56:57. > :57:03.the children will love to do their bit to protect the bees. We've had

:57:04. > :57:07.warmth by day but it has been chilly by night, first thing in the

:57:08. > :57:13.morning, a lot more cloud across parts of Wales and eastern England,

:57:14. > :57:16.a misty grey start after the blue skies of the weekend, much of that

:57:17. > :57:21.Wilson and break slowly through the morning and into the afternoon it

:57:22. > :57:25.will hold on across easternmost counties of England. Elsewhere, lots

:57:26. > :57:32.of sunshine across the UK come into the afternoon, 20 Celsius in

:57:33. > :57:39.Scotland yesterday, it could still hit 17 or 18 degrees, some clout in

:57:40. > :57:44.Shetland, Lothian and Borders later. Pretty great across eastern England

:57:45. > :57:46.into the afternoon, 10 Celsius, although inland temperatures would

:57:47. > :57:52.shoot up as soon as the sun comes out. The breeze yesterday held the

:57:53. > :57:57.temperatures back, it will be a warmer day today, temperatures here

:57:58. > :57:59.could reach around 17 Celsius, 63 Fahrenheit, looking good for the

:58:00. > :58:04.Channel islands and the south-west as well, and across Wales, across

:58:05. > :58:10.eastern parts of Wales, the cloud will quickly disappear, lots of

:58:11. > :58:14.sunshine towards the West, and we will see Sunny spells continue

:58:15. > :58:17.through the day, Northern Ireland, 16 or 17 degrees. Another lovely

:58:18. > :58:22.looking day for the vast majority. That low cloud will come back

:58:23. > :58:27.tonight, looking for another misty night particularly over the hills.

:58:28. > :58:32.Could be a touch of Frost, not as much as we have seen in the past few

:58:33. > :58:36.days. The changes for Tuesday will be, more cloud around, that will

:58:37. > :58:43.break up, sunny spells through some of the West areas in the morning,

:58:44. > :58:49.some isolated showers, they will move into parts of Central western

:58:50. > :58:52.England, Northern Ireland and also southern Scotland. The occasional

:58:53. > :58:57.thundery downpour possible, through a small portion of the day, much Of

:58:58. > :59:01.The Day tomorrow will be dry, warm in the sunshine, parts of south-east

:59:02. > :59:05.England could get over 12 20 Celsius. The best and driest weather

:59:06. > :59:10.on Wednesday will be in the east, changes continuing in the West,

:59:11. > :59:13.washer was compared with Tuesday, some heavy, a little sunshine in

:59:14. > :59:18.between, eventually the rain will move further it least. Before it

:59:19. > :59:21.arrives, enjoy the sunshine and I will see you tomorrow from six.

:59:22. > :59:31.Matt, thank you very much. If you sound issues. The signal

:59:32. > :59:36.might have been blocked by the world's tallest man who you are

:59:37. > :59:44.interviewing. What are you standing on a ledge? I was standing in the

:59:45. > :59:45.hole, that's all. We could only hear you intermittently. Apologies for

:59:46. > :59:50.that. The writer and journalist

:59:51. > :59:52.Laura James always felt like she was different,

:59:53. > :59:55.but it took more than 40 years At the age of 46 she was

:59:56. > :59:59.told she had autism, and now she's written a book

:00:00. > :00:02.tracking a year of her life as she comes to terms

:00:03. > :00:09.with the diagnosis. Good morning and thank you for

:00:10. > :00:14.joining us. Shall we start at the beginning, when you were growing up

:00:15. > :00:18.and at school? How did you feel? I just felt very different to everyone

:00:19. > :00:21.else. I used to watch groups of girls doing things together and I

:00:22. > :00:25.was interested in what they were doing but I didn't really get it,

:00:26. > :00:30.why they were playing with dolls, why they were talking about the

:00:31. > :00:34.things they were talking about. I always felt slightly removed. As you

:00:35. > :00:40.developed through life, did that continue? Then you had a job,

:00:41. > :00:44.family, all those things. Yes, it really carried on all the way

:00:45. > :00:48.through. Teenage years, when a lot of people feel awkward, I think I

:00:49. > :00:54.felt particularly different to everybody else. At that time in your

:00:55. > :00:57.life it makes it doubly hard. Then at work I found there were things

:00:58. > :01:02.that would bother me that nobody else would notice, like bright

:01:03. > :01:05.lighting in the office, the buzzing of the computer, something like that

:01:06. > :01:08.would drive me insane and I would struggle to play with it but

:01:09. > :01:16.everybody else didn't even notice it was happening. -- I would struggle

:01:17. > :01:19.to cope. Did you try to find out if there was something going on along

:01:20. > :01:23.the way? I had physical problems as well and as a child my parents would

:01:24. > :01:27.take me to the doctors a lot. Then when I was pregnant I was unwell.

:01:28. > :01:33.And I had various things wrong with me. But I was always told that it

:01:34. > :01:40.was anything from just pregnancy, just hormones, it just bad luck was

:01:41. > :01:45.my favourite! Then I was diagnosed with a genetic condition which often

:01:46. > :01:51.occurs with autism, and that is when I found out. It was just a nurse who

:01:52. > :01:55.said something to you, is that how it happened? I was having some tests

:01:56. > :01:59.in hospital for my condition, and I had a bit of a meltdown. It was very

:02:00. > :02:05.hot and the testing was really tough. I was starving because I

:02:06. > :02:08.hadn't eaten for 24 hours because you can't eat before the tests and I

:02:09. > :02:12.had a massive meltdown and she was really calm and lovely. She said

:02:13. > :02:17.sorry, we see lots of autistic people here and we should know. It

:02:18. > :02:20.is like when you go into hospital for a minor operation and suddenly

:02:21. > :02:26.they amputate something because they have you muddled up with somebody

:02:27. > :02:29.else. I thought that's not me. Who are they talking about? Then I

:02:30. > :02:35.stayed in overnight for more testing the next day and I googled it. I

:02:36. > :02:39.think I had a stereotypical idea of what autism means. I thought a geeky

:02:40. > :02:43.guy, and anti-social little boy, whatever. When I started to read

:02:44. > :02:49.about women with autism it all slotted into place. The book that

:02:50. > :02:54.you have written takes us through the year after that diagnosis. What

:02:55. > :02:59.has life been like now that you know that you have been autistic for such

:03:00. > :03:02.a long time? The book goes back in time, talking about how I got there,

:03:03. > :03:07.but the main thrust of the book is the year in my life. Like anything

:03:08. > :03:12.else, you can't put your life on hold when something like that

:03:13. > :03:15.happens. Everything else goes on. My children left home, the last two

:03:16. > :03:19.went to university, which was awful and hit me really hard. Because I

:03:20. > :03:24.was writing the book it was cathartic and I got to examine

:03:25. > :03:27.myself in great detail, which was a real privilege. It was great. There

:03:28. > :03:32.were really tough times at the beginning. You get a diagnosis like

:03:33. > :03:36.that and you think, yes, everything fits into place, but the next day or

:03:37. > :03:42.the day after, nothing has changed, you are still where you are and your

:03:43. > :03:49.life is still as it is. You are successful PR journalist, a

:03:50. > :03:54.successful writer, and it is an important part of you. Absolutely

:03:55. > :03:58.and I wouldn't change it, absolutely not. There are many benefits but I

:03:59. > :04:05.think not knowing is really hard. Can I ask you how your husband and

:04:06. > :04:10.kids have responded? Yes, I think we have a very high tolerance of the

:04:11. > :04:13.unusual in our household. Initially my husband was quite shocked and I

:04:14. > :04:17.think weirded out by the whole thing. But the more he read about

:04:18. > :04:21.it, and he did read a lot, the more he came to understand that it is

:04:22. > :04:26.part of me, but also that there are minor adjustments that can be made

:04:27. > :04:31.that make a really big difference. I teenage boys were just like

:04:32. > :04:35.whatever! And my girls were interested. Thank you very much for

:04:36. > :04:41.coming to talk to us. Laura's book is called

:04:42. > :04:50.Odd Girl Out and is out now. We will be speaking to the physics

:04:51. > :04:51.professor Jim Al-Khalili shortly, who is presenting a new programme

:04:52. > :06:29.about the science of gravity, What affects our height,

:06:30. > :06:45.weight, posture and the Before you do a quick online search,

:06:46. > :06:52.the answer is gravity, that fundamental force of nature

:06:53. > :06:54.that says what goes Does it say that or does it say

:06:55. > :07:02.more? Of course, there's much more to it

:07:03. > :07:05.than that and a new documentary is setting out to reveal some

:07:06. > :07:08.of gravity's most surprising quirks. It binds together all the matter

:07:09. > :07:12.in the universe and it But in the end, it all boils down

:07:13. > :07:21.to one simple question. Gravity's many mysteries are all

:07:22. > :07:31.contained in this single action - Why does a hammer fall

:07:32. > :07:43.faster than a feather? You might think it's

:07:44. > :07:47.because the hammer is heavier It's not the weight of the objects

:07:48. > :07:57.that matters, it's their shape. And I can demonstrate this very

:07:58. > :08:03.easily with these two umbrellas. They both have exactly the same

:08:04. > :08:06.weight but if I open one of them you can be pretty sure it will drop

:08:07. > :08:14.more slowly than the other one. In fact, all objects

:08:15. > :08:30.would fall at the same rate It is so fascinating. Professor Jim

:08:31. > :08:35.Al-Khalili is with us. Good morning. In the morning we are taller than in

:08:36. > :08:39.the evening? Yes, that's a surprising result, isn't it? Over

:08:40. > :08:43.the course of a day when you are standing upright, gravity compresses

:08:44. > :08:47.your spine by about half an inch. I was five this morning and I will be

:08:48. > :08:57.five feet nine and a half inches tonight. And overnight your body

:08:58. > :09:02.stretches back again. We know so much but there is still so much to

:09:03. > :09:06.learn about gravity. Yes, Galileo and Newton sorted it out, you think.

:09:07. > :09:10.Everybody knows the story of Newton and the falling apple and he

:09:11. > :09:14.realised that the earth. In town and an invisible force keeps us stuck to

:09:15. > :09:18.the ground. We learn that at school and we think that is it but then it

:09:19. > :09:21.developed. Einstein developed a new concept of gravity and we are still

:09:22. > :09:30.trying to grapple with it now, trying to understand how it affects

:09:31. > :09:41.the whole universe. And gravity is different across the UK. So where is

:09:42. > :09:48.it from a static -- where is its strongest and where is it weakest?

:09:49. > :09:54.It is not by much! The place where you weigh the least is up a hill in

:09:55. > :09:59.Dartmoor. The earth is not a perfect sphere and it bulges at the equator,

:10:00. > :10:02.and the further you are away from the centre of the earth is what

:10:03. > :10:06.matters. The further you get, gravity gets slightly weaker and so

:10:07. > :10:12.you wait a little bit less. Even over the area of the UK, that

:10:13. > :10:15.changes. Even up the mountain, altitude, you are moving away from

:10:16. > :10:23.the centre of the earth and you are getting weaker. You have got to work

:10:24. > :10:25.out how far away you are from the centre of the earth, your attitude.

:10:26. > :10:29.I love the experiment with the umbrella because it clearly shows

:10:30. > :10:34.that things weigh the same but they fall at different speeds. You did an

:10:35. > :10:38.instrument pioneered by Galileo. What were you trying to discover

:10:39. > :10:43.with this experiment and then we will show it? Galileo was trying to

:10:44. > :10:47.understand just by measuring how fast objects all that they speed up

:10:48. > :10:51.as they fall, so what was the pull of gravity and how does the pores

:10:52. > :11:07.depend on the rate at which objects fall? -- the force. You have

:11:08. > :11:11.recreated it. Beautiful! So what does this mean? What is a

:11:12. > :11:15.mathematical formula? Galileo worked this out. Let's say from the start

:11:16. > :11:21.the ball covers a distance of one metre in the first second. After two

:11:22. > :11:26.second, it will have covered four meters. After three seconds nine

:11:27. > :11:30.metres and after for microseconds 16 metres and so on. If you recognise

:11:31. > :11:37.this progression you will see that distance goes like the square of

:11:38. > :11:42.time. OK, then you move from gravity into time. Does gravity fiddle with

:11:43. > :11:46.time, as it work? Change it around? That is not what Galileo figured out

:11:47. > :11:50.but Einstein realised that gravity isn't an invisible force pulling

:11:51. > :11:57.objects together. It is the shape of space and time and this is when it

:11:58. > :12:01.starts to get freaky! We were talking about gravity waves, this is

:12:02. > :12:06.something you look at as well. Yes, I go to Louisiana where one of these

:12:07. > :12:10.experiments was carried out and gravity waves were detected. Two

:12:11. > :12:15.black holes 1 billion light-years away a distinct galaxy that collided

:12:16. > :12:20.and it was such a cataclysmic event that they sent ripples through space

:12:21. > :12:25.itself and we detected the rebels. Our own space stretched and squeezed

:12:26. > :12:30.very slightly. It is not just between objects, gravity. It affects

:12:31. > :12:33.space and time. It slows time down, which is the weird aspect. We

:12:34. > :12:37.developed a phone app for the programme which measured how much

:12:38. > :12:45.time slows down depending on how strong gravity is even around the

:12:46. > :12:51.UK. That is really concerning me now! My mind has been blown.

:12:52. > :12:55.Extraordinary. To what extent does it happen? It is fractions of a

:12:56. > :12:58.second, but still. GPS satellites need to take this into account

:12:59. > :13:02.otherwise they would not work. You think this is a theory that boffins

:13:03. > :13:06.have cooked up but it is very important. Time flows at different

:13:07. > :13:11.rates depending on the strength and pull of gravity and depending how

:13:12. > :13:16.high up you are. So your ageing can be affected by gravity? You will age

:13:17. > :13:20.more quickly up a mountain than at sea level because gravity is weaker

:13:21. > :13:24.so time ticks by more quickly. I am talking about millions of a second.

:13:25. > :13:32.It is better to do exercise and go on a diet if you want to live

:13:33. > :13:36.longer! It is good to know that we are all taller at the moment. I am

:13:37. > :13:38.going for a quick lie down! Thank you so much. A fascinating

:13:39. > :13:42.programme. Gravity And Me: The Force

:13:43. > :13:44.That Shapes Our Lives That's all from

:13:45. > :13:49.Breakfast this morning. there are more people over the age

:13:50. > :13:56.of 60 than under 16.