02/05/2017 Breakfast

Hello, this is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

A war of words over Britain's approach to Brexit negotiations.

Senior EU sources accuse the Government of being

on a completely different wavelength, and warn talks

Also this morning: Shot dead by an intruder in his own home.

Police in Dorset are still looking for two suspects in connection

with the death of businessman Guy Hedger.

A surfer is rescued after more than 30 hours missing at sea.

The coastguard say he is lucky to be alive.

A leading business group says the next government needs

to have a clear idea of how to grow the economy by improving

competitiveness and upgrading our infrastructure.

I will be talking to the British Chambers of Commerce

The sound of spring, but for how much longer? We join the Dawn patrol

as they go in search of the Nightingale.

In sport: A third Crucible crown for Mark Selby.

He fights back to beat John Higgins and become only the fourth man

in the modern era to successfully defend a world title.

Good morning. Again today we are looking at a fair bit of cloud

coming in across the east of the UK, accompanied a noticeable breeze.

There will be a few showers, but for many of us it will be dry. There

will be some sunny spells, the lion's share of which will be again

across the north-west of the UK. I will have more details 15 minutes.

-- in 15 minutes. First, our main story: There has

been further fallout from last week's talks on Brexit

between Theresa May and European Commission President

Jean-Claude Juncker. Senior EU sources have told the BBC

that the UK Government is on a completely

different wavelength. They have also accused it

of being ignorant of how Brussels works, and misunderstanding

the fundamentals of Brexit Theresa May has already dismissed

reports of a disagreement with EU Our political correspondent

Chris Mason is in Westminster. Chris, this appears to be trouble,

even before talks have begun. There are our talks about the talks.

There was a dinner party in Downing Street last week at which

Jean-Claude Juncker, the head of the European Commission, the EU's

executive, was invited over by Theresa May. Now I'm sure you are

the model of discretion after a dinner party and would not utter a

word of complaint about a dodgy creme brulee but what we have about

this dinner party is an extraordinary series day after day

of briefings from the European Commission about what they thought

went on at the meeting, and how depressed they were at the gap

between their outlook on these negotiations and Theresa May's.

Suggesting that she was from a different galaxy, on a different

wavelength, didn't understand their bottom lines about what they would

be unwilling to negotiate on, issues including EU nationals in the UK, UK

nationals elsewhere in the EU, the divorce settlement will the UK may

have to pay, the trade talks which will follow on in what order they

will happen in. So in a real sense, before the whole thing even get

started, there is quite a bit of bad blood and a big gap between the two

sides. And let's talk about the campaign trail as well. Labour today

are talking about more police officers, aren't they? Yes, so the

campaign trundles on in the domestic sense as you would expect it to do,

with promises from the various parties, Labour saying they would

have an extra 10,000 police officers in England and Wales, paid for by

reversing cuts in capital gains tax that the government has pressed

ahead with. Here is the Shadow Home Secretary. What local police forces

have cried out for is more manpower in the Metropolitan police forces.

They have cut police numbers, they have cut civilian staff, and in

practice that means there are fewer actual policeman available. I think

police forces will be very grateful for this added police manpower, and

it is going to be community policing. The Conservatives, though,

in their response say that Labour's plant is nonsensical, and suggest

that Labour have tried to spend the money from reversing that tax cut

already. Thank you very much indeed, we will be speaking with you

throughout the morning. Later we will be speaking

to the Home Secretary, Police are continuing to search

for two suspects after a man was shot dead in his

home in the early hours 61-year-old Guy Hedger was killed

by intruders in the village Our correspondent Simon

Clemison is at the scene. Simon, what more are

the police saying? Very good morning to you. Well, they

have been talking very much about what motivated this, they believe.

We are in a very wealthy area on the edge of the new Forest, in a

village, as you can see, with lots of very big and expensive houses set

out from the road. So why this one in particular? It is very early

stages in the police investigation, but they do believe the fact that

jewellery and designer watches were taken means that Guy Hedger's house

was targeted specifically. There was some element of planning in this.

The intruders seemed ready to confront someone. They wore

balaclavas, they clearly carried a shotgun, so police are working on

the theory that this was a burglary which turned violent, but it could

be some days of searching the scene here before they really know all the

details. We believe that Guy Hedger formed a civil partnership 12 years

ago. There was a man, another man in the house at the time. He is said to

have seen what happened, the very traumatised by it. Police not

confirming his identity yet, but he is a witness to it. The weapon has

still to be recovered. So lots of lines for the police to follow up

this morning, and in the coming days, in what is described as a very

intensive investigation. Thank you very much, we will speak to you a

little bit later on. A surfer who went missing off

the Scottish coast has been rescued after more than 30 hours

clinging to his board. Matthew Bryce was reported missing

by his family when he didn't return from a surfing trip in Argyll

on Sunday afternoon. He was eventually picked up 13

miles off the coast, still conscious but suffering

from hypothermia. Just after 6:30am we will be getting

the latest from the Coastguard, which helped co-ordinate

the rescue operation. You would never think, after that

long in the water, that he could survive. I think a wetsuit, and lots

of other things he did to keep himself going as well.

US President Donald Trump has said he would be honoured to meet

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, in the right circumstances.

Mr Trump made his comments amid continuing tensions surrounding

The White House later said such talks were unlikely

Lending by family and friends to help fund property purchases

will exceed ?6.5 billion this year, 30% more than last year,

Legal General, which compiled the figures, said the so-called bank

of mum and dad was now equivalent to the ninth-biggest mortgage lender

George Osborne starts his new job as editor of the London newspaper

The former Chancellor was a surprise appointment,

with some criticising his lack of journalistic experience.

Mr Osborne stepped down last month as Conservative MP

Apparently the party of the year took place last night.

A host of celebrities turned out in their finest for what has been

described as the party of the year, the Met Gala.

The annual charity ball is held at New York's Metropolitan Museum

of Art, to raise money for the museum's fashion department.

It is an exclusive event, with tickets costing tens

of thousands of dollars, and a flamboyant dress code.

It is the hottest invite on New York's social calendar, and the

biggest night in fashion, which draws out only the stars. Stepping

onto the Met Gala red carpet is to enter a runway, but one with a very

specific theme. This year, the Met costume Institute is honouring a

Japanese designer who famously blurs the line between fashion and

artwork. She isn't so much out of the box, with her, the risk no box.

And she did that so early on. When she started, you would never believe

fashion could be as influential and as powerful as music. Well, it is.

You know, a lot of people saying how do you wear that? You don't wear

those clothes. The clothes where you. Sleeves need not apply, and

these are a few of her signatures. And the bravest dress the part. The

Met all is not the place to play it safe and that unspoken rule,

combined with this unconventional design's contribution, has led to a

night of unique looks. As you said, I think some of the

clothes where you. -- wear you. Apple, Blue Ivy, Saint -

the entertainment world has given us some interesting baby

names over the years, and it seems new parents Cheryl

and Liam Payne are the latest to look for something

out of the ordinary Some of this morning's newspapers

are reporting that the couple have According to the newspaper,

the pop stars spent a week with the baby before

deciding on the name. But Cheryl and Liam may not have

picked such an unusual name, after all, as actresses Kate Winslet

and Alicia Silverstone both have There is a famous Bear, the famous

Mr Grylls. Maybe they like a bit of out and about living. And we will

have the weather from Carol shortly. A wonderful weekend of sport, wasn't

it? We had boxing, all the football going on. All the football, Chelsea

and Tottenham. A lot of the football was a bit dull, but snooker

yesterday! There was an article yesterday suggesting it was the

dullest day of an elite football ever. They did some analysis and

said it was mildly beaten by one day in 2016. Topped off with a

remarkable win by Mark Selby. Brilliant stuff, and what a dramatic

comeback. Mark Selby is the snooker world

champion for a third time. The world number one came back

from 10-4 down to beat He becomes only the fourth man

in the modern era to successfully One of the goals of the season

from Emre Can helps Liverpool's chances of reaching

the Champions League. This stunning strike was enough

to beat Watford last night. Real Madrid play city rivals

Atletico in the Champions League It is a repeat of last year's final,

which Real won on penalties. And good news for England cricket

fans ahead of next month's Champions On his return from injury,

Ben Stokes hit a century So we will be talking about that bit

more later on. Some more action from the Indian Premier League at about

6:30 a.m.. I will be back with the rest of the day's sports news. Any

other date the goal from Emre Can would lead, but Mark Selby's

performance put him ahead. We will do the papers in just a moment,

after a reminder of the headlines. You are watching

Breakfast from BBC News. The main stories this morning:

Claims Brexit negotiations have stalled already, as EU sources tell

the BBC talks could fail because of the British

Government position. The hunt continues for two suspects

after the murder of a marketing executive shot in his home

on Bank Monday morning. Steph has joined us as well, good

morning to you once again. The front cover of the Daily Telegraph has

loads of pictures of the Charlotte, taken by her mother, the Duchess of

Cambridge, to mark the Princess's second birthday, and most of the

papers also going on the main story about the EU plot to block Theresa

May's deal on expats and various connotations of the relationship

between Britain and the EU. The front page of the Times, again

possess Charlotte, and the car finance market could be heading for

mis-selling scandal, and they are reporting concerns about reliance on

debt to buy vehicles. The Daily Mirror, a completely different

story, actually, about Spanish hoteliers which could ban British

tourists because apparently there has been a huge rise in bogus food

poisoning claims. The front cover of the Daily Mail, again Princess

Charlotte, exploited by a cash for eggs IVF clinics. And the Guardian,

they all have different lines about the meeting between Jean-Claude

Juncker and Theresa May. We will talk about that later in the

programme. We will also talk about personal space shortly. There has

been a row this morning about it. What else have you got in your

papers? Let me tell you my stories, good morning everybody. I know this

is one you are interested in. The bank of mum and dad. This is how

much parents help people to get onto the housing ladder and there are new

stats from Legal and General. They are saying the scale of lending

helps fund 26% of all UK property transactions, which actually puts it

on par with the Yorkshire building society, so if it were a bank, it

would make it the ninth biggest residential lender in the UK. And it

is a whacking amount of money, ?6.5 billion has been handed out to

children to help them buy a house, it has gone up 30% in the last year.

The most mum and dad 's land interest-free? That is a good

question, they shouldn't, but... There is a difference, isn't that?

Pay it back over 50 years. It is interesting how much they have to

help people get into the bottom rung of the latter, it is so expensive to

buy your first house. And that sort of cash makes a difference.

Those in charge of athletics suggest old world and European records

before 2005 should be wiped clean because they have been keeping your

end samples -- urine samples but there were none before 2005. So

those include Paula Radcliffe and others. We need to wipe the slate

clean because we cannot be sure that any record set before 2005 has not

been helped by performance enhancing drugs. Oh. We should start again.

Paula Radcliffe said this is just another way clean athletes are being

punished by cheaters. And Daniel Edwards said he knew his record

would go, but he did not think it would go this way. The Times, the

writer, says this needs to happen, because we need more trust, we need

to wipe the slate clean and start again. Personal space. How far away

do we like to be in Britain? Apparently one metre between

strangers. 50 centimetres foreclose people, 80 for acquaintances. What

about us? I don't think we are too close. On average, this is how far

away we like to be. Here? Right? Any closer and I would be having a

meltdown. You don't like people up in your space? You are right up

there. Back off! 21 centimetres! Is that all we are allowed? There is no

space, is there? We need a bigger camera. Where is Carol? She is over

there somewhere. Good morning. I am hundreds of miles away. What does

that say a chilly start to the day. A touch of frost around. Fog as

well. For most, it will be dry and bright in the morning. Once again

today, the lion's share of the sunshine like yesterday will be in

the north-west of the UK. With this onshore flow, we will get cloud in

eastern areas. The breeze on the coast will feel nippy if you are

calling for a stroll later on. Inland, a lot of dry weather. --

going for us. A few more showers developing in eastern areas. Some

sunshine in the south-west. 15 degrees in Plymouth. The south-east,

East Anglia, the Midlands, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, showers.

Wales, north-west England, Northern Ireland, much of Scotland again,

away from the east, a fine day and afternoon in prospect. Staying dry

and temperatures hitting up. Not necessarily reaching 20 degrees.

Some of the showers go towards east Wales and the south-west of England.

They will tend to fade. The low countries will bring more rain. A

lot of dry weather around tonight. Under clearer skies where it has

been warm by day, it will be cold at night just like yesterday in the

night just gone. Showers in the south-east. More cloud. Still, this

breeze. West and north, the lion's share of the sunshine. You can see

cloud building in the afternoon. Temperatures roughly 15 in the

north. 11- 13 as we go towards the south-east. Continuing with the

forecast as we head on through Thursday and the rest of the week,

if it is a lot of rain you are looking for, you will be

disappointed. We don't have much in the forecast. There is still an

easterly breeze going around the area of high pressure. If you are

exposed to it, still quite nippy. Some cloud thick enough for the odd

shower here and there. A lot of dry weather, especially in the north and

west. No substantial rain in the forecast right the way up until

Sunday at least. Taking a look at Friday, again, some breeze. A lot of

dry weather. The odd shower. Nothing much more than that. Towards the

west again, sunny skies. Temperatures, 13-14. A little bit

higher further south. A 16 in London. Back to you. Thank you very

much. Standing in the middle

of the North Sea, the Brent Field has been a cornerstone of the UK's

oil and gas production Now, one of the field's four iconic

platforms has been decommissioned. Breakfast's John Maguire is live

at its final resting place, What a day. Good morning. An amazing

day and view. A bit chilly. That is not the rig. We wanted to show you

it because we wanted to give you an idea of the scale. That is 14,000

times. Brent Delta, 24,000. 50% bigger. It will come in on the high

tide tonight brought in by a huge barge called the Iron Lady which

will turn 19 degrees and sail up the water here to arrive at the new

piece of concrete, the new quay being built specifically to handle

the salvage and death of Brent Delta. An extraordinary few days of

engineering. So far, so good. A decade in the planning, but just

seconds in the execution, as the topside, as it is known, is lifted

off Brent Delta, and onto the world's largest constructions ship.

It was built exactly for mammoth tasks like this. 380 metres long and

124 metres wide across two hulls, it is the size of an Olympic's worth of

pitches and buses. The captain of the ship says his is a dream job, as

I spoke to him. It is one of the dreams to be the captain of a ship

like this. This is as big as you can get. The Brent Field, more than 100

miles east of the Shetlands, has been producing oil since the 1970s.

During its peak, Hussey million barrels a day. Now, the oilfield is

coming to the end of its economic life, and these monoliths are being

decommissioned. Itself, a massive job. The North Sea in particular is

a very harsh environment. They are very large integrated platforms. It

would be different to the Southern North Sea and shallow basins around

the world. They are heavier and more difficult to decommission. It is a

process that will be worth at least ?40 billion in the years ahead, but

it is not without challenges. Shell, which operates the oilfield, says it

learned lessons from the furore from the scrapping of the storage

facility in the 1990s. Delta's three concrete legs will remain in place

because it is too dangerous and expensive to remove them. We will

see 100 decommissioned in the coming years as these giants, once so vital

to the Brent Field, are brought ashore to die.

The estimate is they will recycle 98.5% of the topside, which seems

extraordinary. But that is what they specialise in here at Able Seaton

Port. Duncan, how would you characterise what has been achieved

in the past few days? It is the culmination of five years of

planning and preparation to lift the Brent Delta and transport it on the

Pioneering Spirit to load it on the Iron Lady barge to conduct the

decommissioning in Able Seaton Port. ? That happened at 3am this morning.

We assume it went well. Many people can see the platform off the coast.

But the legs will stay in position in the North Sea. Is that a good

idea? That is the plan. After ten years of study, looking at the

various engineering options to take these away, to put it into context,

while the Brent Delta topside is 24,000 tons, these legs are almost

300,000 tons. Enormous structures. We looked at the options to refloat

and remove them, but the costs is absolutely enormous. We feel that

leaving them there is the right thing to do. Three other platforms.

One is still producing. Charlie. That is right. You plan to

decommission those. Where are we with the plans to do that? All of

this is strictly and tightly controlled, of course. We have seen

a robust scheme in the UK We have just had a 60 day public

consultation. We are in the process of taking those comments on board

from stakeholders and members of the public to have had the opportunity

to look at this. We have responded to comments. After that, the next

phase. Replying to the Oslo Paris Convention in which we are

signatories to look at if we can leave those legs in place. When

we'll all four Egon? This is a multi-year operation. Brent Charlie

will continue to produce for a few years. The other is offshore. With

Brent Delta, and we are not forgetting that Brent Alpha is in a

phase of isolating it from the surface. We will prepare Brent Bravo

for lifting. After that, we are not forgetting that there are offshore

operations conducting right now on all other three platforms. Thank you

very much indeed. There is still a lot of work and money to be spent in

the years ahead. Before we go back, we had a couple of little seals that

came to visit us this morning. A nice sight. But in terms of man-made

engineering, it has been a good site for the people in Hartlepool, and

will continue to be so for the rest of the day, and it sounds like it

will be so for months and years to come. What a beautiful day to be out

and about. Live seals! You Still to come this morning: Festival

season is fast approaching, We've been out with the folk singers

who hold woodland concerts with Britain's most celebrated songbird,

the nightingale. That sounds absolutely amazing. They sing with

them? He you know that song, Nightingale? -- Do you know.

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

Plenty more on our website at the usual address.

Now, though, it's back to BBC Breakfast.

Hello, this is Breakfast with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

We will bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment.

But also on Breakfast this morning: With two thirds of adults in England

now overweight or obese, we will be asking the boss

of Britain's biggest food retailer if supermarkets should be doing more

He claims the average UK household will be ?500 worse off this

We will be asking former deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to back

up his Brexit figures in about an hour's time.

And she always has a smile for the public, but a new biopic

explores a more melancholy side to Barbara Windsor's life.

We will speak to one of the actresses who play her before

But now a summary of this morning's main news:

There has been further fallout from last week's talks on Brexit

between Theresa May and European Commission President Jean-Claude

Senior EU sources have told the BBC that the UK Government

is on a completely different wavelength.

They have also accused it of being ignorant of how Brussels

works, and misunderstanding the fundamentals of Brexit

Theresa May has already dismissed reports of a disagreement with EU

Our political correspondent Chris Mason is in Westminster.

Good morning to you. So the pre- talks about talks that will happen

at some stage. There is a lot of talking going on. There is a lot of

talking going on. I know you are a keen student of commentaries of a

sporting kind, well these are commentaries of a political kind in

the curious thing is we were told by Downing Street ever since Theresa

May has been Prime Minister that there wouldn't be a running

commentary on Brexit. Well, we needn't have worried because there

is certainly a running commentary coming from Brussels on Brexit.

Jean-Claude Juncker came to Downing Street for that dinner party with

Theresa May last week and ever since there have been accounts tumbling

out of the mouths of sources in Brussels giving their side of the

story about that dinner party, and suggesting, frankly, that Downing

Street and Brussels are 1 million miles apart in terms of their

outlook on these forthcoming negotiations. Worth emphasising,

yes, this is a partial account from one side. Downing Street claims the

meeting was constructive, and there is a huge amount at stake at the

moment for both sides to try and get a deal and with big elections in the

European Union, in Germany, in front and of course here in the UK. And

quite a bit of electioneering going on as well. We will be speaking to

Nick Clegg, Amber Road and Diane Abbott, and Labour promising more

money for police officers -- Amber Rudd. Diane Abbott will be talking

about an extra 10,000 police officers in England and Wales if

Labour were to be in government after the general election. They

point to the fact that police officer numbers have tumbled in

recent years and they think that they could pay for this by reversing

a cut in capital gains tax that the Conservatives have pushed through in

the last couple of years. The Conservatives say that Labour are

trying to spend money twice, having suggested in the past that they

would use the money generated by tweaking that tax to spend on other

stuff, and you can only spend every pound ones. Nick Clegg, as you say

you will be talking to him later on Breakfast. He will be suggesting

that a so-called hard Brexit, coming out of the single market and the

customs union, will be hard for hard-working families. As for the

Prime Minister, she heads to the south-west of England today and will

be having a pop at the Liberal Democrats. Quite a few seats in the

south-west used to be held by the Lib Dems and were snatched by the

Tories in 2015. Theresa May rather keen to ensure that that doesn't

happen in reverse next month. Thank you, for the moment. Another heavy

day of campaigning ahead. And we will be speaking to Nick Clegg about

8:10 a.m.. Actually, 7:40 a.m., I should read my sheet!

Police are continuing to search for two suspects after a man

was shot dead in his home in the early hours

61-year-old Guy Hedger was killed by intruders in the village

Detectives say it was a targeted attack.

A surfer who went missing off the Scottish coast has been rescued

after more than 30 hours clinging to his board.

Matthew Bryce was reported missing by his family when he didn't return

from a surfing trip in Argyll on Sunday afternoon.

He was eventually picked up 13 miles off the coast,

still conscious but suffering from hypothermia.

In just a few minutes we will be getting the latest

from the coastguard, which helped co-ordinate

US President Donald Trump has said he would be honoured to meet

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, in the right circumstances.

Mr Trump made his comments amid continuing tensions surrounding

The White House later said such talks were unlikely

Lending by family and friends to help fund property purchases

will exceed ?6.5 billion this year, 30% more than last year,

Legal General, which compiled the figures, said the so-called bank

of mum and dad was now equivalent to the ninth-biggest mortgage lender

George Osborne starts his new job as editor of the London newspaper

The former chancellor's appointment drew criticism from Opposition MPs,

Mr Osborne stepped down as Conservative MP for Tatton,

in Cheshire, last month, a seat which is due to be abolished

He will edit the paper four days a week.

Cats might well have nine lives, but moggy miracle-worker

Scott Derben took no chances when he saw a feline in danger.

Video footage showing the dock worker coming to the rescue

of Felix, the London's Royal Docks office cat, has gone viral

after it was posted online over the weekend.

Felix was fighting with another cat when she slipped and fell

Scott rushed to his rescue, and clambered over the dock

Typically, though, Scott got very little appreciation from the cat,

That is why you always go dog of a cat, don't you? You know for a fact

that if you were in trouble are dog would lie next to you until you are

safe. A cat would consider eating you. You know it is true. They are

weak, I am hungry, I am having a nibble. There are nice cats. Here is

one right here! I am a dog person, despite being called Kat. I'm sure

this debate will rage all morning, and there will be all kinds of

backlash for you on Twitter from the cat people, they are out to get you.

The cat lobby, bring it on. What about snooker? What a final. Sunday

he was 10-4 down, no one has come back from that kind of deficit since

1985. I was reading up on my historic snooker FAQ 's. John

Higgins is granite, and he is referred to as the Torture because

he has a stone cold ability to block everything out -- facts.

Mark Selby is the world snooker champion for a third time.

The world number one beat John Higgins by 18-15.

Selby had been trailing 10-4 at one point, but he dominated Monday's

play to successfully defend his world title.

He becomes only the fourth man in modern era to do so.

Very special. I mean, to sort of get over them two wins and be sitting at

three world titles out there on my own is unbelievable, really. And

like I say, to be only one of four players to defend it is just

something I can only dream of. Liverpool's chances of reaching

the Champions League have been boosted by one of the goals

of the season by Emre Can. The midfielder lit up a pretty

uninspiring game with this incredible overhead kick

at the end of the first half, which is definitely

worth seeing again. Watford rarely threatened,

but Sebastian Prodl missed a chance Of course, we couldn't imagine that

he would score a bicycle kick, or whatever, as they say. Actually the

space on the run, what we did on the training pitch last week, so I am

happy with the goal, four Emre to do something like this is really nice,

and it is a wonderful, wonderful result for us.

Real Madrid play neighbours Atletico in their first leg

of the Champions League semi-finals tonight at the Bernabeu.

Cristiano Ronaldo and teammates will be without Gareth Bale,

The tie is a repeat of last season's final, which Real won on penalties.

There is good news for England cricket fans ahead of next month's

Champions Trophy, as Ben Stokes hit a century in the Indian Premier

Stokes came in with his side, Rising Pune Supergiant,

in big trouble, but smashed 100 to take them to victory -

all that despite suffering from cramp.

The England Test captain didn't fare so well.

Joe Root was caught on 21, but his Yorkshire side still beat

traditional rivals Lancashire in the One-Day Cup.

England spinner Adil Rashid took two wickets.

And finally, two footballers who appeared to forget which sport

This tackle wouldn't have looked out of place in a rugby match.

This happened in the Russian Premier League yesterday,

between Tom Tomsk and Zenit St Petersburg.

Afterwards, both players only received yellow cards.

It is that spear tackle. It is a bit like Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Exactly. Brutal. I am going to take a closer look at that in slow

motion. Lucky to be alive -

that is how Belfast Coastguard have described a surfer who was rescued

from the Irish Sea last night, after 30 hours

clinging to his board. Matthew Bryce was picked up 13 miles

off the Argyll coast, where he had been surfing on Sunday,

and flown to hospital, where he is recovering

from hypothermia. Dawn Petrie from the Belfast

Coastguard is on the line Good morning to you. Thank you very

much indeed for joining us. So how amazing is this? He is in the water

for 30 hours. Did you think you were going to find him? I know you are

looking for him all over the place. Yes, we got the call initially from

the police on Monday, at lunchtime, to say he had gone missing on

Sunday. So we were a full body four hours behind in the search for him,

but we instigated the large-scale search, involving three lifeboats,

five coastguard rescue teams, senior coastguard officers, and rescue

helicopter from Prestwick, to thoroughly searched the area where

we suspect he may have drifted. And his chance chances of survival, how

would you describe what he went through and how he was still there,

30 hours later? He was very well prepared. He was a very fit

gentleman, which aided his survivability. He stayed with the

surfboard, which aided in detection, looking for him. He was also,

because he was on the surfboard, he wasn't exposed to the water

temperature so much and he had the correct wetsuit which kept his oddly

temperature warmer than it would have been had he just been in shorts

and T-shirt. So he sat on the board, did he, is that what you understand

he was doing? Yes, we understand he was out for a surf and tried to get

back in again, we believe he suffered some cramps and just wasn't

able to paddle against the tide, which then just continually took him

away from the shore. So incredible work done by all the emergency

services and the coastguard to find him. How was he when you found him?

When the helicopter picked him up he was conscious, he was talking to

them. He was able to tell them what had happened to him, that he had

gone out on the Sunday, although he was suffering from hypothermia. And

your advice to people, if ever that should happen, is stay with the

board? Be well prepared before you even go out, let someone know where

you are going and what time you expect to be back. Take a means of

alerting someone with you, whether it be a small flat pack, a hand-held

radio, even a mobile phone, so if you do get into difficulties UART

able to raise the alarm. Amazing work by the body, thank you so much.

I just can't imagine what you are thinking hoping someone will spot

you. The weather in a second. First, Hartlepool. A gorgeous morning. Look

at the sunrise. We are going to talk about decommissioning and taking

apart an oil rig. . Now for the weather. Look at this picture.

Yesterday in north-west Scotland and Northern Ireland, the highs

temperatures in the land, seeing the warmest days so far. Further south,

this picture again, a beautiful sunrise in east Sussex. Durham, not

a bright start. A bit more cloud around. Mixed fortunes. Most of us

will have dried and bright weather in the afternoon. A few showers

developing. This will continue to go on through the rest of the day. Out

towards the west, drier, fine, and blue skies to be had. Through the

course of the morning, blue skies. Cloud drifting in from the cold

North Sea. The showers. Later in the day, they will get on to east Wales

in south-west England. Four o'clock, they will be dry in Wales in the

south-west. Thicker cloud in the east. Inland, bright spells. Showers

hit and miss. Northern Ireland and much of Scotland, another dry and

fine day with a fair bit of sunshine and some cloud at times. Overnight,

the showers. Drifting towards west Wales. East Wales. The south coast.

They will fade eventually. Another system from the low countries

introducing rain. For much of the UK, a dry note. Clear skies. Where

it has been warmed by day, the temperature will drop quickly as it

gets dark. Tomorrow morning, starting with rain in the

south-east. Not too heavy. It will start to break up and turn more

showery. After a bright start in south-west England and Wales, the

cloud will advance. Scotland and Northern Ireland once again I seen

the sunshine for the longest. Temperatures tomorrow are roughly

15- 16 degrees here and there. Through the course of the day with

temperatures rising, if you are tempted to dip your toes in the sea,

it is still quite cold. At best 11 degrees. You would be a brave person

than me to do that. Absolutely. But you know me, I like to swim in the

cold. You would have to wear a thick wetsuit and stay with your surfboard

and take a waterproof mobile phone. We have been talking about

campaigning and what various parties are talking about they are wanting

in their manifestoes. And our talking about what they want from

the next government. The British Chambers of Commerce has

around 75,000 members employing five million people, so what it says

tends to get the attention The BCC wants the next government

to rule out any new business taxes It says the existing ones

are already putting a strain Businesses obviously rely on roads,

rail and air to move goods So the BCC wants to see

more investment in that. It also wants all businesses to have

access to superfast broadband. And it wants more

help for exporters. Chris Fletcher is from the Greater

Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Good morning. Good morning. So, lots

of people are saying what they want to see from the next government. How

realistic is this, what you want? It is very realistic. This manifesto

was put through the whole network, both Chambers of Commerce. We have

all played a part in this manifesto for the next government. It is quite

interesting. A good number of things actually existed in the 2015

manifesto that came out of the last general election. Things we are

still waiting to see happen. Some have been around from the election

before that as well. We are saying the government that now is the time

to stop talking and get on with doing things for business. Now more

than ever in these quite uncertain times. What are the pressures? We

have seen more spending on infrastructure. We have seen a low

corporation tax. What is the pressure you need changed? Those

things are going in the right direction. But the danger is that

you get to a certain adequate level, making up for decades of under

investment. I want to go for more than that. Speaking to our members,

they still have difficulty getting onto broadband, mobile phone

signals, and that is the future and where we want government to focus

on. There has been a huge rise in the last several years over upfront

taxes, like increases in business rates, enrolment, and other things

like that. Business taxes, not on profits, but running a business.

Depending on how profitable you are, businesses are still paying money

before they have actually started to make anything and serve any

customers. We are saying that enough is enough when it comes to that. All

of this costs money, though. Where will that come from? There are

obviously many pressures in society, like the NHS and people on student

benefits. Why do businesses get it? It is not about being soft on

business, but doing things that are. In Greater Manchester, we are having

an election on devolving government. We need better use on this in the

first instance. It is not about businesses having it easy. There is

also evidence that if businesses had more money, if they paid fewer

taxes, they actually invest that and employ more people and take

advantage of economic conditions. And things, you know, they are

uncertain, but they are moving in the right direction. We want other

businesses in the UK to grow and expand on that. It ultimately means

a better economy for the UK. Interesting. As part of my election

table which we will start soon, we will tell the other businesses in

the country about this. And that is it for me for now.

Nightingales are Britain's most celebrated songbird but are under

This year, as they return from migration to the woods

and thickets of Southern England, they're being welcomed back

As part of the first national Nightingale Festival,

folk singers are holding concerts in woodlands so they can duet

We sent our arts correspondent, David Sillito, to see if the birds

MUSIC. We are here in Kent. We are gathered in anticipation of being

led into the forest at dark to go and listen to the nightingales

seeing. They are taking us into the woods to

listen to and sing with nightingales in the dark, in the silence, done a

lonely path into a forest, you find a stage. The most unlikely of

auditoriums. But it is a stage. Is it worth me going down there?

Absolutely. No one returns the same. The song of the nightingale. It is a

fast disappearing wonder of the British countryside. SINGING. In

this nocturnal concert is just one of many taking place across the

country, an attempt to reconnect us with what used to be the sound of

spring. Oh, it's amazing! The nightingale, it is unparalleled in

its virtuoso range. And it is dying out? They have declined by the 6% in

the last couple of years. Of course, the idea of playing music with a

nightingale is not new. Beatrice Harrington's live performances with

them on the BBC were a sensation. But I was worried. The woods sounded

very quiet. It is pouring with rain. I cannot see where my feet us. I

there really nightingales here? -- are. They are. You will hear them

singing and it will grow louder and louder. Please, let it be true.

Because we are without them right now. Cup your ears. Focus your

hearing. BIRD NOISES. They are so loud, aren't they? I didn't really

believe you. There are several metres away. -- they are. SINGING.

Doesn't it feel odd to be here in the middle of the night sitting in a

forest? No, not at all. It seems quite natural and quite perfect. #

The nightingale, they say...# it is important to remember that once upon

a time this would have been the soundtrack to our spring. Every

fire, every homestead, you could just go out and listen to the

nightingales. So, that little, damp thicket, and a wastes is of song. --

an oasis of song. ABC News, Kent. Very calming.

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

Plenty more on our website at the usual address.

Hello, this is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

A war of words over Britain's approach to Brexit negotiations.

Senior EU sources accuse the Government of being

on a completely different wavelength, and warn talks

Also this morning: Shot dead by an intruder in his home.

Police in Dorset are still looking for two suspects in connection

with the death of businessman Guy Hedger.

A surfer is rescued after more than 30 hours missing at sea.

The coastguard say he is lucky to be alive.

Campaigners think that food manufacturers and supermarkets

should be doing more to help tackle the problem of obesity.

I will be talking to the boss of Tesco to find out

We are the quayside this morning, awaiting the arrival of a huge oil

platform that has just been decommissioned from the North Sea --

Teesside. Lifted off its legs in a world record feat of engineering.

In sport: A third Crucible crown for Mark Selby.

He fights back to beat John Higgins, and become only the fourth man

in the modern era to successfully defend a world title.

Good morning. We are looking at another cloudy day across eastern

areas, with a noticeable breeze accentuating the chilly field. Later

we will see some showers in the east and across central parts of England.

There will be a lot of dry weather as well, with sunny spells, the

lion's share of which will be across the north-west of the UK. I will

have more in 15 minutes. First, our main story: There has

been further fallout from last week's talks on Brexit

between Theresa May and European Commission President

Jean-Claude Juncker. Senior EU sources have told the BBC

that the UK Government is on a completely

different wavelength. They have also accused it

of being ignorant of how Brussels works and misunderstanding

the fundamentals of Brexit Theresa May has already dismissed

reports of a disagreement with EU Our political correspondent

Chris Mason is in Westminster. It might be being dismissed as

gossip by Theresa May, and we will speak to Amber Rudd about this issue

as well but it is quite serious, isn't it, for those accusations to

be coming back at the UK? Yes, it is quite serious because these

negotiations, the nitty-gritty hasn't got going yet. This is an

opening discussion, talks, if you like, about the talks. A dinner

party last week at Downing Street for Jean-Claude Juncker, the lead

guy from the European Commission, meeting Theresa May. Not exactly the

convention of the discreet thank you card and complement of how tender

the beef was. Instead, day after day, a drip feed of commentary from

the EU's perspective about how the talks went on how in their view, the

two backsides, Brussels and London, are 1 million miles about these

negotiations -- two sides. That is potentially tricky for Theresa May,

because these are going to be complicated negotiations in the

coming months and years. Politically, in the short term,

quite useful for conservatives here, who can make the ultimate that the

talks will be tough, and use this as proof, and say that is why they

wanted a bigger majority as a result of the general election. And Labour

specifically talking about police numbers today. Yes, we will hear

from the Shadow Home Secretary, Diane Abbott, about the promised of

10,000 additional police officers on the streets of England and Wales

under a Labour government. They point to a tumbling in police

numbers, or at least a reduction, in the last five, six or seven years.

Now they say, Labour, that they could pay for this by reversing

changes in capital gains tax that the Conservatives have pushed

through. The Conservatives say, hang on a minute, Labour seems to have

promised the use of this money for various other things they have

talked about in the last couple of years. They seem to be able to spend

the same pound twice, which is of course impossible. When you look at

what Labour have said in the past, they have talked about how else they

might use the money raised from changing this tax, but whether that

amounts to something which is actually in their manifesto in the

next couple of weeks we will have to wait and see. Always good to talk to

you, thank you very much. Police are continuing to search

for two suspects after a man was shot dead in his

home in the early hours 61-year-old Guy Hedger was killed

by intruders in the village Our correspondent Simon

Clemison is at the scene. Simon, what line of enquiry

are the police following? What more can you tell us? A very

good morning to you, Louise and Dan. This is a very wealthy area on the

edge of the New Forest. There are a lot of big, expensive houses here.

So why this one in particular has been a question for the police. It

does seem that Guy Hedger was targeted specifically, because

police now know that jewellery and designer watches were taken. There

does seem to have been some element of planning, that intruders were

ready to confront someone. They were wearing a la clubbers and carrying a

shotgun, so are targeted burglary which turned violent. But it could

be some days before we really know all the details here. We believe

that Guy Hedger formed a civil partnership 12 years ago. There was

another man in the house at the time, police have not confirmed his

identity yet but he witnessed some of the events, he is deeply affected

by that, there are weapons to recover, so lots of lines for police

to cover here, in a murder of a man in an unlikely location.

A surfer who went missing off the Scottish coast has been rescued

after more than 30 hours clinging to his board.

Matthew Bryce was reported missing by his family when he didn't return

from a surfing trip in Argyll on Sunday afternoon.

He was eventually picked up 13 miles off the coast,

still conscious but suffering from hypothermia.

He stayed with the surfboard, which aided in detection,

He was also, because he was on the surfboard,

he wasn't exposed to the water temperature so much and he had

the correct wetsuit which kept his oddly temperature warmer than it

would have been had he just been in shorts and T-shirt.

US President Donald Trump has said he would be honoured to meet

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, in the right circumstances.

Mr Trump made his comments amid continuing tensions surrounding

The White House later said such talks were unlikely

George Osborne starts his new job as editor of the London newspaper

The former chancellor was a surprise appointment,

with some criticising his lack of journalistic experience.

Mr Osborne stepped down last month as Conservative MP

George Osborne is used to early starts and deadlines,

but it will still have come as a shock when his alarm went

at 4:00am this morning, ahead of his first day

The former chancellor has taken the editor's chair

of the Evening Standard, in one of the most

surprising appointments in recent history.

Many Westminster observers initially believed he took the job to build

But that theory was undermined when Osborne announced

that he would step down as an MP for Tatten, in Cheshire.

With the business model under some pressure,

there is probably relief among staff that Mr Osborne is no longer an MP

But there is still an anxiety about his work for Black Rock,

the asset manager in the city.

Quite aside from the time commitment, it suggests a serious

potential conflict of interest.

His top priority today, other than a strong front page,

will be to explain his vision for the paper to staff.

Osborne will leave Parliament tomorrow, and his constituency

will get a new MP in five weeks' time.

A host of celebrities turned out in their finest for what has been

described as the party of the year, the Met Gala.

The annual charity ball is held at New York's Metropolitan Museum

of Art to raise money for the museum's fashion department.

It is an exclusive event, with tickets costing tens

of thousands of dollars, and a flamboyant dress code.

Just a warning that her report contains flash photography.

It is the hottest invite on New York's social calendar,

and the biggest night in fashion, that draws out only the stars.

Stepping onto the Met Gala red carpet is to enter a runway,

This year, the Met Costume Institute is honouring Japanese designer

Rei Kawakubo, who famously blurs the line between

For Rei, there is no box, and she did that so early on.

When Rei started, you would never believe fashion could be

as influential and as powerful as music.

You know, a lot of people say, like, how do you wear that?

You don't wear those clothes, those clothes wear you.

Sleeves need not apply, and cotton candy hair and face

coverings are just a few of Kawakubo's signatures.

The Met Ball is not the place to play it safe.

And that unspoken rule, combined with this unconventional

designer's contribution, has led to a night of unique looks.

Apple, Blue Ivy, Saint - the entertainment world has given us

some interesting baby names over the years,

and it seems new parents Cheryl and Liam Payne are the latest

to look for something out of the ordinary

Some of this morning's newspapers are reporting that the couple have

According to the newspaper, the pop stars spent a week

with the baby before deciding on the name.

But Cheryl and Liam may not have picked such an unusual name,

after all, as actresses Kate Winslet and Alicia Silverstone both have

The Prime Minister has described it as Brussels gossip,

the reports this weekend that Brexit talks with EU officials had broken

But senior EU sources have expressed frustration to the BBC

about Britain's approach to the talks.

It comes after Theresa May was accused of being ignorant of how

EU politics works in negotiating a Brexit deal.

So have Brexit negotiations stalled before they have even started?

The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, joins us now from our

Good morning to you. Thank you very much for joining us on Breakfast

this morning. So according to EU sources who have spoken to the BBC,

you were on a different wavelength when it comes to Brexit. How

damaging is this with negotiations ongoing, and likely to be ongoing

for quite sometime? Well, I don't see it in that light. The fact is we

have always said these are going to be difficult negotiations. We don't

underestimate that, but we have a plan, we know what we are doing, we

know what our priorities are. What this really demonstrates is how

important it is to have Theresa May at the helm, to give the strong

leadership and make sure we can engage in those negotiations and we

need negotiations in the national interest. There doesn't seem to be

any denial that there are these issues. Do you... Well, once you

start engaging in gossip and tittle tattle in this way, it carries on,

and who knows where it will be? We have our plan, we are entering into

these negotiations in good faith. We have our priorities and we will make

sure that we deliver those in the national interest. With respect, I

know you are dismissing this as gossip, but you keep talking about

strong and stable leadership, and about these Brexit negotiations

being crucial, and the Conservatives keep saying that Theresa May is the

only politician who can sort that out. There is a well-known German

newspaper, and our information comes from one of our respected BBC

correspondent who has been speaking to senior sources at the EU. So it

is not gossip. Again, no one knows how much truth there is in gossip,

do they? Again, there are ways to convey what is going on and this is

not the right way to do that. We are not going to respond to it, we are

going to continue to set out our position, to enter into what in many

ways has been strong and positive negotiations. I observe, for

instance, the trade commissioner has said yes, she would expect there to

be a deal with the single market. So I don't recognise the tone in which

this has been reported. At I do come back to the fact that it does make

it clear that this is going to be a complex, potentially difficult

negotiation at times, and who do we want leading those? We want Theresa

May leading them, not Jeremy Corbyn. On that leadership of those EU

negotiations, can you comment on speculation that there is a bit of a

fallout between Theresa May and the Brexit secretary, David Davis, over

his conduct at that meeting? What do you know about that, and what can

you tell us? To be honest, nothing at all. I wasn't at the meeting, and

she has it already it is gossip, but what I can say is that the meetings

I have attended at Cabinet or at the Brexit Cabinet, we have a series of

different meetings in different committees in order to engage in

Brexit. All I have seen is a totally united group having opened

discussions and arriving at the plan which we will take to the European

Union. Are the prospects of a good Brexit deal looking worse now than

when the prime minister called the election? We are optimistic that we

can get a good Brexit deal in the national interests. It is not going

to happen overnight. We need to make sure we do it from the position of

strength, which is why the prime minister wants to have this general

election, nor do we underestimate the difficulties that are going to

take place over the next few months. What we have clear plan and we are

going to be working to deliver that for the country. Can I ask you, I

know it is the mantra about strong and stable leadership. Mrs May gave

us an election when she promised she wouldn't. We see rising prices in

the shops, we see the crisis in the NHS, talking to Jeremy Hunt about

that last week, and she has been described as being in a different

galaxy when it comes to these Brexit negotiations. I wonder whether she

can really claim that her leadership is strong and stable, when you

consider all that? As Home Secretary, she did a lot. As

Prime Minister she set out a clear plan. If you talk to people like I

do and all the candidates are doing in their constituencies, people are

coming up to us saying they want to vote for Theresa May but they cannot

vote for Jeremy Corbyn because they have confidence in her. When she

decided to call the general election she set a clearly why it was, the

timing. The fact is we don't want to enter into the final negotiations

with the European Union, and we have seen over the past few days they may

be tricky over parts, as we enter into the general election, if we

give the reason mandate I hope she will get on June eight, she will

enter into the negotiations on a position of strength and with a

mandate to carry out the national interest and not need to go to a

general election at the end of the negotiations. We will talk about

Diane Abbott later. Labour so they will provide 10,000 new police

offices in England and Wales. According to your figures, we have

seen a decline of 20,000 since 2009. That is under your own party. Will

you fix that? The important thing when looking at crime is to find out

what those statistics are doing. Crime has fallen by a third since

2010. There has been control over budgets and less police officers We

have invested in the police force in areas we believe they can make

progress with other elements of crime. The point is that what really

matters is the outcome. Crime has fallen while budgets have been

controlled. That is a good outcome, surely. Thank you. We will speak

Diane Abbott and Clegg soon. In half an hour. The weather. Good morning.

Good morning. A cold start for many of us. Frost around. Lovely

sunrises, as you can see here in east Sussex. Not like this

everywhere. A lot of cloud in the UK. Durham, a cloudy start. As the

breeze picks up, more cloud coming in. Starting off in some eastern

parts with cloud. Further west, clearer skies. Clearer skies by

night in London where the temperatures have dipped, of course.

The afternoon. Cloud on the east coast bringing in a few showers. If

you are on the coast, it will feel cold. Down towards East Anglia and

Kent. Some of those showers developing in the Midlands and parts

of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The south-west of England and Wales,

sunny intervals to look forward to in the afternoon. Cardiff, 17

degrees. North-west England, also seeing sunshine this afternoon. The

same with Northern Ireland. The warmest day so far this year for

them. Scotland is seeing a lot of sunshine as well. At times, more

cloud coming in from the North Sea. Through the evening and overnight,

some showers drift towards east Wales and south-west England down

towards southern counties. Then they fade. Importing more rain coming

across the south-east. With that, a largely dry night under clearer

skies, especially where it has been warm by day. Temperatures will drop.

A cold night. Here and there, once again, a touch of frost. Into

tomorrow, while we are looking at a similar story in the sense that

there will still be cloud drifting in from the North Sea, moving

steadily towards the west, as we go through the day, producing a few

showers, across the finals of England, Scotland, and Northern

Ireland, once again, looking at sunny skies. -- far north. If that

is tempting you to go into the ocean, it will feel cold. I am

showing you this chart because the wind is coming from the east and

north-east across the cold North Sea. It will feel cold on the east

coast in the next few days. Thursday, a weak weather front in

the south not doing much more than bringing in some cloud and the odd

spot of rain. Also looking at dry weather. In fact, dry weather is

going to be the theme of the weather right until the weekend. If you see

anything wet coming out of the sky, it will be a shower. Showers will be

hit and miss. That is the case on Thursday to be the northern half of

the country once again seeing more sunshine than the south. Back to

you. Thank you. Talking about the temperatures. We talked to a surfer

who survived for 30 hours due to being well prepared with a wetsuit.

And hold on. Hopefully that does not happen. Now Steph is here to talk

about BOMAD, the Bank of Mum and Dad.

We have been looking at how much parents help young people get onto

the property ladder. It is interesting. Around a quarter of all

property transactions will involve money that has come from mums and

dads. That is significant. Six and a half billion pounds. That makes it

the equivalent of the ninth biggest residential lender. An important

part of it. It is not a shock when you look at house prices. They have

been going up for a long time. The average house price now is ?218,000.

If you are trying to get a mortgage with a 10% deposit, you will need 22

grand. That is more than some people earn in a year. In order to say that

amount of money, money, it can take the ball a long time. It is not a

shock that parents end up having to help people get onto the property

ladder. -- people. The ninth biggest, that is a lot! It really

is. Especially if you have parents that are not particularly

forthcoming. Many struggle to get on the ladder because their parents

cannot help them. Exactly. Thank you.

Standing in the middle of the North Sea, the Brent Field

has been a cornerstone of the UK's oil and gas production

Now, one of the field's four iconic platforms has been decommissioned.

Breakfast's John Maguire is live at its final resting place,

Good morning. Good morning. The rig we are showing you is a jacket rig,

14,000 pounds. And 24,000 is Brent Delta, 40% bigger. It is three miles

offshore. It is a 300 mile journey that it has made from the North Sea

to get it will be taken to the jetty at the top which has been purpose

built and it will go and be salvaged. That is part of the

decommissioning process. A world record feat of engineering.

A decade in the planning, but just seconds in the execution,

as the topside, as it's known, is lifted

off Brent Delta, and onto the world's largest construction ship.

The Pioneering Spirit was designed and built exactly for mammoth

380 metres long and 124 metres wide across two hulls,

it's the size of an Olympic's worth of

sports pitches and double-decker buses.

Speaking to the BBC before the world-record lift,

the captain of the ship says his is a dream job.

It is one of the dreams to be the captain of a ship

This is as big as you can get in the world at the moment.

The Brent Field, more than 100 miles north-east of the Shetlands,

has been producing oil since the 1970s.

During its peak, half a million barrels a day.

Now, the oilfield is coming to the end of its economic

life, and these monoliths are being decommissioned,

The North Sea in particular is a very harsh environment.

The platforms are very big and large integrated platforms.

They are much bigger typically than what you would find

in the Southern North Sea and shallow basins around the world.

They are heavier and more difficult to decommission.

It is a process that will be worth at least

?40 billion in the years ahead, but it is not without challenges.

Shell, which operates the oilfield, says it

learned lessons from the furore from the scrapping of the storage

Delta's three concrete legs will remain in place

as the company believes removing them is too dangerous and expensive.

We will see 100 decommissioned in the coming

years as these giants of the once so vital Oil Field,

The estimate is they will recycle 98.5% of the topside,

We will talk to Duncan Manning from Shell. How are your fingernails?

Nervous anticipation as we await the movement of the Brent Delta into the

port. Things have gone well so far, but it is different from the past.

For us, the Brent platforms are integrated in very large. Lifting

them make sense in terms of efficiency and also safety. We are

moving offshore work onto the far more controlled environment on the

onshore recycling yard. There are three more, Alpha, Bravo, and

Charlie, to be decommissioned as well. Where are we will with that?

You haven't got the rules yet to do so. We have just finished a 60 day

public consultation process where the proposals have been in the

public domain for stakeholders and members of the public to read,

digest, and understand. Once we have been through that process, we will

go onto the next one, to apply to remove them. It is up to the

government to accept proposals or allow us to move on. From an

offshore perspective, in Alpha, we are in the middle of isolating the

razor-wire from the surface. -- Reservoir. Brent, we are preparing

the platform for lift. Delta is being moved. It will come here on

the high tide at half past six tonight. It will be brought in by

the Iron Lady which hilariously will be turning around 90 degrees. It

will be decommissioned in this part of the UK and much work will be

carrying on for years and years to come in the North Sea. So she is

returning. I love what you did. We are talking about personal space

among other things today. I brought my measure tape. This article in the

paper says we value personal space quite highly. If you are a stranger,

rights, they say you like to be a metre away. -- right. You are not a

stranger. If you are an acquaintance, you can come to 80

centimetres. There you go. And if you are considered a friend, a

close, intimate companion... Really? 50 is acceptable. We sit too close.

You are 21 centimetres. I love that you say that as if it is my fault.

Maybe I should go this year. Less than an arm's length is too close,

says this man. Many talking about coffee breath, if you can smell it,

you are too close. I hate when you are in a line and you can feel the

person behind you breathing on your neck. Why can't they just back off a

bit! And friendly warmth is best expressed by a cheery nod and a wave

from across the room, says this person. It is different whether you

are outside or inside. This is much better. Do you feel much more

comfortable? I think this could Now, though, it's back

to BBC Breakfast. Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. Senior EU sources have made a series

of scathing comments about the Government's approach

to Brexit negotiations, raising the prospect they could fail

to reach an agreement. Yesterday, a German newspaper

reported that talks got off to a bad start when the Prime Minister

met the President of the European Commission,

Jean-Claude Juncker. Theresa May has dismissed

it as Brussels gossip. Well, once you start engaging

in gossip and tittle tattle in this way, it carries on,

and who knows where it will lead? Much better for us to be absolutely

clear. We have our plan, we are entering

into these negotiations We have our priorities,

and we will make sure that we deliver those

in the national interest. In just a few minutes,

we will be talking to the former And we have Diane Abbott a little

bit later on in the programme as well.

Police are continuing to search for two suspects after a man

was shot dead in his home in the early hours

61-year-old Guy Hedger was killed by intruders in the village

Detectives say it was a targeted attack.

A surfer who went missing off the Scottish coast has been rescued

after more than 30 hours clinging to his board.

Matthew Bryce was reported missing by his family when he didn't return

from a surfing trip in Argyll on Sunday afternoon.

He was eventually picked up 13 miles off the coast,

still conscious but suffering from hypothermia.

He stayed with the surfboard, which aided in detection,

He was also, because he was on the surfboard,

he wasn't exposed to the water temperature so much,

and he had the correct wetsuit, which kept his body temperature

warmer than it would have been had he just been in shorts and T-shirt.

US President Donald Trump has said he would be honoured to meet

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, in the right circumstances.

Mr Trump made his comments amid continuing tensions surrounding

The White House later said such talks were unlikely

George Osborne starts his new job as editor of the London newspaper

The former chancellor was a surprise appointment,

with some criticising his lack of journalistic experience.

Mr Osborne stepped down last month as Conservative MP

Cats might well have nine lives, but moggy miracle-worker

Scott Derben took no chances when he saw a feline in danger.

Video footage showing the docks worker coming to the rescue

of Felix, the London's Royal Docks office cat, has gone viral

after it was posted online over the weekend.

Felix was fighting with another cat when she slipped and fell

Scott rushed to her rescue, and clambered over the dock

Typically, though, Scott got very little appreciation from the cat,

I mean, you know, maybe the cat was a bit scared, not typically. I know

I'm a bit anti- cat, but they only like you when they want food. That

is not entirely true. Dogs are your friend for life, and cats... It is

just stereotypes. Cats get fed up and just move on. You see all those

missing cat posters and that is because the cat has made a decision.

We had a cat who used to just hang its claw underneath the table and

every time I walked past, I think I am physically and mentally scarred!

Maybe I was in the cat's personal space. We are very much the dog, I

am afraid you are cat in the middle. And I am allowed on the sofa and

everything. Isn't it funny that this time last year Leicester were top of

the world. They won the Premier league and on the same day Mark

Selby won the world title. At least they can still count on Mark Selby

to give them something to celebrate. Mark Selby is the world snooker

champion for a third time. The world number one beat

John Higgins by 18-15. Selby had been trailing 10-4 at one

point, but he dominated Monday's play to successfully

defend his world title. He becomes only the fourth man

in modern era to do so. I mean, to sort of get over them two

wins and be sitting at three world titles out there on my own

is unbelievable, really. And, like I say, to be only one

of four players to defend it is just Liverpool's chances of reaching

the Champions League have been boosted by one of the goals

of the season by Emre Can. The midfielder lit up a pretty

uninspiring game with this incredible overhead kick

at the end of the first half, which is definitely

worth seeing again. Watford rarely threatened,

but Sebastian Prodl missed a chance Of course, we couldn't imagine

that he would score a bicycle kick, Actually, the space and the run,

was what we did on the training For Emre to do something

like this is really nice, and it is a wonderful,

wonderful result for us. Real Madrid play neighbours

Atletico in their first leg of the Champions League semi-finals

tonight at the Bernabeu. Cristiano Ronaldo and teammates

will be without Gareth Bale, The tie is a repeat of last season's

final, which Real won on penalties. Paula Radcliffe says her reputation

and dignity have been damaged by plans to scrap all athletics

world and European records The credibility of records has been

examined following revelations Plans to wipe the slate clean

would mean Radcliffe, triple-jumper Jonathan Edwards,

and hurdler Colin Jackson would all have their

records rewritten. There is good news for England

cricket fans ahead of next month's Champions Trophy, as Ben Stokes hit

a century in the Indian Premier Stokes came in with his side,

Rising Pune Supergiant, in big trouble, but smashed 100

to take them to victory - all that despite

suffering from cramp. The England Test captain

didn't fare so well. Joe Root was caught on 21,

but his Yorkshire side still beat traditional rivals Lancashire

in the One-Day Cup. England spinner Adil

Rashid took two wickets. The first great Britain Lions Rugby

League tour in more than a decade could take place in 2019. They have

played as individual nations since 2007. The chair of the Rugby League

International Federation has told the BBC there could be a tour to the

southern hemisphere scheduled between this year's World Cup in

Australia and the 2021 tournament in England.

And finally, two footballers who appeared to forget which sport

This tackle wouldn't have looked out of place in a rugby match.

This happened in the Russian Premier League yesterday,

between Tom Tomsk and Zenit St Petersburg.

Afterwards, both players only received yellow cards.

Did they not see it? I think maybe there had been some beef earlier in

the match. Are used to watch a bit of wrestling... There is some kind

of Hulk Hogan eye gouge. Before that, it was Stone Cold Steve

Austin's signature move, the Stone Cold Stunner. He did set him up with

a little kick to the gut. Brutal, isn't it?

Nearly two thirds of adults in England are overweight or obese.

Steph is having a look at that. We have talked about this a lot on the

programme. Obesity is a growing problem, and the government has been

trying to persuade food manufacturers and retailers to do

their bit. Some of the measures are compulsory, like the planned tax on

sugary food, and others are voluntary. With me is the Tesco

chief executive for the UK and the Republic of Ireland. What are you

doing about it? Look, we know this is an area where customers really

want us to help them. What we are trying to do over the next few week

is really pulled together -- next few weeks. Customers need to

understand how they can eat healthier. So lots of swaps where

customers can swap healthier products away from the less healthy

products, price reductions across the board, so that we focus those

price reductions on healthier areas. Because customers are clearly

telling us that they want some support, rather than us dictating

what they can or can't buy. And when you say price reductions, is that a

hit you will be taking? So no, that is something we are absolutely

doing. I think for the first time we have got a co-ordinated campaign

where the healthier option is actually going to cost less than the

option which has higher fat and higher salt or sugar. The Health

Select Committee say that one of the big problems is all the promotions

you have on unhealthy snacks and ready meals and things. Are you

going to be stopping those during this? Look, if you take unhealthy

snacks, let's take chocolate, customers are well aware there is

lots of sugar and fat in a bar of chocolate. Where we are focusing is

on areas of hidden sugar. So if you take areas like pass the sources,

cooking sauces, since 2015, in terms of Tesco's own range, we have

reduced the sugar by 18%, salt by 10% and that by 20 odd %. It is

these hidden sugars that customers tell us they really want help with.

And with your own branded products you are reducing the fat and sugar

content in them. There has been a voluntary strategy to reduce sugar

content by 20% over the next few years. We have had Sainsbury's Bank

there should be compulsory. Do you think this should be compulsory?

Absolutely, if we look at areas of our business like soft drinks, and

we have reduced since 2011 the sugar in our soft drinks by over 20%. We

were the first retailer in October last year to declare that every

single one of our own brand drinks have less than five grams of sugar

per 100 millilitres, and therefore doesn't qualify for the sugar tax.

If we take something like Tesco sugar, which did have nearly ten g

of sugar in, it now has five g of sugar in, and we are proud of what

we have been doing. We have seen a lot of talk about the inflationary

pressures coming in, the fact that the value of the pound has been

falling, making it more expensive to import. Other price pressures, and

do you see a time when we will have the seafood prices go up? There are

absolutely inflationary pressures in the economy at the moment. If I look

at a basket of goods that customers purchase from Tesco, they are still

6% less than they were two years ago, and as you say, the intense

competition that sits across the whole grocery sector will mean that

prices stay low for customers. Stay low, but will start to go up? Look,

there is priced Hirscher in the economy but we are very, very

focused as Britain's biggest supermarket in making sure that food

prices stay low for customers, very, very focused on that. There has been

another big deal with you guys, what difference a shop is going to notice

with that? What is the strategy behind that? We're really excited

about the opportunity to combine Britain's largest retailer with

Britain's largest wholesaler. We feel that that will provide benefits

for customers, for retailers, for wholesalers, right across the

country. If you take fresh food, we are particularly focusing on today,

we think ultimately the distribution of fresh food will be more positive

as a result of these two businesses combining. And it is about having

smaller shops rather than the huge one. Is that about the turnaround of

things? You will focus on that? Our growth at the moment, if you look at

the recent results, comes across the board. So our largest stores, which

people had written off in the past, are trading much more strongly. But

at the same time if you look at the growth which is forecast in the

market, most of the growth flows from online and convenience. Your

market share has been falling recently, if you look at the recent

figures. Why is it falling when you are in the middle of this turnaround

plan, when things are meant to be getting better for you? The past few

years have been a difficult period for Tesco, but we are really pleased

with the progress we have made over the past 2.5 years in terms of how

we are serving. Britain's shoppers are better served each day. Have you

had your pick? Have you had your day of being... We have lots of plans in

our business, and to continue to delight customers across the board.

What we are doing over the next few weeks is bringing all of that

together from health perspective, and making sure that customers are

supported to buy healthier products. Fascinating. We are talking a lot

about the weather this morning as usual. It is glorious in some parts

of the country. We will talk to Carol soon. But this is Hartlepool,

where John Maguire has been talking to us. And now a look outside the

studios in Salford where it is a beautiful, and I think, calm and

sunny day. Let us have a look. OK, while you do that, the weather.

Stormy seas. This is Aberdeen. Good morning. My Weather Watcher picture

is great. Aberdeen. Cloud. More cloud across eastern areas today. 40

in Nottinghamshire. That should lift. -- foggy. Blue skies. Thank

you to the Weather Watcher is for sending this in. Keep it coming.

Cloud and fog. Blue skies first thing in some areas. Look at these

clouds. They will start the pulling more cloud from the cold North Sea.

Some showers. Like yesterday, the north and west will hang on to the

lion's share of the best weather. Yesterday, Northern Ireland had the

warmest weather this year so far. You can see how we have ploughed in

eastern England coming in from the North Sea. -- cloud. Temperatures

going up in eastern areas. Some going into the Pennines. We will

hang the sunshine. The Midlands and East Anglia, Essex, Kent, down

towards Hampshire, again, showers. Hit and miss. Not all of us look at

one. Sunny intervals. South-west England, a dry day then yesterday.

Sunshine. The same for Wales. Sunny spells through the day into the

afternoon. Cambridge is up to 14 in Aberdeen. Northern Ireland, a sunny

day. Dry. The same in much of Scotland. Eastern Scotland is still

prone to cloud coming in from the North Sea at times. That will pull

back the temperatures. Overnight, some of those showers getting into

eastern Wales. Then they fade. The next batch coming in across

south-east England on a noticeable breeze. Clearer skies by day and it

will bring a drop in temperatures overnight. A touch and frost the

next morning. Still some rain coming in from the south-east turning

increasingly showery through the day. A stiff Rhys tomorrow brawling

in more cloud in England and Wales. -- breeze. The finals of England,

Northern Ireland, and Scotland, will see the best sunshine. As we go into

Thursday, a weak weather fronts in the south. That will not do much

more than produce the odd cloud and show it. Quite breezy. That is

coming in from the cold North Sea. Right on the coastline you will feel

it as cold. And all of this cloud in southern areas producing the

showers. The north of the UK will see the lion's share of the

sunshine. If you are looking for significant rainfall in the

forecasts, not expecting it until Sunday at least. What we will see

are showers here and there. Fairly hit and miss, of course. Now, back

to you. Thank you. Very interesting. Showers, but not until the weekend.

The former Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, is warning this morning

that Theresa May's intention to take the UK out of the single market

will damage those she claims to want to help most.

He will argue in a speech later that the result of the EU

Referendum is already making families worse off.

Good morning. Thank you for joining us. The remaining campaign had some

dire warnings. But that does not reflect your campaign. You to

distinguish between breathless claims between what would happen

immediately after the referendum and the long-term effects on the British

economy in the long-term effects on the money in pockets of people. We

have seen prices go up in shops, food is more expensive, petrol,

energy, holidays, because the pound plummeted compared to some last year

by about 17%. We are also starting to see messages from companies like

Nestle and Deutsche bank saying they will move out of the country. And I

am afraid the latest figures show people are not spending in the shops

like they were a few months ago because of the squeeze on their

incomes. My worry is that in the same way the Conservatives are being

complacent about the election, treating it like coronation, they

are being complacent about effects already emerging about Brexit. This

is the point, it will be made much worse, tremendously, by the choice

to pursue a particularly hard exit, and I think that is not the right

choice from Theresa May. She should be held to account by an effective

opposition in Parliament. You would be aware Theresa May is saying every

vote gives her a better hand in Brexit negotiations to strengthen

the UK and the economy. They talk about strong and stable leadership

going into the negotiations and holding a strong position. He

problem as it is not true that racking up a landslide majority for

the Conservatives is going to make this negotiation more

straightforward. In fact, by doubling up and rake committing

herself to the heart approach to Brexit, not just taking it out of

the EU, but out of Margaret Thatcher's single market in the

customs union and so on, she is making an economically difficult

situation even worse for millions of other hard-pressed families in this

country. And she is also, in a sense, making it more likely, as we

saw in the report with Juncker, that the attitude will become belligerent

between the EU and the UK. Neuer will benefit from that because we

depend so heavily in everything on a good relationship with the rest of

the EU. -- no one. Talk about the single market. Europe is being clear

about that. Being part of the single market and staying in it means there

must be freedom of movement. Do you agree? My own view is that Theresa

May could and should have sought to find a solution on the issue of free

movement, which is undoubtedly a big issue. She could have done that in

the aftermath of the referendum. I spoke to many European politicians.

They said they would not try to find some way to accommodate her demands.

There is a rock and a hard place. It is impossible to be part of the

single market, replacing 28 bits of red tape with one rule book for the

whole of the EU. It is impossible to be part of that open marketplace of

rules if you are not going to abide by the rulings of it and the

European Court of Justice. So you agree... She could have found a

solution, but she will... I will ask you I think it will make us poor as

a country. Your opinion, would you agree to freedom of movement? I

think freedom of movement benefits us because it allows us to study and

travel abroad. But my point is if you want to find a solution to

freedom of movement, I don't know, restricting it more to the freedom

to work rather than simply to move across the European Union, something

I suspect she could have achieved if she had wanted to. She chose not to.

She chose merely to declare without speaking to the rest of the EU that

she would pursue the most hardened uncompromising form of Brexit. That

will make it difficult economically in the future. That is the reason

she is holding the general election. She knows the news will be tough in

the months and years to come so she is getting her excuses and election

in early. Nick Clegg, I will ask you, you have been part of a

coalition government and you are qualified to talk about what it is

like to be part of their government. Would be Lib Dems be part of them

again? Not at all in this election. There is not a remote chance we

would be in a coalition either with Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn. It is

not going to happen. That is why all of the embers robotic star from the

Conservatives saying it is either us or a coalition of chaos is utter

nonsense. Jeremy Corbyn will not be Prime Minister. The question is who

will hold Theresa May to account? Will them to account when their

promises of this Brexit turns out to be much more difficult for millions

the country? That could only come from more effective opposition,

which only be Lib Dems can provide. Thank you very much. And later we

will talk to Diane Abbott. A coalition of chaos, they said. We

will catch up with Hello this is Breakfast,

with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. A war of words over Britain's

approach to Brexit negotiations. Senior EU sources accuse

the government of being on a completely different wavelength

and warn talks could Shot dead by an intruder in his home

- police in Dorset are still looking for two suspects in

connection with the death of businessman Guy Hedger -

we're live there this morning. A surfer is rescued after more

than 30 hours missing at sea - the coastguard say he's lucky

to be alive. Parents contributed to a quarter