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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Naga

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'You're fired' - more upheaval at the White House,

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as yet another senior official is sacked.

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Outspoken communications chief Anthony Scaramucci gets the axe,

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just 11 days after being appointed, after a foul-mouthed

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Good morning, it is Tuesday one August.

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Also this morning: Tackling terror online.

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The Home Secretary tells the world's biggest internet companies they must

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do more to fight the spread of extremism.

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We are asking them to work harder on this, to put more effort, more

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resources into it, and to work together to deliver it.

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A new approach to speed up surgery for pancreatic cancer raises hopes

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Car hire customers are being driven mad by problems with vehicle damage

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In sport: It is as easy one, two, three for England's cricketers.

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Moeen Ali takes a hat-trick to win the third test against South Africa

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England now lead the series 2-1 going into the final

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And Carol has popped outside to bring us the weather.

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Good morning from the roof of Broadcasting House in London, where

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we have got some blue sky. The forecast, though, for today, is for

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some showers, some of them heavy and slow-moving but in between there

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could be sunshine. It could stay dry in the south-east. I will have more

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in 15 minutes. First, our main story:

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The White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci,

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has been fired less than two weeks after his appointment,

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in the latest high-profile departure His sacking was the first decision

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to be taken by new chief of staff, General John Kelly, and it is seen

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as an attempt to bring Tonight, breaking news: Forced out

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after just 11 days at the White Game of Thrones, House

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of Cards - pick your drama. Washington thrown into a frenzy

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after the newly minted Anthony Scaramucci took

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to the podium ten days ago He came in guns blazing,

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promising to flip the script Although his eye was on getting rid

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of then-chief of staff Reince Priebus,

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it was Sean Spicer who was the first to go, resigning in protest

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at the man called 'Mooch.' You know, one of the things I can't

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stand about this town Where I grew up, in

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the neighbourhood I grow up, The self-proclaimed outsider took it

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too far, launching into a tirade of obscenities to a journalist,

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accidentally on the record, Scaramucci seemed to have won

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when Reince Priebus resigned. But a new-new sheriff was in town,

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General John Kelly, the secretary His request was that

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Scaramucci had to go. Kelly's wish, the

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President's command. After the swearing-in ceremony,

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the Mooch was escorted Donald Trump has been in office

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for nearly six months, but his presidency has been plagued

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by chaos and controversy. From multiple investigations

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into his campaign's connections with Russia, to constant staffing

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shake-ups at the White House. But, with a four-star

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general at the helm, the administration

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is hoping that it will be smoother Internet giants such as Google,

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Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have been told they must do more

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to tackle online extremism. Following a meeting

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with the companies, the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd,

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said they needed to invest more and work together in

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order to stop the spread But there are worries

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the privacy of ordinary users Our North America technology

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reporter Dave Lee reports. Terror on the streets of the UK.

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Organised, police say, with the help of social media. So companies here

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in Silicon Valley are being told they must do more to prevent the

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spread of extremist content online. What I need them to acknowledge is

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that the enemy, who is really trying to move swiftly online, to

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radicalise people in their own homes, are really stepping their

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game up, and we need our response stepped up as well. And there is

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also concerned the new measures might mean a loss of privacy for all

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of us. It is not possible to say we are going to monitor all

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communications on our platforms, but still preserve users' privacy. We

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might attempt to minimise the impact on users' by the sea, but you are

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certainly going to be... It is not going to be as private as it was

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before. They have to face up, people who might oppose this, to what our

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enemy is trying to do. They are trying to weaponise people at home.

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Vulnerable people, trying to turn them into terrorists. And what

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happens is, when this material goes online, it is circulated really

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fast. Another worry, as security experts will tell you, is that

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terrorists could simply move to harder to reach parts of the

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internet. Patients with pancreatic cancer

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are being operated on in just two weeks, instead of two months,

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after being diagnosed. Research published in the medical

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journal HPB says early surgery increases patients' chances

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of having their tumours Doctors in Birmingham

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hope their approach will Kate Rigby was amazed at how

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smoothly the NHS worked when she was diagnosed

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with pancreatic cancer. Within seven days, she had had

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surgery at the Queen Elizabeth I can't control NHS budget,

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and all the other things for the poor people

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who aren't as lucky as me. Normally, people with jaundice

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like Mrs Rigby have a stent put in to relieve symptoms,

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which delays the main operation. A nurse was employed to speed up

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treatment from two months to 16 days, meaning a fifth more

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patients were able to Cutting out the step also said

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the NHS ?3,200 per patient. We save the NHS potentially ?200,000

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per year, with the number of patients that have

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surgery in our team. And so that, then, is a reproducible

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model, that other units up and down Pancreatic cancer has

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a very low survival rate. It will be two years before doctors

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can say whether treating patients more

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quickly actually means And, if they do, that will beg

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the question as to whether or not other aggressive cancers should be

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treated more quickly. For now, Kate Rigby knows

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that she has been given the best chance possible to survive

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pancreatic cancer. From today, babies born in England,

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Wales and Northern Ireland are to be offered a new vaccine which protects

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against hepatitis B. The hexavalent vaccine will also

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immunise against five other diseases including polio, tetanus

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and whooping cough. Health Protection Scotland

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is set to adopt a similar Public Health England

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says the new vaccine has Prison staff have regained control

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at a jail in Hertfordshire, after reports of a riot breaking

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out across two wings. Police armed with riot gear

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were sent to Mount prison, The Ministry of Justice says

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order has been restored Prison staff, known as the Tornado

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squad, trained to deal with disturbances, entered HMP the Mount

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prison yesterday morning. They could be seen carrying shields and batons.

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Two wings of the prison were said to be no longer in control of guards.

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From outside the walls of the prison, shouting could be heard,

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along with what sounded like stun grenades. Late last night, the

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Ministry of Justice said the trouble had ended, and no staff or prisoners

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were injured. A report by the prison's independent monitoring

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board, released yesterday morning, warned staff shortages were adding

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to problems and mounting violence in the jail. While the prison officers'

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Association said staff shortages were a neck and epidemic, partly due

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to poor salaries -- were an academic.

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Workers at the Bank of England will today hold their first strike

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in more than 50 years, as part of a campaign

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Members of the Unite union will walk out for three days,

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after talks at the conciliation service, Acas, broke

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Unite wants the Bank to scrap its 1% cap on pay rises,

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arguing that a third of staff will get no increase this year.

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The bank says essential business will continue as normal

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Pupils should be taught about the importance

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of breast-feeding in schools, according to the professional body

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The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is also calling

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on ministers to legislate for breast-feeding breaks

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The college says Britain has one of the lowest rates

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of breast-feeding in Europe, blaming social stigma for the trend.

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More needs to be done to stop women being forced to wear high heels

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at work, according to scientists at the University of Aberdeen.

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Academics looked at the physical and social impact of wearing

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the shoes, and say there is enough evidence to suggest they are bad

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Earlier this year, the Government rejected calls for a ban

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The saying goes that a dog is a man's best friend,

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so when Petey the pooch's owner became stuck in his car

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during a flash-flood, there was no way he was going

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The car was submerged after a dry creek bed was engulfed

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Rescuers had to use a crane to get to the car, before Petey was handed

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over by his owner, who then climbed out.

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The pair could then walk across the crane to safety

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The love of a dog. All safe and well. I assume the dog's name is not

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Petey the pooch. Should we doublecheck? Why are you asking me?

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You just read it out. Surely your script is right. But I think it is

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Petey,,, the pooch. I cannot wait to tell you about a story we have

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coming up in a little while about Barry the Shetland pony. We have

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Petey the pooch and Barry the Shetland pony. More on that in a

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moment. We will start with a great day for Moeen Ali, who was recently

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described as a batsman who can bowl a bit. Not the biggest complement in

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the world, and they proved him wrong yesterday.

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England's cricketers have gone 2-1 up in the Test series

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against South Africa, after a dramatic final day

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With the hosts needing six wickets, Toby Roland-Jones took two in two

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balls before lunch, while Moeen Ali went one better,

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his hat-trick sealing a 239-run victory.

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David Rudisha, the world and Olympic 800m champion,

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will miss this month's World Athletics Championships.

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Rudisha won the world title in Beijing two years ago,

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and broke the world record in London in 2012.

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And Jose Mourinho has made his third big summer signing at Manchester

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Nemanja Matic, a player he signed for Chelsea three years ago,

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has moved to Old Trafford for a fee of around ?40 million.

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Ronaldo has appeared in court in Spain, facing allegations of tax

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evasion. He is accused of evading just over ?30 million. He said he

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never had any intentions of evading paying his taxes.

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The deal is done for Los Angeles to host the Olympics

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It means the Games will be staged in Paris in seven years' time.

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The two cities had been competing to host the event in 2024,

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The International Olympics Committee have welcomed the move,

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and have pledged ?1.4 billion to LA's organising committee.

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The Olympic Games are going back to Hollywood. When is Barry coming?

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Barry is coming during the papers in a few minutes' time. First we must

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get the weather. There could be some thunderstorms around today. You are

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outside on the roof of new Broadcasting House. That's right. It

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is lovely out here this morning, as well. It is not too cold, there is a

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gentle breeze. The sun is out, we have blue skies but the weather

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forecast for many is one of sunshine, but they will also be some

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heavy showers in there and as you rightly said, some of those will be

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thundery with some hail mixed in. Not all of us will see them. We take

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a look around the country at our charts and we have some showers

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already this morning. If we start at 9am in Scotland we have some

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showers, some heavy, just north of the central belt at the moment.

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There are one or two across southern Scotland as well, but equally a lot

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of dry weather with temperatures at 9am around 13 degrees in Edinburgh.

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For north-east England we have some heavy showers, of those merging.

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Some quite large totals in the next six hours or so, north-east England

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off to a drier and brighter start. As we move into East Anglia, Essex,

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Kent, all the way down into the Isle of Wight, a bright start some sunny

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skies. That continues as we head towards Dorset, Gloucestershire, and

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into the south-east of England we are looking at one or two showers.

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But most of us starting on a dry note. For Wales, you have more

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showers, some of them merging in the same way they are across north-west

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England. So we could see some large rainfall totals and as we look

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across the Irish Sea into Northern Ireland, it is the west which will

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see some showers. The East mostly dry and bright. As we go through the

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course of the day, you will find a lot of further showers will develop.

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Some of them, as you rightly said, will be heavy and thundery with some

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hail. Especially as we take a line from south Wales towards the Wash

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northwards. Parts of the south-east could mist them all together and

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stay dry and in the sunshine it could feel quite pleasant. Hiser to

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23 here. As we head into the evening and overnight, many of the showers

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will die away. There will be a few left, but through the night we will

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see the cloud built across south-west England and south Wales,

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and some showers arrive. And then later we will have some rain coming

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in. It will be a chilly night across the northern half of Scotland in

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rural areas, with single figure temperatures, we are looking at. So

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tomorrow we start off on a dry note in central and eastern areas, with

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some sunshine, but the cloud will encroach with some showers ahead of

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that band of rain, spreading out across the South Coast, the

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south-west and Wales. It will be heavy and persistent and will move

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north eastwards through the course of the day, the company by windy

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conditions across south-west, England, and South Wales. Overnight

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that clears away so by the time we get to Thursday there will be a curl

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of rain coming in across northern and western Scotland, and parts of

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northern England as well. Away from that we are looking at a fair bit of

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dry weather and breezy conditions, and also some sunshine. Temperatures

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again up to the low 20s at best. So, although there is some rain and also

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some showers in the forecast, there is also going to be affected of dry

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weather and some sunshine. But, as we head towards the end of the week

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we are back into the showers, so changeable.

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At least it's lovely where you are, you don't want a shower today, do

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you? Absolutely, not like this. Thanks, Kate. Let's look through

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some of the papers. Sally is here. The front page of the Guardian, a

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lot of interest, we will talk about this through the morning, you may

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have heard of Anthony Scaramucci and in the short time he was White House

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communications director it would be fair to say he made quite a stir but

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he's gone already. I don't even think he officially had his job.

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Nine or ten days he has been addressing the press, now he's gone

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and question marks over what's going on with the Trump administration and

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we will talk about that more later. That's on the front page of the

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Daily Telegraph as well. Its lead story is Statins are needlessly

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being doled out to millions, it's due to people's age, the Royal

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College of GPs has called. The college has called to an end of the

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blanket doling out of Statins. The Trump story on the front page of the

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Times. Passengers enjoying waits of up to four hours on arrival at

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European airports -- injuring. Sean, you have a story that ties into some

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of the trauma? We talked about it a few weeks ago. On the front page of

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the papers yesterday as well we saw it. Car hire. Generally it's been

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making headlines lately. The Daily Mail is continuing their

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investigation by saying car hire sharks have been caught red-handed.

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A few issues people might be familiar with, paying the excess

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waiver at the desk. You arrive and they say you can't take the car

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until you have paid extra. You don't have to do that but people feel

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pressured to do that a. Fuel options as well, do you have to pay to leave

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it filled up or bring it back half empty? On this investigation the

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companies say they dealt with the individual issues. We will talk

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about this more in half an hour so if anyone has had any issues then

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let us know. Lot of headlines over the last few days.

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In the Daily Mail we have this story about Rory McIlroy, this came out

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yesterday but it hasn't quite been confirmed that he is parting ways

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with his caddie of many years, JP Fitzgerald, they have done a list of

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the highs and lows of Rory and JP and it's only a couple of weeks ago

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at the Open that he credited JP with having a word with him and saying

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remember who you are, you are Rory McIlroy. If that is official today

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that will be interesting. There's been a lot of speculation about

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whether he would stay on the bag because Rory hasn't been performing

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well. And who he would go for instead? May be someone from a

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different stable in terms of how they look at caddying. I promised

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you Barry, Barry the Shetland pony. It's not a story about Barry but

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it's about this young man here, Rocco Dettori, 12, who raced

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yesterday at Ascot on Barry the Shetland pony, he won, he is

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Frankie's son, Frankie said he didn't want him to be a jockey but

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this child is throwing such promise and determination, Frankie Dettori

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saying he only has to ride for four years and then they can race against

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each other -- showing. I didn't know that they did Shetland pony racing?

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You have seen the Shetland pony Grand National? We have read that

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script on the programme. I don't remember that at all. The Shetland

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pony Grand National. One of the highlights of my year. Did Mike

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Bushell compete in it? No, I don't thing he would be allowed. They

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don't have his size horse, it would be more like the Shetland pony. He

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is scared with horses, he has had a few dodgy experiences with horses.

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The Usain Bolt documentary was on last night and as the excitement

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builds, is he already here, is here in the UK? You reminded me of

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something I have in the Guardian and here's a man who wants to spoil his

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party, he is hoping to race in the 100th is and he is saying, Ujah, he

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is saying the world athletics Championships won't be a retirement

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party for him, he wants to spoil his fun. Does he have the numbers to

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back that up? Nearly! Apparently when Usain Bolt raced in Monaco the

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last time they got all the athletes out half an hour before they needed

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to to whip up the crowd because he makes the atmosphere change in a

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stadium. It will be his last appearance in London as well! Thanks

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very much. From today's people studying to be

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in as is and midwives will no longer get bursaries.

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The promise comes at a time when applications for these

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From today, some degrees will no longer receive NHS bursaries.

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Instead, they will have to apply for student loans.

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Breakfast's John Maguire has discovered there is concern

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that the move will stop mature students from retraining.

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We get rid of that and you've now got what? These second year nursing

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students are getting their first look at the a knack to marsh table

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using the latest technology to take a 3-D trip through a virtual human

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body. The degree course at the university of Central Lancashire is

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funded by NHS bursaries and grants, but as of today applicants wanting

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to study nursing, midwifery and other medical courses will need a

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student loan in line with other undergraduates. So would it have

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deterred these students? I don't think it would have made a

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difference to myself because I really wanted to become a nurse and

:23:00.:23:04.

although the financial implications of not having a bursary would have

:23:05.:23:08.

impacted on me quite heavily, but I could have managed and my desire to

:23:09.:23:16.

become a nurse has overridden those. But applications for these courses

:23:17.:23:22.

have fallen by around 20%. Theories include doubts from European

:23:23.:23:25.

students about Brexit. A birthrate decline in the number of 18

:23:26.:23:30.

-year-olds as well as concerns about the change in financing. The

:23:31.:23:34.

universities, though, are determined to see the numbers recover and here

:23:35.:23:38.

there's cautious optimism. We have seen a decline in the number of

:23:39.:23:42.

applications coming through, but they're good quality and so the key

:23:43.:23:46.

thing is that they convert into the numbers that we have. So I'm very

:23:47.:23:53.

positive at this moment in time that we will recruit to target. One of

:23:54.:23:58.

the main areas of concern is the impact on mature students. Nursing

:23:59.:24:03.

and midwifery attract a much higher percentage of older applicants than

:24:04.:24:06.

other degree courses and their life experience is seen as a vital part

:24:07.:24:12.

of the mix on a ward. Sarah Cordy says a loan instead of a

:24:13.:24:17.

bursary would have stopped her changing career to become a midwife.

:24:18.:24:20.

To saddle students with a huge amount of debt when they are only

:24:21.:24:25.

ever able to earn what the government dictates they can earn,

:24:26.:24:29.

it doesn't seem to make sense to me and had I been making this decision

:24:30.:24:33.

now knowing that I would have to take on the debt, I couldn't have

:24:34.:24:37.

done it, no. The government argues that the cap on student places had

:24:38.:24:41.

previously restricted numbers and that changing the funding will lead

:24:42.:24:46.

to an increase in around 10,000 applicants. But Les Green says he

:24:47.:24:51.

now can't afford to pursue his dream job.

:24:52.:25:00.

I'm 41 so I would be paying that... ?30,000, I'll be paying back until I

:25:01.:25:06.

finish probably my... Until I'm burning my pension. I don't think

:25:07.:25:10.

I'd ever play that off, I'd play it until the rest of my career and

:25:11.:25:15.

beyond. All signs agree that the NHS is in dire need of more clinical

:25:16.:25:19.

staff but the debate centres on how to pay for them. John Maguire, BBC

:25:20.:25:22.

News, Lancashire. Once

:25:23.:25:25.

a blot on the landscape and under threat from demolition,

:25:26.:25:29.

we're in Halifax looking of the country's only surviving

:25:30.:25:31.

cloth hall. You saw the pictures of the fire and

:25:32.:25:46.

now it's in great condition! More from their macro later.

:25:47.:25:48.

Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:25:49.:25:53.

Good morning, I'm Asad Ahmad. settle down towards the weekend.

:25:54.:29:07.

Vanessa Feltz is on the BOC radio and on -- BBC Radio London in the

:29:08.:29:13.

next hour. Hello, this is Breakfast,

:29:14.:29:14.

with Charlie Stayt and Naga We will have the latest news

:29:15.:29:20.

and sport in just a moment, and coming up on Breakfast today:

:29:21.:29:26.

There has been a big increase in complaints against

:29:27.:29:29.

hire car companies. We will tell you how to avoid

:29:30.:29:32.

the pitfalls of renting a vehicle It is the music video that has

:29:33.:29:36.

racked up millions of views on YouTube, challenging

:29:37.:29:49.

gender stereotypes. Singer-songwriter-turned-director

:29:50.:29:50.

Charli XCX will be on the sofa Anxiety and depression made author

:29:51.:29:52.

Matt Haig obsessed with time. He will tell us how his mental

:29:53.:29:59.

health has inspired him to write about a 400-year-old

:30:00.:30:02.

history teacher. But now, a summary of this

:30:03.:30:08.

morning's main news. The White House communications

:30:09.:30:12.

director, Anthony Scaramucci, has been fired, less than two weeks

:30:13.:30:14.

after his appointment. In the latest high-profile departure

:30:15.:30:17.

from Donald Trump's top team, the new chief of staff, John Kelly,

:30:18.:30:19.

asked Mr Scaramucci to step aside. The former banker made headlines

:30:20.:30:23.

when derogatory comments he made about General Kelly's

:30:24.:30:26.

predecessor were made public. The President certainly felt that

:30:27.:30:41.

Anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that

:30:42.:30:44.

position, and he didn't want to burden General Kelly, also, with

:30:45.:30:51.

that line of succession. As I think we have made clear a few times over

:30:52.:30:56.

the course of the last couple of days to several of you individually,

:30:57.:30:59.

but General Kelly has the full authority to operate in the White

:31:00.:31:03.

House, and all staff will report to him.

:31:04.:31:04.

And, in just over half an hour's time, we will discuss in more detail

:31:05.:31:08.

Internet giants such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have

:31:09.:31:16.

been told they must do more to tackle online extremism.

:31:17.:31:19.

Following a meeting with the companies,

:31:20.:31:20.

the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, said they needed to invest more

:31:21.:31:23.

and work together in order to stop the spread

:31:24.:31:26.

But there are worries the privacy of ordinary users

:31:27.:31:29.

Patients with pancreatic cancer are being operated on in just two

:31:30.:31:39.

weeks, instead of two months, after being diagnosed.

:31:40.:31:41.

Research published in the medical journal HPB says early surgery

:31:42.:31:44.

increases patients' chances of having their tumours

:31:45.:31:46.

Doctors in Birmingham hope their approach will

:31:47.:31:49.

Pupils should be taught about the importance

:31:50.:31:55.

of breast-feeding in schools, according to the professional body

:31:56.:31:57.

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is also calling

:31:58.:32:01.

on ministers to legislate for breast-feeding breaks

:32:02.:32:03.

The college says Britain has one of the lowest rates

:32:04.:32:07.

of breast-feeding in Europe, blaming social stigma for the trend.

:32:08.:32:22.

More needs to be done to stop women being forced to wear high heels

:32:23.:32:25.

at work, according to scientists at the University of Aberdeen.

:32:26.:32:28.

Academics looked at the physical and social impact of wearing

:32:29.:32:31.

the shoes, and say there is enough evidence to suggest they are bad

:32:32.:32:35.

Earlier this year, the Government rejected calls for a ban

:32:36.:32:39.

California is famous for its surfers, but this week

:32:40.:32:43.

it is the dogs that are hoping to catch the waves.

:32:44.:32:46.

Canines of all sizes and breeds have been entering the annual surf dog

:32:47.:32:50.

competition, which is now in its 12th year.

:32:51.:32:52.

They are judged on how long they ride for, the height

:32:53.:32:55.

I was literally looking at it and I didn't quite get it. Now I have

:32:56.:33:20.

rather spoil the moment, because the pictures have gone. That is the

:33:21.:33:27.

right face 2-ball, isn't it? It was there in the script. -- to pull. I

:33:28.:33:35.

like the way you thought you would get away with not saying that gag.

:33:36.:33:45.

And a fantastic hat-trick from Moeen Ali. The gorgeous picture of him

:33:46.:33:48.

celebrating with his team-mates, and he has been up and down the order.

:33:49.:33:53.

Where should they be putting him? He showed the sort of form yesterday

:33:54.:33:56.

which suggests he should be higher up the order all the time. He is a

:33:57.:34:01.

spin bowler, and his bowling yesterday was just incredible.

:34:02.:34:07.

Trevor Bayliss, the England coach, called him a batter who bowls a bit.

:34:08.:34:10.

England's cricketers went 2-1 up in the Test series

:34:11.:34:12.

against South Africa yesterday, after an amazing final day

:34:13.:34:15.

The tourists were trying to save a draw, but two wickets

:34:16.:34:18.

in two balls from debutant Toby Roland-Jones ended those hopes.

:34:19.:34:21.

The only resistance came from Dean Elgar, who went

:34:22.:34:23.

But it was Moeen Ali who finished South Africa off,

:34:24.:34:27.

winning the match in the perfect fashion, with a hat-trick.

:34:28.:34:30.

England victorious by 239 runs, a vast improvement

:34:31.:34:32.

upon their disastrous Trent Bridge performance,

:34:33.:34:34.

which saw the team come under intense criticism two weeks ago.

:34:35.:34:42.

You are going to be upset, because you don't want to hear it, but we

:34:43.:34:49.

all know that wasn't a good enough performance for an England team, and

:34:50.:34:53.

it would have been very easy to sulk and moan about it. The guys stepped

:34:54.:34:57.

up and made sure they put in a really good performance here. And I

:34:58.:35:01.

think now it is all about trying to go on further than we have done this

:35:02.:35:05.

week, and make sure that we finish the series strong in Manchester.

:35:06.:35:06.

The deal is done for Los Angeles to host the 2028 Olympic

:35:07.:35:09.

LA's bid team has reached an agreement with the International

:35:10.:35:13.

Olympic Committee, which is expected to be ratified

:35:14.:35:15.

by the Los Angeles City Council later today.

:35:16.:35:17.

LA had originally been bidding for the 2024 Games,

:35:18.:35:20.

but that event is now set to take place in Paris.

:35:21.:35:26.

The World Athletics Championships get under way at the weekend,

:35:27.:35:29.

but one of the star attractions on the track won't be there.

:35:30.:35:32.

David Rudisha, the world and Olympic 800m champion and world record

:35:33.:35:35.

The Kenyan won the world title in Beijing two years ago,

:35:36.:35:40.

and broke the world record in London in 2012.

:35:41.:35:43.

Meanwhile, the sport's governing body, the IAAF,

:35:44.:35:45.

says Russia remains banned from international competition,

:35:46.:35:47.

because they haven't made sufficient progress in anti-doping.

:35:48.:35:49.

Russia was barred from last year's Olympics for state-sponsored doping.

:35:50.:35:52.

19 Russians will compete as independently at the World

:35:53.:35:54.

We've seen progress, and yes, some of that -

:35:55.:36:14.

on some occasions, some of that progress has

:36:15.:36:16.

been quicker than on other occasions.

:36:17.:36:19.

And it tended to speed up a little bit when there's been

:36:20.:36:22.

a focus normally around the major championships.

:36:23.:36:24.

So it's not that there isn't any progress, but the progress we want

:36:25.:36:28.

has to culminate in a meeting of those criteria, and it's

:36:29.:36:31.

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has made his third big

:36:32.:36:34.

He has gone back to former club Chelsea and signed Nemanja Matic,

:36:35.:36:39.

a player he signed for the Blues three years ago.

:36:40.:36:42.

He has moved to Old Trafford for a fee of ?35 million.

:36:43.:36:45.

Cristiano Ronaldo has appeared in court in Spain,

:36:46.:36:49.

where he is facing allegation of tax evasion.

:36:50.:36:51.

The Real Madrid star is accused of evading just over ?13 million.

:36:52.:36:54.

He has said he has never had any intentions to evade paying taxes.

:36:55.:37:06.

Liverpool's biggest independent supporters group has voted

:37:07.:37:08.

overwhelmingly in favour of the safe standing at Premier League grounds.

:37:09.:37:10.

The Premier League wrote to its 20 clubs last month to assess

:37:11.:37:14.

whether they would be interested in staging trials.

:37:15.:37:16.

It follows Celtic's decision to introduce around 3,000 rail

:37:17.:37:18.

The question of safe standing at stadiums has been on the agenda

:37:19.:37:26.

after Lord Justice Taylor's inquiry into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster,

:37:27.:37:28.

in which 96 Liverpool fans were killed.

:37:29.:37:44.

Four-time Major champion Rory McIlroy has split

:37:45.:37:46.

The pair have worked together for the past nine years,

:37:47.:37:50.

and for each of McIlroy's Major successes.

:37:51.:37:52.

Last month, McIlroy gave Fitzgerald credit for geeing him up

:37:53.:37:55.

McIlroy is expected to confirm the news tomorrow ahead of this

:37:56.:38:00.

week's World Golf Championship event in Ohio.

:38:01.:38:02.

Now, finally, being a football manager is a precarious occupation.

:38:03.:38:04.

If you don't get the results, more often than not,

:38:05.:38:07.

Obviously most top managers get a big pay-off if they get sacked.

:38:08.:38:12.

But, if ever Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp falls on hard times,

:38:13.:38:15.

we reckon he could make a living as a sound engineer.

:38:16.:38:18.

He came to Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone's rescue in a press

:38:19.:38:22.

conference in Munich, fixing his microphone.

:38:23.:38:23.

And, when it comes to audio, we thought Klopp was just

:38:24.:38:26.

What you can't see, everybody at home, is behind us when we are all

:38:27.:38:35.

plugged in, sometimes there is a sound man or woman who comes along

:38:36.:38:39.

and fiddles with a wire, and winds us up. And Jurgen has the job. I

:38:40.:38:45.

think we wind each other up. Never! Some of the biggest websites

:38:46.:38:47.

on the internet have been told they must play a bigger part

:38:48.:38:50.

in tackling online extremism. Home Secretary Amber Rudd

:38:51.:38:53.

is in San Francisco to meet the bosses of online

:38:54.:38:56.

giants including Google, She says they need to do more

:38:57.:38:58.

to clamp down on those using the sites to share extreme

:38:59.:39:02.

material and radicalise vulnerable Our North America technology

:39:03.:39:05.

reporter Dave Lee joins us now. He has been taking a look at what

:39:06.:39:23.

exactly Amber Road wants these companies to do. Taking a look at

:39:24.:39:28.

the technology which is behind all the websites, and how easily they

:39:29.:39:32.

can be accessed -- Amber Rudd. In terms of hacking, and what is

:39:33.:39:36.

easiest for hackers to access and what is easiest for us to access. In

:39:37.:39:42.

a few minutes we will speak to our technology correspondent to take us

:39:43.:39:47.

through what Amber Rudd is saying, to what are the real powerbrokers in

:39:48.:39:51.

Silicon Valley, in charge of those internet companies.

:39:52.:39:57.

Donald Trump has sacked his communications director, just days

:39:58.:40:04.

after appointing him. As you are just hearing, the Home Secretary is

:40:05.:40:08.

in America challenging the likes of Facebook my Twitter and Google to do

:40:09.:40:11.

more to remove extremist content online. Let's talk to Carol and find

:40:12.:40:19.

out what is happening with the weather. It seems as if there will

:40:20.:40:24.

be some storms kicking off in the skies. Well, there will be some

:40:25.:40:28.

heavy showers. In Morcombe there has been 12 millimetres of rainfall. If

:40:29.:40:32.

you are thinking is this ever going to stop? Intensity should ease off

:40:33.:40:38.

in the next or so. Wales seems heavy downpours, but here on the

:40:39.:40:42.

Broadcasting House in London it is pleasant. We have a son, blue skies

:40:43.:40:46.

and it feels quite pleasant the warm as well. Through the day to day, the

:40:47.:40:51.

forecast for us all is one of heavy showers and also some sunny spells.

:40:52.:40:55.

Perhaps the exception to that will be in the south-east of England,

:40:56.:41:02.

where we may well stay dry. In between the showers there will be

:41:03.:41:05.

bright and sunny spells. Taking a look around the country at 9am,

:41:06.:41:08.

there is some rain particularly across Scotland north of the Central

:41:09.:41:13.

Belt. But even southern Scotland seeing some showers. In between, a

:41:14.:41:18.

lot of dry and bright weather. For north-west England we will have some

:41:19.:41:21.

heavy showers around as we go through the morning. Some of us will

:41:22.:41:24.

have between ten and 20 millimetres of rainfall. But north-east England

:41:25.:41:29.

dry and bright. Dry as we move southwards across the Midlands, East

:41:30.:41:32.

Anglia, down into Essex and Kent, through Hampshire, Dorset on the

:41:33.:41:36.

Isle of Wight, some sunny skies. South-west England seeing a few

:41:37.:41:40.

showers and then back into Wales, where we have got more showers, and

:41:41.:41:44.

they are heavy ones. Forming lines overnight. For Northern Ireland you

:41:45.:41:47.

have some showers as well. More especially in the north and the

:41:48.:41:51.

west. The East seeing something drier and brighter. As we go through

:41:52.:41:55.

the course of the day, where it is currently dry, we will see further

:41:56.:41:59.

showers develop. But as is the way with showers, not all of us will

:42:00.:42:20.

catch one. Some of us will stay dry, at times it will be cloudy and at

:42:21.:42:24.

times we will see some sunny skies. If we were to draw a line from South

:42:25.:42:28.

Wales towards the Wash and points north of that, you are prone to

:42:29.:42:31.

seeing some thunder and lightning and some hail. Further south some

:42:32.:42:34.

showers but the south-east could stay dry and invite rhesus

:42:35.:42:37.

temperatures up to 23 will feel quite pleasant. As we go through the

:42:38.:42:41.

evening and overnight most of the showers will tend to fade. However,

:42:42.:42:44.

we will see cloud increase, and then some rain is coming in, accompanied

:42:45.:42:47.

by strengthening winds. Temperatures generally tend to about 15 overnight

:42:48.:42:50.

temperatures in rural parts of Scotland will be lower. It will feel

:42:51.:42:53.

chilly for you. Tomorrow we start off with a lot of dry weather, some

:42:54.:42:57.

sunny spells as well across central and eastern parts of the UK. But the

:42:58.:43:01.

rain already across the south-west is going to spread. The rain will be

:43:02.:43:04.

heavy and persistent across the southern parts of Wales, south-west

:43:05.:43:07.

England and southern counties and will advance north eastwards through

:43:08.:43:10.

the course of the day. Always with cloud building ahead of it and a few

:43:11.:43:13.

showers. Windy across the south-western parts of Wales, with

:43:14.:43:16.

coastal hail. It clears overnight and we are looking at some sunny

:43:17.:43:20.

skies as we head on into Thursday. But still, across western and

:43:21.:43:23.

northern areas, we are not going to be immune to some showers. And then,

:43:24.:43:27.

as we head into the latter part of the week, again we continue with

:43:28.:43:30.

sunshine and showers. Something drier in the south on Saturday and

:43:31.:43:34.

drier for many of us on Sunday. Thank you very much. Getting a bit

:43:35.:43:38.

windy up on that route. A bit blustery. We started talking

:43:39.:43:43.

yesterday about holiday car rentals. You get to the airport and they ask

:43:44.:43:48.

for extra money, and then they say afterwards there is some damage. It

:43:49.:43:53.

is a bit of a pickle, isn't it? And if it doesn't go smoothly, you are

:43:54.:43:58.

just about to go on your holiday and it can feel like the worst thing

:43:59.:44:01.

that can happen. Car companies have come under a bit of pressure lately.

:44:02.:44:04.

They have been grabbing some headlines in the last few days and

:44:05.:44:13.

weeks. Europcar may have to pay out ?30 million for overcharging on car

:44:14.:44:17.

repairs. Today we can see that complaints from customers are on the

:44:18.:44:22.

rise. If you are not able to sort it out with the car companies and their

:44:23.:44:25.

complaint service you can go to the European consumer Centre. In the

:44:26.:44:30.

last year they had seen almost 30% increase in the number of complaints

:44:31.:44:33.

they are getting on this. Since last summer they have had to deal with

:44:34.:44:38.

about 600 odd complaints about car hire. They have told us it is one of

:44:39.:44:42.

the biggest issues they have had to deal with and the commonest

:44:43.:44:45.

complaints, which some people might be familiar with, were about being

:44:46.:44:48.

charged for damage the driver had not done and being misled over

:44:49.:44:51.

excess insurance. That is the protection you can get encased the

:44:52.:44:54.

car gets damaged, and being overcharged for fuel. So how can you

:44:55.:44:58.

avoid these sorts of problems, when you are going away for a nice

:44:59.:45:00.

holiday? Martyn James is a consumer

:45:01.:45:02.

expert from Resolver, Is this an area that's growing? It

:45:03.:45:04.

against big companies. Is this an area that's growing? It

:45:05.:45:11.

is and it's an area that gets under people's skin, asking around and

:45:12.:45:15.

speaking to people about this, there are so many people who are upset or

:45:16.:45:20.

who have been stitched up by car hire charges and full disclosure,

:45:21.:45:24.

this happen to me and my partner ten years ago but we ended up paying

:45:25.:45:29.

?500 excess for a tiny scratch on a bumper. It makes sense to keep an

:45:30.:45:34.

eye out for some of the common ways they can squeeze more cash out of

:45:35.:45:39.

you. Laura has got in touch saying she hired a van for a couple of

:45:40.:45:43.

hours and ended up with a prank when she was taking it back but they

:45:44.:45:47.

insisted they take ?1000 of her credit card for repairs and she

:45:48.:45:51.

wasn't given any option but to pay up, she was totally unaware about

:45:52.:45:56.

how much the van cost to fix. This is becoming an issue, Europcar

:45:57.:45:59.

having to deal with that, what can you do to make sure you don't end up

:46:00.:46:04.

in a pickle you don't want to be in? A good question. There's a couple of

:46:05.:46:08.

simple things you can do in advance to avoid the common problems and I

:46:09.:46:12.

should say not all car hire companies are out to get you but

:46:13.:46:19.

they will try to squeeze you. If you arrive at the check-in desk and they

:46:20.:46:23.

are trying to flog you and the kids are screaming that's when they will

:46:24.:46:26.

try get you. Preparation is wonderful. Pic the best of not the

:46:27.:46:33.

cheapest because the cheapest offer will have the highest excess the. If

:46:34.:46:38.

you access fee is ?1000 then that is the amount of money you will play if

:46:39.:46:42.

they claim they need to make repairs -- access fee. Dave said they hired

:46:43.:46:49.

a car in Alicante and they had to wait six months for the ?1000

:46:50.:46:53.

deposit to come back. There's lots of things that you are asked at the

:46:54.:46:58.

desk, do you have to do any of it? Not necessarily will. The credit

:46:59.:47:01.

card one is interesting because they will freeze the deposit or they will

:47:02.:47:06.

provisionally take it is the official term and refund it as soon

:47:07.:47:10.

as. Let's be clear, there's never an excuse for it to take six months for

:47:11.:47:14.

your own money to be returned. If you have a UK card you have more

:47:15.:47:22.

rights and you can complain through us or the financial ombudsman so it

:47:23.:47:26.

doesn't have to end in tears. When you hire a car and the damage issue,

:47:27.:47:31.

should you be walking around filming it and getting the evidence you can

:47:32.:47:37.

beforehand? It sounds awful but yes is the simple answer. You don't have

:47:38.:47:41.

to go mad because we want people to enjoy their holidays but most people

:47:42.:47:45.

have a tablet or smart phone, when you get in the car they will give

:47:46.:47:49.

you a paper and they will draw on the marks were things need to change

:47:50.:47:53.

so go around and photograph it from all angles and point out any

:47:54.:47:57.

scratches because they can come back and haunt you when you hire the car

:47:58.:48:03.

back. Factory much. Jed has got in touch with another tip, always

:48:04.:48:07.

booked in advance, I imagine it could be worse if you turned up not

:48:08.:48:11.

having a car ready and you have all those problems. Good tips all-round!

:48:12.:48:13.

Thanks very much, Sean. The Home Secretary Amber Rudd is in

:48:14.:48:22.

San Francisco where she is meeting big Internet companies to urge them

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to do more to tackle online extremism. We can talk to our North

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American technology reporter Dave Lee. Good to see you. What is she

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going to try to persuade them to do? This is in terms of tackling the way

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hackers have access to our accounts? It's more to do with the amount of

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extremist material appearing on social networks, Facebook, Twitter,

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Microsoft and Google, they are all getting together tomorrow here,

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still Monday evening where I am, and they're going to talk about what

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more can be done and the crucial thing is what does that mean? In the

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Home Secretary's case, SheBelieves Cup these companies should use some

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of their intelligence algorithms they used to block certain things --

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she believes these. They want to use that intelligence to block known

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extremist material from ever being uploaded to Facebook. It won't just

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appear and be taken down, it will be blocked before it's even put on the

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site and that's a big step and something these companies think they

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may be able to do. But they are reluctant, the reason being they are

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obviously concerned with freedom of expression and privacy. I raised

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this with the Home Secretary -- Home Secretary earlier and this is what

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she said. They have to face up to what our

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enemy is trying to do, they are trying to weaponised people at home,

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vulnerable people and trying to turn them into terrorists and what

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happens is when this material goes online it's circulated really fast.

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What our company is saying in response to what Amber Rudd is

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saying? -- what are the companies. They have put out a joint statement,

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and none of them would do an interview with us about it, but

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together they acknowledged this was a big problem and a big challenge

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and something they wanted to tackle and they agree more can be done and

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again the disagreement is what the Moore is. But privately from the

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experts I have spoken to and some of the people at this set of companies

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on the record, they feel hard done by because they feel they have done

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a lot already to stop the spread of this material and sometimes they are

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used as a scapegoat for what might be considered as a failure of

:50:42.:50:45.

policing or following leads when it comes to terrorism in particular.

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There will be give and take and in this meeting happening on Tuesday

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here, we will see lots of progress and discussion about what can be

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done, but I don't think tech companies will want to do too much

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to upset their users and how they feel about using those services.

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Dave, thanks bromance for joining us. Dave Lee from San Francisco.

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Britain's only surviving cloth hall reopens today

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after a multi-million pound renovation.

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The Piece Hall in Halifax, West Yorkshire was once the centre

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of the world's wool trade and since then it has been

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through a number of different incarnations.

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Fiona Lamdin is there for us this morning.

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Fiona, I think you're going to reveal it for us in just a minute

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but this is an extraordinary building, isn't it? Well, just take

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a look. It really does look like we could be in Italy this morning but

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we are in Halifax. As you say, we're in the country's last remaining

:51:43.:51:46.

intact Cloth Hall. This is the Piece Hall. It's been here for over 200

:51:47.:51:52.

years and I've been taking a look back at its history.

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Fiona, I'm sorry that we don't have that report right now but can you

:51:59.:52:02.

give us more of a look around and tell us more about that place

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because as you said a moment ago, lots of people are thinking what an

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extraordinary building architecturally and the scale of it?

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Yes, as you can see, if you can have a look there is over 300 identical

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doors, each have a little trading unit and a window and a door and

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back then over 200 years ago this is where people came to trade their

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cloth. In a minute we will introduce you to the counsellor who is

:52:32.:52:38.

delighted to be opening this. If you come down here I'm going to take you

:52:39.:52:42.

on a little tour and we're going to go and see... If you come down these

:52:43.:52:57.

stairs... We are going to find out what's going to be going on. Coming

:52:58.:53:02.

onto Nicky, we've been hearing a bit about the past and how it used to be

:53:03.:53:06.

a trading place and how they're used to be loads of wall and cotton sold

:53:07.:53:11.

here, tell us about what the future will be? The future will be another

:53:12.:53:16.

bustling town square where we will have trade, heritage and culture

:53:17.:53:20.

again in the square and what we want people to do is come here, meet each

:53:21.:53:24.

other and visit the wonderful shops that have come on board. They are

:53:25.:53:28.

absolutely beautiful. If we look behind there will be restaurants

:53:29.:53:33.

here, do you hope to have music and theatre? There will be open air

:53:34.:53:38.

theatre, music events. In the summer we will do screenings like Somerset

:53:39.:53:43.

house in London so the idea is to make this a vibrant international

:53:44.:53:46.

destination. People in Halifax have known about this place for a long

:53:47.:53:50.

time, just coming to you, Tim Swift, you are hoping to pull people from

:53:51.:53:56.

right across the world? You've seen this morning that macro 81 is really

:53:57.:54:00.

this most extraordinary Georgian building. -- Piece Hall. The only

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surviving cloth hall in Western Europe. People in Halifax and west

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Yorkshire have always known about it but we think it has potential

:54:10.:54:11.

national and international appeal as a place to visit and keep coming

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back to. Yellow what's happening today? At 10am the bell is going to

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go and the shots are going to open and trading will start again? That's

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right, when it opened as Piece Hall it opened from just 10am to 2pm for

:54:32.:54:37.

two hours and the bell marked the start of trading. We have a host of

:54:38.:54:42.

events to date to show you what the Piece Hall will have going forward,

:54:43.:54:47.

local people who haven't got in for the last three years will come in

:54:48.:54:51.

and enjoy it -- today. People can also come and see what a wonderful

:54:52.:54:55.

building it is. We will be here through the morning. Can you see all

:54:56.:55:02.

those identical doors? If you pan around there's over 300 and we will

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be here through the morning showing you what's going on inside those

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doors. Fiona, thanks very much. Wonderful images. Congratulations to

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whoever is on the camera for making it down the stairs earlier on

:55:16.:55:18.

without mishap. Always great when it doesn't go

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wrong! Student

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loans are replacing NHS bursaries that funded some degrees

:55:22.:55:26.

and with a fall in nursing and midwifery applications we'll ask

:55:27.:55:29.

if the new system will deter mature Time now to get the news,

:55:30.:55:32.

travel and weather where you are. Hello, this is Breakfast,

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with Charlie Stayt and Naga 'You're fired' - more

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upheaval at the White House, as yet another senior

:59:38.:59:43.

official is sacked. Outspoken communications chief

:59:44.:59:45.

Anthony Scaramucci gets the axe, just 11 days after being appointed,

:59:46.:59:47.

following a foul-mouthed Good morning, it is

:59:48.:59:50.

Tuesday one August. Also this morning:

:59:51.:00:13.

Tackling terror online. The Home Secretary tells the world's

:00:14.:00:15.

biggest internet companies they must do more to fight the

:00:16.:00:18.

spread of extremism. We're asking them to work harder

:00:19.:00:20.

on this, to put more effort, more resources into it,

:00:21.:00:23.

and to work together to deliver it. A new approach to speed up surgery

:00:24.:00:27.

for pancreatic cancer raises hopes We are about to find out how

:00:28.:00:30.

British Gas has been performing, when it comes to profits,

:00:31.:00:39.

customer numbers, and maybe In sport: It is as easy as one, two,

:00:40.:00:41.

three for England's cricketers. Moeen Ali takes a hat-trick to win

:00:42.:00:51.

the third Test against South Africa England now lead the series 2-1

:00:52.:00:54.

going into the final And Carol has popped outside

:00:55.:00:58.

to bring us the weather. Good morning from the roof of

:00:59.:01:09.

Broadcasting House in London, where it is sunny. There is a gentle trees

:01:10.:01:13.

but it feels quite pleasant. The forecast for the UK as a whole,

:01:14.:01:16.

though, is one of sunshine and showers. Some of the showers will be

:01:17.:01:22.

heavy, and the best chance of staying dry in south-east England. I

:01:23.:01:25.

will have more details in 15 minutes.

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First, our main story: The White House communications

:01:27.:01:29.

director, Anthony Scaramucci, has been fired less than two weeks

:01:30.:01:31.

after his appointment, in the latest high-profile departure

:01:32.:01:33.

His sacking was the first decision to be taken by new chief of staff,

:01:34.:01:39.

General John Kelly, and it is seen as an attempt to bring stability

:01:40.:01:42.

Tonight, breaking news: Forced out after just 11 days on the job

:01:43.:01:50.

Game of Thrones, House of Cards - pick your drama.

:01:51.:02:00.

Washington thrown into a frenzy after the newly minted,

:02:01.:02:05.

smooth-talking White House communications director is sacked.

:02:06.:02:06.

Anthony Scaramucci took to the podium ten days ago

:02:07.:02:09.

He came in guns blazing, promising to flip the script

:02:10.:02:13.

Although his eye was on getting rid of then-White House chief of staff

:02:14.:02:30.

Reince Priebus, it was beleaguered press secretary Sean Spicer

:02:31.:02:33.

who was the first to go, resigning in protest at the man

:02:34.:02:36.

called 'Mooch.' But then a bit of foreshadowing.

:02:37.:02:38.

You know, one of the things I can't stand about this town

:02:39.:02:41.

Where I grew up, in the neighbourhood I grew up,

:02:42.:02:45.

The self-proclaimed outsider took it too far, launching into a tirade

:02:46.:02:49.

of obscenities to a journalist, accidentally on the record,

:02:50.:02:51.

Reince resigned, Scaramucci seemed to have won,

:02:52.:03:06.

reporting directly to the President.

:03:07.:03:07.

But a new-new sheriff was in town, General John Kelly, the secretary

:03:08.:03:11.

His request was that Scaramucci had to go.

:03:12.:03:14.

Kelly's wish, the President's command.

:03:15.:03:15.

After attending the swearing-in ceremony, the Mooch was escorted

:03:16.:03:18.

Donald Trump has been in office for nearly six months,

:03:19.:03:21.

but his presidency has been plagued by chaos and controversy.

:03:22.:03:24.

From multiple investigations into his campaign's connections

:03:25.:03:29.

with Russia, to constant staffing shake-ups at the White House.

:03:30.:03:32.

But, with a four-star general at the helm now,

:03:33.:03:37.

the administration is hoping that there will be smoother

:03:38.:03:39.

The Home Secretary is challenging the likes of Facebook,

:03:40.:03:50.

Twitter and Google to do more to remove extremist content online.

:03:51.:03:53.

Amber Rudd has been attending a technology summit in San

:03:54.:03:56.

She has told the firms they need to work together to protect

:03:57.:03:59.

the public by stopping the spread of terror-related material.

:04:00.:04:02.

Our North America technology reporter Dave Lee reports.

:04:03.:04:04.

What I need them to acknowledge is that the enemy, who is really

:04:05.:04:08.

trying to move swiftly online, to radicalise people

:04:09.:04:10.

in their own homes, are really stepping their game up,

:04:11.:04:12.

and we need our response stepped up as well.

:04:13.:04:16.

They need to be the ones to own that. We're asking them to work

:04:17.:04:22.

harder on this, to put more effort, more resources into it, and to work

:04:23.:04:28.

together to deliver it. And in these meetings, actually, I have had a

:04:29.:04:31.

very strong response from all of them. They say they will do just

:04:32.:04:35.

that. None of them want to be the platform on which terrorists to

:04:36.:04:38.

operate, and it is that imperative which is driving this forward. You

:04:39.:04:43.

spoke about making these places on the internet hostile to terrorists.

:04:44.:04:46.

What do you mean by that, exactly? How do you make something like that

:04:47.:04:50.

hostile to Terras? Well, they have to make sure that the material that

:04:51.:04:55.

carers want to put up gets taken down, or even better, doesn't go up

:04:56.:04:59.

in the first place. That is what we are really trying to achieve. I

:05:00.:05:02.

mean, in the UK we take down through our internet referral unit about

:05:03.:05:25.

2000 hostile pieces a week. And that is continuing to rise. We need to

:05:26.:05:29.

make sure that they take action to do this. Users are going to hear

:05:30.:05:32.

this, regular users are going to hear this, and think what you are

:05:33.:05:36.

trying to do is decide before someone posts something whether that

:05:37.:05:39.

is allowed. I mean, that is censorship and the concerns about

:05:40.:05:42.

that, I really... You are deciding before it even goes online whether

:05:43.:05:45.

it is allowed. Well, I would ask users to decide very carefully the

:05:46.:05:48.

consequences of what is going online. This is material that is

:05:49.:05:51.

designed to encourage violence, it is designed to encourage terrorists.

:05:52.:05:54.

Nobody wants that online. And there are ways that we can make sure that

:05:55.:05:58.

the sort of people who they can track of who might be putting that

:05:59.:06:02.

online, I stopped before it goes up, or indeed, as they put it up, it

:06:03.:06:06.

stops actually going up, because they have managed to track it, and

:06:07.:06:09.

they can identify it before it actually goes live. They have to

:06:10.:06:13.

face up, people who might oppose this, to what our enemy is trying to

:06:14.:06:16.

do. They are trying to weaponise people at home, vulnerable people,

:06:17.:06:19.

trying to turn them into terrorists. And what happens is, when this

:06:20.:06:22.

material goes online, it is circulated really fast.

:06:23.:06:23.

Patients with pancreatic cancer are being operated on in just two

:06:24.:06:26.

weeks, instead of two months, after being diagnosed.

:06:27.:06:28.

Research published in the medical journal HPB says early surgery

:06:29.:06:31.

increases patients' chances of having their tumours

:06:32.:06:33.

Doctors in Birmingham hope their approach will

:06:34.:06:36.

Kate Rigby was amazed at how smoothly the NHS worked

:06:37.:06:40.

when she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

:06:41.:06:42.

Within seven days, she had had surgery at the Queen Elizabeth

:06:43.:06:45.

I can't control NHS budget, and all the other things

:06:46.:06:53.

for the poor people who aren't as lucky as me.

:06:54.:06:57.

But what I can do is spread the word.

:06:58.:07:00.

Normally, people with jaundice like Mrs Rigby have a stent put

:07:01.:07:03.

in to relieve symptoms, which delays the main operation.

:07:04.:07:05.

A nurse was employed to speed up treatment from two months to 16

:07:06.:07:11.

days, meaning a fifth more patients were able

:07:12.:07:20.

to complete surgery to remove their cancer.

:07:21.:07:22.

Cutting out the step also said the NHS ?3,200 per patient.

:07:23.:07:25.

We save the NHS potentially ?200,000 per year, with the number

:07:26.:07:28.

of patients that have surgery within our team.

:07:29.:07:30.

And so that, then, is a reproducible model, that other units up and down

:07:31.:07:34.

Pancreatic cancer has a very low survival rate.

:07:35.:07:38.

It will be two years before doctors can say whether treating patients

:07:39.:07:41.

more quickly actually means that they live longer.

:07:42.:07:44.

And, if they do, that will beg the question as to whether or not

:07:45.:07:47.

other aggressive cancers should be treated more quickly.

:07:48.:07:50.

For now, Kate Rigby knows that she has been given the best

:07:51.:07:54.

chance possible to survive pancreatic cancer.

:07:55.:07:56.

British Gas has just announced its latest profits.

:07:57.:08:05.

Yes, we have profits from British Gas and the parent company that own

:08:06.:08:16.

it, and generally for the British Gas part of the business their

:08:17.:08:22.

budgets are down. The biggest thing from the results statement this

:08:23.:08:25.

morning is what they will do with energy prices. They are announcing

:08:26.:08:28.

that from 15 September electricity prices will be going up a 12.5%.

:08:29.:08:36.

British Gas had had a freeze longer than the other suppliers had had for

:08:37.:08:40.

several months, but that has come through now. 12.5% on electricity.

:08:41.:08:45.

Gas prices will be frozen, they say. That means it will be about ?76 on

:08:46.:08:50.

average for everybody with a dual fuel bill with British Gas. Do we

:08:51.:08:56.

know roughly how this compares to the other electricity companies? A

:08:57.:08:59.

lot of the other suppliers have put up prices by a similar amount a

:09:00.:09:03.

little earlier in the year. They had announced that. At wholesale prices,

:09:04.:09:07.

so how much these big suppliers get paid to get energy into them, have

:09:08.:09:12.

actually been falling this year. We are talking to the boss of British

:09:13.:09:17.

Gas in about 20 minutes or so. It will be interesting to see why he

:09:18.:09:21.

says prices are going up so much, because we talk about inflation

:09:22.:09:26.

going up between 2% and 3%, electricity bills going up by 2.5%

:09:27.:09:30.

is a large amount. They say that for those who get the Warm Home

:09:31.:09:36.

Discount, the 200,000 most vulnerable customers, they will be

:09:37.:09:40.

covering that cost. So effectively a rebate you will be getting if you

:09:41.:09:44.

are already getting the Warm Home Discount. But around 3 million

:09:45.:09:48.

customers will see a big price rise on their electricity bill. When are

:09:49.:09:53.

you talking to the boss? In about 20 minutes or so. If you have a

:09:54.:09:57.

specific question you would like Sean to ask, 12% is a big increase.

:09:58.:10:02.

E-mail as those questions. You can get in touch on Twitter as well.

:10:03.:10:06.

Pupils should be taught about the importance

:10:07.:10:07.

of breast-feeding in schools, according to the professional body

:10:08.:10:10.

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is also calling

:10:11.:10:14.

on ministers to legislate for breast-feeding breaks

:10:15.:10:16.

The College says Britain has one of the lowest rates

:10:17.:10:20.

of breast-feeding in Europe, blaming social stigma for the trend.

:10:21.:10:31.

More needs to be done to stop women being forced to wear high heels

:10:32.:10:35.

at work, according to scientists at the University of Aberdeen.

:10:36.:10:38.

Academics looked at the physical and social impact of wearing

:10:39.:10:40.

the shoes, and say there is enough evidence to suggest they are bad

:10:41.:10:44.

Earlier this year, the Government rejected calls for a ban

:10:45.:10:48.

When the owner of Petey the dog became stuck in his car

:10:49.:10:54.

during a flash-flood, he decided there was no way

:10:55.:10:57.

he was going to leave his pet in danger.

:10:58.:10:59.

The car was submerged after a dry creek bed was engulfed

:11:00.:11:02.

Rescuers had to use a crane to get to the car, before Petey was handed

:11:03.:11:08.

over by his owner, who then climbed out.

:11:09.:11:10.

The pair could then walk across the crane to safety

:11:11.:11:13.

And Petey is all well, that is good. Sally will have the sport for us in

:11:14.:11:35.

about half an hour. Carol will have the weather.

:11:36.:11:38.

He is no stranger to delivering the words "You're fired",

:11:39.:11:40.

but even for the reality TV star-turned-President,

:11:41.:11:42.

the past 11 days have seen a staggering number of departures

:11:43.:11:45.

from the West Wing of Donald Trump's White House.

:11:46.:11:48.

Former communications director Anthony Scaramucci is the latest

:11:49.:11:50.

Let's try and make sense of the latest developments

:11:51.:11:54.

with the American political analyst Eric Ham, who is in our Washington

:11:55.:11:57.

Lovely to speak to you again. So when Anthony Scaramucci was first at

:11:58.:12:15.

the podium, the first thing he said is I am going to be very brief. He

:12:16.:12:20.

certainly was. He meant that literally, yes. This is a record

:12:21.:12:25.

departure in the White House, and it actually looks more like a Trump's

:12:26.:12:28.

own reality show, the apprentice, because we are seeing so many people

:12:29.:12:32.

depart from this White House, it is getting difficult to keep up -- The

:12:33.:12:38.

Apprentice. This is the third high-profile departure from this

:12:39.:12:41.

White House in just to make weeks, so it does look like the White House

:12:42.:12:46.

in chaos and there are many in the Republican establishment that are

:12:47.:12:50.

actually breathing a sigh of relief, hoping that General Kelly can

:12:51.:12:53.

actually bring normalcy to the White House. Now, what is ironic about

:12:54.:12:59.

this new addition to the White House, General Kelly, is that he is

:13:00.:13:03.

actually the first military man to serve as White House chief of staff

:13:04.:13:08.

since Alexander Haig, who was the White House chief of staff for

:13:09.:13:12.

Richard Nixon. And there have been many who have actually compared

:13:13.:13:17.

Donald Trump's administration thus far to the eventual downfall of

:13:18.:13:21.

Richard Nixon. So this could get really interesting going forward.

:13:22.:13:25.

Talk us through a little bit more about Anthony Scaramucci himself.

:13:26.:13:28.

When he was appointed and spoke himself he talked about just how

:13:29.:13:32.

close he was to Donald Trump, kind of personally, but also in terms of

:13:33.:13:37.

their style. He is quite rash, someone who on the face of it you

:13:38.:13:40.

would think Donald Trump would like to have in his team. But he is gone

:13:41.:13:44.

and partly because he was so outspoken -- quite brash. Do you

:13:45.:13:48.

think his departure means we are heading towards a new style of White

:13:49.:13:52.

House administration? Actually, I think we are heading into a new

:13:53.:13:56.

style in the short term. I do believe that Donald Trump made some

:13:57.:14:00.

concessions to John Kelly in order for John Kelly to take this position

:14:01.:14:07.

and I do believe that one of those concessions was that Anthony

:14:08.:14:10.

Scaramucci needed to move on from this position. I believe that Kelly

:14:11.:14:13.

wanted somebody who was more disciplined in that role, and so I

:14:14.:14:17.

believe that in the short term what Donald Trump did is something that

:14:18.:14:21.

he failed to do with his previous White House chief of staff, and that

:14:22.:14:26.

is to empower him to actually run the operation and manage the White

:14:27.:14:32.

House as it should be, and make the White House chief of staff the last

:14:33.:14:37.

voice that many people in that White House here. Now, I think what will

:14:38.:14:42.

be interesting going forward is many people typically see the White House

:14:43.:14:46.

chief of staff as an administrative or maybe a management position, but

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actually, in Washington, this is actually considered the top

:14:51.:14:53.

political job in Washington. And so we don't typically see or think of

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General Kelly as a political person. So I think this will be interesting

:14:59.:15:04.

if he can actually develop, or if he has, political antenna. Because that

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is something he is going to moving forward.

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I'm going to play a clip of Anthony Scaramucci when he spoke to one of

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our colleagues Emily Maitlis and it gives you a glimpse of why he has

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now gone. One of the things I cannot stand

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about this town is the backstabbing that goes on here. OK? Where I grew

:15:27.:15:30.

up in the neighbourhood I'm from we're front stabbers, we like to

:15:31.:15:34.

tell you where we're from and what we're doing. He was talking about

:15:35.:15:39.

backstabbing, the ironies are so rich in this but if you were looking

:15:40.:15:43.

for a positive spin about this and the White House is all about spin,

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it's the positive that they think they are heading to a calmer spot.

:15:48.:15:52.

It has been pretty hectic. It has been. I do believe that many people

:15:53.:15:57.

will look at this move and think that this can be a turning point for

:15:58.:16:03.

this administration. But again, I do believe that Scaramucci was acting

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in the interests of Donald Trump and I do believe that President Trump

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and Chile was pleased with the work that he had witnessed thus far from

:16:12.:16:19.

Scaramucci -- actually. But I believe he recognised he needed a

:16:20.:16:24.

strong White House chief of staff. If there's one thing we know about

:16:25.:16:29.

Donald Trump, he has a great and high respect for military personnel.

:16:30.:16:34.

I believe in the short-term, and I do believe this is a short-term fix,

:16:35.:16:40.

he was willing to hand over the rains to John Kelly to move him into

:16:41.:16:42.

this position. I believe we will see a more

:16:43.:16:48.

disciplined White House but will we see a more disciplined President

:16:49.:16:50.

Trump? That's the big question going

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forward. The departure of Scaramucci is perhaps the easiest thing John

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Kelly will be able to get done in this White House. Now the real

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difficult work of running the White House and managing relationships

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both with Congress and other Republican stakeholders, I think

:17:13.:17:16.

that becomes the very heavylift that John Kelly is going to have to wrap

:17:17.:17:26.

his hands around going forward. Eric, thanks for staying up late for

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us, never a dull day in the White House! You could stay up and just be

:17:32.:17:35.

entertained at all hours watching the White House!

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You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

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The main stories this morning:

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Donald Trump has sacked his communications director,

:17:40.:17:41.

Anthony Scaramucci, just days after appointing him.

:17:42.:17:43.

The Home Secretary is in America challenging the likes of Facebook,

:17:44.:17:46.

Twitter and Google to do more to remove extremist content online.

:17:47.:17:54.

Piece Mill which reopens in Halifax this morning.

:17:55.:18:07.

It's to help celebrate Yorkshire Date. You can see the blue skies

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peeking through the clouds. -- Date. Is that going to be the picture

:18:15.:18:22.

across the country? -- Date. You're on the top of New Broadcasting House

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in London? Good morning. It won't be the case everywhere and even in

:18:27.:18:30.

Yorkshire it won't stay dry all day because what we have today is a

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forecast of heavy showers, some will have hail and thunder embedded in

:18:35.:18:38.

them, and bright spells or indeed sunny intervals. If we start by

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looking at the country at 9am. In Scotland we will have some heavy

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showers, particularly north of the central Belt. Where we don't have

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the showers it's a bright start with southern Scotland seeing some

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showers this morning, easing off through the morning, though. Some

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heavy showers at the moment in parts of north-west England. Currently

:18:59.:19:02.

north-east England is dry, as we've just seen in Halifax, and as we come

:19:03.:19:06.

further south across the Peak District into the Midlands, East

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Anglia, Essex and Kent all the way to the Home Counties and the Isle of

:19:11.:19:14.

Wight, similar skies to London, blue skies with some cloud here and

:19:15.:19:19.

there. Drifting east woods, and westwards, against some sunshine but

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a few showers in south-west England -- eastwards. In Wales, some heavy

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showers and forming lines through the night, that's why they are

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heavy, they are merging. As we push into Northern Ireland, the north and

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west of Northern Ireland is seeing the showers this morning with the

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east attending to be dry. Through the day further showers will develop

:19:39.:19:43.

and some will push east. Not all of us will see them but there's the

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potential for some to be heavy and thundery with some hail, especially

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if we draw a line from said the south Wales to the Wash northwards,

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that's where you're likely to see that combination. Further south,

:19:56.:20:00.

south-east England could stay dry and in light winds, temperatures up

:20:01.:20:04.

to 23 feeling quite pleasant but generally we're looking at a

:20:05.:20:08.

temperature range of 17 to 20. As we had through the evening and

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overnight, many the showers will tend to fade but through the latter

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part of the night you'll notice the cloud encroaching into south-west

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England and south Wales. The showers will start to arrive and the wind

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will increase and the whole lot will be followed by rain. Temperatures

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roughly ten to 15 overnight but lower than that in sheltered glens

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in Scotland. For tomorrow for many we start off on a drier and brighter

:20:34.:20:37.

note even with some sunshine but all the cloud and rain in the south-west

:20:38.:20:41.

will move north-east and spread out across the south coast. That's where

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it's going to be heavy and persistent and it will drift

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north-east of through the day. Coastal gales in south-west England

:20:48.:20:50.

and south-west Wales and eventually the rain pushes far north, not into

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the far north of Scotland, which will hang on to the driest

:20:54.:20:57.

conditions but tomorrow as a result will be cooler. Most of that clears

:20:58.:21:01.

overnight and by Thursday we have a curl of rain coming into the north

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and west of the UK. That will bring showery outbreaks of rain but for

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many it will be dry, a breezy day and temperatures getting up into the

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low 20s. That leads us into Friday, which is going to be a day of

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sunshine and showers but at the moment it looks like we are going to

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see hunting dry in the south on Saturday and for many on Sunday. But

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that's an if because there are tropical storms in the Atlantic and

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that could have a bearing on our weather, so I'll keep you posted on

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that in the next couple of days. Keep us posted. Thanks bromance, see

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you later on. Let's look at the morning papers, shall we? -- thanks

:21:42.:21:45.

very much. The Daily Telegraph looking at Statins, lots of

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discussion about how useful they are and who should be receiving them but

:21:50.:21:53.

now the Royal College of GPs is warning they are being prescribed to

:21:54.:21:57.

people because of their age and not their condition. The other story is

:21:58.:22:03.

Mr Scaramucci, Anthony Scaramucci, has been removed as Donald Trump's

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communications director after 11 days. That's on the front page of

:22:07.:22:11.

the Mail as well, the picture is Scaramucci and Donald Trump, the

:22:12.:22:16.

thumbs up shot clearly before this recent sacking and the main story

:22:17.:22:21.

pupils as young as 11 could have lessons in breast-feeding to make it

:22:22.:22:28.

better better known. Sam Shepard, the American actor and playwright

:22:29.:22:33.

has died at 73 after suffering with motor neurone disease. On the front

:22:34.:22:39.

page of the Sun, quite of the few -- quite a few of the papers focusing

:22:40.:22:45.

on the Diana tapes featuring in a television documentary. This page on

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the front of the Sun, very controversial story often, according

:22:52.:22:55.

to this story Facebook shut down artificial intelligence experiments

:22:56.:23:00.

after two robots began talking in a language only they understood. They

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were set up to start having this discussion. It was a kind of

:23:05.:23:09.

negotiation and watching the dialogue and eventually it made no

:23:10.:23:13.

sense to anyone and the assumption was they understood each other but

:23:14.:23:17.

we didn't understand them. The rise of the machines, sounds familiar!

:23:18.:23:19.

From today, people studying to be nurses or midwives will no longer

:23:20.:23:23.

receive NHS bursaries, instead they will have to apply

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Applications for courses are down by more than 20%.

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The Government says it is providing funding for an extra 10,000

:23:30.:23:31.

university places for students on nursing, midwifery and other

:23:32.:23:34.

We get rid of that and you've now got what?

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These second-year nursing students are getting their first look

:23:49.:23:52.

at the Anatomage Table using the latest technology to take

:23:53.:23:56.

a 3-D trip through a virtual human body.

:23:57.:24:01.

Their degree course at the University of Central Lancashire

:24:02.:24:04.

is funded by NHS bursaries and grants, but as of today

:24:05.:24:07.

applicants wanting to study nursing, midwifery

:24:08.:24:08.

and other medical courses will need a student loan in line

:24:09.:24:11.

So would it have deterred these students?

:24:12.:24:19.

I don't think it would have made a difference to myself

:24:20.:24:22.

because I really wanted to become a nurse and although the financial

:24:23.:24:25.

implications of not having a bursary would have impacted on me quite

:24:26.:24:29.

heavily, but I could have managed and my desire to become a nurse

:24:30.:24:32.

But applications for these courses have fallen by around 20%.

:24:33.:24:41.

Theories include doubts from European students about Brexit.

:24:42.:24:48.

A birthrate decline in the number of 18-year-olds as well as concerns

:24:49.:24:51.

The universities, though, are determined to see the numbers

:24:52.:24:56.

recover and here there's cautious optimism.

:24:57.:24:58.

We have seen a decline in the number of applications coming through,

:24:59.:25:01.

but they're good quality and so the key thing

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is that they convert into the numbers that we have.

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So I'm very positive at this moment in time

:25:07.:25:08.

One of the main areas of concern is the impact on mature students.

:25:09.:25:20.

Nursing and midwifery attract a much higher percentage of older

:25:21.:25:25.

applicants than other degree courses and their life experience is seen

:25:26.:25:29.

as a vital part of the mix on a ward.

:25:30.:25:34.

Sarah Cordy says a loan instead of a bursary would have

:25:35.:25:37.

stopped her changing career to become a midwife.

:25:38.:25:41.

To saddle students with a huge amount of debt when they are only

:25:42.:25:44.

ever able to earn what the government dictates they can

:25:45.:25:51.

earn, it doesn't seem to make sense to me and had I been making this

:25:52.:25:55.

decision now knowing that I would have to take on the debt,

:25:56.:25:58.

The government argues that the cap on student places had previously

:25:59.:26:03.

restricted numbers and that changing the funding will lead to an increase

:26:04.:26:06.

But Les Green says he now can't afford to pursue his dream job.

:26:07.:26:14.

?30,000, I'd be paying back until I finish probably my...

:26:15.:26:30.

I don't think I'd ever play that off, I'd pay it until the rest

:26:31.:26:38.

All signs agree that the NHS is in dire need of more clinical

:26:39.:26:43.

staff but the debate centres on how to pay for them.

:26:44.:26:46.

We're talking high heels later on.

:26:47.:26:52.

Researchers say wearing them raises the risk of injury

:26:53.:26:54.

and they also want action to stop women being forced to wear them,

:26:55.:26:58.

despite the government already rejecting calls for a ban

:26:59.:27:00.

Do they cause you pain, do you wear them because your boss

:27:01.:27:04.

Get in contact and let us know your thoughts.

:27:05.:27:08.

Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:27:09.:30:31.

Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Naga

:30:32.:30:41.

Our main story this morning, British Gas has announced it is increasing

:30:42.:30:54.

its electricity charges by 12%. Those figures just out this morning.

:30:55.:30:58.

We will bring you more details shortly, but British Gas announcing

:30:59.:31:01.

that it is increasing those electricity prices by 12.5%. That

:31:02.:31:08.

will be from mid-September and will affect around 3 million customers in

:31:09.:31:12.

all, who are all on standard tariffs. It will add around ?76 a

:31:13.:31:17.

year to dual fuel bills for the average household. It is the energy

:31:18.:31:23.

firm's first price rise since 2013, and we will have more on that story

:31:24.:31:26.

throughout the programme this morning.

:31:27.:31:29.

The White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci,

:31:30.:31:31.

has been fired, less than two weeks after his appointment.

:31:32.:31:34.

In the latest high-profile departure from Donald Trump's top team,

:31:35.:31:37.

the new chief of staff, John Kelly, asked Mr Scaramucci to step aside.

:31:38.:31:40.

The former banker made headlines when derogatory comments he made

:31:41.:31:43.

about General Kelly's predecessor were made public.

:31:44.:31:46.

The President certainly felt that Anthony's comments

:31:47.:31:48.

were inappropriate for a person in that position, and he didn't

:31:49.:31:51.

want to burden General Kelly, also, with that line of succession.

:31:52.:31:54.

As I think we have made clear a few times over the course of the last

:31:55.:31:59.

couple of days, to several of you individually,

:32:00.:32:01.

but General Kelly has the full authority to operate

:32:02.:32:03.

in the White House, and all staff will report to him.

:32:04.:32:14.

The Home Secretary is challenging the likes of Facebook,

:32:15.:32:17.

Twitter and Google to do more to remove extremist content online.

:32:18.:32:20.

Amber Rudd has been attending a technology summit set up

:32:21.:32:22.

by the internet giants in San Francisco, and has told

:32:23.:32:25.

the firms they need to do more to protect the public by stopping

:32:26.:32:29.

the spread of terror-related material.

:32:30.:32:30.

But there is concern that the privacy of ordinary users

:32:31.:32:33.

What I need them to acknowledges that the enemy, who is really trying

:32:34.:32:46.

to move swiftly online, to radicalise people in their own

:32:47.:32:50.

homes, are really stepping their game up. And we need our response

:32:51.:32:52.

stepped up as well. Medical researchers have revealed

:32:53.:32:55.

details of a new approach to treating people with pancreatic

:32:56.:32:57.

cancer, one of the deadliest A pilot by the university hospitals

:32:58.:33:00.

Birmingham found that early surgery increases patients' chances

:33:01.:33:03.

of having their tumours removed The charity, Pancreatic Cancer

:33:04.:33:06.

UK, says the findings From today, babies born in England,

:33:07.:33:25.

Wales and Northern Ireland are to be offered a new vaccine which protects

:33:26.:33:38.

against hepatitis B. The hexavalent vaccine will also

:33:39.:33:41.

immunise against five other diseases, including polio,

:33:42.:33:43.

tetanus and whooping cough. Health Protection Scotland

:33:44.:33:45.

is set to adopt a similar Public Health England

:33:46.:33:47.

says the new vaccine has Workers at the Bank of England

:33:48.:33:50.

will today hold their first strike in more than 50 years,

:33:51.:33:54.

as part of a campaign Members of the Unite union

:33:55.:33:57.

will walk out for three days, after talks at the conciliation

:33:58.:34:01.

service, Acas, broke Unite wants the bank

:34:02.:34:03.

to scrap its 1% cap on pay rises, arguing that a third of staff

:34:04.:34:07.

will get no increase this year. The bank says essential business

:34:08.:34:10.

will continue as normal Pupils should be taught

:34:11.:34:13.

about the importance of breast-feeding in schools,

:34:14.:34:16.

according to the professional body The Royal College of Paediatrics

:34:17.:34:18.

and Child Health is also calling on ministers to legislate

:34:19.:34:22.

for breast-feeding breaks The college says Britain has

:34:23.:34:24.

one of the lowest rates of breast-feeding in Europe,

:34:25.:34:28.

blaming social stigma for the trend. More needs to be done to stop women

:34:29.:34:31.

being forced to wear high heels at work, according to scientists

:34:32.:34:35.

at the University of Aberdeen. Academics looked at the physical

:34:36.:34:37.

and social impact of wearing the shoes, and say there is enough

:34:38.:34:40.

evidence to suggest they are bad Earlier this year, the Government

:34:41.:34:44.

rejected calls for a ban A Canadian couple have been

:34:45.:35:02.

described as heroes for using their speedboat to put out a wildfire.

:35:03.:35:07.

They were on a river when they spotted smoke on the bank. Natasha

:35:08.:35:12.

called the authorities but her partner had another idea and

:35:13.:35:16.

repeatedly drove the speedboat close to shore, spinning it so that the

:35:17.:35:25.

water douse the flames. -- doused the flames. The firefighters

:35:26.:35:29.

eventually arrived and managed to put out the fire.

:35:30.:35:33.

Carol will be here with the weather in ten minutes.

:35:34.:35:37.

It is looking quite nice, we are seeing a bit of blue sky. Later,

:35:38.:35:45.

later. I was just thinking there is a new James Bond film next year,

:35:46.:35:50.

that chap should be auditioning. He probably does that anyway, a bit of

:35:51.:35:55.

spinning around. Do you think? Are you not impressed? Well, why not?

:35:56.:36:02.

And talking of spinning... Get it? I see where you are going there.

:36:03.:36:04.

England's cricketers went 2-1 up in the Test series

:36:05.:36:07.

against South Africa yesterday, after an amazing final day

:36:08.:36:09.

The tourists were trying to save a draw, but two wickets

:36:10.:36:14.

in two balls from debutant Toby Roland-Jones ended those hopes.

:36:15.:36:16.

The only resistance came from Dean Elgar, who went

:36:17.:36:19.

But it was Moeen Ali who finished South Africa off,

:36:20.:36:23.

winning the match in the perfect fashion, with a hat-trick.

:36:24.:36:25.

England victorious by 239 runs, a vast improvement

:36:26.:36:27.

upon their disastrous Trent Bridge performance,

:36:28.:36:29.

which saw the team come under intense criticism two weeks ago.

:36:30.:36:44.

I think the way we played was brilliant. I looked down the side

:36:45.:36:50.

and we had a number of matchwinners throughout. If we can get in a

:36:51.:36:54.

position of strength early we can generally find ways to get across

:36:55.:36:57.

the line. So I think it is really important that we continue to look

:36:58.:37:01.

to do that. But the most important thing to me was that we responded

:37:02.:37:04.

positively after last week. It was obviously very tough week for us but

:37:05.:37:08.

it shows the character of the guys in the dressing room.

:37:09.:37:09.

The World Athletics Championships get under way at the weekend,

:37:10.:37:12.

but one of the star attractions on the track won't be there.

:37:13.:37:15.

David Rudisha, the world and Olympic 800m champion and world record

:37:16.:37:18.

The Kenyan won the world title in Beijing two years ago,

:37:19.:37:23.

and broke the world record in London in 2012.

:37:24.:37:26.

Meanwhile, the sport's governing body, the IAAF,

:37:27.:37:27.

says Russia remains banned from international competition,

:37:28.:37:29.

because they haven't made sufficient progress in anti-doping.

:37:30.:37:31.

Russia was barred from last year's Olympics for state-sponsored doping.

:37:32.:37:34.

19 Russians will compete as independently at the World

:37:35.:37:37.

We've seen progress, and yes, some of that -

:37:38.:37:43.

on some occasions, some of that progress has been quicker

:37:44.:37:45.

And it tended to speed up a little bit when there's been a focus

:37:46.:37:50.

normally around the major championships.

:37:51.:37:52.

So it's not that there isn't any progress, but the progress we want

:37:53.:37:55.

has to culminate in a meeting of those criteria, and it's clear

:37:56.:37:58.

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has made his third big

:37:59.:38:11.

He has gone back to former club Chelsea and signed Nemanja Matic,

:38:12.:38:15.

a player he signed for the Blues three years ago.

:38:16.:38:18.

He has moved to Old Trafford for a fee of ?35 million.

:38:19.:38:21.

Cristiano Ronaldo has appeared in court in Spain,

:38:22.:38:31.

where he is facing allegation of tax evasion.

:38:32.:38:33.

The Real Madrid star is accused of evading just over ?13 million.

:38:34.:38:37.

He has said he has never had any intentions to evade paying taxes.

:38:38.:38:47.

Liverpool's biggest independent supporters group has voted

:38:48.:38:49.

overwhelmingly in favour of the safe standing at Premier League grounds.

:38:50.:38:52.

The Premier League wrote to its 20 clubs last month to assess

:38:53.:38:55.

whether they would be interested in staging trials.

:38:56.:38:57.

It follows Celtic's decision to introduce around 3,000 rail

:38:58.:39:00.

The question of safe standing at stadiums has been on the agenda

:39:01.:39:11.

after Lord Justice Taylor's inquiry into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster,

:39:12.:39:14.

in which 96 Liverpool fans were killed.

:39:15.:39:16.

Four-time Major champion Rory McIlroy has split

:39:17.:39:18.

The pair have worked together for the past nine years,

:39:19.:39:22.

and for each of McIlroy's Major successes.

:39:23.:39:24.

Last month, McIlroy gave Fitzgerald credit for geeing him up

:39:25.:39:27.

McIlroy is expected to confirm the news tomorrow, ahead of this

:39:28.:39:31.

week's World Golf Championship event in Ohio.

:39:32.:39:45.

What are your earliest memories of an Olympics? What is the first big

:39:46.:39:52.

Olympics you remember? One really sticks in my mind. My earliest

:39:53.:39:55.

proper memory I think would be David Thompson. I wonder whether it might

:39:56.:40:05.

have been... It might have been Los Angeles, 1984? That is actually

:40:06.:40:09.

quite late, but if I am honest that is the first one. What about some of

:40:10.:40:13.

the swimmers, David Wilkie and some of those swimmers Elli on... Who was

:40:14.:40:23.

the Ethiopian runner, the woman? -- earlier on. Interestingly, you are

:40:24.:40:26.

going back to 1984. The deal is done for Los Angeles

:40:27.:40:30.

to host the 2028 Olympic LA's bid team has reached

:40:31.:40:33.

an agreement with the International Olympic Committee,

:40:34.:40:37.

which is expected to be ratified by the Los Angeles City

:40:38.:40:39.

Council later today. LA had originally been

:40:40.:40:41.

bidding for the 2024 Games, but that event is now set

:40:42.:40:44.

to take place in Paris. When I said to you at the start of

:40:45.:40:52.

this, what is your most striking Olympic memory, do you know what

:40:53.:40:56.

mine is? The man with the jet pack arriving into the stadium in Los

:40:57.:41:01.

Angeles. It was just like something from another world. It very much may

:41:02.:41:06.

be Olympics much bigger, there was a sense of occasion to it. And in 1984

:41:07.:41:11.

no one really wanted that Olympics. Los Angeles to get and it did them a

:41:12.:41:16.

world of good. It was a fantastic to be kept games, so the Olympics

:41:17.:41:20.

definitely going back to Hollywood. -- fantastic Games.

:41:21.:41:24.

British Gas have just announced they are putting their prices up

:41:25.:41:28.

Sometimes it feels like it doesn't have much direct impact on people's

:41:29.:41:36.

pockets, but this announcement really does. Yes, it is not just

:41:37.:41:40.

about profits but about energy prices.

:41:41.:41:41.

Yes, Britain's largest energy supplier has just said

:41:42.:41:43.

that its electricity prices will go up by 12.5% from September.

:41:44.:41:46.

Gas prices will be frozen, but it means around ?76 will be

:41:47.:41:49.

added to average annual household duel fuel bills.

:41:50.:41:51.

Iain Conn is the chief executive of Centrica.

:41:52.:41:53.

Good morning. Good morning. The wholesale cost of energy, what you

:41:54.:42:14.

pay for it, has been going down. So why is it going up customers? So

:42:15.:42:19.

first of all, the last time we moved our electricity prices was in

:42:20.:42:24.

January 2014, and since then they have been held flat. From that time,

:42:25.:42:29.

and you are absolutely correct, wholesale prices have fallen. We

:42:30.:42:33.

estimate about ?36 on the average bill. That is not what is driving

:42:34.:42:38.

this. What is driving it is the transport and distribution costs.

:42:39.:42:42.

The cost of getting the electricity to your home, and government,

:42:43.:42:47.

environmental and policy costs. And when you add those two together,

:42:48.:42:52.

that has gone up I approaching ?100. That is what is driving the

:42:53.:42:55.

increase. I should finally say that, even after this increase, British

:42:56.:43:07.

Gas's increase is lower than our competitors. We have heard that when

:43:08.:43:11.

energy prices are going up or you that is often passed on. If when

:43:12.:43:15.

they are falling at does not fall for the customer, does that mean the

:43:16.:43:20.

energy market is not working for these customers? Actually, as the

:43:21.:43:24.

energy prices have been falling, we have reduced gas prices four times

:43:25.:43:30.

over the last few years. And the only reason electricity prices are

:43:31.:43:34.

not falling, and are now rising, is because of these other costs. The

:43:35.:43:39.

electricity costs are being affected either change in the electricity

:43:40.:43:43.

system, as more renewables are coming on the big red -- by the

:43:44.:43:57.

change. -- onto the grid. So if customers want to see electricity

:43:58.:44:01.

prices falling, who do they look to to get that to fall? Is it the

:44:02.:44:05.

government? Is that people providing you with energy? So first of all,

:44:06.:44:09.

one has to remember that all energy costs have actually fallen, on

:44:10.:44:14.

average, significantly over the last few years. Electricity by less, as I

:44:15.:44:21.

have explained, gas prices by more, and we have been able to pass it

:44:22.:44:25.

onto our customers. And this price in September is for electricity

:44:26.:44:30.

only. Our gas prices are being held flat. It is a big figure, isn't it?

:44:31.:44:39.

Ofgem are the regulator for the industry. They have said that

:44:40.:44:48.

tariffs are lower. Why can't you switch people to a fixed-rate deal?

:44:49.:44:52.

You know it is better for your customers. Festival, Ofgem have

:44:53.:44:54.

published also that the average cost per hour supplier has gone up by

:44:55.:45:00.

about 15% in the Kostya -- first of all. On standard variable tariffs.

:45:01.:45:08.

Our standard tariff is a standard retail tariff. But standard variable

:45:09.:45:12.

tariffs are not good value for a lot of customers, yet you still provide

:45:13.:45:18.

it. So the standard variable tariff is part of our licence conditions.

:45:19.:45:21.

And one of the things we are proposing is, instead of the

:45:22.:45:25.

government capping the standard variable tariff, which we think

:45:26.:45:28.

would not be good for competition or choice, we are actually advocating

:45:29.:45:33.

that the standard variable tariff should be phased out completely. We

:45:34.:45:37.

think that these tariffs that have no end to that term do not encourage

:45:38.:45:43.

customers to shop around, and we are advocating ending it.

:45:44.:45:47.

What do you say to customers where they have seen supermarkets say

:45:48.:45:56.

there are prices rising, and British Gas have put up prices 12.5%, that

:45:57.:46:01.

will squeeze their pockets more when wages are going up at the same rate.

:46:02.:46:06.

What do you say to those people? It's very regrettable we have had to

:46:07.:46:11.

put prices up. This is the first time for electricity in four years

:46:12.:46:15.

and I remind you we have also reduced prices of gas a number of

:46:16.:46:20.

times over the last few years so we are responsive. The average increase

:46:21.:46:26.

will be 7.3% on a dual fuel bill and the final point I will make is we

:46:27.:46:30.

are very concerned about some customers who have difficulty paying

:46:31.:46:36.

and the warm home discount provided to some customers we consider

:46:37.:46:40.

vulnerable, some of them are not protected by the prepayment cap that

:46:41.:46:44.

came in at the beginning of this year and we voluntarily decided we

:46:45.:46:48.

going to protect another 200,000 of those customers from this increase.

:46:49.:46:53.

We are very conscious of people's pockets and the fact that energy is

:46:54.:47:00.

a big part of the Bill. That is why we implemented a price freeze and

:47:01.:47:04.

kept it open for as long as we could. Hyeon, thanks very much, the

:47:05.:47:09.

Chief Executive of Centrica, which owns British Gas. -- Ian. Prices

:47:10.:47:17.

going up not because of energy prices for them going up but they

:47:18.:47:22.

say it is government costs and transmission costs have gone up so

:47:23.:47:26.

much that it has had to go on to the customers. Sean, thanks very much.

:47:27.:47:27.

You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:47:28.:47:29.

The main stories this morning:

:47:30.:47:30.

Donald Trump has sacked his communications director,

:47:31.:47:32.

Anthony Scaramucci, just days after appointing him.

:47:33.:47:34.

The Home Secretary is in America challenging the likes of Facebook,

:47:35.:47:37.

Twitter and Google to do more to remove extremist content online.

:47:38.:47:50.

Let's have a look at the weather this morning and have a chat with

:47:51.:47:57.

Carol. Good morning. Good morning from the roof of broadcasting house

:47:58.:48:01.

in London. Good morning to you too. A fine start to the morning, breezy

:48:02.:48:07.

but we are a few levels up. Blue skies and feeling pleasant but the

:48:08.:48:10.

forecast for the UK is one of sunshine and heavy showers. Some of

:48:11.:48:14.

the showers could have hail and thunder embedded in them but as is

:48:15.:48:18.

the way with showers, not everyone will see one. If we take a tour

:48:19.:48:23.

around the country at 9am, there is some rain in parts of Scotland,

:48:24.:48:26.

particularly north of the Central Belt. Showers through the south of

:48:27.:48:30.

the Central Belt but in between a lot of dry weather. Some heavy

:48:31.:48:34.

showers and still some to come in north-west England this morning but

:48:35.:48:38.

in north-east England at this stage it is dry with sunshine and that

:48:39.:48:42.

continues as we go southwards in through the Peak District, the

:48:43.:48:46.

Midlands, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, down to the Isle of Wight with

:48:47.:48:49.

variable amounts of cloud and in amongst that sunshine we will seek

:48:50.:48:55.

cloudy conditions. Further west, sunshine in Dorset and

:48:56.:48:57.

Gloucestershire and in the south-west we could see some showers

:48:58.:49:01.

but most will miss them but Wales is a different story, heavy showers

:49:02.:49:04.

this morning on and off and with you much of the day but in between some

:49:05.:49:09.

brighter skies. Northern Ireland, east is best, west with showers in

:49:10.:49:13.

the north and west. Through the course of the day, showers in the

:49:14.:49:18.

west will move a bit further eastwards, fragmenting. Further

:49:19.:49:21.

showers will develop. We're not all going to catch one but if we were to

:49:22.:49:26.

draw a line from south Wales to the wash, points north of that are more

:49:27.:49:30.

prone to slow moving heavy showers with hail and thunder. Further south

:49:31.:49:34.

the showers will be further and farther between. With highs of 23 it

:49:35.:49:40.

will be pleasant in light breezes. Through the evening and overnight

:49:41.:49:44.

the showers will fade but we have cloud building in south-west England

:49:45.:49:47.

and south Wales and then some showers and then rain and the wind

:49:48.:49:51.

strengthening. Temperature wise we are looking at ten to 15 as the

:49:52.:49:55.

overnight lows, lower in rural Scotland, though. Tomorrow we start

:49:56.:49:59.

with a lot of drier and brighter weather in northern, eastern and

:50:00.:50:03.

central parts but the cloud will continue to drift north-east ahead

:50:04.:50:07.

of the band of rain doing the same thing. You can see how it forks out.

:50:08.:50:11.

The heaviest rain will be in Wales, south-west England and southern

:50:12.:50:17.

counties and here it will also be persistent and we will see coastal

:50:18.:50:20.

gales across the approaches of south-west England and southern

:50:21.:50:22.

Wales. Northern Scotland staying dry. Through the course of the

:50:23.:50:26.

evening and overnight, that rain pushes across and we have a curl of

:50:27.:50:30.

showery outbreaks in the north and west but for many on Thursday it

:50:31.:50:35.

will be dry and breezy with highs up to the low 20s.

:50:36.:50:37.

Thanks, Carol. We will talk later. Thanks very much.

:50:38.:50:41.

Britain's only surviving cloth hall reopens today

:50:42.:50:43.

after a multi-million pound renovation.

:50:44.:50:45.

The Piece Hall in Halifax, West Yorkshire

:50:46.:50:47.

was once the centre of the world's wool trade and since then it has

:50:48.:50:50.

been through a number of different incarnations.

:50:51.:50:52.

Fiona Lamdin is there for us this morning.

:50:53.:50:59.

It's an amazing building, Fiona, isn't it? Good morning. Good

:51:00.:51:07.

morning. I'm in the middle of the Piece Hall, it feels like we could

:51:08.:51:11.

be in Italy but this is Halifax. It's over 200 years old. It has an

:51:12.:51:16.

extraordinary history but today at 10am it opens its doors to training

:51:17.:51:20.

again but I've been looking back at the extraordinary history. --

:51:21.:51:25.

trading. For the last 2.5 centuries the Piece

:51:26.:51:31.

Hall has stood at the heart of Halifax, where in 1779 people came

:51:32.:51:37.

to trade pieces of cloth. There were at least 315 individual rooms built

:51:38.:51:42.

for the sale of cloth, from which clothiers would have sold the will

:51:43.:51:46.

to merchants. Merchants would have come from quite far afield,

:51:47.:51:49.

including on occasion from Europe, and the trade from the Piece Hall

:51:50.:51:53.

went back into Europe and also over to the Americas. All the Wall came

:51:54.:51:57.

from local sheep woven by local families on their farms. This is an

:51:58.:52:02.

example of the cloth most commonly sold in the Piece Hall and as you

:52:03.:52:06.

can feel, it's pretty hard wearing, isn't it? Pretty rough. This was

:52:07.:52:12.

largely used by the military so it would have been used to make

:52:13.:52:18.

uniforms. This is the country's only surviving in fact cloth hall. With

:52:19.:52:23.

315 individual yet identical trading rooms. It seems such a waste this

:52:24.:52:32.

beautiful building was only open back then in the 18th century for

:52:33.:52:37.

trading for two hours every week. But after the Industrial Revolution

:52:38.:52:41.

the cloth was mainly made and sold from the mills. In its place the

:52:42.:52:46.

Piece Hall was filled with fruit and veg sellers. But a century on, in

:52:47.:52:51.

the 1970s, this is how the Piece Hall looked, a blot on the

:52:52.:52:54.

landscape, threatened to be flattened to make way for a car

:52:55.:52:59.

park. One of those who fought to save it back then was Mary Crosby.

:53:00.:53:04.

She had a shop on the second floor. She hasn't been inside for decades.

:53:05.:53:12.

We took her back. Wow! Wow! Isn't that lovely?

:53:13.:53:14.

When I first came in it was all black, there were sheds around the

:53:15.:53:20.

edge and warehouses in the middle and vehicles. When I came up onto

:53:21.:53:27.

the balcony I remember there were holes in the floor and it smells of

:53:28.:53:31.

cats. But you still fell in love with it? I still fell in love with

:53:32.:53:35.

it. To start with there were only three of us for quite a long time

:53:36.:53:39.

and there wasn't much prey to start with but it developed gradually.

:53:40.:53:44.

It's hoped this historical hall will place Halifax back on the map. 238

:53:45.:53:50.

years on as the shelves fill up, this is a new chapter for this town,

:53:51.:53:55.

but nothing is new for these old stones who have witnessed it all

:53:56.:53:56.

before. We are very excited this morning to

:53:57.:54:04.

be joined by David holes worth. Good morning. Good morning. You are

:54:05.:54:09.

eighth generation here which actually means back then all those

:54:10.:54:13.

years ago your family had three or four units we think around about

:54:14.:54:20.

here. Your family were trailing behind us in these units? That's

:54:21.:54:24.

right, in the days of the cottage industry we were what you might call

:54:25.:54:29.

traders, we were supplying the cottage weavers with the yarn and

:54:30.:54:32.

they made fabrics to certain patterns that were then brought to

:54:33.:54:36.

my forebears and they sold the fabrics here in the rooms in the

:54:37.:54:41.

Piece Hall back in 1779 through to around 1820. They were here on the

:54:42.:54:48.

first day when it opened? Correct, obviously they contributed to the

:54:49.:54:50.

building of this magnificent building. You are still in the

:54:51.:54:55.

textile world, you have kept the tradition going? Myself I have been

:54:56.:55:02.

in manufacturing all my life with manufacturing bus fabrics and now I

:55:03.:55:06.

supply fabrics to large organisations, some of which are

:55:07.:55:10.

manufactured locally. Is it amazing to see this building, to think those

:55:11.:55:14.

hundreds of years ago your family were here, what's it like seeing it

:55:15.:55:19.

open again? Magnificent. We used to come here when we were younger when

:55:20.:55:23.

it was a market but it was pretty the credit but to have it restored

:55:24.:55:27.

to this level is magnificent and it is super to have a large piazza

:55:28.:55:32.

where we can have super events and theatricals and artists and music.

:55:33.:55:37.

David, thanks for joining us. We are going to take you to meet one more

:55:38.:55:43.

person. As David said, a fantastic piazza. Lisa is opening her

:55:44.:55:48.

restaurant for the first time today. Very quickly, Lisa, this will be

:55:49.:55:51.

your first restaurant? That's correct. We have been running

:55:52.:55:57.

different catering events since 2011 starting in our living room, a

:55:58.:56:01.

pop-up series of restaurants and now we are opening in Halifax. How does

:56:02.:56:06.

it feel to think this is your first restaurant and you are opening

:56:07.:56:10.

today? It feels fantastic, obviously slightly nervous but looking forward

:56:11.:56:15.

to welcoming people in as part of wider celebrations. Leezer was

:56:16.:56:19.

telling me earlier her vision very much... You will come out and see

:56:20.:56:24.

why, look at this space, on a sunny evening they wouldn't want to be out

:56:25.:56:29.

here having a coffee? -- Lisa. It really feels like we are in Europe.

:56:30.:56:35.

A coffee and a slice of cake, Fiona, and take in the view. And just a

:56:36.:56:40.

tiny bit warmer! Hey, it's not too bad, Carol will give us the latest

:56:41.:56:43.

later on. Looks beautiful. This is Breakfast, with

:56:44.:00:06.

Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty. Fuel bills on the rise - British Gas

:00:07.:00:54.

hikes electricity bills by 12.5%. It'll hit more than three million

:00:55.:01:00.

people, but the company says it's giving greater protection

:01:01.:01:04.

to vulnerable customers. And the boss of Centrica has just

:01:05.:01:15.

told me that prices are going up for customers despite the price of

:01:16.:01:17.

energy falling for suppliers. Good morning, it's Tuesday

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the 1st of August. 'You're fired' - more upheaval

:01:30.:01:31.

at the White House as yet another Communications chief

:01:32.:01:37.

Anthony Scaramucci gets the axe Tackling terror online -

:01:38.:01:44.

the Home Secretary tells the world's biggest internet

:01:45.:01:50.

companies they must do more to fight We are asking them to work harder on

:01:51.:01:59.

this, to put more effort and resources into it, and to work

:02:00.:02:01.

together to deliver it. In sport - it's as easy

:02:02.:02:04.

one, two, three... Moeen Ali takes a hattrick

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to win the third test England now lead the series 2-1

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:02:11.:02:13.

into a best-selling memoir - now author Matt Haig will tell us

:02:14.:02:19.

how it's inspired him to write a fictional tale about a man

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who's 400 years old. # I was busy thinking about boys...

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of women in music videos - we'll find out how singer Charli XCX

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is turning the tables Good morning from the roof of

:02:39.:02:52.

Broadcasting House in London, the sun is beating down but the forecast

:02:53.:02:56.

today is one of sunshine and showers. Some thundery with hail,

:02:57.:03:01.

some miss them all together, especially in south-east England. We

:03:02.:03:03.

have more details in 15 minutes. British Gas says that

:03:04.:03:04.

its electricity prices will go It'll affect just over

:03:05.:03:15.

three million customers who are Let's get more detail

:03:16.:03:18.

from Sean who joins us now. Sean, you interviewed the boss of

:03:19.:03:24.

Centrica, the owner of British Gas. Challenging him quite a bit on why

:03:25.:03:27.

we see this price rise now? Quite often we hear energy prices, when

:03:28.:03:32.

they go up for suppliers, where they get their energy from in pipes

:03:33.:03:36.

around the world, when they go up it is often passed on to customers but

:03:37.:03:40.

in recent months, energy prices for them have been falling and so when

:03:41.:03:45.

you put that to Ian Connor, the boss of Centrica, the owner of British

:03:46.:03:56.

Gas, they say they have been falling but other costs are going up like

:03:57.:03:58.

transmission costs, moving energy around the UK, investment into the

:03:59.:04:00.

grid, as he put it, and general government policy, passed on through

:04:01.:04:02.

suppliers and on to customers meaning that has put up costs. When

:04:03.:04:05.

I put that to him he acknowledged that there were rises but he said

:04:06.:04:12.

they had to be made. We are very conscious of people's pockets and

:04:13.:04:19.

the fact that people and energy is a big part of the bill so we

:04:20.:04:22.

implemented a price freeze and kept it open for as long as we could.

:04:23.:04:27.

Remind us, that was the boss talking about some of the reasoning, can you

:04:28.:04:32.

take us through the numbers, what are the rises? With gas there is no

:04:33.:04:38.

rise but with electricity a rise of 12.5% for 3 million odd customers at

:04:39.:04:43.

British Gas. On a dual fuel bill, that's about ?76 on top of what

:04:44.:04:54.

they've paid previously, coming to an average about ?1120 for a dual

:04:55.:04:57.

fuel bill, they say. For the 200,000 customers they have on the discount,

:04:58.:04:59.

their most vulnerable customers, they will effectively get a rebate

:05:00.:05:05.

for the costs of ?76 bid for the other ?2.8 -- 2.8 million customers,

:05:06.:05:14.

they will take that on the chin. He said it was regrettable they had to

:05:15.:05:19.

put up the prices but the standard tariff needs to be put out by energy

:05:20.:05:24.

suppliers and he called for an end to it so it was not a default

:05:25.:05:29.

option. You can be switched to lower tariffs, fixed payment plans?

:05:30.:05:34.

Exactly, the regulator say that there is a lot of cheaper deals are

:05:35.:05:42.

Benn, but not enough are switching so we can get the best deal -- are

:05:43.:05:46.

out there. The White House communications

:05:47.:05:48.

director Anthony Scaramucci has been fired less than two weeks

:05:49.:05:53.

after his appointment, in the latest high-profile departure

:05:54.:05:55.

from Donald Trump's top team. His sacking was the first decision

:05:56.:05:57.

to be taken by new Chief of Staff, General John Kelly, and it's seen

:05:58.:06:00.

as an attempt to bring stability Tonight, breaking news: Forced out

:06:01.:06:03.

after just 11 days on the job Game of Thrones, House

:06:04.:06:08.

of Cards - pick your drama. Washington thrown into a frenzy

:06:09.:06:12.

after the newly minted Anthony Scaramucci took

:06:13.:06:14.

to the podium ten days ago He came in guns blazing,

:06:15.:06:28.

promising to flip the script Although his eye was on getting rid

:06:29.:06:32.

of then chief-of-staff Reince Priebus, it was

:06:33.:06:44.

Press Secretary Sean Spicer resigning in protest

:06:45.:06:45.

at the man called "Mooch". You know, one of the things I can't

:06:46.:06:49.

stand about this town Where I grew up, in

:06:50.:06:53.

the neighbourhood I was in, The self-proclaimed outsider took it

:06:54.:07:02.

too far, launching into a tirade of obscenities to a journalist,

:07:03.:07:06.

accidentally on the record, Scaramucci seemed to have won

:07:07.:07:08.

when Reince Priebus resigned, But a new-new sheriff was in town,

:07:09.:07:21.

General John Kelly, the secretary His request, a source tells me,

:07:22.:07:26.

was that Scaramucci had to go. Kelly's wish, the

:07:27.:07:33.

President's command. After the swearing-in

:07:34.:07:34.

ceremony, the Mooch Donald Trump has been in office

:07:35.:07:35.

for nearly six months, but his presidency has been plagued

:07:36.:07:39.

by chaos and controversy. From multiple investigations

:07:40.:07:49.

into his campaign's contacts with Russia, to constant staffing

:07:50.:07:50.

shake-ups at the White House. But, with a four-star

:07:51.:07:53.

general at the helm now, the administration is hoping that it

:07:54.:07:55.

will be smoother Suzanne Kianpour,

:07:56.:07:57.

BBC News, Washington. The Home Secretary is challenging

:07:58.:08:01.

the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Google to do more

:08:02.:08:04.

to remove extremist content online. Amber Rudd has been

:08:05.:08:06.

attending a technology summit in San Francisco -

:08:07.:08:08.

She spoke earlier with our North America Technology reporter,

:08:09.:08:15.

Dave Lee who began by asking her What I need them to acknowledge

:08:16.:08:17.

is that the enemy, who is really trying to move swiftly online,

:08:18.:08:22.

to radicalise people in their own homes, are really

:08:23.:08:24.

stepping their game up, and we need our response

:08:25.:08:27.

stepped up as well. They need to be

:08:28.:08:30.

the ones to own that. We're asking them to work harder

:08:31.:08:34.

on this, to put more effort, more resources into it,

:08:35.:08:37.

and to work together to deliver it. And in these meetings, actually,

:08:38.:08:41.

I have had a very strong None of them want to be the platform

:08:42.:08:44.

on which terrorists do operate, and it is that imperative

:08:45.:08:50.

which is driving this forward. You spoke about making these

:08:51.:08:52.

places on the internet How do you make something like that

:08:53.:08:55.

hostile to terrorists? Well, they have to make sure

:08:56.:09:03.

that the material that terrorists want to put up gets taken down,

:09:04.:09:06.

or even better, doesn't go That is what we are really

:09:07.:09:09.

trying to achieve. I mean, in the UK we take down,

:09:10.:09:13.

through our internet referral unit, about 2,000 hostile pieces a week,

:09:14.:09:16.

and that is continuing to rise. We need to make sure

:09:17.:09:21.

that they take action to do this. Users are going to hear this,

:09:22.:09:24.

regular users are going to hear this, and think what you are trying

:09:25.:09:27.

to do is decide, before someone posts something,

:09:28.:09:30.

whether that is allowed. I mean, that is censorship,

:09:31.:09:32.

and the concerns about You are deciding before it even goes

:09:33.:09:34.

online whether it is allowed. Well, I would ask users to decide

:09:35.:09:42.

very carefully the consequences This is material that is designed

:09:43.:09:44.

to encourage violence, it is designed to encourage

:09:45.:09:48.

terrorists. And there are ways that we can make

:09:49.:09:50.

sure that the sort of people who they can track who might be

:09:51.:10:01.

putting that online are stopped before it goes up, or indeed,

:10:02.:10:04.

as they put it up, it stops Because they have managed to track

:10:05.:10:07.

it, and they can identify it before They have to face up,

:10:08.:10:11.

people who might oppose this, They are trying to weaponise people

:10:12.:10:17.

at home, vulnerable people, And what happens is,

:10:18.:10:21.

when this material goes online, Amber Rudd speaking to our reporter

:10:22.:10:25.

in San Francisco. Patients with pancreatic

:10:26.:10:38.

cancer are being operated on in just two weeks,

:10:39.:10:40.

instead of two months Research published in the medical

:10:41.:10:42.

journal, HPB, says early surgery increases patients' chances

:10:43.:10:46.

of having their tumours Doctors in Birmingham

:10:47.:10:47.

hope their approach will be Kate Rigby was amazed at how

:10:48.:10:50.

smoothly the NHS worked when she was diagnosed

:10:51.:10:58.

with pancreatic cancer. Within seven days, she had had

:10:59.:11:00.

surgery at the Queen Elizabeth I can't control NHS budget,

:11:01.:11:02.

and all the other things for the poor people who aren't

:11:03.:11:10.

as lucky as me. But what I can do

:11:11.:11:13.

is spread the word. Normally, people with jaundice

:11:14.:11:17.

like Mrs Rigby have a stent put in to relieve symptoms,

:11:18.:11:19.

which delays the main operation. A nurse was employed

:11:20.:11:22.

to speed up treatment from two months to 16 days,

:11:23.:11:27.

meaning a fifth more patients were able to complete surgery

:11:28.:11:30.

to remove their cancer. Cutting out the stent also said

:11:31.:11:38.

the NHS ?3,200 per patient. We save the NHS potentially ?200,000

:11:39.:11:42.

per year, with the number of patients that have surgery

:11:43.:11:45.

within our team. And so that, then, is a reproducible

:11:46.:11:50.

model that other units up and down Pancreatic cancer has

:11:51.:11:53.

a very low survival rate. It will be two years before doctors

:11:54.:11:57.

can say whether treating patients more quickly actually means

:11:58.:11:59.

that they live longer. And, if they do, that will beg

:12:00.:12:02.

the question as to whether or not other aggressive cancers should be

:12:03.:12:05.

treated more quickly. For now, Kate Rigby knows she has

:12:06.:12:09.

been given the best chance possible Pupils should be taught

:12:10.:12:12.

about the importance of breast-feeding in schools -

:12:13.:12:21.

that's the advice of the professional body

:12:22.:12:24.

which represents paediatricians. The Royal College of Paediatrics

:12:25.:12:26.

and Child Health is also calling on ministers to legislate

:12:27.:12:28.

for breast-feeding breaks The College says Britain has

:12:29.:12:30.

one of the lowest rates of breast-feeding in Europe,

:12:31.:12:37.

blaming social stigma More needs to be done

:12:38.:12:38.

to stop women being forced to wear high heels at work,

:12:39.:12:47.

according to scientists at Academics looked at

:12:48.:12:50.

the physical and social impact of wearing the shoes and say

:12:51.:12:53.

there's enough evidence to suggest they're bad

:12:54.:12:55.

for the health of wearers. Earlier this year, the Government

:12:56.:12:59.

rejected calls for a ban When the owner of Petey the dog

:13:00.:13:01.

became stuck in his car during a flash flood,

:13:02.:13:06.

he decided there was no way he was going

:13:07.:13:09.

to leave his pet in danger. Have a look at the pictures here,

:13:10.:13:18.

this is the scale of the problem they were facing.

:13:19.:13:19.

The car was submerged after a dry creek bed was engulfed

:13:20.:13:22.

Rescuers had to use a crane to get to the car before Petey

:13:23.:13:29.

was handed over by his owner who then climbed out.

:13:30.:13:32.

The pair could then walk across the crane

:13:33.:13:38.

From today, babies born in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be

:13:39.:13:45.

offered a new vaccine which protects against Hepatitis B.

:13:46.:13:47.

The Hexavalent vaccine will also immunise against five other diseases

:13:48.:13:49.

including diphtheria, polio, tetanus and whooping cough

:13:50.:13:51.

and replaces the current "five in one" injection.

:13:52.:13:58.

Health Protection Scotland is set to adopt a similar

:13:59.:14:00.

Let's get more detail from Joanne Yarwood,

:14:01.:14:03.

Head of Programmes for Immunisation at Public Health England

:14:04.:14:05.

Good morning, lovely to see you both. Barbara, can I start with you

:14:06.:14:18.

in terms of the detail of the new vaccinations? You will know full

:14:19.:14:24.

well that a lot of parents worry quite a bit about vaccinations

:14:25.:14:30.

anyway. You are adding one more. 5-6. Joanne, take us through, if you

:14:31.:14:35.

would come exactly what this would comprise of and allay any fears

:14:36.:14:39.

about another vaccine being included? Yes, we completely

:14:40.:14:43.

understand parents have concerns about the safety of their children

:14:44.:14:48.

and protecting them. But, this vaccine, as you have already

:14:49.:14:52.

described, adds another element of protection to their children, to

:14:53.:14:56.

protect them against some really serious and nasty infectious

:14:57.:15:02.

diseases. We are delighted that we can add and introduce this vaccine

:15:03.:15:06.

to babies born today, and add the extra protection into the programme.

:15:07.:15:13.

Barbara, is good to have you on the sofa with us, how will parents react

:15:14.:15:18.

to this? It is quite a worry, it's a stressful time when you take your

:15:19.:15:23.

baby for a vaccine, you are tense and you are waiting for the baby to

:15:24.:15:27.

be heard, and you worry about the consequences of the vaccine? Hearing

:15:28.:15:32.

there are six strains of immunisation, six diseases to

:15:33.:15:34.

immunise against seems a lot for a little one to take?

:15:35.:15:39.

When baby is born they're exposed to millions of diseases and viruses,

:15:40.:15:45.

changing a nappy, sitting in a waiting room, somebody coughing on

:15:46.:15:52.

you, far, far more than in a properly prepared vaccine. One of

:15:53.:15:58.

the examples given, on that first vaccination they get protection from

:15:59.:16:02.

nine different diseases. Not just the six, but another three on top.

:16:03.:16:07.

But if you were to give them 11 that would still only use up 0.1% of the

:16:08.:16:12.

baby's immune system. They are so well prepared. Can I just ask you

:16:13.:16:20.

about take up? In a GP's surgery, what's your practical knowledge of

:16:21.:16:24.

how many people take up? It's clearly voluntary, what's the take

:16:25.:16:28.

up? Well, we aim because we have targets in general practice, we aim

:16:29.:16:32.

more about 90%. Do you reach that? Not always. In some areas it can be

:16:33.:16:38.

as low as 80% and then there is a big drive to get the parents to

:16:39.:16:41.

understand how important it is. Often what we do is we combine the

:16:42.:16:46.

vaccination day with having the developmental check. Joanne, why

:16:47.:16:53.

now? Why are we seeing hepatitis B being added to the vaccine now?

:16:54.:16:58.

Where will we see a difference? Well, what we haven't discussed

:16:59.:17:03.

really is we have an expert committee that advises us on the

:17:04.:17:09.

additional vaccines that we maybe able to offer in our national

:17:10.:17:12.

programme. So they've considered all the evidence. They've looked at it

:17:13.:17:18.

and they advised that we should introduce this vaccine and babies

:17:19.:17:23.

born today, all babies born from today, will be able to have this

:17:24.:17:27.

vaccine so their first vaccine will be at eight weeks and we're really

:17:28.:17:32.

pleased, we worked really hard to ensure that our national programme,

:17:33.:17:37.

which really is amongst one of the best in the world, is able to offer

:17:38.:17:41.

protection to as many infants as we can. Is hepatitis B a problem at the

:17:42.:17:49.

moment in the UK? Well, the prevalence of hepatitis B is low in

:17:50.:17:54.

England, in the UK, but we are part of a global community and the World

:17:55.:18:02.

Health Organization has a commitment to protecting infants across the

:18:03.:18:05.

whole world with this vaccine and there are at the moment 97 countries

:18:06.:18:10.

that are already offering this vaccine and we know that more than

:18:11.:18:15.

150 million doses has been given. So this is part of the really hard work

:18:16.:18:20.

that everybody is doing to ensure that we can offer the best

:18:21.:18:23.

protection available to our children. Thank you. And Barbara

:18:24.:18:32.

Murray, Dr Barbara Murray, thank you for your time as well.

:18:33.:18:38.

It's 8.18am and you're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:18:39.:18:40.

British Gas says that its electricity prices

:18:41.:18:43.

It'll affect just over three million customers

:18:44.:18:47.

Donald Trump has sacked his Communications Director,

:18:48.:18:54.

Anthony Scaramucci, just days after appointing him.

:18:55.:18:59.

Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather.

:19:00.:19:03.

Started off early this morning a little bit blustery where you are

:19:04.:19:10.

this morning on your little balcony overlooking London.

:19:11.:19:14.

Yes it was a bit breezy up here, but we are quite a few levels up. It

:19:15.:19:22.

feels pleasantly warm and we have got blue skies. This isn't the case

:19:23.:19:25.

everywhere, it is across some parts of the UK. The forecast for us today

:19:26.:19:30.

is one of heavy showers and bright or sunny spells. We have seen heavy

:19:31.:19:34.

showers already this morning especially across north-west England

:19:35.:19:38.

and Wales, but across Scotland, there are also some heavy showers

:19:39.:19:41.

coming in from the south, we have got them across the Highlands as

:19:42.:19:45.

well, the Outer Hebrides, but there is dry weather around. Still some

:19:46.:19:49.

heavy showers moving from north-west England heading across the Pennines

:19:50.:19:53.

through the day, but north-east England is dry and then as we come

:19:54.:20:00.

further south, across the Peak District and Essex, Kent and towards

:20:01.:20:05.

the Isle of Wight, a lot of dry weather, sunny skies, pleasantly

:20:06.:20:09.

warm and gentle breezes. Further west, we are looking at sunshine

:20:10.:20:13.

across Gloucestershire, Dorset, and south-west England seeing sunshine

:20:14.:20:16.

and just a few showers, but Wales, you've got a few showers. They have

:20:17.:20:19.

been lining up as we have gone through the course of the night.

:20:20.:20:22.

Some are heavy. For Northern Ireland, here too, we've got showers

:20:23.:20:25.

particularly in the north and the west. Further east, it is drier and

:20:26.:20:29.

brighter with sunshine. Now through the course of the day, further

:20:30.:20:32.

showers will develop. Some of them will be heavy. Some of them will be

:20:33.:20:36.

thundery. Some will have hail in. That combination is likely to be

:20:37.:20:41.

anywhere, from South Wales to the Wash, north of that line, but they

:20:42.:20:44.

are showers. So not all of us will see them. Further south, the showers

:20:45.:20:47.

will be less intense. Fewer and further between. And south-east

:20:48.:20:51.

England could escape them altogether, but we will see some in

:20:52.:20:55.

East Anglia. Through the evening and overnight, well, we are looking at a

:20:56.:21:00.

lot of the showers fading. It will be a chilly night in sheltered

:21:01.:21:05.

glens, but the cloud will build. We will see showers and some rain

:21:06.:21:09.

coming in. And that will be accompanied by strengthening winds.

:21:10.:21:13.

So tomorrow, we start off with a lot of dry weather, but watch how the

:21:14.:21:17.

rain spreads out as it moves north-east wards. That's going to be

:21:18.:21:22.

heavy and persistent across Wales and south-west England and southern

:21:23.:21:25.

counties and the wind will pick up touching gale force around some of

:21:26.:21:29.

the coasts and that rain will advance northwards through the

:21:30.:21:31.

courts day, but north-east Scotland should stay dry. So as a result of

:21:32.:21:35.

this rain and the wind, it will feel cooler than it's going to do today

:21:36.:21:41.

where it's going to feel warm. Into Thursday, we lose the rain.

:21:42.:21:44.

Overnight, it will clear off into the North Sea, but we will have a

:21:45.:21:46.

curl of showery rain coming in across parts of the north and the

:21:47.:21:50.

west, but many of us will have a dry day with highs once again back up

:21:51.:21:55.

into the low 20s, but it will be noticeably breezy. On Friday Naga

:21:56.:21:59.

and Charlie, it will be sunshine and showers again. But you're making

:22:00.:22:07.

sure you're hogging the sunshine. Oh, it's lovely. I know how Carlol

:22:08.:22:11.

feels. I love it. Enjoy it. Style bible British Vogue makes

:22:12.:22:19.

history today when Edward Enninful To bring in the changes he's

:22:20.:22:21.

recruited the film-maker Steve McQueen and the model,

:22:22.:22:25.

Naomi Campbell, but in the digital age when runway shows are live

:22:26.:22:27.

streamed is there still a demand Let's discuss this now

:22:28.:22:30.

with the fashion blogger, Bronwyn Cosgrave who was a features

:22:31.:22:42.

editor at British Vogue. Good morning. Thank you for staying

:22:43.:22:53.

up late for us. We've got a female Dr Scop who and now a male editor of

:22:54.:22:59.

Vogue. The times are changing. It's about time. I mean and I actually

:23:00.:23:04.

think this isn't about gender. There has been a lot in the press about

:23:05.:23:10.

Edward's appointment. I really feel that they picked the best person for

:23:11.:23:15.

the job. He has a track record that goes back decades. He started out on

:23:16.:23:22.

i-D magazine which is the great British style bible. He has worked

:23:23.:23:28.

in W Magazine in New York and for American Vogue. He is not an

:23:29.:23:35.

outsider. It's Edward Enninful OBE. He is great friends, the second son

:23:36.:23:43.

of Jonathan Newhouse who made the appointment, not the second son, the

:23:44.:23:48.

adopted son and close to the Newhouse family. He is a wonderful

:23:49.:23:53.

guy. Very imaginative. His great contribution so far was the black

:23:54.:23:59.

issue which was published in 2008 at Vogue Italia which was the first all

:24:00.:24:05.

black issue of Vogue. Also Vogue has had a man at the helm in the 1930s,

:24:06.:24:13.

he was the editor of Paris Vogue and continued into the 1950s and was a

:24:14.:24:17.

legendary character and men have constantly worked behind the scenes

:24:18.:24:21.

at British Vogue so now it's time for somebody to take up the reigns.

:24:22.:24:25.

That's the issue when it comes to what a man can do at the helm of

:24:26.:24:31.

such an iconic magazine, it is interesting Maria about blogging and

:24:32.:24:35.

the place of Vogue now. The place of a glossy magazine in our world and I

:24:36.:24:41.

noticed that last year, some US Vogue writers were openly critical

:24:42.:24:47.

of fashion bloggers, just basically saying, no to bloggers who change

:24:48.:24:55.

head to toe and paid to change, there is this competition to say

:24:56.:24:58.

well, who says what goes? And you are not the one to say it. Why

:24:59.:25:04.

should there be a competition. I feel you could include bloggers a

:25:05.:25:08.

lot more. It's not about a competition, it's about emgracing

:25:09.:25:11.

the fact that the fashion industry is changing. The people are

:25:12.:25:14.

embracing people like you who blog, isn't it? Yes. It is instant access.

:25:15.:25:19.

So by the time you get a magazine and we will get your view on this

:25:20.:25:24.

Bronwyn, by the time you get a magazine, it is out of date almost.

:25:25.:25:28.

I feel like the instant access is there, if you open a copy of a

:25:29.:25:32.

magazine, if you're going to find someone who you can relate to, it's

:25:33.:25:36.

difficult. If you have a disability, if you open a copy of Vogue, you are

:25:37.:25:40.

not likely going to see yourself represented in the pages, but you

:25:41.:25:44.

can go online and within seconds search and a hashtag find hundreds

:25:45.:25:49.

of people who are exactly like you. Maria, for your generation, is it

:25:50.:25:53.

still a big deal, what's on the cover of British Vogue? Is that

:25:54.:25:57.

still a big deal? It is personal to me because I have been a subscriber

:25:58.:26:04.

since 2011 and I recently cancelled my subscription. The current issue

:26:05.:26:09.

is on my desk in the packaging. What do you think of that? I actually, I

:26:10.:26:16.

don't think a mag dean is out of date. I think a weekly publication

:26:17.:26:24.

is out of date, but I think what a reader is looking at, looking to

:26:25.:26:30.

when one buys Vogue is analysis and expertise. You know, it's not easy

:26:31.:26:35.

to get a job at British Vogue, nor is it easy keeping a job at British

:26:36.:26:39.

Vogue. They demand the absolute best. A lot of research and a lot of

:26:40.:26:45.

intelligence and background goes into that magazine and you know

:26:46.:26:51.

blogging, fantastic, but it's more off-the-cuff, you know, over the

:26:52.:26:55.

last five years, yeah, I'd love to see British Vogue edited by a guest

:26:56.:26:59.

blogger. That didn't happen. I think there is a slight insecurity within

:27:00.:27:07.

the magazine establishment, about the whole social media landscape and

:27:08.:27:20.

I do think, you know, I do think that castigating bloggers was a

:27:21.:27:24.

misstep. Edward has over 5,000 Instagram followers and he appointed

:27:25.:27:31.

Steve McQueen and Naomi Campbell, all these independent professionals

:27:32.:27:35.

who to a certain extent rely on social media to keep building their

:27:36.:27:39.

brands and today, Vogue is no longer just a magazine, it is a brand and

:27:40.:27:43.

it has to compete with the best brands out there. Thank you very

:27:44.:27:48.

Vanessa Feltz is on BBC Radio London to you and Maria, thank you.

:27:49.:31:16.

Vanessa Feltz is on BBC Radio London until 10am but I will be back in

:31:17.:31:18.

half an hour on BBC One. Hello this is Breakfast with

:31:19.:31:23.

Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty. British Gas says that

:31:24.:31:26.

its electricity prices Let's get more detail

:31:27.:31:30.

from Sean who joins us now. These figures came in in the last

:31:31.:31:43.

hour, what are the numbers? Electricity prices on British Gas

:31:44.:31:49.

variable tariff will be up 12.5%. Gas prices will not be moving up.

:31:50.:31:54.

That is from September. About ?76 on the dual fuel bill for over 3

:31:55.:32:00.

million customers on British Gas. For the customers who get the warm

:32:01.:32:05.

home discount, they will get a rebate from the ?76 so in theory

:32:06.:32:10.

they will not see a rise. We were talking to the boss earlier and he

:32:11.:32:14.

said despite energy prices falling for them, they have had to pass on a

:32:15.:32:19.

price rise for domestic customers because of other costs. Transmission

:32:20.:32:23.

costs and government policy. The government had just sent me what

:32:24.:32:27.

their take on the price rise is this morning. They are concerned this

:32:28.:32:31.

price rise will hit many people on what they call poor value tariffs.

:32:32.:32:35.

They said the government policy costs make up a small proportion of

:32:36.:32:39.

household energy bills and cannot explain the rises today. We need the

:32:40.:32:46.

boss of Centrica and an energy minister and see what they agree.

:32:47.:32:51.

Because this toing and froing doesn't help anyone? No it doesn't.

:32:52.:32:56.

There is the transmission costs as well, which isn't government policy

:32:57.:33:02.

and isn't daily-macro is the costs going up at the energy companies. It

:33:03.:33:08.

is all about the marketplace, isn't it? Are others on similar rates?

:33:09.:33:15.

There are fixed rate deals you can switch to that are cheaper than

:33:16.:33:19.

standard variable tariffs. It is the regulators and the companies say.

:33:20.:33:23.

But the companies have to provide this standard tariff. Lots of people

:33:24.:33:26.

end up on it and lots of people don't switch away from it. Thank

:33:27.:33:28.

you. The White House communications

:33:29.:33:31.

director Anthony Scaramucci has been fired less than two weeks

:33:32.:33:34.

after his appointment. In the latest high-profile departure

:33:35.:33:36.

from Donald Trump's top team, the new Chief of Staff John Kelly

:33:37.:33:38.

asked Mr Scaramucci to step aside. The former banker made headlines

:33:39.:33:42.

when derogatory comments he made about General Kelly's predecessor

:33:43.:33:44.

were made public. The Home Secretary is challenging

:33:45.:33:49.

the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Google to do more

:33:50.:33:51.

to remove extremist content online. Amber Rudd has been attending

:33:52.:33:54.

a technology summit set up by the internet giants

:33:55.:33:56.

in San Francisco and has told the firms they need to do more

:33:57.:33:58.

to protect the public by stopping the spread of terror

:33:59.:34:01.

related material. But there is concern

:34:02.:34:04.

that the privacy of ordinary users From today, there will be a new

:34:05.:34:23.

vaccine which protects against hepatitis B. It will vaccinate

:34:24.:34:29.

against polio, whooping cough and tetanus. Public Health England says

:34:30.:34:35.

the new vaccine has been extensively tested.

:34:36.:34:40.

Pupils should be taught about the importance

:34:41.:34:42.

of breast-feeding in schools, that's the advice of the professional body

:34:43.:34:45.

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is also calling

:34:46.:34:49.

on ministers to legislate for breast-feeding breaks

:34:50.:34:50.

The College says Britain has one of the lowest rates

:34:51.:34:54.

of breast-feeding in Europe, blaming social stigma

:34:55.:34:56.

will have the weather in about ten minutes' time,

:34:57.:35:14.

but also coming up on Breakfast this morning...

:35:15.:35:16.

We'll ask whether its right employers can dictate what you wear

:35:17.:35:18.

on your feet as new research suggests wearing high heels

:35:19.:35:21.

It's the music video that's racked up

:35:22.:35:26.

millions of views on YouTube challenging gender stereotypes.

:35:27.:35:33.

Singer songwriter turned director, Charlie XCX will be on the sofa

:35:34.:35:35.

Anxiety and depression made author, Matt Haig, obsessed with time.

:35:36.:35:43.

He'll tell us how his mental health has inspired his latest novel about

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But first let's get the sport with Sally.

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Have you ever seen a happier face? Moeen Ali celebrating his hat-trick

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yesterday. Good morning, everyone. England's cricketers went 2-1

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up in the Test series against South Africa

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yesterday, after an amazing The tourists were trying

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to save a draw, but two wickets in two balls from debutant

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Toby Roland Jones ended those hopes. The only resistance

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came from Dean Elgar, But it was Moeen Ali

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who finished South Africa off, winning the match in the perfect

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fashion, with a hat-trick. The World Athletics championships

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get under way at the weekend, but one of the star attractions

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on the track won't be there. David Rudisha, the World

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and Olympic 800m champion and world record holder,

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is out with a thigh injury. The Kenyan won the world title

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in Beijing two years ago, and broke the world record

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in London in 2012. Manchester United manager

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Jose Mourinho has made his third big He's gone back to former club

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Chelsea and signed Nemanja Matic, a player he signed for the Blues

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three years ago. He has moved to Old Trafford

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for a fee of ?35 million, Four-time Major champion

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Rory McIlroy has split The pair have worked together

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for the past nine years and for each Last month, McIlroy gave Fitzgerald

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credit for geeing him up He said, remember who you are, you

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are Rory McIlroy. McIlroy is expected to confirm

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the news tomorrow ahead of this week's World Golf Championship

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event in Ohio. The deal is done for Los Angeles

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to host the 2028 Olympic LA's bid team has reached

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an agreement with the International Olympic Committee, which is expected

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to be ratified by the Los Angeles LA had originally been

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bidding for the 2024 Games, but that event is now set

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to take place in Paris. Two more or less confirmed at the

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same time. Something to look forward to.

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Absolutely. Olympics goes to Hollywood. Sally, thank you very

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much. From today, people studying to be

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nurses or midwives will no longer receive NHS bursaries,

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instead, they will have Applications for courses

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are down by more than 20%. The Government says it is providing

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funding for an extra 10,000 university places for students

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on nursing, midwifery and other We get rid of that and

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you've now got what? These second-year nursing students

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are getting their first look at the Anatomage Table

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using the latest technology to take a 3-D trip through

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a virtual human body. Their degree course at

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the University of Central Lancashire is funded by NHS bursaries

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and grants, but as of today applicants wanting to study nursing,

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midwifery and other medical courses will need a student loan in line

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with other undergraduates. So would it have

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deterred these students? I don't think it would have made

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a difference to myself because I really wanted to become

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a nurse and although the financial implications of not having a bursary

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would have impacted on me quite heavily, but I could have managed

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and my desire to become a nurse But applications for these courses

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have fallen by around 20%. Theories include doubts

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from European students about Brexit, a birthrate decline in the number

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of 18-year-olds as well as concerns The universities, though,

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are determined to see the numbers recover and here

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there's cautious optimism. We have seen a decline in the number

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of applications coming through, but they're good quality

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and so the key thing is that they convert

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into the numbers that we have. So I'm very positive

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at this moment in time One of the main areas of concern

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is the impact on mature students. Nursing and midwifery attract a much

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higher percentage of older applicants than other degree courses

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and their life experience is seen as a vital part

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of the mix on a ward. Sarah Cordey says a loan instead

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of a bursary would have stopped her changing career

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to become a midwife. To saddle students with a huge

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amount of debt when they are only ever able to earn

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what the government dictates they can earn, it doesn't seem

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to make sense to me and had I been making this decision now

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knowing that I would have to take on the debt,

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I couldn't have done it, no. The government argues that the cap

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on student places had previously restricted numbers and that changing

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the funding will lead to an increase But Les Green says he now can't

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afford to pursue his dream job. ?30,000, I'd be paying back

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until I finish probably my... I don't think I'd ever pay that off,

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I'd pay it until the rest All signs agree that the NHS

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is in dire need of more clinical staff but the debate centres on how

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to pay for them. We're joined now by Laura Serrant,

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a professor of nursing at Sheffield Hallam University

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and previously advised the Government on nursing

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and midwifery in England. Good morning. What do you make of

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these numbers, do they add up to you? We spoke to Jeremy Hunt

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yesterday talking about targets and getting more nurses in specifically

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into mental health, but overall, Bursaries are stopping and this

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September we need more nurses to start training in order to fulfil

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numbers, do they add up to you? It is not whether the numbers add up,

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but whichever point you start nurse training, it is three years before

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you see a qualified nurse. I suppose question is, if the challenge now

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and we are short of people, the increase is one thing, but it won't

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be an increase of the number of nurses and qualified in the system.

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So we will never have enough nurses? There is always people coming in and

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out and nursing is the largest profession. Most nursing every day

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is given in a hands-on way but the demand is always going to go up. But

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planning the workforce is always a longer term strategy. We do need to

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think about how we manage that now as well as in three years. How do

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some of these work out? The government said they will fund

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10,000 extra places, but not until 2020 or 2021, so when they said they

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will fund them, the Bursaries don't exist so students take out loans.

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They are paying for the tuition and their education. What is the funding

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element, this 10,000 funding, what is that? It is about being able to

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support that number of students in the system will stop but aren't they

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paying for it? I don't understand. We don't have much detail on how

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that funding will support the number of nurses we are talking about. The

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other thing to remember is, student nurses and midwives, other

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practitioners as well, speech therapists, radio therapists, we

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can't only train them within a university. This is a practice

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discipline, so people learn in practice. So for every extra student

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place, you will need extra places in hospitals and practice areas as

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well. It is not as simple to say, if we have more students in the

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university we will automatically have more practitioners. If they

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want to do this and have an impact, even within the three-year time

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frame, the only logical thing to do would be to create the places now?

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Not wait, is there any logic in waiting? There is no logic in

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waiting with the pressures we have now, but we have to look at other

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ways of actually solving the problem. We can't just increased the

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number of people coming in at one end of the system and then wait for

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them to come out at the other end. Issues like supporting people in

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practice, to get people to remain within nursing and not lose the

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number of people we already have. How do we support a workforce under

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pressure, but actually allow them to feel this is a good place to work?

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Nurses, midwives and other health care professionals work very hard.

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It is not an easy thing to do. It is nights, weekends, all the time we

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are awake or asleep, there is somebody working. We need to not

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only increase the number of students, but make sure the

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workforce has the support it needs to do a really hard job. What is the

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incentive at the moment to do this job when you have no support

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studying from September, 1% pay at the moment, increased hours or

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increased pressure because of reduced budgets, who is applying to

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be a nurse? In a hurry are very popular

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programmes. The issue was not so much in the number of people who

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might apply -- nursing and midwifery are very popular programmes. At

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Sheffield Hallam we have an average of five people applying for each

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place, in children's nursing admit with Riordan is even more, I am sure

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that is the same at other universities. It is a personal drive

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that makes people want to do this profession. I do not think we will

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lose people wanting to be nurses, midwives or speech therapists but we

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do not want to make it harder for them to achieve what they want to

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achieve. Thank you very much for your time, Professor.

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Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather.

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She has been hogging the sun, are you continuing to do so?

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Oh, yes! It is beautiful in London, the sun is beating down, feeling

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pleasantly warm on the roof of Broadcasting House. The forecast is

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not like this everywhere. For some, but not all. The forecast today is

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one of sunshine and showers. Some showers will be heavy and sunny with

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hail. We will not all see them. At 9am in

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Scotland we have rain around. You can see it in the charts. Some rain

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across southern Scotland, also a lot of dry weather. Temperatures in

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Edinburgh around 13 or 14. Heavy rain this morning in

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north-west England, there is still some around, some crossing the

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Pennines. Currently drive across most of north-east England. Across

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the Midlands, East Anglia, towards Kent at the Isle of Wight, sky is

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very similar to this. Big Sam pieces of code but also sunshine. West

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across Gloucestershire, Dorset had into the south-west of England, lots

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of dry weather with a few showers. Showers have been lining up for you

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in Wales. That is how we have started the day. Not as heavy as

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those across north-west England but you will notice them.

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Showers in the north and west of Northern Ireland, the East is

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predominantly dry. Through the day, further showers

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developing. If we drew a line from South Wales towards the wash, points

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north of that are more prone to the heavy showers with rain and thunder.

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We will not all have that combination and we will not all sea

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shallows. The showers are not as heavily further south, parts of the

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south-east could stay dry, East Anglia is likely to see showers.

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Highs of up to 23, gentle breezes. Feeling nice in the sunshine, the

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general range is 18 to 20. Many showers will try off tonight, a

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chilly night in the Glens of Scotland with temperatures into

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single figures. Increasing amounts of cloud, showers and then Raine and

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strengthening winds coming across south-west England and south-west

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Wales. Tomorrow, spreading north eastwards through the day. The

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heaviest and most persistent will be across Wales, south-west England in

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seven counties. The wind will strengthen, coastal gales in the

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south-west. That migrate northwards through the day, north-east Scotland

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should stay dry. Into Thursday, the rain will cross through the course

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of the night and then curl around the north and west, showery

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outbreaks but it will be dry for many but breezy, temperatures

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picking up once again. Carol, we will ask you something

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odd. Can we see your shoes? I am wearing trainers. That is allowed

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and sensible. Sensible workwear, you had to climb some stairs, you are on

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the balcony, health and safety is important. That absolutely works.

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We are doing a story about high hills and the pressure women find in

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the workplace if they are told by their bosses they have to. -- we're

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doing a story about high hills. Naga is wearing flat shoes as well. They

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are very comfortable. It is still the law that employers cannot offer

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workers a choice when it comes to heels.

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Doctor Heather Morgan is in Aberdeen. You say more has to be

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done to stop women from having to wear heels? You have looked at the

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physical impact of wearing high heels? Yes, we have looked at the

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physical impact of wearing high heels and we see that women are

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wearing high heels, they suffer from musculoskeletal conditions, bunions,

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pain, injury, negative health outcomes from wearing high heels.

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This review, you have done a review, the results will be published in a

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BMC Public health Journal, what will people find out? To be honest, I

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think of women know that if you wear high heels for a long time your feet

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ache, they don't feel good for a couple of hours, it is obvious it is

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not doing you good? Absolutely. For women and anybody wearing high

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heels, they need to be able to weigh up the risks and benefits. We looked

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at the negative health outcomes of wearing high heels but considered

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the social benefits. Many women enjoy wearing high heels because of

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the benefits that it brings, the cultural norms and social

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expectations. But we argue there should not be an expectation by

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employers that women should be wearing high heels as part of a

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uniform or an expectation that it is something they should wear to their

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place of work. At the moment we do not have clear legislation on that.

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We have the equality act, but we are finding that many women are

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implicitly expected to wear high heels, maybe up to a third. Where?

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In this job we are supposed to look smart and we try our best, I'm sure,

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but I have never been told and I am not sure my colleagues have been

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told that they had to wear high heels. Where do you have to wear

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high heels, as a woman or a man? And the same with me, there is no

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expectation. There was a survey within our review which included a

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study reporting that to a third of women feel there is some sort of

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social pressure. It is maybe not in writing or a code of dress, it might

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not even be, please wear high heels, simply saying that to you, but after

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we find women feel implicit pressure. It does not have to be

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explicit, there is sometimes implicit pressure on women to feel

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they are expected to wear heels in certain lines of work. Which lines

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of work? Reception jobs, office work, maybe you're being asked to

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show people around between rooms, they are the well -- they are the

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ones we found mostly. Where image is really important for the work. That

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is when women seem to be being asked or feel that they are being asked to

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wear high heels. It is good to talk to you, Dr Heather Morgan from

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Aberdeen University. Thank you for your time. Thank you.

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We are joined in the studio by the singer Charli XCX. We were doing a

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story about heels and the pressure whether it is from the workplace or

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your peers to wear high heels. You are a younger generation, you are

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wearing high heels today but is that because it is part of your

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performance? I don't actually wear high heels that often, I just wanted

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to match the sofa today. That is why I am rocking the red tone. Usually I

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am a trainers person. Sensible and practical. We will talk more about

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your new video, it is likely in keeping with the ethos, as I

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understand it, of the idea that you should be free to do things however

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you want and not stuck into stereotypes, male and female

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stereotypes? Right. With my video I basically wanted to flip the male

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gaze on its head, essentially. I directed the video and I basically

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got a lot of celebrities, musicians, actors, sports stars to star in a

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video. We can see them. Do you want to take us through who we are

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seeing? Charlie, the rapper, will I am, Mark Robinson, Stormzy... The

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posers are interesting, the scenarios. We honour getting into it

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yet but we have a pillow fight coming up, some provocative posing

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accent you waiting part of the body, lots of pink. Basically lots of ways

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that women are portrayed in videos, overly sexualised, perhaps, or

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stereotyped. This is an attempt, is it fair, to break down and challenge

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those stereotypes? I have to stress this is definitely not me pointing a

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finger or blaming the boys in this video or trying to make fun of them.

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This is something... I basically harass them into being in this

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video, continuously annoyed them and hit them up until they caved and

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said yes. I guess the whole idea is to... Yeah, use the stereotypical

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scenario is that girls are often seen in, the sexy pillow fight, the

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shower scene, the paddling pool, and presented to them and have them act

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it out. You often have that kind of thing where women are windowdressing

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behind the singer. That is a very common situation in videos. Totally,

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I made the active decision to not be in this video and have the guys do

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all the work. They were all so down. They got my vision completely, I

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mentioned the male gaze and they were all great, yeah, let's do it.

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They completely got it. I thought it was really cool. How take to shoot?

:56:38.:56:46.

Did it take ages? Just to tap them up must have taken a long time? So

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long. We started shooting in March and finished about two weeks before

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it came out, which was five days ago. It has been a long time.

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Everyone is really busy and has scheduled, oh, my gosh. It took a

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lot. We shot in LA, New York, London, the Coachella music

:57:09.:57:13.

festival. It is interesting the idea of control. Maybe you have to go

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back a few years now to when record labels would literally tell the

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artists, particularly maybe the female artists, literally what they

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should wear, how they should look, what their demeanour should be. Has

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that changed a lot? Especially over the past five years, I really do

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believe that has changed. I think lots of females in the industry are

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so vocal about their opinions on feminism and their experience in the

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music industry, and I think lots of female artists and artists in

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general are so much more in control of their own career now. Just

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because I feel like audiences are more intelligent, fans are cleverer,

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they understand the marketing am putting together of a pop star and

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they want somebody real, genuine and firm and not somebody built up. I

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think artists have to take control and run their own game to be

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successful. What are you more proud of, the musical video? I don't know.

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With this I think I am proud of the video just because this is my first

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time directing my own video, I have directed one video before, this is

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the first time doing my own. The video makes more of a statement

:58:30.:58:32.

about the song perhaps that the song does about the video, is that fair?

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I really feel would be quite easy to make a very cute sexy video of me

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singing about boys and I really didn't want to do that, I wanted

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to... There will be pressure on you to keep this up, keep this message

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up? That's OK. I think throughout my career I have been very vocal on my

:58:56.:59:02.

opinion about being a woman in the music industry. I get asked

:59:03.:59:05.

questions about feminism all the time and I am totally happy to

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answer them. At the same time I think I am not somebody who is

:59:10.:59:18.

worried about wearing revealing outfits are performing provocatively

:59:19.:59:22.

sometimes onstage. As long as that is my choice I am completely happy

:59:23.:59:26.

to do that. The second it is an instruction by a man or a record

:59:27.:59:33.

label then it is not cruel, otherwise it is good. Just for the

:59:34.:59:38.

record, I am not offended I was not called to be in the video. Next

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time! Of ice ages is an issue. All those young men.

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We will do an extended cut just for you. Just consider it next time.

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Just consider it. Britain's only surviving cloth

:59:59.:00:00.

hall reopens today after The Piece Hall in Halifax,

:00:01.:00:07.

West Yorkshire, was once the centre of the world's wool trade

:00:08.:00:11.

and since then it has been through a number

:00:12.:00:14.

of different incarnations. Fiona Lamdin is there

:00:15.:00:19.

for us this morning. It is a spectacular backdrop. It

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looks like you could be in Italy or Venice, Rome. Good morning, Fiona.

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You are right, it really does like we could be in Italy if you ignore

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the cloud. There is blue sky that way. This is over 200 years old and

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we have been looking back at its history.

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For the last two and a half centuries the Piece Hall has stood

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at the heart of Halifax, where in 1779 people came to trade

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There were at least 315 individual rooms built for the sale of cloth,

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from which clothiers would have sold the will to merchants.

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from which clothiers would have sold the wool to merchants.

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Merchants would have come from quite far afield,

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including on occasion from Europe, and the trade from the Piece Hall

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went back into Europe and also over to the Americas.

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All the wool came from local sheep woven by local families

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This is an example of the cloth most commonly sold in the Piece Hall

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and as you can feel, it's pretty hard wearing, isn't it?

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This was largely used by the military so it would have

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This is the country's only surviving intact cloth hall with 315

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individual yet identical trading rooms.

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It seems such a waste this beautiful building was only open back then

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in the 18th century for trading for two hours every week.

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But after the Industrial Revolution the cloth was mainly made and sold

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In its place the Piece Hall was filled with fruit

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But a century on, in the 1970s, this is how the Piece Hall looked,

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a blot on the landscape, threatened to be flattened to make

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One of those who fought to save it back then was Mary Crossley.

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When I first came in it was all black, there were sheds around

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the edge and warehouses in the middle and vehicles.

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When I came up onto the balcony I remember there were holes

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To start with there were only three of us for quite a long time

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and there wasn't much to start with but it developed gradually.

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It's hoped this historical hall will place Halifax back on the map.

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238 years on as the shelves fill up, this is a new chapter for this town,

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but nothing is new for these old stones who have witnessed

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In the next half an hour, those grand old doors will be opening. You

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can see the queues forming as the public will be able to come in here

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for the first time. David, your family were actually here right on

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day one all those years ago? Yes, nearly 240 years ago, we were

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trading here and we had four rooms at the peace all behind us. Trading

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in textiles and we have been trading in textiles ever since. What does it

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feel like, knowing in the next hour, trading will be going on again? It

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is terrific to see a place like there's open up again after years of

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deterioration. It is lovely, it is going to be a great success. Coming

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over to Hannah Cockroft, the Paralympian, who will be sounding

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the bell. You will be starting the trading at ten a:m., good morning.

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What does this place mean to you? Growing up here, it has been a big

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part of your life? This is home to me, my mum brought me here to the

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markets. They used to be a stage here, used to sing with the Halifax

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Young singers. It has played a massive part and coming home from

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London 2012, this is where Halifax greeted me and welcomes me home.

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What was that like? It was incredible, I think there were 3000

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people in here. Would love to see more today but just some of my

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favourite memories because this is one of my favourite places in the

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world. It is brilliant there is no cobbles, what do you love about the

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renovation? It is easier to get around. It used to be cobbles and

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even for my homecoming, I had to come in in a car because I couldn't

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get across to the stage. Now I can get to every shop, there are lives

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now and every level is accessible. New shops, all of which I can get in

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and around. It is such a treat to have it and have the heart of

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Halifax back. Thank you. Hannah will be ringing this bell, up there in an

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hour to officially mark the start of trading again here. It has been

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interesting looking round, it is always nice when you feel you have

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discovered a place. I know people locally knew it was there and were

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familiar with it, but there you go. I will be back with the lunchtime

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Matt Haig in a moment, I will be back with the lunchtime

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news at 1:30pm on BBC One. Have a good morning. Goodbye.

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The issue of depression has featured heavily in Matt Haig's work.

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His memoir Reasons to Stay Alive catalogued his fight

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What might surprise many of his fans is that his new novel,

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about a 400-year-old history teacher was again inspired by his own

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In a moment we will go to the thinking behind the book, but how

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can you be 400 years old? If you have made a condition called Anna

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cheerier. You are not immortal, you are ageing but you are ageing much

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slower. So in 15 years of normal time, he will age worn biological

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year. People will think along the lines of vampires. They have

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age-related stuff going on? Yes, but they are often stuck at an Isa Ben

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Ryan age and useful all the time. But this condition means you will

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end up being old for a very, very long time. The teacher in this book

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is around what? He looks around 41, he is pretending to be 41. In what

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you do with him, he is a history teacher, his process in life and the

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rules that apply to his life, don't fall in love, basically move around

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so you are not recognise. Change your name now and again. How has

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mental health issues been linked with this? It is a total fantasy,

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but it is quite autobiographical because I put a lot of my own

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experience about having a condition, you are keeping secrets or otherwise

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it is invisible, but you are carrying this baggage. And the thing

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about depression, it plays tricks on time. Time is relative. When I was

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sort of ill continuously, ill for about three years, I came out and

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felt like I was almost 400 years old. Even now, that feels like half

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my life because if you have got something that is painful, it

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doesn't have to be mental illness but any trauma going on in your

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life, time seems to slow and you are trapped in that moment. Rather than

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write a novel directly about back, it would be more interesting to

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explode that idea, little eyes it is someone being for centuries years

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old. Does writing help you? Massively. Reading and writing saved

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my life. I know it sounds melodramatic, but to be able to

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write down what I was feeling at the time was very, very therapeutic.

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Also writing fiction is therapeutic. When reality gets too much and makes

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you feel quite claustrophobic, fiction is like comedy of the room

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you can go to and have breathing space. You mention part of the

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conditions in which your characters live this extraordinary lifetime. It

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is like a curse, isn't it? Can't fall in love? Can't fall in love.

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Can't fall in love. I am a hypochondriac, think I'm going to

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fall down dead any minute. We all want to live for ever, but imagine

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living for four centuries and it will not be a piece of cake. The

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things he has seen, I have read the early part of the book, things crop

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up, treble things which he has seen along the way. The witch trials,

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vampires, it is the unknown and dealing with people who don't like

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others who are different? Absolutely. In Elizabethan times,

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there were all sorts of superstitions, but it would be

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interesting to have, even now, there would be reasons to keep it in the

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closet. If you had the choice, would you like to live for 400 years? It

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would be hard to say no to. I would say no, immediately. I would say

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yes. I am scared of my mortality. I think it would be a terrible thing,

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I don't know. It would be OK if everyone around you would live for

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400 years, but if you were the only person. It would be dreadful. No,

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you would get to see so much of the world. There are references to

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points in history, there is a balance to be made with things like

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that because you cannot avoid it but it cannot be too laden with history?

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It is history, but he is remembering it in the present. Even when he

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talks about smartphones, he is remembering Shakespeare. What is

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next? What is next? Well, the film rights have been sold to that, so I

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may have some involvement with the screenplay. Did I read Benedict

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Cumberbatch? You did. Will you be confirming Benedict Cumberbatch? I

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think I am OK to do that, he will be playing the main character. There is

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such a solid group of people. I am happy to get on with the next thing.

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Been a pleasure to talk to you. Matt Haig's book is

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called How to Stop Time.

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