16/08/2017 Breakfast

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

Britain's largest aircraft carrier sails into port for the first time.

HMS Queen Elizabeth is the most advanced warship ever built

in the UK - but delayed and over-budget, and still has no

We'll be live in Portsmouth all morning as Big Lizzie sails

Good morning, it's Wednesday 16 August.

Also this morning, no hard border after Brexit.

Ministers say there won't be a return to customs posts

between the UK and Ireland - but critics say the plans lack

A hospital trust being investigated over the deaths of 7 newborns

is told its maternity services still aren't good enough.

It is day three of our series on family businesses. I am looking at

the challenges you might face when you go into business with your

family. In sport,

there's a dream European debut for Liverpool's teenage

defender Trent Alexander Boult, as this free kick for his boyhood

club helps put his side on the brink of qualifying for the group stage

of the Champions League. Pretty lipstick, dresses, love

hearts. We'll meet the doctor who says

stripping away gender stereotypes can change the way

our children think. Good morning. Wet and windy in the

west. That weather slowly moving east through the course of the day.

In central, southern and eastern England, it should stay dry with

some pleasant spells and stay dry in the sunshine. More in 15 minutes.

The largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy will arrive

at its new home in Portsmouth for the first time this morning.

HMS Queen Elizabeth cost three billion pounds and weighs

65,000 tonnes but will be without aircraft until flying trials

Our South of England correspondent Duncan Kennedy reports.

There has never been a Royal Navy vessel like it. 65,000 tons, the

length of three football pitches and eventually, and firepower to place

off among the worldmaritime heavyweight. First conceived nearly

20 years ago, it has taken 10,000 people aged years to actually

construct the HMS Queen Elizabeth. As high as Nelson 's Kollam, it is a

vessel that has launched a thousand statistics. Enough space to park

1200 minis, of incapacity to bake 1000 loaves per day. The basic crew

will be 670 strong, much less than previous carriers. All living decks

include Wi-Fi, access to cinema and an operating theatre. Critics say

the carrier has cost more than ?3 billion and doesn't have a clearly

defined role. The government says it will be a demonstration of British

power around the world. The carrier will be Britain's biggest ever

floating airfields. A four and a half acre deck, from where two

fighter jets can be launched. Each one cost around ?100 million. Queen

Elizabeth already has a sibling ship in the making, in the form of the

Prince of Wales. It is due to be handed over in 2019. Lots more on

that this morning. Duncan joins us

from Portsmouth now. A very important day for Britain's

Armed Forces. The ship has been carrying out trials for the last

month, testing out propulsion is in sewer systems. The families have not

seen the loved ones for that time. They have been queueing since five

a.m.. The families and small children were waiting to come

inside. They are very excited today. As we touched on in that package, it

is a bit controversial. The costs of this carrier, combined with the

sister ship, the Prince of Wales, currently in production. More than

?6 billion in total. Some people have questioned what we are going to

do with these carriers, what their role is for a nation like Britain to

have so much firepower. As far as the Navy and government are

concerned, they say it is about protecting British influence around

the world. They say we need these ships in these tense times. Others

say this is perhaps in the overstretch for Britain. As far as

the Navy is concerned, it is a very important day to get imports carried

safely and to get us back into business. If you see how this

morning, let us know. We are going to be covering this a lot this

morning. It will be shipped Astec. She will be seen in the harbour at

just after seven o'clock. There will be a fly past at either seven or 9am

or 7:14 a.m.. -- 7:09am. I have only got one ship fact, I won't waste it

yet. We also will be looking at one of those stealth jets, that will

eventually be on that boat. We will also be talking to the chief of

Fleet support later in the programme. Looks like a stunning day

for it. We will be live in Portsmouth

all morning following Avoiding any physical posts or check

points on the Irish border is going to be the number one

priority in Brexit negotiations, A paper setting out Britain's

negotiating position is being published today

and will firmly reject what it calls Our Ireland correspondent

Chris Page is in Belfast. Chris, Northern Ireland is one

of the most difficult Brexit issues. Does this paper resolve

some of the problems? It sets out what the government are

hoping to achieve. Crossing the Irish border, which will be the only

border still in place. No barrier tax and no customs post. That to

say, they want to keep it that way. The top priority will be to avoid

bringing in any physical structure on the last border. How they are

going to do this in a situation where the UK is outside the EU and

outside the single market and the European customs union, they have

basically set out to ideas. They have also suggested there could be a

new Customs partnership, the same arrangements in Paris between the UK

and the EU, meaning things can continue as they are at the moment,

but alternatively say there could be a highly streamlined border, a

technological solution where goods are electronically monitored. It is

going to be a very complicated negotiating process.

A hospital trust at the centre of an inquiry into a number

of avoidable deaths among newborn babies has been criticised

for failing to learn the lessons of past mistakes.

A report by the NHS standards watchdog,

the Care Quality Commission, found that safety still needs

to improve in maternity services at the Shrewsbury

Our health correspondent Dominic Hughes reports.

For years, Richard Stanton and Rhiannon Davies have

been campaigning to save maternity services following the avoidable

death of their first daughter, Kate, just hours after birth.

A review of their case found the Trust had

failed to investigate Kate's death properly and now a new report finds

eight years on, the Shrewsbury and Telford Trust is failing

It is still failing on the basics to this day.

From our point of view, it makes you want to bang your head

An inspection by the hospital regulator found safety in maternity

services needs improvement and patients are still not receiving

We have seen some improvements in some areas

but some ongoing areas such as maternity, which is not

what we would expect, and we've made it very

clear to the Trust that we need to see these improvements made

in a much more robust manner and in a timely way.

The Trust says serious incidents are being reported and investigated

and a new management team is working hard to bring about improvements

but a wider NHS investigation into a cluster of

deaths among newborn babies at the trust is under way and those

parents who lost children are asking why

questions are still being raised about safety at the trust.

Donald Trump has faced renewed criticism from within his own

Republican party by again blaming both sides involved in the clashes

The US President appeared to distance himself from his own

statement a day earlier in which he condemned

Instead, he said a far right rally contained many fine people.

You had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the

other side that was also very violent. And nobody wants to say

that. I'll say it right now. You had a grip on the other side that came

charging in without a permit, and they were very, very violent. --

A tweet from Donald Trump's predecessor posted after the events

in Virginia has become the most-liked Tweet ever.

Barack Obama posted this picture with the caption,

"No one is born hating another person because of his

skin or his background or his religion."

It's had almost three million likes and one million retweets.

There is a new train disruption after yesterday's delay at Waterloo.

They have advised thousands of customers not to use services into

London. Good morning to our correspondent at the station. Is

there any end in sight? Passengers will be hoping that there will be.

We are here at Vauxhall station because this is where the large

majority of passengers are being funnelled through. Yesterday there

was a low speed collision and derailment, and also a points

failure. There were already ten platforms closed earlier this month

due to large-scale engineering works. The derailment caused three

more platforms to be closed. Therefore, loads of passengers are

having to come through here to get through to their various

destinations. They are being asked to avoid Waterloo and hopefully, the

last three platforms that were closed yesterday should be opened

later on today. That has not been confirmed, but we are hoping.

Passengers are being advised to stagger their journeys this morning.

Are you all right, would you like some water? COUGHING. Carry on.

James Bond will return - and now we know so will Daniel

The actor confirmed he will reprise the role of 007 on the Late Show

in America, ending months of speculation.

He first appeared on our screens as Britain's most famous spy

He did however, say that his fifth Bond movie would definitely

To be fair, he has said that the fall. He seemed quite definitive

this time -- before. She's act in the game. Good morning, John. We're

talking about Liverpool -- back. What a night for the 18 year

old Trent Alexander-Arnold. His manager having seen him take

them in training urged him to take this one, and it paid off,

this goal setting them on their way to a 2-1 win over Hoffenheim

in the first leg, and one foot in the Champions

League group stage. Celtic play Kazakhstan champions

Astana in the first leg of their qualifying play-off

tie in Glasgow tonight. Celtic are unbeaten in 50 games

domestically and knocked Astana out of the Champions League third

qualifying round last season. Johanna Konta's into the third

round of the Cincinatti Open. The British number one beat

Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands The former world number one

Maria Sharapova has been awarded a wildcard for the main

draw of the US Open - the last tennis

grand slam of the year. The Russian returned from a doping

ban earlier this year and was denied a wildcard at the French Open before

missing Wimbledon through injury. I guess it just ignites that debate

once again about whether or not you should be rewarding Maria Sharapova,

you are essentially giving her an easy route back to the top of the

game. I am sure that will annoy some people. A quick look at the front

pages. The Daily Express leads with house prices, up by ?10,000. You

might have seen this in quite a few of the papers today, it was

mentioned yesterday, the cloakroom girl who became an overnight singing

sensation. Essentially, she worked giving tickets at, she had to fill

in at the Opera. And she wowed everyone -- out. The front page of

the Guardian, talking about the customs union. Discussing that in

detail yesterday. EU chiefs condemn what they call the fantasy of the UK

plan to mirror the customs union. The Mail, Big Ben and climbing down.

We have been talking about that over the last few days, whether the bongs

are going to be silenced. Has the BBC got a recipe for success?

Talking about the new programme which is starting soon. Lots of

advertisers for that. Could be a bit of a... And Helen Mirren talking

about being too sexy. The front page of the Daily Telegraph, a different

story. Talking about babies being led down by NHS wonders. Increasing

issues by a record amount, even for normal births. Also talking about

the radial increases. And this is about classical music. The classical

music system is biased against black musicians who have a lack of role

models, that is according to the founder of Britain's first orchestra

made up of This is a picture of dancers and

musicians from the military tattoo, in Edinburgh to mark 70 years of

India's independence. I suppose Neymar at the moment after that

world record Trans four -- transfer the move. He is on top of the world.

This is a 39 foot chair outside the UN in Geneva. He has signed up as a

good will ambassador and this was him showing off his football skills

on top of the chair. In fairness, a lot of the article talks about how

it has taken the pressure off Paul Pogba. It has eclipsed his transfer

fee by some margin and taken the pressure off him. It is a big chair.

A huge chair. I've got one other thing to show you. Have you ever put

together some monstrous Lego or something like that? Not for a long

time. This is what David Beckham put on his social media. He was trying

to build this princess Castle for his daughter. Six days later, can

you see it, he has completed it. Given our next story, wasn't she

making it with him? May be the gift was an already made

one. We put some together over Christmas

and it took... It took an awful long time. Ours was only about the deeper

still took about two days. It might be relevant to this story.

From Clarks selling Dolly Babe shoes for girls and Leader shoes

for boys, to the Prime Minister describing taking out the bins

Perceived differences between the genders still exist

at all levels of society, perhaps demonstrated most strongly

Now a new documentary series asks if gender neutral schools

We can speak to the doctor behind the experiment in a moment,

but first let's take a look at the programme.

Men are better because they are stronger and they've got more jobs.

I think I would describe a girl is pretty, lipstick, dresses, Love

hearts. Boys can only do football. Why is it only boys can play

football? Because they are fitter and stronger. Boys can find lots of

people. Who is more important, girls or boys? Boys, because they protect

girls more. I think men are more successful because they can have

more higher jobs and they would earn more. I think men are better, like,

being in charge. I think boys are cleverer than girls because they...

Don't... They get into president easily, don't they?

Well, do they? With us is the man behind all of this.

Doctor Javid Abdelmoneim joins us now.

What were you trying to do here? We were trying to go into a school,

take an ordinary class of seven or eight -year-olds and see if there

were any differences in their attitudes or behaviour is into what

they thought they could do as boys and girls and if there were any

differences change that. So it's about not gender stereotyping and

giving them the fullest type of development education. There are

people who may misunderstand what the programme is trying to do. It's

not about being gender fluid or gender neutrality, this is about

removing stereotypes and seeing if that can make a difference going

forward. Exactly. I am glad you clarified that, because this is

about gender equality and not gender identity. There are two very

different things. There have already been comments on Twitter about that

and it's not about that at all. you not ignoring that there are

biological differences between boys and girls. It is the age-old

argument of nature and nurture, which one is it? That's a really

complex question that is very difficult to answer. What we are

trying to work out is say, fine, there is biology. But at this age if

we can do something to make sure that they are nurtured in equal

ways, so that each one thinks they can achieve as much as the other,

and isn't pigeonholed into a certain set of behaviours and attitudes,, so

they can develop fully, that is the objective. The thing that seems

obvious to me is the girls from an early age seriously underestimate

themselves and lack of confidence. The boys... They find it difficult

to express emotions unless they are lying on the floor. This is one of

them having a tantrum. How do you think this has evolved? There are a

lot of messages from the moment they are born, from advertising, from

parents, from social groups, left, right and centre. For example, when

we were filming this and the children were put onto the idea

there was a supermarket, a common high-street supermarket poster, an

advert for chocolate eggs, and there was a picture of a pair of marigolds

and washing up clubs and a half eaten egg -- clubs. The title said,

treat your daughter for doing the washing up. And they spotted that?

Yes, and these messages are everywhere. I've got a little pony

and we've got a car. We were on the streets of Manchester and we ask

some children which one of these toys they would prefer to play with.

This is what happened. So, which one of these toys would

you prefer to play with? That one. This is fun to play with because you

can have races and this is fine if you want to do it on your own.

Because it's a boy toy. The girl would like to play with this because

it is beautiful and little girl's fashion. Because it's more girly. A

boy could play with that. It doesn't really matter. Why did you pick this

one? Because. Because what? It's cool. Is this not cool? No. If you

are a girl would be cool? No. One pony down. So interesting. For

example, the point you make on the programme, this is a generalisation

in some way, but the way the teacher talked to children was interesting

and he was aware of that in some ways. The teacher was an affable and

kind man and the whole school... I actually thought we would find a big

difference as they were onto cheating these children as

individuals, and yet we did find them. -- treating. So the idea was

to remove any stigma, any action, any behaviour that emphasised the

difference between them as boys and girls and one of those behaviours

was the teacher, Mr Andre, his terms of endearment is worse stereotypes.

He called the boys make and the girls sweet pea. We asked them to

call them by their first names and so on doing that it deemphasised the

difference. It is a fascinating. You think you made progress? That would

be giving it away, but I believe I did. We will be seeing you later.

With had so many comments on this already. Francesca says it was

originally the other way round, who was for girls because it represented

purity and pink was a traditional colourful boys because of its

representation of strength. Lucy says her four-year-old boy loves

yellow, wants to be a farmer and Fisher Mann, his favourite films are

Tinkerbell and sweet pea. Harriet says her little boy got a doll for

his birthday and he loves it. Isabel says she brought up six... Four boys

and two girls. They were all caught selling, cooking, gardening, how to

change car wheels and oil. The influence of the parent is huge in

all of this. Let us know what you think.

Thank you very much. You will be with us just after eight a.m.. Can

our kids go general -- 'No More Boys and Girls:

Can Our Kids Go Gender Neutral?' you may have noticed Carol isn't

with us. She has had problems with the

graphics. She's sorting it now and

Plenty more on our website at the usual address.

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

We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment,

but also on Breakfast this morning...

Even if something happens that seems bad, I just kind of need to lift my

head up and think, it's OK. It's not the end of the world.

Just a few hours after escaping the bomb that killed 22 people

at the Manchester Arena in May, Adam had to sit his AS exams.

Also this morning, Steph's looking at the nuts and bolts of running

She's live at specialist hardware manufacturer all morning.

And after nine, will this year's Celebrity MasterChef contestants be

cooking on gas or will the heat of the kitchen prove too much?

World Snooker Champion Stephen Hendry and TV presenter

It brings back all sorts of memories and also makes me feel slightly

nervous. The pressure off the kitchen. They can't reveal anything

about what has happened, but they can talk about it generally.

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

The largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy will arrive

at its new home in Portsmouth for the first time this morning.

HMS Queen Elizabeth cost three billion pounds and weighs

65-thousand tonnes but will be without aircraft until flying trials

Our South of England correspondent, Duncan Kennedy reports.

There's never been a Royal Navy vessel like it.

65,000 tonnes, the length of three football pitches,

and eventually enough firepower to place us amongst

First conceived nearly 20 years ago, it's taken 10,000 people eight years

to actually construct the HMS Queen Elizabeth.

As high as Nelson's Column, it has launched a thousand statistics.

Enough deck space to part 1200 Minis.

8000 kilometres of fibre optic cable.

Oven capacity to bake 1000 leaves a day.

The basic crew will just be 679 strong, much less

And all living on decks with Wi-Fi, access to a cinema,

But critics say the carrier has cost more than ?3 billion and doesn't

The government, though, says it will be a demonstration

The carrier will be Britain's biggest ever floating airfields.

From the 4.5 acre it deck, F35 B Lightning II fighter jets

Each one of those planes cost about ?100 million.

Queen Elizabeth has a sibling ship in in the making.

The Prince of Wales is due to be handed over in 2019.

And we will be live with a fly past at just after seven o'clock this

morning. Avoiding any physical check-points

on the Irish border is going to be the number one priority

in Brexit negotiations, A paper setting out Britain's

negotiating position is being published today

and will firmly reject what it calls A spokesperson for the Irish

government welcomed the position, but critics say the

proposals lack detail. Donald Trump has faced renewed

criticism from within his own Republican party by again blaming

both sides involved in the clashes The US President appeared

to distance himself from his own statement a day earlier

in which he condemned Instead, he said a far right rally

contained many fine people. You had a group on one side

that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that

was also very violent. You had a group on the

other side that came charging in without a permit,

and they were very, very violent. A tweet from Donald Trump's

predecessor posted after the events in Virginia has become

the most-liked Tweet ever. Barack Obama posted this

picture with the caption, "No one is born

hating another person because of the colour of his skin

or his background or his religion." It's had almost three million likes

and one million retweets. A hospital trust at the centre

of an inquiry into a number of avoidable deaths among newborn

babies, has been criticised for failing to learn

the lessons of past mistakes. A report by the NHS

standards watchdog, the Care Quality Commission,

found safety still needs to improve in maternity services at

the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital At least 600 people are still

missing following a mudslide and flooding in the capital of Sierra

Leone. That is according to local authorities. Nearly 400 people are

known to have died and 3000 are estimated to have lost their homes.

The red -- Red Cross has warned it is a race against time to find any

survivors. A homeless man - hailed

as a hero for helping victims of the Manchester bomb -

has been charged in connection with the theft of a bank card

in the Arena that night. Chris Parker ran towards

the scene of the attack, He is due to appear before

magistrates later today. You could wait years for one person

to win the lottery in your local - Believe it or not, a landlord has

become the third person at his pub in Lincolnshire to win ?1 million

pounds on the National Lottery. Ian Brooke, who runs

the Mallard in Scunthorpe, picked up the prize

in the EuroMillions draw on 28 July. In 2015, two of his regular

customers, David and Kathleen Long, became the first people to win

the ?1 million lump sum not once, but twice, following

their first win in 2013. I can't believe it. To be fair, I

had to check my ticket number of times. We also won a fabulous

holiday in Florida as well. We were just trying to let it sink in. I

imagine that was hard. We will be live in Portsmouth all morning, we

can see the live shot as HMS Queen Elizabeth arise in her new port of

Portsmouth this morning. I was reading earlier that they had to

remove millions of tons of sediment from the harbour to be able to fit

the old beast in there. HMS Queen Elizabeth and I, some people call

her Big Lizzie. She weighs 65,000 tons and is as high as Nelson 's

columns. She cost of a ?3 billion to build -- Nelson's Column. Many

people in Portsmouth will be celebrating her arrival. And we will

be speaking to one of the man who will be flying one of the jet that

will call that ship home. The ship is three years behind schedule, but

by 2021 it should all be in working order. Carol will have all the way

the details hopefully in about ten minutes time. Sorting out the

graphics now. And for now, some sport? Are we just fillers for

Carol? We know our place on this programme! In the football last

night, Champions League qualification.

Liverpool are on the verge of the Champions League group

stages, thanks in large part to their 18 year old right back,

What a moment on his debut, let's have a look at his goal.

He scored this brilliant free kick in a 2-1 first leg win

Liverpool had plenty of chances, but it was late in the game before

James Milner's deflected cross made it two.

The Germans have given themselves a chance though

The second leg is at Anfield next Tuesday, the winner qualifies

It was, because I told him he has got to do it. I don't want credit

for it, because he is the only one who can shoot free kicks better than

I ever could. I have said it a few times, I have watched as many games

as I could last year. He took the free kicks in a goal by similar

size, and he very well. Various praise from former club legends

including Jamie Carrigan. This is a picture of him when he was a mascot

next to him -- Crragher. -- Carragher.

Everton have agreed a deal to sign Swansea City midfielder

Gylfi Sigurdsson for a fee believed to be about 45 million pounds.

The Iceland international will have a medical at Goodison Park

today and would become Everton's record signing,

beating the 30 million pounds they paid Sunderland for goalkeeper

Former world number one Maria Sharapova will make her first

grand slam appearance in over 18 months after she was awarded a main

draw wildcard for the forthcoming US Open.

The 30-year-old Russian, who returned from a 15-month doping

ban earlier this year, was denied a wildcard

at the French Open before missing Wimbledon with a thigh injury.

Britain's Johanna Konta's into the third round of

the Cincinatti Open after beating Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands.

Konta, who's the world number seven, broke the Dutch woman early

in the first set, then came back from a break down in the second.

She'll play Alize Cornet of France or Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova

Tiger Woods had five different drugs in his system when he was arrested

on suspicion of driving under the influence in May.

A urine test revealed a mixture of strong painkillers,

sleep and anxiety drugs and THC, which is a chemical

The 14-time major winner pleaded not guilty to the DUI charge last week.

And finally a lot of cricketers fancy themselves as decent

footballers - well, we've found one who can back it up.

This is Derbyshire's Hardus Viljoen, a strapping South African

fast bowler who also possesses a lovely right foot,

which he used to run out Durham's

Remember the transfer window's not yet closed.

You can see how impressed his teammates are as well.

Hundreds of thousands of students are gearing up

to get their AS and A-Level results tomorrow.

But for two students from Manchester, the day will have

extra significance.

Shaunna and Adam were due to take their exams just days

after escaping the bomb that killed 22 people at the Ariana Grande

They both struggled after the traumatic events

and have shared their stories with us.

All of a sudden there was just a huge bang. You could feel it shape

underneath your feet. People just started running screaming.

Subconsciously you knew what it was. I think the initial reaction was

just to get out as quickly as he could. My next exam was my next day

after the concert. In the morning at nine o'clock. So I was really tired

because I didn't get much sleep. I was due to do my last exam on the

Friday after it happened, and I thought, give it a few days and see.

I got there, I opened the paper and tried to do the first question, I

kept reading the same question but I couldn't compound walls on the

paper. I just kept thinking about the night before, and I just asked,

please, can I leave? Because I just couldn't think. I couldn't pluck up

enough courage and I couldn't get myself to concentrate for the exam.

At first I felt like I couldn't do anything, but then we were given the

opportunity to sing at the concert. It was an amazing experience and we

got to raise so much money, and it is just a really good feeling. It is

nice being part of something really special. We were fortunate enough to

get out unharmed, we want to do what we can for the people that didn't

and show our respect. It has been a really pivotal moment in my life. I

know this is something that is a huge part of my character and

identity now. It has just changed my outlook. I am just thankful that I

am alive. So even if something happens that seems bad, I just kind

of lift my head up and think, it's OK, it's not the end of the world. I

think I was a lot more stressed before the concert, and I think

afterwards you really put everything into perspective. It teaches you not

to stress about the little things as much. One of the most important

things is to keep your loved ones close and be happy and grab every

single opportunity that comes to you. As long as you know you've

tried hard, it doesn't really matter what happens afterwards. As long as

you've put your best in and you know that you've done everything you can,

then you don't need to worry at all. Many thanks to the two of them,

Shaunna and Adam, for talking to us. You can really imagine how tough

that would be. All the best with their results, and all the best to

all of you who are getting results this morning. A reminder of the top

stories this morning. The biggest warship ever built

for the Royal Navy - the aircraft carrier,

HMS Queen Elizabeth - is entering her home port

of Portsmouth for the first time. The UK government will insist

there must be "no return to the hard borders of the past" as it

publishes its proposals for ensuring goods and people can travel freely

between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic

after Brexit. Someone has we plugged Carol's

computer. She is back with a first look at the weather forecast. Good

morning. Good morning. Fingers crossed, you never know what's

happening! Today we have rain in parts of Northern Ireland. That will

move eastwards very slowly as we go through the day and not all of us

will see it. It's courtesy of this low pressure. You can tell just by

looking at the isobars that it is also going to be pretty gusty winds,

especially through the Irish Sea. This morning across south-west

England and Wales it's a mostly dry story. The same for the Midlands and

southern counties, Kent and east Anglia. There is cloud around and it

will become sunnier as the cloud breaks later. In northern England

are dry and fine start. Through the morning the rain will be advancing

across Northern Ireland. The cloud building ahead of it. At this stage

in Scotland it is an EB start. Only about four degrees. Nonetheless, a

sunny one. Through the day here comes the rain coming in the western

Scotland and eventually into north-west England, west Wales and

Devon and Cornwall. Through the afternoon some of that could be

heavy. If you are further towards central, eastern and southern

England, you should stay dry and it will feel pleasant in any sunshine,

with highs of up to 23- 24 degrees. Overnight the rain continues to move

eastwards, getting over the lower UK. By the end of the night some of

this will be heavy. Clear sky is falling behind and showers. Murky at

times around the coast. Tomorrow we start off with this cloud and some

rain across the south-east. You can see how it pulls through the Channel

Islands and towards the near continent. Cloud left in its wake

and further showers develop. A couple could be heavy and it will be

a day of sunshine and showers. As we head towards the weekend you can see

low pressure still dominating the weather. Isobars still closely

packed together. It will be pretty windy. Noticeably so on Friday. Even

inland it will be gusty. We will have rain and showers. But if you

dodge those it will be dry and there will be sunshine. For the weekend,

breezy at times, sunshine and showers. Further south the few

showers you are likely to see. This is Saturday. Again, a lot of dry

weather and the odd shower possible. A few more coming across the north.

As we head on into Sunday, it looks like it could be wet and windy

across northern areas, but that forecast could change. If you have

outdoor plans on Sunday. Thank you for the warning. See later. That's

the weather this morning. Hopefully we will have Carol through the

morning. This is the scene in Portsmouth. A little murky. That in

the middle of your screen is the biggest aircraft carrier we have

ever built in the UK. It is arriving in Portsmouth. You can see the

slightly smaller vessels which have turned up to help her into port.

The largest and most powerful warship ever built for the navy.

Nicknamed by some as Big Lizzie. But I am going to refer do -- refer to

her by her full name. There were concerns because some of the planes

which should be used an odd ready. We will talk about that and of

course the impact on Portsmouth and what it means for the navy as well

throughout the programme. We will watch her progress closely. We are

expecting a fly past at either 7:09 or 7:14.

You know everything about this! We will be speaking to some of the

people who will be living and working on there. There will be some

American planes next year. It's a shared platform. And the jets being

made for it will be ready by about 2020- 2021. Plenty more detail on

that later in the programme. It does look pretty impressive. All

this week some of you will remember we've been looking at family

businesses. Thank you so much for all of your examples and photographs

of your family businesses. Steph was on the programme yesterday

saying she would be in Wolverhampton and she's woman of her work!

There she is this morning. Good morning. Good morning, everyone.

Look at that for a bolt! It is very heavy. Have a look. You can see one

of the machines here, where there -- they are making the nuts and bolts.

These are used in things like skyscrapers, subsea operations,

basically mega structures that need really specialist bolts and this is

a small business, a family business. There are 15 people who work here.

Five of them are family members. What is really just on about this is

how much it has changed as it has passed through the generations. You

will see these old machines here. Interestingly, this business used to

be focused on these old ones where they used to mass-produce nuts and

bolts but then they were struggling to compete with China as when the

business was taken over by the sun in the family he decided to invest

in all of this kit to make it more specialist -- son. We have John and

Clare here. Tell us about taking over the business from your dad. I

came to the business 30 years ago, working for my dad. I buried

different business in those days. -- very different. We were using a lot

of components and competing with the fiery -- far east, which proved to

be more difficult as the 90s progressed. In 1998I decided we have

to be more specialised so we moved the business and refocused on being

very specialist and that's where the business started to boom. Over the

last ten years we have done really well and just brought this facility

here, with a view to making the business a long-term success for the

kids that have come into the business. It is a real family

affair, isn't it? You've got all your boys here. Yes! How world are

they? They are still quite young? Max has just left school and is 16.

We've got Thomas. He is 17. He has been with us for 12 months doing an

apprenticeship. Then we've got our oldest son, Jack, who is 19. We will

have a chat with him as well. What's really interesting is what you were

saying about how your idea of the business changed once the lads came

onboard. Absolutely. I suppose it was always the case of being a

career for me. I came in when I was 17. No wife or children and it was

just a job and career and as my wife joined the business ten or 15 years

ago and then the boys, we started to have a family, it became apparent

that there was a bigger thing at play and we really have to look

beyond our exit plan and make sure the business was strong and grew for

their future. When you go home to you all talk about nuts and bolts?

Sometimes we do! That's hilarious. We try to have a Christmas Day off

where we don't talk about it, what it does generally dominate the

dinner table. Jack, what's it like working for your mum and dad? It was

weird at first, but I'm really enjoying it at the moment. What made

you join the business? Cause you are one of the directors now. I was

really interested in it from a young age. We always spoke about it.

Lovely to meet you. I know we will talk to you throughout the morning.

There's one other person I want you to meet. We've been talking every

day about how successful family businesses are but they can be quite

challenging. I know Clare has done some research on this. Good morning.

Tell us about what the challenges are. There are many family

businesses. We carried out a family global survey and the main challenge

we found is most family businesses don't have a very clear long-term

strategic plan in place and they aren't clear on the steps that need

to take place to achieve their long-term vision. We also find that

many family businesses are concerned about succession planning. How will

you've passed the business over and to? -- how you will pass. John was

saying his idea of the business really changed when it went on to

the third generation and that can be a tricky point. Only 12% of family

businesses passed to the third generation and it can be hard to get

it right. John is getting the next generation into the business, which

is key. He is thinking about what the future looks like for them and

how to give their support for the leadership roles they want to take.

We will talk about productivity later as well. More from me in about

20 minutes. This is dead interesting. I love nuts and bolts!

I can hear that manufacturing drone in the background as well. You can

hear there's a lot of work going on. A very calming noise. We've had so

many great features. Thank you from all -- for all of your pictures. We

want to share some of them with you. There's a real tradition, is unfair?

Bizarrely, I was shopping for carpets in Wakefield yesterday and

John runs a business with his brother, Steve, he has his son,

Christian, his nephew and sister-in-law and it was set up his

dad and dad was a rather and his auntie in the 1980s. They were

everywhere, this family businesses. His son had just been fitting

carpet, they turned up, the nephew was there, everyone was involved!

Brilliant. More from HMS Queen I'm back with the latest

from the BBC London newsroom Hello this is Breakfast,

with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. Britain's largest aircraft carrier

sails into port for the first time. HMS Queen Elizabeth is the most

advanced warship ever built in the UK - but she's

delayed and over-budget, We'll be live in Portsmouth

all morning as Big Lizzie sails There is a fly past going on at the

moment, as you can see. Pick dissolve the helicopters at the

moment. -- pictures of. Good morning, it's

Wednesday 16 August. Also this morning, no hard

border after Brexit. Ministers say there won't be

a return to customs posts between the UK and Ireland -

but critics say the plans lack President Trump has again said that

anti-fascist protesters share the blame for the violence

at a far-right march in Virginia. It is day three of our series on

family businesses and I am at a nuts and bolts manufacture here in

Bolton. We will be meeting the family properly a bit later. --

In sport, there's a dream European debut for Liverpool's teenage

defender Trent Alexander-Arnold as this free kick for his boyhood

club helps put his side on the brink of qualifying for the group stage

We have a bit of an east-west split going on today, it dry in the east

with some high-level clouds. That will break leaving a sunny

afternoon. In the West, thicker cloud with some rain, windy

conditions. Clearly with the east into western parts of the mainland

through the course of the day. More details on all of that in 15

minutes. The largest warship ever built

for the Royal Navy will arrive at its new home in Portsmouth

for the first time this morning. HMS Queen Elizabeth cost three

billion pounds and weighs 65,000 tonnes but will be

without aircraft until flying trials Our South of England correspondent

Duncan Kennedy reports. This is an historical moment for the

Navy and for Portsmouth, which is where she will spend the next few

years. You can see some of the 679 crew on board. It will eventually

rise to 1600 crew members. We will be there in Portsmouth throughout

the morning. Here is a bit more explanation about exactly what the

boat will do. The one fact that I remember is that there are so many

of them is on the boat that it can bake 1000 loaves of bread in a

single day. -- so many ovens. What is really lovely about this picture

as well is all the other boats that have come out to welcome her. With a

couple of minutes ago, hundreds of people turning out in the city to

welcome her home. It does look very beautiful, but there are concerns

about the fact it is three years later, and there are no British

planes ready to be on board the vessel as yet. They are four years

delayed. They have changed plans slightly, so there will be some

American and British jet on there in the next few years, fully up and

running by about 2021. Yes, fully loaded with aircraft I 2021. What a

beautiful site this morning. We will be there throughout the day. -- by.

Everybody is ready to wave them in as they arrive. 10,000 people

involved in the construction of that.

Avoiding any physical posts or check points on the Irish border

is going to be the number one priority in Brexit negotiations,

A paper setting out Britain's negotiating position

is being published today and will firmly reject what it calls

Our Ireland correspondent Chris Page is in Belfast.

Chris, Northern Ireland is one of the most difficult Brexit issues.

This is a key issue? It is. One of the most pressing issues in Brexit.

The moment you drive across the border, you hardly even notice it.

Everybody involved in the process want the situation to retain an open

border. The question is, how do you do that when the UK is outside the

customs union and the Republic of Ireland is inside? The paper that

they are publishing today has reiterated that they don't want any

physical infrastructure on the border after Brexit. They have

proposed a couple of ideas. They said there could be a new customs

partnership between the UK and the EU. That would mean they would still

have the same tariffs for goods entering and exiting the countries.

No need for customs checks. The other possibility is a streamlined

customs arrangement. An electronic monitoring system for goods crossing

the border. Critics say the plans lack detail.

Donald Trump has faced renewed criticism from within his own

Republican party by again blaming both sides involved in the clashes

The US President appeared to distance himself from his own

statement a day earlier in which he condemned white supremacists.

Our US correspondent David Willis reports.

He was scheduled to make a statement about infrastructure, only veering

wildly off message and referring to his original assessment of the cause

of Saturday's violence. I think there is blame on both sides. You

look at both sides, I think there is blame on both sides and I have no

doubt about it, and you don't have any doubt about it either. And, and

if you reported it accurately, you would see that. Can do and for

failing to apportion lame for the violence which left one person dead

and more than 30 injured, the President took to the White House on

Monday to denounce racism and the white supremacist groups that

organised the rally. A carefully worded statement which briefly

served to cool the embers of outrage, only for the President to

reignite them 24 hours later. You had a group on one side that was bad

and a group on the other side that was also very violent. Nobody wants

to say that, but I will say it. It wanted sweeping condemnation from

leaders of his own party. The Speaker of the house to Twitter to

say: A notable source of support came from David Duke, the former

leader of the Ku Klux Klan. He applauded the President. With police

forces around the country bracing for similar protests to the one in

Charlottesville, there is concern the latest remarks might serve to

embolden certain elements at those protests.

A hospital trust at the centre of an inquiry into a number

of avoidable deaths among newborn babies has been criticised

for failing to learn the lessons of past mistakes.

A report by the NHS standards watchdog,

the Care Quality Commission, found safety still needs to improve

in maternity services at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital

A homeless man - hailed as a hero for helping victims

of the Manchester bomb - has been charged in connection

with the theft of a bank card in the Arena that night.

Chris Parker ran towards the scene of the attack,

He is due to appear before magistrates later today.

James Bond will return - and now we know so will Daniel

The actor confirmed he will reprise the role of 007 on the Late Show

in America, ending months of speculation.

He first appeared on our screens as Britain's most famous spy

He did however, say that his fifth Bond movie would definitely

Britain's biggest and most powerful warship is entering its home port

of Portsmouth this morning and its about to get a big welcome.

These are all the boats that have arrived to welcome her in

Portsmouth. She is just at the bottom of our screen. You can see

that beautiful Portsmouth at dockyard. As we come back, here we

go. In control. Right on time. What a beautiful site this morning. HMS

Queen Elizabeth, this is going to be her new home. They have dredged the

harbour of millions of tons of sediment to make it deep enough for

her to get in. Our reporter Duncan Kennedy

is on the South Coast this morning - Duncan how far has it

got? It is very loud, we have got hands

and families cheering. What an historic day. -- bands. Coming in

behind us, a very large aircraft carrier. The Royal Navy has never

seen anything like it. Portsmouth Harbour has never seen anything like

it and neither have Britain's defence forces. An extraordinary

vessel. Getting a big cheer from the families. All excited to see crew

members who have been at sea for the past two months or so, testing out

propulsion and absolutely everything on board. They are all lined up on

the decks in their various uniforms. Something like 670 crew members, not

like the old days where he had nearly 1200 staff. It is all

computerised, you don't need a catapult system like those former

carriers had. The jets will be eventually landing on the deck of

this beauty. A short and vertical takeoff and landing. We will see

these F35B aircraft are not coming on board for several more years.

They will not be fully functional on this carrier until 2020. Or

thereabouts. This is the home port of the Royal Navy, what a sight it

is. An extremely important day for the Royal Navy. A redefinition of

what the Royal Navy does. Massive firepower, changing the role and

giving a different configurations to British defence forces for the next

50 years. Thank you very much. Staying with these pictures for the

moment. The naval historian and defence

analyst Professor Eric Grove How significant is this for the

Royal Navy? Very significant. These will be their capital assets for the

next half a century. They have been awaiting the coming of these. They

will not be fully operational for another year or two. But actually,

when we saw the helicopters flying past, she could operate helicopters

very quickly after she is condition. But her primary role is to take on

vertical Landing jets. We have had about ten trials in America, the

first ten on trial to do that. By 2020 she should be commissioned with

what is called a combined air group of British and American aircraft.

Giving people an idea of how long this has been in commission... This

will be part of the navy for the next 50 years? Very much so. It took

about ten years for the design to be settled. Since then, the ship has

been built. One important thing is that the ship was built all over the

country. One of the first rules in her construction was that she had to

be built in Britain, and she has been, all over. In many places,

including Clyde and Birkenhead. She is very much a UK national asset.

The investment of her construction has been a great help to those ship

elders. And she has a sister ship in production, the HMS Prince of Wales?

Yes, and it has gone massively overbudget production. It was

delayed to save money in the short term, but this costs more money in

the long-term. Initially over 3 billion, now over $6 billion. What

do you envisage these being used for? A whole range of things. It is

our box, and airfield, you can use it for disaster relief through to

carrier strike. At her maximum, she can carry 36 jets, 22 could go into

in a strike. That could knock out a small country. She is a powerful

ship and could be used as a landing ship, hospital, to lend helicopters.

One of the reasons why it is later than expected to be operational is

because of the change in those jets. Originally they were going to be a

different type of jet, but they were too expensive. She started off as a

takeoff and vertical landing, but that changed in 2010. They decided

to go back to a similarity to the old carriers. But it was too

expensive to convert the ship, and therefore we went back to a short

takeoff and vertical landing. It won't be like top gun? But the

aircraft will be as good! I knew my knowledge of Top Gun would come in

handy. I know you will be back with more

later. Thank you very much indeed. We will be there throughout the

morning and we will be speaking to people who will be working onboard

indeed in charge of that ship, later.

If you have any questions, the professor knows the answers to

everything! Carol has sorted out her issues and

hopefully the weather as well! Good morning. We've got mixed

fortunes. A split from the west to the east. In Portsmouth we have more

cloud but high cloud and it will break. In the west we have some rain

coming in. That is coming in the western parts of Northern Ireland

and it will slowly move east through the day. Not all of us will see it.

That's courtesy of this low pressure. It will be quite windy,

especially with exposure through the Irish Sea and the coast of Scotland.

Southern England this morning into dry start with some high-level

cloud. The same for east Anglia and into the Midlands and Wales. Bright

rather than sunny, although some of us will have sunshine. The same

across northern England. For Northern Ireland you have the rain

coming in from the west, slowly pushing east. It is also a dry but

nippy start under clear skies. The temperatures and Balmoral at the

moment is about five. As we had on through the day what happens if the

rain moves across all of Northern Ireland, gets in across Scotland,

eventually into north-west England, west Wales and south-west England

and as it does movies to some of that will be heavy. The cloud builds

ahead of it. Further east to other sunnier it will be. In the sunshine,

23 will feel pleasant. Overnight the rain continues to advance from the

west towards the east. Behind it there will be clearance in the sky.

Another chilly one in Scotland, in the sheltered glens. In towns and

cities 13- 16. Tomorrow morning we start off on the cloudy and wet note

across eastern and some southern parts, including the Channel Islands

of England. That will slowly moving to the near continent. Showers will

develop and again some of those showers could be heavy. Many of us

will miss them and get away with a dry and breezy day. Temperatures

again 17- 23. As we head into Friday, low pressure is still very

much in charge of our weather, so we will have a fair few showers. As you

can see from the isobars as well, it will be fairly windy. Gusty winds

through the central swathes of the country and again the east

especially so with exposure. Some of the showers will rank together,

producing heavy outbreaks. The weekend is breezy, with sunshine and

showers. The further south you are the less likely you are to catch a

shower, depending on your point of view. More showers further north,

especially across Scotland. That leaves us into Sunday. Sunday's

forecast could change, but at the moment it looks like we have rain

coming across the north of the country. So the weather can't decide

what it's going to do. It up and down.

Thank you very much. It does look it. See you later.

It looks very nice in Portsmouth this morning.

It looks like a calm day. We will be back there later to see

HMS Queen Elizabeth. I can see it out of the corner of my

eye. We will be back there throughout the morning. Time for

another story this morning. Can someone who's abused

their partner be made to change their ways

in just two days? That's the initial findings

of a trial by researchers from Cambridge University

and Hampshire Police. Almost 300 people convicted

of domestic violence offences for the first time, were sent

on a specially designed Among those who attended,

re-offending fell by over a third. Some have criticised the scheme,

saying the focus should be We're joined now by Chantal Hughes,

Chief Executive of the Hampton Trust, a domestic abuse charity

which provides the course from Southampton, and Katie Ghose,

Chief Executive of Women's Aid Good morning to you both. We will

come to you first up, to your mind what has caused this drop? I think

the first reason for causing the drop is that what we have done is

we've set up a course where we are... We are inviting participants

to come into the programme and reflect on their behaviour. What's

happened is they are released from custody and they don't have any

interventions at all. So that's very unhelpful and what we are getting

them to do is to come on and to realise that they are being abusive,

they are using a range of tactics that are put in their families and

survivors, victims, children at risk and we want to start discussions and

encourage them to access a range of other services, including

perpetrator programmes that offer long-term help. Katie, we mentioned

the concerns of some people have. Can you turn around the behaviour in

two days. The Crown Prosecution Service are unsure and say their

analysis is ongoing. Do you understand those concerns, about

whether a two-day course can change that behaviour? We very much share

and understand those concerns and of course it's important to be

providing projects and practical work with perpetrators, the men who

commit the domestic abuse. But other research that we looked at suggest

that even longer term interventions that take place over months and

years can have an effect, but it can be very difficult to tackle the

psychological abuse, because if control, that we know is the reality

for many women. So that's one of the things that has come from this. We

are looking forward to looking at the details, but it can send alarm

bells, the idea that in just a few short hours that can be a meaningful

reduction in harm. We are also concerned about the survivors and by

questions about this would be safe and effective work with perpetrators

has to be conducted alongside really meaningful involvement of the

survivors. That's about their safety, taking sure that a person in

training isn't saying one thing and carrying on with a different course

of action at home. The timescale and the lack of concentration on

survivors, what about that? First and foremost what I would say is

that this was not set up to be a behaviour change programme. This is

targeting a range of offenders that would be released from custody

currently in other areas of the country and historically in

Hampshire with something called a simple caution, which is just a

caution not to reoffend. So when they come into workshops delivered

by the Hampshire Trust, we are saying we want them to look at some

alternative interventions and access a range of services. That's one

thing I would say. Secondly, in response to looking at survivors and

victims, we did consult them. There was a lot of leading time, a lot of

strategic work that went into this and what we did is ask them what

they felt would be an enhanced criminal justice response. They

would provide -- something that would provide something more robust

than what they were currently receiving. We know they have to give

permission for their partners, or ex- partners, to attend the

workshops and in between the workshops we make contact with them.

So at all times their safety is factored in. What we want to know is

why there any concerns and if there are then what we would do is work

closely with Hampshire Constabulary to take steps to make sure that

their partners were breached. I'll just come back to you, Katie, I

suppose the proof is in the pudding. If there is less reoffending out of

this than it's got to be a success, hasn't it? What we all share is a

goal of wanting to see safety of survivors, increased safety of women

and children and a reduction in violence and it's good to hear a bit

more information about this. But what we know is that safe and

effective and the best perpetrator programmes would have a wholehearted

involvement of the survivor and that means actually specialist support

for the survivor going alongside the work with the perpetrator. That's

what we would be looking for, with any work with perpetrators. Thank

you both for your time and thank you for speaking to us on Breakfast.

I want to take us back alive to Portsmouth. We are watching the

arrival of HMS Queen Elizabeth, the new British aircraft carrier. She is

docking at the moment. That process takes quite a while. She will be

fully dropped by about nine a.m.. Although she is an aircraft carrier,

at the moment she can't carry aircraft because the planes aren't

ready. There won't be enough planes in the UK for a while, until about

2020, when they will all be deployed on what is a magnificent ship. Quite

a display this morning. 679 crew onboard at the moment. Their

families are waiting at the dockside in Portsmouth. Any people have been

cheering and other smaller vessels are bringing the HMS Queen Elizabeth

into Portsmouth's dock this morning. So quite a crowd and we will be in

Portsmouth throughout the programme. You're watching

Breakfast from BBC News. The challenges of keeping

it in the family - Steph's at a nut and bolt

manufacturer near Wolverhampton, Good morning. Good morning,

everybody. This is what they make here. The kinds of nuts and bolts

you would see used in things like skyscrapers and subsea operations.

This business employs about 15 people, five in the same family, and

Jack is one of them. You are director and you're 19. You've just

done your apprenticeship? Yes, I joined when I was 16 and did an

apprenticeship for one year to learn how the business works. Did you

always want to work with your mum and dad? We used to coming when I

was younger to look different projects, it was I was always

interested. Is your dad Bossi? Sometimes. -- Bossi. We have Max and

Tom as well. We will meet mum and dad later. But this business has

really changed as it has been passed through the generations. We will be

talking about the pros and cons of running the family

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

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

A fly past has heralded the arrival of the largest warship ever built

for the Royal Navy into its new home in Portsmouth.

HMS Queen Elizabeth was greeted by thousands of people

The 6500 tonne carrier cost three billion pounds.

It will be without aircraft until flying trials are conducted

So many things to know about, including the deck space, as you can

see there. That is enough to park 1200 Minis. 679 crew have been on

board for several weeks, a lot of friends and family are on the docks.

They don't get to leave for another two hours. The whole process does

take quite some time. The crew will leave the ship at 930 this morning.

And we will be talking about that throughout this morning on BBC

breakfast. Avoiding any physical check-points

on the Irish border is going to be the number one priority in Brexit

negotiations, A paper setting out Britain's

negotiating position is being published today

and will firmly reject what it calls A spokesperson for the Irish

government welcomed the position but critics say the

proposals lack detail. Donald Trump has faced renewed

criticism from within his own Republican party by again blaming

both sides involved in the clashes The US President appeared

to distance himself from his own statement a day earlier in which he

condemned white supremacists. Instead, he said a far right rally

contained many fine people. A tweet from Donald Trump's

predecessor posted after the events in Virginia has become

the most-liked Tweet ever. Barack Obama posted this

picture with the caption, "No one is born

hating another person because of the colour of his skin

or his background or his religion." It's had almost three million likes

and one million retweets. A hospital trust at the centre

of an inquiry into a number of avoidable deaths among newborn

babies has been criticised for failing to learn

the lessons of past mistakes. A report by the NHS

standards watchdog, the Care Quality Commission,

found safety still needs to improve in maternity services at

the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital At least 600 people are still

missing following a mudslide and flooding that devastated parts

of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, according

to local authorities. Nearly 400 people are known to have

died and another 3,000 people are estimated to have

lost their homes. The Red Cross has warned

it is a race against time to find Academics say that thousands of

extra university places will be needed by 2025.

The Department of Health says councils have been given a two

billion pound boost over the next three years to put social care

A homeless man - hailed as a hero for helping victims

of the Manchester bomb - has been charged in connection

with the theft of a bank card in the Arena that night.

Chris Parker ran towards the scene of the attack,

He is due to appear before magistrates later today.

Commuters travelling in and out of London Waterloo are facing

a second day of disruption this morning, following yesterday's

The incident happened as the train collided with a barrier train

that was in place to separate the current engineering works

You could wait years for one person to win the lottery in your local -

Believe it or not, a landlord has become the third person at his pub

in Lincolnshire to win ?1 million pounds on the National Lottery.

Ian Brooke, who runs the Mallard in Scunthorpe,

picked up the prize in the EuroMillions draw on 28 July.

In 2015, two of his regular customers, David and Kathleen Long,

became the first people to win the ?1 million lump sum not

once, but twice, following their first win in 2013.

I got Helen to go through and take the ticket, and she told me we had

done it. To be fair, I had to check my

ticket number of times. We also won a fabulous

holiday in Florida as well. Coming up on the programme,

Carol will have the weather. As we've been hearing it's a day

of celebration for the people of Portsmouth as they welcome

Britain's biggest ever warship But the ship is not

without controversy - it has been delayed,

come in over budget and is currently We can talk now to the defence

minister Harriett Baldwin. Why do we need an aircraft carrier

like this? It is a fantastic morning, and it is fantastic to see

her coming into Portsmouth Harbour. Just to correct you in terms of your

introductory remarks, we do have the jets. They are on board with Royal

Navy pilots learning to fly the Royal Navy jet, the Stealth bomber

which will be aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth. It is a very important

part of global Britain. We are a trading nation and we will have the

ability to have a carrier at sea at all times, which will enable us to

project power around the world, do humanitarian relief and of course to

be able to be part of Nato operations. It is a really important

part of global Britain, keeping our feeling is open. We welcome her into

Portsmouth Harbour. She has a 50 year life span as a flagship of the

Royal Navy. The jets are not ready yet, we have an aircraft carrier

that cannot deploy jets. When will they be available? The aircraft

carrier is in a process of being trialled, she has just come back

from successful trials of the coast of Scotland. She was working

alongside the US carrier, the George HW bush. She will have various test

over the next few years, going out from Portsmouth for a more complex

set of tests. She will be dressing the testing the systems on-board on

the eastern seaboard of the US. It is a process of working up to a new

character, and it is very exciting to see the arrival of our new

carrier into Portsmouth Harbour this morning. We just want to ask you on

comments by Russian officials, why the jets are not ready? He called it

a sitting duck. She is being protected by a wide range of assets

and the jets are actually ready. So, it is important to emphasise that of

course she will have a wide range of systems. For obvious reasons, we

don't necessarily publicise those. She is extremely well protected and

she is an amazing vessel. You can see just how impressive she is in

the camera behind me this morning. You have addressed this in some

ways, but why, in this day and age, need to do we need this much

firepower? We are a global trading nation and we have the Royal Navy,

which is one of the most historic and unbeaten forces around the

world. It is the central part of... I think what we take for granted in

Britain today, ensuring that we have a strong defence so that we can

enjoy the things that we enjoy in peace and go about our daily

business without paying tribute enough to the brave men and women in

our Armed Forces who are doing so much today, as well as for the

future, on this amazing aircraft carrier. Thank you so much for your

time, we can see the docking process going on behind. And we have John

here this morning looking at sporting firepower.

An amazing debut and celebration for Trent Alexander-Arnold, he came up

through the Liverpool Academy and scored his debut goal. Steven

Gerrard said he is going to be a top player for Liverpool.

Liverpool are on the verge of the Champions League group

stages, thanks in large part to their 18 year old right back,

What a moment on his debut, let's have a look at his goal.

He scored this brilliant free kick in a 2-1 first leg win

Liverpool had plenty of chances, but it was late in the game before

James Milner's deflected cross made it two.

The Germans have given themselves a chance though

Juergen Klopp said he had played a part in the youngster's goal.

I was, actually, because I told him he has got to do it.

I don't want credit for it, because he is the only one

who can shoot free kicks, better than I ever could.

I have said it a few times, I have watched as many games

He took the free kicks in a goal by similar

Various praise from former club legends

This is a picture of him when he was a mascot

They have changed quite a bit! Isn't that nice. Great to see former

players getting behind a young gun. We saw that photo of someone shaking

hands with Rafael Nadal, and then he was playing... We have seen a number

of athletes doing it lately. It is lovely.

Everton have agreed a deal to sign Swansea City midfielder

Gylfi Sigurdsson for a fee believed to be about 45 million pounds.

The Iceland international will have a medical at Goodison Park

today and would become Everton's record signing,

beating the 30 million pounds they paid Sunderland for goalkeeper

Former world number one Maria Sharapova will make her first

grand slam appearance in over 18 months after she was awarded a main

draw wildcard for the forthcoming US Open.

The 30-year-old Russian, who returned from a 15-month doping

ban earlier this year, was denied a wildcard

at the French Open before missing Wimbledon with a thigh injury.

Britain's Johanna Konta's into the third round of

the Cincinatti Open after beating Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands.

Konta, who's the world number seven, broke the Dutch woman early

in the first set, then came back from a break down in the second.

She'll play Alize Cornet of France or Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova

Tiger Woods had five different drugs in his system when he was arrested

on suspicion of driving under the influence in May.

A urine test revealed a mixture of strong painkillers,

sleep and anxiety drugs and THC, which is a chemical

The 14-time major winner pleaded not guilty to the DUI charge last week.

There was an extraordinary, record-breaking performance

from Susie Bates as she helped the Southern Vipers to a comfortable

46 run victory over Loughbrough Lightning in the women's

Bates became the first player in the competition's short history

to reach three figures as she made 119 not out as part of a total

of 180 - the highest Super League score yet.

And finally a lot of cricketers fancy themselves as decent

footballers - well, we've found one who can back it up.

This is Derbyshire's Hardus Viljoen, a strapping South African

fast bowler who also possesses a lovely right foot,

which he used to run out Durham's

It looks great when it comes off, but when it doesn't, it can be

rather embarrassing. The Canadian with a temper... Famously hit the

ball in the face of the umpire. That was after being a ballboy for Rafael

Nadal. Many students will be aware of this,

they are gearing up to receive their A-level results. But for two

students from Manchester, but they will have extra significance.

Two were due to take their exams just before a bomb killed 22 people

at a concert in May. They both struggled and shared their stories

with us this morning. All of a sudden there

was just a huge bang. You could feel it shape

underneath your feet. People just started

running screaming. I think the initial reaction

was just to get out as quickly My next exam was my next

day after the concert. So I was really tired

because I didn't get much sleep. I was due to do my last exam

on the Friday after it happened, and I thought, I'll give

it a few days and see. I got in there, I opened the paper

and tried to do the first question, then I sat there trying

to read the second question but I couldn't comprehend

what was on the paper. I just kept thinking

about the night before, and I just asked,

please, can I leave? I couldn't pluck up enough

courage and I couldn't get myself to concentrate

to revise for the exam. At first I felt like I couldn't do

anything, but then we were given the opportunity to

sing at the concert. It was an amazing experience

and we got to raise so much money, Yeah, it was nice to be part

of something really special. We were fortunate enough

to get out unharmed, we want to do what we can

for the people that didn't It's been a really pivotal

moment in my life. I know this is something

that is a huge part of my character I think it's just

changed my outlook. I need to be thankful

that I am alive. So even if something

happens that seems bad, I just kind of need to lift

my head up and think, it's OK,

it's not the end of the world. I think I was a lot more

stressed before the concert, and I think afterwards it

really put everything It teaches you not to stress

about the little things as much. One of the most important things

is to keep your loved ones close and be happy and grab every

single opportunity that As long as you know you've tried

hard, it doesn't really matter As long as you've put your

best in and you know that you've done everything you can,

then you don't need to worry at all. Good on them. So impressed.

Good luck to everybody who is receiving their results. If the next

couple of weeks. All the best to those two.

You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

Our main story this morning: Britain's largest and most powerful

warship has sailed into its new home in Portsmouth.

Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather.

Good morning. This is a beautiful Weather Watchers picture sent in

this morning and it is of course of East Yorkshire. You the full. The

sun is out but it's not out everywhere. In the west of Northern

Ireland you have rain and through the day that will slowly move

eastwards. It's courtesy of this weather front, connected to this low

pressure. One look at the isobars, they are tightly squeezed, so it

will be breezy, at windy for some of us, especially through the Irish Sea

and western coast of Scotland. A bright start to the day, with some

high cloud, but that will tend to break through the afternoon and we

will have more sunshine. The rain comes across the Irish Sea into the

western fringes of Wales in south-west England. Some of it will

be heavy and ahead of it the cloud will build. A lot of dry and sunny

weather in the Midlands and east Anglia, Kent, Lincolnshire, up to

Northumberland. The rain continues to edge towards north-west England

and out of Northern Ireland. Kind it there will be some showers. The

Scotland the rain edges along most of Scotland through the afternoon.

Some of that is likely to be heavy, especially anywhere with a bit of

height. The bridge are wise today about 14- 16 in the north, to about

23 in the south. -- temperature wise. 22 in the Channel Islands.

Overnight the rain advises eastwards, pushing towards the North

Sea, but we still have a lot of it left in central and eastern parts

and southern England. Behind that some work around the coast. This

morning we've got clear Glenn's. The temperature will dip between about

10- 14. Slowly tomorrow we leave the rain and it clears towards the near

continent. Behind it there will be some cloud and then brightens up and

we have a day of sunshine and showers. Some of them are likely to

be heavy. Temperature wise, if you are out of then we have up to 23.

For Friday low pressure still drives the weather. You can see the isobars

again are tightly packed, which means it will be quite a gusty day.

The wind blowing through Northern Ireland and Wales, central parts of

England, southern Scotland and quite a few showers. Some of them ganging

up to give heavy downpours. You can also see a lot of dry weather in

between the showers and as you move further south some of us will miss

the showers altogether. In the sunshine highs of 21. It will feel

pleasant. Feeling cool if you are courting one of those showers. We

head into the weekend it will be breezy, with sunshine and showers.

Variable fortunes as to where you will see them. On Saturday, there

are few festivals and you could be lucky in southern areas and hang

onto a dry day. Perhaps a fleeting shower. Moving further north you are

more likely to catch a shower and temperatures on Saturday are 14 -

21. Thanks very much. So many of you

have been getting in touch this week because of the series on family run

businesses, talking about how yours have worked, the generations

involved. As promised, Steph is up and about again. A family run firm

in Wolverhampton. Good morning! Good morning. Yes, they manufacture

these things. These are the kinds of nuts and bolts they used to hold

skyscrapers and subsea operations together. You can see Stuart who is

making a bolts. He has worked here for about 20 years and he told me

how things have changed as it moved through the generations. This

company employs 15 people. Five of them are family members. Unmanned

dad and their three sons. We will meet them later. -- mum and dad. As

it has passed through the generations the son, John, changed

the business to make it more specialist because they were

struggling to compete with China, with all of the must -- mass

produced nuts and bolts. Good morning. We have the bosses of the

company here, mum and dad Clare and John. What was it like to take over

from your dad? It was great to work with him for ten years before he

retired. I learnt a lot from him. There was a big way, shoulders, to

keep the business going and the family name going. So that's been a

driving force for the past almost 30 years. For you, you were an engineer

and then decided to join the business after the kids got older?

That's right. I was an engineer before I met John and that's how we

met, through... A blind date, I believe? It was! That's how we met,

through that. What's it like, running a family business, cause

you've obviously got all of your lads here and your husband. Is it

manageable? What's it like at home? It is very challenging at times.

When we've had a difficult day, we do tend to take it home, but at

other times it can be very rewarding as well. To have we got here? This

is Jack, my eldest son, Thomas, my middle son, and Max, who is over

there. They are still teenagers! We never really encouraged them to join

the business but it has always been part of their daily life. Whenever

we went home and had dinner with would-be talking about the oil rigs

with just delivered to all the skyscrapers or even film production

studios, so that always been so involved and so excited that it was

almost a matter of progression for them to join once they left school.

We are going to meet the youngest now. Max is 16. You've just joined

and you are doing an apprenticeship. How is it going? Going good, thanks.

I just started last week. What's it like working with the family? Good.

I've sometimes they have a joke with me because I have just started. One

day do you want to be the boss? Definitely! I will let you crack on.

We have been talking this week about family businesses and we've seen

some fantastic ones. So many amazing pictures. But there are of course

challenges as well. You've done some research on this. Good morning. Tell

us a bit about the challenges. There are lots of elements to this.

Definitely. One of the big challenges facing family firms

revolves around succession planning. Many family businesses struggle to

identify who they can pass the business on to and when they will be

ready. The other challenges around strategic planning. A long-term

vision may be in place but they are not sure how to reach that goal. In

the survey results we issued last year, those were the key areas. It's

interesting what John was saying about how his strategy for the

business changed when he knew his sons were going to join. It's really

key when you know your children are interested that you start to think

about how you get them ready and prepared them to take on the role

and be very supportive and give them the education and really leadership

support that they need. There is criticism about productivity in

family business. There have been. It's interesting. Our survey results

point to some challenges around innovation, how you bring in

additional technology to take your business forward and looking at

succession planning and how it can impact productivity. But that

doesn't show the contribution family businesses make to the global and UK

economy and that shouldn't be underestimated. Thanks ever so much

joining us. Really interesting to see it all being put together and

the family dynamics are amazing. Thank you again for all of those

wonderful pictures. You will hear from me in about one hour.

Thank you. It's been so interesting looking at all of these family

businesses. Thank you for sending in all of your pictures.

She is having so much fun! Time now to get the news,

travel and weather where you are. This is Breakfast, with Dan Walker

and Louise Minchin. Britain's largest aircraft carrier

sails into port for the first time. HMS Queen Elizabeth

is the most advanced warship ever built in the UK but she's

delayed and over-budget. We're live in Portsmouth

all morning, as Big Lizzie sails Good morning it's

Wednesday 16 August. Ministers say there won't be

a return to customs posts between the UK and

Ireland but critics say President Trump has again said that

anti-fascist protesters share the blame for the violence

at a far-right march in Virginia. Good morning. Day three N R reports

about family businesses. Five people who work here are from the same

family. Let's meet them. In sport, there's a dream European

debut for Liverpool's teenage defender Trent

Alexander-Arnold as this free kick for his boyhood club helps

put his side on the brink of qualifying for the group stage

of the Champions League. Pretty. Lipstick. Dresses. Love

hearts. What's the difference

between boys and girls? We will meet the doctor who has been

investigated had gender stereotypes in the classroom affects them

growing up. Across eastern, seven are essential

parts of the UK it will stay dry. Full Scotland, Northern Ireland and

south-west England and Wales, we have rain on the way if you have not

already got it. More details in 15 minutes.

Britain's largest and most powerful warship has docked

HMS Queen Elizabeth was greeted by thousands of people

For the last seven weeks she's been undergoing seal trials.

They've tested everything from the propulsion system

The ships five galleys have been churning out more than 3,000 meals

a day for the 700 crew and additional contractors on board.

The 65,000 tonne carrier's first deployment

Helicopters have been landing on her massive deck -

before the new F35s will begin flight trials.

And HMS Queen Elizabeth won't be fully operational until 2023.

Our South of England correspondent, Duncan Kennedy reports.

There's never been a Royal Navy vessel like it.

65,000 tonnes, the length of three football pitches,

and eventually enough firepower to place us amongst

First conceived nearly 20 years ago, it's taken 10,000 people eight years

to actually construct the HMS Queen Elizabeth.

As high as Nelson's Column, it has launched a thousand statistics.

Enough deck space to part 1200 Minis.

8000 kilometres of fibre optic cable.

Other than capacity to bake 1000 loads a day.

-- Oven capacity to bake 1000 loaves a day.

The basic crew will just be 679 strong, much less

And all living on decks with Wi-Fi, access to a cinema,

But critics say the carrier has cost more than ?3 billion and doesn't