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Hello. This is Breakfast,
with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker. | 0:00:05 | 0:00:10 | |
Concerns for thousands
of small businesses | 0:00:10 | 0:00:11 | |
following the collapse of Carillion. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:18 | |
After Britain's second largest
construction firm has gone under, | 0:00:18 | 0:00:25 | |
Ministers held an emergency meeting
with suppliers and subcontractors | 0:00:25 | 0:00:29 | |
facing millions of pounds of unpaid
bills. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:32 | |
I will look at what chance the small
businesses have of getting their | 0:00:32 | 0:00:36 | |
money back and what that means for
the work already carried out by | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
Carillion across the UK. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:45 | |
Good morning. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:49 | |
It's Tuesday, January 16. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:54 | |
Also this morning: Two parents
are arrested in California | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
after their 13 children
are found captive at home, | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
some shackled to their beds
with chains and padlocks. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
Whirlpool is accused of a woeful
response to recalling tumble dryers | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
which have caused hundreds of fires. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
MPs say as many as a million
machines are still in people's | 0:01:07 | 0:01:11 | |
homes. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:18 | |
An exclusive report as Breakfast
hears claims of chaos | 0:01:18 | 0:01:22 | |
in the Special Educational Needs
system in England. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:26 | |
In sport, Johanna Konta
looks back to her best. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:30 | |
The British number one cruises
through to the second | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
round of the Australian Open,
after a confident straight sets win. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
And Carol has the weather. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
Good morning. Good morning. It is a
cold start to the late for many of | 0:01:37 | 0:01:43 | |
us. It will be a cold day generally.
We have brisk wind in the forecast | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
adding to the cold feel and as well
as that we have snow showers for | 0:01:47 | 0:01:51 | |
some even at low levels. And then
the weather livens up. I will have | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
more details in 15 minutes. That
sounds exciting. Thank you. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:59 | |
Good morning. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:00 | |
First, our main story,
the future of some major | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
construction projects and hundreds
of public service contracts hang | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
in the balance this morning
after the collapse of Carillion. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
Britain's second largest
construction firm, | 0:02:08 | 0:02:09 | |
which also holds cleaning
and catering contracts for schools, | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
hospitals and prisons,
went into liquidation yesterday | 0:02:12 | 0:02:13 | |
with debts of around £1.5 billion. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
The political fallout continued
last night as Ministers | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
held an emergency meeting and Labour
questioned why Carillion continued | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
to be awarded contracts
despite repeated profit warnings. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
Our political correspondent
Chris Mason reports. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:30 | |
One after another, they came from
all corners of government. Will | 0:02:31 | 0:02:38 | |
taxpayers suffer as a result of
this? The march of ministers into | 0:02:38 | 0:02:43 | |
the Cabinet office for a cobra
contingency meeting spoke to the | 0:02:43 | 0:02:47 | |
central truth of the collapse of
Carillion, the tentacles of this | 0:02:47 | 0:02:52 | |
failed business reaching to every
part of the public sector in every | 0:02:52 | 0:02:57 | |
part of the UK. And they now have to
work out what or earth to do next. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:02 | |
There is no evidence of chaos. The
government is working hard across | 0:03:02 | 0:03:08 | |
all Whitehall departments to ensure
the liquidation of Carillion takes | 0:03:08 | 0:03:12 | |
place in an orderly manner that does
not disrupt public services. Wendy | 0:03:12 | 0:03:16 | |
the government first realise...
Labour accused ministers of shocking | 0:03:16 | 0:03:21 | |
negligence. A government
representative managing the | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
relationship between Carillion and
the public sector was rotated off | 0:03:24 | 0:03:27 | |
the company last summer. There was
no blindspot, insist the | 0:03:27 | 0:03:33 | |
Conservatives. Labour leader Jeremy
Corbyn in a video to supporters on | 0:03:33 | 0:03:37 | |
social media said this was a
watershed moment for the | 0:03:37 | 0:03:46 | |
watershed moment for the outsourced
first dogma that has leased the | 0:03:46 | 0:03:48 | |
public and this Labour MP says this
has to change. We were told the | 0:03:48 | 0:03:53 | |
reason for using these companies was
transferring the risks that might | 0:03:53 | 0:03:58 | |
come from construction to the
private sector. The Carillion blows | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
apart the Mithun leaves us with very
expensive contracts with specific | 0:04:01 | 0:04:06 | |
clauses we have to find a way to
deal with. The government insisted | 0:04:06 | 0:04:10 | |
what happened with Carillion showed
a private business shouldering real | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
risk. And that there had been no
bailout. It is an insight into the | 0:04:13 | 0:04:19 | |
vast Lee contrasting instincts of
the two biggest parties about how so | 0:04:19 | 0:04:23 | |
many of our public services are
delivered. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:28 | |
Let's remind ourselves of the scale
of Carillion's influence. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
The company has 450 government
contracts, including maintenance | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
for prisons and hospitals,
as well as dinners and cleaning | 0:04:33 | 0:04:36 | |
for hundreds of schools. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:37 | |
It is also the second largest
supplier of maintenance | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
services to Network Rail,
and it maintains 50,000 homes | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
for the Ministry of Defence. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:43 | |
The firm has 43,000 staff worldwide,
including 20,000 in the UK. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
There are also thousands of small
firms that carry out work | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
on Carillion's behalf,
and Steph's been hearing | 0:04:49 | 0:04:51 | |
from some of them. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:59 | |
And you have been hearing from those
as well. Yes, it is such a variety | 0:05:03 | 0:05:08 | |
of jobs. That is what is really
interesting. We call it a | 0:05:08 | 0:05:12 | |
construction firm. When we dig down
into the areas, we are talking about | 0:05:12 | 0:05:17 | |
painters and decorators. In some
hospitals, it is cleaners, porters, | 0:05:17 | 0:05:22 | |
security people, front of staff in
police stations, such a variety. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:26 | |
Lots of them wondering what it will
mean for them in future. We know in | 0:05:26 | 0:05:31 | |
terms of the public services, they
will still be funded by the | 0:05:31 | 0:05:34 | |
government. So all of the cleaners
in hospitals will still be paid. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:38 | |
They will still be funded. What is
tricky is the private sector part of | 0:05:38 | 0:05:43 | |
the business, so the people working
out on sites, on big projects for | 0:05:43 | 0:05:48 | |
Carillion, and in that area I have
had lots of messages from people. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:51 | |
And there is a real sense of worry
from people. We know the public | 0:05:51 | 0:05:56 | |
sector, what is going on, though
there is concern for people waking | 0:05:56 | 0:06:00 | |
up this morning worrying about their
jobs. And even yesterday and | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
mortgage adviser told me he had had
several calls from Carillion workers | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
to say they don't know what will
happen yet, but if I get made | 0:06:07 | 0:06:11 | |
redundant, will the bank help with
my mortgage? People are genuinely | 0:06:11 | 0:06:15 | |
concerned about what it will mean
for their future. And the other side | 0:06:15 | 0:06:19 | |
of it is suppliers as well. We have
had a lot of suppliers talk to us. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:24 | |
We spoke with Kevin McLaughlin, who
has a painting and decorating | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
business. On Monday morning people
turn up to go to work and 30 people | 0:06:27 | 0:06:32 | |
get sent home. We haven't been
advised in the office. Obviously | 0:06:32 | 0:06:36 | |
people are looking for work, places
to live in within our workforce. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:41 | |
Very difficult situation. We just
finished Battersea Power Station and | 0:06:41 | 0:06:47 | |
we finished a big residential, two
residential blocks in King's Cross, | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
so we had no one there. We still
have a building in King's Cross and | 0:06:51 | 0:06:56 | |
a job in the city and the impact is
we have lost the money that AOR send | 0:06:56 | 0:07:01 | |
we have lost a forward order book of
approximately half the -- half £1 | 0:07:01 | 0:07:09 | |
million. And other companies have
said they are owed money too. And | 0:07:09 | 0:07:13 | |
what is interesting is the
relationship between suppliers and | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
Carillion. I had messages from
people who own businesses per se, | 0:07:16 | 0:07:21 | |
this one guy said, we want supply
them with building materials, but | 0:07:21 | 0:07:24 | |
they took ages to pay. John says my
business stopped working for them | 0:07:24 | 0:07:29 | |
years ago. 120 days plus to get
paid. They are using suppliers as a | 0:07:29 | 0:07:35 | |
bank. There is a lot of bad feeling
about the relationship between | 0:07:35 | 0:07:38 | |
Carillion and suppliers and that
will come from this, is it fair to | 0:07:38 | 0:07:42 | |
do that? I am here through the
morning looking at different | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
elements of this. There are people
who have pensions with Carillion | 0:07:45 | 0:07:49 | |
wondering what will happen. So send
in your questions and I will try to | 0:07:49 | 0:07:53 | |
get them answered. We will speak
with a supplier as well later. Thank | 0:07:53 | 0:07:57 | |
you very much. | 0:07:57 | 0:08:00 | |
Police in California have rescued 13
brothers and sisters | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
from a house where some of them
were chained to beds. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
The alarm was raised on Sunday,
when one girl escaped | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
and alerted the authorities. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:10 | |
Their parents have been arrested
and charged with torture | 0:08:10 | 0:08:12 | |
and child endangerment. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:13 | |
Our North America correspondent
James Cook is at the scene now. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:18 | |
James, horrific details of what was
going on behind you. What more do we | 0:08:18 | 0:08:23 | |
know? Yes, that's right. This is 160
new | 0:08:23 | 0:08:33 | |
new -- Miurwoods Road. The car
behind me is gleaming in the | 0:08:33 | 0:08:36 | |
driveway. It was here on Sunday when
a 17-year-old girl escaped from this | 0:08:36 | 0:08:41 | |
house, taking apparently a phone she
had found with her and calling the | 0:08:41 | 0:08:48 | |
police, the emergency number, 911,
here in the US. When she met the | 0:08:48 | 0:08:53 | |
police she told them 12 siblings
were held captive inside the house. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:57 | |
Officers arrived and they found all
12 of them, some of them shackled, | 0:08:57 | 0:09:04 | |
some held by handcuffs to beds. They
say it was foul smelling inside, | 0:09:04 | 0:09:09 | |
conditions were terrible. Some of
the people appeared malnourished. At | 0:09:09 | 0:09:13 | |
first they thought they were all
children. It was only when they | 0:09:13 | 0:09:18 | |
investigated further that they
realised some of them were adults, | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
seven of them in fact were adults.
Police were shocked to discover that | 0:09:21 | 0:09:26 | |
simply because of their size and
their apparent frailty as well. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 | |
Obviously there are a lot of
questions asked here not least by | 0:09:30 | 0:09:34 | |
neighbours, who say that they knew
that there was something slightly | 0:09:34 | 0:09:38 | |
odd about the family. They didn't
often see all 12, as one of them | 0:09:38 | 0:09:42 | |
thought that there were 12 year. One
woman said she thought that there | 0:09:42 | 0:09:46 | |
were 12 siblings. She very rarely
saw all of them and when she did | 0:09:46 | 0:09:50 | |
they seemed to be just not willing
to engage with anybody. They seemed | 0:09:50 | 0:09:56 | |
to shrink away from the world. They
had no idea about what was going on. | 0:09:56 | 0:10:01 | |
The parents have been charged with
torture and child endangerment. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
James, thank you very much.
Incredible detail. What a | 0:10:05 | 0:10:10 | |
fascinating story. It is horrific.
And to see where it was as well. We | 0:10:10 | 0:10:15 | |
will have more on that in the
programme. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:17 | |
MPs say the manufacturer, Whirlpool,
hasn't done enough to deal | 0:10:17 | 0:10:20 | |
with defective tumble dryers
which have caused hundreds of fires. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:23 | |
The Commons Business Committee said
the response to the problem, | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
discovered in 2015, had been
"woeful" and it was unacceptable | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
that more than one million
potentially dangerous dryers | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
were still being used
in people's homes. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:33 | |
The company insisted
its repair campaign has | 0:10:33 | 0:10:34 | |
been comparatively successful. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:42 | |
And we'll be discussing
the recommendations further | 0:10:42 | 0:10:44 | |
with Lynn Faulds Wood, the former
chair of the Independent Review | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
into recalls and unsafe products. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:48 | |
A blast has brought down
a residential building | 0:10:48 | 0:10:50 | |
in the Belgian city of Antwerp,
injuring several people. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
The origin of the explosion is not
clear but police said they did not | 0:10:53 | 0:10:56 | |
believe it was related to terrorism. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:58 | |
Three people have been
removed from the rubble, | 0:10:58 | 0:11:00 | |
including a child. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:01 | |
Belgium has been on high alert
since three co-ordinated suicide | 0:11:01 | 0:11:04 | |
bombings in Brussels
killed 32 people in 2016. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:12 | |
The supermarket chain Iceland said
it will eliminate plastic from its | 0:11:13 | 0:11:17 | |
own brand products within five
years. The retailer said plastic | 0:11:17 | 0:11:20 | |
will be replaced with paper, which
could be recycled. The move had been | 0:11:20 | 0:11:25 | |
welcomed by environmental
campaigners and it comes amid | 0:11:25 | 0:11:27 | |
growing concern about plastic
pollution in the world's oceans, | 0:11:27 | 0:11:31 | |
where it can harm or kill wildlife. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:33 | |
We'll be speakig to Iceland's head
of packaging about their proposals | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
just after eight this morning. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:40 | |
Something we will talk about a lot,
after Blue Planet, which has | 0:11:40 | 0:11:44 | |
inspired people a lot. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:45 | |
If you dread battling the traffic
on the morning commute, | 0:11:45 | 0:11:48 | |
spare a thought for early
morning drivers in Sydney, | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
who had their journeys disrupted
by a wayward wallaby. | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
This footage was shot by police
officers keeping pace | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
with the mischievous marsupial,
who was first spotted crossing | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
Sydney's iconic
Harbour Bridge at 5am. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:06 | |
Wallabies can happily hop along
at up to 30 miles per hour and this | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
one evaded capture for several miles
before crossing the bridge | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
and finally being
cornered in a park. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:15 | |
Fortunately there's a happy ending
to this tale as the wallaby | 0:12:15 | 0:12:18 | |
was taken to a local zoo and is now
recovering well from its early | 0:12:18 | 0:12:22 | |
morning sight-seeing trip. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:23 | |
They are really spectacular animals.
You know, do you watch the cats | 0:12:23 | 0:12:28 | |
programme, I watched it last week,
that slow motion cheetah, any animal | 0:12:28 | 0:12:33 | |
doing something in slow motion,
incredible, I want slow motion | 0:12:33 | 0:12:38 | |
wallaby. It doesn't have the special
camera. Talking about tennis? In | 0:12:38 | 0:12:45 | |
Australia, not Sydney, in Melbourne,
the Australian Open on at the | 0:12:45 | 0:12:48 | |
moment, and Andy Murray is not
therefore Great Britain. And our | 0:12:48 | 0:12:54 | |
hopes rest on Johanna Konta, last
year she crashed out in five | 0:12:54 | 0:12:58 | |
different tournaments, and it is
like what has gone on with her? She | 0:12:58 | 0:13:02 | |
has a new coach and she appears to
be back to her best. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:05 | |
Konta made quick work of it,
dropping only four games | 0:13:05 | 0:13:08 | |
against Madison Brengle -
she'll face another American, | 0:13:08 | 0:13:10 | |
Bernarda Pera, in round two. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:15 | |
Ryan Giggs has been
confirmed as the manager | 0:13:15 | 0:13:17 | |
of the Wales national side. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:18 | |
He's agreed a four-year deal. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:20 | |
Giggs won 64 caps for his country
but he was unpopular with some Wales | 0:13:20 | 0:13:24 | |
fans for missing numerous
friendly matches. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:28 | |
Manchester United have
done their best to take advantage | 0:13:28 | 0:13:30 | |
of Manchester City's
defeat at Liverpool. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:32 | |
United beat Stoke last night 3-0,
that narrows the gap at the top | 0:13:32 | 0:13:36 | |
of the Premier League to 12 points. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
Stoke stay third from bottom. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:40 | |
And England cricketer Ben Stokes has
been charged with affray over | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
an incident outside a Bristol
nightclub last September, | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
which left a man with
a fractured eye socket. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:48 | |
Stokes missed the Ashes series
and England selectors will meet over | 0:13:48 | 0:13:51 | |
the next couple of days
to discuss his future. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:59 | |
Remember, of course, England still
have all of their one-dayers, T20s, | 0:14:01 | 0:14:07 | |
and a test in New Zealand, so it
remains to be seen if he can be part | 0:14:07 | 0:14:12 | |
of that if he has been charged. OK,
plenty to discuss through the | 0:14:12 | 0:14:16 | |
morning, and your trousers are
magnificence, by the way. Thank you | 0:14:16 | 0:14:20 | |
very much. You have said lots of
things about them and nothing | 0:14:20 | 0:14:23 | |
positive.
LAUGHTER How is saying someone's | 0:14:23 | 0:14:27 | |
trousers are magnificent not
positive? See, this is it, right, it | 0:14:27 | 0:14:32 | |
is impossible to give a compliment.
I have said your trousers are | 0:14:32 | 0:14:36 | |
magnificent and you have taken it as
an insult! Anyway. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:43 | |
Some people like them, some people
don't. You address is lovely, and so | 0:14:43 | 0:14:48 | |
is Carol's. As you can tell, it is
lewd Tuesday. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:59 | |
is Carol's. As you can tell, it is
lewd Tuesday. -- blue Tuesday. Some | 0:14:59 | 0:15:01 | |
of us it has been snowing overnight
and we have further showers to come. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:05 | |
In between them they will be some
sunshine and regardless of where you | 0:15:05 | 0:15:09 | |
are it will feel cold. This morning
across Northern Ireland that is the | 0:15:09 | 0:15:14 | |
forecast. Snow showers at lower
levels. In between, brighter skies | 0:15:14 | 0:15:18 | |
and the risk of ice. Continued snow
showers even at lower levels. Parts | 0:15:18 | 0:15:22 | |
of north-east Scotland seeing the
driest conditions, as will parts of | 0:15:22 | 0:15:26 | |
north-east England. As we come
south, the risk of ice across | 0:15:26 | 0:15:29 | |
northern England. With some snow
showers, some of those getting down | 0:15:29 | 0:15:33 | |
to sea level. As we go into Wales,
the risk of ice for you as well. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:37 | |
Snow showers mainly on the heels of
Wales, and we could see some of | 0:15:37 | 0:15:42 | |
those at lower levels. The
south-west England we have showers | 0:15:42 | 0:15:45 | |
as well. Again you could see some
hail coming out of those and as we | 0:15:45 | 0:15:49 | |
drift towards the south-east and
East Anglia, perhaps the Midlands, | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
we are off to a dry start that it
won't necessarily stay that way. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:57 | |
Many spring tides across south-east
England means later we will see some | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
large waves crashing in, and you
could see through the day how the | 0:16:00 | 0:16:04 | |
snow showers develop. Lower levels
across Scotland, northern England, | 0:16:04 | 0:16:08 | |
Northern Ireland and at times across
central areas, despite the fact | 0:16:08 | 0:16:13 | |
temperatures on your thermometers
will say two to seven, this is how | 0:16:13 | 0:16:17 | |
it will feel with the brisk wind. If
you are travelling on the higher | 0:16:17 | 0:16:22 | |
routes, where we have snow, there is
likely to be drifting so take it | 0:16:22 | 0:16:26 | |
easy. As we on through the evening
and overnight, a lot of snow | 0:16:26 | 0:16:31 | |
showers, some of those getting to
lower levels and once again the risk | 0:16:31 | 0:16:35 | |
of ice on untreated surfaces.
Temperature-wise, however you look | 0:16:35 | 0:16:39 | |
at it, it will be a cold night.
Cracking on with tomorrow, again we | 0:16:39 | 0:16:44 | |
have some snow showers across
Scotland, northern England and | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
Northern Ireland. Many of them will
tend to fade as we go through the | 0:16:47 | 0:16:51 | |
day. It will be noticeably windy
day, not as windy as it is going to | 0:16:51 | 0:16:55 | |
be, and a lot of dry weather. Then
we see this next storm coming in, an | 0:16:55 | 0:17:00 | |
area of low pressure currently to
the east of the United States. It | 0:17:00 | 0:17:04 | |
will depend significantly as it
crosses the Atlantic and reaches our | 0:17:04 | 0:17:07 | |
shores. We are expecting a late on
Wednesday in the Thursday morning, | 0:17:07 | 0:17:11 | |
and as it moves across us, on its
leading edge it will take some snow. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:16 | |
Some of the snow could be disruptive
for parts of Scotland, north-east | 0:17:16 | 0:17:20 | |
England for example, and we have
gales. The strongest winds likely to | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
be a across parts of northern
England, Northern Ireland, heading | 0:17:23 | 0:17:29 | |
towards Norfolk. So gusty, gusty
winds could lead to disruption as | 0:17:29 | 0:17:33 | |
well. That will clear as we head
into the early part of Thursday, but | 0:17:33 | 0:17:37 | |
before it does, very in mind
disruption as possible where you | 0:17:37 | 0:17:42 | |
are, with the gales. Also with that
snow. You can keep up-to-date with | 0:17:42 | 0:17:47 | |
what is happening on your local
radio station. I said there was a | 0:17:47 | 0:17:51 | |
lot going on with the weather, and I
wasn't kidding. And we will see you | 0:17:51 | 0:17:56 | |
lot going on with the weather, and I
wasn't kidding. And we will see you | 0:17:56 | 0:17:56 | |
in half an hour. Let's have a look
at the papers this morning. This is | 0:17:56 | 0:18:02 | |
the front page of the Daily Mirror.
We told you this yesterday about the | 0:18:02 | 0:18:06 | |
sad death of Cyrille at the age of
59. So many wonderful tributes in | 0:18:06 | 0:18:15 | |
the papers from those inside and
outside of the law. The death of the | 0:18:15 | 0:18:19 | |
Daily Mirror. An inspirational hero
who changed the face of the ball. In | 0:18:19 | 0:18:24 | |
the main story down the bottom is
Carillion, the bosses at Carillion | 0:18:24 | 0:18:31 | |
still getting fat cat wages despite
the firm's collapsed. And you might | 0:18:31 | 0:18:37 | |
recognise this girl, the mother of
Poppi Worthington calling for her | 0:18:37 | 0:18:46 | |
death to be re-examined, after the
coroner ruled she was sexually | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
assaulted. That is on the front page
of the Sun as well. The Guardian, a | 0:18:49 | 0:19:00 | |
picture of Dolores O'Riordan, who
was found dead in a hotel room | 0:19:00 | 0:19:05 | |
yesterday. And the scramble to save
jobs as the Carillion crisis | 0:19:05 | 0:19:11 | |
deepens. Lots of them of course
looking at Carillion, the Times | 0:19:11 | 0:19:16 | |
asking whether taxpayers will face a
huge bill. A different story on the | 0:19:16 | 0:19:21 | |
top, slave workers from Eastern
Europe, they say, are being used to | 0:19:21 | 0:19:25 | |
collect donated clothes from
households on behalf of charities. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:28 | |
On the front page of the Daily Mail,
Dolores O'Riordan on the front page, | 0:19:28 | 0:19:32 | |
the lead singer of the Cranberries,
and supermarket bans plastic is | 0:19:32 | 0:19:38 | |
their main headline. We will speak
to the head of packaging at Iceland, | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
the first store in the world to
remove packaging from all its | 0:19:41 | 0:19:45 | |
products. And magnificent trousers.
They get me further up the billing, | 0:19:45 | 0:19:52 | |
hopefully more often! You wait to
see Steph's tomorrow! As you were | 0:19:52 | 0:20:03 | |
saying, lots of tributes in the
papers to Cyrille Regis, Ian Wright | 0:20:03 | 0:20:09 | |
writing in the sun about how he was
inspired to get into football by | 0:20:09 | 0:20:13 | |
Cyrille Regis. Interesting story in
the Telegraph about Novak Djokovic | 0:20:13 | 0:20:18 | |
at the Australian Open, floating the
idea of the players' strike, because | 0:20:18 | 0:20:22 | |
he says not enough of the money
which Grand Slam is earning is | 0:20:22 | 0:20:26 | |
passed down to the players. Perhaps
he has a point, they are the stars | 0:20:26 | 0:20:30 | |
of the show, aren't they? And a
story about Joshua's next opponent, | 0:20:30 | 0:20:40 | |
Jozsef Parker, who eats raw fish. I
am mesmerised by the fish. You can | 0:20:40 | 0:20:46 | |
put it down now, you know! I will
obviously be talking about Carillion | 0:20:46 | 0:20:53 | |
through the morning, another story I
have been looking at is about | 0:20:53 | 0:20:58 | |
sickies, apparently we are taking
fewer sick days but it is costing | 0:20:58 | 0:21:02 | |
the economy more because we are
going into work sick. So lots of | 0:21:02 | 0:21:06 | |
people are going in still sick, and
therefore not being very productive. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
Talking about being sick, doctors
say don't hold sneezes in. Because | 0:21:09 | 0:21:16 | |
this man really hurt himself, he had
blocked his nose and mouth and | 0:21:16 | 0:21:20 | |
really seriously damaged himself. I
told you about your silent sneeze, | 0:21:20 | 0:21:26 | |
you shouldn't do that! You have to
let it go. I will think about it. I | 0:21:26 | 0:21:30 | |
have not injured myself yet. Calls
from the RSPCA about people who | 0:21:30 | 0:21:36 | |
think they have seen an animal in a
certain area, and it is not actually | 0:21:36 | 0:21:41 | |
true. A woman in Coventry said she
was scared a lizard was approaching | 0:21:41 | 0:21:45 | |
her house, it was in fact a stripy
pink sock. A dead horse was in the | 0:21:45 | 0:21:50 | |
bath tub, -- a dead horse was in
fact a bath tub, and another animal | 0:21:50 | 0:21:59 | |
turned out to be a pair of slippers.
How did they not know they had a | 0:21:59 | 0:22:04 | |
cat? Steph, you have gone too deep.
I felt I needed to share that with | 0:22:04 | 0:22:10 | |
the nation. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:11 | |
Plans to drastically improve
transport links between cities | 0:22:11 | 0:22:13 | |
in the North of England
over the next 30 years | 0:22:13 | 0:22:16 | |
will be released today. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:17 | |
As well as new rail lines,
there are talks of a new tunnel | 0:22:17 | 0:22:20 | |
connecting Sheffield and Manchester. | 0:22:20 | 0:22:21 | |
Our correspondent Alison Freeman
joins us now from Darlington. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
Alison, what do we know so far? | 0:22:24 | 0:22:31 | |
Good morning, yes. Darlington is an
appropriate place to launch this | 0:22:31 | 0:22:38 | |
strategy, the home of rail, where
the first public passenger railway | 0:22:38 | 0:22:43 | |
was in the 1820s. This strategy is
really looking forward, over the | 0:22:43 | 0:22:47 | |
next 30 years, up until 2050. In a
nutshell, the people behind the plan | 0:22:47 | 0:22:52 | |
want to improve roads and rail links
across the North of England. That is | 0:22:52 | 0:22:56 | |
taking in the Humber, Yorkshire, the
north-east and the north-west. They | 0:22:56 | 0:23:01 | |
want to join together ports,
airports and cities, so that people | 0:23:01 | 0:23:05 | |
and goods can be transported around
far more easily. It is going to come | 0:23:05 | 0:23:11 | |
off the back of HS2, creating better
rail links, really. The main new | 0:23:11 | 0:23:16 | |
newsgroup will find out is about the
Northern Rail system, which could be | 0:23:16 | 0:23:20 | |
in place by the 20 30s and will make
travel between cities much more | 0:23:20 | 0:23:26 | |
easy. It is going to cost about £60
billion but could bring £100 billion | 0:23:26 | 0:23:31 | |
of investment to the area. The
public consultation on the plans | 0:23:31 | 0:23:35 | |
will start today, and the government
really does have to listen. | 0:23:35 | 0:23:38 | |
An investigation seen exclusively
by this programme has raised concern | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
about care support for more
than 21,000 children with complex | 0:23:41 | 0:23:43 | |
special needs in England. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:45 | |
Every child with a special need has
to receive a fresh assessment | 0:23:45 | 0:23:48 | |
for their care by 31 March,
but it seems the majority of local | 0:23:48 | 0:23:51 | |
authorities are going
to miss this deadline. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:53 | |
Jayne McCubbin has been looking
in to this as part of our focus | 0:23:53 | 0:23:57 | |
on this issue. | 0:23:57 | 0:24:04 | |
Jayne, how is the system changing? | 0:24:04 | 0:24:09 | |
OK, good morning. It is meant to be
better, it is meant to be simpler. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:13 | |
It is meant to be better for
children and families. It was always | 0:24:13 | 0:24:17 | |
going to be a huge job, almost
240,000 children, who are under SEND | 0:24:17 | 0:24:22 | |
statements, which tells you what
your child is entitled to in terms | 0:24:22 | 0:24:26 | |
of support, and they had to be
transferred over to this new system | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
of educational health and care
plans, EHCPs. All children were | 0:24:29 | 0:24:36 | |
meant to be transferred over by
2015, but an FOIA has found the | 0:24:36 | 0:24:41 | |
majority of councils are going to
miss this deadline. We are hearing | 0:24:41 | 0:24:44 | |
that the stakes are being made as
councils rush to try and hit it. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:49 | |
When it happens, it is children who
are paying the price. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:52 | |
It is the biggest reform to special
educational needs support in a | 0:24:52 | 0:24:58 | |
generation and since 2014 the clock
has been ticking. Councils were | 0:24:58 | 0:25:02 | |
given 43 months to transfer all
children off the old system of | 0:25:02 | 0:25:06 | |
statements, to receive new, improved
educational health and care plans. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:09 | |
So how is that shaking up? It is a
mess, a complete mess. It is a | 0:25:09 | 0:25:17 | |
complete and utter disaster.
Rachel's youngest daughter has | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
autism, and has struggled out of
school for three years. It was meant | 0:25:19 | 0:25:23 | |
to take 20 weeks to assess her for a
new support plan. Today, they are in | 0:25:23 | 0:25:30 | |
week 54, and still no plan or
support in place. The medical | 0:25:30 | 0:25:34 | |
assessment wasn't done, and the
social care assessment wasn't done. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:39 | |
You had to crowd fund to get the
right assessment. We did, we did | 0:25:39 | 0:25:43 | |
have the crowd get the right
assessment. They have failed her on | 0:25:43 | 0:25:47 | |
every level, at every point they
have failed her. Walsall Council say | 0:25:47 | 0:25:53 | |
it is committed to working with
councils to meet individual needs | 0:25:53 | 0:25:56 | |
and achieve the best outcomes for
children, but Holly is one of an | 0:25:56 | 0:26:01 | |
estimated 21,000 children in limbo,
who will still be waiting to receive | 0:26:01 | 0:26:05 | |
a plan by deadline day. This is a
support group in Richmond, the area | 0:26:05 | 0:26:12 | |
with the worst delays in England.
Everyone here has faced delays, | 0:26:12 | 0:26:16 | |
everyone who has faced problems. The
plant for Bill's son, Rudi, was | 0:26:16 | 0:26:23 | |
missing support needed. Ten days'
time we will be in another tribunal. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:29 | |
The first-rate dinner was held in
May last year. How much have you | 0:26:29 | 0:26:33 | |
spent on this fight? Richmond are
very aware of this, just under | 0:26:33 | 0:26:38 | |
£60,000 so far. Sarah has also has
to pay to pay for four sons who are | 0:26:38 | 0:26:45 | |
autistic. They changed case Optus is
five times. So we never knew who our | 0:26:45 | 0:26:52 | |
case officer was. Melanie says her
daughter is broken by the delays. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:57 | |
She meets with these professionals.
She has Ashley refused now to fill | 0:26:57 | 0:27:01 | |
those forms out any more. She says I
am not filling them out, because | 0:27:01 | 0:27:05 | |
nobody read them, and nobody
actually cares. Richmond council | 0:27:05 | 0:27:08 | |
tell me they have been working with
families to ensure each transfer is | 0:27:08 | 0:27:12 | |
also strong, informed, individually
tailored plans. Even though it has | 0:27:12 | 0:27:17 | |
taken 3.5 years to only do half the
transfers, they reckon they can the | 0:27:17 | 0:27:21 | |
rest done in the next seven weeks.
Impossible. it is not doable. It | 0:27:21 | 0:27:27 | |
won't be quality, and it won't be
considered. The quality of new plans | 0:27:27 | 0:27:32 | |
is a concern, right across England.
Do you want the government to scrap | 0:27:32 | 0:27:36 | |
this deadline? It would be held if
they would extend this deadline. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:40 | |
Having such a ruthless deadline is
putting at risk the quality of plans | 0:27:40 | 0:27:43 | |
that are being delivered, in order
to meet that timescale. Not everyone | 0:27:43 | 0:27:49 | |
would describe 3.5 years as a
ruthless deadline. This letter was | 0:27:49 | 0:27:53 | |
sent to local authorities recently,
reminding them of the need to hit | 0:27:53 | 0:27:57 | |
it. The government say that with a
starting point of 250,000 transfers, | 0:27:57 | 0:28:01 | |
councils are making good progress,
not words these parents would use to | 0:28:01 | 0:28:05 | |
describe their own experiences. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:10 | |
We have a week of looking at special
education needs on Breakfast, as we | 0:28:10 | 0:28:14 | |
had last year, and we had a huge
response to that. The cop Dom | 0:28:14 | 0:28:18 | |
problems you are concentrating on
our widely known, aren't they? You | 0:28:18 | 0:28:23 | |
know, back in early 2017, the
government realised there were huge | 0:28:23 | 0:28:27 | |
delays and problems here and they
started asking local authorities to | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 | |
provide monthly updates to them, at
which the government chose not to | 0:28:30 | 0:28:34 | |
publish. So this Freedom of
Information Act request from these | 0:28:34 | 0:28:37 | |
parents' Forum really is the first
proper picture we have of how it is | 0:28:37 | 0:28:41 | |
going. And it is not great. Based on
the numbers of children still on | 0:28:41 | 0:28:45 | |
statements last year, they were able
to calculate how many are likely to | 0:28:45 | 0:28:49 | |
be understatement come deadline day,
at 20 1000. If the pace transfers | 0:28:49 | 0:28:54 | |
stays the same as it did last year,
the DFE say this means nine out of | 0:28:54 | 0:29:01 | |
ten children will be transferred
over to the new system. But the FOIA | 0:29:01 | 0:29:05 | |
also shows that 60% of authorities,
if they continue at the same rate of | 0:29:05 | 0:29:12 | |
change, will miss that deadline. And
10% of those local authorities will | 0:29:12 | 0:29:18 | |
miss that deadline by more than one
year, if they follow the same rate | 0:29:18 | 0:29:22 | |
of Richmond say they are picking up
the pace, the Department of | 0:29:22 | 0:29:26 | |
Education is a councils are picking
up the pace, but these plans are | 0:29:26 | 0:29:31 | |
meant to be bespoke, personalised,
top quality. If you pick up the | 0:29:31 | 0:29:34 | |
pace, what happens to that quality?
OFSTED, TQC, local government | 0:29:34 | 0:29:40 | |
ombudsman, even council authorities
themselves say they are struggling | 0:29:40 | 0:29:45 | |
to meet this target and it is
families which are left trying to | 0:29:45 | 0:29:48 | |
put this right. Children are paying
the price -- CQC. And we would love | 0:29:48 | 0:29:53 | |
people to get in touch, as well. | 0:29:53 | 0:29:57 | |
Time now to get the news,
travel and weather where you are. | 0:29:57 | 0:33:18 | |
to follow. | 0:33:18 | 0:33:20 | |
overnight for strong winds. Showers
to follow. | 0:33:20 | 0:33:20 | |
Vanessa Feltz has a Breakfast show
between 7am and 10am tomorrow. I | 0:33:20 | 0:33:24 | |
will be back in half an hour.
Goodbye for now. | 0:33:24 | 0:33:28 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast
with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker. | 0:33:28 | 0:33:31 | |
We'll bring you all the latest news
and sport in a moment, | 0:33:31 | 0:33:34 | |
but also on Breakfast this morning: | 0:33:34 | 0:33:42 | |
From the school playground
to the pitch, we'll speak to sports | 0:33:46 | 0:33:49 | |
presenter Gabby Logan
about a new campaign | 0:33:49 | 0:33:51 | |
to get kids moving. | 0:33:51 | 0:33:52 | |
Also this morning, how this very
special penguin could help | 0:33:52 | 0:33:55 | |
protect the Antarctic. | 0:33:55 | 0:33:57 | |
And after 9am, it's been a turbulent
time for her character but star | 0:33:57 | 0:34:00 | |
of Call the Midwife Laura Main will
be here ahead of the new series. | 0:34:00 | 0:34:04 | |
Good morning. | 0:34:04 | 0:34:06 | |
Here's a summary of today's main
stories from BBC News. | 0:34:06 | 0:34:09 | |
The future of some major
construction projects and hundreds | 0:34:09 | 0:34:12 | |
of public service contracts hang
in the balance this morning | 0:34:12 | 0:34:14 | |
after the collapse of Carillion. | 0:34:14 | 0:34:16 | |
Britain's second largest
construction firm, | 0:34:16 | 0:34:17 | |
which also holds cleaning
and catering contracts for schools, | 0:34:17 | 0:34:20 | |
hospitals and prisons,
went into liquidation yesterday | 0:34:20 | 0:34:21 | |
with debts of around £1.5 billion. | 0:34:21 | 0:34:23 | |
The political fallout continued last
night as Ministers held an emergency | 0:34:23 | 0:34:26 | |
meeting and Labour questioned why
Carillion continued to be awarded | 0:34:26 | 0:34:29 | |
contracts despite repeated
profit warnings. | 0:34:29 | 0:34:37 | |
13 brothers and sisters
between the ages of two and 29 have | 0:34:45 | 0:34:48 | |
been discovered in a malnourished
and dirty state at their home in | 0:34:48 | 0:34:51 | |
California. | 0:34:51 | 0:34:52 | |
Some of them were
chained to their beds. | 0:34:52 | 0:34:54 | |
The alarm was raised on Sunday,
when one girl escaped | 0:34:54 | 0:34:56 | |
and alerted the authorities. | 0:34:56 | 0:34:58 | |
Their parents have been charged
with torture and child endangerment. | 0:34:58 | 0:35:00 | |
MPs say the manufacturer, Whirlpool,
hasn't done enough to deal | 0:35:00 | 0:35:03 | |
with defective tumble dryers
which have caused hundreds of fires. | 0:35:03 | 0:35:06 | |
The company insisted
its repair campaign has | 0:35:06 | 0:35:08 | |
been comparatively successful. | 0:35:08 | 0:35:08 | |
But the Commons Business Committee
said the response to the problem, | 0:35:08 | 0:35:11 | |
discovered in 2015, had been woeful
and it was unacceptable | 0:35:11 | 0:35:14 | |
that more than one million
potentially dangerous dryers | 0:35:14 | 0:35:16 | |
were still being used
in people's homes. | 0:35:16 | 0:35:24 | |
Well, their evidence was woeful.
Since 2004, they admit there are | 0:35:25 | 0:35:30 | |
have been 740 fires in people's
homes caused by these tumble dryers | 0:35:30 | 0:35:35 | |
and yet still today in 2018 there
are 1 million of these tumble dryers | 0:35:35 | 0:35:40 | |
in people's homes and they need to
take much stronger action to get | 0:35:40 | 0:35:44 | |
those tumble dryers out people's
homes and to end the complacency | 0:35:44 | 0:35:48 | |
that has mired the company and the
evidence that they gave. | 0:35:48 | 0:35:52 | |
A blast has brought down
a residential building | 0:35:52 | 0:35:54 | |
in the Belgian city of Antwerp,
injuring several people. | 0:35:54 | 0:35:56 | |
The origin of the explosion is not
clear but police said they did not | 0:35:56 | 0:36:00 | |
believe it was related to terrorism. | 0:36:00 | 0:36:02 | |
Three people have been
removed from the rubble, | 0:36:02 | 0:36:04 | |
including a child. | 0:36:04 | 0:36:05 | |
Belgium has been on high alert
since three co-ordinated suicide | 0:36:05 | 0:36:08 | |
bombings in Brussels
killed 32 people in 2016. | 0:36:08 | 0:36:10 | |
The American gymnast Simone Biles
has said she was sexually abused by | 0:36:10 | 0:36:13 | |
the former USA team coach Larry
Nassar. The four-time Olympic | 0:36:13 | 0:36:16 | |
champion tweeted that she too is one
of the many survivors, but has been | 0:36:16 | 0:36:21 | |
reluctant to speak out until now.
Larry Nassar was jailed last month | 0:36:21 | 0:36:25 | |
for 60 years for possessing images
of child sexual abuse, and is | 0:36:25 | 0:36:31 | |
awaiting sentence for assaulting
other athletes. | 0:36:31 | 0:36:33 | |
The supermarket chain, Iceland,
has said it will eliminate plastic | 0:36:33 | 0:36:36 | |
from its own brand products
within five years. | 0:36:36 | 0:36:38 | |
The retailer said plastic
would be replaced with paper | 0:36:38 | 0:36:40 | |
which could be recycled. | 0:36:40 | 0:36:41 | |
The move has been welcomed
by environmental campaigners | 0:36:41 | 0:36:43 | |
and comes amid growing concern over
plastic pollution in the world's | 0:36:43 | 0:36:46 | |
oceans, where it can
harm or kill wildlife. | 0:36:46 | 0:36:49 | |
A speeding car in California
was hurled into the upper floor | 0:36:49 | 0:36:52 | |
of an office building after it hit
a road divider in the early hours | 0:36:52 | 0:36:56 | |
of Sunday morning. | 0:36:56 | 0:36:56 | |
The crash left one half
of the vehicle hanging out | 0:36:56 | 0:36:59 | |
of the building and the driver
admitted to officers he had used | 0:36:59 | 0:37:02 | |
drugs before getting
behind the wheel. | 0:37:02 | 0:37:04 | |
Luckily both driver and passenger
survived, suffering only minor | 0:37:04 | 0:37:06 | |
injuries | 0:37:06 | 0:37:13 | |
LAUGHTER That is genuinely
incredible footage, isn't it? | 0:37:33 | 0:37:37 | |
While you do the sport, I will look
at the picture in the papers. It is | 0:37:37 | 0:37:42 | |
something from Back to Future, isn't
it? Here it is, can you see the | 0:37:42 | 0:37:48 | |
aftermath? Go into the dentist,
because it says dental office! | 0:37:48 | 0:37:54 | |
Unbelievable. I am talking about the
Australian Open, which started | 0:37:54 | 0:38:00 | |
yesterday, we had Kyle Beckerman
through in the big -- biggest win of | 0:38:00 | 0:38:10 | |
his career, -- Kyle Edmund, the
men's British number one | 0:38:10 | 0:38:14 | |
representing with Andy Murray out.
And number one Johanna Konta is also | 0:38:14 | 0:38:19 | |
three and it was an easy day for her
in a confident return to form. | 0:38:19 | 0:38:23 | |
Konta said she really enjoyed
the heat in Melbourne and tried | 0:38:23 | 0:38:26 | |
to absorb the atmosphere
in the arena. | 0:38:26 | 0:38:28 | |
And she certainly looked
comfortable out there. | 0:38:28 | 0:38:30 | |
The match lasted little over an hour
and Konta only dropped four games | 0:38:30 | 0:38:34 | |
against Madison Brengle. | 0:38:34 | 0:38:35 | |
She'll play another
American, Bernarda Pera. | 0:38:35 | 0:38:37 | |
The six-times champion
Novak Djokovic has been back | 0:38:37 | 0:38:40 | |
in action for the first
time since Wimbledon, | 0:38:40 | 0:38:42 | |
and he came through with ease,
only dropping serve once in beating | 0:38:42 | 0:38:45 | |
Donald Young. | 0:38:45 | 0:38:46 | |
Djokovic is seeded 14th,
after missing the second half | 0:38:46 | 0:38:48 | |
of 2017 with an elbow injury. | 0:38:48 | 0:38:51 | |
And he was wearing quite a fetching
kind of arm long/ coloured sleeve to | 0:38:51 | 0:38:56 | |
play in Melbourne this morning. --
flesh coloured sleeve. | 0:38:56 | 0:39:03 | |
Manchester United have
done their best to take advantage | 0:39:03 | 0:39:06 | |
of Manchester City's
defeat at Liverpool, | 0:39:06 | 0:39:07 | |
narrowing the gap at the top
of the Premier League | 0:39:07 | 0:39:10 | |
to 12 points. | 0:39:11 | 0:39:11 | |
They beat Stoke 3-0 last night,
with new Stoke manager Paul Lambert | 0:39:11 | 0:39:15 | |
watching from the stands. | 0:39:15 | 0:39:16 | |
And Jose Mourinho isn't quite giving
up the title race yet. | 0:39:16 | 0:39:19 | |
We know that the distance
is a very important distance. | 0:39:19 | 0:39:22 | |
I've been there before,
and you can control your destiny, | 0:39:22 | 0:39:24 | |
and you play relaxed. | 0:39:24 | 0:39:25 | |
And, when you play relaxed,
the best qualities are coming. | 0:39:25 | 0:39:28 | |
So I think they have their destiny
in their hands, but we want to win | 0:39:28 | 0:39:32 | |
matches, we want to
finish the best we can. | 0:39:32 | 0:39:35 | |
Ryan Giggs has been
confirmed as the new manager | 0:39:35 | 0:39:37 | |
of the Wales national side. | 0:39:37 | 0:39:38 | |
He's agreed a four-year deal,
and he says he's been unfairly | 0:39:38 | 0:39:41 | |
criticised by fans,
who questioned his commitment. | 0:39:41 | 0:39:43 | |
Giggs says a desire to reach a major
tournament with his country | 0:39:43 | 0:39:47 | |
burns inside him. | 0:39:47 | 0:39:52 | |
It was just an opportunity that I
couldn't turn down. You know, I had | 0:39:52 | 0:39:57 | |
the assistant manager role at
Manchester United after I finished | 0:39:57 | 0:40:00 | |
playing, which I have enjoyed. I
haven't done that for 18 months now | 0:40:00 | 0:40:04 | |
and I am itching to get back to
football, because that is where I | 0:40:04 | 0:40:08 | |
feel comfortable, that is where I
belong. And tremendously honoured | 0:40:08 | 0:40:11 | |
and proud to be the next Welsh
manager. | 0:40:11 | 0:40:14 | |
West Bromwich Albion have described
Cyrille Regis as "A pioneer | 0:40:14 | 0:40:17 | |
for black footballers
across the world". | 0:40:17 | 0:40:18 | |
Regis died on Sunday aged 59
after a suspected heart attack. | 0:40:18 | 0:40:21 | |
He played nearly 300 times
for West Brom in the 1970s and '80s. | 0:40:21 | 0:40:25 | |
He became the third black player
to play for England and was made | 0:40:25 | 0:40:28 | |
an MBE in 2008. | 0:40:28 | 0:40:35 | |
There is very few black men in the
game of football who could have got | 0:40:35 | 0:40:41 | |
through that time that Cyrille got
through and still achieved and still | 0:40:41 | 0:40:45 | |
played for his company and still
played for big football clubs. He | 0:40:45 | 0:40:51 | |
was... He was just a leader. | 0:40:51 | 0:40:58 | |
England cricketer Ben Stokes has
been charged with affray over | 0:40:58 | 0:41:01 | |
an incident outside a Bristol
nightclub in September, | 0:41:01 | 0:41:03 | |
which left a man with
a fractured eye socket. | 0:41:03 | 0:41:06 | |
Stokes missed the Ashes series
and the selectors will be meeting | 0:41:06 | 0:41:09 | |
over the next couple of days
to discuss his future. | 0:41:09 | 0:41:11 | |
Stokes has been charged along
with two other men. | 0:41:11 | 0:41:14 | |
Finally, Ireland and Ulster winger
Tommy Bowe has announced | 0:41:14 | 0:41:16 | |
he will retire at the end
of the season, opting to make | 0:41:16 | 0:41:19 | |
the announcement through poetry. | 0:41:19 | 0:41:20 | |
The former Lions winger posted this
on Twitter: | 0:41:20 | 0:41:28 | |
It is the kind of thing Carol would
pen. She loves the Limerick. There | 0:41:32 | 0:41:40 | |
is a bit of a recent issue with that
column I think. You are very | 0:41:40 | 0:41:45 | |
critical today. I have obviously
woken up on the wrong side of bed. | 0:41:45 | 0:41:52 | |
-- limerick. | 0:41:52 | 0:41:53 | |
The mother of Poppi Worthington has
described the five years | 0:41:53 | 0:41:56 | |
since her daughter's death
as a complete nightmare. | 0:41:56 | 0:41:59 | |
Yesterday an inquest concluded
the toddler was sexually | 0:41:59 | 0:42:01 | |
assaulted before she died
of asphyxia in bed next | 0:42:01 | 0:42:03 | |
to her father. | 0:42:03 | 0:42:05 | |
Our social affairs correspondent,
Clare Fallon, has been | 0:42:05 | 0:42:07 | |
following the story from the start. | 0:42:07 | 0:42:09 | |
She joins us now. | 0:42:09 | 0:42:14 | |
Good morning. It has been a really
long and difficult case, this one, | 0:42:14 | 0:42:21 | |
hasn't it? It has been going on for
more than five years now. | 0:42:21 | 0:42:26 | |
Essentially it was the job of the
coroner at this second inquest to | 0:42:26 | 0:42:31 | |
establish how Poppi Worthington
died. During the course of the | 0:42:31 | 0:42:33 | |
evidence we heard that in December
2012 a frantic 999 call was made by | 0:42:33 | 0:42:39 | |
her mother. Poppi Worthington had
stopped breathing at their home. She | 0:42:39 | 0:42:42 | |
was taken to hospital. Medics
couldn't restart her heart. Right | 0:42:42 | 0:42:48 | |
from the outset there were
suspicions about how Poppi | 0:42:48 | 0:42:50 | |
Worthington had died. There is also
being a great deal of disagreement | 0:42:50 | 0:42:55 | |
and conflict with different medical
experts giving opposing opinions | 0:42:55 | 0:43:00 | |
about what happened to her. But
yesterday with this inquest the | 0:43:00 | 0:43:05 | |
coroner ruled that he believed that
Poppi Worthington's father had moved | 0:43:05 | 0:43:09 | |
her from her cot in the early hours
of the morning and that Poppi | 0:43:09 | 0:43:14 | |
Worthington was probably sexually
abused before she died. Cause of | 0:43:14 | 0:43:18 | |
death being recorded as asphyxia.
The coroner said he believes she was | 0:43:18 | 0:43:23 | |
left in and on safe sleeping
position and she couldn't breathe | 0:43:23 | 0:43:26 | |
properly. What has been the
reaction? Well, during that | 0:43:26 | 0:43:29 | |
conclusion yesterday at the hearing,
Poppi Worthington's mother was | 0:43:29 | 0:43:34 | |
there, she left the hearing in tears
as the details were given. Much of | 0:43:34 | 0:43:38 | |
the reaction has been about the
police investigation. We know that | 0:43:38 | 0:43:43 | |
the police investigation was deeply
flawed, potentially crucial evidence | 0:43:43 | 0:43:47 | |
was lost. Things like the pyjama
bottoms that Poppi Worthington was | 0:43:47 | 0:43:51 | |
wearing that morning, also the last
nappy that she was wearing. The | 0:43:51 | 0:44:01 | |
chief custard will of Cumbria police
has previously apologised for his | 0:44:01 | 0:44:04 | |
force's failings and yesterday he
apologised again. | 0:44:04 | 0:44:06 | |
It is clear that the initial
investigation surrounding Poppi's | 0:44:06 | 0:44:08 | |
death in 2012 has done little to
assist the coroner in coming to a | 0:44:08 | 0:44:12 | |
conclusion in how Poppi died and I
greatly regret this. I have | 0:44:12 | 0:44:17 | |
previously accepted the justifiable
criticism that has been directed at | 0:44:17 | 0:44:22 | |
the constabulary and I will consider
the detail of the coroner's | 0:44:22 | 0:44:25 | |
conclusion and his comments today
and we will have an early discussion | 0:44:25 | 0:44:30 | |
with Crown Prosecution Service in
order to determine possible causes | 0:44:30 | 0:44:32 | |
of action. | 0:44:32 | 0:44:34 | |
So what happens now, where does it
end? The Crown Prosecution Service | 0:44:34 | 0:44:39 | |
has essentially previously said
there is not enough evidence for | 0:44:39 | 0:44:42 | |
there to be a realistic prospect of
a successful conviction against Paul | 0:44:42 | 0:44:47 | |
Worthington, a man who has always
denied that he did anything to harm | 0:44:47 | 0:44:51 | |
his daughter. Now, Poppi
Worthington's mother is asking the | 0:44:51 | 0:44:57 | |
Crown Prosecution Service to look at
the case again and re-examine that | 0:44:57 | 0:45:00 | |
decision not to press any charges.
This is a problem, bear in mind, | 0:45:00 | 0:45:06 | |
because of the lost evidence, which
police didn't seize. Some people | 0:45:06 | 0:45:10 | |
would say that is one of the reasons
potentially why prosecutors believe | 0:45:10 | 0:45:14 | |
there isn't enough evidence for
there to be a trial in a criminal | 0:45:14 | 0:45:17 | |
court. Also there is a call for a
public enquiry into Cumbria police. | 0:45:17 | 0:45:23 | |
Thank you very much for bringing us
up to date on such a difficult case. | 0:45:23 | 0:45:33 | |
Let's find out what is happening in
the weather. Depending on what you | 0:45:33 | 0:45:37 | |
are doing today and tomorrow, it
could be quite disruptive. | 0:45:37 | 0:45:40 | |
are doing today and tomorrow, it
could be quite disruptive. Morning | 0:45:40 | 0:45:42 | |
to you both. We are looking at
disruptive weather over the next | 0:45:42 | 0:45:45 | |
couple of days. This has recently
been sent from Jimmy. It is snowing | 0:45:45 | 0:45:52 | |
in many parts of the country, and
those snow showers will be on and | 0:45:52 | 0:45:57 | |
off through the course of the day,
with a brisk wind. So it will feel | 0:45:57 | 0:46:01 | |
it. They are that in mind if you are
just stepping out now. There is also | 0:46:01 | 0:46:05 | |
the risk of ice on untreated
surfaces. The snow showers continue, | 0:46:05 | 0:46:10 | |
not just on the hills, but down to
sea level as well. Some of the | 0:46:10 | 0:46:14 | |
driest conditions will be across
parts of north-east England. As you | 0:46:14 | 0:46:19 | |
come south, we have those snow
showers not just on the hills but at | 0:46:19 | 0:46:23 | |
low levels as well. Some snow
showers across parts of Wales. Most | 0:46:23 | 0:46:27 | |
of those will be at height, and some
of the heaviest showers through the | 0:46:27 | 0:46:31 | |
day, you could see some wintry stuff
at lower levels as well. And across | 0:46:31 | 0:46:35 | |
south-west England, again windy with
some showers. You are more likely to | 0:46:35 | 0:46:39 | |
see some hail at lower levels, and
if there is any wintry edge to the | 0:46:39 | 0:46:46 | |
showers it will be with height. A
dry start. With the strong winds, | 0:46:46 | 0:46:50 | |
large waves crashing onshore across
the south-west, as we will over the | 0:46:50 | 0:46:55 | |
next few days. And the snow showers
continuing to Pioline. At lower | 0:46:55 | 0:46:58 | |
levels on the northern parts of the
country, we will see at lower levels | 0:46:58 | 0:47:03 | |
as well. It is the South which will
hang on to the pale and rain | 0:47:03 | 0:47:08 | |
showers. This is will how it will
feel, regardless of what it says on | 0:47:08 | 0:47:13 | |
the thermometer, with the wind
against your skin. So leading into a | 0:47:13 | 0:47:16 | |
cold night, the snow showers
continuing. The wind will strengthen | 0:47:16 | 0:47:20 | |
for a time. Some of those snow
showers will also be at low levels | 0:47:20 | 0:47:24 | |
and there is a risk of ice on
untreated surfaces. However you look | 0:47:24 | 0:47:29 | |
at it, it will be a cold night.
These are the temperatures in towns | 0:47:29 | 0:47:32 | |
and cities, lower than that in rural
areas. Tomorrow we start off with | 0:47:32 | 0:47:36 | |
snow showers. Wind easing in touch.
We will see some showers fading, but | 0:47:36 | 0:47:40 | |
there will be some more sunshine
around tomorrow, and dry weather. | 0:47:40 | 0:47:44 | |
Then the next system comes our way.
You can see it ringing some rain in | 0:47:44 | 0:47:49 | |
from the west. This is a deepening
area of low pressure coming in from | 0:47:49 | 0:47:53 | |
the Atlantic. The exact track could
change, but this is what we think at | 0:47:53 | 0:47:57 | |
the moment. On its leading edge it
will have some rain and snow, snow | 0:47:57 | 0:48:01 | |
coming in across Northern Ireland,
parts of England, and Scotland. Some | 0:48:01 | 0:48:05 | |
of that snow could be heavy and
disruptive. Add in the wind. We are | 0:48:05 | 0:48:09 | |
looking at gales across the central
Zuev. Again, across north Wales, | 0:48:09 | 0:48:14 | |
northern England and in towards
Norfolk as well. Further south and | 0:48:14 | 0:48:18 | |
to the west of it, it will be pretty
windy. That could lead to some | 0:48:18 | 0:48:23 | |
disruption. Keep abreast of what is
happening where you are, on your BBC | 0:48:23 | 0:48:28 | |
local radio station. Thank you very
much for all of those details. Good | 0:48:28 | 0:48:34 | |
weather for penguins. | 0:48:34 | 0:48:35 | |
We have a very special guest
on Breakfast this morning. | 0:48:35 | 0:48:37 | |
This is Wolfy, the penguin,
named after the artist | 0:48:37 | 0:48:40 | |
who designed him. | 0:48:40 | 0:48:41 | |
He, along with some friends,
has travelled round the world, | 0:48:41 | 0:48:43 | |
from Johannesburg to Seoul
to London, to try and protect his | 0:48:43 | 0:48:46 | |
home in the Antarctic. | 0:48:46 | 0:48:47 | |
We will hear why
in about 20 minutes. | 0:48:47 | 0:48:55 | |
We will hear why
in about 20 minutes. | 0:48:57 | 0:49:05 | |
He
in about 20 minutes. | 0:49:10 | 0:49:10 | |
He has
in about 20 minutes. | 0:49:10 | 0:49:10 | |
He has now
in about 20 minutes. | 0:49:10 | 0:49:11 | |
He has now been
in about 20 minutes. | 0:49:11 | 0:49:12 | |
He has now been replaced
in about 20 minutes. | 0:49:12 | 0:49:12 | |
He has now been replaced by
in about 20 minutes. | 0:49:12 | 0:49:12 | |
He has now been replaced by our
in about 20 minutes. | 0:49:12 | 0:49:12 | |
He has now been replaced by our
wonderful colleague, sadly. Well, | 0:49:12 | 0:49:17 | |
not sadly. The best instruction I
have ever heard is Penguin off, | 0:49:17 | 0:49:22 | |
Steph on. Clear the Penguin, clear
the Penguin. I am not allowed to | 0:49:22 | 0:49:31 | |
touch the penguin. It is too
delicate. There was a clear message | 0:49:31 | 0:49:37 | |
given this morning to only one
person on this so far, don't touch | 0:49:37 | 0:49:42 | |
the penguin. Guess who it was for.
It is because you are terrible, | 0:49:42 | 0:49:49 | |
Anju? Tripping on things... I
wouldn't want to damage it, it is | 0:49:49 | 0:49:54 | |
very expensive -- aren't you. And
there is a big plan to improve | 0:49:54 | 0:50:01 | |
transport in the north. | 0:50:01 | 0:50:03 | |
Getting around the north of England
could look very different over | 0:50:03 | 0:50:06 | |
the next 30 years,
if a new transport plan | 0:50:06 | 0:50:08 | |
becomes a reality. | 0:50:08 | 0:50:09 | |
We will get more details later this
morning, and Steph can tell us more. | 0:50:09 | 0:50:13 | |
The idea is to improve the rails,
the road, and just the general | 0:50:13 | 0:50:16 | |
movement around the North of
England. For a long time there has | 0:50:16 | 0:50:20 | |
been criticism that there has been
under investment in the area, so | 0:50:20 | 0:50:23 | |
this will go to consultation. It
will cost around £2.3 billion per | 0:50:23 | 0:50:26 | |
year over the next 30 years, and
they have worked out that means | 0:50:26 | 0:50:30 | |
about £150 for every northern
citizen. There are loads of elements | 0:50:30 | 0:50:33 | |
to this, and I will be talking
throughout the programme about some | 0:50:33 | 0:50:37 | |
of them. One is about the journey
between Manchester and Sheffield. | 0:50:37 | 0:50:40 | |
Which we have all done. It can take
an age. So I did that journey to see | 0:50:40 | 0:50:48 | |
what it is like, and also to look at
this idea around whether building a | 0:50:48 | 0:50:51 | |
tunnel between the two cities could
make a big difference. | 0:50:51 | 0:50:55 | |
The north of England is classed as
this area. It is home to 15 million | 0:50:55 | 0:51:02 | |
people, which is nearly a quarter of
the UK's population. It has been | 0:51:02 | 0:51:07 | |
argued that poor transport links are
the key reason for the North falling | 0:51:07 | 0:51:11 | |
behind economically, but fixing that
isn't easy. Now, take the journey | 0:51:11 | 0:51:17 | |
between Manchester and Sheffield,
that I am doing now. Nearly three | 0:51:17 | 0:51:20 | |
quarters of people who commute
between the two cities do so by | 0:51:20 | 0:51:24 | |
road, and it can take about 75
minutes to get between them. That is | 0:51:24 | 0:51:30 | |
at an average speed under 35 mph, on
uncongested roads. After two hours | 0:51:30 | 0:51:37 | |
of travelling, I am in Sheffield to
meet David, who runs an architecture | 0:51:37 | 0:51:42 | |
business here. He is keen to show me
what commuting is like for him. So | 0:51:42 | 0:51:47 | |
this is university round about now.
If I go the direct route, it will | 0:51:47 | 0:51:51 | |
take one or two hours. You are a
regular commuter from Sheffield to | 0:51:51 | 0:51:56 | |
Manchester. Completely regular. We
trade well with Manchester, but if I | 0:51:56 | 0:52:03 | |
do the journey, for example tonight,
with a meeting at ex- PM, I will set | 0:52:03 | 0:52:08 | |
off at three p.m.. Just in case. So
it is totally unproductive time. Can | 0:52:08 | 0:52:15 | |
you not get the train? Yes, but that
is an hour, minimum. I have to get | 0:52:15 | 0:52:21 | |
to the train station, Park, get out
of the train and get to my next | 0:52:21 | 0:52:25 | |
meeting. The train should be 30
minutes, not an hour. Part of the | 0:52:25 | 0:52:29 | |
problem is that all the road routes
between the cities are not designed | 0:52:29 | 0:52:33 | |
for heavy duty traffic. So one idea
is to build a tunnel. How much of a | 0:52:33 | 0:52:37 | |
difference would it make to your
business if there was a tunnel | 0:52:37 | 0:52:41 | |
between Sheffield and Manchester? It
would make an enormous amount of | 0:52:41 | 0:52:44 | |
difference. We could get there with
a consistent amount of time, you | 0:52:44 | 0:52:48 | |
could forecast it into jobs,
mileage, cost. It is literally a day | 0:52:48 | 0:52:52 | |
at the office at present, it is two
hours there and back, with meetings. | 0:52:52 | 0:52:56 | |
You have ruined the day. The
proposals would impact villages like | 0:52:56 | 0:53:00 | |
this one, which has a lot of heavy
traffic coming through it. Hello. | 0:53:00 | 0:53:04 | |
Ladies, what do you think about a
tunnel between here and Sheffield? | 0:53:04 | 0:53:09 | |
Fabulous, well needed. About time.
About time, exactly. Yes, great. You | 0:53:09 | 0:53:16 | |
live on the main road, don't you? I
certainly do, I live on the road | 0:53:16 | 0:53:22 | |
itself, and I know it is a bone of
contention with the locals. The way | 0:53:22 | 0:53:26 | |
they fly down the road is absolutely
diabolical. Two I think a tunnel | 0:53:26 | 0:53:30 | |
sounds like a great idea, as long as
it bypasses the villages completely. | 0:53:30 | 0:53:34 | |
Anything that gets the heavy
vehicles off that top road. It is | 0:53:34 | 0:53:39 | |
beautiful appear, but there is
clearly a need for better transport, | 0:53:39 | 0:53:43 | |
and the plan would reduce journey
times, but it wouldn't come cheap. | 0:53:43 | 0:53:47 | |
And that is the challenge, balancing
the cost versus the benefits. | 0:53:47 | 0:53:55 | |
So that is the plan. We will have
the CEO of Transport for the North | 0:53:55 | 0:54:00 | |
on, who is called Barry White. I
just look at the fact it was Barry | 0:54:00 | 0:54:05 | |
White. The thing about that whole
piece is is such a stunning | 0:54:05 | 0:54:10 | |
landscape, as well. And standing the
2.5 hours on your way in and out. | 0:54:10 | 0:54:25 | |
The remaining members of the Irish
rock band The Cranberries have paid | 0:54:25 | 0:54:28 | |
tribute to their lead singer,
Dolores O'Riordan, who died | 0:54:28 | 0:54:31 | |
yesterday at the age of 46. | 0:54:31 | 0:54:32 | |
Last night the band tweeted:
We are devastated on the passing | 0:54:32 | 0:54:35 | |
of our friend Dolores. | 0:54:35 | 0:54:36 | |
She was an extraordinary talent
and we feel very privileged to have | 0:54:36 | 0:54:40 | |
been part of her life from 1989
when we started The Cranberries. | 0:54:40 | 0:54:43 | |
The world has lost
a true artist today. | 0:54:43 | 0:54:45 | |
The band dominated the 1990s album
charts, selling 40 million records | 0:54:45 | 0:54:48 | |
around the world, as our
entertainment correspondent | 0:54:48 | 0:54:50 | |
Lizo Mzimba reports. | 0:54:50 | 0:54:51 | |
# Do you have to let it linger? | 0:54:51 | 0:54:53 | |
# Do you have to, do you have to? | 0:54:53 | 0:54:55 | |
# Do you have to let it linger? | 0:54:55 | 0:54:58 | |
Linger was the first song
Dolores O'Riordan ever wrote | 0:54:58 | 0:55:01 | |
with the Cranberries. | 0:55:01 | 0:55:03 | |
It turned her and
the band into stars. | 0:55:03 | 0:55:07 | |
# I just want to be with you...# | 0:55:07 | 0:55:12 | |
Linger was about teenage rejection. | 0:55:12 | 0:55:15 | |
# I'm such a fool for you...# | 0:55:15 | 0:55:18 | |
Folks, do me a favour. | 0:55:18 | 0:55:19 | |
Please welcome, and just
in time for Thanksgiving, | 0:55:19 | 0:55:22 | |
The Cranberries. | 0:55:22 | 0:55:28 | |
Their rapid success,
particularly in America, | 0:55:28 | 0:55:30 | |
soon saw the young singer-songwriter
move on to weightier topics. | 0:55:30 | 0:55:33 | |
# With their tanks and bombs...# | 0:55:33 | 0:55:39 | |
Zombie was a wrenchingly powerful
protest song, written after two | 0:55:39 | 0:55:42 | |
young children were killed
by an IRA bomb. | 0:55:42 | 0:55:44 | |
# In your head... | 0:55:44 | 0:55:52 | |
# Zombie, zombie, zombie...# | 0:55:54 | 0:55:56 | |
Last
year, the band were ready to tour | 0:55:56 | 0:55:59 | |
once more, but it was cut
short by health problems. | 0:55:59 | 0:56:02 | |
I've had health issues a lot
in the last few years, | 0:56:02 | 0:56:05 | |
but one of the worst things
was I had a disc problem in my back, | 0:56:05 | 0:56:11 | |
and I had to stop playing guitar. | 0:56:11 | 0:56:13 | |
The Irish Prime Minister said,
for anyone who grew up | 0:56:13 | 0:56:16 | |
in Ireland in the 1990s,
Dolores O'Riordan was the voice | 0:56:16 | 0:56:19 | |
of a generation. | 0:56:19 | 0:56:20 | |
# You got me wrapped
around your finger...# | 0:56:20 | 0:56:24 | |
A generation mourning
the loss of one | 0:56:24 | 0:56:26 | |
of music's great talents. | 0:56:26 | 0:56:27 | |
# Do you have to - do you have to? | 0:56:27 | 0:56:30 | |
# Do you have to let it linger?# | 0:56:30 | 0:56:38 | |
Just a stunning, beautiful voice. | 0:56:42 | 0:56:45 | |
Time now to get the news,
travel and weather where you are. | 0:56:45 | 1:00:11 | |
Showers to follow. | 1:00:11 | 1:00:12 | |
I'm back with the latest
from the BBC London newsroom | 1:00:12 | 1:00:14 | |
in half an hour. | 1:00:14 | 1:00:17 | |
Hello. | 1:00:34 | 1:00:35 | |
This is Breakfast,
with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker. | 1:00:35 | 1:00:38 | |
Concerns for thousands
of small businesses | 1:00:38 | 1:00:40 | |
following the collapse of Carillion. | 1:00:40 | 1:00:42 | |
After Britain's second largest
construction firm has gone under, | 1:00:42 | 1:00:47 | |
ministers held an emergency meeting
with suppliers and subcontractors | 1:00:47 | 1:00:50 | |
facing millions of
pounds of unpaid bills. | 1:00:50 | 1:00:55 | |
I will look at what chance
the small businesses have | 1:00:55 | 1:00:58 | |
of getting their money back
and what that means for the work | 1:00:58 | 1:01:01 | |
already carried out
by Carillion across the UK. | 1:01:01 | 1:01:08 | |
Good morning. | 1:01:16 | 1:01:17 | |
It's Tuesday, January 16. | 1:01:17 | 1:01:20 | |
Also this morning: Two parents
are arrested in California | 1:01:20 | 1:01:22 | |
after their 13 children
are found captive at home, | 1:01:22 | 1:01:25 | |
some shackled to their beds
with chains and padlocks. | 1:01:25 | 1:01:29 | |
Whirlpool is accused of a woeful
response to recalling tumble dryers | 1:01:29 | 1:01:32 | |
which have caused hundreds of fires. | 1:01:32 | 1:01:34 | |
MPs say as many as a million
machines are still in people's | 1:01:34 | 1:01:37 | |
homes. | 1:01:37 | 1:01:42 | |
In sport, Johanna Konta
looks back to her best. | 1:01:42 | 1:01:45 | |
The British number one cruises
through to the second | 1:01:45 | 1:01:47 | |
round of the Australian Open,
after a confident straight sets win. | 1:01:47 | 1:01:50 | |
And Carol has the weather. | 1:01:50 | 1:01:52 | |
Good morning. | 1:01:52 | 1:01:52 | |
Good morning. | 1:01:52 | 1:01:59 | |
We have some potentially disruptive
weather on the way for the next few | 1:01:59 | 1:02:02 | |
days. Today we are looking at strong
winds, snow showers even at sea | 1:02:02 | 1:02:06 | |
level and on higher ground it could
lead to some blizzards and then | 1:02:06 | 1:02:10 | |
Wednesday into Thursday we have
gales and also some heavy snow | 1:02:10 | 1:02:13 | |
forecast. | 1:02:13 | 1:02:13 | |
I will have more
details in 15 minutes. | 1:02:13 | 1:02:19 | |
He OK, we are prepared. | 1:02:19 | 1:02:21 | |
Good morning. | 1:02:21 | 1:02:21 | |
First, our main story,
the future of some major | 1:02:21 | 1:02:24 | |
construction projects and hundreds
of public service contracts hang | 1:02:24 | 1:02:26 | |
in the balance this morning
after the collapse of Carillion. | 1:02:26 | 1:02:29 | |
Britain's second largest
construction firm, which also holds | 1:02:29 | 1:02:31 | |
cleaning and catering
contracts for schools, | 1:02:31 | 1:02:33 | |
hospitals and prisons,
went into liquidation yesterday | 1:02:33 | 1:02:35 | |
with debts of around £1.5 billion. | 1:02:35 | 1:02:38 | |
The political fallout continued last
night as Ministers held an emergency | 1:02:38 | 1:02:41 | |
meeting and Labour questioned why
Carillion continued to be awarded | 1:02:41 | 1:02:44 | |
contracts despite repeated
profit warnings. | 1:02:44 | 1:02:51 | |
Let's remind ourselves of the scale
of Carillion's influence. | 1:02:51 | 1:02:54 | |
The company has 450 government
contracts, including maintenance | 1:02:54 | 1:02:57 | |
for prisons and hospitals,
as well as dinners and cleaning | 1:02:57 | 1:02:59 | |
for hundreds of schools. | 1:02:59 | 1:03:00 | |
It is also the second largest
supplier of maintenance services | 1:03:00 | 1:03:03 | |
to Network Rail, and it
maintains 50,000 homes | 1:03:03 | 1:03:05 | |
for the Ministry of Defence. | 1:03:05 | 1:03:09 | |
The firm has 43,000 staff worldwide,
including 20,000 in the UK. | 1:03:09 | 1:03:12 | |
There are also thousands of small
firms that carry out work | 1:03:12 | 1:03:15 | |
on Carillion's behalf,
and Steph's been hearing | 1:03:15 | 1:03:17 | |
from some of them. | 1:03:17 | 1:03:25 | |
Some people who work for Carillion
as well. Yes, it is strange to think | 1:03:27 | 1:03:33 | |
24 hours ago I was on the sofa
saying that Carillion went into | 1:03:33 | 1:03:39 | |
liquidation and since then lots of
people have been trying to work out | 1:03:39 | 1:03:43 | |
what it means for them, lots of
workers around the country, and | 1:03:43 | 1:03:46 | |
there are so many different types of
jobs, everyone from painters and | 1:03:46 | 1:03:50 | |
decorators, cleaners in hospitals,
cooks in schools, and so many | 1:03:50 | 1:03:56 | |
variety of jobs, so it's really hard
to assess what it means. So lots of | 1:03:56 | 1:04:01 | |
people have been in touch with me
asking about it. We have had lots of | 1:04:01 | 1:04:06 | |
people who are suppliers to
Carillion who have asked what it | 1:04:06 | 1:04:09 | |
means for them and people who have
said that they used to supply them | 1:04:09 | 1:04:13 | |
and they don't any more. Nigel
Higgins said they used to supply | 1:04:13 | 1:04:17 | |
building Materials occasionally, but
they took an age to play so he -- | 1:04:17 | 1:04:22 | |
hastily closed the credit account.
Tim tried to get work for them for a | 1:04:22 | 1:04:28 | |
time but they wouldn't agree to
payment terms and it was horrendous. | 1:04:28 | 1:04:31 | |
They would work for 30 days, invoice
and wait 90 days for money. Percy, | 1:04:31 | 1:04:36 | |
the company I work for, they owe
half a million, and people have been | 1:04:36 | 1:04:45 | |
upset with the way they have been
treated as suppliers in the past. | 1:04:45 | 1:04:49 | |
Based on what we know at the moment,
in terms of the protection of jobs, | 1:04:49 | 1:04:54 | |
which is what people are worried
about, if you are in the public | 1:04:54 | 1:04:58 | |
sector side of this, if you are
providing services, the government | 1:04:58 | 1:05:02 | |
is going to carry on funding those
jobs, so people in hospitals and | 1:05:02 | 1:05:07 | |
schools will be working and they
would get paid. It is tricky on the | 1:05:07 | 1:05:11 | |
private side of | 1:05:11 | 1:05:17 | |
private side of things. We don't
know what will happen with the | 1:05:21 | 1:05:24 | |
suppliers. And we know that with big
projects like HS2 other contractors | 1:05:24 | 1:05:27 | |
will come into take over the world.
It might be that someone working | 1:05:27 | 1:05:31 | |
with Carillion will come with
another company. The key thing is | 1:05:31 | 1:05:34 | |
the uncertainty, just not knowing.
One mortgage adviser told me | 1:05:34 | 1:05:36 | |
yesterday he had calls from three
Carillion workers saying I am really | 1:05:36 | 1:05:40 | |
not sure what is going to happen
with my job, will the bank hold my | 1:05:40 | 1:05:44 | |
payments if it is the case I am made
redundant? Lots of questions coming | 1:05:44 | 1:05:47 | |
in about it and lots of different
areas and we will be speaking about | 1:05:47 | 1:05:51 | |
it for a long time. So many people
getting in touch. We will read them | 1:05:51 | 1:05:55 | |
all. Thank you. | 1:05:55 | 1:05:56 | |
The American gymnast Simone Biles
has said she was sexually abused | 1:05:56 | 1:05:59 | |
by the former USA team
coach Larry Nassar. | 1:05:59 | 1:06:01 | |
The four-time Olympic champion
tweeted that she too is one | 1:06:01 | 1:06:04 | |
of the many survivors,
but has been reluctant to speak | 1:06:04 | 1:06:07 | |
out until now. | 1:06:07 | 1:06:08 | |
Larry Nassar was jailed last month
for 60 years for possessing images | 1:06:08 | 1:06:11 | |
of child sexual abuse,
and is awaiting sentence | 1:06:11 | 1:06:13 | |
for assaulting other athletes. | 1:06:13 | 1:06:21 | |
Police in California have rescued 13
brothers and sisters from a house | 1:06:24 | 1:06:27 | |
where some of them
were chained to beds. | 1:06:27 | 1:06:30 | |
Parents have been charged with
torture and child endangerment. | 1:06:30 | 1:06:33 | |
Earlier we spoke with James Cook. | 1:06:33 | 1:06:40 | |
The car behind me is
gleaming in the driveway. | 1:06:46 | 1:06:49 | |
It was here on Sunday
when a 17-year-old girl escaped | 1:06:49 | 1:06:51 | |
from this house, taking apparently
a phone she had found | 1:06:51 | 1:06:54 | |
with her and calling the police,
the emergency number, | 1:06:54 | 1:06:56 | |
911, here in the US. | 1:06:56 | 1:06:59 | |
When she met the police she told
them 12 siblings were held captive | 1:06:59 | 1:07:03 | |
inside the house. | 1:07:03 | 1:07:06 | |
Officers arrived and they found
all 12 of them, some of them | 1:07:06 | 1:07:09 | |
shackled, some held
by handcuffs to beds. | 1:07:09 | 1:07:13 | |
They say it was foul smelling
inside, conditions were terrible. | 1:07:13 | 1:07:20 | |
Some of the people
appeared malnourished. | 1:07:20 | 1:07:21 | |
At first they thought
they were all children. | 1:07:21 | 1:07:24 | |
It was only when they investigated
further that they realised some | 1:07:24 | 1:07:27 | |
of them were adults,
seven of them in fact were adults. | 1:07:27 | 1:07:30 | |
Police were shocked to discover that
simply because of their size | 1:07:30 | 1:07:33 | |
and their apparent frailty as well. | 1:07:33 | 1:07:39 | |
Obviously there are a lot
of questions asked here, | 1:07:39 | 1:07:41 | |
not least by neighbours,
who say that they knew | 1:07:41 | 1:07:44 | |
that there was something slightly
odd about the family. | 1:07:44 | 1:07:52 | |
They didn't often see all 12,
as one of them thought, | 1:07:52 | 1:07:55 | |
there were 12 here. | 1:07:55 | 1:07:56 | |
One woman said she thought
that there were 12 siblings. | 1:07:56 | 1:07:59 | |
She very rarely saw all of them
and when she did they seemed to be | 1:07:59 | 1:08:03 | |
just not willing to
engage with anybody. | 1:08:03 | 1:08:05 | |
They seemed to shrink
away from the world. | 1:08:05 | 1:08:07 | |
They say that they had no idea
about what was going on. | 1:08:07 | 1:08:11 | |
The parents have been charged
with torture and child endangerment. | 1:08:11 | 1:08:14 | |
And that was James Cook reporting. | 1:08:14 | 1:08:17 | |
The remaining members
of The Cranberries have paid tribute | 1:08:17 | 1:08:20 | |
to their lead singer,
Dolores O'Riodan, | 1:08:20 | 1:08:21 | |
who died yesterday at the age of 46. | 1:08:21 | 1:08:23 | |
The Irish rock band had a string
of hits in the '90s, | 1:08:23 | 1:08:27 | |
with singles including
Linger and Zombie. | 1:08:27 | 1:08:28 | |
Their debut album sold 40 million
records worldwide in 1993. | 1:08:28 | 1:08:36 | |
Last night the band tweeted: | 1:08:36 | 1:08:43 | |
And so many people paying tribute to
her as well. | 1:08:47 | 1:08:51 | |
If you dread battling the traffic
on the morning commute, | 1:08:51 | 1:08:53 | |
spare a thought for early
morning drivers in Sydney, | 1:08:53 | 1:09:00 | |
who had their journeys I think
improved in many ways | 1:09:00 | 1:09:03 | |
by a wayward wallaby. | 1:09:03 | 1:09:04 | |
This footage was shot by police
officers keeping pace | 1:09:04 | 1:09:06 | |
with the mischievous marsupial,
who was first spotted crossing | 1:09:06 | 1:09:08 | |
Sydney's iconic
Harbour Bridge at 5am. | 1:09:08 | 1:09:11 | |
If you like an animal fact, they can
hop at 30 miles an hour. | 1:09:11 | 1:09:18 | |
one evaded capture for several miles
before crossing the bridge | 1:09:18 | 1:09:21 | |
and finally being
cornered in a park. | 1:09:21 | 1:09:23 | |
Fortunately there's a happy ending
to this tale as the wallaby | 1:09:23 | 1:09:26 | |
was taken to a local zoo and is now
recovering well from its early | 1:09:26 | 1:09:30 | |
morning sight-seeing trip. | 1:09:30 | 1:09:31 | |
It has been charged with dangerous
hopping! Everyone is happy. | 1:09:31 | 1:09:38 | |
Good morning. | 1:09:38 | 1:09:41 | |
The collapse of Carillion yesterday
not only casts a long shadow | 1:09:41 | 1:09:44 | |
of uncertainty over the future
of the company's 20,000 British | 1:09:44 | 1:09:47 | |
workers, it could also
have a serious impact on thousands | 1:09:47 | 1:09:50 | |
of small businesses whose work
was based on subcontracting | 1:09:50 | 1:09:52 | |
from the construction
and services giant. | 1:09:52 | 1:09:54 | |
Mike Cherry is the chairman
of the Federation of Small | 1:09:54 | 1:09:57 | |
Businesses. | 1:09:57 | 1:09:59 | |
-- Kevin McLaughlan runs a painting
and decorating business. On Monday | 1:09:59 | 1:10:05 | |
morning people turned up to go to
work and 30 people were sent home. | 1:10:05 | 1:10:09 | |
We have not been advised in the
office. | 1:10:09 | 1:10:16 | |
office. Very difficult situation. We
still had another job in the city, | 1:10:17 | 1:10:31 | |
and the impact is that we have lost
the money that they ask, but we have | 1:10:31 | 1:10:36 | |
lost a forward order book of half a
million. Six months ago we were | 1:10:36 | 1:10:40 | |
working for a company that was worth
£2 billion. In six months it is | 1:10:40 | 1:10:45 | |
worth 60 million pounds. We had been
paid on time and everyone was | 1:10:45 | 1:10:51 | |
treating us fine. There was no
communication about the problems. We | 1:10:51 | 1:10:56 | |
read the press. I have no reason to
think. Then it became apparent last | 1:10:56 | 1:11:00 | |
week and all the weekend before last
that there were problems on the | 1:11:00 | 1:11:05 | |
banks were beginning to withdraw
funding. At Christmas we heard that | 1:11:05 | 1:11:08 | |
the funding was going to last until
April. Then we heard it would be | 1:11:08 | 1:11:12 | |
next week and then hence from
Thursday onwards the government have | 1:11:12 | 1:11:15 | |
clearly pulled the plug. A kind of
understand. But they did not do it | 1:11:15 | 1:11:21 | |
to the banks. They haven't done it
to the hospitals or the prison. They | 1:11:21 | 1:11:24 | |
have done it to normal work will be
-- working people, and they don't | 1:11:24 | 1:11:28 | |
get any consideration whatsoever. | 1:11:28 | 1:11:32 | |
Mike Cherry is the chairman
of the Federation of Small | 1:11:32 | 1:11:35 | |
Businesses. | 1:11:35 | 1:11:38 | |
He really clearly outlines the
problem he has been having. How | 1:11:38 | 1:11:42 | |
widespread is this? I believe this
is very widespread. I wrote to the | 1:11:42 | 1:11:49 | |
chairman of Carillion last July when
they extended their payment terms to | 1:11:49 | 1:11:54 | |
120 days and clearly this is a
culture that we have been fostering | 1:11:54 | 1:11:58 | |
for far too long in this country,
companies abusing the supply chain | 1:11:58 | 1:12:03 | |
through late payment or other
requirements imposed on their | 1:12:03 | 1:12:05 | |
suppliers and it has to stop. This
is just one of those examples. My | 1:12:05 | 1:12:11 | |
heart goes out to all the small
businesses and employees affected by | 1:12:11 | 1:12:15 | |
this. It will be a long time before
we see the end of the fallout and | 1:12:15 | 1:12:20 | |
hopefully some of these businesses
will continue. I am afraid many may | 1:12:20 | 1:12:23 | |
not. Anyway to gauge the numbers? We
know that Steph said over 40,000 | 1:12:23 | 1:12:30 | |
employed by Carillion around the
world. In terms of the number of | 1:12:30 | 1:12:37 | |
small businesses affected, it is
hundreds of thousands of people. We | 1:12:37 | 1:12:40 | |
have seen media reports up to 30,000
businesses, £1 billion in the supply | 1:12:40 | 1:12:45 | |
chain paid out according to their
accounts last year. That is huge | 1:12:45 | 1:12:51 | |
numbers. Unfortunately, many of
those businesses are unlikely to | 1:12:51 | 1:12:54 | |
survive. I would hope that the
government is able to do something | 1:12:54 | 1:12:58 | |
to help them. As we all know, small
businesses are at the end of the | 1:12:58 | 1:13:02 | |
creditor chain and they are not
supported by creditors. It raises a | 1:13:02 | 1:13:07 | |
point about government procurement.
For some time, we have been arguing | 1:13:07 | 1:13:11 | |
that the targets that government has
set to push more business down to | 1:13:11 | 1:13:16 | |
small businesses just doesn't seem
to be working. And here you see it | 1:13:16 | 1:13:20 | |
as an example, where you have got
large contracts in the hands of | 1:13:20 | 1:13:24 | |
small large group of companies. The
government argue would be that we | 1:13:24 | 1:13:29 | |
give it to a company like Carillion
and it ends up with some of the | 1:13:29 | 1:13:33 | |
small and medium-sized businesses,
is it a valid argument? I don't | 1:13:33 | 1:13:36 | |
believe so because the management
rests with Carillion and oversight | 1:13:36 | 1:13:39 | |
is with Carillion and as we have are
already suppliers are not being paid | 1:13:39 | 1:13:44 | |
by Carillion, or they were not being
paid, and it is something that has | 1:13:44 | 1:13:48 | |
to be broken up and stopped and the
government has to take a long hard | 1:13:48 | 1:13:52 | |
look at this. Kevin was talking
about people being turned away from | 1:13:52 | 1:13:55 | |
jobs, so there is a very stark
choice and stark things happening to | 1:13:55 | 1:13:59 | |
people right now, so what can small
companies do - it sounds like from | 1:13:59 | 1:14:04 | |
what you have said, it is a very
dire picture. If in the Gaia, they | 1:14:04 | 1:14:10 | |
are unsecured creditors at the end
of the day and clearly the banks are | 1:14:10 | 1:14:14 | |
in for a vast amount of money and
the government will have to step in | 1:14:14 | 1:14:18 | |
and keep the contracts going -- it
is dire. The minister said this | 1:14:18 | 1:14:23 | |
won't cost the taxpayer any more
money, the public services, he | 1:14:23 | 1:14:27 | |
explained to us, in some ways it is
paid for that, so will it come down | 1:14:27 | 1:14:31 | |
to taxpayers' money? There will be
some increase in some of the | 1:14:31 | 1:14:35 | |
contracts. One would hope that more
businesses will be taken on by the | 1:14:35 | 1:14:39 | |
companies that take over these
contracts, but that is really a | 1:14:39 | 1:14:42 | |
question for the government to be
looking out to see how they can | 1:14:42 | 1:14:45 | |
develop this for the future so that
it doesn't happen again. I was | 1:14:45 | 1:14:49 | |
reading, Steph was breaking the
story at 7am yesterday this time 24 | 1:14:49 | 1:14:52 | |
hours ago and by 8am some small
businesses were laying people off to | 1:14:52 | 1:14:56 | |
try and weigh up what they were
going to have to be doing over the | 1:14:56 | 1:15:00 | |
next few days and weeks. Clearly
their cash flow has been impacted | 1:15:00 | 1:15:03 | |
according to some of the reports we
have seen and that means that those | 1:15:03 | 1:15:07 | |
businesses the easiest thing to do
is to lay off staff, the quickest | 1:15:07 | 1:15:10 | |
way to save cash, and as I say my
heart goes out to those employees | 1:15:10 | 1:15:15 | |
who are affected by this. OK, well,
thank you very much indeed, and I | 1:15:15 | 1:15:20 | |
know that lots of you are very
concerned about this getting in | 1:15:20 | 1:15:23 | |
touch as well and we appreciate you
getting in touch and we will look at | 1:15:23 | 1:15:27 | |
some of those later. Yes, and send
those messages into Steph, she is | 1:15:27 | 1:15:33 | |
trying to relay that information to
you, so get in contact via the | 1:15:33 | 1:15:37 | |
normal method, by e-mail, | 1:15:37 | 1:15:44 | |
normal method, by e-mail, breakfast
@bbc.co.uk and you can find us on | 1:15:45 | 1:15:48 | |
social media as well. | 1:15:48 | 1:15:54 | |
social media as well. There is some
quite | 1:15:54 | 1:15:55 | |
social media as well. There is some
quite disruptive weather on the way, | 1:15:55 | 1:15:57 | |
isn't there, Carol? Absolutely
right, good morning. If you are | 1:15:57 | 1:16:01 | |
travelling in the next few days you
may run into that. There is ice, | 1:16:01 | 1:16:05 | |
snow and gales in the forecast for
some of us. Today we have a cold | 1:16:05 | 1:16:10 | |
day, sunshine and showers. Some of
those showers have been falling as | 1:16:10 | 1:16:14 | |
snow even at lower levels through
the course of the night and will | 1:16:14 | 1:16:18 | |
continue to do so through the course
of the day. We have some showers in | 1:16:18 | 1:16:22 | |
Ireland, there is the risk of ice,
as the snow comes down to lower | 1:16:22 | 1:16:25 | |
levels. In Scotland, snow showers
down to sea level. The risk of ice | 1:16:25 | 1:16:31 | |
and some of the driest weather will
be across north-east Scotland and | 1:16:31 | 1:16:33 | |
also parts of eastern England. As we
come south, you have snow showers | 1:16:33 | 1:16:37 | |
down to lower levels as well, but
they are showers so not everyone is | 1:16:37 | 1:16:42 | |
seeing them. In Wales, the risk of
ice. As we move into the south-west, | 1:16:42 | 1:16:48 | |
mostly rain showers we will see
today. You might see some wintriness | 1:16:48 | 1:16:52 | |
in the hills, and at times, in the
heavy showers further south, you | 1:16:52 | 1:16:55 | |
could see some showers as well. In
the east Anglia and Kent, a lot of | 1:16:55 | 1:17:01 | |
dry weather. It will be a noticeably
windy day, a brisk wind exacerbating | 1:17:01 | 1:17:06 | |
the cold feel. The showers pile in
even at lower levels across the | 1:17:06 | 1:17:10 | |
northern parts of the country.
Across the central Zuev, at times in | 1:17:10 | 1:17:14 | |
the heavy showers we could see a
little bit of wintriness at lower | 1:17:14 | 1:17:18 | |
levels. Temperatures today widely
about 227 Celsius, but had on the | 1:17:18 | 1:17:23 | |
wind and it will feel more like -4,
freezing, two plus two or three as | 1:17:23 | 1:17:28 | |
become further south. Into the
evening and overnight, the wind | 1:17:28 | 1:17:33 | |
eases a touch for some and
strengthens for others. We continue | 1:17:33 | 1:17:36 | |
with the snow showers and once again
the risk of ice on untreated | 1:17:36 | 1:17:41 | |
surfaces. These temperatures
indicate what you can see in towns | 1:17:41 | 1:17:44 | |
and cities. Colder than that in
rural areas. Tomorrow we start with | 1:17:44 | 1:17:48 | |
cold showers, a fair bit of sunshine
around tomorrow. A little bit less | 1:17:48 | 1:17:54 | |
cold than today, but still windy in
the north. Temperatures between | 1:17:54 | 1:17:58 | |
about three and seven. But later in
the day this next system, a deep | 1:17:58 | 1:18:03 | |
area of low pressure coming in from
the Atlantic, comes our way. The | 1:18:03 | 1:18:06 | |
track we think it will take Tom and
disk could change as to the timing, | 1:18:06 | 1:18:10 | |
but we think it will come our way as
we go through the latter part of | 1:18:10 | 1:18:15 | |
Tuesday into Wednesday. It could
bring snow from northern England, | 1:18:15 | 1:18:19 | |
the southern and eastern Scotland,
and it will be accompanied by gales | 1:18:19 | 1:18:23 | |
across the central Zuev of the
country. We are talking parts of | 1:18:23 | 1:18:27 | |
Northern Ireland, north Wales, and
over towards Norfolk as well. You | 1:18:27 | 1:18:31 | |
can see from the isobars to the
south of that it will be windy | 1:18:31 | 1:18:34 | |
Thursday in the south, and also the
squeeze on its western flank. So | 1:18:34 | 1:18:38 | |
disruption is quite possible from
the combination of rain, snow and | 1:18:38 | 1:18:43 | |
also wind. There will be large waves
crashing on shore, being driven by | 1:18:43 | 1:18:48 | |
the wind in the south-west of
England. And they will merge with | 1:18:48 | 1:18:52 | |
the many high tides coming our way
this week as well. So tons going on | 1:18:52 | 1:18:56 | |
with the weather, and I am not even
finished yet, but I am run out of | 1:18:56 | 1:19:01 | |
time. I will give a little bit back,
here you go. Hopefully we will hear | 1:19:01 | 1:19:06 | |
more in half an hour. There is so
much to listen to. Listen carefully | 1:19:06 | 1:19:10 | |
and | 1:19:10 | 1:19:11 | |
much to listen to. Listen carefully
and take care. Important days ahead | 1:19:11 | 1:19:12 | |
in terms of coming around the
country. We have been telling you | 1:19:12 | 1:19:16 | |
the sad news of the death of Dolores
O'Riordan yesterday. She was found | 1:19:16 | 1:19:24 | |
dead in a hotel yesterday. The
picture is on the front page of a | 1:19:24 | 1:19:29 | |
number of the papers, and Carillion
is the story which dominates many of | 1:19:29 | 1:19:33 | |
the front pages. The scramble to
save jobs, says the Guardian. | 1:19:33 | 1:19:36 | |
Another story really dominating the
front pages is Poppi Worthington, | 1:19:36 | 1:19:41 | |
and I am sure lots of people will
recognise the picture of her. The | 1:19:41 | 1:19:45 | |
mother of Poppi Worthington pleading
with prosecutors to re-examine the | 1:19:45 | 1:19:49 | |
death after the coroner ruled the
girl was sexually assaulted by her | 1:19:49 | 1:19:52 | |
father in her final hours. Dolores
-- Poppi Worthington also on the | 1:19:52 | 1:19:59 | |
front page of the sun. And we will
be speaking to the head of Iceland | 1:19:59 | 1:20:04 | |
later. Iceland the first supermarket
in the world to remove plastic | 1:20:04 | 1:20:09 | |
packaging from all its own label
products. They will replace it with | 1:20:09 | 1:20:13 | |
cardboard, which is far more easily
recyclable. The Times are asking the | 1:20:13 | 1:20:17 | |
question we talked about a few
moments ago, whether taxpayers will | 1:20:17 | 1:20:21 | |
face a bill for the collapse of
Carillion. And do you hold your | 1:20:21 | 1:20:25 | |
sneeze? Dan is always telling me not
to hold onto my very elegant | 1:20:25 | 1:20:30 | |
sneezes. It can be very dangerous.
When sitting in the corner of the | 1:20:30 | 1:20:34 | |
pact train, holding your nose can be
not the right option. Doctors | 1:20:34 | 1:20:41 | |
warning against this practice after
a man ruptured the back of his | 1:20:41 | 1:20:44 | |
throat while trying to contain a
convulsive explosion of air. He was | 1:20:44 | 1:20:49 | |
admitted to hospital really are not
a good way. I don't know if this is | 1:20:49 | 1:20:54 | |
made up, I had a teacher at school
who said of your eyes open... Don't | 1:20:54 | 1:20:59 | |
say it, you said it before! If your
eyes open when you sneeze, they pop | 1:20:59 | 1:21:03 | |
out of your head! On a sort of
health based continuance, we are | 1:21:03 | 1:21:10 | |
speaking to Laura from Call the
Midwife later. And have a look at | 1:21:10 | 1:21:16 | |
this story in the Daily Mail, this
is Helen George, who plays Trixie | 1:21:16 | 1:21:22 | |
Franklin, she was so scared by some
of the stories of earth from the | 1:21:22 | 1:21:26 | |
programme that she chose to have a
Caesarean. And do you watch it? It | 1:21:26 | 1:21:31 | |
is one of those things I told you in
secret! It is a brilliant programme, | 1:21:31 | 1:21:36 | |
and we will be talking about it a
little later. I have looked at the | 1:21:36 | 1:21:40 | |
first of the next series. It is a
very good programme, but because | 1:21:40 | 1:21:44 | |
they are so relaxed, they tend to
fall asleep to it. It is still an | 1:21:44 | 1:21:48 | |
excellent programme which I very
much enjoyed! | 1:21:48 | 1:21:53 | |
The ongoing saga over millions
of tumble dryers which are at risk | 1:21:53 | 1:21:56 | |
of catching fire has exposed a wide
failure in the UK's product safety | 1:21:56 | 1:21:59 | |
system, according to a group of MPs. | 1:21:59 | 1:22:01 | |
It has been almost three years
since the manufacturer, | 1:22:01 | 1:22:04 | |
Whirlpool, discovered a defect
in some of it products, | 1:22:04 | 1:22:06 | |
and yet more than one million
potentially dangerous dryers | 1:22:06 | 1:22:09 | |
are still being used
in people's homes. | 1:22:09 | 1:22:11 | |
Lynn Faulds Wood, a former
Watchdog presenter and chair | 1:22:11 | 1:22:13 | |
of an independent review
into recalls and unsafe products, | 1:22:13 | 1:22:16 | |
joins us from our London newsroom. | 1:22:16 | 1:22:17 | |
Good morning to you. Thank you very
much for joining us. Let's just talk | 1:22:17 | 1:22:21 | |
about it. There are still many
these, it seems, in people's home. | 1:22:21 | 1:22:29 | |
The company estimates there are 1
million out there, but this is the | 1:22:29 | 1:22:33 | |
business Select Committee, so it is
an extremely important group of MPs, | 1:22:33 | 1:22:37 | |
who are saying that their response
has been woeful. They are using | 1:22:37 | 1:22:40 | |
words like that to describe the
action by Whirlpool. I feel sorry | 1:22:40 | 1:22:46 | |
for this company. They were a
British... Well, they weren't | 1:22:46 | 1:22:51 | |
British any more, they are Italian,
but well known in Britain, back in | 1:22:51 | 1:22:56 | |
2014. They paid £600 million plus
for them, and I wonder whether they | 1:22:56 | 1:23:02 | |
actually did due diligence. They
found out they had 5.3 million | 1:23:02 | 1:23:08 | |
machines possibly at risk in
people's homes, and they set up not | 1:23:08 | 1:23:13 | |
recall programme, which I would have
liked to see, but a modification | 1:23:13 | 1:23:17 | |
programme. And it was so slow,
people were waiting for a year. In | 1:23:17 | 1:23:21 | |
fact, you remember the Shepherds
Bush fire, whereas spectacular, | 1:23:21 | 1:23:25 | |
awful picture of smoke billowing out
of the tower block in Shepherds | 1:23:25 | 1:23:30 | |
Bush, and that was started by a
woman using a tumble dryer which was | 1:23:30 | 1:23:35 | |
due to be modified to next week. And
the families are still not back in | 1:23:35 | 1:23:41 | |
their homes, and that took place
months, months ago. Indeed, we have | 1:23:41 | 1:23:46 | |
talked to some of them on Breakfast.
Whirlpool, and you will be familiar | 1:23:46 | 1:23:51 | |
with their statement, says our
extensive tumble dryer campaign has | 1:23:51 | 1:23:55 | |
achieved a resolution rate more than
three times the average for a | 1:23:55 | 1:23:58 | |
product recall. We provided
resolution to 99.9% of those who | 1:23:58 | 1:24:05 | |
registered, and most tumble dryers.
And the MPs are saying that perhaps | 1:24:05 | 1:24:09 | |
the UK's product safety system needs
to be looked at again. Not just | 1:24:09 | 1:24:15 | |
that, it is broken. I was asked to
chair a review into recall is, and | 1:24:15 | 1:24:19 | |
potentially dangerous products,
unsafe products. Everything except | 1:24:19 | 1:24:23 | |
food, and that was back at the end
of 2014, when they announced it. So | 1:24:23 | 1:24:28 | |
that is over three years ago they
announced it in the House of Lords. | 1:24:28 | 1:24:32 | |
And at first I refused to do their
review, even though from Watchdog, | 1:24:32 | 1:24:37 | |
ten years of working with another
government, the Department of trade, | 1:24:37 | 1:24:44 | |
as it was known then, Henri calls.
And companies used to ring me up and | 1:24:44 | 1:24:49 | |
say please do our recall on your
programme. -- on recall is. And what | 1:24:49 | 1:24:55 | |
has happened since then is that
companies don't want to do recalls, | 1:24:55 | 1:24:59 | |
they are expensive, and Whirlpool I
think will be even more out of | 1:24:59 | 1:25:03 | |
pocket after all of this, it has
pictures of their products catching | 1:25:03 | 1:25:07 | |
fire and being on the news, that is
what has raised awareness. Not as | 1:25:07 | 1:25:12 | |
much the company, although they are
claiming credit. They then told the | 1:25:12 | 1:25:16 | |
business Select Committee, after
they had their meeting, that there | 1:25:16 | 1:25:21 | |
were still 1 million out there, and
they weren't going to modify them | 1:25:21 | 1:25:24 | |
any more. Now, that is a terrible
way to treat people. Thank you very | 1:25:24 | 1:25:29 | |
much for your time here on BBC
Breakfast. | 1:25:29 | 1:25:31 | |
The Government says it has taken
a number of steps to improve product | 1:25:31 | 1:25:35 | |
safety regime, including upgrading
the recalls website to make it clear | 1:25:35 | 1:25:38 | |
to the public which
whitegoods are safe to use. | 1:25:38 | 1:25:43 | |
You are watching
Breakfast from BBC News. | 1:25:43 | 1:25:45 | |
Still to come this morning: Stars
from the world of football, | 1:25:45 | 1:25:48 | |
TV and music are getting
together in a new campaign | 1:25:48 | 1:25:51 | |
to get children exercising. | 1:25:51 | 1:25:52 | |
Tim is at a school in North London
with some very special super-movers. | 1:25:52 | 1:25:58 | |
Good morning. Yes, good morning to
you. From the launch of super | 1:25:58 | 1:26:05 | |
murders. The idea is that pupils get
more active, not just in PE lessons, | 1:26:05 | 1:26:11 | |
but throughout the school day. So we
have pushed the desks back in the | 1:26:11 | 1:26:15 | |
classroom, and we will be finding
out how this whole project will | 1:26:15 | 1:26:18 | |
work. And look who is taking part as
well, Gabby Logan, one of the | 1:26:18 | 1:26:23 | |
ambassadors of the Super Movers. It
is about getting the brain active | 1:26:23 | 1:26:26 | |
first thing in the | 1:26:26 | 1:29:49 | |
Vanessa Feltz has a paper review
coming up in the next half an hour | 1:29:50 | 1:29:54 | |
and I will be back in half an hour
as well. | 1:29:54 | 1:29:58 | |
Here's a summary of today's main
stories from BBC News. | 1:29:58 | 1:30:01 | |
The future of some major
construction projects and hundreds | 1:30:01 | 1:30:03 | |
of public service contracts hang
in the balance this morning | 1:30:03 | 1:30:06 | |
after the collapse of Carillion. | 1:30:06 | 1:30:12 | |
Britain's second largest
construction firm, which also holds | 1:30:12 | 1:30:14 | |
cleaning and catering
contracts for schools, | 1:30:14 | 1:30:16 | |
hospitals and prisons,
went into liquidation yesterday | 1:30:16 | 1:30:18 | |
with debts of around £1.5 billion. | 1:30:18 | 1:30:20 | |
The political fallout continued last
night as Ministers held an emergency | 1:30:20 | 1:30:23 | |
meeting and Labour questioned why
Carillion continued to be awarded | 1:30:23 | 1:30:25 | |
contracts despite repeated
profit warnings. | 1:30:25 | 1:30:27 | |
13 brothers and sisters
between the ages of two and 29 have | 1:30:27 | 1:30:30 | |
been discovered in a malnourished
and dirty state at their home in | 1:30:30 | 1:30:33 | |
California. | 1:30:33 | 1:30:35 | |
Some of them were
chained to their beds. | 1:30:35 | 1:30:41 | |
Their parents have been charged with
torture and child endangerment. | 1:30:41 | 1:30:44 | |
James Cook has this report. | 1:30:44 | 1:30:48 | |
They look like a big, happy family.
The children a little pale perhaps | 1:30:48 | 1:30:53 | |
but smiling. Photographs on Facebook
show the Turpins visiting Disneyland | 1:30:53 | 1:30:57 | |
and in Las Vegas as their apparently
proud parents renewed wedding vows. | 1:30:57 | 1:31:03 | |
Now David and Louise Turpin are
under arrest charged with torture | 1:31:03 | 1:31:08 | |
and child endangerment. The children
are in hospital. Our staff is used | 1:31:08 | 1:31:14 | |
to taking people who are quite ill,
they are used to compassionate care, | 1:31:14 | 1:31:20 | |
and so we pull out all the stops so
to speak to make sure that their | 1:31:20 | 1:31:25 | |
privacy is dealt with, that they get
the appropriate care and that they | 1:31:25 | 1:31:30 | |
are treated with dignity and respect
at a time when they needed the most. | 1:31:30 | 1:31:33 | |
The horror on Muir Woods Road was
uncovered early on Sunday morning | 1:31:33 | 1:31:38 | |
when a 17-year-old girl escaped with
a mobile phone called the police. At | 1:31:38 | 1:31:43 | |
the home offices found 12 siblings
and were shocked to discover that | 1:31:43 | 1:31:47 | |
seven were adults, the oldest 29.
The captives were dirty and | 1:31:47 | 1:31:53 | |
malnourished, say police, shackled
to their beds with chains and | 1:31:53 | 1:31:56 | |
padlocks in dark and foul smelling
surroundings. As reporters arrived | 1:31:56 | 1:32:00 | |
at the quiet suburb east of Los
Angeles, neighbours said they were | 1:32:00 | 1:32:04 | |
stunned. They were the type that you
didn't really get to know anything | 1:32:04 | 1:32:08 | |
about them. They were very to
themselves in a sense, so they only | 1:32:08 | 1:32:14 | |
kept to themselves. And the only
time you would see them, you would | 1:32:14 | 1:32:17 | |
never see anyone visit. You would
never see anyone go inside. All you | 1:32:17 | 1:32:24 | |
would really see is that they would
go out and make a grocery run and | 1:32:24 | 1:32:28 | |
that was it. There is no hint at all
here of the grim conditions inside | 1:32:28 | 1:32:32 | |
his home. The questions about what
happened are mounting. Not least how | 1:32:32 | 1:32:38 | |
long were the siblings held captive
and why. | 1:32:38 | 1:32:46 | |
MPs say the manufacturer, Whirlpool,
hasn't done enough to deal | 1:32:46 | 1:32:49 | |
with defective tumble dryers
which have caused hundreds of fires. | 1:32:49 | 1:32:51 | |
The company insisted
its repair campaign has | 1:32:51 | 1:32:53 | |
been comparatively successful. | 1:32:53 | 1:32:54 | |
But the Commons Business Committee
said the response to the problem, | 1:32:54 | 1:32:57 | |
discovered in 2015, had been woeful
and it was unacceptable that more | 1:32:57 | 1:33:00 | |
than one million potentially
dangerous dryers were still being | 1:33:00 | 1:33:03 | |
used in people's homes. | 1:33:03 | 1:33:10 | |
A motorway bridge under construction
in Colombia has collapsed, | 1:33:10 | 1:33:12 | |
killing at least ten workers,
and injuring five others. | 1:33:12 | 1:33:14 | |
Photos from the scene show a large
part of the nearly 450-metre long | 1:33:14 | 1:33:18 | |
bridge lying in the ravine below. | 1:33:18 | 1:33:20 | |
Officials say the cause of
the collapse is under investigation. | 1:33:20 | 1:33:28 | |
The American gymnast Simone Biles
has said she was sexually abused | 1:33:29 | 1:33:32 | |
by the former USA team
coach Larry Nassar. | 1:33:32 | 1:33:35 | |
The four-time Olympic champion
tweeted that she too is one | 1:33:35 | 1:33:37 | |
of the many survivors,
but has been reluctant to speak | 1:33:37 | 1:33:40 | |
out until now. | 1:33:40 | 1:33:41 | |
Larry Nassar was jailed last month
for 60 years for possessing images | 1:33:41 | 1:33:44 | |
of child sexual abuse,
and is awaiting sentence | 1:33:44 | 1:33:46 | |
for assaulting other athletes. | 1:33:46 | 1:33:51 | |
The supermarket chain, Iceland,
has said it will eliminate plastic | 1:33:51 | 1:33:54 | |
from its own brand products
within five years. | 1:33:54 | 1:33:56 | |
The retailer said plastic
would be replaced with paper | 1:33:56 | 1:33:58 | |
which could be recycled. | 1:33:58 | 1:34:00 | |
The move has been welcomed
by environmental campaigners | 1:34:00 | 1:34:02 | |
and comes amid growing concern over
plastic pollution in the world's | 1:34:02 | 1:34:05 | |
oceans, where it can
harm or kill wildlife. | 1:34:05 | 1:34:13 | |
These are probably the most dramatic
pictures of the morning. | 1:34:15 | 1:34:18 | |
A speeding car in California
was hurled into the upper floor | 1:34:18 | 1:34:21 | |
of an office building after it hit
a road divider in the early hours | 1:34:21 | 1:34:25 | |
of Sunday morning. | 1:34:25 | 1:34:26 | |
There we go. | 1:34:26 | 1:34:27 | |
The crash left one half
of the vehicle hanging out | 1:34:27 | 1:34:29 | |
of the building and the driver
admitted to officers he had used | 1:34:29 | 1:34:33 | |
drugs before getting
behind the wheel. | 1:34:33 | 1:34:35 | |
Just extraordinary. | 1:34:35 | 1:34:36 | |
Luckily both driver
and passenger survived, | 1:34:36 | 1:34:37 | |
suffering only minor injuries. | 1:34:37 | 1:34:45 | |
These are some of the pictures today
of where the car arrived, just above | 1:34:49 | 1:34:54 | |
a dental office in America, so high
in the building, it just shows you | 1:34:54 | 1:35:00 | |
the ridiculous nature of what that
guy, whoever was driving, what on | 1:35:00 | 1:35:04 | |
earth they were doing. And that they
were OK - just staggering. Andy | 1:35:04 | 1:35:09 | |
Carroll will be in a couple of
minutes. Yes, and for the next few | 1:35:09 | 1:35:14 | |
days as well, Thursday I think, | 1:35:14 | 1:35:17 | |
paying very close attention.
Very different weather conditions in | 1:35:17 | 1:35:21 | |
Australia. Do you remember in the
Ashes it was over 50 Celsius, always | 1:35:21 | 1:35:27 | |
hot in Melbourne. Johanna Konta was
born in Australia, so she says she | 1:35:27 | 1:35:32 | |
really enjoys the heat. And she
dispatched another American, it has | 1:35:32 | 1:35:37 | |
been a very bad tournament for
America, they have lost 12 players | 1:35:37 | 1:35:40 | |
on the opening day yesterday and
another couple have fallen | 1:35:40 | 1:35:44 | |
overnight, and one at the hands of
Johanna Konta. | 1:35:44 | 1:35:47 | |
Konta said she really enjoyed
the heat in Melbourne and tried | 1:35:47 | 1:35:50 | |
to absorb the atmosphere
in the arena. | 1:35:50 | 1:35:51 | |
And she certainly looked
comfortable out there. | 1:35:51 | 1:35:53 | |
The match lasted little over an hour
and Konta only dropped four games | 1:35:53 | 1:35:57 | |
against Madison Brengle. | 1:35:57 | 1:35:58 | |
She'll play another
American, Bernarda Pera. | 1:35:58 | 1:35:59 | |
The six-times champion
Novak Djokovic has been back | 1:35:59 | 1:36:01 | |
in action for the first
time since Wimbledon, | 1:36:01 | 1:36:04 | |
and he came through with ease,
only dropping serve once in beating | 1:36:04 | 1:36:07 | |
Donald Young. | 1:36:07 | 1:36:07 | |
Djokovic is seeded 14th,
after missing the second half | 1:36:07 | 1:36:10 | |
of 2017 with an elbow injury.
And he was wearing quite a fetching | 1:36:10 | 1:36:13 | |
kind of arm long/ coloured sleeve
to play in Melbourne this morning. | 1:36:13 | 1:36:18 | |
Manchester United have
done their best to take advantage | 1:36:18 | 1:36:20 | |
of Manchester City's
defeat at Liverpool, | 1:36:20 | 1:36:22 | |
narrowing the gap at the top
of the Premier League to 12 points. | 1:36:22 | 1:36:25 | |
They beat Stoke 3-0 last night,
with new Stoke manager Paul Lambert | 1:36:25 | 1:36:29 | |
watching from the stands. | 1:36:29 | 1:36:30 | |
And Jose Mourinho isn't quite giving
up the title race yet. | 1:36:30 | 1:36:33 | |
We know that the distance
is a very important distance. | 1:36:33 | 1:36:35 | |
I've been there before,
and you can control your destiny, | 1:36:35 | 1:36:38 | |
and you play relaxed. | 1:36:38 | 1:36:39 | |
And, when you play relaxed,
the best qualities are coming. | 1:36:39 | 1:36:42 | |
So I think they have their destiny
in their hands, but we want to win | 1:36:42 | 1:36:46 | |
matches, we want to
finish the best we can. | 1:36:46 | 1:36:54 | |
Ryan Giggs has been
confirmed as the new manager | 1:36:54 | 1:36:56 | |
of the Wales national side. | 1:36:56 | 1:36:57 | |
He's agreed a four-year deal,
and he says he's been unfairly | 1:36:57 | 1:37:00 | |
criticised by fans,
who questioned his commitment. | 1:37:00 | 1:37:02 | |
Giggs says a desire to reach a major
tournament with his country | 1:37:02 | 1:37:05 | |
burns inside him. | 1:37:05 | 1:37:11 | |
It was just an opportunity that
I couldn't turn down. | 1:37:11 | 1:37:14 | |
You know, I had the assistant
manager role at Manchester United | 1:37:14 | 1:37:17 | |
after I finished playing,
which I have enjoyed. | 1:37:17 | 1:37:19 | |
I haven't done that for 18 months
now and I am itching to get back | 1:37:19 | 1:37:23 | |
to football, because that is
where I feel comfortable, | 1:37:23 | 1:37:26 | |
that is where I belong. | 1:37:26 | 1:37:27 | |
And tremendously honoured and proud
to be the next Welsh manager. | 1:37:27 | 1:37:31 | |
West Bromwich Albion have described
Cyrille Regis as "A pioneer | 1:37:31 | 1:37:33 | |
for black footballers
across the world". | 1:37:33 | 1:37:35 | |
Regis died on Sunday aged 59
after a suspected heart attack. | 1:37:35 | 1:37:38 | |
He played nearly 300 times
for West Brom in the 1970s and '80s. | 1:37:38 | 1:37:42 | |
He became the third black player
to play for England and was made | 1:37:42 | 1:37:45 | |
an MBE in 2008. | 1:37:45 | 1:37:50 | |
There is very few black men
in the game of football | 1:37:50 | 1:37:53 | |
who could have got through that
time that Cyrille got | 1:37:53 | 1:37:59 | |
through and still achieved
and still played for his country | 1:37:59 | 1:38:03 | |
and still played for
big football clubs. | 1:38:03 | 1:38:05 | |
He was... | 1:38:05 | 1:38:05 | |
He was just a leader. | 1:38:05 | 1:38:13 | |
England cricketer Ben Stokes has
been charged with affray over | 1:38:15 | 1:38:18 | |
an incident outside a Bristol
nightclub in September, | 1:38:18 | 1:38:20 | |
which left a man with
a fractured eye socket. | 1:38:20 | 1:38:22 | |
Stokes missed the Ashes series
and the selectors will be meeting | 1:38:22 | 1:38:25 | |
over the next couple of days
to discuss his future. | 1:38:25 | 1:38:28 | |
Stokes has been charged along
with two other men. | 1:38:28 | 1:38:36 | |
Finally, a bit of poetry for you,
because Ireland and Ulster winger | 1:38:40 | 1:38:43 | |
Tommy Bowe has announced
he will retire at the end | 1:38:43 | 1:38:46 | |
of the season, opting to make
the announcement through poetry. | 1:38:46 | 1:38:49 | |
The former Lions winger
posted this on Twitter: | 1:38:49 | 1:38:57 | |
And he ends it there. That is the
end of his career in rugby. Quite a | 1:39:03 | 1:39:10 | |
way to end it. | 1:39:10 | 1:39:14 | |
A strategic plan for transport
for the North of England over | 1:39:14 | 1:39:17 | |
the next 30 years is being launched
later this morning. | 1:39:17 | 1:39:20 | |
Steph has been taking a look
at what differnce it could make | 1:39:20 | 1:39:23 | |
to the region. | 1:39:23 | 1:39:25 | |
Yes, good morning. It is a big day
for northern transport. We will | 1:39:25 | 1:39:30 | |
speak with the boss of the
organisation and announcing it in a | 1:39:30 | 1:39:33 | |
moment. I just want to tell you a
couple of details. It has been | 1:39:33 | 1:39:37 | |
argued they have fallen behind the
rest of the country when it comes to | 1:39:37 | 1:39:41 | |
investment in transport. This
morning experts will publish a plan | 1:39:41 | 1:39:44 | |
for what should happen. That is,
they think, over the next 30 years | 1:39:44 | 1:39:49 | |
to put that right. There are lots of
proposals in it. So I have been | 1:39:49 | 1:39:53 | |
looking at how easy it is to travel
between the cities in the north, and | 1:39:53 | 1:39:57 | |
in particular Manchester to
Sheffield. | 1:39:57 | 1:39:59 | |
The north of England
is classed as this area. | 1:39:59 | 1:40:01 | |
It is home to 15 million people,
which is nearly a quarter | 1:40:01 | 1:40:04 | |
of the UK's population. | 1:40:04 | 1:40:05 | |
It has been argued that poor
transport links are the key reason | 1:40:05 | 1:40:09 | |
for the north falling
behind economically, | 1:40:09 | 1:40:10 | |
but fixing that isn't easy. | 1:40:10 | 1:40:12 | |
Now, take the journey
between Manchester and Sheffield, | 1:40:12 | 1:40:14 | |
that I'm doing now. | 1:40:14 | 1:40:17 | |
Nearly three quarters of people
who commute between the two cities | 1:40:17 | 1:40:20 | |
do so by road, and it can
take about 75 minutes | 1:40:20 | 1:40:23 | |
to get between them. | 1:40:23 | 1:40:31 | |
That is at an average speed under
35mph, on uncongested roads. | 1:40:32 | 1:40:35 | |
After two hours of travelling,
I'm in Sheffield to meet David, | 1:40:35 | 1:40:38 | |
who runs an architecture
business here. | 1:40:38 | 1:40:40 | |
He is keen to show me
what commuting is like for him. | 1:40:40 | 1:40:43 | |
So this is University
Roundabout now. | 1:40:43 | 1:40:44 | |
If I go the direct route,
it will take one or two hours. | 1:40:44 | 1:40:48 | |
You are a regular commuter
from Sheffield to Manchester. | 1:40:48 | 1:40:54 | |
Regular as clockwork. | 1:40:54 | 1:40:55 | |
We trade well with Manchester,
but if I do the journey, | 1:40:55 | 1:40:58 | |
for example tonight,
with a meeting at 6:00pm, | 1:40:58 | 1:41:01 | |
I will set off at
3:00pm, just in case. | 1:41:01 | 1:41:03 | |
So it's totally unproductive time. | 1:41:03 | 1:41:11 | |
Can you not get the train? | 1:41:12 | 1:41:16 | |
Yes, but that's an hour, minimum. | 1:41:16 | 1:41:18 | |
I have to get to the train station,
park, get out of the train, | 1:41:18 | 1:41:22 | |
and get to my next meeting. | 1:41:22 | 1:41:23 | |
The train should be 30
minutes, not an hour. | 1:41:23 | 1:41:28 | |
Part of the problem is that all
the road routes between the cities | 1:41:28 | 1:41:31 | |
are not designed for
heavy-duty traffic. | 1:41:31 | 1:41:33 | |
So one idea is to build a tunnel. | 1:41:33 | 1:41:35 | |
How much of a difference would it
make to your business | 1:41:35 | 1:41:38 | |
if there was a tunnel
between Sheffield and Manchester? | 1:41:38 | 1:41:41 | |
It would make an enormous
amount of difference. | 1:41:41 | 1:41:43 | |
We could get there with a consistent
amount of time, you could forecast | 1:41:43 | 1:41:46 | |
it into jobs, mileage, cost. | 1:41:46 | 1:41:48 | |
It's literally a day
at the office, at present. | 1:41:48 | 1:41:50 | |
It's two hours there
and back, with meetings - | 1:41:50 | 1:41:53 | |
you've ruined the day. | 1:41:53 | 1:41:59 | |
The proposals would impact
villages like this one, | 1:41:59 | 1:42:01 | |
which has a lot of heavy
traffic coming through it. | 1:42:01 | 1:42:04 | |
Hello. | 1:42:04 | 1:42:04 | |
Ladies, what do you think about
a tunnel between here and Sheffield? | 1:42:04 | 1:42:08 | |
Fabulous, well needed. | 1:42:08 | 1:42:09 | |
About time. | 1:42:09 | 1:42:10 | |
About time, exactly. | 1:42:10 | 1:42:10 | |
Yes, great. | 1:42:10 | 1:42:13 | |
You live on the main
road, don't you? | 1:42:13 | 1:42:16 | |
I certainly do. | 1:42:16 | 1:42:16 | |
I live on the road itself,
and I know it's a bone of contention | 1:42:16 | 1:42:20 | |
with the locals. | 1:42:20 | 1:42:21 | |
The way they fly down the road
is absolutely diabolical. | 1:42:21 | 1:42:27 | |
I think a tunnel sounds like a great
idea, as long as it bypasses | 1:42:27 | 1:42:31 | |
the villages completely. | 1:42:31 | 1:42:32 | |
Anything that gets the HGVs
off that top road. | 1:42:32 | 1:42:39 | |
It is beautiful up here,
but there is clearly a need | 1:42:39 | 1:42:42 | |
for better transport, and the plan
would reduce journey times. | 1:42:42 | 1:42:45 | |
But it wouldn't come cheap,
and that is the challenge - | 1:42:45 | 1:42:48 | |
balancing the cost
versus the benefits. | 1:42:48 | 1:42:54 | |
Well, that is one of the ideas.
Let's get information about the | 1:42:55 | 1:42:59 | |
others. | 1:42:59 | 1:42:59 | |
Barry White, CEO for Transport
for the North, joins me | 1:42:59 | 1:43:02 | |
live from Darlington. | 1:43:02 | 1:43:03 | |
Good morning to you. We were just
hearing them about the plans | 1:43:03 | 1:43:07 | |
possibly for this potential tunnel
between Sheffield and Manchester. | 1:43:07 | 1:43:10 | |
Can you give us a flavour of what
else you have put out in this | 1:43:10 | 1:43:14 | |
proposal? What we are setting out
today in the strategic transport | 1:43:14 | 1:43:20 | |
plan is a long-term investment plan
to really tackle the issues you have | 1:43:20 | 1:43:25 | |
described in that report from
Sheffield. The journey time is north | 1:43:25 | 1:43:29 | |
of England are holding the economy
back and what we are doing is | 1:43:29 | 1:43:33 | |
linking the future economic
performance with an investment plan | 1:43:33 | 1:43:36 | |
and that investment plan will seek
to attract 50% more investment into | 1:43:36 | 1:43:40 | |
the north of England over the next
30 years than current levels and | 1:43:40 | 1:43:44 | |
that will help to reduce travel time
between the major economic areas | 1:43:44 | 1:43:48 | |
allowing businesses and people to
work more effectively. So what else | 1:43:48 | 1:43:52 | |
is in it? Well, one of the schemes
planned today will -- we will set | 1:43:52 | 1:44:04 | |
out will be northern powerhouse rail
to link the six major cities in the | 1:44:04 | 1:44:07 | |
north with faster trains and that
will allow as an example currently | 1:44:07 | 1:44:14 | |
there is only 10,000 people who can
access the ten major cities of the | 1:44:14 | 1:44:18 | |
north in one hour and northern
powerhouse rail will increase it to | 1:44:18 | 1:44:23 | |
1.3 million people accessing the
four cities in one hour. That means | 1:44:23 | 1:44:28 | |
businesses can attract a workforce
from a wider area and it means | 1:44:28 | 1:44:31 | |
people can move more easily for jobs
as well. So for businesses and jobs | 1:44:31 | 1:44:37 | |
that long-term strategy underpinning
investment is so important. It is | 1:44:37 | 1:44:41 | |
obviously clear to see the benefits
as you have highlighted, but how | 1:44:41 | 1:44:45 | |
long will this take, when could this
happen? Well there are a number of | 1:44:45 | 1:44:51 | |
things happening already India's
long-term plan we are publishing | 1:44:51 | 1:44:53 | |
today to run over the next 30 years
out to 2050 from 2030 but actually | 1:44:53 | 1:44:59 | |
right now from work done earlier,
there are new trains due on this | 1:44:59 | 1:45:04 | |
year into the north of England,
renewing the train fleet starting | 1:45:04 | 1:45:09 | |
over £1 billion of investment over
the current franchise period, smart | 1:45:09 | 1:45:13 | |
ticketing will start to be rolled
out in 2018 on the rail network, so | 1:45:13 | 1:45:19 | |
lots happening already, but what we
are doing is setting out a long plan | 1:45:19 | 1:45:23 | |
calling for more investment in the
north and that investment will | 1:45:23 | 1:45:26 | |
underpin economic growth seeking to
achieve £100 billion per annum | 1:45:26 | 1:45:34 | |
higher GVA economic activity by
2050, 850,000 extra jobs in the | 1:45:34 | 1:45:39 | |
north and that is what a long-term
strategy can achieve. Why is it so | 1:45:39 | 1:45:43 | |
long, though, 30 years is massive,
for people commuting and facing the | 1:45:43 | 1:45:47 | |
challenge of travelling across the
north now, I mean, 30 years is ages. | 1:45:47 | 1:45:55 | |
Well, there is much happening within
that long-term strategy. Within that | 1:45:55 | 1:46:02 | |
we will have short-term projects,
medium-term projects, and long-term | 1:46:02 | 1:46:04 | |
projects. But it means that strategy
and that overview exists to attract | 1:46:04 | 1:46:11 | |
investment in, which is so much
needed in the north. I have given | 1:46:11 | 1:46:15 | |
you some examples in terms of what
is happening in the shorter term, | 1:46:15 | 1:46:19 | |
but we do need that strategy to
attract long-term investment on a | 1:46:19 | 1:46:23 | |
sustained basis, which allows
long-term plans to be drawn up. I | 1:46:23 | 1:46:26 | |
want to ask you why we have you,
obviously we are talking a lot about | 1:46:26 | 1:46:33 | |
Carillion, in the news, which has
been involved heavily in big | 1:46:33 | 1:46:37 | |
projects including HS2. What are
your thoughts on what is happening | 1:46:37 | 1:46:40 | |
with Carillion, and how that could
affect infrastructure plans? Well, | 1:46:40 | 1:46:46 | |
Carillion's sad demise, and the
impact on people and its suppliers, | 1:46:46 | 1:46:50 | |
is obviously a very sad issue.
However, for our plans, Carillion's | 1:46:50 | 1:46:56 | |
problems do not affect our future
plans. So from our point of view, | 1:46:56 | 1:47:00 | |
the plans we are publishing today,
there is a very strong supply chain | 1:47:00 | 1:47:05 | |
across the UK, and that strong
supply chain will be there to | 1:47:05 | 1:47:08 | |
deliver these future plans. Thank
you very much for your time, Barry | 1:47:08 | 1:47:12 | |
White. CEO for transport in the
north, and what a cracking name. It | 1:47:12 | 1:47:18 | |
is interesting when you talk about
these projects, long-term, 30 years, | 1:47:18 | 1:47:24 | |
as you say, and for | 1:47:24 | 1:47:25 | |
these projects, long-term, 30 years,
as you say, and for, | 1:47:25 | 1:47:30 | |
as you say, and for, had done Mac --
for Dan, who does this trip every | 1:47:31 | 1:47:39 | |
day, another 30 years on the
Breakfast sofa. Janet says it can | 1:47:39 | 1:47:44 | |
take two powers to travel by
Liverpool 14 miles. Michelle Cumbria | 1:47:44 | 1:47:49 | |
says it takes an hour to get to the
motorway, -- Michelle in Cumbria. | 1:47:49 | 1:47:56 | |
And Sharon says yet again there are
talks of building new rail links and | 1:47:56 | 1:48:01 | |
tunnels in the north. In Devon they
are waiting for an alternative to | 1:48:01 | 1:48:04 | |
the donnish section of the line
which is closed more often than it | 1:48:04 | 1:48:11 | |
is open. We know that the weather
could be pretty disruptive over the | 1:48:11 | 1:48:15 | |
next couple of days. Carol has all
the important details, I | 1:48:15 | 1:48:19 | |
next couple of days. Carol has all
the important details, I will try | 1:48:19 | 1:48:19 | |
and get extra time for you. Bless
you, thank you! You are quite right | 1:48:19 | 1:48:24 | |
when you say the weather could be
disrupted for some of us over the | 1:48:24 | 1:48:28 | |
next couple of days. We already have
snow at lower levels, so some of us | 1:48:28 | 1:48:32 | |
will have seems like this through
the day, others will have seems like | 1:48:32 | 1:48:36 | |
this, staying dry with sunny spells.
It is sunshine and showers. A lot of | 1:48:36 | 1:48:41 | |
those showers wintry, especially
over Northern Ireland, Scotland and | 1:48:41 | 1:48:43 | |
northern England. The risk of ice
here this morning, but they are | 1:48:43 | 1:48:47 | |
showers, which means we won't all
see them. If you come south, rain | 1:48:47 | 1:48:51 | |
showers. Some of the heaviest
showers in the central swathe of the | 1:48:51 | 1:48:55 | |
UK could see wintriness even at
lower levels. We persist with snow | 1:48:55 | 1:49:02 | |
showers through the course of the
day. It will be cold, and the same | 1:49:02 | 1:49:07 | |
across Scotland. You can see how
prolific they are. Parts of | 1:49:07 | 1:49:10 | |
north-east Scotland will mist them
and stay dry, but it will feel | 1:49:10 | 1:49:13 | |
better. Add in the strength of the
wind and it will exacerbate the cold | 1:49:13 | 1:49:17 | |
feel, as it will across England.
With the snow falling and lying snow | 1:49:17 | 1:49:21 | |
on higher ground, there could be
drifting, and also blizzards to | 1:49:21 | 1:49:25 | |
content with. Across Wales, most of
the snow will be in the hills, but | 1:49:25 | 1:49:29 | |
in some of the heavy showers we will
see that at lower levels as well, | 1:49:29 | 1:49:33 | |
and the mixture around the coast of
sleet and rain showers. Come inland | 1:49:33 | 1:49:37 | |
and we will add some hail to that as
well. The Midlands and the | 1:49:37 | 1:49:41 | |
south-east could escape that
altogether and stay dry. | 1:49:41 | 1:49:43 | |
Temperature-wise we are looking at
two to about seven. Add on the wind | 1:49:43 | 1:49:48 | |
and it will feel more like -4 in
Aberdeen, -3 in Glasgow, -4 in | 1:49:48 | 1:49:53 | |
Belfast. Wherever you are, you will
need to wrap up warmly. Through the | 1:49:53 | 1:49:58 | |
evening and overnight we continue
with the snow showers. It will still | 1:49:58 | 1:50:01 | |
be windy. Once again we are looking
at the risk of ice on untreated | 1:50:01 | 1:50:05 | |
surfaces. Temperature-wise, wherever
you are it will be cold again. These | 1:50:05 | 1:50:09 | |
are towns and cities, in rural areas
it will be even lower than this. | 1:50:09 | 1:50:13 | |
Tomorrow the wind eases a touch for
a time. The showers tend to die off | 1:50:13 | 1:50:17 | |
for some of us, but you can still
see a plethora of them coming in | 1:50:17 | 1:50:21 | |
from the west, and we are looking at
some dry conditions. However, this | 1:50:21 | 1:50:25 | |
next system is waiting in the winds.
This weather system is forming on | 1:50:25 | 1:50:30 | |
the coast of America, and as it
comes into the Atlantic it will | 1:50:30 | 1:50:34 | |
deepen. This is the track we think
it could take. We will see the | 1:50:34 | 1:50:38 | |
whites of the ties later on today at
four now it will come later on | 1:50:38 | 1:50:42 | |
Wednesday and into Thursday. It will
drift across Northern Ireland and | 1:50:42 | 1:50:45 | |
also in through Scotland and
northern England and north Wales, | 1:50:45 | 1:50:48 | |
taking some snow with it. This snow
could be heavy and disruptive. That | 1:50:48 | 1:50:52 | |
is half the story, the other half is
the wind. The squeeze on the ice | 1:50:52 | 1:50:56 | |
above tells you we are looking at
Gailes, coming in towards Norfolk, | 1:50:56 | 1:50:59 | |
north Wales, this whole area. If you
look south of that, it will still be | 1:50:59 | 1:51:04 | |
pretty windy. Quite a fast moving
system, so it will clear during the | 1:51:04 | 1:51:08 | |
course of Thursday morning, taking
its snow and also strong winds with | 1:51:08 | 1:51:12 | |
it. But it will still be a fairly
blustery day, just not as windy as | 1:51:12 | 1:51:17 | |
we expected to be, through the
course of the night. Thank you the | 1:51:17 | 1:51:20 | |
extra time, and back to you both.
Thank you very | 1:51:20 | 1:51:23 | |
extra time, and back to you both.
Thank you very much indeed, we were | 1:51:23 | 1:51:24 | |
watching very carefully. We will be
careful. You did get extra time, by | 1:51:24 | 1:51:29 | |
the way! Not much, though. | 1:51:29 | 1:51:32 | |
They say a healthy
child is a happy child. | 1:51:32 | 1:51:34 | |
Now, youngsters across the country
are being encouraged to become more | 1:51:34 | 1:51:37 | |
active during the school day,
in order to enhance their learning. | 1:51:37 | 1:51:40 | |
It is all part of a joint campaign
run by the BBC and the Premier | 1:51:40 | 1:51:44 | |
League. | 1:51:44 | 1:51:47 | |
Our reporter Tim Muffett
is at a school in North London this | 1:51:47 | 1:51:51 | |
morning, where the pupils
are being put through their paces. | 1:51:51 | 1:51:53 | |
And I think we have a super surprise
coming up. We are coming to you from | 1:51:53 | 1:51:58 | |
Ashmount primary school, and the
launch of Super Movers. Kids being | 1:51:58 | 1:52:02 | |
active is what it is all about. A
project launched by the BBC and | 1:52:02 | 1:52:06 | |
Premier League. To get kids more
active, why not incorporate physical | 1:52:06 | 1:52:10 | |
activity into everyday lessons like
this. So we are in a normal | 1:52:10 | 1:52:15 | |
classroom, we have the kids watching
some videos and following some dance | 1:52:15 | 1:52:19 | |
moves, and you know what? Starring
the show, Gabby Logan, she is one of | 1:52:19 | 1:52:24 | |
the ambassadors of Super Movers. I
don't want to interrupt you, but | 1:52:24 | 1:52:27 | |
tell us about this project and what
it is all about. I think it is a | 1:52:27 | 1:52:32 | |
fantastic facility for teachers.
During the day they only have so | 1:52:32 | 1:52:36 | |
much time to cram the curriculum in.
We all know that children need to be | 1:52:36 | 1:52:40 | |
doing more activity, and it can't
always be taking the whole classroom | 1:52:40 | 1:52:43 | |
to the gym or the playground and
changing outfits and these kids are | 1:52:43 | 1:52:47 | |
very engaged, it has launched today.
This particular one is called the | 1:52:47 | 1:52:53 | |
Happy Dance, and there are
adjectives coming across the screen, | 1:52:53 | 1:52:58 | |
so the spelling is improving their
cognitive ability, to spell as well, | 1:52:58 | 1:53:02 | |
while doing physical exercise. I
think it is a brilliant resource. | 1:53:02 | 1:53:05 | |
You don't need to be an expo at, --
expert, anyone can do it. However, | 1:53:05 | 1:53:14 | |
risk assessment is completed! There
you go. Very, very impressive. I am | 1:53:14 | 1:53:18 | |
practising for later on. Thank you
very much indeed. Have you got super | 1:53:18 | 1:53:23 | |
moves? Are you enjoying this so far?
Yes. What is it like doing physical | 1:53:23 | 1:53:29 | |
exercise in your classroom, and
getting a workout? It is funny, | 1:53:29 | 1:53:34 | |
because the teachers usually say no
running and no jumping, but you are | 1:53:34 | 1:53:38 | |
allowed to run and jump! What better
way to start the day? Are you | 1:53:38 | 1:53:42 | |
enjoying it? It is really fun,
usually you have to sit down and | 1:53:42 | 1:53:46 | |
look at the border and learn, and
now you get to move around. And you | 1:53:46 | 1:53:54 | |
are one of the researchers from the
University. What impact does this | 1:53:54 | 1:53:59 | |
have on child's brain, when they
exercise in the classroom? We know | 1:53:59 | 1:54:04 | |
that physical activity in the
classroom can have three main | 1:54:04 | 1:54:06 | |
beneficial impact on children's
learning. The first thing is they | 1:54:06 | 1:54:11 | |
can be a little bit more attentive
and focused in their learning, and | 1:54:11 | 1:54:14 | |
stay on task more. They can be more
motivated, and thirdly, they are | 1:54:14 | 1:54:18 | |
enjoying learning more. It is
important, isn't it, that this isn't | 1:54:18 | 1:54:24 | |
just a separate PE lesson, but is
incorporated into everyday learning. | 1:54:24 | 1:54:28 | |
Is that the main goal? Absolutely,
it is certainly not sport or | 1:54:28 | 1:54:32 | |
physical education, it is learning
through movement. Do you think all | 1:54:32 | 1:54:37 | |
pupils... Do you want to see all
pupils taking part in this, if at | 1:54:37 | 1:54:41 | |
all possible? We would love to see
the more than 20,000 primary school | 1:54:41 | 1:54:44 | |
is in the UK taking up this
initiative. It is a great | 1:54:44 | 1:54:48 | |
opportunity to get kids more active.
Guys, are you having a good time? | 1:54:48 | 1:54:52 | |
Yes! That is good to hear. And what
impact can this have on the pupils, | 1:54:52 | 1:54:58 | |
do you think? It just engages them
in learning, and develops brain | 1:54:58 | 1:55:02 | |
development skills during the day,
by lesson time, so it is a fantastic | 1:55:02 | 1:55:06 | |
idea, I think. Thank you very much
indeed. The videos have all the | 1:55:06 | 1:55:11 | |
moves going. This is a bit more
advanced, but we will give it a go. | 1:55:11 | 1:55:15 | |
Meanwhile, to you, and from the
Super Movers, we are having a good | 1:55:15 | 1:55:20 | |
time, aren't we? Say goodbye,
everyone. Goodbye! A brilliantly | 1:55:20 | 1:55:28 | |
executed cartwheel. And in quite an
enclosed space, with children | 1:55:28 | 1:55:32 | |
around, could have caused havoc! | 1:55:32 | 1:55:34 | |
You are watching
Breakfast from BBC News. | 1:55:34 | 1:55:36 | |
Still to come this morning:
We have a very special guest | 1:55:36 | 1:55:39 | |
on Breakfast this morning. | 1:55:39 | 1:55:40 | |
This is Wolfy, the penguin,
named after the artist | 1:55:40 | 1:55:42 | |
who designed him. | 1:55:42 | 1:55:43 | |
He, along with some friends,
has travelled round the world, | 1:55:43 | 1:55:46 | |
from Sydney to Barcelona and Berlin,
to try and protect his home | 1:55:46 | 1:55:49 | |
in the Antarctic. | 1:55:49 | 1:55:50 | |
We will hear why
in about 20 minutes. | 1:55:50 | 1:55:58 | |
Time now to get the news,
travel and weather where you are. | 1:56:00 | 1:59:24 | |
Vanessa Feltz has more on a building
in Hackney which | 1:59:25 | 1:59:28 | |
Vanessa Feltz has more on a building
in Hackney which may be demolished | 1:59:28 | 1:59:29 | |
by developers. That is on BBC radio
London. | 1:59:29 | 1:59:34 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast,
with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker. | 1:59:47 | 1:59:50 | |
Concerns for thousands
of small businesses | 1:59:50 | 1:59:52 | |
following the collapse of Carillion. | 1:59:52 | 1:59:55 | |
After Britain's second largest
construction firm went bust, | 1:59:55 | 1:59:58 | |
ministers held an emergency meeting
last night with suppliers and sub | 1:59:58 | 2:00:00 | |
contractors facing millions
of pounds of unpaid bills. | 2:00:00 | 2:00:06 | |
I'll be looking at what chance
small businesses have | 2:00:06 | 2:00:08 | |
of getting their money back,
and what the collapse means | 2:00:08 | 2:00:11 | |
for the work already being carried
out by Carillion across the UK. | 2:00:11 | 2:00:19 | |
Good morning, it's
Tuesday 16th January. | 2:00:30 | 2:00:33 | |
Also this morning... | 2:00:33 | 2:00:35 | |
Two parents
are arrested in California | 2:00:35 | 2:00:38 | |
after their 13 children are found
captive at home, some | 2:00:38 | 2:00:40 | |
shackled to their beds
with chains and padlocks. | 2:00:40 | 2:00:48 | |
Big changes to special | 2:00:51 | 2:00:52 | |
educational needs support
are on their way in England. | 2:00:52 | 2:00:54 | |
In an exclusive report,
we hear claims of a system in chaos. | 2:00:54 | 2:00:57 | |
In sport, Johanna Konta
looks back to her best. | 2:00:57 | 2:00:59 | |
The British number one cruises
through to the second | 2:00:59 | 2:01:01 | |
round of the Australian Open,
after a confident straight sets win. | 2:01:01 | 2:01:08 | |
Good morning. I am at a primary
school in north London, where Super | 2:01:08 | 2:01:13 | |
Movers launches this morning. The
plan is to get kids active in lesson | 2:01:13 | 2:01:18 | |
time. One of the stars of the
lesson, a certain Gabby Logan, will | 2:01:18 | 2:01:22 | |
be talking about the project later.
Some lovely shapes being thrown! | 2:01:22 | 2:01:26 | |
And Carol has the weather. | 2:01:26 | 2:01:31 | |
Further snow showers across the
North and west in particular, | 2:01:31 | 2:01:34 | |
continuing on and off through the
course of the day, even at sea | 2:01:34 | 2:01:38 | |
level.
Some sunshine in between, feeling | 2:01:38 | 2:01:40 | |
bitterly cold everywhere in a brisk
wind, which will cause some drifting | 2:01:40 | 2:01:44 | |
of the snow in higher levels.
More details in 15 minutes. | 2:01:44 | 2:01:49 | |
Good morning. | 2:01:49 | 2:01:55 | |
Hundreds of public service contracts
hang in the balance this morning | 2:01:55 | 2:01:58 | |
after the collapse of Korean.
Britain's second-largest | 2:01:58 | 2:02:02 | |
construction firm, which also holds
cleaning and catering contract or | 2:02:02 | 2:02:06 | |
prisons, schools and hospitals, went
into clubs yesterday with debts of | 2:02:06 | 2:02:09 | |
around £1.5 billion. -- went in
collapse yesterday. | 2:02:09 | 2:02:18 | |
Ministers held an emergency Cobra | 2:02:18 | 2:02:19 | |
committee last night. | 2:02:19 | 2:02:20 | |
Opposition parties have questioned
why the Government continued | 2:02:20 | 2:02:22 | |
to award contracts to Carillion
despite three recent | 2:02:22 | 2:02:24 | |
profit warnings.
Let's remind ourselves of the scale | 2:02:24 | 2:02:26 | |
of Carillion's influence. | 2:02:26 | 2:02:27 | |
The company has 450 government
contracts, including maintenance | 2:02:27 | 2:02:29 | |
for prisons and hospitals. | 2:02:29 | 2:02:31 | |
It is also the second largest
supplier of maintenance | 2:02:31 | 2:02:35 | |
services to Network Rail. | 2:02:35 | 2:02:36 | |
There are also thousands of small | 2:02:36 | 2:02:44 | |
The firm has 43,000 staff worldwide,
as well as 20,000 in the UK. Byrd | 2:02:46 | 2:02:54 | |
including 20,000 in the UK. | 2:02:54 | 2:02:55 | |
There are also thousands of small | 2:02:55 | 2:02:57 | |
firms that carry out work
on Carillion's behalf and Steph's | 2:02:57 | 2:02:59 | |
been hearing from some of them. | 2:02:59 | 2:03:02 | |
There are so many different jobs
connected to this. Even hearing you | 2:03:02 | 2:03:06 | |
now talking about the areas they
work in and their contracts, that | 2:03:06 | 2:03:10 | |
means jobs like painters and
decorators, cleaners and hospitals, | 2:03:10 | 2:03:14 | |
people cooking food in schools. It
is so varied. Lots of them have | 2:03:14 | 2:03:19 | |
wondered what it would happen. It
was only yesterday and -- this time | 2:03:19 | 2:03:23 | |
yesterday I was talking about career
going into liquidation. For many | 2:03:23 | 2:03:27 | |
people it is unusual to see it
happening with the company so they | 2:03:27 | 2:03:30 | |
want what it means for them. From
what the Government said yesterday, | 2:03:30 | 2:03:36 | |
they will still be funding the jobs
and public services, so people who | 2:03:36 | 2:03:39 | |
work in schools and hospitals will
still be paid. The private sector is | 2:03:39 | 2:03:45 | |
more complicated, some areas of its
will have other companies taking on | 2:03:45 | 2:03:48 | |
the contracts and therefore those
workers, but it is really uncertain, | 2:03:48 | 2:03:53 | |
and that is the worst thing for
business people. We have heard from | 2:03:53 | 2:03:56 | |
lots of them Woodring what it will
mean for them. As you say, | 2:03:56 | 2:04:01 | |
particularly the suppliers to
businesses. We have had lots of | 2:04:01 | 2:04:04 | |
people messaging who say... A guy
whose company works with Marillion, | 2:04:04 | 2:04:10 | |
has worked to just over half £1
million, but will that mean? -- | 2:04:10 | 2:04:15 | |
works with Corinthian. And a
gentleman called Kevin McLaughlin, | 2:04:15 | 2:04:18 | |
who runs a painting and decorating
business, we spoke to him. On Monday | 2:04:18 | 2:04:25 | |
morning 30 people were sent home
from work. We had not been advised. | 2:04:25 | 2:04:28 | |
We are | 2:04:28 | 2:04:35 | |
We are working for work placements
for our workforce. Nobody told us it | 2:04:35 | 2:04:38 | |
was going to happen. It is really
tough for suppliers, it is not just | 2:04:38 | 2:04:44 | |
a Carillion problem but it has been
more widespread. Some people said | 2:04:44 | 2:04:47 | |
they stopped working with Carillion
because it took them so long to pay, | 2:04:47 | 2:04:51 | |
and they felt they became a bank
from fares. We spoke to the | 2:04:51 | 2:04:55 | |
Federation of Small Businesses about
this wider problem. | 2:04:55 | 2:04:58 | |
Clearly this is a culture we have
fostered for part-time belong in | 2:04:58 | 2:05:03 | |
this country, big companies abusing
supply chains delayed payments or | 2:05:03 | 2:05:09 | |
other requirements imposed on their
suppliers. It has to stop. This is | 2:05:09 | 2:05:13 | |
just one example. My heart goes out
to the small businesses and | 2:05:13 | 2:05:17 | |
employees who will be affected. It
will be a long time before we see | 2:05:17 | 2:05:21 | |
the end of the fallout, and
hopefully some of these businesses | 2:05:21 | 2:05:25 | |
will continue, but I am afraid that
many may not. That is the | 2:05:25 | 2:05:30 | |
uncertainty, the worrying thing. A
mortgage adviser told me he has had | 2:05:30 | 2:05:36 | |
calls from Carillion workers who
have asked what will my bank do if I | 2:05:36 | 2:05:40 | |
get redundant and struggle to pay my
mortgage? Lots of people are | 2:05:40 | 2:05:45 | |
worried. This story is changing
every day as we get more information | 2:05:45 | 2:05:49 | |
and find out more about what will
happen with the business as it is | 2:05:49 | 2:05:53 | |
liquidated, we will keep you across
all of. Anybody who wants to tell as | 2:05:53 | 2:05:58 | |
their story or ask questions, we
will try to help. | 2:05:58 | 2:06:02 | |
Thank you very much.
I just punch you in the back! | 2:06:02 | 2:06:10 | |
Awkward! Do you want me to punch him
back? I don't think he meant it, it | 2:06:10 | 2:06:13 | |
is OK. | 2:06:13 | 2:06:14 | |
Police in California
have rescued 13 brothers | 2:06:14 | 2:06:16 | |
and sisters from a house,
where some of them | 2:06:16 | 2:06:18 | |
were chained to beds. | 2:06:18 | 2:06:19 | |
The alarm was raised on Sunday,
when one girl escaped | 2:06:19 | 2:06:21 | |
and alerted the authorities. | 2:06:21 | 2:06:22 | |
Their parents have been arrested
and charged with torture | 2:06:22 | 2:06:24 | |
and child endangerment. | 2:06:24 | 2:06:25 | |
Our North America correspondent
James Cook reports. | 2:06:25 | 2:06:27 | |
They look like a big, happy family. | 2:06:27 | 2:06:32 | |
The children a little pale,
perhaps, but smiling. | 2:06:32 | 2:06:34 | |
Photographs on Facebook show
the Turpins visiting Disneyland | 2:06:34 | 2:06:36 | |
and in Las Vegas as their apparently
proud parents renewed wedding vows. | 2:06:36 | 2:06:42 | |
Now David and Louise Turpin
are under arrest charged | 2:06:42 | 2:06:44 | |
with torture and child endangerment. | 2:06:44 | 2:06:48 | |
The children are in hospital. | 2:06:48 | 2:06:51 | |
Our staff is used to taking
people who are quite ill, | 2:06:51 | 2:06:55 | |
they are used to compassionate care,
and so we pull out all the stops | 2:06:55 | 2:06:59 | |
so to speak to make sure
that their privacy is dealt with, | 2:06:59 | 2:07:03 | |
that they get the appropriate care
and that they are treated | 2:07:03 | 2:07:08 | |
with dignity and respect at a time
when they needed the most. | 2:07:08 | 2:07:14 | |
The horror on Muir Woods Road
was uncovered early on Sunday | 2:07:14 | 2:07:18 | |
morning when a 17-year-old girl
escaped with a mobile | 2:07:18 | 2:07:20 | |
phone called the police. | 2:07:20 | 2:07:27 | |
At the home, officers found 12
siblings and were shocked | 2:07:27 | 2:07:29 | |
to discover that seven were adults,
the oldest 29. | 2:07:29 | 2:07:32 | |
The captives were dirty
and malnourished, say police, | 2:07:32 | 2:07:33 | |
shackled to their beds with chains
and padlocks in dark and foul | 2:07:33 | 2:07:36 | |
smelling surroundings. | 2:07:36 | 2:07:39 | |
As reporters arrived at the quiet
suburb east of Los Angeles, | 2:07:39 | 2:07:42 | |
neighbours said they were stunned. | 2:07:42 | 2:07:46 | |
They were the type that
you didn't really get to know | 2:07:46 | 2:07:48 | |
anything about them. | 2:07:48 | 2:07:49 | |
They were very to themselves
in a sense, so they only | 2:07:49 | 2:07:52 | |
kept to themselves. | 2:07:52 | 2:07:56 | |
And the only time you would see
them, you would never | 2:07:56 | 2:07:58 | |
see anyone visit. | 2:07:58 | 2:07:59 | |
You would never see
anyone go inside. | 2:07:59 | 2:08:01 | |
All you would really see
is that they would go out and make | 2:08:01 | 2:08:04 | |
a grocery run and that was it. | 2:08:04 | 2:08:09 | |
There is no hint at all here of
the grim conditions inside his home. | 2:08:09 | 2:08:13 | |
The questions about what
happened are mounting. | 2:08:13 | 2:08:16 | |
Not least how long were the siblings
held captive and why. | 2:08:16 | 2:08:23 | |
An amazing story. | 2:08:30 | 2:08:31 | |
MPs say the manufacturer Whirlpool
hasn't done enough to deal | 2:08:31 | 2:08:34 | |
with defective tumble dryers
which have caused hundreds of fires. | 2:08:34 | 2:08:36 | |
The Commons Business Committee said
the response to the problem, | 2:08:36 | 2:08:39 | |
discovered in 2015, had been woeful. | 2:08:39 | 2:08:40 | |
Our business correspondent
Emma Simpson reports. | 2:08:40 | 2:08:47 | |
A flat in a tower block in west
London engulfed in flames. The smoke | 2:08:47 | 2:08:52 | |
rising more than ten stories. The
blaze itself damaging five floors. | 2:08:52 | 2:08:58 | |
It started in this property, and
London Fire Brigade believe the | 2:08:58 | 2:09:02 | |
cause was a faulty tumble dryer made
by Whirlpool. It has had a problem | 2:09:02 | 2:09:07 | |
with defective and potentially
dangerous tumble dryers since 2015, | 2:09:07 | 2:09:12 | |
when it discovered a defect which
could cause them to set fire. Today, | 2:09:12 | 2:09:17 | |
MPs described Whirlpool's attempts
to fix things are slow and | 2:09:17 | 2:09:20 | |
inadequate.
There evidence was both -- woeful. | 2:09:20 | 2:09:26 | |
Since 2004 they admit there have
been 740 fires in homes caused by | 2:09:26 | 2:09:30 | |
these tumble dryers, and yet still
today, in 2018, there are a million | 2:09:30 | 2:09:35 | |
of these tumble dryers in peoples
homes. They need to take much | 2:09:35 | 2:09:40 | |
stronger action to get those out of
people's homes. | 2:09:40 | 2:09:44 | |
Her parliamentary committee has
looked up the safety of electrical | 2:09:44 | 2:09:47 | |
goods. Among its recommendations, it
wants Whirlpool to deal with any | 2:09:47 | 2:09:51 | |
faulty machines within a fortnight
of being by customers. | 2:09:51 | 2:09:56 | |
All manufacturers should make risk
assessment is available as soon as | 2:09:56 | 2:10:00 | |
defects are identified.
Safer materials to replace plastic | 2:10:00 | 2:10:05 | |
backed fridge freezers, which appear
to be a significant risk. | 2:10:05 | 2:10:09 | |
And it wants the Government to
actively explore the creation of a | 2:10:09 | 2:10:13 | |
single national product safety
agency to improve a system which the | 2:10:13 | 2:10:18 | |
MPs claim is fragmented and under
resourced. | 2:10:18 | 2:10:22 | |
Whirlpool says it has helped the
vast majority of customers who have | 2:10:22 | 2:10:25 | |
come forward so far, and promises it
will now serve customers' problems | 2:10:25 | 2:10:30 | |
with faulty machines within a week.
The Government says Britain's | 2:10:30 | 2:10:35 | |
product safety requirements are
among the highest in the world and | 2:10:35 | 2:10:38 | |
it has already taken steps to
improve the current regime. | 2:10:38 | 2:10:42 | |
The French president,
Emanuel Macron, is travelling | 2:10:42 | 2:10:44 | |
to the channel port of Calais this
morning, where's he's expected | 2:10:44 | 2:10:46 | |
to outline a strategy to deal
with the issue of migrants | 2:10:46 | 2:10:49 | |
who are camped in the so
called Calais Jungle. | 2:10:49 | 2:10:52 | |
French officials say he's likely
to ask Theresa May to take more | 2:10:52 | 2:10:55 | |
migrants and provide more money
when the two leaders | 2:10:55 | 2:10:57 | |
meet later this week. | 2:10:57 | 2:11:00 | |
Our diplomatic correspondent
Paul Adams is in Calais. | 2:11:00 | 2:11:06 | |
Paul, good morning. Thank you for
coming on the programme. Is that | 2:11:06 | 2:11:10 | |
what we expect the French president
to say, to ask for more assistance | 2:11:10 | 2:11:14 | |
from the British side of the
channel? I do not think we will hear | 2:11:14 | 2:11:18 | |
that from President Macron today, I
think he would say if he is going to | 2:11:18 | 2:11:22 | |
make those demands, he will save
that for the meeting with Theresa | 2:11:22 | 2:11:25 | |
May at Sandhurst on Thursday. He is
coming to Calais to say he | 2:11:25 | 2:11:31 | |
understands the concerns of the
people of this town who have in | 2:11:31 | 2:11:34 | |
recent times had to put up with this
phenomenon of dealing with hundreds | 2:11:34 | 2:11:37 | |
of migrants who come here because,
of course, it is the point of | 2:11:37 | 2:11:43 | |
departure, the hopeful point of
departure, for migrants who want to | 2:11:43 | 2:11:46 | |
make it across to the UK. The Jungle
camp was closed in October 2016, but | 2:11:46 | 2:11:54 | |
in the months since migrants have
come back there have been anywhere | 2:11:54 | 2:11:58 | |
up to 700, perhaps more, camped out
in the woods on the edge of town and | 2:11:58 | 2:12:04 | |
absolutely miserable conditions.
Police are pretty robust in their | 2:12:04 | 2:12:08 | |
handling of those migrants. This
city, I think, feel is once again | 2:12:08 | 2:12:13 | |
that the state has failed to address
its concerns. The president will | 2:12:13 | 2:12:16 | |
come here and say he understands the
concerns of the people of Calais and | 2:12:16 | 2:12:20 | |
he wants to deal with the issue of
migrants in a humane fashion. On | 2:12:20 | 2:12:27 | |
Thursday I think he will tell
Theresa May he wants more money and | 2:12:27 | 2:12:30 | |
he wants the UK to take more of
those migrants, especially | 2:12:30 | 2:12:33 | |
unaccompanied minors.
Thank you, Paul. But will be a story | 2:12:33 | 2:12:37 | |
today and throughout the week, when
a Emmanuel Macron meets Theresa May | 2:12:37 | 2:12:41 | |
a bit later this week.
We will talk about a small transport | 2:12:41 | 2:12:46 | |
issue which happened in Australia! | 2:12:46 | 2:12:49 | |
If you dread battling the traffic
on the morning commute, | 2:12:49 | 2:12:51 | |
spare a thought for early morning
drivers in Sydney who had | 2:12:51 | 2:12:54 | |
their journeys disrupted
by a wayward wallaby. | 2:12:54 | 2:12:56 | |
This footage was shot by police
officers keeping pace | 2:12:56 | 2:12:59 | |
with the mischievous marsupial,
who was first spotted | 2:12:59 | 2:13:01 | |
crossing Sydney's iconic
Harbour Bridge at 5am. | 2:13:01 | 2:13:09 | |
They couldn't catch him! But they
very safely cornered him in a park | 2:13:10 | 2:13:18 | |
and took him to a zoo, where he was
safe after his journey. Goodness! | 2:13:18 | 2:13:27 | |
What do cauliflower steaks, coconuts
and peeled onions have in common? | 2:13:32 | 2:13:35 | |
They're all products sold
by major supermarkets, | 2:13:35 | 2:13:37 | |
which have come under fire
for being packaged in | 2:13:37 | 2:13:39 | |
plastic unnecessarily. | 2:13:39 | 2:13:41 | |
Now the retailer Iceland has vowed
to eliminate or drastically reduce | 2:13:41 | 2:13:43 | |
all plastic packaging
in their stores over five years. | 2:13:43 | 2:13:46 | |
This is on the front page of some of
the papers this morning. | 2:13:46 | 2:13:51 | |
With only a third of plastic waste
currently recycled in the UK, | 2:13:51 | 2:13:54 | |
what difference is this
likely to make? | 2:13:54 | 2:14:00 | |
It is one of the great environmental
scourges of our time, according to | 2:14:00 | 2:14:05 | |
the Prime Minister, and Theresa May
say she wants to ban all avoidable | 2:14:05 | 2:14:09 | |
plastic waste by 2042. Across the
world we have produced a whopping | 2:14:09 | 2:14:15 | |
8.3 billion metric tonnes of plastic
since the 1950s, enough to cover | 2:14:15 | 2:14:20 | |
every inch of the UK ankle-deep more
than ten times over. | 2:14:20 | 2:14:25 | |
Over the past few months, Blue
Planet has raised the profile of | 2:14:25 | 2:14:30 | |
plastic pollution, and it is not
just the PM bowing to public | 2:14:30 | 2:14:33 | |
pressure.
Earlier this month, Marks & Spencer | 2:14:33 | 2:14:38 | |
ditched the shrink-wrapped
cauliflowers steak after ridicule | 2:14:38 | 2:14:40 | |
and social media. The boss of
Sainsbury's said they would look at | 2:14:40 | 2:14:44 | |
whether the organic coconut is
really need a plastic packaging. Now | 2:14:44 | 2:14:47 | |
Iceland has announced it wants to be
plastic free on own brand products | 2:14:47 | 2:14:53 | |
by 2023, replacing them with paper
and pulp trays. | 2:14:53 | 2:14:57 | |
Environmental campaigners say that
one rubbish truck's worth of plastic | 2:14:57 | 2:15:00 | |
is dumped in our oceans every
minute. | 2:15:00 | 2:15:04 | |
So how far will supermarkets really
need to go if they are truly to make | 2:15:04 | 2:15:08 | |
a difference? | 2:15:08 | 2:15:10 | |
We're joined now by Ian Schofield,
head of packaging at Iceland. | 2:15:10 | 2:15:15 | |
Good morning, thank you for joining
us. You set out an ambitious target, | 2:15:15 | 2:15:19 | |
what is it? | 2:15:19 | 2:15:24 | |
It is to remove all the plastic from
aur packaging in the next five | 2:15:24 | 2:15:28 | |
years. How are you going to do it?
You have brought some examples. I | 2:15:28 | 2:15:33 | |
have. Is this the new stuff? That's
the new stuff. Six months ago when | 2:15:33 | 2:15:38 | |
we were looking at our ready meal
ranges we worked hard to say what | 2:15:38 | 2:15:42 | |
can we do for the environment? We
have seen plastic is the scourge of | 2:15:42 | 2:15:47 | |
everything we're seeing on the TV,
on the Blue Planet so we said we've | 2:15:47 | 2:15:54 | |
got to remove plastic from our
packaging. So we set out hard to | 2:15:54 | 2:15:58 | |
find an alternative. These are
sustainable boards from forests of | 2:15:58 | 2:16:02 | |
Sweden where they plant four trees
for every one that comes out of the | 2:16:02 | 2:16:05 | |
ground. This is sustainable. It is
not a fossil fuel. Can I pick up on | 2:16:05 | 2:16:10 | |
that point? We talk about this a lot
on Breakfast from Barry Turner from | 2:16:10 | 2:16:16 | |
the British plastics federation. He
says if supermarkets move away from | 2:16:16 | 2:16:22 | |
plastics it will mean the weight of
the packaging will increase four | 2:16:22 | 2:16:24 | |
times and the carbon emissions
increase by three times and the | 2:16:24 | 2:16:27 | |
amount of energy to make the
packaging will increase two-fold. | 2:16:27 | 2:16:35 | |
Let's look at some of those. What
about the weight of the packaging | 2:16:35 | 2:16:38 | |
and does it have an impact? We don't
think the weight will affect it. We | 2:16:38 | 2:16:42 | |
will get to the same weight as we
have got now. We don't see that as | 2:16:42 | 2:16:45 | |
an issue. We see this as an
environmental issue. This is not | 2:16:45 | 2:16:50 | |
about Iceland, this is about us
removing eight million tonnes going | 2:16:50 | 2:16:54 | |
into the sea. One truck load of
plastic is going into the sea every | 2:16:54 | 2:16:58 | |
day. We're not recycling our
materials. We need to recycle more. | 2:16:58 | 2:17:02 | |
Only a third all our materials have
been recycled. And when we looked at | 2:17:02 | 2:17:07 | |
this six months ago, Richard Walker,
in our business said, we have got to | 2:17:07 | 2:17:11 | |
eliminate plastics. We must remove
them. So we worked hard to do that | 2:17:11 | 2:17:15 | |
and this is the pledge we're making
and we're going to call on our | 2:17:15 | 2:17:22 | |
suppliers to come up with new
solutions that don't put us in | 2:17:22 | 2:17:26 | |
plastic. You said you have been
thinking about it for six months. | 2:17:26 | 2:17:31 | |
You haven't been given the kick up
the back side by Blue Planet. How | 2:17:31 | 2:17:37 | |
difficult has it been to make this
change? Lots of people will be | 2:17:37 | 2:17:43 | |
watching and saying Iceland can do
it, why can't others do it? We can | 2:17:43 | 2:17:46 | |
move quickly. We have got short
lines of command to make things | 2:17:46 | 2:17:49 | |
happen so as soon as we got on it,
we contacted the raw material | 2:17:49 | 2:17:55 | |
suppliers and we made it happen and
we are calling on everybody else. We | 2:17:55 | 2:17:59 | |
need everybody else to make a big
There are larger effort. Supermarket | 2:17:59 | 2:18:02 | |
chains. Of course. From a consumer's
point of view. What differences do | 2:18:02 | 2:18:10 | |
you think people will notice? This
tray needs to be microwaveable. We | 2:18:10 | 2:18:15 | |
do so many ready meals. We use 100
million of the black plastic trays | 2:18:15 | 2:18:20 | |
which are not being recycled. 100
million. These can be recycled. | 2:18:20 | 2:18:25 | |
That's the important factor here.
What date do you think you will be | 2:18:25 | 2:18:29 | |
plastic-free then? We are going for
five years. We're going to do it | 2:18:29 | 2:18:34 | |
quicker, but we have got a lot of
work to do. We have got shelf life | 2:18:34 | 2:18:39 | |
considerations on some products. On
frozen, of course, we have got the | 2:18:39 | 2:18:42 | |
best process. It is a very good
process for preserving product. So | 2:18:42 | 2:18:47 | |
on frozen we can do things quickly.
It also need to think about | 2:18:47 | 2:18:51 | |
re-engineering some things.
Amazingly we put our burgers into | 2:18:51 | 2:18:55 | |
plastic and put them into a carton.
Why don't we put them straight into | 2:18:55 | 2:19:00 | |
a carton. It's thinking differently
when we are doing our new product | 2:19:00 | 2:19:03 | |
development. Are you working on
other providers as well? This is | 2:19:03 | 2:19:08 | |
your own brand Iceland products.
What about the other... We're going | 2:19:08 | 2:19:14 | |
to put pressure on them. They will
all be told we need to remove | 2:19:14 | 2:19:19 | |
plastic from our packaging. The big
companies who are supplying to us, | 2:19:19 | 2:19:23 | |
this is not Iceland solutions on
their own, lots of people can use | 2:19:23 | 2:19:27 | |
them. Other supermarkets, other
brands, we can use them all. Thank | 2:19:27 | 2:19:31 | |
you very much indeed for coming to
talk to us from Iceland. | 2:19:31 | 2:19:38 | |
Send in your comments about that as
well. Yes, your thoughts, your | 2:19:38 | 2:19:42 | |
comments. People are very exercised
about this at the moment which is | 2:19:42 | 2:19:46 | |
great news. | 2:19:46 | 2:19:49 | |
This is Glasgow. I think it's
snowing there. The scene outside | 2:19:49 | 2:19:56 | |
Pacific Quay. What is in store for
the rest of us? Carol has the | 2:19:56 | 2:20:02 | |
details. | 2:20:02 | 2:20:02 | |
the rest of us? Carol has the
details. Good morning. This morning | 2:20:02 | 2:20:05 | |
as you say we've got snow on the
cars. A lovely picture from Northern | 2:20:05 | 2:20:09 | |
Ireland of snow. We have got snow
across northern and western parts of | 2:20:09 | 2:20:13 | |
the UK at the moment, even down to
lower levels. Our forecast today is | 2:20:13 | 2:20:16 | |
one of sunshine and showers. Not all
the showers will be of snow, but | 2:20:16 | 2:20:20 | |
many of them in the north and the
west in particular will and we've | 2:20:20 | 2:20:26 | |
got a brisk wind exacerbating the
cold feel so it will feel bitter | 2:20:26 | 2:20:31 | |
across many parts today. What we
have got this morning is the risk of | 2:20:31 | 2:20:34 | |
ice across Northern Ireland,
Scotland and northern England. A | 2:20:34 | 2:20:37 | |
plethora of snow showers coming in
during the day to the areas I have | 2:20:37 | 2:20:40 | |
mentioned. Across Wales and
south-west England, well it is | 2:20:40 | 2:20:44 | |
mostly rain showers, but in some of
the heavier showers across Wales, | 2:20:44 | 2:20:49 | |
you could see a wintry mix at lower
levels. But the snow will continue | 2:20:49 | 2:20:54 | |
across Northern Ireland as we go
through the course of the day. | 2:20:54 | 2:20:56 | |
Blustery winds. They will be
drifting on the hills and also | 2:20:56 | 2:20:59 | |
blizzards. It is the same for
Scotland. More so for Scotland where | 2:20:59 | 2:21:03 | |
we have got a bit more snow, but the
far north-east seeing something | 2:21:03 | 2:21:06 | |
drier. Again across northern England
we have snow falling even to sea | 2:21:06 | 2:21:12 | |
level and with the strong wind on
the hills there will be pliz ards | 2:21:12 | 2:21:15 | |
and also drifting. For Wales, most
of the snow will be on the hills, | 2:21:15 | 2:21:20 | |
but in some of the heavier showers
you could see a mix, hail, sleet, | 2:21:20 | 2:21:24 | |
snow and rain. Along the coasts it
is more likely to be sleet and rain. | 2:21:24 | 2:21:29 | |
South-west England seeing the
showers. Some with hail. Drifting | 2:21:29 | 2:21:32 | |
over towards Brighton, but for the
rest of the south-east, it should | 2:21:32 | 2:21:35 | |
stay dry. Temperatures today between
two and seven Celsius. Add on the | 2:21:35 | 2:21:39 | |
strength of the win and against your
skin it will feel more like minus | 2:21:39 | 2:21:44 | |
three, minus four Celsius in the
north, plus one to plus three in the | 2:21:44 | 2:21:47 | |
south. Thrur this evening and
overnight the wind continues as | 2:21:47 | 2:21:50 | |
indeed do the snow showers. Through
the night too, we will see the | 2:21:50 | 2:21:54 | |
temperature drop in towns and
cities. We're looking at minus one | 2:21:54 | 2:21:59 | |
to freezing and minus two in
Aberdeen, and one, two, three | 2:21:59 | 2:22:04 | |
further south. In rural areas it
will be colder. We are looking at | 2:22:04 | 2:22:09 | |
ice on untreated surfaces. Tomorrow
morning we start off with the snow | 2:22:09 | 2:22:13 | |
showers in the north. There will be
sunshine around. Drier weather than | 2:22:13 | 2:22:16 | |
today. Still big waves being whipped
up across the south-west of England. | 2:22:16 | 2:22:20 | |
That will be featured today and for
the next couple of days and | 2:22:20 | 2:22:23 | |
temperatures three to seven Celsius.
Now, what you'll find is in the | 2:22:23 | 2:22:26 | |
afternoon it the cloud is going to
thicken and we'll start to see the | 2:22:26 | 2:22:29 | |
arrival of an area of low pressure.
This area of low pressure is forming | 2:22:29 | 2:22:33 | |
off the coast of America and will
deepen as it crosses the Atlantic | 2:22:33 | 2:22:36 | |
Ocean. As it come across us, this is
the track we think it will take, | 2:22:36 | 2:22:40 | |
this track could change. Keep in
touch with the weather forecast. On | 2:22:40 | 2:22:44 | |
its leading edge, we will see across
Northern Ireland, North Wales, | 2:22:44 | 2:22:48 | |
northern England and southern and
Eastern Scotland and then you can | 2:22:48 | 2:22:50 | |
see just looking at the isobars
we've good gales. Where the tightest | 2:22:50 | 2:22:55 | |
squeeze is where the strongest winds
will be. Across North Wales, | 2:22:55 | 2:22:59 | |
northern England and Norfolk, but
south of that, it is going to be | 2:22:59 | 2:23:02 | |
windy, but it will quickly clear as
we head through the rest of | 2:23:02 | 2:23:05 | |
Thursday, Lou and Dan. | 2:23:05 | 2:23:12 | |
Thank you very much indeed. | 2:23:12 | 2:23:16 | |
We've had a special guest with us
in the studio all this morning, | 2:23:16 | 2:23:20 | |
Wolfy, the emperor penguin. | 2:23:20 | 2:23:20 | |
He's part of a new campaign to try
and create the world's largest | 2:23:20 | 2:23:24 | |
wildlife reserve by banning
all fishing in 1.8 million square | 2:23:24 | 2:23:26 | |
kilometre area in Antarctica -
that's about five times | 2:23:26 | 2:23:28 | |
the size of Germany. | 2:23:28 | 2:23:29 | |
If it succeeds, the reserve
wouldn't only protect | 2:23:29 | 2:23:34 | |
emperor penguins like Wolfy,
but also leopard seals, | 2:23:34 | 2:23:36 | |
killer and blue whales. | 2:23:36 | 2:23:38 | |
We're joined by Louisa
Casson from Greenpeace. | 2:23:38 | 2:23:43 | |
Thank you very much indeed for
joining us. Wolfy has been trying to | 2:23:43 | 2:23:46 | |
raise awareness. This would be an
enormous project if it came off? It | 2:23:46 | 2:23:51 | |
is a historic opportunity that we
have this year really to create the | 2:23:51 | 2:23:55 | |
largest protected area anywhere on
earth. It is five times the size of | 2:23:55 | 2:23:58 | |
Germany or 200 times the size of
yellow stone National Park. So this | 2:23:58 | 2:24:05 | |
Antarctic ocean sanctuary would
create a safe haven for emperor | 2:24:05 | 2:24:08 | |
penguins and blue whales and for the
unique and amazing wildlife in the | 2:24:08 | 2:24:13 | |
Antarctic ocean. What is happening
at the moment and why is this | 2:24:13 | 2:24:16 | |
protection required? Well, at the
moment the Antarctic is a pretty | 2:24:16 | 2:24:21 | |
special place, but it is already
coming under pressure. So we're | 2:24:21 | 2:24:25 | |
seeing the impact of climate change
and we have this industrial fishing | 2:24:25 | 2:24:28 | |
vessels which are travelling down to
the Antarctic and targeting the one | 2:24:28 | 2:24:33 | |
animal upon which all other
Antarctic marine life relies, it is | 2:24:33 | 2:24:39 | |
krill which is a tiny shrimp-like
creature and that's essential for | 2:24:39 | 2:24:45 | |
blue whales, they need fob feeding
their young and build up the | 2:24:45 | 2:24:51 | |
strength by eating krill. Who needs
to agree to this to make it happen? | 2:24:51 | 2:24:57 | |
The Antarctic Ocean Commission is a
body of 24 governments and the EU. | 2:24:57 | 2:25:01 | |
They are meeting in October to
discuss this proposal. So they could | 2:25:01 | 2:25:04 | |
make that destirks and that's why
we've had penguins popping up in | 2:25:04 | 2:25:08 | |
capital cities across the world to
build the pressure. We have got | 2:25:08 | 2:25:15 | |
250,000 people signed up and we have
one of our ships that arrived in the | 2:25:15 | 2:25:20 | |
Antarctic yesterday to conduct
research to bolster the case to show | 2:25:20 | 2:25:23 | |
us the beat of the Antarctic and its
fragility and why we need to protect | 2:25:23 | 2:25:27 | |
it. The research to go along with
that is crucial as well. Will you be | 2:25:27 | 2:25:32 | |
presenting that when the countries
meet together and hope they can come | 2:25:32 | 2:25:36 | |
to some sort of accord? It is really
difficult getting lots of | 2:25:36 | 2:25:41 | |
governments agreeing on anything,
but we have hope because a few years | 2:25:41 | 2:25:44 | |
ago those countries came together
and created another ocean sanctuary | 2:25:44 | 2:25:48 | |
on the other side of the Antarctic,
we think we can create a bigger one. | 2:25:48 | 2:25:54 | |
The ship is called Arthic Sunrise.
We will be the first humans to go to | 2:25:54 | 2:26:04 | |
the sea bed and visit unseen bits of
the ocean floor in the Antarctic | 2:26:04 | 2:26:09 | |
floor. We have scientists on board
who are specialists in showing the | 2:26:09 | 2:26:15 | |
vulnerability of this area. It is
interesting that we had you on this | 2:26:15 | 2:26:19 | |
morning and Iceland are trying to
make a difference and trying to | 2:26:19 | 2:26:22 | |
encourage other supermarkets to
follow suit as well. How big an | 2:26:22 | 2:26:27 | |
impact could that have if all
supermarkets went down that road? It | 2:26:27 | 2:26:32 | |
would be a real game changer. We
know our oceans are facing pressures | 2:26:32 | 2:26:36 | |
from pollution, from climate change
and from fishing so seeing that kind | 2:26:36 | 2:26:40 | |
of action on land as well as the
type of action at sea that we want | 2:26:40 | 2:26:43 | |
to see of creating the ocean
sanctuaries, it feels like there is | 2:26:43 | 2:26:47 | |
a lot of momentum between protecting
our oceans and that's brilliant to | 2:26:47 | 2:26:50 | |
see. Thank you very much for your
time and we have taken care of | 2:26:50 | 2:26:56 | |
Wolfy. We will give him back to you
now. He is delicate. He is a little | 2:26:56 | 2:27:02 | |
delicate. I'm not allowed to touch
the penguin this morning. | 2:27:02 | 2:27:09 | |
Time to | 2:27:09 | 2:30:29 | |
Did you hear the one about the man
who ruptured his throat when he | 2:30:29 | 2:30:33 | |
sneezed? It actually happened.
Vanessa Feltz is talking about it. | 2:30:33 | 2:30:35 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast
with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker. | 2:30:40 | 2:30:43 | |
It is 8:30am. Let's get you
up-to-date with the news. | 2:30:47 | 2:30:51 | |
The future of some major
construction projects and hundreds | 2:30:51 | 2:30:53 | |
of public service contracts hang
in the balance this morning | 2:30:53 | 2:30:56 | |
after the collapse of Carillion. | 2:30:56 | 2:30:57 | |
Britain's second largest
construction firm - | 2:30:57 | 2:30:58 | |
which also holds cleaning
and catering contracts for schools, | 2:30:58 | 2:31:01 | |
hospitals and prisons -
went into liquidation yesterday | 2:31:01 | 2:31:02 | |
with debts of around £1.5 billion. | 2:31:02 | 2:31:04 | |
The political fallout continued last
night as ministers held an emergency | 2:31:04 | 2:31:07 | |
meeting and Labour questioned why
Carillion continued | 2:31:07 | 2:31:08 | |
to be awarded contracts
despite repeated profit warnings. | 2:31:08 | 2:31:11 | |
Plans to drastically improve
transport links between cities | 2:31:11 | 2:31:14 | |
in the North of England over
the next 30 years will | 2:31:14 | 2:31:17 | |
be released today. | 2:31:17 | 2:31:20 | |
As well as new rail lines,
there are talks of a new tunnel | 2:31:20 | 2:31:22 | |
connecting Sheffield and Manchester. | 2:31:22 | 2:31:24 | |
Our correspondent, Alison Freeman,
joins us now from Darlington. | 2:31:24 | 2:31:31 | |
Tell us a little bit more about
these plans. Some of them are some | 2:31:31 | 2:31:35 | |
years away? They are. This is a 30
year strategy for people doing their | 2:31:35 | 2:31:42 | |
daily commute, that might sound a
long time to wait. But in a | 2:31:42 | 2:31:46 | |
nutshell, what they are saying is
part of this plan is they want to | 2:31:46 | 2:31:49 | |
improve road and rail links between
ports, airports and cities over the | 2:31:49 | 2:31:55 | |
North of England. That includes the
Humber, Yorkshire, the north-east | 2:31:55 | 2:32:00 | |
and north-west. There are a variety
of proposals that would cost in the | 2:32:00 | 2:32:05 | |
region of £60 billion, but transport
for the North has said it would be | 2:32:05 | 2:32:08 | |
worth it because by 2050, it would
bring back in £100 billion worth of | 2:32:08 | 2:32:14 | |
investment, and could see in the
region of 850,000 jobs. These | 2:32:14 | 2:32:19 | |
investment, and could see in the
region of 850,000 jobs. These plans | 2:32:19 | 2:32:20 | |
are going over some old ground, but
one new thing they are going to be | 2:32:20 | 2:32:24 | |
telling us about is a new Northern
Powerhouse rail network which would | 2:32:24 | 2:32:27 | |
put high-speed links between six of
the main cities here in the North of | 2:32:27 | 2:32:32 | |
England. This strategy is something
that the Government does have to pay | 2:32:32 | 2:32:35 | |
notice to, pay attention to. It has
been devised by business leaders, | 2:32:35 | 2:32:40 | |
civic leaders, as well as people in
the transport community as well. But | 2:32:40 | 2:32:45 | |
a public on saltation is going to be
starting on this over the next 18 | 2:32:45 | 2:32:50 | |
weeks. The body reckons that around
half of the money is available for | 2:32:50 | 2:32:56 | |
the projects, but where the rest of
it comes from is still in question. | 2:32:56 | 2:33:01 | |
It does look remarkably quiet that
this morning, as well. | 2:33:01 | 2:33:06 | |
Just one chap enjoying a nice cup of
coffee behind! It is 8.30 three. | 2:33:06 | 2:33:14 | |
13 brothers and sisters
between the ages of two and 29 have | 2:33:14 | 2:33:16 | |
been discovered in a malnourished
and dirty state at their | 2:33:16 | 2:33:19 | |
home in California. | 2:33:19 | 2:33:20 | |
Some of them were
chained to their beds. | 2:33:20 | 2:33:22 | |
Their parents have been charged
with torture and child endangerment. | 2:33:22 | 2:33:24 | |
The alarm was raised on Sunday,
when one girl escaped | 2:33:24 | 2:33:27 | |
and alerted the authorities. | 2:33:27 | 2:33:29 | |
A motorway bridge under construction
in Colombia has collapsed, | 2:33:29 | 2:33:31 | |
killing at least ten workers,
and injuring five others. | 2:33:31 | 2:33:33 | |
Photos from the scene show a large
part of the nearly 450-metre long | 2:33:33 | 2:33:37 | |
bridge lying in the ravine below. | 2:33:37 | 2:33:38 | |
Officials say the cause of
the collapse is under investigation. | 2:33:38 | 2:33:46 | |
That is an amazing picture, it makes
you see how hard it must have | 2:33:50 | 2:33:53 | |
fallen. | 2:33:53 | 2:33:58 | |
The American gymnast,
Simone Biles has said | 2:33:58 | 2:34:00 | |
she was sexually abused
by the former USA team | 2:34:00 | 2:34:02 | |
coach, Larry Nassar. | 2:34:02 | 2:34:03 | |
The four-time Olympic champion
tweeted that she too is one | 2:34:03 | 2:34:06 | |
of the many survivors but has been
reluctant to speak out until now. | 2:34:06 | 2:34:09 | |
Larry Nassar was jailed last month
for 60 years for possessing images | 2:34:09 | 2:34:12 | |
of child sexual abuse -
and is awaiting sentence | 2:34:12 | 2:34:14 | |
for assaulting other athletes. | 2:34:14 | 2:34:16 | |
The supermarket chain Iceland has
said it will eliminate plastic | 2:34:16 | 2:34:18 | |
from its own brand products
within five years. | 2:34:18 | 2:34:20 | |
The retailer said plastic would be
replaced with paper, | 2:34:20 | 2:34:23 | |
which could be recycled. | 2:34:23 | 2:34:24 | |
The move has been welcomed by
environmental campaigners and comes | 2:34:24 | 2:34:27 | |
amid growing concern over plastic
pollution in the world's oceans. | 2:34:27 | 2:34:35 | |
Six months ago when we were looking
at our ready meals, we were working | 2:34:40 | 2:34:44 | |
hard to think what we could do for
the environment. Plastic is the | 2:34:44 | 2:34:47 | |
scourge of everything we are seeing,
on TV, an Blue Planet etc. So we set | 2:34:47 | 2:34:56 | |
out to work very hard at finding an
alternative. These are sustainable | 2:34:56 | 2:35:01 | |
boards from forests of Sweden where
they plant four trees for everyone | 2:35:01 | 2:35:05 | |
that comes out of the ground. This
is sustainable. It is not a fossil | 2:35:05 | 2:35:09 | |
fuel. | 2:35:09 | 2:35:10 | |
MPs say the manufacturer, Whirlpool,
hasn't done enough to deal | 2:35:10 | 2:35:12 | |
with defective tumble dryers
which have caused hundreds of fires. | 2:35:12 | 2:35:15 | |
The Commons Business Committee said
the response to the problem, | 2:35:15 | 2:35:17 | |
discovered in 2015, had been
"woeful" and it was unacceptable | 2:35:17 | 2:35:22 | |
that more than one million
potentially dangerous dryers | 2:35:22 | 2:35:24 | |
were still being used
in people's homes. | 2:35:24 | 2:35:32 | |
And finally, these extraordinary
pictures. | 2:35:36 | 2:35:39 | |
A speeding car in California
was hurled into the upper floor | 2:35:39 | 2:35:41 | |
of an office building after it hit
a road divider in the early | 2:35:41 | 2:35:44 | |
hours of Sunday morning. | 2:35:44 | 2:35:45 | |
This is what happened. Watch
carefully. Wow! | 2:35:45 | 2:35:49 | |
The crash left one half
of the vehicle hanging out | 2:35:49 | 2:35:51 | |
of the building and the driver
admitted to officers | 2:35:51 | 2:35:53 | |
that he had used drugs before
getting behind the wheel. | 2:35:53 | 2:35:57 | |
Luckily both driver
and passenger survived, | 2:35:57 | 2:35:59 | |
only suffering minor injuries. | 2:35:59 | 2:36:07 | |
And luckily also the person driving
the other car. But he might be in a | 2:36:10 | 2:36:16 | |
spot of bother! 8.36. Coming up, it
has been a turbulent time for the | 2:36:16 | 2:36:24 | |
character, star of Call The Midwife,
Laura Mayne, will be here. And Gabby | 2:36:24 | 2:36:35 | |
Logan is talking about a new
campaign to get kids moving. Where | 2:36:35 | 2:36:41 | |
does the sense of worthlessness come
from? Why is there a whole class of | 2:36:41 | 2:36:44 | |
people who have that feeling? Where
does it come from? White working | 2:36:44 | 2:36:49 | |
class men are the least likely
social group to get five GCSEs, and | 2:36:49 | 2:36:53 | |
35,000 of them are currently in the
prison system. | 2:36:53 | 2:37:04 | |
prison system. Rapper Professor
Green will be here to discuss it. | 2:37:04 | 2:37:11 | |
Let's talk about the sport now, and
we start with a tennis. Before we | 2:37:11 | 2:37:16 | |
hear from Johanna Konta herself,
let's have a look at the match. | 2:37:16 | 2:37:24 | |
Konta said she really enjoyed
the heat in Melbourne and tried | 2:37:24 | 2:37:27 | |
to absorb the atmosphere
in the arena, and she certainly | 2:37:27 | 2:37:29 | |
looked comfortable out there. | 2:37:29 | 2:37:30 | |
The match lasted little over an hour
and Konta only dropped four games | 2:37:30 | 2:37:33 | |
against Madison Brengle -
but Konta seemed pretty | 2:37:33 | 2:37:35 | |
concerned about a shopping
incident, which she called | 2:37:35 | 2:37:37 | |
"the blueberry debacle". | 2:37:37 | 2:37:41 | |
I went to the supermarket to buy
blueberries. I only bought | 2:37:41 | 2:37:44 | |
blueberries. I only bought
blueberries. But I left them there. | 2:37:44 | 2:37:54 | |
That is $5 I won't get back. | 2:37:54 | 2:38:01 | |
The six-times champion
Novak Djokovic has been back | 2:38:01 | 2:38:03 | |
in action for the first time
since Wimbledon - | 2:38:03 | 2:38:05 | |
and he came through with ease,
only dropping serve once in beating | 2:38:05 | 2:38:08 | |
Donald Young. | 2:38:08 | 2:38:09 | |
Djokovic is seeded 14th
after missing the second half | 2:38:09 | 2:38:11 | |
of 2017 with an elbow injury. | 2:38:11 | 2:38:13 | |
Manchester United have
done their best to take advantage | 2:38:13 | 2:38:15 | |
of Manchester City's defeat
at Liverpool, narrowing | 2:38:15 | 2:38:17 | |
the gap at the top of
the Premier League to 12 points. | 2:38:17 | 2:38:20 | |
They beat Stoke 3-0 last night,
with new Stoke manager Paul Lambert | 2:38:20 | 2:38:23 | |
watching from the stands. | 2:38:23 | 2:38:24 | |
And Jose Mourinho isn't quite giving
up the title race yet. | 2:38:24 | 2:38:29 | |
Ryan Giggs has been
confirmed as the new manager | 2:38:29 | 2:38:31 | |
of the Wales national side. | 2:38:31 | 2:38:34 | |
He's agreed a four-year deal -
and he says he's been unfairly | 2:38:34 | 2:38:37 | |
criticised by fans who've
questioned his | 2:38:37 | 2:38:38 | |
commitment as a player. | 2:38:38 | 2:38:40 | |
Giggs says a desire to reach a major
tournament with his country | 2:38:40 | 2:38:43 | |
"burns" inside him. | 2:38:43 | 2:38:47 | |
West Bromwich Albion have described
Cyrille Regis as "A pioneer | 2:38:47 | 2:38:50 | |
for black footballers
across the world". | 2:38:50 | 2:38:51 | |
Regis died on Sunday aged 59
after a suspected heart attack. | 2:38:51 | 2:38:54 | |
He played nearly 300
times for West Brom | 2:38:54 | 2:38:56 | |
in the 1970's and 80's. | 2:38:56 | 2:38:57 | |
He became the third black
player to play for England | 2:38:57 | 2:38:59 | |
and was made an MBE in 2008. | 2:38:59 | 2:39:08 | |
There are very few black men in the
game of football who could have got | 2:39:09 | 2:39:12 | |
through that time that he got
through and still played for his | 2:39:12 | 2:39:19 | |
country and played for big football
clubs. He was just a eager. | 2:39:19 | 2:39:27 | |
England cricketer Ben
Stokes says he's keen | 2:39:27 | 2:39:28 | |
to clear his name in court,
after he was charged with affray. | 2:39:28 | 2:39:31 | |
It relates to an incident outside
a Bristol nightclub in September. | 2:39:31 | 2:39:34 | |
Stokes missed the Ashes Series
and the selectors will be meeting | 2:39:34 | 2:39:36 | |
over the next couple of days
to discuss his future. | 2:39:36 | 2:39:40 | |
He's been charged along
with two other men. | 2:39:40 | 2:39:45 | |
So Ben Stokes, maybe the affair is
coming to an end after months of | 2:39:45 | 2:39:48 | |
trying to wait and see whether or
not he was going to be charged, | 2:39:48 | 2:39:52 | |
whether or not he will be available
for England. At least we know he has | 2:39:52 | 2:39:56 | |
been charged now and we will see
what selectors say following that. | 2:39:56 | 2:39:59 | |
Thank you for the intense blueberry
news from Jo Konta! | 2:39:59 | 2:40:05 | |
She is an avid baker, and she relies
on muffins, that was her secret to | 2:40:05 | 2:40:10 | |
success at Wimbledon.
She is doing all right without the | 2:40:10 | 2:40:14 | |
blueberries! Maybe she them for
blueberry muffins. | 2:40:14 | 2:40:18 | |
She has blue rearrange. | 2:40:18 | 2:40:25 | |
She has blue rearrange. In her first
speech as Prime Minister, Theresa | 2:40:25 | 2:40:28 | |
May highlighted the plight of white
working-class men. | 2:40:28 | 2:40:32 | |
They are the least
likely social group | 2:40:32 | 2:40:34 | |
to go to university. | 2:40:34 | 2:40:35 | |
Some 35,000 of them are currently
in the prison system. | 2:40:35 | 2:40:37 | |
In his two-part series,
Working Class White Men, | 2:40:37 | 2:40:39 | |
the award-winning rapper
Professor Green - | 2:40:39 | 2:40:41 | |
follows the lives of six young men
from deprived backgrounds | 2:40:41 | 2:40:43 | |
to understand why many of them feel
demonised, abandoned and angry. | 2:40:43 | 2:40:46 | |
We'll speak to him in just a moment,
but first let's take a quick look | 2:40:46 | 2:40:49 | |
at tonight's episode. | 2:40:49 | 2:40:54 | |
He talks to his nan about his own to
start in life. It is only recently I | 2:40:54 | 2:41:00 | |
have realised how fractured my own
family has been for generations. Not | 2:41:00 | 2:41:04 | |
made easier by the fact that you
have someone who walked out on you. | 2:41:04 | 2:41:09 | |
He had another family, he was a
womaniser. Your ex-husband? Thies. | 2:41:09 | 2:41:15 | |
So he didn't use to pay for my three
children. There were times when we | 2:41:15 | 2:41:18 | |
had to borrow money to get by. Yes.
There were. | 2:41:18 | 2:41:28 | |
There were. We don't have to worry
about those things any more, stop | 2:41:28 | 2:41:33 | |
kicking me under the table! . We did
have the gas and electric cut off | 2:41:33 | 2:41:40 | |
because we didn't have any money. We
managed to feed them, that was about | 2:41:40 | 2:41:44 | |
it. I shudder to think what would
have happened to me if my Nan hadn't | 2:41:44 | 2:41:47 | |
stepped in. Without financial
security, sometimes family is all | 2:41:47 | 2:41:54 | |
you can rely on.
It is very interesting to watch | 2:41:54 | 2:41:57 | |
that. | 2:41:57 | 2:41:58 | |
Stephen Manderson, aka
Professor Green, joins us. | 2:41:58 | 2:42:03 | |
You love your Nan! She did a great
job, didn't she? She did. And it | 2:42:03 | 2:42:08 | |
wasn't easy for her, at a point when
she should have been starting her | 2:42:08 | 2:42:12 | |
own life again, she took on the
responsibility of her mother, and | 2:42:12 | 2:42:16 | |
me, the son of her daughter. But it
stopped me going into care, so thank | 2:42:16 | 2:42:20 | |
you, Nan! Tell us a little bit about
why you have done this, you have | 2:42:20 | 2:42:26 | |
done other documentaries before
about your experiences. Yes, stuff I | 2:42:26 | 2:42:31 | |
encountered and saw growing up. This
was an idea that was presented to me | 2:42:31 | 2:42:36 | |
by the incredible production
company, Swanfields, this statistic | 2:42:36 | 2:42:43 | |
that if you're white and working
class, you are most likely to end up | 2:42:43 | 2:42:46 | |
an addict or in prison, and least
likely to end up in university. In | 2:42:46 | 2:42:51 | |
London we live in a bubble. I was
fortunate, I grew up in Hackney | 2:42:51 | 2:42:56 | |
which is diverse and multicultural,
a lot of the places that we visited | 2:42:56 | 2:43:02 | |
are less so in the documentary. I
met some people along the way who | 2:43:02 | 2:43:07 | |
had quite conflicting opinions.
It was two parts, and you met one | 2:43:07 | 2:43:13 | |
guy called Lewis who has gone to
Cambridge University. He is amazing. | 2:43:13 | 2:43:16 | |
He blew your mind a little bit. Yes,
as you probably saw when he was | 2:43:16 | 2:43:21 | |
trying to explain something on his
whiteboard to me. He is amazing, but | 2:43:21 | 2:43:26 | |
him having the ability that he has,
mathematically, it is a leveller. Do | 2:43:26 | 2:43:32 | |
you know what I mean? You can't buy
your way into that. That is his | 2:43:32 | 2:43:36 | |
natural ability. But the one thing
that saved him and gave him ability | 2:43:36 | 2:43:39 | |
to focus on that was his mum and his
family, his dad. They kept the | 2:43:39 | 2:43:45 | |
stresses of what was going on away
from him so he was able to focus, so | 2:43:45 | 2:43:48 | |
I think there is probably a lot of
kids who we don't tap into, who are | 2:43:48 | 2:43:53 | |
as brilliant but don't get the
chance to focus. And that is what | 2:43:53 | 2:43:56 | |
struck me watching it, your reaction
to some of the other young men you | 2:43:56 | 2:44:00 | |
met who might want to be a doctor or
dentist, but know they are not going | 2:44:00 | 2:44:04 | |
to get there because they just can't
do it. It was really sad to talk to | 2:44:04 | 2:44:08 | |
a 14-year-old kid, and I said, what
you want to be? And he said, I | 2:44:08 | 2:44:12 | |
wanted to be a doctor. But he has to
leave school and get a job and | 2:44:12 | 2:44:18 | |
support himself because he doesn't
have a family to support him. They | 2:44:18 | 2:44:23 | |
are struggling themselves. And this
problem far transcends, the focus on | 2:44:23 | 2:44:26 | |
that statistic, why this was
working-class white men, but these | 2:44:26 | 2:44:30 | |
problems far transcend race and
gender. How problematic is it, do | 2:44:30 | 2:44:34 | |
you think, there are the people that
you met, that is just the tip of the | 2:44:34 | 2:44:41 | |
iceberg. How problematic is it for
all of us that this is going on, | 2:44:41 | 2:44:45 | |
that these people feel
disenfranchised? They are. Why would | 2:44:45 | 2:44:48 | |
you be in gauge. We have a
government that don't work towards | 2:44:48 | 2:44:52 | |
the benefit of those people. We have
a government that doesn't care about | 2:44:52 | 2:44:56 | |
poor people. Why would you engage
with those politicians? Politicians | 2:44:56 | 2:45:01 | |
have a habit of talking in a way
that a lot of people don't | 2:45:01 | 2:45:04 | |
understand. Growing up, I didn't
care about politics because I didn't | 2:45:04 | 2:45:08 | |
know what they were on about and I
didn't realise the effect they had | 2:45:08 | 2:45:11 | |
on my life. And use and genuinely
upset by it. Of course. We need | 2:45:11 | 2:45:16 | |
politicians that Kenny gauge people
and talk to them in a way that they | 2:45:16 | 2:45:19 | |
understand. On the issue, have you
thought about politics yourself? | 2:45:19 | 2:45:24 | |
Would you consider it? Do I have the
education for it? That is the same | 2:45:24 | 2:45:31 | |
attitude. That is conditioning,
isn't it! But that is the problem. | 2:45:31 | 2:45:36 | |
So that is a huge part of the
problem. | 2:45:36 | 2:45:44 | |
We know all kinds of parties have
tried to tackle this issue. One | 2:45:44 | 2:45:49 | |
young man you spoke to was Jake. His
family are builders and he is a | 2:45:49 | 2:45:53 | |
builder and he wants to find a way
out of it and become a model, | 2:45:53 | 2:45:58 | |
doesn't he? His family have made
good. He is from a working-class | 2:45:58 | 2:46:04 | |
background but he has support that
probably his parents didn't have. | 2:46:04 | 2:46:08 | |
They have grafted their way into a
better situation. You talk about | 2:46:08 | 2:46:12 | |
politics as well. As we were saying,
parties | 2:46:12 | 2:46:25 | |
of all colours and creeds have tried
to address this issue, and at one | 2:46:33 | 2:46:36 | |
point in this documentary... Really?
This is the main minute when you | 2:46:36 | 2:46:38 | |
challenged some far right ideology
in your documentary. There are a lot | 2:46:38 | 2:46:41 | |
of foreign people now in this town
which is demoralising. Why does that | 2:46:41 | 2:46:43 | |
make you feel tomorrow lies? Why
does that have an effect on you? If | 2:46:43 | 2:46:46 | |
we had stayed in Europe, the Brexit
thing, there were 60,000 Turkish | 2:46:46 | 2:46:51 | |
families coming over. And when they
do come over they are guaranteed a | 2:46:51 | 2:46:55 | |
roof over their head, new tellys. I
don't know that to be true. I have | 2:46:55 | 2:47:02 | |
slept on the streets. I have not
seen one Asian person, I have not | 2:47:02 | 2:47:08 | |
seen one black person. You went on a
march. You went to a march, that is | 2:47:08 | 2:47:16 | |
the crucial difference. You were
given a lot of trouble, went to come | 2:47:16 | 2:47:22 | |
in some ways? Well, there is worse
trouble, it is water off a duck's | 2:47:22 | 2:47:29 | |
back. I just think it is disgusting,
they talk about being there because | 2:47:29 | 2:47:33 | |
of the awful thing that had happened
in Rochdale, the paedophile ring, | 2:47:33 | 2:47:40 | |
but that party, whatever you want to
call them, Britain first, they were | 2:47:40 | 2:47:44 | |
leveraging the suffering of those
poor girls to fit their political | 2:47:44 | 2:47:48 | |
agenda. You cannot say we're here
for this because... They were using | 2:47:48 | 2:47:53 | |
the suffering of those girls to
leveraged people towards their | 2:47:53 | 2:47:56 | |
party, and what they use is the
anger and unrest and I am not | 2:47:56 | 2:48:00 | |
sympathetic to it at all. People
make their in decisions. If you | 2:48:00 | 2:48:05 | |
choose to align yourself with people
like Britain First, that is up to | 2:48:05 | 2:48:14 | |
you, but there is a lot of anger and
unrest. How are the guys in the | 2:48:14 | 2:48:21 | |
documentary getting on? The last
observed was more about aspiration | 2:48:21 | 2:48:25 | |
and the lack of opportunities and
thereof, and tonight's episode is | 2:48:25 | 2:48:29 | |
more about family and what happens
when it falls apart. Anyone who saw | 2:48:29 | 2:48:34 | |
last week's episode, to see what
happened two days and the decisions | 2:48:34 | 2:48:37 | |
he made, that made me really happy.
And on another note, more | 2:48:37 | 2:48:44 | |
documentaries hopefully from you and
more music? More music, music coming | 2:48:44 | 2:48:49 | |
back probably the first or second
week of February. Is it nice to get | 2:48:49 | 2:48:54 | |
back to the music? It was lovely. I
thought where have the last three | 2:48:54 | 2:48:58 | |
years gone but I have done seven
films back-to-back so it is nice to | 2:48:58 | 2:49:02 | |
get back to the music. Are you in
talks about another documentary as | 2:49:02 | 2:49:06 | |
well? Yes. Are you able to tell us
what it is about? No. Well, keep us | 2:49:06 | 2:49:14 | |
posted and I'm sure we will get you
back on. | 2:49:14 | 2:49:17 | |
Lovely to see you. | 2:49:17 | 2:49:19 | |
And the final episode
of Working Class White Men | 2:49:19 | 2:49:21 | |
is on tonight on Channel 4
at ten o'clock. | 2:49:21 | 2:49:24 | |
I am sure you can see the first
episode on... All four. I was about | 2:49:24 | 2:49:32 | |
to say the iPlayer but it will not
be there! | 2:49:32 | 2:49:35 | |
Here's Carol with a look
at this morning's weather. | 2:49:35 | 2:49:39 | |
Good morning. We have some snow
around. This lovely picture is from | 2:49:39 | 2:49:44 | |
one of our weather watches. We also
have some snow in Edinburgh and also | 2:49:44 | 2:49:48 | |
in county amateur. -- weather
watches. -- County Antrim. | 2:49:48 | 2:49:55 | |
Wherever you are in the brisk wind,
it will feel cold. This morning, | 2:49:58 | 2:50:05 | |
watch out for ice on untreated
surfaces in Scotland and North | 2:50:05 | 2:50:10 | |
Eastern England. The snow showers
continued to pile in across northern | 2:50:10 | 2:50:14 | |
areas. Through this afternoon, some
showers across central parts of | 2:50:14 | 2:50:20 | |
England and Wales, we could see some
winteriness at lower levels. This | 2:50:20 | 2:50:24 | |
afternoon, we do have the snow
showers continuing, a real rush of | 2:50:24 | 2:50:29 | |
them getting in across Northern
Ireland and Scotland. In the two in | 2:50:29 | 2:50:33 | |
there will be some brighter skies
and sunshine. In northern England we | 2:50:33 | 2:50:39 | |
will be looking at blizzards and
drifting snow. The snow continues at | 2:50:39 | 2:50:44 | |
lower levels as well. For Wales and
the Midlands, again there will be | 2:50:44 | 2:50:48 | |
some snow showers. Generally, it
will be with height and around the | 2:50:48 | 2:50:53 | |
coast as well, we're looking at a
mix of rain and sleet. Inland we see | 2:50:53 | 2:50:59 | |
a return to the snow. You will see
large waves as well. The Midlands | 2:50:59 | 2:51:08 | |
and East Anglia will stay dry with
some sunshine. When you add on the | 2:51:08 | 2:51:12 | |
strength of the wind against your
skin it will feel more like -4 in | 2:51:12 | 2:51:18 | |
Glasgow, -3 in Belfast and two in
London. You will need to wrap up | 2:51:18 | 2:51:21 | |
once again. It will still be windy
tonight and we will still see some | 2:51:21 | 2:51:30 | |
snow showers and there will be the
risk of ice. It will be another cold | 2:51:30 | 2:51:34 | |
night. These are the temperatures
you can see. In rural areas they | 2:51:34 | 2:51:39 | |
will be lower than this. Tomorrow
the wind will even touched during | 2:51:39 | 2:51:43 | |
the course of the day. Some of the
showers will fade but there will | 2:51:43 | 2:51:47 | |
still be some winteriness coming in
from the north and the West. Later | 2:51:47 | 2:51:51 | |
on in the day you will see the first
sign of some rain coming in through | 2:51:51 | 2:51:55 | |
the West. This is an area of low
pressure forming off the coast of | 2:51:55 | 2:51:59 | |
America. It will deepen as it
crosses the Atlantic. From Wednesday | 2:51:59 | 2:52:04 | |
into Thursday, it will come in from
the West. It will bring rain and | 2:52:04 | 2:52:09 | |
snow from Northern Ireland, parts of
northern England and Central | 2:52:09 | 2:52:13 | |
Scotland. Some of the snow will be
heavy. It will be accompanied by | 2:52:13 | 2:52:20 | |
gales. Across North Wales and parts
of northern England, in through | 2:52:20 | 2:52:23 | |
Norfolk as well. You need to look at
the isobars further south, it will | 2:52:23 | 2:52:29 | |
still be fairly windy. There is the
potential of destruction. Quite | 2:52:29 | 2:52:34 | |
quickly, the whole lot pushes off
into the North Sea. Behind it, it | 2:52:34 | 2:52:39 | |
will be windy. Wintry in western
Scotland. No heatwave in prospect | 2:52:39 | 2:52:44 | |
but the weather quieting down a
little bit. | 2:52:44 | 2:52:49 | |
Thank you. And well done for
surviving a jittery screen! | 2:52:53 | 2:52:59 | |
An investigation seen
exclusively by this programme, | 2:52:59 | 2:53:01 | |
has raised concern about care
support for more than 21,000 | 2:53:01 | 2:53:03 | |
children with complex
special needs in England. | 2:53:03 | 2:53:05 | |
Every child with a special need has
to receive a fresh assessment | 2:53:05 | 2:53:08 | |
for their care by March 31st. | 2:53:08 | 2:53:10 | |
But it seems the majority
of local authorities | 2:53:10 | 2:53:12 | |
are going to miss this deadline. | 2:53:12 | 2:53:20 | |
Jayne McCubbin reports. | 2:53:20 | 2:53:23 | |
It is the biggest reform
to special educational needs | 2:53:23 | 2:53:25 | |
support in a generation,
and since 2014, the clock | 2:53:25 | 2:53:27 | |
has been ticking. | 2:53:27 | 2:53:28 | |
Councils were given 43 months
to transfer all children off | 2:53:28 | 2:53:31 | |
the old system of statements,
to receive new, improved educational | 2:53:31 | 2:53:33 | |
health and care plans. | 2:53:33 | 2:53:34 | |
So how is that shaping up? | 2:53:34 | 2:53:37 | |
It's a mess, a complete mess. | 2:53:37 | 2:53:39 | |
It's a complete and utter disaster. | 2:53:39 | 2:53:42 | |
Rachel's youngest daughter has
autism, and has struggled out | 2:53:42 | 2:53:44 | |
of school for three years. | 2:53:44 | 2:53:47 | |
It was meant to take
20 weeks to assess her | 2:53:47 | 2:53:49 | |
for a new support plan. | 2:53:49 | 2:53:53 | |
Today they are in week
54, and still no plan | 2:53:53 | 2:53:55 | |
or support in place. | 2:53:55 | 2:54:00 | |
The medical assessment wasn't done,
and the social care | 2:54:00 | 2:54:02 | |
assessment wasn't done. | 2:54:02 | 2:54:03 | |
You had to crowd-fund to get
the right assessment. | 2:54:03 | 2:54:06 | |
We did, we did have to crowd-fund
to get the right assessment. | 2:54:06 | 2:54:10 | |
They have failed her on every level. | 2:54:10 | 2:54:15 | |
At every point,
they have failed her. | 2:54:15 | 2:54:18 | |
Walsall Council say it is committed
to working with councils to meet | 2:54:18 | 2:54:21 | |
individual needs and achieve
the best outcomes for children. | 2:54:21 | 2:54:24 | |
But Holly is one of an estimated
21,000 children in limbo, | 2:54:24 | 2:54:29 | |
who will still be waiting to receive
a plan by deadline day. | 2:54:29 | 2:54:33 | |
Me too & Co is a support group
in Richmond, the area | 2:54:33 | 2:54:36 | |
with the worst delays in England. | 2:54:36 | 2:54:39 | |
Everyone here has faced delays,
everyone here has faced problems. | 2:54:39 | 2:54:47 | |
The plan for Bill's son, Rudy,
was missing the support needed. | 2:54:47 | 2:54:51 | |
In ten days' time, we'll be
in another tribunal. | 2:54:51 | 2:54:53 | |
The first was held in May last year. | 2:54:53 | 2:54:55 | |
How much have you
spent on this fight? | 2:54:55 | 2:54:59 | |
Richmond are very aware of this -
just under £60,000 so far. | 2:54:59 | 2:55:03 | |
Sarah has also has to pay for four
sons who are autistic. | 2:55:03 | 2:55:11 | |
They changed case officers five
times, so we never knew | 2:55:11 | 2:55:13 | |
who our case officer was. | 2:55:13 | 2:55:17 | |
Melanie says her daughter
is broken by the delays. | 2:55:17 | 2:55:21 | |
She meets with these professionals. | 2:55:21 | 2:55:24 | |
She has actually refused now to fill
those forms out anymore. | 2:55:24 | 2:55:27 | |
She says, I'm not filling them out,
because nobody reads them, | 2:55:27 | 2:55:29 | |
and nobody actually cares. | 2:55:29 | 2:55:31 | |
Richmond Council tell me they have
been working with families to ensure | 2:55:31 | 2:55:39 | |
each transfer results
in strong, informed, | 2:55:42 | 2:55:43 | |
individually tailored plans. | 2:55:43 | 2:55:47 | |
Even though it has taken 3.5 years
to only do half the transfers, | 2:55:47 | 2:55:50 | |
they reckon they can the rest done
in the next seven weeks. | 2:55:50 | 2:55:53 | |
Impossible. | 2:55:53 | 2:55:54 | |
It is not doable. | 2:55:54 | 2:55:55 | |
It won't be quality,
and it won't be considered. | 2:55:55 | 2:55:57 | |
The quality of new plans
is a concern, right across England. | 2:55:57 | 2:55:59 | |
Do you want the Government
to scrap this deadline? | 2:55:59 | 2:56:02 | |
It would be helpful if they would
extend this deadline. | 2:56:02 | 2:56:05 | |
Having such a ruthless deadline
is putting at risk the quality | 2:56:05 | 2:56:08 | |
of plans that are being delivered,
in order to meet that timescale. | 2:56:08 | 2:56:13 | |
Not everyone would describe 3.5
years as a ruthless deadline. | 2:56:13 | 2:56:15 | |
This letter was sent to local
authorities recently, | 2:56:15 | 2:56:17 | |
reminding them of the need
to hit it. | 2:56:17 | 2:56:21 | |
The Government say that,
with a starting point | 2:56:21 | 2:56:23 | |
of 250,000 transfers,
councils are making good progress. | 2:56:23 | 2:56:27 | |
Not words these parents would use
to describe their own experiences. | 2:56:27 | 2:56:35 | |
That is something that we looked
really extensively at on Breakfast | 2:56:37 | 2:56:41 | |
at the end of last year. We said we
would follow it up and we did. So | 2:56:41 | 2:56:47 | |
many people told us that life with a
child with special educational needs | 2:56:47 | 2:56:51 | |
feels like a fight. This new
legislation said it would make | 2:56:51 | 2:56:55 | |
things better, simpler. So the
government knew at the start of last | 2:56:55 | 2:56:59 | |
year that things were not going to
plan, there were significant delays, | 2:56:59 | 2:57:05 | |
and they started asking local
authorities to do monthly monitoring | 2:57:05 | 2:57:08 | |
reports on how it was going. The
government chose not to publish | 2:57:08 | 2:57:12 | |
those reports. So what this does is
give us a great picture for the | 2:57:12 | 2:57:19 | |
first time about how it is really
going as the deadline looms. Looking | 2:57:19 | 2:57:22 | |
at the figures they have been able
to estimate that 21,000 children are | 2:57:22 | 2:57:28 | |
likely to be on statements come that
deadline day. If the pace of change | 2:57:28 | 2:57:33 | |
is the same as last year. They were
also able to estimate that 60% of | 2:57:33 | 2:57:40 | |
local authorities, the majority, are
not going to meet that deadline, if | 2:57:40 | 2:57:43 | |
they continue at this rate of
change. And in a certain number of | 2:57:43 | 2:57:49 | |
areas, 10%, the delays are so
significant that they are likely to | 2:57:49 | 2:57:53 | |
be more than a year behind schedule.
Now the Department fridge and do not | 2:57:53 | 2:57:59 | |
accept those figures. They say
councils are picking up the pace | 2:57:59 | 2:58:02 | |
now, but we must remember that these
plans were meant to be the spoke, | 2:58:02 | 2:58:08 | |
personalised and all of that takes
time, it cannot be rushed. We know | 2:58:08 | 2:58:11 | |
that because of reports from Ofsted,
the CQC, the local government | 2:58:11 | 2:58:18 | |
ombudsman and the helpline, that
mistakes are being made to often. | 2:58:18 | 2:58:22 | |
Tribunal 's are at a record high and
parents are winning most of those | 2:58:22 | 2:58:26 | |
cases. What are the DfEE saying?
They say anyone who has a statement | 2:58:26 | 2:58:34 | |
come March the 31st will not lose
their provision suddenly. However, | 2:58:34 | 2:58:39 | |
if you are 19 years of age and you
have a statement come March 31, you | 2:58:39 | 2:58:44 | |
will not be able to have support up
to the age of 25, which you are | 2:58:44 | 2:58:49 | |
entitled to with a plan, I
desperately want to hear from people | 2:58:49 | 2:58:54 | |
who are approaching age 19 and they
still have a statement. That is a | 2:58:54 | 2:59:00 | |
real priority. Thank you, Jayne. | 2:59:00 | 2:59:04 | |
The remaining members of the Irish
rock band The Cranberries have paid | 2:59:04 | 2:59:07 | |
tribute to their lead singer
Dolores O'Riordan - | 2:59:07 | 2:59:09 | |
who died yesterday at the age of 46. | 2:59:09 | 2:59:11 | |
Last night the band tweeted:
We are devastated on the passing | 2:59:11 | 2:59:13 | |
of our friend Dolores. | 2:59:13 | 2:59:15 | |
She was an extraordinary talent
and we feel very privileged to have | 2:59:15 | 2:59:18 | |
been part of her life from 1989
when we started the Cranberries. | 2:59:18 | 2:59:21 | |
The world has lost
a true artist today. | 2:59:21 | 2:59:27 | |
# Do you have to let it linger? | 2:59:27 | 2:59:29 | |
# Do you have to, do you have to? | 2:59:29 | 2:59:32 | |
# Do you have to let it linger? | 2:59:32 | 2:59:35 | |
Linger was the first song
Dolores O'Riordan ever wrote | 2:59:35 | 2:59:37 | |
with the Cranberries. | 2:59:37 | 2:59:39 | |
It turned her and
the band into stars. | 2:59:39 | 2:59:44 | |
# I just want to be with you...# | 2:59:44 | 2:59:50 | |
Linger was about teenage rejection. | 2:59:50 | 2:59:52 | |
# I'm such a fool for you...# | 2:59:52 | 2:59:55 | |
Folks, do me a favour. | 2:59:57 | 2:59:59 | |
Please welcome, and just in time
for Thanksgiving, The Cranberries. | 2:59:59 | 3:00:05 | |
Their rapid success,
particularly in America, | 3:00:05 | 3:00:07 | |
soon saw the young singer-songwriter
move on to weightier topics. | 3:00:07 | 3:00:10 | |
# With their tanks
and their bombs...# | 3:00:14 | 3:00:17 | |
Zombie was a wrenchingly | 3:00:18 | 3:00:19 | |
powerful protest song,
written after two young children | 3:00:19 | 3:00:20 | |
were killed by an IRA bomb. | 3:00:20 | 3:00:23 | |
# In your head, in your head | 3:00:23 | 3:00:28 | |
# Zombie, zombie, zombie...# | 3:00:28 | 3:00:34 | |
Last year, the band were ready
to tour once more, but it was cut | 3:00:34 | 3:00:36 | |
short by health problems. | 3:00:36 | 3:00:38 | |
I've had health issues a lot
in the last few years, | 3:00:38 | 3:00:41 | |
but one of the worst things
was I had a disc problem in my back, | 3:00:41 | 3:00:44 | |
and I had to stop playing guitar. | 3:00:44 | 3:00:46 | |
The Irish Prime Minister said,
for anyone who grew up | 3:00:46 | 3:00:49 | |
in Ireland in the 1990s,
Dolores O'Riordan was | 3:00:49 | 3:00:51 | |
the voice of a generation. | 3:00:51 | 3:00:55 | |
# You got me wrapped
around your finger...# | 3:00:55 | 3:00:59 | |
A generation mourning the loss
of one of music's great talents. | 3:00:59 | 3:01:02 | |
# Do you have to, do you have to? | 3:01:02 | 3:01:05 | |
# Do you have to let it linger?# | 3:01:05 | 3:01:08 | |
Really sad news yesterday, and if
you just listen to that again, the | 3:01:15 | 3:01:19 | |
voice is just beautiful, isn't it. | 3:01:19 | 3:01:22 | |
They say a healthy
child is a happy child. | 3:01:22 | 3:01:25 | |
Now youngsters across the country
are being encouraged to become more | 3:01:25 | 3:01:27 | |
active during the school day
in order to enhance their learning. | 3:01:27 | 3:01:30 | |
It's all part of a joint
campaign run by the BBC | 3:01:30 | 3:01:32 | |
and the Premier League. | 3:01:32 | 3:01:34 | |
Our reporter Tim Muffett
is at a school in North London | 3:01:34 | 3:01:37 | |
this morning where the pupils
are being put through their paces. | 3:01:37 | 3:01:45 | |
Getting some moves going here at
Ashman and primary school in north | 3:01:47 | 3:01:51 | |
London for the launch of
Supermovers. This is a joint | 3:01:51 | 3:01:55 | |
initiative between the BBC and the
Premier League, and the idea is to | 3:01:55 | 3:01:58 | |
get kids active throughout the day,
not just in PE lessons but in normal | 3:01:58 | 3:02:02 | |
lessons as well, and yet explain a
little more, somebody you might | 3:02:02 | 3:02:07 | |
recognise, Gabby Logan. Loving the
happy dance! Can you talk and dance | 3:02:07 | 3:02:14 | |
at the same time? May be better if I
get! From today, the resource online | 3:02:14 | 3:02:19 | |
will allow teachers and families to
choose one of 50 videos. This is the | 3:02:19 | 3:02:24 | |
happy dance, this is adjectives we
are doing right now. Different | 3:02:24 | 3:02:29 | |
adjectives are being displayed,
explaining what they are, using them | 3:02:29 | 3:02:31 | |
within the song, and there are all
kinds of videos, different dances, | 3:02:31 | 3:02:35 | |
different people doing the dances,
different music, nouns, verbs, | 3:02:35 | 3:02:42 | |
listening out loud, and it is a good
waiting gauge review minutes, they | 3:02:42 | 3:02:45 | |
are moving, getting the energy out
of having a good time. The benefits | 3:02:45 | 3:02:49 | |
of physical activity are proven, and
PE can be a separate lesson, but it | 3:02:49 | 3:02:53 | |
is about incorporating it into
everyday life. We all know kids are | 3:02:53 | 3:02:57 | |
not moving enough. The curriculum is
packed, and it is very good for | 3:02:57 | 3:03:01 | |
teachers to squeeze in PE lessons,
by the time they get them out of the | 3:03:01 | 3:03:06 | |
classroom, downstairs, get them
changed, the weather isn't right, | 3:03:06 | 3:03:09 | |
but this is a few minutes at a time,
a blast of exercise and dance, not | 3:03:09 | 3:03:13 | |
Every is brilliant at it, but if
they can copy the moves on the | 3:03:13 | 3:03:18 | |
screen, it helps get that cognitive
ability going as well. And a lot of | 3:03:18 | 3:03:22 | |
requests for another cartwheel. This
is Gabby Logan's super move. Round | 3:03:22 | 3:03:27 | |
of applause, please! | 3:03:27 | 3:03:33 | |
of applause, please! And here's Alex
Scott, Arsenal player and former | 3:03:33 | 3:03:35 | |
England player. Why you involved in
this? Because it is so fun, and the | 3:03:35 | 3:03:41 | |
researchers there. If kids do
physical activity, it engages the | 3:03:41 | 3:03:45 | |
brain, but to be part of this, I had
so much fun being my video, and | 3:03:45 | 3:03:50 | |
being here this morning, you can see
the smiles on their faces, it is so | 3:03:50 | 3:03:53 | |
fun. I think they are going to
change the music and a video, | 3:03:53 | 3:03:57 | |
because you are one of the
demonstrators, aren't you? Here is | 3:03:57 | 3:04:02 | |
my move right here! But the thing
is, it is 34 minutes, but I was so | 3:04:02 | 3:04:08 | |
tired filming it. It. It engages
every different muscle. How | 3:04:08 | 3:04:13 | |
important is it that kids do move
around more? It is so important. I | 3:04:13 | 3:04:16 | |
know how I feel when I haven't been
training. I have to go straight to | 3:04:16 | 3:04:21 | |
training after this, I feel
sluggish, but as soon as I come off | 3:04:21 | 3:04:25 | |
the training field I feel great, but
that is what we need to teach the | 3:04:25 | 3:04:27 | |
kids. You don't have to be an elite
sports person, but you can have fun | 3:04:27 | 3:04:31 | |
and still do physical activity.
Thank you very much indeed. I want | 3:04:31 | 3:04:37 | |
to ask you to do a cartwheel. I
can't match Gabby | 3:04:37 | 3:04:43 | |
to ask you to do a cartwheel. I
can't match Gabby! And how much | 3:04:43 | 3:04:44 | |
funnier having, guys? What is the
best thing about it? The best thing | 3:04:44 | 3:04:50 | |
about it is because you have fun and
you are exercising. And you don't | 3:04:50 | 3:04:54 | |
have to get changed and spend hours
getting PE kit on. The fun thing | 3:04:54 | 3:04:59 | |
about it is because in the classroom
you can get active. And it is | 3:04:59 | 3:05:04 | |
education. So really really
positive. I'm PE is good fun, but is | 3:05:04 | 3:05:08 | |
it more fun doing it in the
classroom? Yes! Yes! | 3:05:08 | 3:05:17 | |
Lets have a quick chat to one of the
researchers from Loughborough | 3:05:17 | 3:05:21 | |
University who was involved. Why do
you think that the benefits aren't | 3:05:21 | 3:05:26 | |
being seized upon more than they are
already? First and foremost is the | 3:05:26 | 3:05:31 | |
availability of good quality
resources. The great thing is that | 3:05:31 | 3:05:36 | |
Super Movers will be available
online, easy access for free, so | 3:05:36 | 3:05:39 | |
there is availability. I think that
is probably the biggest barrier to | 3:05:39 | 3:05:43 | |
teachers being able to do this.
Thank you very much indeed. This is | 3:05:43 | 3:05:49 | |
pretty inspiring at this time in the
morning to see so many kids getting | 3:05:49 | 3:05:54 | |
involved, being active and having a
very, very good time. I will leave | 3:05:54 | 3:05:58 | |
you with some of the Super Movers
here this morning, famous ones as | 3:05:58 | 3:06:02 | |
well, Gabby Logan, Alex Scott,
having a great, great time. | 3:06:02 | 3:06:05 | |
Excellent. I think they made so many
good points, the bother about | 3:06:05 | 3:06:10 | |
getting changed and stuff.
And when timber the microphone in | 3:06:10 | 3:06:16 | |
front of them, rather than all
moving away, they swarmed in! Like a | 3:06:16 | 3:06:22 | |
horde. | 3:06:22 | 3:06:23 | |
And if you are interested in taking
part or finding out more | 3:06:23 | 3:06:26 | |
You can go to the website
bbc.co.uk/supermovers. | 3:06:26 | 3:06:30 | |
Get involved! | 3:06:30 | 3:06:32 | |
We'll be speaking to star of Call
the Midwife Laura Main | 3:06:32 | 3:06:35 | |
when we come back. | 3:06:35 | 3:06:36 | |
I cannot believe that series seven
starts next | 3:06:36 | 3:06:38 | |
starts next week. | 3:06:38 | 3:06:40 | |
First a last, brief look
at the headlines where | 3:06:40 | 3:06:42 | |
you are this morning. | 3:06:42 | 3:08:18 | |
I'll be back at 1.30. | 3:08:18 | 3:08:19 | |
Have a very good morning. | 3:08:19 | 3:08:21 | |
Welcome back, everybody. | 3:08:27 | 3:08:29 | |
The nuns and nurses
from Nonnatus House will be back | 3:08:29 | 3:08:31 | |
on call this weekend as hit BBC
drama Call the Midwife | 3:08:31 | 3:08:34 | |
returns to our screens. | 3:08:34 | 3:08:35 | |
The seventh series picks
up where the Christmas | 3:08:35 | 3:08:37 | |
special left off -
in the middle of the | 3:08:37 | 3:08:39 | |
Big Freeze of 1963. | 3:08:39 | 3:08:43 | |
There will be plenty of new
arrivals, including another midwife. | 3:08:43 | 3:08:51 | |
Laura Main, who plays
Shelagh Turner, joins us. | 3:08:54 | 3:08:58 | |
Good morning. This is real family
viewing, people love it. It really | 3:08:58 | 3:09:05 | |
is, it spans the generations, young
and old, and both sexes. It wouldn't | 3:09:05 | 3:09:08 | |
get the figures it gets if lots of
people weren't tuning in, so we are | 3:09:08 | 3:09:14 | |
over the moon to be back. Season
seven, that is what we were saying! | 3:09:14 | 3:09:19 | |
What can you tell us about this next
series? What happens? We have had | 3:09:19 | 3:09:25 | |
our Christmas special, we are in
1963, we have moved forward a year | 3:09:25 | 3:09:29 | |
will each series, and that was the
the big freeze, so that will | 3:09:29 | 3:09:34 | |
continue throughout the opening
episode, so that first episode will | 3:09:34 | 3:09:37 | |
have that, and as you see, a new
midwife as well, we see Leone | 3:09:37 | 3:09:44 | |
Elliott, our new regular character
as well, so that is a great addition | 3:09:44 | 3:09:48 | |
to the show as well. So lots of new
stuff. And so many news stories, it | 3:09:48 | 3:09:55 | |
just feels like there are so many
stories still to tell, there is no | 3:09:55 | 3:09:59 | |
repetition, and by moving forward a
year, you can cover new themes. I | 3:09:59 | 3:10:05 | |
like so much about it, but one of
the things I do like is the | 3:10:05 | 3:10:09 | |
discussion of themes, because we
have had for example thalidomide and | 3:10:09 | 3:10:11 | |
then in this one, she is a new, she
is a black midwife, so in some ways | 3:10:11 | 3:10:16 | |
perhaps different attitudes in the
60s, for example, that is what | 3:10:16 | 3:10:20 | |
you're at? Yes, it is always very
thoroughly researched, and at that | 3:10:20 | 3:10:25 | |
time, black young women
predominantly were coming over from | 3:10:25 | 3:10:30 | |
the Caribbean, and so they were
recruited by the NHS, so that's what | 3:10:30 | 3:10:38 | |
we get with lovely Lucille, Nurse
Anderson. It is not just about the | 3:10:38 | 3:10:46 | |
attitudes, coming across racism, it
is about her moving to a new | 3:10:46 | 3:10:51 | |
country, and lots of things. It is
historical in some ways, isn't it? | 3:10:51 | 3:10:56 | |
That's the thing. There is just so
much to learn from an episode. They | 3:10:56 | 3:11:02 | |
are always very funny, and very
often heartbreaking as well, and it | 3:11:02 | 3:11:06 | |
seems to be that kind of combination
that is there in the writing, but it | 3:11:06 | 3:11:11 | |
is attractive to the viewer.
You say about learning from watching | 3:11:11 | 3:11:14 | |
it, but I imagine from being on it
as well. There is a picture and | 3:11:14 | 3:11:17 | |
story in the paper today, let me
show you this. This is one of your | 3:11:17 | 3:11:22 | |
co-stars, she said the show scared
her so much, she chose to have a | 3:11:22 | 3:11:27 | |
Caesarean section! She has admitted
this, and yes, there were | 3:11:27 | 3:11:33 | |
discussions before the birth, so I
was well aware she was having a C | 3:11:33 | 3:11:36 | |
section. I guess at that point,
seven years on the show, that was | 3:11:36 | 3:11:42 | |
the decision that she has made. We
are all just absolutely over the | 3:11:42 | 3:11:48 | |
moon for them, that is wonderful
news. It is quite graphic, some of | 3:11:48 | 3:11:53 | |
it, and educational. It is so
educational, and you can see things, | 3:11:53 | 3:11:59 | |
the younger audience can maybe be
horrified by the circumstances at | 3:11:59 | 3:12:06 | |
the time and what women had to
endure, and as you can see, it is | 3:12:06 | 3:12:11 | |
still not an easy thing to do. I was
watching this, the first one last | 3:12:11 | 3:12:16 | |
night, and tell me about all the
babies. Presumably you've got to | 3:12:16 | 3:12:19 | |
have a production line of Call The
Midwife brand-new babies. I know. | 3:12:19 | 3:12:27 | |
There are quite often around about
two weeks old. It was probably quite | 3:12:27 | 3:12:34 | |
difficult, maybe, to recruit in the
first series, but I think people are | 3:12:34 | 3:12:38 | |
quite happy to have their baby on
screen. And of course for the | 3:12:38 | 3:12:43 | |
Turners, the character, Shelagh
Turner who I played, she has little | 3:12:43 | 3:12:50 | |
baby Teddy as an addition to the
family, so I have had a baby to hang | 3:12:50 | 3:12:54 | |
out with onset. And how many were
there? Mainly one. | 3:12:54 | 3:13:00 | |
And you also playing Princess Fiona
in | 3:13:00 | 3:13:10 | |
in Shrek at the moment. Yes that is
why here in Manchester, we are going | 3:13:10 | 3:13:14 | |
up and down the country, we open
here for two weeks. It is just loads | 3:13:14 | 3:13:20 | |
of fun. Thank you so much for coming
in. | 3:13:20 | 3:13:24 | |
The new series of Call
the Midwife starts this Sunday | 3:13:24 | 3:13:26 | |
on BBC One at eight o'clock,
and Shrek the Musical is currently | 3:13:26 | 3:13:29 | |
on at The Palace Theatre
in Manchester until January 28th. | 3:13:29 | 3:13:33 | |
Thank you for watching. | 3:13:33 | 3:13:35 | |
That's it from us today. | 3:13:35 | 3:13:36 | |
We'll be back tomorrow from six. | 3:13:36 | 3:13:38 | |
Until then, goodbye. | 3:13:38 | 3:13:40 |