16/01/2018 Breakfast

Hello. This is Breakfast,

with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker.

Concerns for thousands

of small businesses

following the collapse of Carillion.

After Britain's second largest

construction firm has gone under,

Ministers held an emergency meeting

with suppliers and subcontractors

facing millions of pounds of unpaid

bills.

I will look at what chance the small

businesses have of getting their

money back and what that means for

the work already carried out by

Carillion across the UK.

Good morning.

It's Tuesday, January 16.

Also this morning: Two parents

are arrested in California

after their 13 children

are found captive at home,

some shackled to their beds

with chains and padlocks.

Whirlpool is accused of a woeful

response to recalling tumble dryers

which have caused hundreds of fires.

MPs say as many as a million

machines are still in people's

homes.

An exclusive report as Breakfast

hears claims of chaos

in the Special Educational Needs

system in England.

In sport, Johanna Konta

looks back to her best.

The British number one cruises

through to the second

round of the Australian Open,

after a confident straight sets win.

And Carol has the weather.

Good morning.

Good morning. It is a

cold start to the late for many of

us. It will be a cold day generally.

We have brisk wind in the forecast

adding to the cold feel and as well

as that we have snow showers for

some even at low levels. And then

the weather livens up. I will have

more details in 15 minutes.

That

sounds exciting. Thank you.

Good morning.

First, our main story,

the future of some major

construction projects and hundreds

of public service contracts hang

in the balance this morning

after the collapse of Carillion.

Britain's second largest

construction firm,

which also holds cleaning

and catering contracts for schools,

hospitals and prisons,

went into liquidation yesterday

with debts of around £1.5 billion.

The political fallout continued

last night as Ministers

held an emergency meeting and Labour

questioned why Carillion continued

to be awarded contracts

despite repeated profit warnings.

Our political correspondent

Chris Mason reports.

One after another, they came from

all corners of government.

Will

taxpayers suffer as a result of

this?

The march of ministers into

the Cabinet office for a cobra

contingency meeting spoke to the

central truth of the collapse of

Carillion, the tentacles of this

failed business reaching to every

part of the public sector in every

part of the UK. And they now have to

work out what or earth to do next.

There is no evidence of chaos. The

government is working hard across

all Whitehall departments to ensure

the liquidation of Carillion takes

place in an orderly manner that does

not disrupt public services.

Wendy

the government first realise...

Labour accused ministers of shocking

negligence. A government

representative managing the

relationship between Carillion and

the public sector was rotated off

the company last summer. There was

no blindspot, insist the

Conservatives. Labour leader Jeremy

Corbyn in a video to supporters on

social media said this was a

watershed moment for the

watershed moment for the outsourced

first dogma that has leased the

public and this Labour MP says this

has to change.

We were told the

reason for using these companies was

transferring the risks that might

come from construction to the

private sector. The Carillion blows

apart the Mithun leaves us with very

expensive contracts with specific

clauses we have to find a way to

deal with.

The government insisted

what happened with Carillion showed

a private business shouldering real

risk. And that there had been no

bailout. It is an insight into the

vast Lee contrasting instincts of

the two biggest parties about how so

many of our public services are

delivered.

Let's remind ourselves of the scale

of Carillion's influence.

The company has 450 government

contracts, including maintenance

for prisons and hospitals,

as well as dinners and cleaning

for hundreds of schools.

It is also the second largest

supplier of maintenance

services to Network Rail,

and it maintains 50,000 homes

for the Ministry of Defence.

The firm has 43,000 staff worldwide,

including 20,000 in the UK.

There are also thousands of small

firms that carry out work

on Carillion's behalf,

and Steph's been hearing

from some of them.

And you have been hearing from those

as well.

Yes, it is such a variety

of jobs. That is what is really

interesting. We call it a

construction firm. When we dig down

into the areas, we are talking about

painters and decorators. In some

hospitals, it is cleaners, porters,

security people, front of staff in

police stations, such a variety.

Lots of them wondering what it will

mean for them in future. We know in

terms of the public services, they

will still be funded by the

government. So all of the cleaners

in hospitals will still be paid.

They will still be funded. What is

tricky is the private sector part of

the business, so the people working

out on sites, on big projects for

Carillion, and in that area I have

had lots of messages from people.

And there is a real sense of worry

from people. We know the public

sector, what is going on, though

there is concern for people waking

up this morning worrying about their

jobs.

And even yesterday and

mortgage adviser told me he had had

several calls from Carillion workers

to say they don't know what will

happen yet, but if I get made

redundant, will the bank help with

my mortgage? People are genuinely

concerned about what it will mean

for their future. And the other side

of it is suppliers as well. We have

had a lot of suppliers talk to us.

We spoke with Kevin McLaughlin, who

has a painting and decorating

business.

On Monday morning people

turn up to go to work and 30 people

get sent home. We haven't been

advised in the office. Obviously

people are looking for work, places

to live in within our workforce.

Very difficult situation. We just

finished Battersea Power Station and

we finished a big residential, two

residential blocks in King's Cross,

so we had no one there. We still

have a building in King's Cross and

a job in the city and the impact is

we have lost the money that AOR send

we have lost a forward order book of

approximately half the -- half £1

million.

And other companies have

said they are owed money too. And

what is interesting is the

relationship between suppliers and

Carillion. I had messages from

people who own businesses per se,

this one guy said, we want supply

them with building materials, but

they took ages to pay. John says my

business stopped working for them

years ago. 120 days plus to get

paid. They are using suppliers as a

bank. There is a lot of bad feeling

about the relationship between

Carillion and suppliers and that

will come from this, is it fair to

do that? I am here through the

morning looking at different

elements of this. There are people

who have pensions with Carillion

wondering what will happen. So send

in your questions and I will try to

get them answered.

We will speak

with a supplier as well later. Thank

you very much.

Police in California have rescued 13

brothers and sisters

from a house where some of them

were chained to beds.

The alarm was raised on Sunday,

when one girl escaped

and alerted the authorities.

Their parents have been arrested

and charged with torture

and child endangerment.

Our North America correspondent

James Cook is at the scene now.

James, horrific details of what was

going on behind you. What more do we

know?

Yes, that's right. This is 160

new

new -- Miurwoods Road. The car

behind me is gleaming in the

driveway. It was here on Sunday when

a 17-year-old girl escaped from this

house, taking apparently a phone she

had found with her and calling the

police, the emergency number, 911,

here in the US. When she met the

police she told them 12 siblings

were held captive inside the house.

Officers arrived and they found all

12 of them, some of them shackled,

some held by handcuffs to beds. They

say it was foul smelling inside,

conditions were terrible. Some of

the people appeared malnourished. At

first they thought they were all

children. It was only when they

investigated further that they

realised some of them were adults,

seven of them in fact were adults.

Police were shocked to discover that

simply because of their size and

their apparent frailty as well.

Obviously there are a lot of

questions asked here not least by

neighbours, who say that they knew

that there was something slightly

odd about the family. They didn't

often see all 12, as one of them

thought that there were 12 year. One

woman said she thought that there

were 12 siblings. She very rarely

saw all of them and when she did

they seemed to be just not willing

to engage with anybody. They seemed

to shrink away from the world. They

had no idea about what was going on.

The parents have been charged with

torture and child endangerment.

James, thank you very much.

Incredible detail. What a

fascinating story.

It is horrific.

And to see where it was as well. We

will have more on that in the

programme.

MPs say the manufacturer, Whirlpool,

hasn't done enough to deal

with defective tumble dryers

which have caused hundreds of fires.

The Commons Business Committee said

the response to the problem,

discovered in 2015, had been

"woeful" and it was unacceptable

that more than one million

potentially dangerous dryers

were still being used

in people's homes.

The company insisted

its repair campaign has

been comparatively successful.

And we'll be discussing

the recommendations further

with Lynn Faulds Wood, the former

chair of the Independent Review

into recalls and unsafe products.

A blast has brought down

a residential building

in the Belgian city of Antwerp,

injuring several people.

The origin of the explosion is not

clear but police said they did not

believe it was related to terrorism.

Three people have been

removed from the rubble,

including a child.

Belgium has been on high alert

since three co-ordinated suicide

bombings in Brussels

killed 32 people in 2016.

The supermarket chain Iceland said

it will eliminate plastic from its

own brand products within five

years. The retailer said plastic

will be replaced with paper, which

could be recycled. The move had been

welcomed by environmental

campaigners and it comes amid

growing concern about plastic

pollution in the world's oceans,

where it can harm or kill wildlife.

We'll be speakig to Iceland's head

of packaging about their proposals

just after eight this morning.

Something we will talk about a lot,

after Blue Planet, which has

inspired people a lot.

If you dread battling the traffic

on the morning commute,

spare a thought for early

morning drivers in Sydney,

who had their journeys disrupted

by a wayward wallaby.

This footage was shot by police

officers keeping pace

with the mischievous marsupial,

who was first spotted crossing

Sydney's iconic

Harbour Bridge at 5am.

Wallabies can happily hop along

at up to 30 miles per hour and this

one evaded capture for several miles

before crossing the bridge

and finally being

cornered in a park.

Fortunately there's a happy ending

to this tale as the wallaby

was taken to a local zoo and is now

recovering well from its early

morning sight-seeing trip.

They are really spectacular animals.

You know, do you watch the cats

programme, I watched it last week,

that slow motion cheetah, any animal

doing something in slow motion,

incredible, I want slow motion

wallaby.

It doesn't have the special

camera. Talking about tennis?

In

Australia, not Sydney, in Melbourne,

the Australian Open on at the

moment, and Andy Murray is not

therefore Great Britain. And our

hopes rest on Johanna Konta, last

year she crashed out in five

different tournaments, and it is

like what has gone on with her? She

has a new coach and she appears to

be back to her best.

Konta made quick work of it,

dropping only four games

against Madison Brengle -

she'll face another American,

Bernarda Pera, in round two.

Ryan Giggs has been

confirmed as the manager

of the Wales national side.

He's agreed a four-year deal.

Giggs won 64 caps for his country

but he was unpopular with some Wales

fans for missing numerous

friendly matches.

Manchester United have

done their best to take advantage

of Manchester City's

defeat at Liverpool.

United beat Stoke last night 3-0,

that narrows the gap at the top

of the Premier League to 12 points.

Stoke stay third from bottom.

And England cricketer Ben Stokes has

been charged with affray over

an incident outside a Bristol

nightclub last September,

which left a man with

a fractured eye socket.

Stokes missed the Ashes series

and England selectors will meet over

the next couple of days

to discuss his future.

Remember, of course, England still

have all of their one-dayers, T20s,

and a test in New Zealand, so it

remains to be seen if he can be part

of that if he has been charged.

OK,

plenty to discuss through the

morning, and your trousers are

magnificence, by the way.

Thank you

very much. You have said lots of

things about them and nothing

positive.

LAUGHTER How is saying someone's

trousers are magnificent not

positive?

See, this is it, right, it

is impossible to give a compliment.

I have said your trousers are

magnificent and you have taken it as

an insult!

Anyway.

Some people like them, some people

don't.

You address is lovely, and so

is Carol's.

As you can tell, it is

lewd Tuesday.

is Carol's.

As you can tell, it is

lewd Tuesday. -- blue Tuesday. Some

of us it has been snowing overnight

and we have further showers to come.

In between them they will be some

sunshine and regardless of where you

are it will feel cold. This morning

across Northern Ireland that is the

forecast. Snow showers at lower

levels. In between, brighter skies

and the risk of ice. Continued snow

showers even at lower levels. Parts

of north-east Scotland seeing the

driest conditions, as will parts of

north-east England. As we come

south, the risk of ice across

northern England. With some snow

showers, some of those getting down

to sea level. As we go into Wales,

the risk of ice for you as well.

Snow showers mainly on the heels of

Wales, and we could see some of

those at lower levels. The

south-west England we have showers

as well. Again you could see some

hail coming out of those and as we

drift towards the south-east and

East Anglia, perhaps the Midlands,

we are off to a dry start that it

won't necessarily stay that way.

Many spring tides across south-east

England means later we will see some

large waves crashing in, and you

could see through the day how the

snow showers develop. Lower levels

across Scotland, northern England,

Northern Ireland and at times across

central areas, despite the fact

temperatures on your thermometers

will say two to seven, this is how

it will feel with the brisk wind. If

you are travelling on the higher

routes, where we have snow, there is

likely to be drifting so take it

easy. As we on through the evening

and overnight, a lot of snow

showers, some of those getting to

lower levels and once again the risk

of ice on untreated surfaces.

Temperature-wise, however you look

at it, it will be a cold night.

Cracking on with tomorrow, again we

have some snow showers across

Scotland, northern England and

Northern Ireland. Many of them will

tend to fade as we go through the

day. It will be noticeably windy

day, not as windy as it is going to

be, and a lot of dry weather. Then

we see this next storm coming in, an

area of low pressure currently to

the east of the United States. It

will depend significantly as it

crosses the Atlantic and reaches our

shores. We are expecting a late on

Wednesday in the Thursday morning,

and as it moves across us, on its

leading edge it will take some snow.

Some of the snow could be disruptive

for parts of Scotland, north-east

England for example, and we have

gales. The strongest winds likely to

be a across parts of northern

England, Northern Ireland, heading

towards Norfolk. So gusty, gusty

winds could lead to disruption as

well. That will clear as we head

into the early part of Thursday, but

before it does, very in mind

disruption as possible where you

are, with the gales. Also with that

snow. You can keep up-to-date with

what is happening on your local

radio station. I said there was a

lot going on with the weather, and I

wasn't kidding.

And we will see you

lot going on with the weather, and I

wasn't kidding.

And we will see you

in half an hour.

Let's have a look

at the papers this morning. This is

the front page of the Daily Mirror.

We told you this yesterday about the

sad death of Cyrille at the age of

59. So many wonderful tributes in

the papers from those inside and

outside of the law. The death of the

Daily Mirror. An inspirational hero

who changed the face of the ball. In

the main story down the bottom is

Carillion, the bosses at Carillion

still getting fat cat wages despite

the firm's collapsed. And you might

recognise this girl, the mother of

Poppi Worthington calling for her

death to be re-examined, after the

coroner ruled she was sexually

assaulted. That is on the front page

of the Sun as well. The Guardian, a

picture of Dolores O'Riordan, who

was found dead in a hotel room

yesterday. And the scramble to save

jobs as the Carillion crisis

deepens.

Lots of them of course

looking at Carillion, the Times

asking whether taxpayers will face a

huge bill. A different story on the

top, slave workers from Eastern

Europe, they say, are being used to

collect donated clothes from

households on behalf of charities.

On the front page of the Daily Mail,

Dolores O'Riordan on the front page,

the lead singer of the Cranberries,

and supermarket bans plastic is

their main headline. We will speak

to the head of packaging at Iceland,

the first store in the world to

remove packaging from all its

products.

And magnificent trousers.

They get me further up the billing,

hopefully more often!

You wait to

see Steph's tomorrow!

As you were

saying, lots of tributes in the

papers to Cyrille Regis, Ian Wright

writing in the sun about how he was

inspired to get into football by

Cyrille Regis. Interesting story in

the Telegraph about Novak Djokovic

at the Australian Open, floating the

idea of the players' strike, because

he says not enough of the money

which Grand Slam is earning is

passed down to the players. Perhaps

he has a point, they are the stars

of the show, aren't they? And a

story about Joshua's next opponent,

Jozsef Parker, who eats raw fish. I

am mesmerised by the fish.

You can

put it down now, you know! I will

obviously be talking about Carillion

through the morning, another story I

have been looking at is about

sickies, apparently we are taking

fewer sick days but it is costing

the economy more because we are

going into work sick. So lots of

people are going in still sick, and

therefore not being very productive.

Talking about being sick, doctors

say don't hold sneezes in. Because

this man really hurt himself, he had

blocked his nose and mouth and

really seriously damaged himself.

I

told you about your silent sneeze,

you shouldn't do that! You have to

let it go.

I will think about it. I

have not injured myself yet.

Calls

from the RSPCA about people who

think they have seen an animal in a

certain area, and it is not actually

true. A woman in Coventry said she

was scared a lizard was approaching

her house, it was in fact a stripy

pink sock. A dead horse was in the

bath tub, -- a dead horse was in

fact a bath tub, and another animal

turned out to be a pair of slippers.

How did they not know they had a

cat?

Steph, you have gone too deep.

I felt I needed to share that with

the nation.

Plans to drastically improve

transport links between cities

in the North of England

over the next 30 years

will be released today.

As well as new rail lines,

there are talks of a new tunnel

connecting Sheffield and Manchester.

Our correspondent Alison Freeman

joins us now from Darlington.

Alison, what do we know so far?

Good morning, yes. Darlington is an

appropriate place to launch this

strategy, the home of rail, where

the first public passenger railway

was in the 1820s. This strategy is

really looking forward, over the

next 30 years, up until 2050. In a

nutshell, the people behind the plan

want to improve roads and rail links

across the North of England. That is

taking in the Humber, Yorkshire, the

north-east and the north-west. They

want to join together ports,

airports and cities, so that people

and goods can be transported around

far more easily. It is going to come

off the back of HS2, creating better

rail links, really. The main new

newsgroup will find out is about the

Northern Rail system, which could be

in place by the 20 30s and will make

travel between cities much more

easy. It is going to cost about £60

billion but could bring £100 billion

of investment to the area. The

public consultation on the plans

will start today, and the government

really does have to listen.

An investigation seen exclusively

by this programme has raised concern

about care support for more

than 21,000 children with complex

special needs in England.

Every child with a special need has

to receive a fresh assessment

for their care by 31 March,

but it seems the majority of local

authorities are going

to miss this deadline.

Jayne McCubbin has been looking

in to this as part of our focus

on this issue.

Jayne, how is the system changing?

OK, good morning. It is meant to be

better, it is meant to be simpler.

It is meant to be better for

children and families. It was always

going to be a huge job, almost

240,000 children, who are under SEND

statements, which tells you what

your child is entitled to in terms

of support, and they had to be

transferred over to this new system

of educational health and care

plans, EHCPs. All children were

meant to be transferred over by

2015, but an FOIA has found the

majority of councils are going to

miss this deadline. We are hearing

that the stakes are being made as

councils rush to try and hit it.

When it happens, it is children who

are paying the price.

It is the biggest reform to special

educational needs support in a

generation and since 2014 the clock

has been ticking. Councils were

given 43 months to transfer all

children off the old system of

statements, to receive new, improved

educational health and care plans.

So how is that shaking up?

It is a

mess, a complete mess. It is a

complete and utter disaster.

Rachel's youngest daughter has

autism, and has struggled out of

school for three years. It was meant

to take 20 weeks to assess her for a

new support plan. Today, they are in

week 54, and still no plan or

support in place.

The medical

assessment wasn't done, and the

social care assessment wasn't done.

You had to crowd fund to get the

right assessment.

We did, we did

have the crowd get the right

assessment. They have failed her on

every level, at every point they

have failed her.

Walsall Council say

it is committed to working with

councils to meet individual needs

and achieve the best outcomes for

children, but Holly is one of an

estimated 21,000 children in limbo,

who will still be waiting to receive

a plan by deadline day. This is a

support group in Richmond, the area

with the worst delays in England.

Everyone here has faced delays,

everyone who has faced problems. The

plant for Bill's son, Rudi, was

missing support needed.

Ten days'

time we will be in another tribunal.

The first-rate dinner was held in

May last year.

How much have you

spent on this fight?

Richmond are

very aware of this, just under

£60,000 so far.

Sarah has also has

to pay to pay for four sons who are

autistic.

They changed case Optus is

five times. So we never knew who our

case officer was.

Melanie says her

daughter is broken by the delays.

She meets with these professionals.

She has Ashley refused now to fill

those forms out any more. She says I

am not filling them out, because

nobody read them, and nobody

actually cares.

Richmond council

tell me they have been working with

families to ensure each transfer is

also strong, informed, individually

tailored plans. Even though it has

taken 3.5 years to only do half the

transfers, they reckon they can the

rest done in the next seven weeks.

Impossible.

it is not doable. It

won't be quality, and it won't be

considered. The quality of new plans

is a concern, right across England.

Do you want the government to scrap

this deadline?

It would be held if

they would extend this deadline.

Having such a ruthless deadline is

putting at risk the quality of plans

that are being delivered, in order

to meet that timescale.

Not everyone

would describe 3.5 years as a

ruthless deadline. This letter was

sent to local authorities recently,

reminding them of the need to hit

it. The government say that with a

starting point of 250,000 transfers,

councils are making good progress,

not words these parents would use to

describe their own experiences.

We have a week of looking at special

education needs on Breakfast, as we

had last year, and we had a huge

response to that. The cop Dom

problems you are concentrating on

our widely known, aren't they?

You

know, back in early 2017, the

government realised there were huge

delays and problems here and they

started asking local authorities to

provide monthly updates to them, at

which the government chose not to

publish. So this Freedom of

Information Act request from these

parents' Forum really is the first

proper picture we have of how it is

going. And it is not great. Based on

the numbers of children still on

statements last year, they were able

to calculate how many are likely to

be understatement come deadline day,

at 20 1000. If the pace transfers

stays the same as it did last year,

the DFE say this means nine out of

ten children will be transferred

over to the new system. But the FOIA

also shows that 60% of authorities,

if they continue at the same rate of

change, will miss that deadline. And

10% of those local authorities will

miss that deadline by more than one

year, if they follow the same rate

of Richmond say they are picking up

the pace, the Department of

Education is a councils are picking

up the pace, but these plans are

meant to be bespoke, personalised,

top quality. If you pick up the

pace, what happens to that quality?

OFSTED, TQC, local government

ombudsman, even council authorities

themselves say they are struggling

to meet this target and it is

families which are left trying to

put this right. Children are paying

the price -- CQC.

And we would love

people to get in touch, as well.

Time now to get the news,

travel and weather where you are.

to follow.

overnight for strong winds. Showers

to follow.

Vanessa Feltz has a Breakfast show

between 7am and 10am tomorrow. I

will be back in half an hour.

Goodbye for now.

Hello, this is Breakfast

with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker.

We'll bring you all the latest news

and sport in a moment,

but also on Breakfast this morning:

From the school playground

to the pitch, we'll speak to sports

presenter Gabby Logan

about a new campaign

to get kids moving.

Also this morning, how this very

special penguin could help

protect the Antarctic.

And after 9am, it's been a turbulent

time for her character but star

of Call the Midwife Laura Main will

be here ahead of the new series.

Good morning.

Here's a summary of today's main

stories from BBC News.

The future of some major

construction projects and hundreds

of public service contracts hang

in the balance this morning

after the collapse of Carillion.

Britain's second largest

construction firm,

which also holds cleaning

and catering contracts for schools,

hospitals and prisons,

went into liquidation yesterday

with debts of around £1.5 billion.

The political fallout continued last

night as Ministers held an emergency

meeting and Labour questioned why

Carillion continued to be awarded

contracts despite repeated

profit warnings.

13 brothers and sisters

between the ages of two and 29 have

been discovered in a malnourished

and dirty state at their home in

California.

Some of them were

chained to their beds.

The alarm was raised on Sunday,

when one girl escaped

and alerted the authorities.

Their parents have been charged

with torture and child endangerment.

MPs say the manufacturer, Whirlpool,

hasn't done enough to deal

with defective tumble dryers

which have caused hundreds of fires.

The company insisted

its repair campaign has

been comparatively successful.

But the Commons Business Committee

said the response to the problem,

discovered in 2015, had been woeful

and it was unacceptable

that more than one million

potentially dangerous dryers

were still being used

in people's homes.

Well, their evidence was woeful.

Since 2004, they admit there are

have been 740 fires in people's

homes caused by these tumble dryers

and yet still today in 2018 there

are 1 million of these tumble dryers

in people's homes and they need to

take much stronger action to get

those tumble dryers out people's

homes and to end the complacency

that has mired the company and the

evidence that they gave.

A blast has brought down

a residential building

in the Belgian city of Antwerp,

injuring several people.

The origin of the explosion is not

clear but police said they did not

believe it was related to terrorism.

Three people have been

removed from the rubble,

including a child.

Belgium has been on high alert

since three co-ordinated suicide

bombings in Brussels

killed 32 people in 2016.

The American gymnast Simone Biles

has said she was sexually abused by

the former USA team coach Larry

Nassar. The four-time Olympic

champion tweeted that she too is one

of the many survivors, but has been

reluctant to speak out until now.

Larry Nassar was jailed last month

for 60 years for possessing images

of child sexual abuse, and is

awaiting sentence for assaulting

other athletes.

The supermarket chain, Iceland,

has said it will eliminate plastic

from its own brand products

within five years.

The retailer said plastic

would be replaced with paper

which could be recycled.

The move has been welcomed

by environmental campaigners

and comes amid growing concern over

plastic pollution in the world's

oceans, where it can

harm or kill wildlife.

A speeding car in California

was hurled into the upper floor

of an office building after it hit

a road divider in the early hours

of Sunday morning.

The crash left one half

of the vehicle hanging out

of the building and the driver

admitted to officers he had used

drugs before getting

behind the wheel.

Luckily both driver and passenger

survived, suffering only minor

injuries

LAUGHTER That is genuinely

incredible footage, isn't it?

While you do the sport, I will look

at the picture in the papers.

It is

something from Back to Future, isn't

it?

Here it is, can you see the

aftermath?

Go into the dentist,

because it says dental office!

Unbelievable. I am talking about the

Australian Open, which started

yesterday, we had Kyle Beckerman

through in the big -- biggest win of

his career, -- Kyle Edmund, the

men's British number one

representing with Andy Murray out.

And number one Johanna Konta is also

three and it was an easy day for her

in a confident return to form.

Konta said she really enjoyed

the heat in Melbourne and tried

to absorb the atmosphere

in the arena.

And she certainly looked

comfortable out there.

The match lasted little over an hour

and Konta only dropped four games

against Madison Brengle.

She'll play another

American, Bernarda Pera.

The six-times champion

Novak Djokovic has been back

in action for the first

time since Wimbledon,

and he came through with ease,

only dropping serve once in beating

Donald Young.

Djokovic is seeded 14th,

after missing the second half

of 2017 with an elbow injury.

And he was wearing quite a fetching

kind of arm long/ coloured sleeve to

play in Melbourne this morning. --

flesh coloured sleeve.

Manchester United have

done their best to take advantage

of Manchester City's

defeat at Liverpool,

narrowing the gap at the top

of the Premier League

to 12 points.

They beat Stoke 3-0 last night,

with new Stoke manager Paul Lambert

watching from the stands.

And Jose Mourinho isn't quite giving

up the title race yet.

We know that the distance

is a very important distance.

I've been there before,

and you can control your destiny,

and you play relaxed.

And, when you play relaxed,

the best qualities are coming.

So I think they have their destiny

in their hands, but we want to win

matches, we want to

finish the best we can.

Ryan Giggs has been

confirmed as the new manager

of the Wales national side.

He's agreed a four-year deal,

and he says he's been unfairly

criticised by fans,

who questioned his commitment.

Giggs says a desire to reach a major

tournament with his country

burns inside him.

It was just an opportunity that I

couldn't turn down. You know, I had

the assistant manager role at

Manchester United after I finished

playing, which I have enjoyed. I

haven't done that for 18 months now

and I am itching to get back to

football, because that is where I

feel comfortable, that is where I

belong. And tremendously honoured

and proud to be the next Welsh

manager.

West Bromwich Albion have described

Cyrille Regis as "A pioneer

for black footballers

across the world".

Regis died on Sunday aged 59

after a suspected heart attack.

He played nearly 300 times

for West Brom in the 1970s and '80s.

He became the third black player

to play for England and was made

an MBE in 2008.

There is very few black men in the

game of football who could have got

through that time that Cyrille got

through and still achieved and still

played for his company and still

played for big football clubs. He

was... He was just a leader.

England cricketer Ben Stokes has

been charged with affray over

an incident outside a Bristol

nightclub in September,

which left a man with

a fractured eye socket.

Stokes missed the Ashes series

and the selectors will be meeting

over the next couple of days

to discuss his future.

Stokes has been charged along

with two other men.

Finally, Ireland and Ulster winger

Tommy Bowe has announced

he will retire at the end

of the season, opting to make

the announcement through poetry.

The former Lions winger posted this

on Twitter:

It is the kind of thing Carol would

pen.

She loves the Limerick.

There

is a bit of a recent issue with that

column I think.

You are very

critical today.

I have obviously

woken up on the wrong side of bed.

-- limerick.

The mother of Poppi Worthington has

described the five years

since her daughter's death

as a complete nightmare.

Yesterday an inquest concluded

the toddler was sexually

assaulted before she died

of asphyxia in bed next

to her father.

Our social affairs correspondent,

Clare Fallon, has been

following the story from the start.

She joins us now.

Good morning. It has been a really

long and difficult case, this one,

hasn't it?

It has been going on for

more than five years now.

Essentially it was the job of the

coroner at this second inquest to

establish how Poppi Worthington

died. During the course of the

evidence we heard that in December

2012 a frantic 999 call was made by

her mother. Poppi Worthington had

stopped breathing at their home. She

was taken to hospital. Medics

couldn't restart her heart. Right

from the outset there were

suspicions about how Poppi

Worthington had died. There is also

being a great deal of disagreement

and conflict with different medical

experts giving opposing opinions

about what happened to her. But

yesterday with this inquest the

coroner ruled that he believed that

Poppi Worthington's father had moved

her from her cot in the early hours

of the morning and that Poppi

Worthington was probably sexually

abused before she died. Cause of

death being recorded as asphyxia.

The coroner said he believes she was

left in and on safe sleeping

position and she couldn't breathe

properly.

What has been the

reaction?

Well, during that

conclusion yesterday at the hearing,

Poppi Worthington's mother was

there, she left the hearing in tears

as the details were given. Much of

the reaction has been about the

police investigation. We know that

the police investigation was deeply

flawed, potentially crucial evidence

was lost. Things like the pyjama

bottoms that Poppi Worthington was

wearing that morning, also the last

nappy that she was wearing. The

chief custard will of Cumbria police

has previously apologised for his

force's failings and yesterday he

apologised again.

It is clear that the initial

investigation surrounding Poppi's

death in 2012 has done little to

assist the coroner in coming to a

conclusion in how Poppi died and I

greatly regret this. I have

previously accepted the justifiable

criticism that has been directed at

the constabulary and I will consider

the detail of the coroner's

conclusion and his comments today

and we will have an early discussion

with Crown Prosecution Service in

order to determine possible causes

of action.

So what happens now, where does it

end? The Crown Prosecution Service

has essentially previously said

there is not enough evidence for

there to be a realistic prospect of

a successful conviction against Paul

Worthington, a man who has always

denied that he did anything to harm

his daughter.

Now, Poppi

Worthington's mother is asking the

Crown Prosecution Service to look at

the case again and re-examine that

decision not to press any charges.

This is a problem, bear in mind,

because of the lost evidence, which

police didn't seize. Some people

would say that is one of the reasons

potentially why prosecutors believe

there isn't enough evidence for

there to be a trial in a criminal

court. Also there is a call for a

public enquiry into Cumbria police.

Thank you very much for bringing us

up to date on such a difficult case.

Let's find out what is happening in

the weather. Depending on what you

are doing today and tomorrow, it

could be quite disruptive.

are doing today and tomorrow, it

could be quite disruptive.

Morning

to you both. We are looking at

disruptive weather over the next

couple of days. This has recently

been sent from Jimmy. It is snowing

in many parts of the country, and

those snow showers will be on and

off through the course of the day,

with a brisk wind. So it will feel

it. They are that in mind if you are

just stepping out now. There is also

the risk of ice on untreated

surfaces. The snow showers continue,

not just on the hills, but down to

sea level as well. Some of the

driest conditions will be across

parts of north-east England. As you

come south, we have those snow

showers not just on the hills but at

low levels as well. Some snow

showers across parts of Wales. Most

of those will be at height, and some

of the heaviest showers through the

day, you could see some wintry stuff

at lower levels as well. And across

south-west England, again windy with

some showers. You are more likely to

see some hail at lower levels, and

if there is any wintry edge to the

showers it will be with height. A

dry start. With the strong winds,

large waves crashing onshore across

the south-west, as we will over the

next few days. And the snow showers

continuing to Pioline. At lower

levels on the northern parts of the

country, we will see at lower levels

as well. It is the South which will

hang on to the pale and rain

showers. This is will how it will

feel, regardless of what it says on

the thermometer, with the wind

against your skin. So leading into a

cold night, the snow showers

continuing. The wind will strengthen

for a time. Some of those snow

showers will also be at low levels

and there is a risk of ice on

untreated surfaces. However you look

at it, it will be a cold night.

These are the temperatures in towns

and cities, lower than that in rural

areas. Tomorrow we start off with

snow showers. Wind easing in touch.

We will see some showers fading, but

there will be some more sunshine

around tomorrow, and dry weather.

Then the next system comes our way.

You can see it ringing some rain in

from the west. This is a deepening

area of low pressure coming in from

the Atlantic. The exact track could

change, but this is what we think at

the moment. On its leading edge it

will have some rain and snow, snow

coming in across Northern Ireland,

parts of England, and Scotland. Some

of that snow could be heavy and

disruptive. Add in the wind. We are

looking at gales across the central

Zuev. Again, across north Wales,

northern England and in towards

Norfolk as well. Further south and

to the west of it, it will be pretty

windy. That could lead to some

disruption. Keep abreast of what is

happening where you are, on your BBC

local radio station.

Thank you very

much for all of those details. Good

weather for penguins.

We have a very special guest

on Breakfast this morning.

This is Wolfy, the penguin,

named after the artist

who designed him.

He, along with some friends,

has travelled round the world,

from Johannesburg to Seoul

to London, to try and protect his

home in the Antarctic.

We will hear why

in about 20 minutes.

We will hear why

in about 20 minutes.

He

in about 20 minutes.

He has

in about 20 minutes.

He has now

in about 20 minutes.

He has now been

in about 20 minutes.

He has now been replaced

in about 20 minutes.

He has now been replaced by

in about 20 minutes.

He has now been replaced by our

in about 20 minutes.

He has now been replaced by our

wonderful colleague, sadly. Well,

not sadly.

The best instruction I

have ever heard is Penguin off,

Steph on.

Clear the Penguin, clear

the Penguin.

I am not allowed to

touch the penguin. It is too

delicate.

There was a clear message

given this morning to only one

person on this so far, don't touch

the penguin. Guess who it was for.

It is because you are terrible,

Anju? Tripping on things...

I

wouldn't want to damage it, it is

very expensive -- aren't you. And

there is a big plan to improve

transport in the north.

Getting around the north of England

could look very different over

the next 30 years,

if a new transport plan

becomes a reality.

We will get more details later this

morning, and Steph can tell us more.

The idea is to improve the rails,

the road, and just the general

movement around the North of

England. For a long time there has

been criticism that there has been

under investment in the area, so

this will go to consultation. It

will cost around £2.3 billion per

year over the next 30 years, and

they have worked out that means

about £150 for every northern

citizen. There are loads of elements

to this, and I will be talking

throughout the programme about some

of them. One is about the journey

between Manchester and Sheffield.

Which we have all done. It can take

an age. So I did that journey to see

what it is like, and also to look at

this idea around whether building a

tunnel between the two cities could

make a big difference.

The north of England is classed as

this area. It is home to 15 million

people, which is nearly a quarter of

the UK's population. It has been

argued that poor transport links are

the key reason for the North falling

behind economically, but fixing that

isn't easy. Now, take the journey

between Manchester and Sheffield,

that I am doing now. Nearly three

quarters of people who commute

between the two cities do so by

road, and it can take about 75

minutes to get between them. That is

at an average speed under 35 mph, on

uncongested roads. After two hours

of travelling, I am in Sheffield to

meet David, who runs an architecture

business here. He is keen to show me

what commuting is like for him.

So

this is university round about now.

If I go the direct route, it will

take one or two hours.

You are a

regular commuter from Sheffield to

Manchester.

Completely regular. We

trade well with Manchester, but if I

do the journey, for example tonight,

with a meeting at ex- PM, I will set

off at three p.m.. Just in case. So

it is totally unproductive time.

Can

you not get the train?

Yes, but that

is an hour, minimum. I have to get

to the train station, Park, get out

of the train and get to my next

meeting. The train should be 30

minutes, not an hour.

Part of the

problem is that all the road routes

between the cities are not designed

for heavy duty traffic. So one idea

is to build a tunnel. How much of a

difference would it make to your

business if there was a tunnel

between Sheffield and Manchester?

It

would make an enormous amount of

difference. We could get there with

a consistent amount of time, you

could forecast it into jobs,

mileage, cost. It is literally a day

at the office at present, it is two

hours there and back, with meetings.

You have ruined the day.

The

proposals would impact villages like

this one, which has a lot of heavy

traffic coming through it. Hello.

Ladies, what do you think about a

tunnel between here and Sheffield?

Fabulous, well needed.

About time.

About time, exactly. Yes, great.

You

live on the main road, don't you?

I

certainly do, I live on the road

itself, and I know it is a bone of

contention with the locals. The way

they fly down the road is absolutely

diabolical. Two I think a tunnel

sounds like a great idea, as long as

it bypasses the villages completely.

Anything that gets the heavy

vehicles off that top road.

It is

beautiful appear, but there is

clearly a need for better transport,

and the plan would reduce journey

times, but it wouldn't come cheap.

And that is the challenge, balancing

the cost versus the benefits.

So that is the plan. We will have

the CEO of Transport for the North

on, who is called Barry White.

I

just look at the fact it was Barry

White.

The thing about that whole

piece is is such a stunning

landscape, as well. And standing the

2.5 hours on your way in and out.

The remaining members of the Irish

rock band The Cranberries have paid

tribute to their lead singer,

Dolores O'Riordan, who died

yesterday at the age of 46.

Last night the band tweeted:

We are devastated on the passing

of our friend Dolores.

She was an extraordinary talent

and we feel very privileged to have

been part of her life from 1989

when we started The Cranberries.

The world has lost

a true artist today.

The band dominated the 1990s album

charts, selling 40 million records

around the world, as our

entertainment correspondent

Lizo Mzimba reports.

# Do you have to let it linger?

# Do you have to, do you have to?

# Do you have to let it linger?

Linger was the first song

Dolores O'Riordan ever wrote

with the Cranberries.

It turned her and

the band into stars.

# I just want to be with you...#

Linger was about teenage rejection.

# I'm such a fool for you...#

Folks, do me a favour.

Please welcome, and just

in time for Thanksgiving,

The Cranberries.

Their rapid success,

particularly in America,

soon saw the young singer-songwriter

move on to weightier topics.

# With their tanks and bombs...#

Zombie was a wrenchingly powerful

protest song, written after two

young children were killed

by an IRA bomb.

# In your head...

# Zombie, zombie, zombie...#

Last

year, the band were ready to tour

once more, but it was cut

short by health problems.

I've had health issues a lot

in the last few years,

but one of the worst things

was I had a disc problem in my back,

and I had to stop playing guitar.

The Irish Prime Minister said,

for anyone who grew up

in Ireland in the 1990s,

Dolores O'Riordan was the voice

of a generation.

# You got me wrapped

around your finger...#

A generation mourning

the loss of one

of music's great talents.

# Do you have to - do you have to?

# Do you have to let it linger?#

Just a stunning, beautiful voice.

Time now to get the news,

travel and weather where you are.

Showers to follow.

I'm back with the latest

from the BBC London newsroom

in half an hour.

Hello.

This is Breakfast,

with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker.

Concerns for thousands

of small businesses

following the collapse of Carillion.

After Britain's second largest

construction firm has gone under,

ministers held an emergency meeting

with suppliers and subcontractors

facing millions of

pounds of unpaid bills.

I will look at what chance

the small businesses have

of getting their money back

and what that means for the work

already carried out

by Carillion across the UK.

Good morning.

It's Tuesday, January 16.

Also this morning: Two parents

are arrested in California

after their 13 children

are found captive at home,

some shackled to their beds

with chains and padlocks.

Whirlpool is accused of a woeful

response to recalling tumble dryers

which have caused hundreds of fires.

MPs say as many as a million

machines are still in people's

homes.

In sport, Johanna Konta

looks back to her best.

The British number one cruises

through to the second

round of the Australian Open,

after a confident straight sets win.

And Carol has the weather.

Good morning.

Good morning.

We have some potentially disruptive

weather on the way for the next few

days. Today we are looking at strong

winds, snow showers even at sea

level and on higher ground it could

lead to some blizzards and then

Wednesday into Thursday we have

gales and also some heavy snow

forecast.

I will have more

details in 15 minutes.

He OK, we are prepared.

Good morning.

First, our main story,

the future of some major

construction projects and hundreds

of public service contracts hang

in the balance this morning

after the collapse of Carillion.

Britain's second largest

construction firm, which also holds

cleaning and catering

contracts for schools,

hospitals and prisons,

went into liquidation yesterday

with debts of around £1.5 billion.

The political fallout continued last

night as Ministers held an emergency

meeting and Labour questioned why

Carillion continued to be awarded

contracts despite repeated

profit warnings.

Let's remind ourselves of the scale

of Carillion's influence.

The company has 450 government

contracts, including maintenance

for prisons and hospitals,

as well as dinners and cleaning

for hundreds of schools.

It is also the second largest

supplier of maintenance services

to Network Rail, and it

maintains 50,000 homes

for the Ministry of Defence.

The firm has 43,000 staff worldwide,

including 20,000 in the UK.

There are also thousands of small

firms that carry out work

on Carillion's behalf,

and Steph's been hearing

from some of them.

Some people who work for Carillion

as well.

Yes, it is strange to think

24 hours ago I was on the sofa

saying that Carillion went into

liquidation and since then lots of

people have been trying to work out

what it means for them, lots of

workers around the country, and

there are so many different types of

jobs, everyone from painters and

decorators, cleaners in hospitals,

cooks in schools, and so many

variety of jobs, so it's really hard

to assess what it means. So lots of

people have been in touch with me

asking about it. We have had lots of

people who are suppliers to

Carillion who have asked what it

means for them and people who have

said that they used to supply them

and they don't any more. Nigel

Higgins said they used to supply

building Materials occasionally, but

they took an age to play so he --

hastily closed the credit account.

Tim tried to get work for them for a

time but they wouldn't agree to

payment terms and it was horrendous.

They would work for 30 days, invoice

and wait 90 days for money. Percy,

the company I work for, they owe

half a million, and people have been

upset with the way they have been

treated as suppliers in the past.

Based on what we know at the moment,

in terms of the protection of jobs,

which is what people are worried

about, if you are in the public

sector side of this, if you are

providing services, the government

is going to carry on funding those

jobs, so people in hospitals and

schools will be working and they

would get paid. It is tricky on the

private side of

private side of things. We don't

know what will happen with the

suppliers. And we know that with big

projects like HS2 other contractors

will come into take over the world.

It might be that someone working

with Carillion will come with

another company. The key thing is

the uncertainty, just not knowing.

One mortgage adviser told me

yesterday he had calls from three

Carillion workers saying I am really

not sure what is going to happen

with my job, will the bank hold my

payments if it is the case I am made

redundant? Lots of questions coming

in about it and lots of different

areas and we will be speaking about

it for a long time.

So many people

getting in touch. We will read them

all. Thank you.

The American gymnast Simone Biles

has said she was sexually abused

by the former USA team

coach Larry Nassar.

The four-time Olympic champion

tweeted that she too is one

of the many survivors,

but has been reluctant to speak

out until now.

Larry Nassar was jailed last month

for 60 years for possessing images

of child sexual abuse,

and is awaiting sentence

for assaulting other athletes.

Police in California have rescued 13

brothers and sisters from a house

where some of them

were chained to beds.

Parents have been charged with

torture and child endangerment.

Earlier we spoke with James Cook.

The car behind me is

gleaming in the driveway.

It was here on Sunday

when a 17-year-old girl escaped

from this house, taking apparently

a phone she had found

with her and calling the police,

the emergency number,

911, here in the US.

When she met the police she told

them 12 siblings were held captive

inside the house.

Officers arrived and they found

all 12 of them, some of them

shackled, some held

by handcuffs to beds.

They say it was foul smelling

inside, conditions were terrible.

Some of the people

appeared malnourished.

At first they thought

they were all children.

It was only when they investigated

further that they realised some

of them were adults,

seven of them in fact were adults.

Police were shocked to discover that

simply because of their size

and their apparent frailty as well.

Obviously there are a lot

of questions asked here,

not least by neighbours,

who say that they knew

that there was something slightly

odd about the family.

They didn't often see all 12,

as one of them thought,

there were 12 here.

One woman said she thought

that there were 12 siblings.

She very rarely saw all of them

and when she did they seemed to be

just not willing to

engage with anybody.

They seemed to shrink

away from the world.

They say that they had no idea

about what was going on.

The parents have been charged

with torture and child endangerment.

And that was James Cook reporting.

The remaining members

of The Cranberries have paid tribute

to their lead singer,

Dolores O'Riodan,

who died yesterday at the age of 46.

The Irish rock band had a string

of hits in the '90s,

with singles including

Linger and Zombie.

Their debut album sold 40 million

records worldwide in 1993.

Last night the band tweeted:

And so many people paying tribute to

her as well.

If you dread battling the traffic

on the morning commute,

spare a thought for early

morning drivers in Sydney,

who had their journeys I think

improved in many ways

by a wayward wallaby.

This footage was shot by police

officers keeping pace

with the mischievous marsupial,

who was first spotted crossing

Sydney's iconic

Harbour Bridge at 5am.

If you like an animal fact, they can

hop at 30 miles an hour.

one evaded capture for several miles

before crossing the bridge

and finally being

cornered in a park.

Fortunately there's a happy ending

to this tale as the wallaby

was taken to a local zoo and is now

recovering well from its early

morning sight-seeing trip.

It has been charged with dangerous

hopping! Everyone is happy.

Good morning.

The collapse of Carillion yesterday

not only casts a long shadow

of uncertainty over the future

of the company's 20,000 British

workers, it could also

have a serious impact on thousands

of small businesses whose work

was based on subcontracting

from the construction

and services giant.

Mike Cherry is the chairman

of the Federation of Small

Businesses.

-- Kevin McLaughlan runs a painting

and decorating business.

On Monday

morning people turned up to go to

work and 30 people were sent home.

We have not been advised in the

office.

office. Very difficult situation. We

still had another job in the city,

and the impact is that we have lost

the money that they ask, but we have

lost a forward order book of half a

million. Six months ago we were

working for a company that was worth

£2 billion. In six months it is

worth 60 million pounds. We had been

paid on time and everyone was

treating us fine. There was no

communication about the problems. We

read the press. I have no reason to

think. Then it became apparent last

week and all the weekend before last

that there were problems on the

banks were beginning to withdraw

funding. At Christmas we heard that

the funding was going to last until

April. Then we heard it would be

next week and then hence from

Thursday onwards the government have

clearly pulled the plug. A kind of

understand. But they did not do it

to the banks. They haven't done it

to the hospitals or the prison. They

have done it to normal work will be

-- working people, and they don't

get any consideration whatsoever.

Mike Cherry is the chairman

of the Federation of Small

Businesses.

He really clearly outlines the

problem he has been having. How

widespread is this?

I believe this

is very widespread. I wrote to the

chairman of Carillion last July when

they extended their payment terms to

120 days and clearly this is a

culture that we have been fostering

for far too long in this country,

companies abusing the supply chain

through late payment or other

requirements imposed on their

suppliers and it has to stop. This

is just one of those examples. My

heart goes out to all the small

businesses and employees affected by

this. It will be a long time before

we see the end of the fallout and

hopefully some of these businesses

will continue. I am afraid many may

not.

Anyway to gauge the numbers? We

know that Steph said over 40,000

employed by Carillion around the

world. In terms of the number of

small businesses affected, it is

hundreds of thousands of people.

We

have seen media reports up to 30,000

businesses, £1 billion in the supply

chain paid out according to their

accounts last year. That is huge

numbers. Unfortunately, many of

those businesses are unlikely to

survive. I would hope that the

government is able to do something

to help them. As we all know, small

businesses are at the end of the

creditor chain and they are not

supported by creditors. It raises a

point about government procurement.

For some time, we have been arguing

that the targets that government has

set to push more business down to

small businesses just doesn't seem

to be working. And here you see it

as an example, where you have got

large contracts in the hands of

small large group of companies.

The

government argue would be that we

give it to a company like Carillion

and it ends up with some of the

small and medium-sized businesses,

is it a valid argument?

I don't

believe so because the management

rests with Carillion and oversight

is with Carillion and as we have are

already suppliers are not being paid

by Carillion, or they were not being

paid, and it is something that has

to be broken up and stopped and the

government has to take a long hard

look at this.

Kevin was talking

about people being turned away from

jobs, so there is a very stark

choice and stark things happening to

people right now, so what can small

companies do - it sounds like from

what you have said, it is a very

dire picture.