19/01/2018 Breakfast

Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Charlie Stayt and Naga

Munchetty.

A breakthrough in the battle

against cancer - scientists find

a potential "affordable"

and "universal" blood test.

The new trial detects eight

forms of the disease.

It's been described as a step

towards one of the biggest

goals in medicine.

Good morning, it's Friday

the 19th of January.

Also this morning:

Accused of holding their 13 children

in shackles at their California

home, David and Louise Turpin

plead not guilty.

To charges of torture, false

imprisonment, and abuse.

Prisoners accessing drugs

and a growing use of drones -

a report into conditions

at Liverpool Prison says it's

"dirty, infested and hazardous".

Plans to shake up the UK's cash

machine network could leave many

remote areas with no access to cash.

But with cards and contactless

payments, do we still need them?

In sport, Edmund defies the heat

to win in Melbourne.

He's through to the fourth

round for the first time

after a 5-set win.

I want to be a pilot. I want to be a

game designer.

I want to be a maths

teacher.

From sports stars to social media

icons, we'll find out what thousands

of children said when they were

asked to draw their future careers.

And Matt has the weather.

Good morning. I certainly am, I have

come in search of snow and I have

found it, what is of the showers

again today across parts of

north-west England, Northern Ireland

Scotland and in southern Scotland

there could be some issues later. I

will have all of the details in your

full forecast in the next 15

minutes. Maps, thank you. -- mat.

Good morning.

First, our main story.

Scientists in the US are close

to a major cancer breakthrough,

after trials for a new universal

blood test detected eight common

forms of the disease.

Overall, the test found

70% of the cancers

but researchers say more work

is needed to verify its accuracy.

Here's our health

correspondent James Gallagher.

Love and 14 million people find out

they have cancer each year

worldwide. The sooner they are

diagnosed, the more likely they are

to survive. The test, called

CancerSEEK, is a new approach that

looks a mutated DNA and protein that

tumours release into the

bloodstream. It was tested on eight

common times of cancer including

ovarian, pancreatic and lung, and in

the study on more than 1000

patients, note have cancer, the test

correctly diagnosed seven in 10

patients. The research is at John

Hopkins University in Olesen will

say more work is needed and a

starting trials to see if the test

can find cancers in seemingly

healthy people. They say such test

can have an enormous impact on

cancer mortality. Expert in the UK

said the approach had massive

potential. The research is's vision

is an annual test that can catch

cancer early and save lives.

We'll be speaking to Cancer Research

about this in just over

half an hour.

A couple from California

who are accused of abusing their 13

children have pleaded not guilty

to charges of abuse,

torture and false imprisonment.

David and Louise Turpin

were arrested on Sunday after one

of their children escaped

through a window of their home.

Police found them severely

malnourished, with some in shackles.

Our North America correspondent

James Cook reports.

That is give up that right...

David Turpin appearing in court

to deny torturing his own children

and sexually abusing one

of his young daughters.

His wife, Louise, also

pleaded not guilty.

prosecutors say

-- Prosecutors say the siblings

endured the abuse for years

as their parents

plumbed the depths

of human depravity.

One of the children

at age 12 is the weight

of an average 7-year-old.

Several of the victims have

cognitive impairment and neuropathy,

which is nerve damage,

as a result of this extreme

and prolonged physical abuse.

The children were supposedly

schooled here in their home

but the district attorney said

they lacked basic knowledge.

Some didn't even know

what a police officer was.

They were reportedly allowed

to shower just once a year

and were beaten, chained

up and tormented.

The 17-year-old who raised the alarm

after climbing out of the home

through a window had been plotting

the escape for two years.

One of her sisters made it out

with her, but turned back

out of fear.

This case has sent waves

of revulsion across

the United States and beyond.

The authorities say the siblings

are doing well, but some of them

at least have almost certainly

suffered irreparable physical

and mental damage.

The parents are due

in court again next month.

If convicted, they

face life in prison.

Funds earmarked to help transform

the NHS have instead been spent

on managing existing pressures -

that's according to a report

from the National Audit Office.

In 2017, trusts received more

than three billion pounds

of additional cash injections,

on top of already allotted funding,

to help fund day-to-day activities.

it is a growing pressures and

surging demand had caused a

reallocation of resources.

Production in the historical rate of

funding, the level of savings and

efficiencies that local authorities

are delivering isn't quite fitting

that and then you have demands and

pressures in terms of the amount of

activity that patients are

presenting with at hospitals and

clinics.

Two fishermen are missing

after their boat capsized off

the coast of Western Scotland.

Lifeboats were launched

after receiving a distress signal

off Argyll and Bute

yesterday evening.

Royal Navy divers have been

helping in the search.

Another man who was rescued

is recovering in hospital.

Living conditions at

Liverpool Prison are the worst that

inspectors have ever seen,

according to a new report.

Her Majesty's Prison

and Probation Service said it's

already taken immediate action

by appointing a new governor

and that cleanliness

has also improved.

Our health correspondent

Adina Campbell reports.

Dirty, infested, and hazardous -

these are conditions hundreds of

inmates are facing at Liverpool

Prison. According to a new report by

the prison watchdog. As well as

problems with rats, broken windows,

and blocked toilets, it is also

found two thirds of inmates had easy

access to drugs. Often smuggled by

the growing use of drones with more

than one seized every week. And

violence had also increased, more

than one third of prisoners said

they felt unsafe at the time of the

inspection.

I was horrified when I

read this report. It is the worst

report I have ever seen into a

British prison and that is the

assessment too of the inspectorate

team, they said these were the worst

living conditions for prisoners that

they had ever experienced.

Her

Majesty 's prison and probation

service acknowledged that the

conditions at the prison were

unacceptable. It said it has already

taken immediate action by appointing

a new governor and that cleanliness

has also improved. It also says it

has put a huge amount of energy and

money into trying to improve the

prison healthcare service air.

Inspect and took place in September

last year but last month,

whistleblowers told the BBC that

inmates at Liverpool Prison had died

or been injured due to poor care.

Which Lancashire care NHS foundation

trust has apologised for. Today's

report comes after the government

was ordered to make immediate

improvements to Nottingham prison

over safety concerns. Eight men

there are believed to have taken

their own lives in two years.

Boris Johnson has proposed building

a 22-mile bridge

across the English Channel.

He believes another link

would further improve relations

between the two countries.

He made the suggestion at a meeting

with the President of France,

yesterday. He believes the fact that

two countries are interconnected by

one railway line in that is crazy,

he proposed a new fixed link across

the Channel.

Increasing costs on the build

of the UK's new aircraft carrier

programme is putting the budgets

of other defence projects at risk,

according to MPs.

A Public Accounts Committee

report said the programme,

which includes two new carriers

costing 6 billion pounds,

is hugely complex and costly.

The MoD said that it was committed

to keeping costs down.

The British author Peter Mayle,

who wrote A Year in Provence has

died, aged 78.

The book, published in 1989,

told the story of his first year

as a British expat in a village

in the South of France.

In 2002, the French government

awarded him a Knight of the Legion

of Honour for his

contributions to culture.

The crew of an Antarctic research

expedition has a new team member.

The scientists were out

collecting water samples,

when up popped an Adelie penguin.

The curious bird had

a quick look around,

decided it wasn't for him,

and jumped back in to the icy water.

The crew was from the

Australian Antarctic Program.

Why not? What a lovely visit! A

temporary crewmember. It was like a

bus in the old days, you jump on and

you jump off again. Yeah, that his

fare. Do you know what I'm talking

about or not? It is going to be one

of those mornings, isn't it? Can you

feel that? So you have got News for

us, Australia... And one extreme to

the other into temperatures there.

It has big news for Great Britain in

tennis, Kyle Edmund 49 in the world

has gone further than ever before,

and what's more, in heat that when

nudging 40 Celsius. That is the sort

of you currently set out in but to

play a five set tennis match, while!

How long did it take? Over two

hours, a long-time out in the heat.

Despite the heat, Kyle Edmund

is through to the fourth

round of the Australian Open

for the first time, beating

the Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili.

The 23-year-old came back

from a mid-match slump to win

in a match which lasted

for 3.5 hours.

Sorry, not 2.5!

It means he's now

through to the last 16.

England's second One Day

International against Australia

is underway in Brisbane.

The hosts won the toss

and chose to bat.

Joe Root's taken two wickets.

A century from Aaron Finch and 36

from Mitch Marsh has helped

Australia to 213 - five at 40 overs.

Ronnie O'Sullivan says he's glad

that he's out of the UK Masters

tournament at Alexandra Palace

because he's been struggling

with illness.

He was beaten 6-1 by Mark Allen,

and said he didn't feel physically

strong enough to go on and win

the tournament anyway.

And there'll be eight uncapped

players in Eddie Jones' England

squad as they begin the defence

of their Six Nations title away

to Italy on February 4.

The head coach says number eight

Billy Vunipola is likely to miss

the whole tournament with injury.

In a moment in the papers, sports

stars that have named after their

sport or have similar names to the

actual sport. It is quite funny,

actually. Thank you. I was just

thinking of your surname. What you

could do with sport. Good on you.

Have a think.

Matt has the weather

for is from the Cumbrian village

of Shap, where there's been

up to 15cm of snow.

By the end of the day, while we

actually see you because you could

well be buried by all of the snow

coming down. Good morning. Good

morning. I fully you will still see

me, a few showers over me but good

morning from Cumbria. You come

outside the village of Shap onto the

hills to find some Sophie due this

morning. For those who have not seen

it so far this week, there have been

plenty around. Of course through

Wednesday night into Thursday

morning up here in Cumbria we saw

six inches of snow fall and that led

to all sorts of trouble problems. A

six was shot, closed for a time, an

important route and in fact you for

the M6 behind me was built in the

70s, it was the only route between

north-west England and Scotland, the

main route, I should say. Still a

few problems this morning because of

ice across the UK, both will become

a little less problematic into next

week as things turned that little

bit more mild but certainly as far

as today is concerned, if you take a

look at the forecast for today, it

is one that is still very, very

wintry, a forecast today is one of

sunny spells of some of you,

particularly in the south and east

of the UK but to the north and west

we have lots of snow showers around

of the UK but to the north and west

we have lots of snow showers around

once again. To those of you in

south-west Scotland in particular,

the snow flurries could be quite

nasty through this morning and

during the day, because it up to 20

centimetres of snow across some

parts of south-west Scotland.

Eastern Scotland should be fine,

some snow flurries in north-west

England but what eastern and

southern England it is a fine and

bright start. Tom Frost is around

extensively after clear skies

through the night. A chilly start

here compared to what we saw

yesterday but for the south-west,

bills and showers in south-west

England and Wales, some snow mixed

in with them over the high ground

but the most of us it is rain, sleet

and the odd rumble of thunder. Some

hail perhaps as well. Heavy snow

showers moving across the north of

the moment and snow showers coming

and going all day. Scotland,

north-west England, a big problem to

you this morning will be the risk of

ice. What an icy start to the day.

The snow showers becoming more

frequent across parts of northern

Scotland during the day, into

north-west England and Northern

Ireland, and because of the odd

shower elsewhere across southern and

eastern parts of the UK, the further

south you are the more likely the

rest of the rain, hail and sleep but

in between, some sunshine around and

like recent days, temperatures 2-

seven degrees but with a bit more

breeze further north, it will fill

colder than that with an added

windchill. Into tonight, there will

be a few changes taking place.

Showers for a time across the north

but if anything they become a little

less strong, temperatures drop may

be down to -10 in a few spots, in

the south-west and the south of the

UK some clubs are outbreaks of rain

and sleet and snow pushing into take

us into the start of the weekend.

The Saturday it will be a way, cold

start across many southern areas. It

will be some rain and maybe some

sleet and snow mixed in. Further

north, bright and crisp, very cold,

one or two snow flurries but if

anything a dry day to many with lots

of fun time around but

across-the-board once more. To the

southern areas after the restart you

may see a little bit of afternoon

sunshine. To take it into Sunday, a

completely different day for all of

us. A weather front will moving from

the west, eventually bringing mild

air across the south-west of the UK

but is it hits, particularly in the

hills of Scotland, even to lower

levels at times you could see and

briefly a few worries in the hills

of southern England before

temperatures warm up as it turns

back to rain later on. I know that

is something that Naga didn't want

to see but it looks like Sunday will

turn but across the country and it

takes us into milder conditions for

next week. More details through the

morning.

next week. More details through the

morning. At least you are appeasing

me with the milder conditions. Are

they the gloves with the holes in

them?

I thought I couldn't wear them

again, so they are safely stowed

away for another time.

We have been admiring them. They are

very smart. See you later.

Let's take a look at today's papers.

Starting with the front pages. The

Sun showing Prince William's new

haircut.

That did not cost £180.

That's the story.

It is also on the front page of the

Daily Mirror.

That's the kind of haircut my mum

would say, I could have done that

for you!

The Mirror reporting it could reach

epidemic proportions, the flu

epidemic. We will hear some of the

details later.

Sticking with the Royal theme, on

the Times we have a picture of

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, who

are getting married later this year

of course. And Britain's should

consider building a bridge to

France, says Boris Johnson. He says

to link Britain and France. Of

course that would be on top of the

Channel Tunnel. I don't know if you

are looking at this story, what is

happening here?

They are looking at

insider dealing which we know is

when you act on share price

movements because you've got an

insight, you know what might be

happening in that firm. This is a

suggestion in the Times that an

insider deal is being overlooked and

a city trader is not paying as much

attention as they should be. They

are saying it's a white-collar crime

and very complicated, so maybe they

aren't investing enough, what it's a

very interesting story. Especially

given the pressure put on

institutions in the wake of the

financial crisis.

On the front page

of the Telegraph, "We were saying

about Boris Johnson calling for a

breach, he hasn't specifically said

that's what he is talking about but

he has said it is absurd that there

is only one load of infrastructure

linking Europe with the UK. We will

be talking more about that this

morning. What are you looking at,

Mike?

That sounded a bit rude, sorry.

I was looking at the papers,

honestly! The big transfer saga of

the summer looks like it could come

to an end today, with Alexis Sanchez

possibly being announced as a

Manchester United player, joining

from Arsenal. You know it is on --

imminent when fans are getting hold

of an official shirts with the name

of the player on the back. It is

suggested in the Express that

Manchester United hope to sign him

in time to play Burnley tomorrow.

£180 million, by the way. Isn't it

usually the surname that's on the

back of the shirts?

Yes, but I think with some South

American names they used the first.

The other one is sports stars that

are named after their sport.

Yesterday at the Australian Open the

number of... The 2014 champion Stan

Wawrinka was knocked out by a man

named Tennys. When he is out in

public he has a different name. So

if he is ordering coffee he doesn't

say, for Tennys, please. Why not?

I suppose it is embarrassing!

Looking at other sports stars, Usain

Bolt, bolt of lightning. This is

great. The award goes to the

Bulgarian hurdler whose name is

Stumbleover.

That's fabulous!

Hats off for that one.

There's no way I can follow that.

But I really like this story in the

Guardian. This is Waterston is.

Their profits are up 80%. Everyone

has written off physical books

because of e-readers and kindles.

Well, they say they are now still

after physical books. So their

profits are 80%. So a revival on the

high street and of course they are

big high-street name, so things

looking good because e-readers have

come and gone, apparently.

How happy

to we feel when we entered the

office in the morning?

Good.

Just the best...

Clearly it depends

who you are working with.

Where is

this going?

Apparently open plan offices make as

miserable and they affect employee

job satisfaction and the reason is

because you are surrounded by

others, with other people comes

accompanying noise and food smells,

so it increases stress levels, sick

leave, you are better off having

your own office and researchers are

calling this a way to better enjoy

the working day.

We often look very

abandoned in our open offices.

That's why we get on well.

As was

the -- I suppose it depends on

individual. I would feel isolated in

a own office.

What with a door that won't open

from inside? Thanks!

Thank you very much.

Since 2014, UK employees have had

the right to ask for flexible

working, which can include

cutting down hours, working

from home

or job sharing.

But less than half of parents feel

flexible working is an option

for them according to the charity

Working Families, who is calling

on the government to do more to help

parents achieve a work-life balance.

Our consumer affairs correspondent

Nina Warhurst reports.

Should all jobs work around our

families or should our families be

built around our jobs? For Katie the

crunch came when she had her

daughter. In her global marketing

role there wasn't an option to go

part-time and stay in Glasgow and

after 12 years with the same company

she took redundancy.

It is hard

because you have given an awful lot

of who you are to this one job and

suddenly you are out of that, almost

cast out, not intentionally. It is

difficult to know who you are, where

you are going next, what do I do

now?

Kaytie has now set up a craft

shop and she loves it, but can't

help wondering what might have been.

Since 2014 if you worked for more

than six months you would be

entitled to ask for Flex of working.

So that might be few hours, maybe

working from home or perhaps a job

share. But your employer has been

allowed to say no if they found it

is detrimental to their business and

that, combined with a slow cultural

shift in some places, means not

everyone feels it is working for

them. More than half of parents

survey felt flexible working is in

the gentle option for them. Nearly

two in five said their current hours

mean they don't get to say good

night to their kids. And more than

13% said they are working the

equivalent hours of an extra day a

week just to get their job done. But

things are changing for some at

least. Five kids means John needs of

a job that works for him and he has

founded. He starts at 9:30am every

day and doesn't work school

holidays. Does that mean things are

nice and Carberry to an?

I wouldn't

say that, but things are less

stressful.

Less stressful for staff

and the jobs is better for the

business. Productivity has gone up

by 30%.

We found a lot of mothers

and fathers at home have got UNIX

skills and capabilities, but no

access to childcare or it's too

expensive and they've never thought

about working for temp working. This

way they can do both.

The government

told us:

Kaytie says getting to pick her

children up every day is the best

job she's ever had, but she hopes

that if they become parents it won't

come at the cost of compromising

their careers.

Nina joins us now on the sofa.

Good morning. Asking the question

part of the process, our people

worried about asking for it in the

first place? Whether or not he can

happen or be approved, people worry

about even asking the question?

What

the study shows is the legislation

is in place and employers are ready,

but there's not been a cultural

shift. Often people raise their

eyebrows if people have a long lunch

or coming late and this is asking

for a shift from flexi being the

norm and the onus is on the employer

to prove it is detrimental on the

business, rather than you to prove

it will be good for the business.

Maybe fulsome all businesses... I

know you've tried. HR can prove

quite expensive, but as we saw with

company in Glasgow overall

productivity went up and people were

allowed to squash their workload

into four days. When people are

happier they tend to stay longer, so

you have the lower turnover.

There's

always that barrier. You are a bit

cautious when you ask. How do you

ask positively? You almost feel like

you have to sell it.

Absolutely. The

first thing is to know your rights.

If you have been a full-time

employee for six months or more you

can ask for it and then they have to

prove that it is detrimental. If

they want to do that they also have

to offer you an appeals process and

you can be that person in your

office who makes a massive

difference for everyone. But it is

scary to be the first to be that

pioneer, so maybe talk to your

colleagues are you can approach your

boss together.

It is an important

issue but it has put a seed in my

mind just to ask.

You never know!

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Hello this is Breakfast

with Naga and Charlie.

It's 6:30.

Scientists in the US are close to a

major cancer breakthrough after

trial three you universal blood

tested detected a common forms of

the disease. The test found 70% of

the cancers. Although results are

promising, more work is being needed

to verify the accuracy of the test.

A couple from California who are

accused of abusing their 13 children

have pleaded not guilty to charges

of abuse, torture and false

imprisonment.

David and Louise Turpin

were arrested on Sunday after one

of the siblings escaped

through a window.

Police found them suffering

from severe malnutrition,

and some children were in shackles.

Several of the victims have

cognitive impairment and nerve

damage as a result of this extreme

and prolonged physical abuse. None

of the victims were allowed to

shower more than once a year.

Increasing pressures on the NHS has

meant that funding intended

for transforming parts

of the service, has been spent

on day to day services,

according to a report

from the National Audit

Office.

Record levels of demand means

that repeated bail-outs

to help the NHS cope with pressure

on services and finances

could become the "new normal".

In 2017, trusts received more

than three billion pounds

of additional cash injections

to help fund day-to-day activities.

The reduction in that

historical rate of funding,

the level of savings

and efficiencies that local

authorities are delivering isn't

quite offsetting that,

and on top of that, you've got

demand pressures in terms

of the amount of activity that is -

that patients are presenting

with at hospitals and clinics.

Living conditions at

Liverpool Prison are the worst that

inspectors have ever seen,

according to a new report.

Inspectors say living conditions

at the jail are the worst

they've ever seen.

However, Her Majesty's Prison

and Probation Service said it's

already taken immediate action

by appointing a new governor

and that cleanliness

has also improved.

Boris Johnson has proposed

building a 22-mile bridge

across the English Channel,

saying he believes another link

would further improve relations

between the two countries.

He made the suggestion

at the meeting with the French

President Macron yesterday.

A source close to the Foreign

Secretary said he believed the fact

the two countries are only connected

by one railway line was "crazy".

Increasing costs on the build

of the UK's new aircraft carrier

programme is putting the budgets

of other defence projects at risk,

according to MPs.

A Public Accounts Committee

report said the programme,

which includes two new carriers

costing 6 billion pounds,

is hugely complex and costly.

The MoD said that it was committed

to keeping costs down.

The British author Peter Mayle,

who wrote A Year in Provence has

died, aged 78.

The book, published in 1989,

told the story of his first year

as a British expat in a village

in the South of France.

In 2002, the French government

awarded him a Knight of the Legion

of Honour for his

contributions to culture.

Those of the main stories. Mike is

here with news from the Australian

Open. And we are buzzing, but in

this morning for British tennis

because Kyle Edmund who is only 23

have gone further than he has ever

gone before at the Australian Open

and Andy Murray indeed tweeted this

was the biggest win of his career

and lots more he did it in

temperatures nudging 40 degrees,

five sets. 3.5 hours, incredible.

round

of the Australian Open for the first

time after a gruelling

five-set win over

Nikoloz Basilashvili.

Let's speak now to our tennis

correspondent Russell Fuller,

and Russell can you put

into context, just how big a win,

this is for Edmund.

It is another significant moment in

his career, it isn't the first time

he has been in the fourth round of

the Grand Slam, he did that in New

York in the US Open 15 months ago,

that he had the misfortune to run

into Novak Djokovic at that stage.

This time he has an opportunity to

go further because his opponent in

the fourth round, we don't know who

it will be yet but somebody who is

ranked and it could be a man about

1039 in turn 39 in the giant

Croatian Ivo Karlovic, even more

than that, today was impressive

because of the way that he found

himself to sets to one down, brutal

heat, the same for both players, but

he came through and it was one game,

not set, one game that lasted 20

minutes early in the fourth set

which Edmond one, a pivotal bill

before pivotal game, 15 deuces and

he got the decisive breakthrough and

after that, he looked marginally

stronger but he was -- it was mighty

tight and played over 3.5 hours in

temperatures of 39 Celsius.

Incredible. Pretty cold around the

UK, lots of snow around.

We know the heat affected

Johanna Konta yesterday -

Give us a sense for you and the

players how bad and brutal it has

been.

It has been brutal but not

quite brutal enough of them to call

off play. They have a scientific

formula, it depends on the air

temperature and when it gets to 40

people talk about the sort of area

where there may be a suspension of

play that you also have to have high

levels of humidity and the humidity

is not that high today. There is a

little bit of a nice breeze as well

from the north, which is the hot

wind in Australia, it ultimately you

put all of those figures into their

computer and it was safe to play in

the opinion. Other players have

spoken out about it, pile wasn't too

fast, he said it is one of those

things, I accepted isn't ideal but

we have to play, L Monfils and Novak

Djokovic said yesterday after their

match in the heat of the day that

they felt conditions were right on

the limit of all limits, L Monfils

Bourdy had mild heatstroke and he

accepted that players are putting

their health on the line without

competing in conditions like this.

Russell, thank you indeed. Good to

see you have found a spot of shades

there.

It has been much more calm and

Brisbane to the second 1-day

international, Australia and England

1-day international is under way,

the match is already intriguing.

Australia won the toss and chose to

bat and were piling on the runs with

Aaron Finch making a century of the

bowlers are putting pressures on

Australia who are 237- six off 45

overs.

Ronnie O'Sullivan says he's glad

to be out of snooker's

Masters tournament.

He was knocked out in

the quarterfinals yesterday

by Northern Ireland's Mark Allen,

who won by 6 frames to 1.

O'Sullivan, who has won

the tournament a record seven times,

revealed he was suffering with dizzy

spells and double vision.

And he may not feature

at the World Championships.

He hasn't put thousands of miles on

my clock, I like to book time on my

clock and open to pressure and

stress too well so there is other

opportunities out there and I enjoy

it and it is good fun and buy life

is never been better because of it

so you know that is just the way it

is you know and if they want to play

a tournament that they have to come

knocking on my door if they want me

that Pat come and knock on my door

talked to me if you don't be that

bad and the other people that do

stuff on my door talked to me if you

don't want me that bad and the other

people that do stuff for me as well

you know?

You know when to a feeling

poorly you just want someone to an

arm around your shoulder and get you

to play in the world. It is nice to

be wanted. Quite unusual for a

sports car to say that they were

glad they were knocked out but if he

was a footballer he wouldn't have

been able to play but a snooker of

courses and individual sport. He

always is what he means, doesn't it?

We like that.

And England's Kyren Wilson

has joined Mark Allen

in the last four.

The world number 14 had

a straightforward win against two

times world champion Mark Williams.

Like Allen, he won by six frames

to one, and will play either

Judd Trump or Shaun

Murphy in the semis.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says

Alexis Sanchez IS now likely to join

Manchester United.

Sanchez is close to signing a

four-year deal at Old Trafford

reportedly worth a staggering

180 million pounds.

The deal could see

United's Henrikh Mkhitaryan,

move in the other direction.

I have worked on transfers of 30

years, you know, it is likely to

happen at any moment, any minute,

things can break down. It is how the

transfer market is. So as long as it

isn't over the line, due have to

accept that it could not always

happen, these kind of things are

never guaranteed.

Rory McIlroy's back from injury

and on a competitive golf course

for the first time in three months.

He shot a first round of 69

at the HSBC Championship

at Abu Dhabi yesterday,

that was three shots behind

England's Tommy Fleetwood,

who shot a bogey free round of 66

to take

the joint lead after

the first round.

Some of the players are out

on the course now, both Fleetwood

and McIlroy tee off just after 8

opclock this morning.

-- o'clock this morning.

Now, an odd issue for

a Premier League football manager

to have to deal with in a press

conference, but Burnley boss

Sean Dyche has been forced to deny

that he eats worms

during training sessions.

One of Dyche's former team-mates

said he often saw him eating

earthworms and it was one

of the reasons for Dyche's gravelly

voice, but the manager says it's

all a bit of a misunderstanding.

You get one of those nice, big juicy

worm is hanging down the edge of

your mouth and then, as if you are

chewing it and, of course, wash your

mouth out with water. A bit of

banter which was probably taken a

bit too far, he is probably

squealing and turning away but for

the record I definitely do not eat

worms.

There you are, forced to deny. How

could they make your voice gravelly

though? Good point. I don't imagine

them to be squishy and, you know?

Are you going to try eating worms?

In certain parts of the world you

can eat deep-fried earthworms. I

have only ever eaten a earwig. I

have eaten a locust. That is quite

common. Crunchy! Should we stop now?

Stop it now? It is 6:40 AM. Charlie

has told us to stop talking! Let's

go back to the main story.

Scientists are a step closer

to solving one of the biggest tests

in medicine - a universal blood test

for cancer diagnosis.

Doctors in the US say they've

successfully trialled a method able

to detect eight of the most common

types, including breast,

liver and lung cancers.

The research is still

at an early stage.

Professor Richard Marais

is from Cancer Research UK.

He can tell us more about this

potential breakthrough.

Take us through the basics, what is

the new and exciting part of this

exciting discovery?

We know that if

we can detect and find cancer, we

can save lives and so we have made

this a priority and are investing in

it. The problem is, the general

population, how do you decide or

detect who has his early cancers? So

we need a blood test and a blood

test is great because it is

minimally invasive, cheap, and the

idea here is with a blood test you

can actually detect a broad range of

cancers.

So what is the latest

identified because at the moment if

you have a blood test you look at

the white blood cell count and you

see if you are sick. Which may

indicate cancer but it doesn't tell

you which cancer.

Yeah.

How is this

different?

When you have cancer, the

cells die and release their DNA into

the blood and the DNA is the genetic

code of our life we is a genetic

disease and so that DNA in the blood

can be detected and if you find the

DNA that has come from the, is it

different from normal cancer so you

can work out whether the patient has

cancer. The other thing that this

group did was looked at eight

proteins that are commonly

associated with cancer and measure

does and the clever thing is that

the only looked at the most common

pieces of damage in the DNA so we

have 3 billion genetic letters, they

only looked at 2000 and from those

2000 they were able to detect cancer

in 70% of the people they looked at.

So looking forward from this point,

and it is early stages because this

is a trial of just over 1000 people,

looking forward with this, how do

you imagine that this change, the

discovery they have made to be used

in practice, say, in 10 years time,

if it is proved to work?

It will

take a length of time. We need to

prove that it does work. They looked

at healthy people. If you have a

cold or flu or some other underlying

condition, how will it affect the

test? I look forward to a time in 10

years when we all go to the

pharmacy, we buy our shampoo, to

give a blood test, and we get on

with our lives. And the NHS is

spending more money diagnosing and

treating disease because if we can

diagnose it early then we can treat

it soon and we can save people 's

lives.

You say a length of time,

what time period are you looking at,

really?

Some of the tests, the blood

test, already available to some

cancers that they, there were only a

few of them and they are specific, a

particular kind of cancer, and it

isn't early diagnosis, it is the

measuring how people are responding

to treatment. So we already know

that these can work in the cancer

setting and I think proving this

early diagnosis will take probably

five, six years at least.

But then

it looks like every year someone

having...?

Every year or six months,

you go and see your GP or ideally

you have done at the pharmacy. And

you say it is cheap? $500, it is

American Barosso £450 but it seems

to me money well spent.

In terms of

NHS funding, how would you think...?

About £400 for a test and it may not

total cancers but if it can cut 80%

of them, it would be fantastic.

Very

interesting. Thank you very much

your time this morning.

Pretty cold for most of us across

the country. There are

Pretty cold for most of us across

the country. There are yellow

warnings. And, Northern Ireland and

northern England. Lovely in the

studio, but not where you are! A

pretty Cumbrian village where there

has been 15 centimetres of snow? It

just stopped snowing

has been 15 centimetres of snow? It

just stopped snowing half an hour

ago.

Good morning. We've come over to

this village up on the hills. We saw

15 centimetres of snow on Wednesday

night. A few flurries this morning.

We are trying our best here. Let's

call it a work

they fear weather warnings in place.

We've just had a Met Office and the

weather warning issued, so be aware

that could be problems to the south

and east -- amber. We could see up

to 30 centimetres, about 12 inches,

of fresh snow. That could cause

problems for the M77, M73 and M74.

Let's have a look at the forecast.

Dry and sunny, if rather cold,

especially further south and east.

Most of the showers will come to the

north and west. More frequent in the

morning rush-hour on the west of

Scotland. Further east of Scotland,

clearer conditions and frosty. A

sunny start. In Scotland and

north-east England, showers and icy

conditions to start the day. Much of

the Midlands, eastern and southern

England, frosty start to Friday

morning. Temperatures drop further

last night than in recent nights and

where there were showers yesterday

the ground is damp. The prepared for

icy conditions. To the south-west we

have few showers at the moment.

Rain, sleet and hail through the

day. A bit of snow at times,

especially on higher ground. The

Northern Ireland, frequent snow

showers which could cause problems

through the morning rush-hour. Again

leading to some pretty icy

conditions on some of the roads and

pavements. Through the day, western

Scotland, Northern Ireland,

north-west England most likely to

see is no flurries. Showers in Wales

and south-west England. The breeze

will pick up through the day, so a

couple of showers moving further

east. Many in eastern half of the

country staying dry. Temperatures

about 2- seven degrees. Colder in

northern areas thanks to the

strength of the wind. Tonight we

continue to have snow showers for a

time in the north and west, but it

will become less frequent and with

clearer skies it will be a much

colder night. Parts of Scotland

could get down to minus ten. A

difference to the south. Cloud

spreading in and bringing rain,

sleet and maybe some snow to the

higher ground. For Saturday southern

counties of England and Wales start

off grey and cold. Quite damp as

well, with patchy rain, sleet and

maybe snow over higher ground. It

will brighten up later. The couple

of isolated showers after a very

frosty start for not mostly dry,

with sunshine. In the Sunday and are

more noticeable change across the

country. A weather front pushing in

off the Atlantic which will bring

widespread heavy rain towards the

south-west of the country. Cold air

after a very frosty start. Parts of

Scotland, northern England could be

extensive snow for a time, turning

back to rain later and further south

we could have snow on the tops of

the hills before it turns back to

rain. What you will notice is

temperatures in double figures quite

widely as we finish Sunday and that

mild air will gradually take over

the Sunday night and into Monday to

take us into next week. For today,

still cold and wintry and the AMP

weather warning has been issued

through parts of south-west Scotland

-- amber weather

through parts of south-west Scotland

-- amber weather warning.

Who is a little friend?

It's a work in progress.

Isn't it just?

It isn't ideal snowmaking stuff.

Seriously, you are blaming the snow?

It's the wrong type?

It is the wrong type. Trust me.

Honestly. We are trying!

It can only get better! Get busy

working on that.

Is it getting harder

to find a cash machine?

Apparently it is increasingly

difficult. A lot of people have got

in touch to say cash machines have

disappeared from their town or

village. Some of this is down to the

closure of bank branches themselves

and the cash machines attached to

them close as well.

This is particuarly a problem

in more rural areas.

At the moment, there are over

70,000 ATMs in the UK.

The vast majority of

them are free to use,

but in some areas it's

difficult to find one.

New research shows over 100,000

people dont have one nearby.

And it's rural areas

that are worst hit.

Postcode PE32 in Norfolk

is the most populated area,

home to 15,294 people,

that doesn't have a cash machine.

You can see the rest, Somerset, Kent

and North Yorkshire also badly

affected.

But why?

David Cavell is a retail banking

consultant and joins me now.

Let's touch on free cash machines.

We take them for granted, they

aren't free at all.

No, you have to

buy the machine, maintain it, keep

it replenished with cash,

periodically it might go wrong. So

there is a running cost, but

traditionally most of that has been

recovered through fees and

third-party transactions through the

machines.

Interchange fees are the

amount they can charge the location.

So with that cash machine is in a

shop, they would pay a little sea to

the shop to have there?

The

interchange really is the charge

that is made by the person handling

the transaction to the bank that

issued the card.

I touched the fact

that a lot of this problem is down

to rank branches themselves closing

-- bank. And that will only get

worse?

Absolutely. We have the

thinnest branch network in Europe.

We really have been closing branches

at a rapid rate over the last 5- ten

years and of course the ATMs were an

alternative, so they started to

disappear, or a charge is levied for

the use of ATMs, we have a double

whammy that we don't want.

How do we

make sure those cash machines stay

in the places where they are needed?

As we touched on a aren't free, so

who will bear that cost, to keep

them in rural areas, for example?

I

understand that but you have to step

back and the biggest you hear is an

announcement was made and we don't

fully understand the implications of

it. You talked about 200 locations

identified by Which, where there

would be real difficulties. We could

be opening the floodgates. The fact

is that the alternative methods of

making payments, small payments, at

the moment are not that widely used.

There are still 48 million people

using cash machines. Nine out of ten

of those used them once a month.

Link gave us those videos. So with

that level of popularity and demand,

I think there's got to be some

really hard thinking and evaluation

before we can detract the existing

network.

Just on those alternative

payments, we are changing the way we

pay. Contactless, through our mobile

phone. Is this cash machine

providers getting ahead of the game?

I think it is. Link are a

world-class organisation and they've

done a lot of great work on

financial inclusion in the last 12

years. I think they've just made a

mistake on this one and are moving

too soon. We do have those

alternatives, but they haven't yet

insufficiently widely adopted.

Good

to talk to you. Thanks for

explaining that. I will have more

for you after 7am.

thanks.

"What do you want to

do when you grow up?"

grow up?"

That was the question asked

of 13,000 seven to 11 year olds

in the UK, in the largest

ever study of its kind.

The charity Education

and Employers asked children

to draw their favoured

future profession.

They say the pictures offer

a fascinating insight into early

career aspirations,

and how they are changing.

Tim Muffett reports.

# You can be the greatest...

I want

to be a pilot because it is really

fascinating and I can explore the

world.

world.

I wanted to be a surgeon

since I was small?

Wire?

Because I

want to help people.

Drawing their

future. These pupils at a primary

school in Wembley were amongst

13,000 in the UK who took part in a

remarkable survey.

We wanted kids to

draw their future aspirations. What

they want to become. We wanted to

understand what's going on in their

heads, the ideas about the future.

Across the UK the most popular dream

job amongst 7-11 the roles was a

sports man or woman. More than a

fifth of children through them,

followed by teacher, then a vet,

then a job in social media or

gaming.

I want to be a game designer

because it seems like fun and I play

a lot of games and I want to see how

they are made.

Some might say this

is very young to be thinking about a

future career.

What do you think? I

think they are never too young. It's

never too early. Primary school is

the right time for children to be

forming good habits.

They need a

game plan. One of the main

conclusions from this study is that

gender is very typing does begin

early. Four times as many boys chose

an engineer as a dream job compared

to girls. Twice as many boys drew a

picture of a scientist. Why this

gender stereotype? Why does it

happen as young as Devon?

I think

that's when your assumptions and

ideas start to shape. The kids who

heard jobs through family and

friends, that seems to be the

biggest influence, basically. -- on

their decisions. But those who

didn't have the family access, they

mainly heard about the jobs on the

TV and social media.

The school

prides itself on challenging

stereotypes and encourages pupils to

think differently.

This picture

really stands out to me. Simply

because if they were 100 professions

that you would say that Rihanna

would pick you would never think she

would select being in the navy.

I

want to try something new and I

thought it would be interesting.

I

want them to have the skills and

knowledge and the kind of... We can

do attitude, so they will be able to

pride themselves to lead the

professions that are coming through.

We will be talking a little more

about dreams and what you want to --

wanted to be when you were younger

later. Did you know that one in ten

men between the ages of 18 and 34

now take their wife's surname when

they get married? We will talk to

I'm back with the latest

from the BBC London newsroom

in half an hour.

Bye for now.

Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Charlie Stayt and Naga

Munchetty.

A breakthrough in the battle

against cancer - scientists find

a potential "affordable"

and "universal" blood test.

The new trial detects eight

forms of the disease.

It's been described as a step

towards one of the biggest

goals in medicine.

Good morning, it's Friday

the 19th of January.

Also this morning:

Accused of holding their 13 children

in shackles at their California

home, David and Louise Turpin

plead not guilty.

The worst flu season

for seven years.

Public Health England will tell us

how they're planning to tackle it.

But reform prisoners accessing drugs

and the growing use of drone, a

report into conditions at prisons

said they are dirty, and hazardous.

Do loyalty cards have a future?

Changes to Tesco's club card

scheme provoked an angry

response from customers.

I'm looking at whether carrying

all that plastic is still worth it.

In sport, Kyle Edmund defies

the heat to win at the Australian

Open.

He's through to the fourth

round for the first time

after an epic win in 40-degree heat.

I want to be a pilot.

I want to be a game designer.

I want to be a maths teacher.

From sports stars to social media

icons, we'll find out what thousands

of children said when they were

asked to draw their future careers.

And Matt has the weather.

Good morning, I've come up to the

hills of Cumbria in search of stone

and I have found it. More wintry

weather to come today. We kick off

with an ever weather warnings are

parts of south-west Scotland. Be

prepared for further disruption and

heavy showers. Full details coming

up in 15 minutes.

First, our main story.

Scientists in the US are close

to a major cancer breakthrough,

after trials for a new universal

blood test detected eight common

forms of the disease.

Overall, the test found 70%

of the cancers but researchers say

more work is needed

to verify its accuracy.

Here's our health

correspondent James Gallagher.

More than 14 million people find

out they have cancer

each year worldwide.

The sooner they're diagnosed,

the more likely they are to survive.

The test, called CancerSEEK,

is a new approach that looks

for mutated DNA and proteins

that tumours release

into the bloodstream.

It was tested on eight

common times of cancer,

including ovarian,

pancreatic and lung.

In the study, on more than 1,000

patients known to have cancer,

the test correctly diagnosed

seven in 10 patients.

The researchers at Johns Hopkins

University in Baltimore say more

work is needed and are starting

trials to see if the test can find

cancers in seemingly healthy people.

They say such tests could

have an enormous impact

on cancer mortality.

Experts in the UK said the approach

had massive potential.

I look forward to a time in 10 years

will be all go to the pharmacy and

by shampoo, we get a blood test, and

we get on with our lives will stop

and the NHS is spending more money

diagnosing and treating disease

because if we can diagnose it early

then we can treat it sooner.

The researchers' vision is an annual

test that can catch cancer early

and save lives.

James Gallagher, BBC News.

We'll be speaking to Cancer Research

UK about this in just over

half an hour.

If you have questions, perhaps about

the research, e-mail us. All you can

use the hashtag BBC Breakfast and

get in touch with us on social

media.

A couple from California

who are accused of abusing their 13

children have pleaded not guilty

to charges of abuse,

torture and false imprisonment.

David and Louise Turpin

were arrested on Sunday after one

of their children escaped

through a window of their home.

Police found them severely

malnourished, with some in shackles.

Our North America correspondent

James Cook reports.

..give up that right.

David Turpin appearing in court

to deny torturing his own children

and sexually abusing one

of his young daughters.

His wife, Louise, also

pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors say the siblings endured

the abuse for years as their parents

plumbed the depths

of human depravity.

One of the children at age 12

is the weight of an average

7 year old.

Several of the victims have

cognitive impairment and neuropathy,

which is nerve damage,

as a result of this extreme

and prolonged physical abuse.

The children were supposedly

schooled here in their home,

but the district attorney said

some didn't even know

what a police officer was.

They were reportedly allowed

to shower just once a year

and were taunted with food

that they were forbidden to eat.

The 17-year-old who raised the alarm

after climbing out of the home

through a window had been plotting

the escape for two years.

One of her sisters made it out

with her, but turned back

out of fear.

This case has sent waves

of revulsion across

the United States and beyond.

The authorities say the siblings

are doing well, but some of them

at least have almost certainly

suffered irreparable physical

and mental damage.

The parents are due

in court again next month.

If convicted, they

face life in prison.

James Cook, BBC News,

Riverside in California.

Money that was supposed to be spent

on long-term improvements to the NHS

in England has been spent on

day-to-day services instead,

according to the spending watchdog.

The National Audit Office says

increasing pressures on the health

service means it is struggling

to manage higher patient demand

and stay within budget.

The Department of Health said

the report recognised that the NHS

had made significant progress

towards balancing the books.

The reduction in that

historical rate of funding,

the level of savings

and efficiencies that local

authorities are delivering isn't

quite offsetting that,

and on top of that, you've got

demand pressures in terms

of the amount of activity that is -

that patients are presenting

with at hospitals and clinics.

Two fishermen are missing

after their boat capsized off

the coast of Western Scotland.

Lifeboats were launched

after receiving a distress signal

off Loch Fyne in Argyll

and Bute yesterday evening.

Royal Navy divers have been

helping in the search.

Another man who was rescued

is recovering in hospital.

Living conditions at

Liverpool Prison are the worst that

inspectors have ever seen,

according to a new report.

Her Majesty's Prison

and Probation Service said it's

already taken immediate action

by appointing a new governor

and that cleanliness

has also improved.

Our health correspondent

Adina Campbell reports.

Dirty, infested and hazardous -

these are conditions hundreds

of inmates are facing

at Liverpool Prison,

according to a new report

by the prison watchdog.

As well as problems with rats,

broken windows and blocked toilets,

it has also found two thirds

of inmates had easy access to drugs,

often smuggled by the growing use

of drones, with more than one

seized every week.

And violence had also increased.

More than a third of prisoners said

they felt unsafe at the time

of the inspection.

I was horrified when

I read this report.

It's the worst report I have ever

seen into a British prison

and that's the assessment, too,

of the very experienced inspectorate

team.

They said these were the worst

living conditions for prisoners

that they had ever experienced.

Her Majesty's Prison

and Probation Service acknowledged

that the conditions

at the prison were unacceptable.

It said it's already taking

immediate action by appointing

a new governor, and that

cleanliness has also improved.

It also says it has put a huge

amount of energy and money

into trying to improve the prison

healthcare service there.

The inspection took place

in September last year,

but last month, whistle-blowers told

the BBC that inmates

at Liverpool Prison had died or been

injured due to poor care,

which Lancashire Care NHS

Foundation Trust has apologised for.

Today's report comes

after the government was ordered

to make immediate improvements

to Nottingham Prison

over safety concerns.

Eight men there are believed to have

taken their own lives in two years.

Boris Johnson has proposed building

a 22-mile bridge

across the English Channel.

He believes another link

would further improve relations

between the two countries.

He made the suggestion

at a meeting with the President

of France yesterday.

Full is close to the Foreign

Secretary says

-- a source close to the foreign

secretary says he believes the fact

that two countries are

interconnected by one

railway line in that is crazy.

Increasing costs on the build

of the UK's new aircraft carrier

programme is putting the budgets

of other defence projects at risk,

according to MPs.

A Public Accounts Committee

report said the programme,

which includes two new carriers

costing 6 billion pounds,

is hugely complex and costly.

The MoD said that it was committed

to keeping costs down.

The duration of adolescence

is increasing, and now lasts

from the age of 10 until 24,

according to scientists.

They say that young people

continuing their education

for longer, as well as delayed

marriage and parenthood,

which has pushed back

popular perceptions

of when adulthood begins.

Writing in the Lancet health

journal, the researchers argue

a change in the definition

of adolescence is needed to ensure

laws and government

policy stay appropriate.

The crew of an Antarctic research

expedition has a new team member.

The scientists were out

collecting water samples,

when up popped an Adelie penguin.

The curious bird had

a quick look around,

decided it wasn't for him,

and jumped back in to the icy water.

The crew was from the

Australian Antarctic Program.

the sea is better than the boat. But

the news.

the news. But story tickled me.

-- that story tickled me.

The UK is in the grip of the worst

flu season for seven years.

Officials say hospitals are seeing

"very high" rates of admissions,

and there are four separate

strains of flu circulating.

The latest figures show

that the number of people who went

to their GP in England rose

by 40% in the past week,

with similar numbers

in other parts of the UK.

Almost 600 people were admitted

to hospitalised last week,

200 of which had to be

treated in intensive care

or high dependency units.

Since early October,

120 people have died of flu-related

symptoms since early October

in England, 21 in Scotland and 8

in Northern Ireland.

Joining us from our London newsroom

is Professor Paul Cosford,

Medical Director at Public Health

England.

Thank you for your time this

morning. I just wonder if you could

first try and establish, having

heard some of the statistics, is the

flu crisis, it is that has been

dubbed, is it getting worse?

The

latest information as you say is

that, we are seeing increases in flu

again in the last week particularly

in people who are going to their GPs

with flu all people who are

unfortunate enough to have

convocations that mean they need

admission to hospital. The most

severe end, people needing intensive

care, those numbers are staying

roughly the same in the past week.

So there are some indications that

the rate of increase is slowing at

when we hit the height of the flu

season, the height of that season

usually last about one month we are

no means through the woods yet.

The

newspapers are using the word

epidemic, typically, is that the

right term? How close is it to that?

We are seeing the most severe flu

season for many of our indicators of

activity, like people going to the

GP, since 2011, but with the last

most severe one which just followed

the pandemic, but if you look at the