05/03/2018 Breakfast

Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

Put the kettle on... I'm bringing an

Oscar.

Gary Oldman has a message

for his mum after winning the Oscar

for Best Actor for his portrayal

of Winston Churchill.

But the biggest cheer of the night

was for the best actress winner

Frances McDormand when she paid

tribute to all the women nominees.

If I may be so honoured to have all

the female nominees in every

category stand with me in this room

tonight...

And we've got a ticket

for the Vanity Fair

after show party.

We'll be live from the red carpet

talking to the stars as they arrive.

Good morning, it's

Monday the 5th of March.

Also this morning:

MPs accuse Sir Bradley Wiggins

and Team Sky of crossing an ethical

line in their use of drugs,

but they've strongly

rejected the claims.

Millions of people are told

to limit their water use as thawing

temperatures cause burst pipes.

Good morning.

The number of people

starting apprenticeships

has fallen dramatically.

I'm at this manufacturer

in Birmingham to find out why.

In sport, a pre-match pep talk

from David Beckham helps inspire

the England Lionesses in New York.

They twice come from a goal down

to draw with Germany

in the SheBelieves Cup.

And Carol has the weather.

Good morning. The weather remains

unsettled this week but not on the

scale of last week. A chilly start

this morning with mist and fog, some

sunshine, some rain, but the snow is

mainly going to be on higher ground.

More details in 15 minutes.

See you

them, thank you.

Good morning.

First, our main story.

Gary Oldman has told his 99-year-old

mother to put the kettle

on because he was bringing Oscar

home as he was crowned Best Actor

for his portrayal of

Sir Winston Churchill in Darkest

Hour.

Frances McDormand was

named Best Actress.

The Best Film prize went

to The Shape of Water.

From Los Angeles, here's our

correspondent, James Cook.

After a year of darkness, a splash

of colour returned to Hollywood. The

black threads of protest were gone,

although the determination to call

Time's Up on abuse and to create a

more inclusive industry remained.

If

I may be so honoured to have all the

female nominees in every category

stand with me in this room

tonight...

Best actress winner

Frances McDormand had a message for

the moguls.

Look around, ladies and

gentlemen, because we all have

stories to tell and projects we need

financed.

And the winner is, Gary

Oldman, Darkest Hour.

For this

transformation into Winston

Churchill, though British actor saw

V for victory and he thanked this

99-year-old mother.

I said to my

mother, thank you for your love and

support. Put the kettle on, I'm

bringing Oscar home.

There were four

more British winds, including one

for the Silent Child, a short film

about a deft little girl from

Wiltshire.

I made a promise to our

six-year-old lead actress that I

would sign this speech, and my hands

are shaking a bit so I apologise.

Last year this famous duo announced

at the wrong winner. No such problem

this time.

The Shape of Water.

The

greatest thing our art does and our

industry does is raise the lines in

the sand, we should continue doing

that, when the world comes, tells us

to make them deeper.

Inclusion was

the theme, change is really coming

to Hollywood was the message. James

Cook, BBC News, Los Angeles.

Our arts correspondent Rebecca Jones

is on the red carpet

at the Vanity Fair party

for us this morning.

How is it going?

Good morning. It

isn't actually a red carpet here, it

is a blue and cream carpet at Vanity

Fair but this is where all the stars

come after the Oscars ceremony and

if they are winners, they are

clutching those gold statues. Film

crews from around the world here on

either side of me and the stars come

up the carpet. I'm keeping an eye

over my shoulder in case anyone

arrives as we're talking. We're

waiting for the all-important

winners, we hope to talk to Gary

Oldman later, Frances McDormand won

Best actress, Allison Jani won Best

Supporting Actress, Sam Rockwell, a

supporting actor and The Shape of

Water, Best film. We expect the cast

and crew from that as well.

Thanks

very much, we will be back with the

blue and green carpet later.

My favourite bit during the Oscars,

to try to make sure the ceremony

didn't overrun, the organisers of

the prize of a jetskis for the

shortest acceptance speech.

The costume designer

from Phantom Thread,

Mark Bridges, won an Oscar

for Costume Design and gave a speech

that came in at just 36 seconds.

I think he just said thank you.

And Ashley Judd, Salma Hayek

and Annabella Sciorra took

to the stage for a Time's Up segment

about breaking barriers and changing

the culture in Hollywood.

We will be back later and we will be

watching that carpet carefully in

case Gary Oldman turns up because we

would like to speak to him.

You

talked to him after the Golden

Globes?

We did, we had a good

chinwag. We will talk about the good

bag as well, and $1000 worth in it,

holidays to Tanzania and Hawaii in

it and anti- sweat patches as well,

which always go down well, only

worth $9.

They might be worth more

than the holiday, though!

Britain's top Olympian Sir Bradley

Wiggins and Team Sky have been

accused of crossing an ethical

line in a report by MPs,

who say they used medication

to enhance performance.

Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky have

strongly refuted the claims.

Adam Wild reports.

They are some of the biggest names

in British sports

but this long-awaited report

represents perhaps

the gravest blow yet

to their reputations.

Most significantly that

of Sir Bradley Wiggins,

the nation's most

decorated Olympian.

One of the things the report's

authors point to is the use

of certain drugs by Wiggins

and his former team,

Team Sky, the purpose

of which they say was not always

to treat medical need

but to improve performance.

That is something both Team Sky

and Wiggins strongly refute.

And whilst they didn't

break anti-doping rules,

they did, the report says,

cross the ethical line.

And the head of the team,

Sir David Brailsford,

must take responsibility.

But this report goes much

further than just cycling.

They say the evidence of Lord Coe,

the head of athletics governing

body, to MPs on the committee

in 2015, was misleading,

when he sought to distance himself

from any knowledge of allegations

of doping in Russian athletics.

The report also speaks of shock

at an injection of a drug called

L-carnitine given to Sir Mo Farah

before the 2014 London Marathon.

Whilst it isn't a banned substance,

there are strict rules

around its use, yet that

dose did not appear

on Farah's madical record.

It's cycling, though,

a sport which has already suffered

a series of blows to its reputation,

for which today's report

will be most damaging.

Adam Wild, BBC News.

And in half an hour we'll be talking

to Damian Collins the chair

of the committee which

produced the report.

Customers in parts of London

and the south east of England have

been told to limit their use

of water after thawing temperatures

caused burst pipes.

Thousands of others have been left

with no water at all.

Simon Clemison is in West London

where emergency supplies of bottled

water are being distributed.

This is a problem right across the

United Kingdom, Simon, what is the

situation this morning?

Good morning, Dan and Louise. This

is what they call a water Station.

The consequences of the weather

don't seem to end, do they? You have

a big lorry full of bottles of water

to help the thousands of people in

London this morning still struggling

with supplies. Other parts of the

country are struggling, Severn Trent

apologising to people in Rugby after

nothing came out of the tap. It is

warmer in London than it was when it

was snowing a few days ago and in

one part of the country it got to 12

having been -4. If you think about

it, that is a 16 degrees rise. We

know cooling down and warming up

these metal pipes can lead to these

bursts and leaks and people to be

left without supplies. Overnight

I've been speaking to some of those

affected here.

I haven't had a shower today

unfortunately.

There's no water in

the tabs, no shower.

I work in the

pub downstairs and they have no

water so I had to shut early.

You

run a restaurant, what's it like to

come in and find no water? It is

critical. Without water you can't do

any business. You can't wash up?

Exactly.

You can't wash up, you

can't prep food, you can't operate.

I went down to the corner,

unfortunately no water last night,

now the sink is working but I don't

know when they're going to fix all

the problems. So much water is

draining out of the system, Thames

Water need to make sure there is

enough coming in. People are saying

to have barfs, not showers, fully

loaded the washing machine and don't

wash the car, which I'm fully in

favour of.

A problem for many this

morning after the cold weather of

last week.

Seems believable we can't

get water but that's what is

happening. -- seems unbelievable.

United Nations officials in Syria

say they hope an escalation

in fighting in the rebel-held

enclave of Eastern Ghouta over

the weekend won't prevent them

from taking in humanitarian supplies

today.

President Assad has given

permission for the aid convoy,

but said the government's

military offensive to retake

the area must continue.

Construction firms which have been

slow to build new homes could be

refused planning permission

in future, under a shake-up to be

unveiled by Theresa May.

The Prime Minister will tell

developers to step up

and do their bit, warning that

sitting on land as its value rises

is not acceptable at a time

of chronic housing need.

Italy appears to be heading

for a hung Parliament after voters

backed right-leaning

and populist parties.

Our Europe correspondent

Gavin Lee is in Rome

for us this morning.

Gavin, who are the

winners and losers?

Why is it significant?

Good morning.

A rainy run today, government office

behind me and with Parliament at the

moment, we know it is hung, there's

no decisive outcome, Italians have

got used to that but suddenly the

biggest party, Italy's first party,

is the Five Star Movement, and the

softly spoken sharp suited

31-year-old Luigi Di Maio could be

potentially one of the youngest

Prime ministers of Europe. But

they're saying at the moment they

wouldn't form a coalition with

another party. We have Italy's

eternal Highlander, Silvio

Berlusconi, the 81-year-old

billionaire, the centre-right

politician... According to the

polls, the moment half of the vote

has been counted but they say the

centre-right have it in terms of a

bigger overall score. The government

of the moment, Paolo Gentiloni, the

former Prime Minister leading the

party, Metteo Renzi, suffering in

third. We have coalition building

politics right now but ultimately

European leaders are worried because

the two Populist party, the Northern

League and the Five Star Movement,

together, if the score is right,

would get 48% of the population who

voted for them. It is something

European leaders are hoping doesn't

come to pass.

Gavin, thank you very

much indeed, time to get out of the

rain!

It's not everyday a baby

chimpanzee learns to fly.

This is the moment Mussa

co-piloted his own rescue mission.

The baby chimp bonded

with his rescuer during their flight

home together after he was saved

from poachers in the Congo.

He was doing a little bit of

preening, did you see that?

Clearly

getting on very well.

That is

utterly adorable.

Is that your

favourite story of the day already?

It could be my favourite animal

story of 2018. We're not very far

into the year but I will put it out

there.

On the day after the Oscars

you have given the award out very

early there!

John is here reflecting

on another good result for England's

women?

Yes, lots in the papers today

about Bradley Wiggins and the

fallout from the MPs' report, we

will look at the back pages and the

front pages, because it certainly

got a lot of coverage. A good -- big

moment for Phil Neville, especially

in the SheBelieves Cup, playing

against the top two teams in women's

doubles, the USA and Germany and

they played Germany last night and

they got an important draw, great

for Phil Neville and their progress

with the ultimate aim of winning the

World Cup at some point in the

future.

To matters on the pitch now

and England's women came

from behind to draw 2-2 with Germany

in their SheBelieves Cup

match in New York.

Ellen White scored

both England goals.

A little pep talk from David Beckham

as well before that match, we will

bring you that later.

Manchester City edge closer

to the Premier League title.

They beat Chelsea 1-0.

Four more wins and Pep Guardiola's

side will take the trophy.

Bernardo Silva scoring yesterday.

Andrew Pozzi won a sensational

Gold for Great Britain

at the World Indoor Athletics

Championships in Birmingham.

His victory in the 60 metres hurdles

came by just one hundredth

of a second!

Incredibly tight finish there.

And after 12 years, British men's

tennis has a brand new number one.

When the rankings are released this

morning, Kyle Edmund will replace

Andy Murray in the top spot.

Andy Murray has been out injured but

he is targeting an earlier than

expected comeback. Kyle Edmund will

be Defra little while but you wonder

how it will be after that. -- there

for a little while. The clay-court

season is pretty punishing on the

body, and I imagine he will want to

have some...

I am listening to you.

I have found this story about

pineapples and pasties.

I did not

steal it out of your paper, but I

spotted it. The front page of the

Daily Telegraph, their main story

there is about senior police

officers warning bosses of the risk

of false abuse claims made against

an Iraq war veteran, and that is a

disclosure either Telegraph there,

and they have a story, a picture

there of Margot Robbie as well.

The

Guardian front page, we will also

speak to David Collins about this,

Bradley Wiggins and sky abused over

doping -- abuse doping rules to win

the tour. The findings of a

long-awaited committee of MPs.

long-awaited committee of MPs. And

Carillion there as well.

Bradley

Wiggins mate French -- made the

front page of the Sun and the mail,

and the first story there. It does

seem extraordinary to be told to

ration water last night, this is

after the big freeze and causing

havoc with water supplies.

The front

page of the Times, a lovely picture

of Sir Roger Bannister, you may have

seen that he sadly passed away over

the weekend, we will speak to his --

someone who is coach made him watch

videos of Sir Roger Bannister. And

may tell is Trump not to risk trade

war.

Wiggins is also on the back

page of the Guardian, the

credibility of team sky at which is

the team that was always classed as

doing things whiter than white in

the post doping Irra, their

reputation being called in to

question. It is also on the back

page of the mail and the front page

of the Sun, the key line here is

that it is unethical, the report

that what they were doing was

pushing the boundaries are

medically, that is the key finding

from this report. And it is also

covered in the Telegraph, in their

pullout. It says Wiggins is facing

new claims over doping. It will be

in choosing to hear what David

Collins has to say after that

report.

Bradley Wiggins and sky have

both put up a pretty robust defence.

They had not been found guilty of

any wrongdoing, they refute the

claims, and I imagine Bradley

Wiggins will have more to say.

Pineapple news. Dan and I disagree

about the use of pineapple,

particularly hot pineapple.

We need

to embrace...

You like it on Peter?

I can't believe you mentioned that

that is some of the pizza.

Apparently an American pastie

containing pineapple, outrageous,

has won the world pastie

Championships. It has won the

prestigious accolade, held each year

in Cornwall. Pineapple in an

American pastie winning?

The best

and which I have ever had, in

Brazil, right, white roll, loads of

little shavings of steak into, pate,

and a huge ring of pineapple, it was

magnificent.

That is your pineapple

news, we won't mention it again. 19

minutes past six. What is going on

this morning, it has calmed down a

little bit?

Compared to last week

Compared to last week this week 's

weather is much quieter, here is the

forecast, most of it is in the hills

above 100 metres, there will be some

mist and fog in the mornings and

some ice in places. If we look at

the forecast today, we have got some

showers at spreading across the

south, and still some snow for the

Scottish hills, and also this

morning over parts of the north-east

England. Largely in the hills. You

can see as a white picture what is

going on, quite a lot of cloud

across the -- of a satellite picture

quite a lot of cloud across the UK,

the showers continuing across parts

of Wales in the south-west, we have

snow coming across north-east

Scotland above 100 metres also, and

some dry conditions over towards the

West. The Northern Ireland, you have

a cloudy and dark day ahead with

some showers and drizzle, and some

rain across north-east England with

some snow for example on higher

ground. Through the day what you

find is further showers coming

across the South, some of those will

be heavy, possibly thundery and

Hampshire, Dorset into Somerset.

Cloud will build through the day as

well. But if you notice the

temperatures, they are in sharp

contrast to what we had last week in

the south, and they are roughly

where they should be at this stage

of March. It will be cool as we push

further north. As we move through

the evening and overnight our

frontal system producing this rain

continues to head northwards, as it

hits the colder air across northern

England, we will see some snow above

a couple of 100 metres, at the same

across Scotland, mostly through the

hills. Some rain out towards the

West. There is the risk of ice this

coming night and also we are likely

to see some patchy mist and fog

falling. Tomorrow that will lift and

to England and Wales we are off to a

dry and bright start, a weather

system pushing northwards, taking

its rain and hill snow across

Scotland, brightening up across

southern and central Scotland as we

go through the course of the day,

and finding up quite nicely.

Temperatures ranging from four in

Aberdeen to about ten as we pushed

down towards London, but still some

showers just floating with the

south-west. Then as we head into

Wednesday, further showers, some of

those could be heavy with some hail

mixed in amongst them, in southern

counties, this weather front in the

north-west of Scotland, will see

wintry showers, but we could see

some as well across Northern

Ireland. But there is a lot of dry

weather around as well. So in

summary, for this coming week, it is

going to become milder as we go

through this week, particularly when

you think of the temperatures and

windchill of last week, it will

however remain settled -- unsettled

with some showers and snow at times,

but the snow will mainly be on the

hills in the north. Back to you.

but the snow will mainly be on the

hills in the north. Back to you.

Let's talk Oscars, where Rebecca

Jones has two look at us and try and

keep her eyes on what is happening

behind. I just saw you talking to

Salma Hayek?

Yes, I just spoke to

Salma Hayek, we record that

interview so I will play that in a

few moments. Two people are hugging,

over my shoulder, I am not sure who

they are, it is a bit like that.

Hundreds of stars coming here after

the ceremony, many clutching their

precious gold statues. There are

photographers and journalists and

paparazzi from all over the world

here wanting to grab a word with the

stars who are arriving here. We

spoke to Salma Hayek just a few

seconds ago, she was an important

part of this ceremony, because she

was one of the actresses, who first

spoke out about Hardy wines Dean and

sexual harassment, and she was part

of a segment in the show, she came

onstage with Ashley Judd, who has

also accused Harvey Weinstein of

harassment, and they spoke about the

#MeToo campaign. And she was saying

that she thinks that this has been a

real moment of change the Hollywood.

But I should say that whole issue by

no means overshadowed the ceremony.

It was not really mentioned, apart

from when they came onstage.

And

Rebecca, tell us a bit about the

atmosphere there, because we know

they go to the Oscars, so many

companies party, don't they?

Absolutely, they sit through the

ceremony, which this year was over

3.5 hours, they then head off to the

Governor's ball which is where they

either celebrate winning their

Oscars or they commiserate and not

winning. And then they have all

these parties across town to choose

from. Vanity fair here in Beverly

Hills is a hot ticket, people are

streaming in, we have seen former

Oscar winners, Amy Adams, Joan

Collins, Halle Berry, we

Collins, Halle Berry, we know that

this is where they come to party.

Film critic Jason Solomons has been

watching the ceremony overnight

and joins us now.

In terms of headlines, it was an

unsurprising night until we got to

the Best picture award for the shape

of water?

That was the most open

race, and I was surprised when Shape

of Water was read out. I was

surprised, it had not really one, it

had won of the Baftas where Three

Billboards had triumphed, the

independent spirit awards, get out

had one, but The Shape of Water was

kind of sweeping in IBM, it is not

fishy, though the film is. It is

quite a strange Best picture when,

it is a fantasy, it is about a love

affair between Sally Hawkins and

Anna put it picture -- and aquatic

creature, who everyone says is a

fish but he is not technically, they

do have this love affair, it is a

strange film, it is the first film

with a female lead to win Best

picture in 13 years, since

million-dollar baby. In the time of

#TimesUp, it is interesting we have

a female lead winner. The female

skewing of movies is filtering

through and it has had an effect

this through.

Coming up later on the programme:

Apprenticeships are hailed

as a great way to learn a trade

so why are numbers falling?

Steph's at a factory

in Birmingham this morning.

Good morning. I am surrounded by

loads of rolls of sheet metal here

which will be sent off and made into

lots of different products, but this

is a business that employs about 150

different people and seven of them

are apprentices. Helen is a hate our

manager, tells what you do hear?

We

have a foundry over the road where

we cast metal, it is rolled down to

gauge and comes over to the sharing

shop where it is shared, packed and

sent to the customer.

And what type

of things does this metal turn into?

Electrical component is a big one,

high security keys, could be formed

to pens, a variety of applications.

And apprentices are an important

part of your business, tell us about

why you employ them?

Basically we

have long lactic -- recognise the

skills shortage in engineering so we

take it upon ourselves to grow our

own talent rather than depend on the

market.

Has it been all right

finding them, because there is

research saying the number of people

starting a printer ships has fallen,

but have you found it all right to

get the calibre you need and the

number you need?

Russert has been

easy. There has been a -- been a

bigger take-up by apprentices this

year, high-calibre apprentices are

always hard to find but we have find

it relatively good.

We are meeting

some of those apprentices later Ron,

but first get the

some of those apprentices later Ron,

latest from the BBC London newsroom

in half an hour. Until then there is

plenty more on our website at the

usual address. Goodbye for now.

Hello, this is Breakfast

with Dan Walker and Louise

Minchin.

We'll bring you all the latest

from the Oscars overnight,

but also on Breakfast

this morning:

Bannister has done it, though he's

out on

Bannister has done it, though he's

out on his feet, his coach and team

manager tell him he's achieved his

ambition.

We remember the running legend

Sir Roger Bannister with one

of the British athletes he inspired,

Steve Cram.

Adventurer Ben Fogle

and Olympian Victoria Pendleton

will be here before they embark

upon their Everest climb.

We'll find out how Ben's planning

to overcome a particularly tricky

hurdle, his fear of heights.

And we'll wave off Zoe Ball

as she sets off on her 300-mile

Sport Relief cycle ride

from Blackpool to Brighton.

Apparently she gets to eat loads

of cake, which makes up for having

to wear padded pants.

Good morning,

here's a summary of today's main

stories from BBC News.

It was Oscars night. A great one for

Gary Oldman.

He told his 98-year-old

mother to put the kettle

on because he was bringing Oscar

home as he was crowned best actor

for his portrayal of

Sir Winston Churchill in Darkest

Hour.

Frances McDormand was

named Best Actress.

The Best Film prize went

to The Shape of Water.

From Los Angeles, here's our

correspondent, James Cook.

After a year of darkness, a splash

of colour returned to Hollywood.

The black threads of protest were

gone, although the determination

to call Time's Up on abuse

and to create a more

inclusive industry remained.

If I may be so honoured to have

all the female nominees in every

category stand with me

in this room tonight...

Best Actress winner

Frances McDormand had a message

for the moguls.

Look around, ladies and gentlemen,

because we all have stories to tell

and projects we need financed.

And the winner is,

Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour.

For his transformation

into Winston Churchill,

the British actor saw V

for victory and he thanked

his 98-year-old mother.

I say to my mother, "Thank

you for your love and support.

Put the kettle on, I'm

bringing Oscar home."

Congratulations!

There were four more British wins,

including one for The Silent Child,

a short film about a deaf little

girl from Wiltshire.

I made a promise to our 6-year-old

lead actress that I would sign this

speech, and my hands are shaking

a bit so I apologise.

Last year, this famous duo announced

at the wrong winner.

No such problem this time.

The Shape of Water.

The greatest thing our art does

and our industry does is erase

the lines in the sand,

we should continue doing that,

when the world tells us

to make them deeper.

So inclusion was the theme,

change is really coming to Hollywood

was the message.

James Cook, BBC News, Los Angeles.

This is the Vanity Fair after party,

the biggest stars go there, we are

there through the programme this

morning hoping we get to catch up

with Gary Oldman and are able to

speak to him about winning his

Oscar.

Loads of pictures coming out,

plenty of reaction to the Oscars on

social media. This is what happens

when Frances McDormand and Meryl

Streep go head to head, this is when

Meryl Streep congratulates her for

her best actress when. It looks like

a head-butt but it's

very affectionate congratulations.

Interestingly one of those awards

went to Roger Deakins, a British

cinematographer, nominated 13 times

and never won an Oscar. His 14th

nomination for Blade Runner 2049. 20

more stories from that British

success.

The Silent Child, many will

know about this film, about a girl

who struggles to communicate, it was

named Best live action Short film.

It was written by two former

Hollyoaks stars. It stars mazy Sky,

just six from Swindon, and more on

that later.

Sir Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky

have been accused of crossing

an ethical line in a report by MPs,

who say they used medication

to enhance performance.

A report by the Digital, Culture,

Media and Sport committee

says they were used to enhance

performance rather than just

for medical need.

Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky have

strongly refuted the claims.

And in moments we'll be

talking to Damian Collins,

the chair of the committee

which produced the report.

Millions in London and south-east

England have been told to limit

their use of water or risk having

none at all after thousands of homes

and businesses were left with no

water after thawing temperatures

caused burst pipes and leaks across

the UK. Suppliers across the country

reported a high volume of calls and

asked for customers to be patient

while repairs are being carried out.

Italy appears to be heading for a

hung parliament after voters backed

rightleaning Populist parties there.

Former prime ministers Silvio

Berlusconi's right-wing coalition

looks set to win the most seats in

the lower house. And formal

government may take a few weeks and

negotiations and government building

will be held. We had information

from Gavin Lee earlier from Rome and

we will be back with him later in

the show.

This is my favourite animal story of

the year so far.

It's not every day a baby

chimpanzee learns to fly.

This is the moment Mussa

co-piloted his own rescue mission.

The baby chimp bonded

with his rescuer during their flight

home together after he was saved

from poachers in the Congo.

Taking a pretty relaxed approach to

flying there.

Preening in the back

as well.

I just love that!

We will be speaking to Damian

Collins in a few moments, he chaired

this committee, John, which has

produced the report which is on the

front and back pages of the papers

about British cycling.

It casts a

shadow I guess over the legacy

Bradley Wiggins has left in the

sport and him himself. It's worth

pointing out that in sport, athletes

are able to take drugs that they

wouldn't normally be allowed to take

because they are banned, if they can

prove they have a genuine medical

need. Bradley Wiggins in the past

has done so using what's called a

therapeutic use exemption, doctors'

certificate saying has asthma or

allergies. What the report has found

is Team Sky and Bradley Wiggins have

been unethical, not only taking the

drug for medical reasons, but taking

it to get an unfair competitive

advantage. That's the key line that

has come out of the report, it is

unethical, it will be treating to

hear from Damian Collins shortly.

Sir Bradley Wiggins will have more

to say about this in the coming

days, Team Sky and Bradley Wiggins

obviously refute all these

allegations, but it's potentially

very damaging and we will be hearing

more on that through breakfast.

Now, if you want to beat

Germany at football,

who better to turn

to than David Beckham?

Back in 2001, Beckham captained

England to their famous 5-1 win over

the Germans in Munich.

So new England women's head coach

Phil Neville got his old friend

to give his Lionesses side a pep

talk ahead of their SheBelieves Cup

match in New Jersey.

He's pictured here with

striker Jodie Taylor.

It's fair to say it made a

difference.

Beckham watched from the stands

as England's women twice fought back

to draw with Germany.

There was agony for Millie Bright

when her own goal gave Germany

a 2-1 lead.

Germany are the second highest

ranked team in women's football.

But Ellen White, scorer

of England's first,

then rescued them for a second time.

2-2 it finished.

England's last game

is against the USA on Thursday.

They are the number one ranked team.

It was one of those moments where

you had to be in there to feel how

special... Look, he's my friend, I

just see him as David Beckham but

the actual status of him in English

football and world football was

shown in that moment when he went in

because there was casts of

excitement and real respect.

excitement and real respect. It was

a special moment.

Manchester City are just four

games away from winning

the Premier League thanks to a 1-0

victory over reigning champions

Chelsea.

Having already won the League

Cup, their next piece

of silverware is on the horizon.

Bernardo Silva's second-half strike

enough to claim all three

points at the Etihad.

City 18 points clear at the top.

Arsenal fans might

want to look away.

A week on from that defeat

in the League Cup to City,

they lost again, this

time to Brighton.

2-1 it finished, Lewis

Dunk and Glenn Murray

with the Brighton goals.

It's Arsenal's fourth defeat

in a row and many fans

are increasing their calls

for manager Arsene Wenger to go.

Rangers and Celtic have been

drawn to play each other

in the Scottish Cup semi-finals

after Rangers beat Falkirk 4-1

at Ibrox yesterday.

Jason Cummings scored a hat-trick.

Motherwell beat Hearts in the other

quarter-final and will face either

Aberdeen or Kilmarnock.

There was a great finale

for Great Britain at

the World Indoor Athletics

Championships in Birmingham,

with Andrew Pozzi winning gold

in the men's 60 metre hurdles.

He looked to have been

pipped on the line

by the American Jarret Eaton.

But after a photo finish,

Pozzi won it by just one hundredth

of a second, for his

first global title.

My heart stopped at the end of

there. I knew at the fifth hurdle I

was behind and I can't describe how

much I wanted it, was growing my

body at the line trying to get there

and just about got there. This

Championships has been amazing and

to be voted co-captain for this

Championships is the biggest honour

of my life. Every single member of

this team has just been perfect and

I'm just delighted that I could win

at the end.

Incredibly tight finish, wasn't it?

Kyle Edmund was just 11 years

old when Andy Murray first became

British tennis number one,

now he's replacing him

in the top spot.

With Murray injured

for much of the season,

Edmund has had a chance

to move up the rankings.

He reached the semi-finals

of the Australian Open,

and he knocks Murray off the top

for the first time since 2006.

I suppose it caps off what's been a

great run for Kyle Edmund, reaching

the semifinals and now British

number one. How long he will stay

depends on Andy Murray's injury and

return to full fitness.

Thanks Ray Mutch, you will be with

us through the programme. -- thanks

very much.

Let's pick up on one of

the main stories John was talking

about.

The issue of doping in British sport

is once again in the headlines.

Sir Bradley Wiggins

and Team Sky have been accused

of crossing an ethical line

in their use of drugs.

A report by the Digital, Culture,

Media and Sport committee says

they were used to enhance

performance rather than just

for medical need.

Both have strongly

refuted the claims.

The committee chair,

Damian Collins, joins us

from our London newsroom.

Good morning to you, Damian, thank

you for your time this morning. I'm

aware many will be turning on their

televisions and looking at the

newspapers reading this report for

the very first time. Can you firstly

run us through the major findings?

As you say, the main debate in the

report is about the ethical use of

medicines and that word unethical

that was quoted earlier wasn't our

word but a word in the report from

Shane Sutton, Bradley Wiggins'

coach. In this report we're saying

whether there need to be much

tighter rules around the sort of

medications that be used. We focused

on a drug which is an extremely

powerful drug and can be used to

treat asthma but has known

performance enhancing properties and

with a drug like L-Carnitine, there

are alternatives to be taken to

treat asthma, it isn't one that you

should take unless in an emergency.

They should be restricted from

sports and cycling and can be

clearly used to give riders and

edge. There have been various

investigations into doping into

British sport led by UK anti-doping,

these agencies need much greater

financial resource to cope with the

sheer volume of work out there for

them to do, but also they need more

power. Other countries have laws

that make it a Cronulla fence to

supply drugs in order to help

someone doped and get a competitive

advantage in sport -- criminal

offence. Visa against the

anti-doping rules rather than

crossing a legal line -- these are.

We need criminal powers are so

anti-doping agencies can call on the

police and other law enforcement

agencies to gather evidence quickly

where they believe there's good

grounds there's been an anti-doping

violation.

To clarify, will reduce

some of the statements from Team Sky

and Bradley Wiggins in a moment,

what they've done at the moment to

your mind isn't breaking the law but

it is unethical -- I will. Have they

done this in other countries they

would be subject to criminal

prosecution?

They are slightly

different things. Ethically, Team

Sky and Sir David Brailsford, he

told the committee he thought there

was an ethical line and he only used

medicines to treat medical need and

not enhance performance. The

evidence we got in our enquiry

suggested that line was being

crossed. What I'm talking about in

terms of criminalisation, where you

break the current doping laws,

you're using banned substances.

We're not accusing anyone of doing

that but when you do use banned

substances in some countries as a

criminal offence that can lead to

prosecution. That gives the

law-enforcement agencies and

anti-doping authorities legal powers

to seize documents and financial

records to go in without warning as

part of investigations. We don't

have those powers here but certainly

V has felt there work is hampered

because they don't have the power

and authority to act and I think we

should have that in the country at

the moment -- UKAD.

Team Sky said

they are disappointed the committee

has chosen to present the claim in

this way without giving us evidence

or presenting us with the

opportunity to respond. Bradley

Wiggins said it is sad accusations

can be made where people can be

accused of things they are never

done that are then regarded as fax.

I strongly refute the claim that any

drug was used without medical need.

I hope to have my say in the next

few days and put my side across.

Shayne Sutton, Bradley Wiggins's

coach at the time said the word

unethical. It is right that both

team sky and Bradley Wiggins should

respond in full, but they are not

based on a single anonymous source,

but on a multiple that of sources.

This is a damning report, what does

this mean for the nature of sport

and cycling in this country?

The

questions for cycling of the sport

go back to the broader investigation

that took place into the medical

package that was delivered for

Bradley Wiggins in 2011 while he was

competing in France. The lack of

proper record-keeping of both

British cycling and Team Sky to

identify what that package was, the

lack of oversight by team management

into what the medical staff were

doing, shows the need to be much

tougher procedures. I think Team Sky

would say and British cycling would

say they have made improvements

since those days but these

investigations have shown a lack of

proper clear guidance, proper

supervision and what the medical

teams are doing, proper

record-keeping. That is an issue for

the sport and I think to me that

needs to be seen alongside this use

of whether there are certain drugs

that were used legally within sport

at the moment which have clear poor

-- performance enhancing properties

and whether they should be

restricted, and whether we need

broader legal powers to make sure

that where we believe there has been

use of a banned substance --

substance, authorities have the

ability to investigate with the

backing of the law.

That is Damian

Collins, the MP who chaired a

committee of MPs who reported. And

their findings are on many of the

front pages this morning, the front

page of the Guardian and a number of

other papers, Wiggins and Team Sky

abuse dating rules to win the tour.

A huge story on both -- doping. We

will talk about it more throughout

the programme. Also the

really important, it was busy last

week. I think it has come down a bit

but still important?

week. I think it has come down a bit

but still important? This morning it

is a chilly start the day, there is

still a risk of ice on untreated

services and for some of us, fog

first thing in the morning. The

general forecast is we have showers

tending south, snow over the

Scottish hills, not quite as cold in

the south but still cold in the

north. Let's look at the temperature

for this coming week. Is it going to

get milder? The enter is yes,

eventually. Some of us it is going

to be a relatively mild day, you can

see the blue hue across until

Thursday, as we go into the end of

the week the yellow will take over

and push up across the country to

all but Scotland. That is on the

rise. This morning there is snow on

the forecast across much of

Scotland, Italy and the north-east,

above about a couple of 100 metres.

Elsewhere there is a lot of cloud,

some patchy cloud and showers, some

drizzle across Northern Ireland.

First thing this morning there is

some sunshine further south, but

also a few showers. Showers ahead of

a weather front coming in bringing

some rain as we move through the

day. Some of that will be heavy

across Hampshire, Dorset and also

Somerset. You may also see the other

flash of lightning. Temperature cot

-- Britta Yze, 9- ten and 11 across

this time of March, roughly where we

should be. As we have that eastern

wind across Scotland exacerbating

the cold feel with the wind chill.

Overnight this band of rain

continues to push northwards as the

weather front, as it hits the cold

air across north-east England, we

will see snow again, further snow

across a couple of 100 metres, but

we could see another few

centimetres. Again there is the risk

of ice on untreated surfaces, and

there will also be some patchy mist

and fog forming. Tomorrow the

weather front continues to push

north, taking its rain and snow with

it. Behind it will be a cloudy day

we will see one or two brighter

breaks but the emphasis is on braid

Dave -- grey day rather than blue

skies. Temperatures up to about 10

Celsius, still a scattering of

showers across the south-west.

Moving forward into Wednesday, we

still have low pressure dominating

the weather, again, the north-west

seeing some wintry showers, we could

see a few of those getting across

Northern Ireland and a lot of dry

weather as well. Some of the showers

in the south could be heavy with

some hail and thunder embedded in

them. Temperature is nothing to

write home about.

them. Temperature is nothing to

write home about. Claire back we

know it is post- Oscars morning,

don't we. I have been writing down

all sorts of little bits and bobs.

Let's go back to the Vanity fair

party. Rebecca Jones, some good news

for the Brits as well this morning?

It has been a really good night to

the Brits, and we are expecting to

see some of them here on the blue

and cream carpet of Vanity fair, I

am keeping half an eye over my

shoulder because the stars are

arriving thick and fast. Basically

what happens is after the ceremony,

they go off to the Governors Ball

which is where they either celebrate

or commiserate winning their Oscars,

and then they have to choose one of

the many parties that are going on,

Faye Dunaway, we are live on the

BBC, say hello to Britain, good

morning. You are presenting the best

film again this year, after a

slightly embarrassing situation last

year.

I wouldn't call it

embarrassing, it was catastrophic.

What was that like when you

announced the wrong film last year?

It was just mind crazy, because your

mind doesn't quite know, you never

imagined that that can happen. It

was a very difficult moment, and I

couldn't get over it for a while,

because even though the card was

wrong, still I said it, he says, we

were the ones doing it. So there was

a slight stigma I felt, and I am so

glad that the Academy found a way,

you know, in psychiatry and

repetition, the theory of

repetition, you repeat something and

he repeated until it comes out

right.

How nervous were you when you

walked on stage this evening with

Warren Beatty to announce the best

picture award again?

We have a bond,

it was lovely standing, the standing

ovation, it was nice being him and

nice doing it again, we have come

around it to the fact that it would

be the right thing to do.

People in

Britain would be waking up to the

Oscars, give us a sense for what it

was and a big win for Gary Oldman.

He is incredible, he is a former --

performance was amazing.

It was

Oscar night, you know, in the

streets they are dancing, they are

shouting out from the cars, saying

"Where is this party?

It is like a

carnival. And yet the seriousness of

the Oscars is there. I am coming

back, we are talking about doing a

play in the West End.

Tell me more,

what are you doing?

We are looking

at some tenancy Williams, and at one

point of my life I am -- Tennessee.

It would be nice to be in the West

End.

Promise us he will talk about

it on BBC breakfast. Enjoy your

evening. That was Faye Dunaway, and

an Oscar winner herself. She along

with Warren Beatty went on stage

this evening, to announce the best

picture after having announced the

wrong best picture last year. So I

can imagine that was a nervous

moment. Let me look over my

shoulder. We have had is actress

nominee in Saoirse Ronan, the stars

are arriving thick and fast. Back to

you.

Extracting promises, thank you

very much. If Rebecca gets somebody,

if we can speak to Gary Oldman at

some stage, we wish it back to her.

We will get some flavour of what was

happening last night. This was the

moment when Meryl Streep

congratulates France's McDormand on

winning Best -- test actress Oscar.

-- nest actress. This -- best. This

photo captures some of the losers of

best dress, but they cannot be --

actress. $100,000 per bag, at the

Oscars, it includes pepper spray,

one week in Hawaii, 12 nights in

Tanzania with a plus one, a villa in

Greece, relief training to various

phobias, anti- sweat patches, access

to a dating at and a diamond

necklace worth £1300. Not bad if you

get it. The number of people

starting a project has fallen

dramatically step is that a

manufacturer in Birmingham to find

out. Good morning body. Can see this

machine that Steve is operating, we

have metal being made in a foundry,

with seats that have been sheared

and going off into little strips

which will be sent off to their

customers, and it is used in all

kinds of products, so mobile phones,

security devices, lots of different,

cars as well. We are here because we

are talking about apprentices and we

have two here, Gary and Josh. The

morning to you both. Tell us about

what -- why you decided to do that

readership.

I fair sixth form and I

wanted to go into a British rather

than Younie, because -- an

apprenticeship rather than

university, because I thought the

cost was to invent -- too expensive

and going into an apprenticeship you

are learning on the job.

That is

similar to me. I went to university

career year but the lifestyle, it

didn't really suit me, I wanted

something more hand on where I could

work.

And how is it going?

Fantastic, I have been passed off

three-year and I have been 6.5 years

and it is fantastic.

They give very

much. The reason we are here is it

is National apprentice ship week at

the moment, and also there are some

figured out suggesting the number of

apprentices starting last year has

gone down, so I will be talking to

the manufacturers organisation about

this, also to someone from one of

the colleges in the area, to find

out more about it.

I'm back with the latest

from the BBC London newsroom

in half an hour.

Plenty more on our website

at the usual address.

Now, though, it's back

to Louise and Dan.

Bye for now.

Good morning, you are watching BBC

breakfast.

to

Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

MPs accuse Sir Bradley Wiggins

and Team Sky of crossing an ethical

line in their use of drugs,

but they've strongly

line in their use of drugs,

but they've strongly

rejected the claims.

Good morning, it's

Monday the 5th of March.

Also this morning:

Gary Oldman finally has an Oscar.

Put the kettle on...

I'm bringing Oscar.

Gary Oldman has a message

for his mum after winning the Oscar

for Best Actor for his portrayal

of Winston Churchill.

But the biggest cheer of the night

was for the best actress winner

Frances McDormand when she paid

tribute to all the women nominees.

If I may be so honoured to have

all the female nominees in every

category stand with me

in this room tonight...

And we've got a ticket

for the Vanity Fair

after show party.

We'll be live from the red carpet

talking to the stars as they arrive.

A bevy of A-listers there.

Millions of people are told

to limit their water use as thawing

temperatures cause burst pipes.

Good morning.

The number of people starting

apprenticeships last year

has fallen dramatically.

They fell by a third.

I'm at this manufacturer

in Birmingham to find out why.

In sport, a pre-match pep talk

from David Beckham helps inspire

the England Lionesses in New York.

They twice come from a goal down

to draw with Germany

in the SheBelieves Cup.

And Carol has the weather.

Good morning.

The weather remains unsettled this

week but not on the scale

of last week.

Today some patchy mist and fog, some

snow in the north, mostly in the

hills, and showery outbreaks in the

south.

More details in 15 minutes.

See you then, thank you.

We will be talking about the Oscars

through the morning but first, our

main story.

Britain's top Olympian Sir Bradley

Wiggins and Team Sky have been

accused of crossing an ethical

line in a report by MPs,

who say they used medication

to enhance performance.

Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky have

strongly refuted the claims.

Adam Wild reports.

They are some of the biggest names

in British sports but this

long-awaited report represents

perhaps the gravest blow yet

to their reputations.

Most significantly that

of Sir Bradley Wiggins,

the nation's most

decorated Olympian.

One of the things the report's

authors point to is the use

of certain drugs by Wiggins

and his former team,

Team Sky, the purpose

of which they say was not always

to treat medical need

but to improve performance.

That is something both Team Sky

and Wiggins strongly refute.

And whilst they didn't

break anti-doping rules,

they did, the report says,

cross the ethical line.

And the head of the team,

Sir David Brailsford,

must take responsibility.

We believe now we need those same

sort of, Noel Powers so anti-doping

agencies can call on the police and

other law enforcement agencies to

gather evidence quickly where they

believe there's good evidence to

believe there's been an anti-doping

violation.

But this report goes much

further than just cycling.

They say the evidence of Lord Coe,

the head of athletics' governing

body, to MPs on the committee

in 2015, was misleading

when he sought to distance himself

from any knowledge of allegations

of doping in Russian athletics.

The report also speaks of shock

at an injection of a drug called

L-carnitine given to Sir Mo Farah

before the 2014 London Marathon.

Whilst it isn't a banned substance,

there are strict rules

around its use, yet

that dose didn't appear

on Farah's madical record.

It's cycling, though,

a sport which has already suffered

a series of blows to its reputation,

for which today's report

will be most damaging.

Adam Wild, BBC News.

Jon is here.

Jon, there's a real danger

of serious damage to the reputation

of cycling here isnt there

Absolutely. Team Sky as we know, the

way they position themselves in the

sport, after an era when doping in

cycling was very prevalent, they

established the team and wanted to

do things whiter than white and that

is what Sir Dave Brailsford, the

head of the team, said, they wanted

to do things clean and clean up the

sport. That is what they seemingly

did, they had great success as we

know with Bradley Wiggins winning

the 2012 Tour de France, but what

this has highlighted is... Cheating

in sport but also the way they are

pushing the boundaries with the use

of these therapeutic use exemptions,

that's been the suggestion, as we

know, for some cyclists, and

athletes, they are able to take

these TUEs, Doctor's certificate,

allowing you to take a banned

substance for medical needs, medical

purposes, but what they are saying

here is they are doing so and it's

giving them a competitive advantage,

and unfairly, and they are pushing

the boundaries. Where does this

leave the team? Chris Froome, he

returned an adverse finding of

returned an adverse finding of a

drug, as we know, where will this

leave the team and where will it

take them from here?

Thank you very

much. Sir Bradley Wiggins has given

a statement, he said," I strongly

refute the claim any drug was used

without medical need. I will have my

say in the next few days and put my

side across". Team Sky say the

report makes a serious claim that we

used these to enhance performance

and we strongly refute that.

We will

hear from Bradley Wiggins over the

coming days as well.

Gary Oldman has told his 99-year-old

mother to put the kettle

on because he was bringing Oscar

home as he was crowned Best Actor

for his portrayal of

Sir Winston Churchill in Darkest

Hour.

Frances McDormand was

named Best Actress.

The Best Film prize went

to The Shape of Water.

From Los Angeles, here's our

correspondent, James Cook.

After a year of darkness, a splash

of colour returned to Hollywood.

The black threads of protest were

gone, although the determination

to call Time's Up on abuse

and to create a more

inclusive industry remained.

If I may be so honoured to have

all the female nominees in every

category stand with me

in this room tonight...

Best actress winner

Frances McDormand had a message

for the moguls.

Look around, ladies and gentlemen,

because we all have stories to tell

and projects we need financed.

And the winner is,

Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour.

For his transformation

into Winston Churchill,

the British actor saw V

for victory and he thanked

his 98-year-old mother.

I say to my mother, "Thank

you for your love and support.

Put the kettle on, I'm

bringing Oscar home."

Congratulations!

There were four more British wins,

including one for The Silent Child,

a short film about a deaf little

girl from Wiltshire.

I made a promise to our 6-year-old

lead actress that I'd sign this

speech, and my hands are shaking

a little bit so I apologise.

Last year, this famous duo announced

at the wrong winner.

No such problem this time.

The Shape of Water.

The greatest thing our art does

and our industry does is to erase

the lines in the sand,

we should continue doing that

when the world tells us

to make them deeper.

So inclusion was the theme,

change really is coming to Hollywood

was the message.

James Cook, BBC News, Los Angeles.

Let's just show you the scene if we

can at the Vanity Fair after party.

Rebecca Jones is there. We will go

back to her in a couple of minutes.

I've got a backup, we're going to go

to Rebecca Jones, good morning.

Yes,

sorry, Louise, I'm here with an

Oscar winner, our thirst of the

night, and a man who's made history,

the oldest Oscar winner in history

at the age of 89, James Ivory.

That's the only thing they're going

to remember, years from now when my

film is dust and all my other films

are dust, they will remember I'm the

oldest!

A nice way to be remembered!

James Comey you won for best adapted

screenplay for Call me By My Name,

were you surprised to win?

Everyone

has said, the press said again and

again that I was the front runner

and I would probably win. That

element of surprise... Still, I

might not have. I was excited and

thrilled obviously.

Is it heavy, is

the Oscar heavy, can you show it to

viewers back home in Britain?

It's

quite heavy.

You must tell me about

your shirt.

It was painted actually

by an English artist named Andrew

Mania, from Bristol, he had the idea

of doing a shirt with Timothy's face

on it.

The start of the film?

Yeah,

I thought I would wear it.

How are

you going to celebrate?

I have been

celebrating. A bit more! I don't

know.

Enjoy your evening and thanks

for talking to us on BBC Breakfast.

James Ivory, winner of best adapted

screenplay, the oldest ever Oscar

winner at the age of 89.

Lovely to

see him, congratulations to him.

Back with you later.

Thank you very

much. That is a proper shirt, very

nice!

And in an attempt to make sure

the ceremony didn't overrun,

organisers offered a prize of a jet

ski for the shortest acceptance

speech.

I think that should be done at every

awards ceremony ever!

The costume designer

from Phantom Thread,

Mark Bridges, won an Oscar

for Costume Design and gave a speech

that came in at just 36 seconds.

And Ashley Judd, Salma Hayek

and Annabella Sciorra took

to the stage for a Time's Up segment

about breaking barriers and changing

the culture in Hollywood.

Director Guillermo Del Toro won best

director for The Shape of Water and

this is him watching one of the

awards getting engraved.

That's one

of the things you can do at the

after show party.

We spoke to Fay

Dunaway earlier, Rebecca Jones spoke

to her live at the Vanity Fair

party, she was once away giving away

the best picture for shape of water,

which GMO Del Toro came up to

collect, and did you see what he

did? He came up to collect The Shape

of Water and he did a little... To

check after last year when Warren

Beatty and Faye Dunaway read out the

wrong film. The didn't make, want to

give an acceptance speech and then

get collared off.

Customers in parts of London

and the south east of England have

been told to limit their use

of water after thawing temperatures

caused burst pipes.

Thousands of others have been left

with no water at all.

Simon Clemison is in West London

where emergency supplies of bottled

water are being distributed.

Simon, after quite a few days of

freezing temperatures and snow and

major disruption, the weak now

starts with people struggling to get

their water?

It's amazing, isn't it?

Welcome to what they call a water

station, the consequences of the

weather don't seem to end. A massive

truck here full of bottles being

handed out to 12,000 people in

London who are still struggling with

their supplies this morning, not the

only part of the country to

struggle. Severn Trent Water had to

apologise to customers in Rugby

because of the taps running dry.

It's warmer in London than it was

when it was snowing and in some

parts yesterday it got to nearly 12,

if you think about it, having been

-4, that is a rise of 16 degrees. We

know cooling down the pipes and

warming them up causes lots of

problems with bursts and leaks.

Overnight I spoke to some of the

people who have been affected.

I haven't had a shower

today unfortunately.

There's no water in

the taps, no shower.

I work in the pub downstairs

and they have no water so I had

to shut early.

You run a restaurant,

what's it like to come

in and find no water?

It is critical.

Without water you can't

do any business.

You can't wash up?

Exactly.

You can't wash up, you can't prep

food, you can't operate.

I went down to the corner,

unfortunately no water last night,

now the sink is working but I don't

know when they're going to fix

all the problems.

With so much water leaking out of

the system, Thames Water has to make

sure there's enough coming in so it

has issued this advice to people to

take showers, not baths, fully load

the washing machine and not to wash

the car, which you will never find

me complaining about!

Very true,

Simon, good to talk to you this

morning. Let us know what situation

you're facing because all last week

we were getting your pictures of the

snow and ice and freezing

temperatures. Many people waking up

this morning and lots of calls into

various water companies to say we're

struggling with our supply, we're

not getting anything through the

taps, so let us know, we will paint