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Hello, this is Breakfast,
with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:09 | |
Stranded - heavy snowfall traps
drivers for hours overnight. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:11 | |
More than 70 are sleeping
in an emergency shelter. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
The A30 is still closed. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
Yellow ice warnings are in place
across much of the country. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
Sarah Keith-Lucas will have
the latest forecast. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:26 | |
It is cold and icy to start this
morning, but we are expecting a dry | 0:00:26 | 0:00:31 | |
day, with some sunshine. Things
eventually turning a bit milder | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
through this week but certainly are
lots of live snow still today. I | 0:00:34 | 0:00:39 | |
will bring you all the details in
about 15 minutes. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:48 | |
Good morning, it is Monday 19 March. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:55 | |
Also this morning: International
weapons inspectors are due in the UK | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
to examine the nerve agent used
to poison Russian ex-spy Sergei | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
Skripal. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:05 | |
TV presenter Ant McPartlin
is arrested on suspicion | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
of drink-driving after a collision
involving three cars in south-west | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
London. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
A significant breakthrough
in the treatment of multiple | 0:01:13 | 0:01:15 | |
sclerosis, as an international trial
shows that stem cell transplants can | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
stop the disease. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:22 | |
The decline of local newspapers
could be fuelling the rise | 0:01:22 | 0:01:25 | |
of fake news. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:26 | |
That is according to the Government. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:27 | |
I will be looking at why. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
In sport, Rory is back. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
McIlroy wins the Arnold
Palmer Invitational, | 0:01:32 | 0:01:33 | |
seeing off the challenge
of Justin Rose and Tiger Woods, | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
with the Masters just
a couple of weeks away. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:44 | |
Good morning. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
First, our main story: More than 70
drivers have been stranded | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
overnight in Devon. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:50 | |
The A30 was hit by heavy snow,
and police say conditions | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
are changing rapidly
from passable to impossible. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:55 | |
Our reporter Sarah Ransome
is in Devon for us this morning. | 0:01:55 | 0:02:03 | |
An initial yellow warning for part
of the country in South Wales was | 0:02:09 | 0:02:13 | |
issued this morning and a further
area of snow moving west overnight | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
has produced fresh snow. We will get
all the details in the next few | 0:02:17 | 0:02:21 | |
hours on Breakfast. Roads and
railways are likely to be affected, | 0:02:21 | 0:02:25 | |
longer journey times as a result,
and Sarah will have the actual | 0:02:25 | 0:02:31 | |
forecast later. It sounds like there
are serious issues. A few hours ago | 0:02:31 | 0:02:35 | |
they were saying it was still
snowing, an emergency rest centre in | 0:02:35 | 0:02:41 | |
Oakhampton, with 80 people and two
dogs, and they are continuing to | 0:02:41 | 0:02:45 | |
help people out who are stranded on
the A30. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:49 | |
International chemical weapons
experts are due to arrive in the UK | 0:02:49 | 0:02:52 | |
later today to test the nerve agent
used to poison former Russian spy | 0:02:52 | 0:02:55 | |
Sergei Skripal and his
daughter Yulia. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
President Putin says
claims his country was behind | 0:02:57 | 0:02:59 | |
the attack are nonsense,
but Boris Johnson claims Russia has | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
been stockpiling Novichok for years. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:03 | |
Tom Burridge reports. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:10 | |
The MoD's top-secret scientific
research centre at Porton Down. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:15 | |
Today, a group of international
chemical weapons experts will travel | 0:03:15 | 0:03:19 | |
there to work out how samples
of the nerve agent used | 0:03:19 | 0:03:23 | |
in the attack in Salisbury could be
transported abroad to be tested | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
in an independent lab. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:30 | |
The Government says the only
credible theory is that the nerve | 0:03:30 | 0:03:34 | |
agent used to attack former Russian
military intelligence officer | 0:03:34 | 0:03:39 | |
Sergei Skripal and his daughter came
from Russia, something | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
Moscow denies. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:47 | |
But, as the police in Salisbury
continued their work over | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
the weekend, the Foreign Secretary
said the Government has evidence | 0:03:50 | 0:03:55 | |
that Russia has, within the past
decade, been stockpiling the type | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
of nerve
agent used in the attack. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:03 | |
Russia has not only been
investigating the delivery of nerve | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
agents for the purpose of
assassination, but has also been | 0:04:05 | 0:04:09 | |
creating and stockpiling Novichok. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
We still don't know where
the Skripals came in contact | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
with the nerve agent. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:19 | |
But his car, which was taken away
by the military late on Friday, | 0:04:19 | 0:04:22 | |
is of particular
interest to the police. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
They want to hear from anyone
who saw it in the hours before | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
the couple fell violently ill. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
Vladimir Putin has told a victory
rally that Russia must maintain | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
unity, following his landslide win
in the Presidential election. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:36 | |
He received more than 76%
of the votes, but CCTV footage | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
from a number of polling stations
appears to show election officials | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
stuffing boxes with ballot papers. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:50 | |
Some cameras were obscured by things
like balloons as well. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:59 | |
The television presenter
Ant McPartlin has been arrested | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
on suspicion of drink-driving. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:03 | |
The police say they were called
to reports of a collision involving | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
three cars in South-West London
yesterday afternoon. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:08 | |
Our correspondent Andy Moore
is in our London newsroom | 0:05:08 | 0:05:10 | |
for us this morning. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:13 | |
What sort of detail do we have on
this at the moment? Is on the front | 0:05:13 | 0:05:17 | |
page of a number of the papers
today. That's right, photographs of | 0:05:17 | 0:05:21 | |
what happened after the papers, and
you can see that Ant McPartlin's | 0:05:21 | 0:05:26 | |
black Mini came to rest
bumper-to-bumper against another | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
car. Scotland Yard say a 42-year-old
man was arrested on suspicion of | 0:05:29 | 0:05:35 | |
drink driving after failing a
roadside test. That man was taken to | 0:05:35 | 0:05:39 | |
a South London police station for
questioning. The Fire Brigade and | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
the ambulance service attended. Some
people were treated for minor | 0:05:43 | 0:05:47 | |
injuries. A child was taken to
hospital for a checkup as a | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
precaution. Now, Ant McPartlin's
personal problems have been well | 0:05:51 | 0:05:58 | |
documented. Last year he checked
into a rehab clinic, he said he was | 0:05:58 | 0:06:03 | |
suffering from an addiction to
prescription drugs and alcohol, and | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
this year he announced he was
separating from his wife, Lisa | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
Armstrong. Thank you very much for
that. We will have more detail on | 0:06:10 | 0:06:15 | |
that story for you throughout the
morning. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:18 | |
A British woman has been killed
in northern Syria while fighting | 0:06:18 | 0:06:21 | |
alongside Kurdish forces. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:27 | |
It is understood that Anna Campbell,
who was 26 and from Lewes | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
in East Sussex, died
in the town of Afrin, | 0:06:30 | 0:06:32 | |
which has been the target
of a Turkish offensive. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
She travelled to Syria last May. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:36 | |
Her father has told the BBC
she was idealistic, and knew | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
she was putting her life at risk. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:41 | |
Our correspondent
Emma Vardy reports. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:44 | |
Anna Campbell was a passionate human
rights activist, who travelled to | 0:06:44 | 0:06:48 | |
Syria last May to join the Kurdish
women's armed group, the YPG. She | 0:06:48 | 0:06:55 | |
even dyed her hair so as not to
stand out among the other fighters. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:59 | |
Her father, Dirk Campbell 's, said
he could not prevent his daughter | 0:06:59 | 0:07:03 | |
from travelling to the war zone. She
was quite adamant about it. I said, | 0:07:03 | 0:07:07 | |
you know, you could be killed. And
she said, I know, dad. There is | 0:07:07 | 0:07:12 | |
nothing I can do to reassure you
about that. But I have got to do | 0:07:12 | 0:07:17 | |
this, because it is the most
important thing for me. At first, | 0:07:17 | 0:07:20 | |
Anna Campbell had been involved in
fighting with the Kurds against | 0:07:20 | 0:07:24 | |
so-called Islamic | 0:07:24 | 0:07:29 | |
so-called Islamic State in Deir
Ez-Zor, but in January turkey began | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
attacking the Kurds along the border
around the town of Afrin. It is here | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
that Kurdish commanders say Anna
Campbell was killed. In a statement, | 0:07:38 | 0:07:47 | |
the YPJ said they tried to keep her
away from the front line, but she | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
had insisted on being part of the
operation to defend Afrin. Since | 0:07:51 | 0:07:56 | |
2015, seven British men have lost
their lives. Friends of Anna | 0:07:56 | 0:08:00 | |
Campbell in Syria told the BBC she
was killed by Turkish air strikes, | 0:08:00 | 0:08:07 | |
the first British woman fighting
with the Kurds to have died. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:10 | |
Scientists researching the treatment
of multiple sclerosis say they have | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
made a significant breakthrough. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:14 | |
Results from a decade-long
international trial have shown | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
a stem cell transplant can halt
the disease and improve symptoms. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
Doctors in Sheffield
who were part of the study say | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
it is a game-changer
for many patients. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
Our medical correspondent
Fergus Walsh reports. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:32 | |
This was Louise Willetts in 2015,
undergoing her stem cell transplant | 0:08:34 | 0:08:38 | |
in Sheffield. The treatment involves
chemotherapy to knock out her faulty | 0:08:38 | 0:08:44 | |
immune system, and then a transplant
of these healthy stem cells, taken | 0:08:44 | 0:08:51 | |
from her bone marrow, which rebuilds
her immune system. It has | 0:08:51 | 0:08:54 | |
transformed her health, from being
in a wheelchair during her worst | 0:08:54 | 0:09:00 | |
relapse, she is now symptom-free. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:04 | |
It does feel like a miracle. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:05 | |
Almost have to I pinch myself
and think, is this real, | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
is it really gone, is it
ever going to come back? | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
I don't live in fear anymore,
so I actually live every day the way | 0:09:11 | 0:09:15 | |
that I want to live it,
rather than around my MS. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
Around 100,000 people in the UK have
MS, which attacks the brain and | 0:09:18 | 0:09:22 | |
spinal cord. In an international
trial of around 100 patients, those | 0:09:22 | 0:09:26 | |
who had a transplant not only
experienced a reduction in their | 0:09:26 | 0:09:32 | |
disability, they were ten times less
likely to see their treatment fail | 0:09:32 | 0:09:36 | |
after three years compared to those
who received drugs. The stem cell | 0:09:36 | 0:09:42 | |
transplant involves a 1-off cost of
£30,000, no more expensive than the | 0:09:42 | 0:09:47 | |
yearly cost of some drugs. It is a
gruelling treatment, and not | 0:09:47 | 0:09:53 | |
suitable for all MS patients, but
Sheffield's Royal Hallamshire | 0:09:53 | 0:09:58 | |
Hospital, part of the international
trial, said it was a game changer, | 0:09:58 | 0:10:02 | |
and it hoped many more MS patients
would receive a transplant. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:09 | |
The gambling commission is to
recommend the government reduced the | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
maximum stake on fixed odds betting
terminals to £30 or less. Bookmakers | 0:10:12 | 0:10:18 | |
claimed that if the gambling
watchdog has stuck to its original | 0:10:18 | 0:10:22 | |
limit of just £2 it could have
caused hundreds of betting shops to | 0:10:22 | 0:10:26 | |
close and thousands of jobs to be
lost. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:29 | |
Thousands of tiny paws pattered
their way through Greenwich Park | 0:10:29 | 0:10:32 | |
in London over the weekend,
as hundreds of dachshunds | 0:10:32 | 0:10:34 | |
and their owners braved freezing
temperatures for the third ever | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
Sausage Walk. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:45 | |
The owners were there as well,
taking to the great outdoors despite | 0:10:48 | 0:10:52 | |
the freezing temperatures to take
part in the third ever sausage fest, | 0:10:52 | 0:10:57 | |
created to celebrate the breed.
Lovely dogs. Another dog update for | 0:10:57 | 0:11:05 | |
you. We know that about 80 people
had spent the night in shelters, | 0:11:05 | 0:11:15 | |
after snow shut stretches of roads
along the A30. We will have updates | 0:11:15 | 0:11:20 | |
on Breakfast this morning. Quite a
few schools closed today as well so | 0:11:20 | 0:11:24 | |
if you are in that part of the
country we will keep you up-to-date | 0:11:24 | 0:11:28 | |
on that. Our correspondent can bring
us the very latest details, but they | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
may well have a television in that
rescue centre, and if you are | 0:11:31 | 0:11:35 | |
watching, good morning. If you are a
golf fan, the sport is in quite | 0:11:35 | 0:11:40 | |
healthy shape. The leaderboard of
the Arnold Palmer Invitational looks | 0:11:40 | 0:11:45 | |
to be tasty, Tiger Woods back in
contention, for his last two | 0:11:45 | 0:11:49 | |
tournaments he has been in the mix
and you wouldn't rule him out at | 0:11:49 | 0:11:53 | |
Augusta, and Rory McIlroy has never
won the Masters. It is that one | 0:11:53 | 0:11:57 | |
major which he has really wanted to
complete his career Grand Slam, and | 0:11:57 | 0:12:03 | |
what he really wants. The pressure
he has been under, every time he | 0:12:03 | 0:12:07 | |
goes to Augusta, is whether he is
going to do it this year. He seems | 0:12:07 | 0:12:11 | |
in much better shape than he was
last year. That final putt which he | 0:12:11 | 0:12:16 | |
sang to win the title, and his first
title in 1.5 years -- sank. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:22 | |
With the Masters just a few weeks
away, Rory McIlroy is back in form. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:26 | |
He won the Arnold Palmer
Invitational in Florida | 0:12:26 | 0:12:28 | |
for his first tournament victory
in a year and a half. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:31 | |
Justin Rose finished third,
while Tiger Woods was in contention | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
once again, finishing
tied for fifth. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:41 | |
The draw for the semi-finals
of the FA Cup has been made, | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
with Chelsea taking on Southampton
and Manchester United meeting | 0:12:44 | 0:12:47 | |
Tottenham Hotspur. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:47 | |
Chelsea secured their place
in extra-time, beating | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
Leicester 2-1 yesterday. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:50 | |
Southampton made the semis
after beating League One side | 0:12:50 | 0:12:52 | |
Wigan 2-0. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
The match was Mark Hughes's first
in charge of Saints, | 0:12:54 | 0:12:57 | |
who make the last four
despite struggling in | 0:12:57 | 0:12:58 | |
the Premier League's
relegation zone. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
And Roger Federer's incredible run
at the start of this year has come | 0:13:00 | 0:13:03 | |
to an end. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:05 | |
He was beaten in the final of Indian
Wells by Argentina's Juan Martin del | 0:13:05 | 0:13:08 | |
Potro. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:09 | |
It is del Potro's second
tournament win in a row. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:14 | |
And funnily enough, del Potro had
won 17 as well at the start of this | 0:13:14 | 0:13:23 | |
season, and a remarkable comeback
for del Potro. He has had multiple | 0:13:23 | 0:13:27 | |
wrist surgeries, at one point
thinking he would never hit his | 0:13:27 | 0:13:30 | |
backhand again, so to see him
beating the world number one like | 0:13:30 | 0:13:33 | |
that, I know everyone was talking
about Federer, but del Potro's story | 0:13:33 | 0:13:39 | |
is just as good. It was a really,
really good final as well. Back to | 0:13:39 | 0:13:43 | |
our main story, that heavy snowfall
which has caused disruption in parts | 0:13:43 | 0:13:49 | |
particularly of south-west England,
our reporter is in Devon, and the | 0:13:49 | 0:13:55 | |
loan is a little bit affected by
snow, possibly. What can you tell us | 0:13:55 | 0:13:59 | |
-- the line. Good morning, that
amber warning we had all day | 0:13:59 | 0:14:08 | |
yesterday, it was downgraded
overnight and we now have a yellow | 0:14:08 | 0:14:12 | |
warning, possibly more snow but
predominantly ice. As you were | 0:14:12 | 0:14:16 | |
saying in the introduction, we have
around 70 and possibly 80 people in | 0:14:16 | 0:14:21 | |
a local school, Okehampton College,
who have spent the night because | 0:14:21 | 0:14:27 | |
they were stranded in their cars.
The very high point of the more is | 0:14:27 | 0:14:32 | |
the A30, and people who travelled to
Cornwall on holiday will probably | 0:14:32 | 0:14:35 | |
know you go up over the hill and
then you drop down and very quickly | 0:14:35 | 0:14:39 | |
you end in Cornwall. It is at that
point that the heavy snow, along | 0:14:39 | 0:14:43 | |
with other parts of Devon, there was
a lot of snow yesterday, and late | 0:14:43 | 0:14:48 | |
yesterday evening a number of them
were stuck and were stranded in | 0:14:48 | 0:14:52 | |
their cars, and had to be moved to
this college. Some of them had to | 0:14:52 | 0:14:56 | |
walk, some of them were given a lift
by local rescue groups, Dartmoor | 0:14:56 | 0:15:01 | |
rescue group were out in force last
night, along with other emergency | 0:15:01 | 0:15:06 | |
services. And they were a number of
children there as well. So this | 0:15:06 | 0:15:10 | |
morning we understand that the road
is still closed. A large stretch of | 0:15:10 | 0:15:14 | |
it is still closed. They are working
hard to try and clear it but at the | 0:15:14 | 0:15:19 | |
moment a number of these people are
still in the rest centre, hopefully | 0:15:19 | 0:15:22 | |
having had a bit of a sleep and
maybe a nice cup of tea to wake them | 0:15:22 | 0:15:27 | |
up this morning. | 0:15:27 | 0:15:30 | |
Here's Sarah with a look
at this morning's weather. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:34 | |
That doesn't seem to be much snow in
London but causing problems in some | 0:15:34 | 0:15:38 | |
parts of the country? I'm on the in
central London, we have a few white | 0:15:38 | 0:15:46 | |
rooftops around London but up and
down the country really it is a | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
similar pick, a lot of snow and ice
around. Today I think we will see an | 0:15:49 | 0:15:54 | |
improvement in the weather so it
will be a most Lieb dry day. A | 0:15:54 | 0:15:58 | |
return to some sunshine. Ice will be
a problem because what we will see | 0:15:58 | 0:16:02 | |
it is some of the snowfall will ring
out during the day and then re- | 0:16:02 | 0:16:06 | |
freezing once the sun goes down.
Some pretty tricky conditions over | 0:16:06 | 0:16:10 | |
the next few days, disruption also
likely. Through the course of this | 0:16:10 | 0:16:14 | |
week, things will start to change
and feel a little more springlike. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:19 | |
After the cold and the dry start,
temperatures Bradley on the rise. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:23 | |
But reform gradually. -- gradually. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:26 | |
temperatures Bradley on the rise.
But reform gradually. -- gradually. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:29 | |
But across the country, we have got
a largely dry day. A little more | 0:16:29 | 0:16:34 | |
cloud in the far south in one or two
flurries of snow hanging on down | 0:16:34 | 0:16:38 | |
towards the Channel Isles. The cloud
Wolf Dean and break up. Much of the | 0:16:38 | 0:16:43 | |
country a dry day and return to some
fairly feeling sunshine. This | 0:16:43 | 0:16:47 | |
afternoon across southern England
and Wales, still a cold north-east | 0:16:47 | 0:16:51 | |
of the wind so although there will
be some sunshine it will feel cold. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:56 | |
Watch a fall of the lying snow and
icy conditions. In Scotland and | 0:16:56 | 0:17:02 | |
northern Ireland, dry and sunny. For
more cloud the eastern Scotland and | 0:17:02 | 0:17:07 | |
for this England but towards the
west of Scotland and northern | 0:17:07 | 0:17:10 | |
Ireland it will feel quite pleasant
with a light wind and sunshine. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:13 | |
Temperatures still not great,
between 3-7 out there today. Chile, | 0:17:13 | 0:17:19 | |
particularly with the wind chill
across England and Wales. Overnight, | 0:17:19 | 0:17:24 | |
largely dry conditions, more cloud
filtering in from the east across | 0:17:24 | 0:17:27 | |
England and Wales. Scotland and
northern Ireland see the coldest | 0:17:27 | 0:17:31 | |
temperatures so we could well have
-5 or through the central Scotland | 0:17:31 | 0:17:36 | |
tomorrow morning. Through the day
tomorrow, not a bad day. Cloudy in | 0:17:36 | 0:17:42 | |
the east, perhaps one or two rain
showers for Lincolnshire down | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
towards Sussex. Most other parts of
dry and sunny. Still chile for the | 0:17:46 | 0:17:51 | |
time of year. Through into the
middle of the week, a front moves | 0:17:51 | 0:17:55 | |
into the north-west which brings
more cloud of Scotland and Northern | 0:17:55 | 0:17:58 | |
Ireland and into Wednesday. Patchy
rain also the Scotland and northern | 0:17:58 | 0:18:03 | |
Ireland. England and Wales should
stay dry, again, a lot of fun trying | 0:18:03 | 0:18:08 | |
but you'll chile. Eight or nine
degrees for most of us by Wednesday | 0:18:08 | 0:18:11 | |
but we could just about see the
temperatures creeping into double | 0:18:11 | 0:18:15 | |
figures in one or two spots. A
milder theme as we look to what the | 0:18:15 | 0:18:18 | |
middle and the end of the week but
we're not out of the woods yet, it | 0:18:18 | 0:18:23 | |
is still cold and we have a lot of
ice over the few days. Thank you | 0:18:23 | 0:18:27 | |
very much, see | 0:18:27 | 0:18:28 | |
ice over the few days. Thank you
very much, see you later on. When I | 0:18:28 | 0:18:30 | |
heard you were outside I feared the
worst but you don't look too bad. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:34 | |
She has your favourite thing, a big
coat. You know what, sometimes a big | 0:18:34 | 0:18:39 | |
coat is all you need in life! That
is a terrible visions of this time | 0:18:39 | 0:18:44 | |
of mourning. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:48 | |
Let's have a look at today's papers. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:52 | |
The front page of the Telegraph,
they are talking about it, and I | 0:18:52 | 0:18:58 | |
think Steph will talk about this as
well, Facebook, the wild west, | 0:18:58 | 0:19:01 | |
technology firms would Facebook and
Google is over, according to the | 0:19:01 | 0:19:05 | |
cabinet minister responsible for
overseeing them, declaring that | 0:19:05 | 0:19:09 | |
today, saying the silicon giants are
facing greater regulation to control | 0:19:09 | 0:19:14 | |
people's data and ensure they cannot
avoid being proper tax. I think you | 0:19:14 | 0:19:20 | |
were talking about that Stephanie
Brunner to the financial Times has a | 0:19:20 | 0:19:24 | |
big story across both sides of the
Atlantic this morning because here, | 0:19:24 | 0:19:28 | |
Facebook is under increasing
pressure to explain how the data | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
collect did on 50 million users was
exploited for political gain, and | 0:19:31 | 0:19:38 | |
this is the story that claims the
data firm can reach analytic at | 0:19:38 | 0:19:42 | |
which used leaked information to
help Donald Trump win the US | 0:19:42 | 0:19:46 | |
election. It is a complicated story
but the basic premise of it is there | 0:19:46 | 0:19:50 | |
was lots of data, data is powerful,
isn't it, information about | 0:19:50 | 0:19:53 | |
everyone, and faced or is involved
in somehow these claims, that they | 0:19:53 | 0:19:58 | |
gave the information to Cambridge at
analytic. -- Cambridge analytic. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:05 | |
Vladimir Putin, his landslide
victory. It was confirmed about 9pm | 0:20:05 | 0:20:13 | |
I think the final vote numbers came
through but 75% of the vote for him, | 0:20:13 | 0:20:17 | |
quite a bit turnout, two thirds of
the Russians turned out. And the | 0:20:17 | 0:20:22 | |
watchdog turned away from tough
vetting curbs. And Ant McPartlin is | 0:20:22 | 0:20:30 | |
on the front pages of a few as well.
He makes the front page of the sun, | 0:20:30 | 0:20:35 | |
some of the other tabloids as well.
The mirror, held by police after | 0:20:35 | 0:20:41 | |
drink drive crash, it took place in
Richmond in London and that is the | 0:20:41 | 0:20:46 | |
front page of the daily express.
That is the Guardian, a bit of a | 0:20:46 | 0:20:50 | |
meat batch today. Talking about
Facebook also an Vladimir Putin and | 0:20:50 | 0:20:55 | |
the Daily Mail have a campaign about
plastics and they are talking about | 0:20:55 | 0:20:59 | |
that today. It is also the end of
the Six Nations this week? A lovely | 0:20:59 | 0:21:05 | |
celebration and some photos in the
paper, this is in the Times. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:09 | |
Grinning bare as he shows off the
trophy. -- there. You cannot imagine | 0:21:09 | 0:21:17 | |
the football is flying back after
winning the Champions League on a | 0:21:17 | 0:21:21 | |
private jet. He looks like he is on
some kind of Ryanair flight back to | 0:21:21 | 0:21:25 | |
Dublin. Nothing wrong with that!
Anna Fitzpatrick there as well | 0:21:25 | 0:21:30 | |
winning the gold. I love that photo
of them jumping. And Millie Knight | 0:21:30 | 0:21:35 | |
and Brett Wild won the bronze the
way to finish the Winter | 0:21:35 | 0:21:38 | |
Paralympics. A really interesting
piece in the mirror before Rory went | 0:21:38 | 0:21:42 | |
on to win the other factor for
Arnold Palmer Invitational but he | 0:21:42 | 0:21:48 | |
complains he keeps getting abuse
from people in the crowd and he said | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
more and more at golf tournament
these days people used to wander | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
around with a couple of beers but
now people are wandering around with | 0:21:54 | 0:21:58 | |
tales! It has become less big
boozefest and they should think | 0:21:58 | 0:22:04 | |
about banning alcohol because people
were shouting and putting them off | 0:22:04 | 0:22:06 | |
because golf is a game built on
etiquette and respect and silence | 0:22:06 | 0:22:10 | |
and concentration. Justin Thomas had
someone removed, didn't he? | 0:22:10 | 0:22:15 | |
Stefanie? A nice story about a
village in Somerset because their | 0:22:15 | 0:22:19 | |
local villagers have saved the local
pub. The race more than £1 million | 0:22:19 | 0:22:24 | |
to buy it developers. It closed six
years ago, developers were going to | 0:22:24 | 0:22:29 | |
turn it into flats, villagers
rallied around and made £1 million | 0:22:29 | 0:22:32 | |
and bought it back. That is a lovely
story. They did a similar thing in | 0:22:32 | 0:22:40 | |
my parents's village but we still
have to go to the pub than now. You | 0:22:40 | 0:22:44 | |
have sorted it and bought it a knack
you have to go. Would you like to | 0:22:44 | 0:22:48 | |
see a Siberian tiger almost
catching... No. This is, look at | 0:22:48 | 0:22:55 | |
this wonderful picture taken in a
park in China. In Harbin. He doesn't | 0:22:55 | 0:23:04 | |
quite get it. The guinea fowl and
gnawing a tiger, the Tiger tries to | 0:23:04 | 0:23:12 | |
grab it but it escapes the drawers.
Where did the guinea shall come | 0:23:12 | 0:23:14 | |
from? I don't know. We will look
into that guinea fowl later on! When | 0:23:14 | 0:23:21 | |
you say a park, dear me a wildlife
park? Just a public park? I have | 0:23:21 | 0:23:29 | |
another guinea PAL story for you.
But before guinea fowl. Last week we | 0:23:29 | 0:23:35 | |
went to dinner, didn't we. It was a
lunch. We all turned up late and | 0:23:35 | 0:23:39 | |
dinner was on the table and we all
thought it was chicken that would | 0:23:39 | 0:23:44 | |
later found out it was guinea fowl
but we ate it anyway. I did know. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:48 | |
That is my list of great stories.
Thank you, Dan. 623, you were | 0:23:48 | 0:23:56 | |
watching Breakfast. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:58 | |
The use of a breakthrough drug,
which is the first to tackle | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
the root cause of cystic fibrosis,
will be debated by MPs later today. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:05 | |
Orkambi is available in several
countries including Ireland, | 0:24:05 | 0:24:07 | |
Germany, and the US,
but it's not used on the NHS | 0:24:07 | 0:24:10 | |
because it costs 100,000 pounds
per patient, per year. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
Breakfast's Graham
Satchell has more. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:20 | |
Lucy is doing a special workout to
help her condition. She has cystic | 0:24:24 | 0:24:29 | |
fibrosis, and inherited illness that
affects lung and digestive system. I | 0:24:29 | 0:24:32 | |
do all I can at the moment to try
and sort of keep alive longer. It is | 0:24:32 | 0:24:39 | |
a bit sad in a way that like all of
my friends don't have to worry about | 0:24:39 | 0:24:43 | |
this it would that I am doing it to
stay alive. Yeah? Yeah? Yeah. She is | 0:24:43 | 0:24:52 | |
attempting a new personal best, to
lift 120% of her body weight. Cystic | 0:24:52 | 0:24:58 | |
fibrosis is a devastating illness,
half of the people who have it will | 0:24:58 | 0:25:02 | |
die by the age of 31. Lucy takes a
small mountain of antibiotics to try | 0:25:02 | 0:25:06 | |
and stop infections. There is a new
drug, called Orkambi, the first | 0:25:06 | 0:25:10 | |
treatment that tackles the root
cause cystic fibrosis. It cost is | 0:25:10 | 0:25:16 | |
per year. It is too expensive to the
NHS. People with it can pick up the | 0:25:16 | 0:25:25 | |
bacteria and can be really poorly so
knowing there is a drugged out there | 0:25:25 | 0:25:31 | |
that would help all that, it is more
than frustrating, it is | 0:25:31 | 0:25:36 | |
heartbreaking. Dublin in Ireland, 14
you rob Bennett altered a lot of | 0:25:36 | 0:25:41 | |
antibiotics. The Irish government
approved the use of Orkambi last | 0:25:41 | 0:25:45 | |
year, it is make a huge difference
to Bennett's condition. It has | 0:25:45 | 0:25:50 | |
improved my weight, my height, my
liver function, the overall health, | 0:25:50 | 0:25:55 | |
energy. It is really impacted in a
good way. Do you feel better? Better | 0:25:55 | 0:26:02 | |
and more energetic than before I
started taking Orkambi. Campaigners | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
say Orkambi will save money in the
long run by reducing expensive | 0:26:06 | 0:26:10 | |
hospital additions but the deal done
in Ireland with the companies that | 0:26:10 | 0:26:15 | |
make Orkambi was controversial,
costing the Irish health service and | 0:26:15 | 0:26:19 | |
more than 100 million Europe. It is
a lot of money but can you put a | 0:26:19 | 0:26:24 | |
price in anyone's life, especially
your child? And also for the quality | 0:26:24 | 0:26:28 | |
of life, you know, you cannot put a
price on that. This amount of money | 0:26:28 | 0:26:34 | |
could be spent elsewhere for other
products and services. If you | 0:26:34 | 0:26:39 | |
consider the population that would
be using this kind of treatment | 0:26:39 | 0:26:44 | |
which is around 3000 patients, if
you multiply 3000 patients by | 0:26:44 | 0:26:49 | |
£100,000 per year, this is around
£300 million per year for the NHS. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:56 | |
Back in Preston, Lucy and her mum
about to do physio. It takes one | 0:26:56 | 0:27:01 | |
hour twice a day to clear lungs.
Invictus England say unless the drug | 0:27:01 | 0:27:08 | |
company refuse its price, a deal is
unlikely. We are told they are | 0:27:08 | 0:27:16 | |
dismayed by NHS England's approach
but want further dialogue. What | 0:27:16 | 0:27:20 | |
about the patients like Lucy? It
shouldn't be about to live, it | 0:27:20 | 0:27:24 | |
should be about what you have.
People may die because it may be | 0:27:24 | 0:27:28 | |
because of a funding issue, it is
unfair. This will discuss access to | 0:27:28 | 0:27:33 | |
Orkambi in Westminster today but
while the arguments go on, Lucy's | 0:27:33 | 0:27:37 | |
conditions continues to get worse.
You get a sense of how difficult | 0:27:37 | 0:27:46 | |
that is. It is Monday morning, good
morning. We will get some news and | 0:27:46 | 0:27:52 | |
travel wherever you are watching.
Difficult in the south-west of | 0:27:52 | 0:27:56 | |
England with people stuck on the a
30 overnight. The National headlines | 0:27:56 | 0:27:59 | |
in a few | 0:27:59 | 0:31:17 | |
Plenty more on our website
at the usual address. | 0:31:17 | 0:31:19 | |
Now, though, it's back
to Dan and Louise. | 0:31:19 | 0:31:21 | |
Bye for now. | 0:31:21 | 0:31:24 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast,
with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | 0:31:25 | 0:31:28 | |
It is 6:30am on Monday 19 March. | 0:31:28 | 0:31:35 | |
Coming up on Breakfast today:
As a global team of chemical weapons | 0:31:35 | 0:31:39 | |
experts descend on Salisbury
to verify the nerve agent used | 0:31:39 | 0:31:41 | |
to poison a former Russian
spy and his daughter, | 0:31:41 | 0:31:44 | |
we will find out what the results
could mean for international | 0:31:44 | 0:31:47 | |
relations with Russia. | 0:31:47 | 0:31:50 | |
Also this morning: Steph will be
taking a look at whether the decline | 0:31:50 | 0:31:54 | |
in local newspapers is fuelling
the rise in fake news. | 0:31:54 | 0:32:02 | |
Strictly's Kevin and Karen Clifton
will be here to tell us how | 0:32:04 | 0:32:07 | |
they are stronger than
ever professionally, | 0:32:07 | 0:32:08 | |
despite their recent split. | 0:32:08 | 0:32:12 | |
Good morning, here is a summary
of today's main stories from BBC | 0:32:12 | 0:32:16 | |
News: | 0:32:16 | 0:32:17 | |
More than 80 drivers have been
stranded overnight in Devon. | 0:32:17 | 0:32:20 | |
The A30 was hit by heavy snow,
and police say conditions | 0:32:20 | 0:32:23 | |
are changing rapidly
from passable to impossible. | 0:32:23 | 0:32:27 | |
Many spent the night at a local
school after a 64-mile stretch | 0:32:27 | 0:32:30 | |
of the road was shut while police
officers and Highways England | 0:32:30 | 0:32:33 | |
cleared the route. | 0:32:33 | 0:32:41 | |
Police say accidents have started to
be reported to them this morning. | 0:32:42 | 0:32:46 | |
They are advising motorists to delay
their journeys in the south-west of | 0:32:46 | 0:32:49 | |
England, and to slow down. It comes
as a new weather alert is in place | 0:32:49 | 0:32:56 | |
in parts of south-west England and
south Wales, where more snow is | 0:32:56 | 0:33:00 | |
expected. We will have a full
weather report in ten minutes' time. | 0:33:00 | 0:33:05 | |
And our correspondent is at the
scene of some of the worst of those | 0:33:05 | 0:33:10 | |
conditions, but we are struggling
technologically to get hold of her. | 0:33:10 | 0:33:13 | |
Yes, because of Guess what... Snow! | 0:33:13 | 0:33:20 | |
International chemical weapons
experts are due to arrive in the UK | 0:33:20 | 0:33:23 | |
later today to test the nerve agent
used to poison former Russian spy | 0:33:23 | 0:33:27 | |
Sergei Skripal and his
daughter Yulia. | 0:33:27 | 0:33:28 | |
President Putin says
claims his country was behind | 0:33:28 | 0:33:31 | |
the attack are nonsense,
but Boris Johnson claims Russia has | 0:33:31 | 0:33:33 | |
been stockpiling Novichok for years. | 0:33:33 | 0:33:35 | |
Official results from Russia show
President Putin has been re-elected | 0:33:35 | 0:33:38 | |
with more than 76% of the vote. | 0:33:38 | 0:33:41 | |
He told a victory rally that
Russia must maintain unity | 0:33:41 | 0:33:44 | |
following his landslide win,
but CCTV footage from a number | 0:33:44 | 0:33:46 | |
of polling stations appears to show
election officials stuffing boxes | 0:33:46 | 0:33:49 | |
with ballot papers. | 0:33:49 | 0:33:57 | |
The television presenter
Ant McPartlin has been arrested | 0:33:58 | 0:34:01 | |
on suspicion of drink-driving. | 0:34:01 | 0:34:02 | |
Police say they were called
to reports of a collision involving | 0:34:02 | 0:34:05 | |
three cars in South-West London
yesterday afternoon. | 0:34:05 | 0:34:07 | |
A child passenger in one of them
was taken to hospital | 0:34:07 | 0:34:10 | |
as a precaution. | 0:34:10 | 0:34:11 | |
In a statement, Scotland Yard said
a 42-year-old man was arrested | 0:34:11 | 0:34:14 | |
at the scene after failing
a breathalyser test. | 0:34:14 | 0:34:20 | |
A British woman has been killed
in northern Syria while fighting | 0:34:20 | 0:34:22 | |
alongside Kurdish forces. | 0:34:22 | 0:34:24 | |
It is understood that Anna Campbell,
who was 26 and from Lewes | 0:34:24 | 0:34:27 | |
in East Sussex, died
in the town of Afrin, | 0:34:27 | 0:34:31 | |
which has been the target
of a Turkish offensive. | 0:34:31 | 0:34:35 | |
Her father has told the BBC
she was idealistic, and knew | 0:34:35 | 0:34:38 | |
she was putting her life at risk. | 0:34:38 | 0:34:41 | |
Scientists have announced
a significant breakthrough | 0:34:41 | 0:34:43 | |
in the treatment of
multiple sclerosis. | 0:34:43 | 0:34:44 | |
Results from a decade-long
international trial have shown | 0:34:44 | 0:34:47 | |
a stem cell transplant can halt
the disease and improve symptoms. | 0:34:47 | 0:34:50 | |
The disabling condition affects
about 100,000 people in the UK. | 0:34:50 | 0:34:52 | |
Doctors in Sheffield who were part
of the study say the new treatment | 0:34:52 | 0:34:56 | |
is a game-changer for many patients. | 0:34:56 | 0:35:04 | |
We will talk about that in a little
bit more depth a little bit later on | 0:35:11 | 0:35:15 | |
Breakfast. | 0:35:15 | 0:35:21 | |
If you are a big golfer, you may be
watching Rory McIlroy producing one | 0:35:21 | 0:35:24 | |
of those... They say when he putts
as well as he can, he is pretty | 0:35:24 | 0:35:30 | |
unstoppable. He said yesterday he
played the perfect round of golf. I | 0:35:30 | 0:35:34 | |
have no idea what that feels like. I
am sure very few people do. Can you | 0:35:34 | 0:35:40 | |
imagine playing the perfect round
golf? He said on Twitter, 529 days | 0:35:40 | 0:35:48 | |
but worth the wait. He has obviously
been counting the days. It was 25 | 0:35:48 | 0:35:53 | |
September 2016 he won his last
tournament, which funnily enough was | 0:35:53 | 0:35:56 | |
the day at Arnold Palmer died, and
the Arnold Palmer Invitational was | 0:35:56 | 0:36:00 | |
the tournament he won yesterday. He
is back, with just a couple of weeks | 0:36:00 | 0:36:05 | |
to go until the Masters. | 0:36:05 | 0:36:07 | |
The Northern Irishman hit five
birdies in the last six holes | 0:36:07 | 0:36:10 | |
to finish on 18-under-par,
three shots clear of the rest | 0:36:10 | 0:36:12 | |
of the field. | 0:36:12 | 0:36:14 | |
Tiger Woods's
rejuvenation continued. | 0:36:14 | 0:36:15 | |
The 14-time Major winner was tied
for fifth, eight behind McIlroy. | 0:36:15 | 0:36:22 | |
All these little barriers that you
have to overcome, whether it be | 0:36:23 | 0:36:28 | |
physical or mental, it is huge for
my confidence going into the next | 0:36:28 | 0:36:34 | |
few weeks. And, you know, I kept
saying I didn't need a win going | 0:36:34 | 0:36:39 | |
into Augusta. I feel like I had a
chance, I just wanted to see signs | 0:36:39 | 0:36:43 | |
of good golf, and thankfully I have
been able to get both today. | 0:36:43 | 0:36:47 | |
Another Brit returning
to form was Laura Davies. | 0:36:47 | 0:36:49 | |
She finished tied for second
at the Founders Cup, in Phoenix. | 0:36:49 | 0:36:52 | |
It is her best finish
on the LPGA tour since 2007. | 0:36:52 | 0:36:55 | |
She said maybe now people will stop
asking her when she will retire. | 0:36:55 | 0:36:58 | |
Chelsea will face Southampton
in the semi-finals of the FA Cup, | 0:36:58 | 0:37:01 | |
coming through 2-1 against
Leicester after extra-time. | 0:37:01 | 0:37:03 | |
It was Pedro's goal that sealed
Chelsea's spot in the final four. | 0:37:03 | 0:37:07 | |
It is their tenth FA Cup
semi-final in 18 years, | 0:37:07 | 0:37:09 | |
and their only realistic chance
of winning a trophy this season. | 0:37:09 | 0:37:16 | |
For sure, if you are able to win a
trophy, it is important. It is | 0:37:16 | 0:37:24 | |
important for the team. At the same
time, the most important thing is | 0:37:24 | 0:37:30 | |
for us to fight until the end for
every competition. | 0:37:30 | 0:37:35 | |
Mark Hughes had a good first game
in charge of Southampton, | 0:37:35 | 0:37:38 | |
as they beat League One side Wigan
2-0 to reach the FA Cup semi-finals. | 0:37:38 | 0:37:42 | |
Defender Cedric Soares scored
their second in stoppage-time. | 0:37:42 | 0:37:50 | |
People questioned this group,
clearly, before I arrived, | 0:37:51 | 0:37:54 | |
and maybe questioned my
appointment as well. | 0:37:54 | 0:37:59 | |
So I think it's only
a start, but it's | 0:37:59 | 0:38:01 | |
a statement of intent as well. | 0:38:01 | 0:38:03 | |
We've got a lot of work to do
in the Premier League, | 0:38:03 | 0:38:06 | |
but we'll enjoy this moment. | 0:38:06 | 0:38:07 | |
It's a Wembley semifinal. | 0:38:07 | 0:38:08 | |
Celtic were held to a goalless draw
by ten-man Motherwell, | 0:38:08 | 0:38:11 | |
but they still extended
their lead at the top | 0:38:11 | 0:38:14 | |
of the Scottish Premiership
to ten points. | 0:38:14 | 0:38:15 | |
Motherwell's Cedric Kipre was sent
off for kicking out, | 0:38:15 | 0:38:18 | |
but this was the closest Celtic
came to taking the lead, | 0:38:18 | 0:38:21 | |
Patrick Roberts letting fly late on. | 0:38:21 | 0:38:23 | |
Despite being a man down,
the home side held on for a point. | 0:38:23 | 0:38:26 | |
Roger Federer's incredible run
at the start of this year has come | 0:38:26 | 0:38:29 | |
to an end. | 0:38:29 | 0:38:31 | |
He was beaten in the final
of the Indian Wells Masters | 0:38:31 | 0:38:34 | |
by Juan Martin del Potro. | 0:38:34 | 0:38:35 | |
It is the Argentine's second
tournament win in a row, | 0:38:35 | 0:38:38 | |
after victory earlier
this month in Mexico. | 0:38:38 | 0:38:40 | |
The former US Open champion had
to save three match points before | 0:38:40 | 0:38:43 | |
becoming the first person this year
to beat the world number one. | 0:38:43 | 0:38:46 | |
And the women's final
was won in straight sets | 0:38:46 | 0:38:49 | |
by Japan's Naomi Osaka, who overcame
Russia's Daria Kasatkina | 0:38:49 | 0:38:51 | |
in the final. | 0:38:51 | 0:38:52 | |
It is a first-ever WTA Tour win
for Osaka, who is ranked 44th | 0:38:52 | 0:38:56 | |
in the world. | 0:38:56 | 0:38:56 | |
Ireland's Six Nations
grand slam-winning team | 0:38:56 | 0:38:58 | |
celebrated their success
in Dublin yesterday. | 0:38:58 | 0:39:00 | |
The following images do
contain flash photography. | 0:39:00 | 0:39:02 | |
The Irish team were supposed to be
attending a grand slam celebration | 0:39:02 | 0:39:05 | |
event at the Aviva Stadium,
but it was cancelled due | 0:39:05 | 0:39:08 | |
to bad weather. | 0:39:08 | 0:39:10 | |
Instead, fans got to see the players
showing off the trophy outside | 0:39:10 | 0:39:13 | |
the team's hotel. | 0:39:13 | 0:39:21 | |
Bearers Rory Best and the trophy
reflecting those camera lights -- | 0:39:21 | 0:39:29 | |
there is Rory Best. | 0:39:29 | 0:39:34 | |
Scotland finished their Women's Six
Nations campaign in fifth place, | 0:39:34 | 0:39:37 | |
after being well beaten
by Italy in Padova. | 0:39:37 | 0:39:39 | |
On a terrible pitch,
Italy won by 26-12, | 0:39:39 | 0:39:41 | |
with Beatrice Rigoni crossing
to secure their bonus point. | 0:39:41 | 0:39:44 | |
France clinched their fifth
grand slam with Friday's | 0:39:44 | 0:39:46 | |
thumping of Wales. | 0:39:46 | 0:39:47 | |
And this is our favourite story of
the morning so far. Would you be | 0:39:47 | 0:39:51 | |
brave enough to break into Sir Andy
Murray's hotel, a man who | 0:39:51 | 0:39:54 | |
famously... I wouldn't break into
anybody's hotel! Michael McIntyre, | 0:39:54 | 0:40:01 | |
the comedian, has done just that.
Take a look at these teachers. He | 0:40:01 | 0:40:06 | |
sneaks in in the middle of the
night. This is for Sport Relief, and | 0:40:06 | 0:40:10 | |
Michael McIntyre does this as part
of his Saturday night show. In they | 0:40:10 | 0:40:14 | |
go, and then all of a sudden...
Andy! Holy leap Mac. Welcome to the | 0:40:14 | 0:40:28 | |
Sport Relief midnight game-show --
holy BLEEP.. And Andy Murray needs a | 0:40:28 | 0:40:38 | |
bleep when he is on the tennis
court, let alone being awakened by | 0:40:38 | 0:40:43 | |
one of the world's most famous
comedians. And then Peppa Pig. He is | 0:40:43 | 0:40:55 | |
a very funny chap, is Andy Murray.
He has gone very quickly from being | 0:40:55 | 0:40:59 | |
fast asleep to smiling, which is
admirable. I like the fact the whole | 0:40:59 | 0:41:03 | |
crew are in tennis gear. Everyone is
dressed up, they have really gone | 0:41:03 | 0:41:09 | |
for it, haven't they? The question
which concerns me, does he sleep in | 0:41:09 | 0:41:13 | |
the nerd? I don't know, I haven't
done that much research! There is | 0:41:13 | 0:41:19 | |
nothing wrong with that. But what if
the duvet had slipped, it could have | 0:41:19 | 0:41:24 | |
been a very different story, you are
right. | 0:41:24 | 0:41:29 | |
And Sport Relief is on Friday. | 0:41:29 | 0:41:38 | |
More than 80 drivers have been
stranded overnight in Devon. The A30 | 0:41:38 | 0:41:44 | |
was hit a heavy snow and police say
conditions have changed rapidly from | 0:41:44 | 0:41:48 | |
possible to impossible. Many people
spent the night in a local school | 0:41:48 | 0:41:52 | |
after a stretch of the A30 was shut.
Police say accidents are now | 0:41:52 | 0:41:58 | |
starting to be reported this morning
and they are advising motorists to | 0:41:58 | 0:42:02 | |
delay their journeys in the
south-west of England, and perhaps | 0:42:02 | 0:42:05 | |
most importantly, to slow down.
Joining us is Richard, who has been | 0:42:05 | 0:42:10 | |
managing this rescue centre where
many of the motorists took refuge. | 0:42:10 | 0:42:13 | |
We can just about see you, tell us
what has been going on overnight. | 0:42:13 | 0:42:17 | |
How many people have you had to look
after? We have 82 people here at the | 0:42:17 | 0:42:22 | |
moment, some of them are just waking
up to a very, very cold morning. It | 0:42:22 | 0:42:27 | |
has just stop snowing about 20
minutes ago, but as you can probably | 0:42:27 | 0:42:31 | |
see behind me, there are quite
significant. Snow here. And it has | 0:42:31 | 0:42:35 | |
been -3 for most of the night. So
the snow which has started to melt | 0:42:35 | 0:42:40 | |
has now read Frozen, and it is
absolutely treacherous. And how was | 0:42:40 | 0:42:45 | |
the mood overnight | 0:42:45 | 0:42:51 | |
the mood overnight refrozen. --
refrozen. We had medical staff to | 0:42:51 | 0:42:59 | |
make sure that they were OK, and as
soon as they were fine, we equip | 0:42:59 | 0:43:07 | |
them with duvets, with blankets, and
got them to sleep. So how long do | 0:43:07 | 0:43:12 | |
you think they are going to be
there, and what are you going to | 0:43:12 | 0:43:16 | |
give them for Breakfast? Well, we
are very lucky. We have a fantastic | 0:43:16 | 0:43:21 | |
Waitrose in Oakhampton, who take
their social responsibility very | 0:43:21 | 0:43:23 | |
carefully, and we have some food
from them for Breakfast. So it will | 0:43:23 | 0:43:27 | |
be Breakfast butties, with lots of
bacon, and cereal for the kid, and a | 0:43:27 | 0:43:33 | |
really hearty Breakfast. The mood
here is absolutely superb. Obviously | 0:43:33 | 0:43:36 | |
people don't want to be trapped in
their vehicles, this is not a | 0:43:36 | 0:43:40 | |
scenario that they envisioned when
they set out, and so it is nice to | 0:43:40 | 0:43:44 | |
come into a centre where it is warm,
where they are being cared for. We | 0:43:44 | 0:43:49 | |
will look after them, and eventually
when the conditions are ready, we | 0:43:49 | 0:43:53 | |
will pop them back in their cars and
get them on their way. Thank you | 0:43:53 | 0:43:57 | |
very much for joining us, and best
of luck throughout the morning. | 0:43:57 | 0:44:01 | |
Thank you. | 0:44:01 | 0:44:02 | |
Here is Sarah with a look
at this morning's weather. | 0:44:02 | 0:44:07 | |
Here is Sarah with a look
at this morning's weather. | 0:44:07 | 0:44:11 | |
There are still, as we are saying,
those weather reports and concerns | 0:44:11 | 0:44:16 | |
out there. That's right, good
morning to you both. It is a cold | 0:44:16 | 0:44:20 | |
start to the day, certainly. A lot
of lying snow around the country, a | 0:44:20 | 0:44:25 | |
lot of ice around as well. I am on
the roof of new broadcasting house | 0:44:25 | 0:44:28 | |
in central London, and we have some
lying snow. Not too much of it but | 0:44:28 | 0:44:32 | |
across other parts of the country
there is up to around 20 centimetres | 0:44:32 | 0:44:36 | |
of note. And ice is going to be more
of a problem today as well, because | 0:44:36 | 0:44:40 | |
what we will see some of that snow
starting to thaw out a little bit | 0:44:40 | 0:44:44 | |
during the day and re- freezing once
the sunsets overnight tonight. I | 0:44:44 | 0:44:48 | |
think we are not out of the woods
just yet in terms of the disruption | 0:44:48 | 0:44:52 | |
to the wintry weather, but as we
head through the course of the week | 0:44:52 | 0:44:56 | |
things will start to change a bit.
After that cold, dry start, it will | 0:44:56 | 0:44:59 | |
be gradually turning a little bit
milder, and later in the week there | 0:44:59 | 0:45:03 | |
will be the arrival of some rain as
well. For the here and now this | 0:45:03 | 0:45:07 | |
morning, most of us are dry. A bit
more cloud across southern England, | 0:45:07 | 0:45:10 | |
down towards the Channel Isles,
bringing a few flurries of snow | 0:45:10 | 0:45:13 | |
around here, but most other places
look dry. Plenty of sunshine on | 0:45:13 | 0:45:20 | |
offer. Still quite breezy across
England and Wales, less windy for | 0:45:20 | 0:45:23 | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Through the afternoon it is | 0:45:23 | 0:45:26 | |
certainly looking drive for the
south-west of England, Wales, | 0:45:26 | 0:45:28 | |
through the Midlands and the
south-east of England as well. | 0:45:28 | 0:45:31 | |
Heading northwards, plenty of
sunshine breaking through any of | 0:45:31 | 0:45:33 | |
that cloud across northern England,
Scotland and Northern Ireland. A bit | 0:45:33 | 0:45:36 | |
more cloud just pushing it around
the east coast of Scotland and | 0:45:36 | 0:45:40 | |
north-east England. But for western
Scotland and Northern Ireland it | 0:45:40 | 0:45:42 | |
should feel really quite pleasant
out there today, with the sunshine | 0:45:42 | 0:45:45 | |
and the light winds around as well.
Temperatures still not doing great | 0:45:45 | 0:45:50 | |
for the time of year, so only
reaching around about three to seven | 0:45:50 | 0:45:53 | |
Celsius for most of us out there
this afternoon. Quite a windchill | 0:45:53 | 0:45:56 | |
still across part of England and
Wales, but it won't be as cold or is | 0:45:56 | 0:46:00 | |
windy as it was through the weekend,
and most places staying dry. On into | 0:46:00 | 0:46:04 | |
the evening hours, a bit more cloud
rolls in across parts of England and | 0:46:04 | 0:46:08 | |
Wales as well, whereas Scotland and
Northern Ireland keep the clear | 0:46:08 | 0:46:11 | |
skies in the light winds, so it will
be here that the temperatures will | 0:46:11 | 0:46:15 | |
be lowest overnight. In fact, as low
as about minus five degrees through | 0:46:15 | 0:46:18 | |
the central belt of Scotland first
thing. Further south, not quite as | 0:46:18 | 0:46:22 | |
cold but they will still be some icy
stretches around, perhaps one or two | 0:46:22 | 0:46:26 | |
patches of freezing fog first thing
Tuesday as well. Through the day on | 0:46:26 | 0:46:29 | |
Tuesday we are expecting a bit more
cloud than perhaps one or two rogue | 0:46:29 | 0:46:33 | |
showers across parts of eastern
England but elsewhere dry and sunny. | 0:46:33 | 0:46:36 | |
Less windy during Tuesday and
temperatures starting to nudge up. | 0:46:36 | 0:46:39 | |
We might see around eight or nine
degrees during the day on Tuesday. | 0:46:39 | 0:46:43 | |
Tuesday evening, we will start to
see that cloud in the south and east | 0:46:43 | 0:46:48 | |
slowly clearing away. But then we
are going to see the next area of | 0:46:48 | 0:46:51 | |
low pressure arising from the
Atlantic. So from Tuesday night and | 0:46:51 | 0:46:54 | |
on into Wednesday, more cloud build
across Scotland, in the Northern | 0:46:54 | 0:46:58 | |
Ireland as well. And then overnight
that cloud will bring some patchy | 0:46:58 | 0:47:01 | |
outbreaks of rain to the north-west
of the UK. Through the day on | 0:47:01 | 0:47:04 | |
Wednesday we will continue to see a
bit of patchy rain for Scotland and | 0:47:04 | 0:47:08 | |
for Northern Ireland as well.
England and Wales, though, should | 0:47:08 | 0:47:11 | |
hold onto the slightly drier
weather, with the best of the | 0:47:11 | 0:47:14 | |
sunshine towards the south of the
east. Eight or nine degrees for most | 0:47:14 | 0:47:18 | |
of us, but we could just see double
figures in one or two places on | 0:47:18 | 0:47:22 | |
Wednesday, something we haven't seen
for a little while. So slowly those | 0:47:22 | 0:47:25 | |
temperatures through this week are
starting to creep up but certainly | 0:47:25 | 0:47:28 | |
for today it is a cold and wintry
day, still a windchill around. And | 0:47:28 | 0:47:32 | |
the weather is likely to continue to
cause a little bit more disruption | 0:47:32 | 0:47:37 | |
today. | 0:47:37 | 0:47:42 | |
Did you think that was snow on that
bus or what? That is | 0:47:42 | 0:47:45 | |
Did you think that was snow on that
bus or what? That is what I was | 0:47:45 | 0:47:46 | |
looking at two. We were transfixed. | 0:47:46 | 0:47:49 | |
There are concerns the decline
of local papers could be fuelling | 0:47:49 | 0:47:52 | |
the rise of fake news. | 0:47:52 | 0:47:53 | |
Steph is looking at why. | 0:47:53 | 0:47:58 | |
It is not a surprise is that the
people? The local newspaper sectors | 0:47:58 | 0:48:03 | |
that have tough time, it is more of
us getting our news online the last | 0:48:03 | 0:48:07 | |
week, the culture Secretary Matt
Hancock decided to launch a review | 0:48:07 | 0:48:12 | |
into whether this is feeling better
for fuelling fake news. You look at | 0:48:12 | 0:48:15 | |
how many places have closed since
2005 it is 200 local newspapers that | 0:48:15 | 0:48:20 | |
have shut down to argument is given
that they are not there doing local | 0:48:20 | 0:48:25 | |
journalism what is filling in the
gaps? I went to find out more about | 0:48:25 | 0:48:29 | |
it at the Coventry evening
Telegraph. | 0:48:29 | 0:48:34 | |
By 330,100,000 copy of the paper
have been printed. Over 100 years | 0:48:34 | 0:48:39 | |
the Coventry evening Telegraph has
been a trusted source of news in | 0:48:39 | 0:48:42 | |
this city. And only once in that
time has its presses stop trolling. | 0:48:42 | 0:48:47 | |
When it was hit by the Blitz in
1940. At its peak it had 600 staff | 0:48:47 | 0:48:52 | |
and sold 130,000 copies every day.
But things are different now. In the | 0:48:52 | 0:49:00 | |
last 12 years about 200 local papers
have closed and the reason is | 0:49:00 | 0:49:04 | |
simple- they are not making as much
money from advertising. The back in | 0:49:04 | 0:49:10 | |
2007 about £3 billion was coming
into local papers from ads. Last | 0:49:10 | 0:49:14 | |
year, it was under 700 million. The
thing is, advertisers are still | 0:49:14 | 0:49:20 | |
spending, it is just going
elsewhere. A lot of that money is | 0:49:20 | 0:49:23 | |
going online at it isn't coming
online the online newspapers, it is | 0:49:23 | 0:49:28 | |
generally going to big classified
specialist sites like right move or | 0:49:28 | 0:49:32 | |
auto Trader and the Google search
and in the last couple of years, | 0:49:32 | 0:49:38 | |
Facebook, big-time. This is one of
our old presses that were | 0:49:38 | 0:49:41 | |
state-of-the-art when it was
installed. The editor of the paper | 0:49:41 | 0:49:44 | |
says although newspaper sales were
down by a fifth last year, more | 0:49:44 | 0:49:48 | |
people than ever are reading the
work its reporters. We can see how | 0:49:48 | 0:49:52 | |
the presses were used in the past,
obviously, all of this kit is | 0:49:52 | 0:49:56 | |
redundant now but the paper
certainly isn't, is it? There is a | 0:49:56 | 0:49:59 | |
much innovation going on. We still
publish three conditions are day six | 0:49:59 | 0:50:04 | |
days a week but also our website is
absolutely thriving. We reach a | 0:50:04 | 0:50:08 | |
bigger audience now across
interdigital and we have in decades | 0:50:08 | 0:50:12 | |
seven a soldier is great but the
world has changed and we have | 0:50:12 | 0:50:16 | |
changed with it and my reporters are
as adept as doing a Facebook live as | 0:50:16 | 0:50:20 | |
they are at writing 400 words a
copy. This paper has moved on but as | 0:50:20 | 0:50:24 | |
a matter if others close? The
government is worried the decline of | 0:50:24 | 0:50:27 | |
local newspapers could be filling
the rise of fake news and has | 0:50:27 | 0:50:31 | |
launched a review of the industry. A
recent study by kings College London | 0:50:31 | 0:50:35 | |
found people in areas no local daily
paper Willis engaged in local | 0:50:35 | 0:50:38 | |
elections. And had no petrol less
trusted local institutions. The | 0:50:38 | 0:50:44 | |
heart of the people of Coventry get
their local news? Do you ever by a | 0:50:44 | 0:50:48 | |
local newspaper? No, no, because it
is easy to access everything that is | 0:50:48 | 0:50:54 | |
going on and crosschecking
everything at the same time, via my | 0:50:54 | 0:50:57 | |
phone. I have the local Telegraph
delivered every day. If we need to | 0:50:57 | 0:51:02 | |
find anything, it is Google,
Coventry Telegraph on the up. It is | 0:51:02 | 0:51:07 | |
news rather than having to look at
all of the adverts. People still | 0:51:07 | 0:51:11 | |
want local news but with the paper
is facing a fierce battle for our | 0:51:11 | 0:51:15 | |
attention online, can they find the
audience and the advertisers they | 0:51:15 | 0:51:18 | |
need to make it pay? If they cannot,
there is a chance we will all be | 0:51:18 | 0:51:23 | |
poorer for it. | 0:51:23 | 0:51:27 | |
I love seeing those old pictures.
What is interesting is the fact that | 0:51:27 | 0:51:33 | |
they don't make as much money from
the online advertising as they did, | 0:51:33 | 0:51:38 | |
from other printing papers, but if
you look at the numbers, they are | 0:51:38 | 0:51:41 | |
growing the online side of things,
we gave you the statistics there | 0:51:41 | 0:51:45 | |
with the Coventry Telegraph, the
Birmingham mail 20,000 they | 0:51:45 | 0:51:49 | |
physically sell but 400,000 look at
their website every day. The | 0:51:49 | 0:51:54 | |
Manchester evening news is huge,
40,000 sell a day but actually over | 0:51:54 | 0:51:58 | |
1 million people are visiting their
website every day, the Liverpool | 0:51:58 | 0:52:04 | |
Echo over 40,000 by the paper, and
700 people are looking online. There | 0:52:04 | 0:52:09 | |
is the growth on the online side of
things and that is what the culture | 0:52:09 | 0:52:13 | |
Secretary wants to get into, is that
enough to make sure that we do not | 0:52:13 | 0:52:18 | |
have a fake news there? It is
interesting because local news is so | 0:52:18 | 0:52:22 | |
important. It is what happens around
you. So many people want to be | 0:52:22 | 0:52:30 | |
journalists, and it is a great way
of learning a trade. And local radio | 0:52:30 | 0:52:34 | |
as well. Look where you are now.
Well! I didn't know why or saying | 0:52:34 | 0:52:40 | |
it, I am passionate about it, OK was
to mark good morning. | 0:52:40 | 0:52:45 | |
Residents of 13 seaside chalets
teetering on the edge of cliffs | 0:52:45 | 0:52:47 | |
in Norfolk have been evacuated
from their homes after parts | 0:52:47 | 0:52:50 | |
of the fragile coastline gave way
during high winds and waves | 0:52:50 | 0:52:53 | |
over the weekend. | 0:52:53 | 0:52:54 | |
Our reporter Robby West
is there for us now. | 0:52:54 | 0:52:56 | |
Robby, have there been any
developments overnight? | 0:52:56 | 0:53:04 | |
Overnight even more of the coastline
has disappeared leaving residents to | 0:53:07 | 0:53:10 | |
really fear that their homes could
plunge into the sea at any moment. | 0:53:10 | 0:53:13 | |
If you look behind you can really
see what a fortnight of strong | 0:53:13 | 0:53:17 | |
winds, rough seas have done to the
cliff will stop repeatedly battering | 0:53:17 | 0:53:20 | |
the shoreline three metre high waves
and on Saturday night wins act of 40 | 0:53:20 | 0:53:25 | |
miles an hour and it nearly blew me
off my feet. I spent the weekend | 0:53:25 | 0:53:30 | |
here with a local community and
emergency services to see how they | 0:53:30 | 0:53:33 | |
have evacuated people. | 0:53:33 | 0:53:35 | |
Over the weekend as the tide was
drawing in, lifeboat crews helped | 0:53:35 | 0:53:40 | |
move people's furniture out. Steven
Chadwick knew he had to go after | 0:53:40 | 0:53:44 | |
seeing his garden disappear
overnight. Yeah, bought it for the | 0:53:44 | 0:53:51 | |
sea views, the beautiful sea views,
and now the sea has taken it away. | 0:53:51 | 0:53:55 | |
Work up this morning, had a cup of
copy out the back door at 730 and I | 0:53:55 | 0:53:59 | |
felt like an earthquake and the
cliff just went. I was in total | 0:53:59 | 0:54:03 | |
shock, watching people, taking my
house apart. I don't think will be | 0:54:03 | 0:54:10 | |
here tomorrow. Homeowners were
evacuated following a fortnight of | 0:54:10 | 0:54:13 | |
high tide winds that washed up the
coast's natural defence away. The | 0:54:13 | 0:54:18 | |
next morning the damage could be
seen. The council say 13 homes | 0:54:18 | 0:54:22 | |
remain in a precarious position.
They are being expected after each | 0:54:22 | 0:54:26 | |
high tide. These properties probably
won't be lived in again. The damage | 0:54:26 | 0:54:31 | |
caused, I was up there as I say
Friday, and then Saturday the tune | 0:54:31 | 0:54:36 | |
that was their, a six metre, it was
gone. Paul Reid joined the lifeboat | 0:54:36 | 0:54:43 | |
crews after seeing his home. He
believes it is unsafe to his wife | 0:54:43 | 0:54:47 | |
and two dogs to return to the house
that they have lived in the past | 0:54:47 | 0:54:51 | |
eight years. The look out, I think
to myself you know that is my home | 0:54:51 | 0:54:55 | |
and I have lost it. But obviously I
have got to look on the positive | 0:54:55 | 0:54:59 | |
side that I wasn't in their last
night, I have lost their lives or | 0:54:59 | 0:55:03 | |
anything. And everyone looked after
us very well so I have to move | 0:55:03 | 0:55:07 | |
forward although I have lost my
home. Five years ago here in Hemsby | 0:55:07 | 0:55:10 | |
three homes were washed away
following a storm surge. This | 0:55:10 | 0:55:14 | |
morning, people will return, hoping
history has not repeated itself. | 0:55:14 | 0:55:20 | |
I'm joined now by Keisse with the
chairman of the parish council. How | 0:55:20 | 0:55:24 | |
is the community holding up? Well
actually, it is a good rally of | 0:55:24 | 0:55:29 | |
support to everyone over the
weekend, the local councils is here | 0:55:29 | 0:55:34 | |
on the weekend, the lifeboat crew
have been fantastic as they always | 0:55:34 | 0:55:37 | |
are, the police, everyone has worked
well, the Fire Brigade were here, | 0:55:37 | 0:55:41 | |
eating is all day yesterday trying
to ensure that everyone is safe so | 0:55:41 | 0:55:45 | |
even Tesco, they have helped with
food, Hemsby Village Hall had | 0:55:45 | 0:55:49 | |
accommodation there, the local pub
has put people up to. This is the | 0:55:49 | 0:55:53 | |
first time this has happened? It
happened a couple of years ago and | 0:55:53 | 0:55:57 | |
with all the government would have
listened to how we were badly | 0:55:57 | 0:56:00 | |
needing the sea defences here.
People 's homes went into the sea, | 0:56:00 | 0:56:04 | |
two or 32 years ago and now could
potentially have six. How many more | 0:56:04 | 0:56:09 | |
houses will it take to go to sea to
get the sea defences sorted out for | 0:56:09 | 0:56:13 | |
Hemsby? What happens now? Everyone
will sit around and talk about it | 0:56:13 | 0:56:18 | |
and hopefully it will go back to
Parliament or the government to see | 0:56:18 | 0:56:22 | |
if they can help us down here. We're
in a bad state down here, as you | 0:56:22 | 0:56:25 | |
see. Thank you very much talking to
us. I understand it is a time but | 0:56:25 | 0:56:31 | |
you have to help people get back on
their feet. This morning, more | 0:56:31 | 0:56:34 | |
people will come back to their homes
to find out if they are still there | 0:56:34 | 0:56:38 | |
and if they will ever be able to
live in them again. The lifeboat | 0:56:38 | 0:56:42 | |
crew said to me this morning there
isn't a chance of if they will go | 0:56:42 | 0:56:46 | |
into the sea, it is more a case of
when. That is a shame, thank you, we | 0:56:46 | 0:56:51 | |
can see the drone shot and it is a
staggeringly beautiful area but you | 0:56:51 | 0:56:55 | |
can really see and get an impression
of how much danger the homes are in. | 0:56:55 | 0:56:59 | |
Thank you, we will come back to you
later. You can see the power of the | 0:56:59 | 0:57:03 | |
sea. That is Norfolk for you this
morning. We shall be bringing you | 0:57:03 | 0:57:07 | |
the News International headlines
from around the UK in a few moments | 0:57:07 | 0:57:11 | |
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Hello, this is Breakfast,
with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | 1:01:11 | 1:01:17 | |
Heavy snowfall traps drivers
for hours overnight. | 1:01:17 | 1:01:20 | |
More than 80 are sleeping
in an emergency shelter. | 1:01:20 | 1:01:28 | |
A 60-mile stretch of
the A30 is still closed. | 1:01:30 | 1:01:33 | |
Yellow ice warnings are in place
across much of the country. | 1:01:33 | 1:01:36 | |
Sarah Keith-Lucas will have
the latest forecast. | 1:01:36 | 1:01:44 | |
Good morning, it is Monday 19 March. | 1:01:48 | 1:01:50 | |
Also this morning: International
weapons inspectors are due in the UK | 1:01:50 | 1:01:53 | |
to examine the nerve agent used
to poison Russian ex-spy Sergei | 1:01:53 | 1:01:56 | |
Skripal. | 1:01:56 | 1:02:01 | |
TV presenter Ant McPartlin
is arrested on suspicion | 1:02:01 | 1:02:03 | |
of drink-driving after a collision
involving three cars in south-west | 1:02:03 | 1:02:06 | |
London. | 1:02:06 | 1:02:07 | |
A significant breakthrough
in the treatment of multiple | 1:02:07 | 1:02:10 | |
sclerosis, as an international trial
shows that stem cell transplants can | 1:02:10 | 1:02:13 | |
stop the disease. | 1:02:13 | 1:02:18 | |
The decline of local newspapers
could be fuelling the rise | 1:02:18 | 1:02:21 | |
of fake news. | 1:02:21 | 1:02:22 | |
That is according to the Government. | 1:02:22 | 1:02:24 | |
I will be looking at why. | 1:02:24 | 1:02:27 | |
In sport, Rory is back. | 1:02:27 | 1:02:28 | |
McIlroy wins the Arnold
Palmer Invitational, | 1:02:28 | 1:02:30 | |
seeing off the challenge
of Justin Rose and Tiger Woods, | 1:02:30 | 1:02:32 | |
with the Masters just
a couple of weeks away. | 1:02:32 | 1:02:40 | |
What a finish. Sarah has the weather
for us this morning. Good morning. | 1:02:43 | 1:02:49 | |
It is certainly a cold and icy start
to the day to day but it looks like | 1:02:49 | 1:02:53 | |
the cold snap could be easing.
Temperatures slowly on the rise over | 1:02:53 | 1:02:56 | |
the next few days, looking largely
dry through the day. I will bring | 1:02:56 | 1:03:01 | |
you a full forecast in about 15
minutes. | 1:03:01 | 1:03:03 | |
Good morning. | 1:03:03 | 1:03:06 | |
First, our main story: More than 80
drivers have been stranded | 1:03:06 | 1:03:09 | |
overnight in Devon. | 1:03:09 | 1:03:12 | |
A 64-mile stretch of the A30
was hit by heavy snow, | 1:03:12 | 1:03:15 | |
and police say conditions
are changing rapidly | 1:03:15 | 1:03:17 | |
from passable to impossible. | 1:03:17 | 1:03:23 | |
Officers are asking people in Devon
and Cornwall to delay travelling | 1:03:23 | 1:03:27 | |
until around mid-morning at the
earliest. | 1:03:27 | 1:03:28 | |
Our reporter Sarah Ransome
is in Devon for us this morning. | 1:03:28 | 1:03:33 | |
You are near the rescue centre. Give
us an update, as traffic is now | 1:03:33 | 1:03:38 | |
moving. Yes, good morning. I am here
in Devon at the side of the A38 this | 1:03:38 | 1:03:47 | |
morning, because it was here
yesterday that there were enormous | 1:03:47 | 1:03:50 | |
problems keeping this stretch of the
A38 clear. | 1:03:50 | 1:03:58 | |
A38 clear. Gritters and snowploughs
were working to keep this stretch of | 1:03:58 | 1:04:01 | |
road clear, but overnight we had
those of severe weather warnings in | 1:04:01 | 1:04:05 | |
place and overnight there was a
tremendous amount of snow. We had | 1:04:05 | 1:04:08 | |
about 3-4 centimetres but there was
a real drift over the Highmore, | 1:04:08 | 1:04:13 | |
creating massive problems for a
number of motorists who, for a short | 1:04:13 | 1:04:19 | |
while, were stranded in their cars.
With me from Devon and Cornwall | 1:04:19 | 1:04:24 | |
police is the sergeant. You have had
an update as to what is going on. | 1:04:24 | 1:04:28 | |
How are things looking this morning?
At the moment the A30 is still | 1:04:28 | 1:04:33 | |
closed between Exeter Junction 31
and Launceston, while the operation | 1:04:33 | 1:04:40 | |
is under way to clear the
carriageway of those vehicles which | 1:04:40 | 1:04:43 | |
became stranded. We evacuated 70
people from the A30 to a local rest | 1:04:43 | 1:04:48 | |
centre where they are being looked
after by partner agencies. So I | 1:04:48 | 1:04:52 | |
guess those 70 are still there, any
idea as to when they might be able | 1:04:52 | 1:04:57 | |
to get back into their cars and get
to where they want to be? At the | 1:04:57 | 1:05:01 | |
moment it is a little bit of A
Moveable Feast. It has stopped | 1:05:01 | 1:05:05 | |
snowing so we are working hard with
our partners to get that road clear, | 1:05:05 | 1:05:09 | |
get those moved and get it in the
position where we can start getting | 1:05:09 | 1:05:13 | |
back to business as usual. You were
here all day yesterday as well, | 1:05:13 | 1:05:16 | |
looking after this particular
stretch. Clearly cars are moving | 1:05:16 | 1:05:19 | |
this morning, we can see them behind
you. I guess once you come off this | 1:05:19 | 1:05:23 | |
sort of road, it is still very
tricky out there. Yes, very much so. | 1:05:23 | 1:05:29 | |
People shouldn't become complacent
and although the A38 and other | 1:05:29 | 1:05:32 | |
primary routes are running fairly
freely, as soon as you get off those | 1:05:32 | 1:05:38 | |
routes, conditions are very
treacherous through this area. Thank | 1:05:38 | 1:05:41 | |
you very much indeed. Well, the snow
may have stopped here, but of course | 1:05:41 | 1:05:47 | |
there are problems, as Ollie has
just been telling us, and if you | 1:05:47 | 1:05:51 | |
have schoolchildren and are hoping
to get them to school, please check | 1:05:51 | 1:05:55 | |
that their school is open, because
hundreds have been declared shout | 1:05:55 | 1:05:58 | |
this morning. So it is another snow
day for some people today. Thank you | 1:05:58 | 1:06:04 | |
very much, we will be speaking to
the man running that rescue centre, | 1:06:04 | 1:06:08 | |
they are providing them with
Breakfast and hopefully at some | 1:06:08 | 1:06:11 | |
stage will get them on their way. A
full weather report in ten minutes' | 1:06:11 | 1:06:15 | |
time. | 1:06:15 | 1:06:15 | |
International chemical weapons
experts are due to arrive in the UK | 1:06:15 | 1:06:18 | |
later today to test the nerve agent
used to poison former Russian spy | 1:06:18 | 1:06:22 | |
Sergei Skripal and his
daughter Yulia. | 1:06:22 | 1:06:24 | |
President Putin says
claims his country was behind | 1:06:24 | 1:06:26 | |
the attack are nonsense,
but Boris Johnson claims Russia has | 1:06:26 | 1:06:28 | |
been stockpiling Novichok for years. | 1:06:28 | 1:06:34 | |
Tom Burridge is in Salisbury. We
have had a presence there for quite | 1:06:34 | 1:06:39 | |
sometime. This has been continually
developing story, and again now, as | 1:06:39 | 1:06:44 | |
these nerve agent experts come to
analyse exactly what this is. That's | 1:06:44 | 1:06:52 | |
right, good morning, everyone. Let's
talk about the timeframe of this. | 1:06:52 | 1:06:56 | |
The international delegation from
the watchdog, the OPCW, will arrive | 1:06:56 | 1:07:00 | |
today and will spend a week here,
most of that time at the Ministry of | 1:07:00 | 1:07:07 | |
Defence's Porton Down facility. The
idea is that samples of the agent | 1:07:07 | 1:07:10 | |
used against Sergi Skripal will be
sent to 20 different independent | 1:07:10 | 1:07:15 | |
laboratories in 16 different
countries. The key question, I | 1:07:15 | 1:07:18 | |
think, is then came the OPCW, the
Organisation for the Prohibition of | 1:07:18 | 1:07:23 | |
chemical weapons, go any further
than confirming the composition of | 1:07:23 | 1:07:26 | |
the nerve agent used, and the
formula to make it. Can it back up | 1:07:26 | 1:07:31 | |
the government's claim that it was
in the government's words, of a type | 1:07:31 | 1:07:37 | |
used in Russia. It is worth noting
that OPCW, the watchdog on banned | 1:07:37 | 1:07:43 | |
chemical weapons, is independent. It
doesn't like to get drawn into | 1:07:43 | 1:07:46 | |
political diplomatic rows and its
independence is vital for its very | 1:07:46 | 1:07:50 | |
existence. Thank you very much for
that, and we will be talking about | 1:07:50 | 1:07:55 | |
that throughout the morning,
speaking to an expert... What time | 1:07:55 | 1:07:59 | |
is that? It is just in a few
minutes' time. That's right, we're | 1:07:59 | 1:08:03 | |
nearly there! That has gone quickly
this morning. | 1:08:03 | 1:08:08 | |
Vladimir Putin has told a victory
rally that Russia must maintain | 1:08:08 | 1:08:11 | |
unity, following his landslide win
in the Presidential election. | 1:08:11 | 1:08:13 | |
He received more than 76%
of the votes, but CCTV footage | 1:08:13 | 1:08:16 | |
from a number of polling stations
appears to show election officials | 1:08:16 | 1:08:19 | |
stuffing boxes with ballot papers. | 1:08:19 | 1:08:21 | |
Some cameras were obscured by things
like balloons as well. | 1:08:21 | 1:08:23 | |
Bent our correspondent is in Moscow
for us this morning. So he has one, | 1:08:23 | 1:08:27 | |
no surprises there. What more
information do we have about how the | 1:08:27 | 1:08:30 | |
election was carried out? Well, as
you are saying, there have been | 1:08:30 | 1:08:34 | |
violations. Not massive, I don't
think, as far as we have heard. But | 1:08:34 | 1:08:39 | |
there is this election monitoring
organisation which is saying there | 1:08:39 | 1:08:43 | |
have been hundreds of violations.
People have witnessed what they | 1:08:43 | 1:08:48 | |
called Carousel voting, where a
group of people are bussed around, | 1:08:48 | 1:08:51 | |
taken to different polling stations,
and vote multiple times in multiple | 1:08:51 | 1:08:56 | |
polling stations. There was one case
where someone who had actually died | 1:08:56 | 1:09:01 | |
14 years previously was still on the
electoral roll and apparently had | 1:09:01 | 1:09:05 | |
voted. I think perhaps, even more
seriously, there are lots of | 1:09:05 | 1:09:10 | |
allegations that people working for
the state, and also in private | 1:09:10 | 1:09:13 | |
businesses, were put under a lot of
pressure to go out and vote. And | 1:09:13 | 1:09:18 | |
they had to take photographs of
themselves at the ballot boxes to | 1:09:18 | 1:09:23 | |
prove they voted, and I think that
might be a significant number of | 1:09:23 | 1:09:26 | |
voters. I am sure there will be more
information on that in the coming | 1:09:26 | 1:09:32 | |
days. | 1:09:32 | 1:09:32 | |
The television presenter
Ant McPartlin has been arrested | 1:09:32 | 1:09:34 | |
on suspicion of drink-driving. | 1:09:34 | 1:09:35 | |
The police say they were called
to reports of a collision involving | 1:09:35 | 1:09:39 | |
three cars in South-West London
yesterday afternoon. | 1:09:39 | 1:09:47 | |
Our correspondent Andy Moore
is in our London newsroom | 1:09:53 | 1:09:55 | |
for us this morning. | 1:09:55 | 1:10:01 | |
Good morning to you. As we say, it
is on the front page of many of the | 1:10:01 | 1:10:05 | |
papers this morning, and there is
not that much more detail that we | 1:10:05 | 1:10:10 | |
accede know about it. No, you can
see from some of those pictures that | 1:10:10 | 1:10:16 | |
Ant's black Mini came to rest
bumper-to-bumper against another | 1:10:16 | 1:10:20 | |
car. He was reportedly travelling
with his mother out walking their | 1:10:20 | 1:10:24 | |
dogs. Scotland Yard say a
42-year-old man was arrested on | 1:10:24 | 1:10:28 | |
suspicion of drink driving after
failing a roadside breath test. That | 1:10:28 | 1:10:31 | |
man was taken to a South London
police station for further | 1:10:31 | 1:10:35 | |
questioning. The Fire Brigade and
ambulance service were called to | 1:10:35 | 1:10:39 | |
this incident. A number of people
were treated for minor injuries. The | 1:10:39 | 1:10:43 | |
child was taken to hospital for a
checkup a precaution. Now, Ant | 1:10:43 | 1:10:49 | |
McPartlin's personal problems are
well documented. He went into rehab | 1:10:49 | 1:10:52 | |
last year, and also earlier this
year announced he was separating | 1:10:52 | 1:10:57 | |
from his wife, Lisa Armstrong, his
wife of 11 years. Thank you very | 1:10:57 | 1:11:02 | |
much for that. | 1:11:02 | 1:11:05 | |
Scientists researching the treatment
of multiple sclerosis say they have | 1:11:05 | 1:11:08 | |
made a significant breakthrough. | 1:11:08 | 1:11:09 | |
Results from a decade-long
international trial have shown | 1:11:09 | 1:11:11 | |
a stem cell transplant can halt
the disease and improve symptoms. | 1:11:11 | 1:11:19 | |
It affects about 100,000 people in
the UK. | 1:11:23 | 1:11:26 | |
Doctors in Sheffield
who were part of the study say | 1:11:26 | 1:11:29 | |
it is a game-changer
for many patients. | 1:11:29 | 1:11:37 | |
Let's return to one of our main
stories, as inspectors from the | 1:11:37 | 1:11:42 | |
Organisation for the Prohibition of
chemical weapons will arrive in the | 1:11:42 | 1:11:46 | |
UK later today. They will carry out
tests on the nerve agent used in an | 1:11:46 | 1:11:51 | |
attack on a former Russian spy and
this daughter earlier this month. We | 1:11:51 | 1:11:55 | |
have been talking about it for quite
sometime. A chemical weapons expert | 1:11:55 | 1:11:58 | |
is in Salisbury for us this morning.
Thank you for joining us on BBC | 1:11:58 | 1:12:03 | |
Breakfast. Give us your assessment,
what are their priorities when they | 1:12:03 | 1:12:08 | |
arrive, the OPCW? Well, the key
thing about the OPCW is that they | 1:12:08 | 1:12:15 | |
are the Independent investigators
for United Nations, so it is | 1:12:15 | 1:12:20 | |
critical they will get here, and
they will first go to Porton Down | 1:12:20 | 1:12:26 | |
for a briefing, because Porton Down
will be providing them with the | 1:12:26 | 1:12:29 | |
Sample is they have collected around
Salisbury from this attack. They | 1:12:29 | 1:12:32 | |
will want to visit the locations of
where these attacks happened, and | 1:12:32 | 1:12:36 | |
they will do a detailed
investigation, really in parallel | 1:12:36 | 1:12:40 | |
with what both Porton Down and the
police have done here. Of course, | 1:12:40 | 1:12:44 | |
they then need to verify those
results. This is going to take some | 1:12:44 | 1:12:49 | |
time, I expect. Most critical to
this, they also need to get to | 1:12:49 | 1:12:52 | |
Russia, | 1:12:52 | 1:12:57 | |
Russia, where these Novichoks
originate from and are made, because | 1:12:58 | 1:13:01 | |
until they can crosscheck with a
Russian Sample, it will be difficult | 1:13:01 | 1:13:05 | |
for the UN to a tribute. I
personally have absolutely no doubt | 1:13:05 | 1:13:09 | |
that these Novichoks came from
Russia, that is the only place in | 1:13:09 | 1:13:12 | |
the world they are made, but
President Putin needs to allow them | 1:13:12 | 1:13:16 | |
into Russia. He has signed a
chemical weapons Convention, which | 1:13:16 | 1:13:19 | |
says that he will do it, and we will
now see whether he is as good as | 1:13:19 | 1:13:26 | |
this word. Yes, I was going to say,
what are the chances they will be | 1:13:26 | 1:13:31 | |
allowed to do that, and go to
Russia, do you think? Well, again, | 1:13:31 | 1:13:36 | |
it is do we trust the Russians? In a
lot of cases, recently, perhaps we | 1:13:36 | 1:13:41 | |
don't. But President Putin has
signed a chemical weapons | 1:13:41 | 1:13:44 | |
Convention, and he is obliged to
allow the OPCW to go to Russia, and | 1:13:44 | 1:13:52 | |
if he is as innocent as he claims,
the only way of proving that is to | 1:13:52 | 1:13:56 | |
get the OPCW to investigate whether
Novichoks are made, and only a few | 1:13:56 | 1:14:03 | |
days ago a minister admitted Russia
had Novichoks, we know they are only | 1:14:03 | 1:14:09 | |
made there, they were made the 70s
and Mac 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and | 1:14:09 | 1:14:14 | |
we had suggestions from the Foreign
Secretary that not only are they | 1:14:14 | 1:14:17 | |
made there, but they also stock
pile. It is interesting, because the | 1:14:17 | 1:14:22 | |
Ambassador was on the Andrew Marr
Show of, denying any involvement. | 1:14:22 | 1:14:29 | |
Just tell us more about the
substance itself. A week on from | 1:14:29 | 1:14:34 | |
when we last talk, how do you think
they came into contact with it? Is | 1:14:34 | 1:14:41 | |
there any more information? Well,
there is a lot. Let me take you up | 1:14:41 | 1:14:46 | |
on the ambassador's comments. They
were pretty ridiculous, but classic | 1:14:46 | 1:14:49 | |
Russian, what we call plausible
deniability, trying to put doubt in | 1:14:49 | 1:14:54 | |
the air. As far as the Novichok
itself, Porton Down have done a | 1:14:54 | 1:15:03 | |
detailed analysis. What we don't
know is whether it was a powder or | 1:15:03 | 1:15:07 | |
liquid. I am erring towards a
liquid, because had been a powder, | 1:15:07 | 1:15:11 | |
they had read it in, through car
ventilation is Tom for example, they | 1:15:11 | 1:15:16 | |
would have died instantly. It seems
more likely that Novichok was | 1:15:16 | 1:15:19 | |
absorbed through their skin, and
therefore taken a lot longer to act | 1:15:19 | 1:15:22 | |
on their nerves. If you breathe in,
it goes straight to your blood, | 1:15:22 | 1:15:26 | |
virtually. There are still a lot of
unanswered questions, and the fact | 1:15:26 | 1:15:31 | |
that the three are still alive gives
great hope that they will make some | 1:15:31 | 1:15:35 | |
sort of recovery. But still a lot of
unanswered questions, and I am sure | 1:15:35 | 1:15:40 | |
also the police and Porton Down are
telling us as much as we need to | 1:15:40 | 1:15:44 | |
know, but would want to verify and
pass that information on to the OPCW | 1:15:44 | 1:15:51 | |
before they give out the full
details of this. And as has already | 1:15:51 | 1:15:54 | |
been said, don't expect results
quickly from the OPCW. They are very | 1:15:54 | 1:15:58 | |
deliberate, and they will take time.
They won't apportion blame, as such, | 1:15:58 | 1:16:02 | |
that will be up to the UN to do
that. Hopefully in a timely fashion, | 1:16:02 | 1:16:07 | |
but we are talking weeks, not days. | 1:16:07 | 1:16:10 | |
Let's bring you up-to-date on the
main stories, heavy snow in Devon | 1:16:14 | 1:16:20 | |
leaves drivers stranded in their
castle hours overnight, 80 others | 1:16:20 | 1:16:23 | |
are being camped out in emergency
shelter. International experts, as | 1:16:23 | 1:16:30 | |
we have been hearing, due in the UK
today to assess the type of nerve | 1:16:30 | 1:16:35 | |
agent used to poison a former spy
and his daughter. In Salisbury. | 1:16:35 | 1:16:43 | |
and his daughter. In Salisbury. We
showed you some pictures of Norfolk | 1:16:43 | 1:16:45 | |
earlier with the Beecher routeing
and there was a growing shot, | 1:16:45 | 1:16:50 | |
beautiful, glorious sunshine, blue
skies, windy and cold. Sarah is in | 1:16:50 | 1:16:55 | |
London for us, it is a little murky
debit what is the weather picture | 1:16:55 | 1:17:00 | |
like the rest of the UK today? Good
morning. Certainly a cold start | 1:17:00 | 1:17:04 | |
wherever you are first thing this
morning, temperatures below | 1:17:04 | 1:17:07 | |
freezing, we have got a lot of cloud
around across parts of southern | 1:17:07 | 1:17:10 | |
England at the moment but for much
of the country, blue skies from the | 1:17:10 | 1:17:14 | |
word go. The dry day on the cards,
the weather is causing disruption | 1:17:14 | 1:17:22 | |
with a lying snow and a lot of ice.
It will be pleased to hear that | 1:17:22 | 1:17:27 | |
through the course of this week
things are starting to turn a little | 1:17:27 | 1:17:30 | |
less cold so temperatures slowly on
the rise after the cold icy start a | 1:17:30 | 1:17:35 | |
less cold so temperatures slowly on
the rise after the cold icy start a | 1:17:35 | 1:17:35 | |
lot of dry weather on the cards but
later in the week we will start to | 1:17:35 | 1:17:40 | |
see the snow replaced by a little
bit of rain. Certainly today for | 1:17:40 | 1:17:43 | |
much of the country it is a dry,
icy, frosty start. One or two snow | 1:17:43 | 1:17:48 | |
flurries continuing in the far south
of England. Down towards the Channel | 1:17:48 | 1:17:52 | |
Isles. Most other places dry. We
will see plenty of sunshine breaking | 1:17:52 | 1:17:57 | |
through. Not everywhere, there are
some cloudier areas across England | 1:17:57 | 1:18:01 | |
and Wales this afternoon, much dry
days of the south-west, you have | 1:18:01 | 1:18:06 | |
lost the heavy snow you have had and
overnight, Wales and northern | 1:18:06 | 1:18:10 | |
England also seeing sunshine today,
a little more cloud edging into the | 1:18:10 | 1:18:14 | |
north-east of England and eastern
Scotland, could bring an isolated | 1:18:14 | 1:18:17 | |
snow flurry, but the west of Ireland
and Scotland should feel pleasant, | 1:18:17 | 1:18:22 | |
temperatures here to around with
light winds too. Pretty comfortable | 1:18:22 | 1:18:28 | |
there. A culture elsewhere,
particularly with the wind chill, | 1:18:28 | 1:18:32 | |
the north-westerly across England
and Wales, temperatures between 0- | 1:18:32 | 1:18:36 | |
seven Celsius, still chilly. In the
evening, a little more cloud | 1:18:36 | 1:18:44 | |
drifting in from the east across the
England and Wales, still some clear | 1:18:44 | 1:18:48 | |
spells of the clearest of the skies
will be for Scotland and Northern | 1:18:48 | 1:18:51 | |
Ireland and with the light winds
here, likely to see temperatures | 1:18:51 | 1:18:54 | |
around minus five degrees through
the central part of Scotland, it is | 1:18:54 | 1:18:59 | |
called further south across the
country but still some icy stretches | 1:18:59 | 1:19:03 | |
and also the chance of seeing some
freezing fog patches on Tuesday, | 1:19:03 | 1:19:06 | |
particularly in the west. Through
the day on Tuesday, we will keep a | 1:19:06 | 1:19:11 | |
bit or cloud across eastern England,
one or two rain showers for the | 1:19:11 | 1:19:15 | |
likes of Lincolnshire, Sussex, but
for the rest of the country it looks | 1:19:15 | 1:19:19 | |
like another dry day, the high
preacher in the chart, lots of | 1:19:19 | 1:19:23 | |
sunshine on the cards are not doing
too much to lift the temperature so | 1:19:23 | 1:19:26 | |
still at best around 6- eight
degrees or so during the day on | 1:19:26 | 1:19:30 | |
Tuesday. It is cold as it was
through the weekend. In the evening | 1:19:30 | 1:19:35 | |
and overnight into Wednesday, the
cloud clears from the south-east Ben | 1:19:35 | 1:19:38 | |
Moore cloud rolls in from the
north-west and that is a weather | 1:19:38 | 1:19:42 | |
front that will bring outbreaks of
rain to Scotland and Northern | 1:19:42 | 1:19:44 | |
Ireland. Through the day on
Wednesday, the Northwest Southeast | 1:19:44 | 1:19:49 | |
split to the weather, a patchy rain
for Scotland and northern Ireland, | 1:19:49 | 1:19:53 | |
England and Wales mostly dry but the
best of the sunshine in the south | 1:19:53 | 1:19:57 | |
and east. By Wednesday, one or two
places are starting to creep into | 1:19:57 | 1:20:03 | |
double figures so that is a sign of
things to come through this week. It | 1:20:03 | 1:20:07 | |
looks like things will gradually
turn milder but certainly still cold | 1:20:07 | 1:20:10 | |
and icy out | 1:20:10 | 1:20:11 | |
turn milder but certainly still cold
and icy out there today. Back to you | 1:20:11 | 1:20:12 | |
both. Thank you indeed. Let's look
at some of the papers, the front | 1:20:12 | 1:20:19 | |
page of the Times has got Vladimir
Putin in a coat which is the sort of | 1:20:19 | 1:20:24 | |
thing you'd should be wearing this
morning in the UK. This is in | 1:20:24 | 1:20:28 | |
celebrating winning another
election, another six years Vladimir | 1:20:28 | 1:20:32 | |
Putin in Russia, 75% confirmed last
night around 9pm the final details | 1:20:32 | 1:20:36 | |
of the watchdog backed away from
tough beating curbs, we will talk to | 1:20:36 | 1:20:44 | |
the gambling commission later on
about this. The other ones, and let | 1:20:44 | 1:20:53 | |
the -- Ant it makes a lot of the
front pages. The mirror, the sun, | 1:20:53 | 1:20:57 | |
the express. The front page of the
Guardian as well, pressure growing | 1:20:57 | 1:21:02 | |
on Facebook and the mass bridge of
personal files, this is about the | 1:21:02 | 1:21:07 | |
Cambridge analytic of files which
the suspicion is that may have been | 1:21:07 | 1:21:12 | |
helped to win the election in 2016
in the US and the front page of the | 1:21:12 | 1:21:19 | |
Guardian as well -- Analytica.
Facebook story is a different take | 1:21:19 | 1:21:23 | |
on that, they have got some snow
pictures also. Did you do the front | 1:21:23 | 1:21:29 | |
page of the mail? No. The Daily
Mail, the toll of the plastic we eat | 1:21:29 | 1:21:34 | |
and breathe. They find airborne
plastic particles in every sample of | 1:21:34 | 1:21:39 | |
shot what fish they test. I noticed
something on the weekend and I want | 1:21:39 | 1:21:43 | |
to know if this is going to happen,
you and somebody else on another | 1:21:43 | 1:21:47 | |
channel that I will not mention,
they may be doing strictly come | 1:21:47 | 1:21:51 | |
dancing? No, well, do you know when
they read a story saying a TV | 1:21:51 | 1:21:56 | |
source. That is normally the fellow
with the big mouth. OK. We have done | 1:21:56 | 1:22:01 | |
here is just in case you were
considering we thought we would see | 1:22:01 | 1:22:05 | |
how you a look together. Very nice!
He looks fetching. If it a denial of | 1:22:05 | 1:22:12 | |
the moment? It is not a flat denial,
it is just very much not going to | 1:22:12 | 1:22:18 | |
happen. Although if I did do it I
would beat him. It goes without | 1:22:18 | 1:22:22 | |
saying! | 1:22:22 | 1:22:27 | |
saying! Think if watching Breakfast.
Let's bring you up-to-date with some | 1:22:27 | 1:22:31 | |
other news, a breakthrough drug that
is the first to tackle the root | 1:22:31 | 1:22:34 | |
cause of this -- cystic fibrosis
will be debated by MPs later today. | 1:22:34 | 1:22:39 | |
It is available in Ireland, Germany
and the US but not used on the NHS | 1:22:39 | 1:22:44 | |
because the cost is £100,000 per
patient per year. Graham Satchell | 1:22:44 | 1:22:47 | |
has more. | 1:22:47 | 1:22:49 | |
Right, jump on. | 1:22:49 | 1:22:50 | |
Let's go. | 1:22:50 | 1:22:51 | |
Lucy is doing a special workout
to help her condition. | 1:22:51 | 1:22:53 | |
She has cystic fibrosis,
an inherited illness that | 1:22:53 | 1:22:56 | |
affects her lungs
and digestive system. | 1:22:56 | 1:22:59 | |
I do all I can at the moment to try
and sort of keep alive longer. | 1:22:59 | 1:23:03 | |
It's a bit sad in a way that, like,
all of my friends don't have | 1:23:03 | 1:23:07 | |
to worry about this
and when I exercise and that, | 1:23:07 | 1:23:10 | |
I'm doing it to stay alive
rather than for fun. | 1:23:10 | 1:23:13 | |
You got this, yeah? | 1:23:13 | 1:23:14 | |
Yeah. | 1:23:14 | 1:23:14 | |
Yeah? | 1:23:14 | 1:23:14 | |
Yes. | 1:23:14 | 1:23:15 | |
Good! | 1:23:15 | 1:23:15 | |
Lucy is attempting
a new personal best - | 1:23:15 | 1:23:17 | |
to lift 120% of her body weight. | 1:23:17 | 1:23:19 | |
Drive, drive, drive, drive, drive! | 1:23:19 | 1:23:20 | |
Nice! | 1:23:20 | 1:23:22 | |
Cystic fibrosis is a devastating
illness, half of the people who have | 1:23:22 | 1:23:26 | |
it will die by the age of 31. | 1:23:26 | 1:23:28 | |
Lucy takes a small mountain
of antibiotics to try | 1:23:28 | 1:23:30 | |
and stop infections. | 1:23:30 | 1:23:31 | |
But there is a new drug,
called Orkambi. | 1:23:31 | 1:23:33 | |
It's the first treatment that
tackles the root cause | 1:23:33 | 1:23:36 | |
of cystic fibrosis. | 1:23:36 | 1:23:36 | |
It costs £100,000 per patient
per year and NICE says it's too | 1:23:36 | 1:23:40 | |
expensive for the NHS. | 1:23:40 | 1:23:46 | |
People with CF can just pick up
a bacteria and can be really, | 1:23:46 | 1:23:49 | |
really poorly, so, yeah,
knowing there's a drug out | 1:23:49 | 1:23:52 | |
there that would help all that,
yeah, it's more than frustrating | 1:23:52 | 1:23:55 | |
- it's heartbreaking. | 1:23:55 | 1:24:02 | |
Dublin in Ireland. | 1:24:02 | 1:24:03 | |
14-year-old Benat also takes
a lot of antibiotics. | 1:24:03 | 1:24:05 | |
The Irish government approved
the use of Orkambi last year. | 1:24:05 | 1:24:08 | |
It's made a huge difference
to Benat's condition. | 1:24:08 | 1:24:15 | |
Well, it's done a lot,
so it's improved my weight, | 1:24:15 | 1:24:17 | |
my height, my lung function,
my overall health, my energy. | 1:24:17 | 1:24:20 | |
So it's really impacted
in a good way. | 1:24:20 | 1:24:26 | |
Yeah, you feel better, do you? | 1:24:26 | 1:24:27 | |
Yeah. | 1:24:27 | 1:24:28 | |
I feel a lot better and more
energetic than before I started | 1:24:28 | 1:24:31 | |
to take Orkambi. | 1:24:31 | 1:24:32 | |
Campaigners say Orkambi
will save money in the long run | 1:24:32 | 1:24:35 | |
by reducing expensive
hospital admissions, | 1:24:35 | 1:24:36 | |
but the deal done in Ireland
with Vertex, who make | 1:24:36 | 1:24:39 | |
Orkambi, was controversial. | 1:24:39 | 1:24:41 | |
It will cost the Irish health
service almost 400 million euros | 1:24:41 | 1:24:43 | |
over five years. | 1:24:43 | 1:24:46 | |
It's a lot of money but, you know,
can you put a price on anyone's | 1:24:46 | 1:24:50 | |
life, especially your child's life? | 1:24:50 | 1:24:51 | |
And also for the quality of life,
you know, you can't put any | 1:24:51 | 1:24:54 | |
price on that. | 1:24:54 | 1:24:58 | |
This amount of money could be
spent elsewhere for other | 1:24:58 | 1:25:01 | |
products and services. | 1:25:01 | 1:25:07 | |
If you consider the available
patient population that would be | 1:25:07 | 1:25:10 | |
using this kind of treatment,
which is around 3,000 patients, | 1:25:10 | 1:25:13 | |
if you multiply 3,000 patients
by £100,000 per year, | 1:25:13 | 1:25:15 | |
this is around £300 million
per year for the NHS. | 1:25:15 | 1:25:18 | |
Back in Preston, Lucy and her mum
are about to do physio. | 1:25:18 | 1:25:21 | |
It takes one hour twice a day
to clear Lucy's lungs. | 1:25:21 | 1:25:24 | |
NHS England say unless the drug
company reviews its price, | 1:25:24 | 1:25:27 | |
a deal is unlikely. | 1:25:27 | 1:25:28 | |
Vertex told us they are dismayed
by NHS England's approach | 1:25:28 | 1:25:31 | |
but want further dialogue. | 1:25:31 | 1:25:32 | |
And about the thousands
of patients like Lucy? | 1:25:32 | 1:25:40 | |
It shouldn't be where you live,
it should be what you've got. | 1:25:43 | 1:25:46 | |
People in the UK might die or it
might be too late because of, | 1:25:46 | 1:25:49 | |
like, a funding issue. | 1:25:49 | 1:25:50 | |
It's not really fair. | 1:25:50 | 1:25:52 | |
MPs will discuss access to Orkambi
at Westminster today | 1:25:52 | 1:25:54 | |
but while the arguments go on,
Lucy's condition continues to get | 1:25:54 | 1:25:57 | |
worse. Graham Satchell, BBC News. | 1:25:57 | 1:26:05 | |
It really gives you a sense of just
trying to live with that with Lucy | 1:26:13 | 1:26:17 | |
and her mum and if you want to get
in touch on social media and with | 1:26:17 | 1:26:21 | |
your thoughts or any of that, please
do. We will be put in that report up | 1:26:21 | 1:26:25 | |
on our social media channels as
well. You can find it on Facebook | 1:26:25 | 1:26:29 | |
and Twitter. | 1:26:29 | 1:26:33 | |
Still to come, I winds and crystal
Roshan has meant these homes in | 1:26:33 | 1:26:36 | |
Norfolk on the cliff there are in
danger of falling into the sea. We | 1:26:36 | 1:26:40 | |
shall be live in Hemsby a little
later. And you can see why you would | 1:26:40 | 1:26:44 | |
want to live there, it is stunning
this morning with the beautiful | 1:26:44 | 1:26:48 | |
light. Time to get the news, | 1:26:48 | 1:26:50 | |
this morning with the beautiful
light. Time to get the news, travel | 1:26:50 | 1:30:09 | |
Bye for now. | 1:30:09 | 1:30:16 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast
with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | 1:30:19 | 1:30:27 | |
Here's a summary of this morning's
main stories from BBC News: More | 1:30:27 | 1:30:29 | |
than 80 drivers have been
stranded overnight in Devon. | 1:30:29 | 1:30:32 | |
It is after a 64-mile stretch
of a major road in south-west | 1:30:32 | 1:30:35 | |
England, the A30, was shut
because of heavy snow. | 1:30:35 | 1:30:39 | |
Police officers and Highways England
have been trying to clear the snow | 1:30:39 | 1:30:43 | |
from the road. | 1:30:43 | 1:30:51 | |
Devon and Cornwall Police have been
keeping their Twitter followers | 1:30:51 | 1:30:53 | |
up-to-date on the disruption
all morning, especially over | 1:30:53 | 1:30:56 | |
the problems with the A30. | 1:30:56 | 1:30:57 | |
They say that if you're already
on it, drive with caution | 1:30:57 | 1:31:00 | |
as conditions are variable,
changing rapidly from passable | 1:31:00 | 1:31:02 | |
to impossible, and that those
who haven't yet set out should | 1:31:02 | 1:31:05 | |
delay their journey
until mid-morning at the earliest. | 1:31:05 | 1:31:07 | |
This morning they reported that road
traffic accidents are now starting | 1:31:07 | 1:31:10 | |
to be reported to them by those
insisting on driving this morning. | 1:31:10 | 1:31:14 | |
They also warned parts of the M5
is icy, and advised drivers | 1:31:14 | 1:31:17 | |
to delay their journey
and slow down. | 1:31:17 | 1:31:19 | |
And we will have a full weather
report for you in about ten minutes. | 1:31:19 | 1:31:26 | |
International chemical weapons
experts are due to arrive in the UK | 1:31:26 | 1:31:29 | |
later today to test the nerve agent
used to poison former Russian spy | 1:31:29 | 1:31:32 | |
Sergei Skripal and his
daughter Yulia. | 1:31:32 | 1:31:34 | |
President Putin says
claims his country was behind | 1:31:34 | 1:31:36 | |
the attack are nonsense,
but Boris Johnson claims Russia has | 1:31:36 | 1:31:39 | |
been stockpiling Novichok for years. | 1:31:39 | 1:31:41 | |
Test results could be seen
in around two weeks' time. | 1:31:41 | 1:31:48 | |
Official results from Russia show
President Putin has been re-elected | 1:31:48 | 1:31:51 | |
with more than 76% of the vote. | 1:31:51 | 1:31:53 | |
He told a victory rally that Russia
must maintain unity, | 1:31:53 | 1:31:56 | |
following his landslide win,
but CCTV footage from a number | 1:31:56 | 1:31:58 | |
of polling stations appears to show
election officials stuffing boxes | 1:31:58 | 1:32:01 | |
with ballot papers. | 1:32:01 | 1:32:08 | |
The television presenter
Ant McPartlin has been arrested | 1:32:08 | 1:32:10 | |
on suspicion of drink-driving. | 1:32:10 | 1:32:11 | |
Police say they were called
to reports of a collision involving | 1:32:11 | 1:32:14 | |
three cars in South-West London
yesterday afternoon. | 1:32:14 | 1:32:16 | |
A child passenger in one of them
was taken to hospital | 1:32:16 | 1:32:19 | |
as a precaution. | 1:32:19 | 1:32:21 | |
In a statement, Scotland Yard said
a 42-year-old man was arrested | 1:32:21 | 1:32:24 | |
at the scene after failing
a breathalyser test. | 1:32:24 | 1:32:29 | |
A British woman has been
killed in northern Syria, | 1:32:29 | 1:32:32 | |
fighting alongside Kurdish forces. | 1:32:32 | 1:32:33 | |
It is understood that Anna Campbell,
who was 26 and from Lewes | 1:32:33 | 1:32:36 | |
in East Sussex, died
in the town of Afrin, | 1:32:36 | 1:32:39 | |
which has been the target
of a Turkish offensive. | 1:32:39 | 1:32:41 | |
Her father has told the BBC
she was idealistic, and knew | 1:32:41 | 1:32:44 | |
she was putting her life at risk. | 1:32:44 | 1:32:50 | |
Scientists have announced
a significant breakthrough | 1:32:50 | 1:32:52 | |
in the treatment of
multiple sclerosis. | 1:32:52 | 1:32:53 | |
Results from a decade-long
international trial have shown | 1:32:53 | 1:32:56 | |
a stem cell transplant can halt
the disease and improve symptoms. | 1:32:56 | 1:32:59 | |
The disabling condition affects
about 100,000 people in the UK. | 1:32:59 | 1:33:01 | |
Doctors in Sheffield who were part
of the study say the new treatment | 1:33:01 | 1:33:05 | |
is a game-changer for many patients. | 1:33:05 | 1:33:13 | |
We will have an update on the
weather in about ten minutes' time, | 1:33:18 | 1:33:23 | |
or so, because it is still causing
problems for people. And police in | 1:33:23 | 1:33:28 | |
the south-west of England are saying
that if you need to go out, please | 1:33:28 | 1:33:32 | |
take care and slow down, but if you
can possibly delay your journey, | 1:33:32 | 1:33:36 | |
mid-morning as the best time to go,
or later on today. In the sport, | 1:33:36 | 1:33:41 | |
Rory McIlroy is very much the story.
Rory is the story, have you been | 1:33:41 | 1:33:50 | |
working on that? At least ten
seconds. He has been counting the | 1:33:50 | 1:33:57 | |
days, 539 days since his last
victory on the Tour, which was | 1:33:57 | 1:34:01 | |
September 20 16. I have been looking
at the odds for The Masters, and he | 1:34:01 | 1:34:07 | |
is the favourite to win the green
jacket, then Dustin Johnson behind | 1:34:07 | 1:34:10 | |
him, Tiger Woods 's third favourite.
Justin Rose is in the mix, Henrik | 1:34:10 | 1:34:15 | |
Stenson, all the big names you would
expect to be there. That leaderboard | 1:34:15 | 1:34:19 | |
looked very tasty indeed. Let's have
a look at how Rory McIlroy closed | 1:34:19 | 1:34:24 | |
off the Arnold Palmer Invitational. | 1:34:24 | 1:34:26 | |
The Northern Irishman hit five
birdies in the last six holes | 1:34:26 | 1:34:29 | |
to finish on 18-under-par,
three shots clear of the rest | 1:34:29 | 1:34:32 | |
of the field. | 1:34:32 | 1:34:33 | |
Tiger Woods's
rejuvenation continued. | 1:34:33 | 1:34:34 | |
The 14-time Major winner was tied
for fifth, eight behind McIlroy. | 1:34:34 | 1:34:37 | |
All these little barriers that
you have to overcome, | 1:34:37 | 1:34:39 | |
whether it be physical or mental,
it's huge for my confidence | 1:34:39 | 1:34:42 | |
going into the next few weeks. | 1:34:42 | 1:34:44 | |
And, you know, I kept
saying I didn't need a win | 1:34:44 | 1:34:47 | |
going into Augusta. | 1:34:47 | 1:34:52 | |
I feel like I had a chance. | 1:34:52 | 1:34:54 | |
I just wanted to see signs of good
golf, and thankfully I've been able | 1:34:54 | 1:34:58 | |
to get both today. | 1:34:58 | 1:35:00 | |
Another Brit returning
to form was Laura Davies. | 1:35:00 | 1:35:02 | |
She finished tied for second
at the Founders Cup, in Phoenix. | 1:35:02 | 1:35:05 | |
It is her best finish
on the LPGA tour since 2007. | 1:35:05 | 1:35:08 | |
She said maybe now people will stop
asking her when she will retire. | 1:35:08 | 1:35:16 | |
54, Laura Davies. | 1:35:17 | 1:35:19 | |
Chelsea will face Southampton
in the semi-finals of the FA Cup, | 1:35:19 | 1:35:22 | |
coming through 2-1 against
Leicester after extra-time. | 1:35:22 | 1:35:24 | |
It was Pedro's goal that sealed
Chelsea's spot in the final four. | 1:35:24 | 1:35:27 | |
It is their tenth FA Cup
semi-final in 18 years, | 1:35:27 | 1:35:30 | |
and their only realistic chance
of winning a trophy this season. | 1:35:30 | 1:35:33 | |
For sure, if you are able to win
a trophy, it's important. | 1:35:33 | 1:35:36 | |
It's important for the team. | 1:35:36 | 1:35:37 | |
At the same time, the most important
thing is for us to fight | 1:35:37 | 1:35:41 | |
until the end for every competition. | 1:35:41 | 1:35:49 | |
Mark Hughes had a good first game
in charge of Southampton, | 1:35:50 | 1:35:53 | |
as they beat League One side Wigan
2-0 to reach the FA Cup semi-finals. | 1:35:53 | 1:35:57 | |
Defender Cedric Soares scored
their second in stoppage-time. | 1:35:57 | 1:36:05 | |
Celtic were held to a goalless draw
by ten-man Motherwell, | 1:36:06 | 1:36:08 | |
but they still extended
their lead at the top | 1:36:08 | 1:36:10 | |
of the Scottish Premiership
to ten points. | 1:36:10 | 1:36:12 | |
Motherwell's Cedric Kipre was sent
off for kicking out, | 1:36:12 | 1:36:14 | |
but this was the closest Celtic
came to taking the lead, | 1:36:14 | 1:36:17 | |
Patrick Roberts letting fly late on. | 1:36:17 | 1:36:19 | |
Despite being a man down,
the home side held on for a point. | 1:36:19 | 1:36:23 | |
Roger Federer's incredible run
at the start of this year has come | 1:36:23 | 1:36:26 | |
to an end. | 1:36:26 | 1:36:27 | |
He was beaten in the final
of the Indian Wells Masters | 1:36:27 | 1:36:30 | |
by Juan Martin del Potro. | 1:36:30 | 1:36:31 | |
It is the Argentine's second
tournament win in a row, | 1:36:31 | 1:36:34 | |
after victory earlier
this month in Mexico. | 1:36:34 | 1:36:36 | |
The former US Open champion had
to save three match points before | 1:36:36 | 1:36:39 | |
becoming the first person this year
to beat the world number one. | 1:36:39 | 1:36:44 | |
Ireland's Six Nations
grand slam-winning team | 1:36:44 | 1:36:46 | |
celebrated their success
in Dublin yesterday. | 1:36:46 | 1:36:48 | |
The following images do
contain flash photography. | 1:36:48 | 1:36:50 | |
The Irish team were supposed to be
attending a grand slam celebration | 1:36:50 | 1:36:53 | |
event at the Aviva Stadium,
but it was cancelled due | 1:36:53 | 1:36:56 | |
to bad weather. | 1:36:56 | 1:36:57 | |
Instead, fans got to see the players
showing off the trophy outside | 1:36:57 | 1:37:01 | |
the team's hotel. | 1:37:01 | 1:37:04 | |
Scotland finished their Women's Six
Nations campaign in fifth place, | 1:37:04 | 1:37:07 | |
after being well beaten
by Italy in Padova. | 1:37:07 | 1:37:09 | |
On a terrible pitch,
Italy won by 26-12, | 1:37:09 | 1:37:12 | |
with Beatrice Rigoni crossing
to secure their bonus point. | 1:37:12 | 1:37:14 | |
France clinched their fifth
grand slam with Friday's | 1:37:14 | 1:37:16 | |
thumping of Wales. | 1:37:16 | 1:37:24 | |
Written's Paralympian is, returning
from South Korea after hitting their | 1:37:29 | 1:37:32 | |
medals target. With all seven podium
finishes won by just two women -- | 1:37:32 | 1:37:39 | |
Britain's Paralympian is. Questions
were posed about the breadth and | 1:37:39 | 1:37:44 | |
depth of the British team. | 1:37:44 | 1:37:46 | |
The past ten days has seen the
British team pushed to their limits | 1:37:46 | 1:37:51 | |
on the snow and ice. Disappointment
for the curlers as they came up | 1:37:51 | 1:37:54 | |
short, and the snowboarders faulted.
But on the ski slopes, it was a | 1:37:54 | 1:38:00 | |
different story, with this pair
winning four medals including gold | 1:38:00 | 1:38:05 | |
on the final day to become Britain's
most successful in the Paralympian | 1:38:05 | 1:38:09 | |
is. It has been amazing, it has been
an incredible event. Everyone has | 1:38:09 | 1:38:14 | |
been really helpful, really lovely.
It is really like nice to have | 1:38:14 | 1:38:20 | |
family and friends here, supporting
us. the resilience of the athletes | 1:38:20 | 1:38:24 | |
have shown, from a DNF to race won
the Golden race five, and I think | 1:38:24 | 1:38:30 | |
the preparation and the ability for
them to deliver those kinds of | 1:38:30 | 1:38:33 | |
performances is down to talent, but
also the support behind the scenes. | 1:38:33 | 1:38:38 | |
Great Britain had a target of six 12
medals here in Pyeongchang, aiming | 1:38:38 | 1:38:44 | |
to improve on a performance from
four years ago, when they won six | 1:38:44 | 1:38:48 | |
medals than the historic gold. With
British athletes competing across | 1:38:48 | 1:38:51 | |
more sports than ever before at
Bealiba games, the target seemed | 1:38:51 | 1:38:56 | |
achievable. And it was, thanks to
one sport, one classification and a | 1:38:56 | 1:39:01 | |
small contingent of athletes winning
all seven medals but it calls into | 1:39:01 | 1:39:04 | |
question the breadth and depth of
the British team. I am proud of all | 1:39:04 | 1:39:09 | |
of the athletes who came to
Pyeongchang to represent in the | 1:39:09 | 1:39:13 | |
Paralympics. Yes, the medals came
from snow, but every one of those | 1:39:13 | 1:39:17 | |
athletes gave it their all. So the
game drew to a fitting clothes with | 1:39:17 | 1:39:22 | |
Britain's Golden girls carrying the
flag. International Paralympic | 1:39:22 | 1:39:26 | |
Committee could also celebrate, with
more nations taking part than ever | 1:39:26 | 1:39:29 | |
before and a record number of
tickets sold. They can now call | 1:39:29 | 1:39:33 | |
these games late greatest
Paralympics to date. And shall we | 1:39:33 | 1:39:41 | |
watch Andy Murray getting a rude
awakening again? This is all for | 1:39:41 | 1:39:45 | |
Sport Relief, and it is Michael
McIntyre creeping into former world | 1:39:45 | 1:39:50 | |
number one Andy Murray's bed at St
George 's Park where he is doing | 1:39:50 | 1:39:55 | |
rehab and training, before returning
to tennis from his injury. | 1:39:55 | 1:39:59 | |
Andy! | 1:39:59 | 1:40:00 | |
Welcome! | 1:40:00 | 1:40:00 | |
Holy BLEEP! | 1:40:00 | 1:40:02 | |
..to the Sport Relief
midnight game-show. | 1:40:02 | 1:40:06 | |
This is 1am, and poor Andy Murray's
face. There is all kinds of leaping | 1:40:06 | 1:40:13 | |
and expletives, as you would expect
from Andy Murray. -- | 1:40:13 | 1:40:21 | |
from Andy Murray. -- bleeping. He
deals with it very well, because | 1:40:21 | 1:40:27 | |
upturn is Peppa Pig, for some
reason. And surprised by finding | 1:40:27 | 1:40:31 | |
Michael McIntyre in your bedroom,
and on top of that you have to once | 1:40:31 | 1:40:35 | |
again show questions. It is one of
the things Michael McIntyre does on | 1:40:35 | 1:40:38 | |
his show, and it is normally
unsuspecting members of the public, | 1:40:38 | 1:40:41 | |
but for Sport Relief it is Andy
Murray. And you will see how he gets | 1:40:41 | 1:40:46 | |
on with his midnight game-show on
Friday, as well as all the other | 1:40:46 | 1:40:50 | |
fund of Sport Relief. That is
brilliant, I am really enjoying | 1:40:50 | 1:40:54 | |
that. He went from fast asleep to
being amused, in a record time. He | 1:40:54 | 1:41:00 | |
looks like Dan looks when he arrives
in the morning. Don't give my | 1:41:00 | 1:41:04 | |
secrets away, I switched the brain
on about three minutes before six | 1:41:04 | 1:41:08 | |
a.m.. My hair was a right old mess
this morning. And Sport Relief | 1:41:08 | 1:41:13 | |
continues throughout this week. | 1:41:13 | 1:41:14 | |
Let's go back to our top story this
morning, and 80 motorists have been | 1:41:14 | 1:41:18 | |
stranded overnight in Devon. | 1:41:18 | 1:41:19 | |
Police have warned people living
in the county not to travel | 1:41:19 | 1:41:22 | |
until mid-morning at the earliest. | 1:41:22 | 1:41:23 | |
Let's go to Haldon Hill in Devon,
where our reporter Sarah Ransome | 1:41:23 | 1:41:26 | |
is this morning. | 1:41:26 | 1:41:33 | |
Good morning to you, how are things?
It is really cold here this morning, | 1:41:33 | 1:41:38 | |
as you might imagine. Some of those
weather warnings are still in place. | 1:41:38 | 1:41:42 | |
As you say, I am at the bottom of
Haldon Hill, the scene yesterday of | 1:41:42 | 1:41:47 | |
frantic snow ploughing and gritting
as the emergency plan was put into | 1:41:47 | 1:41:53 | |
place to get this road clear. You
might be behind me some of those | 1:41:53 | 1:41:58 | |
gritters are out again this morning,
on the bridge over there, trying to | 1:41:58 | 1:42:03 | |
keep things moving. Overnight we had
such a lot of snow. I will walk over | 1:42:03 | 1:42:07 | |
here to give you an idea. Inches and
inches fell here at this part of | 1:42:07 | 1:42:11 | |
Devon, and further away, about 30
miles from where I am now, you were | 1:42:11 | 1:42:17 | |
talking about those murderers who
were stranded on the A30, they even | 1:42:17 | 1:42:22 | |
bigger dump of snow to content with,
which made life very difficult for | 1:42:22 | 1:42:26 | |
some of them. They had to move to an
emergency centre overnight. Lizard | 1:42:26 | 1:42:32 | |
conditions, 70 or so they are now,
-- blizzard conditions. That road is | 1:42:32 | 1:42:39 | |
still shut and is unlikely to be
open for a couple of hours between | 1:42:39 | 1:42:44 | |
Exeter and Launceston. Nobody had to
stay in their vehicles overnight, | 1:42:44 | 1:42:48 | |
but they were moved to that rest
centre. Earlier I spoke to one of | 1:42:48 | 1:42:52 | |
the gentleman who has been involved
in keeping the roads in Devon open. | 1:42:52 | 1:42:56 | |
He was telling me the latest. It is
Sergeant Holly Taylor from Devon and | 1:42:56 | 1:43:02 | |
Cornwall police. | 1:43:02 | 1:43:07 | |
Although the A30 and other routes
are running well, conditions are | 1:43:12 | 1:43:18 | |
treacherous around that area. As you
can hear, he was saying the routes | 1:43:18 | 1:43:22 | |
are treacherous and he was telling
me that once you get off these A | 1:43:22 | 1:43:27 | |
roads, it is really difficult to get
around. One thing which others are | 1:43:27 | 1:43:30 | |
keen to point out is that if you
have schoolchildren and they are | 1:43:30 | 1:43:34 | |
thinking about going to school this
morning, you might want to just | 1:43:34 | 1:43:37 | |
check, because hundreds of schools
here in Devon and in Cornwall and | 1:43:37 | 1:43:41 | |
parts of Wales are closed. It is
another snow day for some of them. | 1:43:41 | 1:43:48 | |
Thank you very much indeed, and you
can see why the snow would be | 1:43:48 | 1:43:52 | |
causing some problems. | 1:43:52 | 1:43:57 | |
Let's have a look elsewhere in the
UK this morning. This is Hull, a | 1:43:57 | 1:44:02 | |
little bit of snow on the rooftops,
but lovely. And we will go to | 1:44:02 | 1:44:06 | |
Glasgow, and I think somewhere... I
can't really see it. In the far | 1:44:06 | 1:44:10 | |
distance you can see snow on the
hills. You have got good highs. No | 1:44:10 | 1:44:17 | |
sign of the light stuff in Belfast.
Lovely, clear blue skies this | 1:44:17 | 1:44:21 | |
morning, which is what it is like
when we have the shots from Norfolk | 1:44:21 | 1:44:25 | |
as well. And we have reports that a
couple had just got married and they | 1:44:25 | 1:44:31 | |
had to spend the night in the rescue
centre. They had their wedding | 1:44:31 | 1:44:36 | |
reception on Saturday night, and
they were trying to get the | 1:44:36 | 1:44:39 | |
Watergate Bay in Cornwall for their
honeymoon, and nobody knew it was | 1:44:39 | 1:44:43 | |
snowing. So they had their honeymoon
night in the rescue centre, on the | 1:44:43 | 1:44:48 | |
wooden floor in Oakhampton. We might
speak to them later. Hopefully we | 1:44:48 | 1:44:53 | |
can speak to them at a ten this
morning. -- 8:10am this morning. | 1:44:53 | 1:44:59 | |
Here's Sarah with a look
at this morning's weather. | 1:45:01 | 1:45:08 | |
It is soft powdery snow is so not
the best type of snow for making a | 1:45:08 | 1:45:13 | |
snowman and igloos and snowballs but
could the skiing on. If you have | 1:45:13 | 1:45:18 | |
been out there enjoying some of the
snow, you still have a lot of lying | 1:45:18 | 1:45:22 | |
snow out today but of course it is
causing quite a lot of disruption | 1:45:22 | 1:45:26 | |
too critical across the south-west
of England as well, where we had | 1:45:26 | 1:45:29 | |
about 20 centimetres of snow over
the past 24 hours. Today will be a | 1:45:29 | 1:45:34 | |
dry day across the country and
gradually through the week, the | 1:45:34 | 1:45:38 | |
dry day across the country and
gradually through the week, the | 1:45:38 | 1:45:38 | |
weather is set to | 1:45:38 | 1:45:38 | |
weather is set to turn a little bit
more mild. Temperatures will be on | 1:45:38 | 1:45:41 | |
the rise and after the dry start
there will be some rain on the way | 1:45:41 | 1:45:46 | |
later on in the week. For this
morning, most parts of the country | 1:45:46 | 1:45:49 | |
start the day on a dry but bitterly
cold note with a sharp frost and | 1:45:49 | 1:45:53 | |
some icy stretches. More cloud
across the far south of England and | 1:45:53 | 1:45:57 | |
some flurries this morning down
towards the Channel Isles but with | 1:45:57 | 1:46:00 | |
other places look dry. Blue sky and
sunshine but still feeling cold, | 1:46:00 | 1:46:06 | |
particularly across England and
Wales, quite the biting | 1:46:06 | 1:46:09 | |
north-easterly breeze around.
South-west England and Wales, they | 1:46:09 | 1:46:12 | |
have lost a heavy snow yesterday and
overnight so it is more dry that | 1:46:12 | 1:46:18 | |
some of the snow will tend to
thought and refreeze overnight. | 1:46:18 | 1:46:22 | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland are
having a decent sort of day, with | 1:46:22 | 1:46:25 | |
the lie to winds it will feel
pleasant in the sunshine but | 1:46:25 | 1:46:30 | |
temperatures not great -- lighter
winds. It was look older than what | 1:46:30 | 1:46:36 | |
it is where you have the
north-easterly wind. Less windy and | 1:46:36 | 1:46:40 | |
so further north in the Scotland and
Northern Ireland. Overnight, a | 1:46:40 | 1:46:44 | |
little more cloud filtering in,
particularly towards the east. For | 1:46:44 | 1:46:48 | |
East in England, not quite as cold
under the cloud but further north | 1:46:48 | 1:46:52 | |
and west, still clear skies and
light winds too the overnight | 1:46:52 | 1:46:57 | |
temperatures once again could be
subzero for many, perhaps -5 through | 1:46:57 | 1:47:01 | |
the central belt of Scotland. First
in Tuesday we are expecting once | 1:47:01 | 1:47:05 | |
again a really sharp frost, lots of
ice, some lying snow, and perhaps | 1:47:05 | 1:47:10 | |
freezing fog patches here and there.
Through the day on Tuesday, more | 1:47:10 | 1:47:15 | |
cloud across eastern parts of
England and it could bring one or | 1:47:15 | 1:47:18 | |
two rain shower with the parts of
Lincolnshire, Sussex, but they will | 1:47:18 | 1:47:22 | |
be hit and miss and much of the
country is having another dry day | 1:47:22 | 1:47:26 | |
with high pressure in charge. Plenty
of sunshine, a decent day for Wales, | 1:47:26 | 1:47:30 | |
north-west England, Northwest
Scotland as well. Still chilly but | 1:47:30 | 1:47:34 | |
certainly not as cold as it was
through the weekend. Likely to see | 1:47:34 | 1:47:37 | |
eight degrees or so on Tuesday
during the day, more cloud is | 1:47:37 | 1:47:42 | |
working in from the north-west
through Tuesday night, that is ahead | 1:47:42 | 1:47:45 | |
of a weather front living in, it is
set to bring in patchy rain to | 1:47:45 | 1:47:50 | |
Northern Ireland and the Scotland
through Tuesday night and on to the | 1:47:50 | 1:47:53 | |
day on Wednesday it looks like
England and Wales will stay largely | 1:47:53 | 1:47:57 | |
dry on Wednesday but the best of the
sunshine is probably towards the | 1:47:57 | 1:48:01 | |
south and the east so for most of us
temperatures by Wednesday will be | 1:48:01 | 1:48:04 | |
eight or nine degrees but we could
just about the double figures | 1:48:04 | 1:48:08 | |
pushing in through the day on
Wednesday. It is a sign of things to | 1:48:08 | 1:48:12 | |
come, it is turning more mild
through the week but the snow that | 1:48:12 | 1:48:15 | |
we have out there isn't going to
melt in a hurry, particularly where | 1:48:15 | 1:48:19 | |
we have had around 20 centimetres
towards the | 1:48:19 | 1:48:21 | |
we have had around 20 centimetres
towards the south-west. Thank you, | 1:48:21 | 1:48:23 | |
Sarah, good news, even if there are
some trouble issues. Thank you for | 1:48:23 | 1:48:29 | |
the analysis of the snow also,
Sarah. | 1:48:29 | 1:48:31 | |
There are concerns the decline
of local papers could be fuelling | 1:48:31 | 1:48:34 | |
the rise of fake news. | 1:48:34 | 1:48:35 | |
Steph is looking at why. | 1:48:35 | 1:48:37 | |
Yes, good morning. This is to do
with the fact that the newspaper | 1:48:37 | 1:48:42 | |
industry has been in decline,
particularly the local papers, we | 1:48:42 | 1:48:45 | |
are not buying as many of them and
since 2005 200 local papers have | 1:48:45 | 1:48:50 | |
closed some of its concern about who
is filling the gap because people | 1:48:50 | 1:48:54 | |
still want local news and the
governed have launched a review to | 1:48:54 | 1:48:57 | |
look at how the industry has coped
with the decline and whether it is | 1:48:57 | 1:49:02 | |
the cause of fake news of this is
something I have been looking into, | 1:49:02 | 1:49:05 | |
I went to the Coventry Evening
Telegraph. | 1:49:05 | 1:49:07 | |
FILE: By 3:30, nearly 100,000 copies
of the paper have been printed. | 1:49:07 | 1:49:10 | |
For over 100 years,
the Coventry Evening Telegraph has | 1:49:10 | 1:49:12 | |
been a trusted source
of news in this city. | 1:49:12 | 1:49:15 | |
And only once in that time
have its presses stopped rolling - | 1:49:15 | 1:49:18 | |
when it was hit
by the Blitz in 1940. | 1:49:18 | 1:49:21 | |
At its peak, it had 600 staff
and sold 130,000 copies every day. | 1:49:21 | 1:49:25 | |
But things are different now. | 1:49:25 | 1:49:31 | |
In the last 12 years,
about 200 local papers have closed | 1:49:31 | 1:49:34 | |
and the reason is simple -
they are not making as much | 1:49:34 | 1:49:37 | |
money from advertising. | 1:49:37 | 1:49:38 | |
So back in 2007, about £3 billion
was coming into local | 1:49:38 | 1:49:41 | |
papers from ads. | 1:49:41 | 1:49:41 | |
By last year, it was
under £700 million. | 1:49:41 | 1:49:44 | |
The thing is, advertisers
are still spending, it's | 1:49:44 | 1:49:46 | |
just going elsewhere. | 1:49:46 | 1:49:54 | |
A lot of that money is going online
but it isn't going online | 1:49:57 | 1:50:00 | |
to online newspapers. | 1:50:00 | 1:50:01 | |
It is generally going to big
classified specialist sites | 1:50:01 | 1:50:04 | |
like Rightmove or Auto Trader,
it's also going to Google search | 1:50:04 | 1:50:07 | |
and in the last couple of years,
it's been going to Facebook, | 1:50:07 | 1:50:10 | |
big-time. | 1:50:10 | 1:50:13 | |
So this is one of the old presses. | 1:50:13 | 1:50:15 | |
It was state-of-the-art
when it was installed. | 1:50:15 | 1:50:17 | |
The editor of the Coventry Telegraph
says although newspaper sales | 1:50:17 | 1:50:20 | |
were down by a fifth last year,
more people than ever are reading | 1:50:20 | 1:50:23 | |
the work of its reporters. | 1:50:23 | 1:50:25 | |
We can see how the presses
were used in the past. | 1:50:25 | 1:50:28 | |
Obviously, all of this
kit is redundant now, | 1:50:28 | 1:50:31 | |
but the paper certainly
isn't, is it? | 1:50:31 | 1:50:32 | |
There's so much innovation going on. | 1:50:32 | 1:50:33 | |
No, no. | 1:50:33 | 1:50:34 | |
So we still publish three editions
a day, six days a week, | 1:50:34 | 1:50:37 | |
but also, our website
is absolutely thriving. | 1:50:37 | 1:50:39 | |
We reach a bigger audience now
across print and digital | 1:50:39 | 1:50:42 | |
than we have done in decades,
so nostalgia is great | 1:50:42 | 1:50:44 | |
but the world's changed,
we've changed with it, | 1:50:44 | 1:50:47 | |
and my reporters are as adept
as doing a Facebook Live | 1:50:47 | 1:50:50 | |
as they are at writing
400 words of copy. | 1:50:50 | 1:50:55 | |
This paper has moved on,
but does it matter if others close? | 1:50:55 | 1:50:59 | |
Well, the government is worried
the decline of local newspapers | 1:50:59 | 1:51:01 | |
could be fuelling the rise of fake
news and has launched a review | 1:51:01 | 1:51:05 | |
of the industry. | 1:51:05 | 1:51:06 | |
A recent study by Kings College
London found people in areas with no | 1:51:06 | 1:51:09 | |
local daily paper were less engaged
in local elections and had less | 1:51:09 | 1:51:13 | |
trust in local institutions. | 1:51:13 | 1:51:14 | |
So, how do the people of Coventry
get their local news? | 1:51:14 | 1:51:17 | |
Do you ever buy a local newspaper? | 1:51:17 | 1:51:19 | |
No, no, because it's really easier
to access everything | 1:51:19 | 1:51:21 | |
that is going on and, you know,
cross-checking everything | 1:51:21 | 1:51:24 | |
at the same time via my phone. | 1:51:24 | 1:51:29 | |
I have the local Telegraph
delivered every day. | 1:51:29 | 1:51:32 | |
If we need to find anything,
it's Google, Coventry Telegraph | 1:51:32 | 1:51:35 | |
comes straight on the app. | 1:51:35 | 1:51:36 | |
And it's news rather than having
to look at all of the adverts. | 1:51:36 | 1:51:40 | |
People still want local news,
but with the papers facing a fierce | 1:51:40 | 1:51:44 | |
battle for our attention online,
can they find the audience | 1:51:44 | 1:51:46 | |
and the advertisers
they need to make it pay? | 1:51:46 | 1:51:49 | |
Well, if they can't,
there's a chance we'll all be | 1:51:49 | 1:51:51 | |
poorer for it. | 1:51:51 | 1:51:59 | |
What a van! What is important to
point out is like the Coventry | 1:52:05 | 1:52:10 | |
Evening Telegraph there are lots of
local papers who were still doing a | 1:52:10 | 1:52:14 | |
lot online is that if you look at
the Manchester evening news they | 1:52:14 | 1:52:18 | |
sell 40,000 copies a day physically
but they have about 1 million people | 1:52:18 | 1:52:22 | |
who go online on the website. It is
important that the local papers find | 1:52:22 | 1:52:25 | |
a way to make money from that. That
is the issue. People still want | 1:52:25 | 1:52:29 | |
local news. Of course they do. It is
great for training, too. Thank you, | 1:52:29 | 1:52:34 | |
love. | 1:52:34 | 1:52:35 | |
Residents of 13 seaside chalets
teetering on the edge of cliffs | 1:52:35 | 1:52:38 | |
in Norfolk have been
evacuated from their homes | 1:52:38 | 1:52:40 | |
after parts of the fragile coastline
gave way during high winds and waves | 1:52:40 | 1:52:44 | |
over the weekend. | 1:52:44 | 1:52:47 | |
Our reporter Robby West
is there for us now. | 1:52:47 | 1:52:49 | |
Robby, have there been any
developments overnight? | 1:52:49 | 1:52:57 | |
Even more of the cliffs overnight
have disappeared, residents here are | 1:52:59 | 1:53:03 | |
worried that any moment their homes
could plunge into the ocean. If you | 1:53:03 | 1:53:07 | |
have a little look behind me, you
can really see what a fortnight of | 1:53:07 | 1:53:12 | |
strong winds, torrential rain and
rough seas have done to this | 1:53:12 | 1:53:15 | |
coastline, they have washed away a
lot of the natural defences that we | 1:53:15 | 1:53:18 | |
hear. I have been here all weekend
and the winds averaged 49 miles an | 1:53:18 | 1:53:24 | |
hour and the rate of three metres
high, I spent the weekend here | 1:53:24 | 1:53:27 | |
chatting to people, seeing the
evacuation efforts from the locals | 1:53:27 | 1:53:30 | |
and the emergency services. | 1:53:30 | 1:53:31 | |
Over the weekend as the tide
was drawing in, lifeboat crews | 1:53:31 | 1:53:34 | |
helped move people's furniture out. | 1:53:34 | 1:53:36 | |
Steven Chadwick knew he had
to go after seeing his | 1:53:36 | 1:53:39 | |
garden disappear overnight. | 1:53:39 | 1:53:41 | |
Yeah, just bought it for sea views,
the beautiful sea views, | 1:53:41 | 1:53:45 | |
and now the sea has taken it away. | 1:53:45 | 1:53:48 | |
Woke up this morning,
had a cup of coffee at 7:30 | 1:53:48 | 1:53:51 | |
at the back door and I felt
like an earthquake and the cliff | 1:53:51 | 1:53:55 | |
just went. | 1:53:55 | 1:53:55 | |
I was in total shock, watching
people taking my house apart. | 1:53:55 | 1:53:58 | |
I don't think they'll
be here tomorrow. | 1:53:58 | 1:54:03 | |
Homeowners were evacuated
following a fortnight of high tide | 1:54:03 | 1:54:05 | |
and easterly winds that washed up
the coast's natural defences away. | 1:54:05 | 1:54:08 | |
The next morning,
the damage could be seen. | 1:54:08 | 1:54:11 | |
The council say 13 homes remain
in a precarious position | 1:54:11 | 1:54:13 | |
and are being expected
after each high tide. | 1:54:13 | 1:54:16 | |
These properties probably
won't be lived in again. | 1:54:16 | 1:54:18 | |
The damage caused there -
I was up there, as I say Friday, | 1:54:18 | 1:54:21 | |
and then Saturday the dune
what was there, there about a a six | 1:54:21 | 1:54:25 | |
metre dune, that is actually gone. | 1:54:25 | 1:54:33 | |
Paul Ray joined the lifeboat crews
after seeing his home. | 1:54:33 | 1:54:36 | |
He believes it is unsafe
for his wife and two dogs to return | 1:54:36 | 1:54:39 | |
to the house that they have lived
in the past eight years. | 1:54:39 | 1:54:45 | |
To look at, I think to myself
you know, that is my home | 1:54:45 | 1:54:48 | |
and I have lost it. | 1:54:48 | 1:54:50 | |
But obviously, I have got to look
on the positive side that I wasn't | 1:54:50 | 1:54:53 | |
in there last night,
haven't lost our lives or anything, | 1:54:53 | 1:54:56 | |
and everyone got us out
and looked after us very well, | 1:54:56 | 1:54:59 | |
so I have to move forward,
though I have lost my home. | 1:54:59 | 1:55:02 | |
Five years ago here in Hemsby,
three homes were washed away | 1:55:02 | 1:55:05 | |
following a storm surge. | 1:55:05 | 1:55:07 | |
This morning, people
will return, hoping history has | 1:55:07 | 1:55:09 | |
not repeated itself. | 1:55:09 | 1:55:16 | |
I'm joined by Jan from the county
council. What is in the response | 1:55:16 | 1:55:22 | |
from the council? It has been an
excellent multi agency response, the | 1:55:22 | 1:55:26 | |
parish council here locally, the
borough council, the Yarmouth | 1:55:26 | 1:55:30 | |
council, and Norfolk County Council
working together to make sure the | 1:55:30 | 1:55:34 | |
lines are preserved and people are
looked after and cared for. What are | 1:55:34 | 1:55:38 | |
you doing to the people whose homes
are at risk as the mark in the | 1:55:38 | 1:55:42 | |
immediate short term we are making
sure they are safe and that they | 1:55:42 | 1:55:46 | |
have their possessions. In the
longer term, it is certainly an | 1:55:46 | 1:55:50 | |
ongoing debate about how communities
along the coast are protected. We | 1:55:50 | 1:55:55 | |
spoke to the parish council this
morning who want to see the | 1:55:55 | 1:55:58 | |
government step in and help. As I
say it is an ongoing debate. My | 1:55:58 | 1:56:03 | |
concern in terms of the emergency
response is to make sure that we | 1:56:03 | 1:56:06 | |
have plans in place to be able to
deal with an emergency when it | 1:56:06 | 1:56:10 | |
arises. What we had here was a
number of years of planning with the | 1:56:10 | 1:56:14 | |
local community to insure, and local
voluntary agencies, to ensure there | 1:56:14 | 1:56:18 | |
was a plan in place to ensure they
are evacuated in time before they | 1:56:18 | 1:56:22 | |
lost their homes. And it happened in
a very successful way. Think if | 1:56:22 | 1:56:26 | |
joining us, Chan. More residents
will come back this morning to find | 1:56:26 | 1:56:31 | |
out what state they are in. They are
worried because it looks like it | 1:56:31 | 1:56:35 | |
could be the end of their homes.
Thank you, Robby, it has been lovely | 1:56:35 | 1:56:40 | |
to see the shot because you can see
it is a very beautiful part of the | 1:56:40 | 1:56:45 | |
coastline, you can see why people
want to live there but also the | 1:56:45 | 1:56:48 | |
power of those waves against the
cliffs as well. Huge chunks of the | 1:56:48 | 1:56:52 | |
cliff disappearing there over the
weekend. We will leave you with that | 1:56:52 | 1:56:55 | |
shot while we take you to the news,
travel and weather. | 1:56:55 | 2:00:19 | |
Bye for now. | 2:00:19 | 2:00:22 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast,
with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | 2:00:27 | 2:00:31 | |
Stranded - heavy snowfall traps
drivers for hours overnight on one | 2:00:31 | 2:00:33 | |
of the main routes through Devon -
more than 80 are sleeping | 2:00:33 | 2:00:36 | |
in an emergency shelter. | 2:00:36 | 2:00:37 | |
A 60 mile stretch
of the A30 is closed. | 2:00:37 | 2:00:39 | |
Yellow ice warnings are in place
across much of the country. | 2:00:39 | 2:00:45 | |
The severe weather is also having a
dramatic impact on Norfolk, where | 2:00:46 | 2:00:49 | |
parts of the coast have given way. | 2:00:49 | 2:00:52 | |
Sarah Keith Lucas will have
the latest forecast. | 2:00:52 | 2:00:56 | |
Another bitterly cold day today. And
although things are looking guy with | 2:00:56 | 2:01:00 | |
sunshine, we still keep the threat
of that lying snow and ice, things | 2:01:00 | 2:01:05 | |
eventually turning a bit milder
through the rest of this week. I | 2:01:05 | 2:01:07 | |
will bring you all the details in 15
minutes. | 2:01:07 | 2:01:19 | |
Good morning. | 2:01:22 | 2:01:23 | |
It's Monday 19th March. | 2:01:23 | 2:01:24 | |
Also this morning: | 2:01:24 | 2:01:25 | |
International
weapons inspectors are due in the UK | 2:01:25 | 2:01:28 | |
to examine the nerve agent used
to poison Russian ex-spy, | 2:01:28 | 2:01:30 | |
Sergei Skripal. | 2:01:30 | 2:01:33 | |
TV presenter Ant McPartlin
is arrested on suspicion | 2:01:33 | 2:01:37 | |
of drink-driving after a collision
involving three cars | 2:01:37 | 2:01:39 | |
in south-west London. | 2:01:39 | 2:01:46 | |
The decline of newspapers could be
causing a rise in fake news | 2:01:46 | 2:01:55 | |
according to the government. I will
have more. | 2:01:55 | 2:01:58 | |
In sport, Rory's back... | 2:01:58 | 2:01:59 | |
McIlroy wins the Arnold
Palmer Invitational, | 2:01:59 | 2:02:00 | |
seeing off the challenge
of Justin Rose and Tiger Woods | 2:02:00 | 2:02:03 | |
with the Masters just
a couple of weeks away. | 2:02:03 | 2:02:05 | |
And we've got a stellar line-up
of twinkle-toed performers | 2:02:05 | 2:02:08 | |
on the sofa this morning - | 2:02:08 | 2:02:12 | |
Alexandra Burke and Strictly's Kevin
and Karen Clifton will be here. | 2:02:12 | 2:02:15 | |
Good morning. | 2:02:15 | 2:02:16 | |
First, our main story. | 2:02:16 | 2:02:17 | |
More than 80 drivers have been
stranded overnight in Devon. | 2:02:17 | 2:02:20 | |
It's after a 64-mile
stretch of a major road | 2:02:20 | 2:02:24 | |
in south west England -
the A30 - was shut | 2:02:24 | 2:02:26 | |
because of heavy snow. | 2:02:26 | 2:02:28 | |
Police say conditions
are "changing rapidly | 2:02:28 | 2:02:33 | |
from passable to impossible" -
and officers are asking people | 2:02:33 | 2:02:36 | |
in Devon and Cornwall to delay
travelling until mid-morning | 2:02:36 | 2:02:39 | |
at the earliest. | 2:02:39 | 2:02:39 | |
Our reporter Sarah Ransome
is in Devon for us this morning. | 2:02:39 | 2:02:45 | |
We can see why the snow might be
causing problems. Yes, overnight we | 2:02:46 | 2:02:51 | |
had several inches of snow, as you
can see behind me. We had heavy snow | 2:02:51 | 2:02:57 | |
for most of the day yesterday. Some
of the roads are now moving. You can | 2:02:57 | 2:03:02 | |
see the A38 behind me. Yesterday,
that was not possible for most of | 2:03:02 | 2:03:06 | |
the day, but now the snowploughs
have been out. But as you say, on | 2:03:06 | 2:03:12 | |
the A30 last night, when that heavy
snow came to the part which is shut | 2:03:12 | 2:03:20 | |
today, hundreds of motorists got
stuck. 80 or so had to spend the | 2:03:20 | 2:03:24 | |
night in a rest centre at
Okehampton. There are still there | 2:03:24 | 2:03:29 | |
this morning, being fed cups of tea
and breakfast while emergency | 2:03:29 | 2:03:33 | |
services and the snowploughs and
gritters are out trying to clear the | 2:03:33 | 2:03:36 | |
road. At the moment, 60 miles of
that road is shut because it is | 2:03:36 | 2:03:40 | |
simply in pass the ball because
there is so much snow and the | 2:03:40 | 2:03:44 | |
temperature is dropping and there is
a worry that it could to dice later. | 2:03:44 | 2:03:49 | |
The amber warning has gone today,
but there are still weather warnings | 2:03:49 | 2:03:53 | |
in force, and with temperatures
plummeting later, back to be a real | 2:03:53 | 2:03:57 | |
problem. Hundreds of schools are
shut across the patch, and we also | 2:03:57 | 2:04:02 | |
have hospitals putting out a request
for 4x4 drivers to volunteer to come | 2:04:02 | 2:04:08 | |
in to try and help ferry workers who
are stuck in outlying locations into | 2:04:08 | 2:04:13 | |
work this morning. | 2:04:13 | 2:04:18 | |
And we'll have a full weather report
for you in about 10 minutes. | 2:04:18 | 2:04:23 | |
There is a couple who were on the
way to their honeymoon and had to | 2:04:23 | 2:04:26 | |
spend the night in a rescue centre.
We will speak to them later. I think | 2:04:26 | 2:04:30 | |
they are looking forward to their
proper honeymoon. | 2:04:30 | 2:04:33 | |
International chemical weapons
experts are due to arrive in the UK | 2:04:33 | 2:04:37 | |
later today to test the nerve agent
used to poison former | 2:04:37 | 2:04:39 | |
Russian spy Sergei Skripal
and his daughter Yulia. | 2:04:39 | 2:04:44 | |
President Putin says claims
that his country was behind | 2:04:44 | 2:04:46 | |
the attack are "nonsense"
but Boris Johnson claims Russia has | 2:04:46 | 2:04:49 | |
been stockpiling Novichok for years. | 2:04:49 | 2:04:50 | |
Tom Burridge is in Salisbury
this morning for us - | 2:04:50 | 2:04:55 | |
Tom, is the hope that once this has
been analysed in a couple of weeks' | 2:04:56 | 2:05:00 | |
time, we will know exactly where it
has come from? That will be the hope | 2:05:00 | 2:05:06 | |
of the British government. Let's
talk through the time frame of Augis | 2:05:06 | 2:05:09 | |
the delegation from this
international watchdog for banned | 2:05:09 | 2:05:13 | |
chemical weapons arrived today in
Wiltshire. They will spend roughly a | 2:05:13 | 2:05:18 | |
week here, mostly at the Porton Down
military research facility. The idea | 2:05:18 | 2:05:22 | |
is then that samples of the nerve
agent used against Sergei and Yulia | 2:05:22 | 2:05:26 | |
Skripal which led them to be in a
critical condition on the bench area | 2:05:26 | 2:05:29 | |
behind me two weeks ago will be sent
abroad. We believe they will be sent | 2:05:29 | 2:05:35 | |
to as many as 20 laboratories in 16
countries. The testing will take two | 2:05:35 | 2:05:39 | |
weeks, so we could be waiting up to
three weeks for the conclusions of | 2:05:39 | 2:05:43 | |
the OPCW to come back. The key
question is if they can say anything | 2:05:43 | 2:05:47 | |
to back-up the government's claim
that the nerve agent used in the | 2:05:47 | 2:05:51 | |
attack was of a type developed in
Russia. It is worth noting that the | 2:05:51 | 2:05:56 | |
OPCW is an independent body and it
will want to stay out as much as | 2:05:56 | 2:06:00 | |
possible from the political and
diplomatic wrangling surrounding all | 2:06:00 | 2:06:03 | |
of this. Tom, thank you. | 2:06:03 | 2:06:06 | |
Official results from Russia show
President Putin has been re-elected | 2:06:06 | 2:06:10 | |
with more than 76% of the vote. | 2:06:10 | 2:06:12 | |
But CCTV footage from a number
of polling stations appears to show | 2:06:12 | 2:06:14 | |
election officials stuffing boxes
with ballot papers. | 2:06:14 | 2:06:16 | |
Our correspondent Richard Galpin
is in Moscow for us this morning. | 2:06:16 | 2:06:24 | |
We hear some of the pictures are
obscured by the linens and things | 2:06:28 | 2:06:34 | |
like that. Richard, we knew it was
guaranteed that Putin would win this | 2:06:34 | 2:06:38 | |
election, but tell us how it was
conducted? As you were saying, there | 2:06:38 | 2:06:48 | |
have been violations. Certainly, one
of the election watchdogs is saying | 2:06:48 | 2:06:52 | |
there were hundreds of violations in
different parts of the country. | 2:06:52 | 2:06:56 | |
These included all sorts of methods,
including stuffing ballot boxes. | 2:06:56 | 2:07:02 | |
There is video showing a couple of
women trying surreptitiously to | 2:07:02 | 2:07:06 | |
stuff the ballot is into boxes in
one area. That was repeated in a | 2:07:06 | 2:07:10 | |
number of locations. There was also
a case of someone who had been dead | 2:07:10 | 2:07:16 | |
for 14 years apparently still
appearing on the electoral roll and | 2:07:16 | 2:07:19 | |
apparently still voting. And most
seriously in terms of numbers, there | 2:07:19 | 2:07:26 | |
were lots of reports of people,
particularly those working for state | 2:07:26 | 2:07:30 | |
institutions and companies, being
forced to vote and proving it to | 2:07:30 | 2:07:35 | |
their employers by taking selfies
inside the polling stations. I am | 2:07:35 | 2:07:41 | |
sure more will be investigated over
the coming days. Thank you to | 2:07:41 | 2:07:46 | |
Richard Galpin in starry Moscow. If
you look at the papers this morning, | 2:07:46 | 2:07:49 | |
you have the Mirror Andy Sun. | 2:07:49 | 2:07:56 | |
The television presenter,
Ant McPartlin, has been arrested | 2:07:56 | 2:07:58 | |
on suspicion of drink-driving. | 2:07:58 | 2:08:02 | |
It is also on the front page of the
Express. | 2:08:02 | 2:08:04 | |
Our Arts and Entertainment
Correspondent Colin Paterson | 2:08:04 | 2:08:09 | |
is here. | 2:08:09 | 2:08:11 | |
What do we know
about what's happened? | 2:08:11 | 2:08:14 | |
This happened before four o'clock
yesterday afternoon in south-west | 2:08:14 | 2:08:20 | |
London. Ant McPartlin's mini was
seen careering into another minute | 2:08:20 | 2:08:22 | |
and then bouncing onto a BMW. The
police told us 842-year-old man was | 2:08:22 | 2:08:27 | |
arrested on suspicion of drunk
driving having failed a breathalyser | 2:08:27 | 2:08:30 | |
test at the side of the road. People
were treated on the scene for | 2:08:30 | 2:08:34 | |
medical issues and a girl we believe
to be three was taken to hospital | 2:08:34 | 2:08:38 | |
for an examination. But many said
that in the car with Ant was his | 2:08:38 | 2:08:45 | |
mother and his dog. We know he had
been having issues, it's fair to | 2:08:45 | 2:08:49 | |
say. Last year, he went into rehab.
It was sad at the time that this was | 2:08:49 | 2:08:54 | |
the painkiller addiction, but this
is a guy who on Saturday night | 2:08:54 | 2:08:59 | |
presented Saturday night takeaway on
ITV. The show came back last month | 2:08:59 | 2:09:01 | |
and they are at the peak of their
game professionally. The 100th | 2:09:01 | 2:09:04 | |
episode of that show was watched by
9 million people. In three weeks' | 2:09:04 | 2:09:09 | |
time, the finale of that series,
Saturday night takeaway, they are | 2:09:09 | 2:09:13 | |
supposed to be going to Florida and
taking over the universal theme | 2:09:13 | 2:09:16 | |
park, so it will be interesting to
see if that happens. Colin, thank | 2:09:16 | 2:09:20 | |
you. | 2:09:20 | 2:09:21 | |
A British woman has been
killed in northern Syria | 2:09:21 | 2:09:24 | |
while fighting alongside
Kurdish forces. | 2:09:24 | 2:09:28 | |
It's understood that Anna Campbell -
who was 26 and from | 2:09:28 | 2:09:31 | |
Lewes in East Sussex -
died in the town of Afrin, | 2:09:31 | 2:09:33 | |
which has been the target
of a Turkish offensive. | 2:09:33 | 2:09:36 | |
Her father has told the BBC
she was idealistic and knew | 2:09:36 | 2:09:38 | |
she was putting her life at risk. | 2:09:38 | 2:09:40 | |
Our correspondent
Emma Vardy reports. | 2:09:40 | 2:09:43 | |
The Gambling Commission is to
recommend that the government | 2:09:47 | 2:09:49 | |
reduced the maximum stake on fixed
odds betting terminals to £30 or | 2:09:49 | 2:09:53 | |
less. Bookmakers claimed that if the
gambling watchdogs have stuck to its | 2:09:53 | 2:09:57 | |
original limit of just £2, it could
have caused hundreds of betting | 2:09:57 | 2:10:00 | |
shops to close and thousands of jobs
to be lost. | 2:10:00 | 2:10:05 | |
Almost 1,000 tiny sausage dogs
and their owners went dashing | 2:10:05 | 2:10:07 | |
through Greenwich Park
in London over the weekend. | 2:10:07 | 2:10:11 | |
A record number | 2:10:11 | 2:10:18 | |
of dachshunds and their owners took
to the great outdoors | 2:10:18 | 2:10:20 | |
despite the freezing
temperatures to take part | 2:10:20 | 2:10:24 | |
in the third ever Sausagefest,
which was created to | 2:10:24 | 2:10:26 | |
celebrate the breed. | 2:10:26 | 2:10:34 | |
Thanks for joining us. | 2:10:34 | 2:10:41 | |
Scientists have announced
a significant breakthrough | 2:10:41 | 2:10:42 | |
in the treatment of
multiple sclerosis. | 2:10:42 | 2:10:45 | |
Results from a decade-long
international trial have shown | 2:10:45 | 2:10:46 | |
a stem cell transplant can halt
the disease and improve symptoms. | 2:10:46 | 2:10:50 | |
The disabling condition affects
about 100,000 people in the UK. | 2:10:50 | 2:10:52 | |
Doctors in Sheffield
who were part of the study, | 2:10:52 | 2:10:54 | |
say the new treatment is a "game
changer" for many patients. | 2:10:54 | 2:10:57 | |
Our medical correspondent has this
report. | 2:10:57 | 2:10:58 | |
This was Louise Willetts in 2015,
undergoing her stem cell | 2:10:58 | 2:11:00 | |
transplant in Sheffield. | 2:11:00 | 2:11:05 | |
The treatment involves
chemotherapy to knock | 2:11:05 | 2:11:12 | |
out her faulty immune system,
and then a transplant | 2:11:12 | 2:11:14 | |
of these healthy stem cells,
taken from her bone marrow, | 2:11:14 | 2:11:16 | |
which rebuilds her immune system. | 2:11:16 | 2:11:20 | |
It's transformed her health | 2:11:20 | 2:11:23 | |
From being in a wheelchair
during her worst relapse, | 2:11:23 | 2:11:25 | |
she is now symptom-free. | 2:11:25 | 2:11:29 | |
It does feel like a miracle. | 2:11:29 | 2:11:35 | |
I almost have to pinch myself
and think, is this real? | 2:11:35 | 2:11:38 | |
Is it really gone, is it
ever going to come back? | 2:11:38 | 2:11:41 | |
I don't live in fear any more,
so I actually live every day the way | 2:11:41 | 2:11:44 | |
that I want to live it,
rather than around my MS. | 2:11:44 | 2:11:47 | |
Around 100,000 people in the UK
have MS, which attacks | 2:11:47 | 2:11:49 | |
the brain and spinal cord. | 2:11:49 | 2:11:51 | |
In an international trial
of around 100 patients, | 2:11:51 | 2:11:52 | |
those who had a transplant not only
experienced a reduction | 2:11:52 | 2:11:55 | |
in their disability,
they were ten times less likely | 2:11:55 | 2:11:57 | |
to see their treatment fail
after three years compared | 2:11:57 | 2:12:00 | |
to those who received drugs. | 2:12:00 | 2:12:03 | |
The stem cell transplant involves
a one-off cost of £30,000, | 2:12:03 | 2:12:06 | |
no more expensive than the yearly
cost of some drugs. | 2:12:06 | 2:12:14 | |
It is a gruelling treatment, and not
suitable for all MS patients, | 2:12:14 | 2:12:18 | |
but Sheffield's Royal Hallamshire
Hospital, part of the international | 2:12:18 | 2:12:23 | |
trial, said it was a game-changer,
and it hoped many more MS patients | 2:12:23 | 2:12:26 | |
would receive a transplant. | 2:12:26 | 2:12:34 | |
Let's talk about this more with the
director of MS research. Tell us | 2:12:39 | 2:12:47 | |
about what they found and how
significant it is? This is a really | 2:12:47 | 2:12:53 | |
impressive results of this study.
They found that people with active | 2:12:53 | 2:12:59 | |
MS, highly active relapsing
remitting MS who experience frequent | 2:12:59 | 2:13:03 | |
attacks, responded well to this
treatment. These were people who | 2:13:03 | 2:13:09 | |
have not responded to some of the
treatments that are already out | 2:13:09 | 2:13:12 | |
there, so it's really encouraging
that in the near future, this is | 2:13:12 | 2:13:15 | |
likely to be a treatment that is
available to people with MS on the | 2:13:15 | 2:13:19 | |
NHS as a possible choice if you meet
the criteria. Janet, tell us about | 2:13:19 | 2:13:24 | |
your diagnosis and how this has
affected you. I was diagnosed really | 2:13:24 | 2:13:29 | |
suddenly in 2015. At the time I was
48 and it was really sudden. I had a | 2:13:29 | 2:13:38 | |
huge relapse that put me in hospital
and that was when I was diagnosed | 2:13:38 | 2:13:41 | |
within the space of a week. Then my
life went from running my own | 2:13:41 | 2:13:46 | |
business, working 12 to 14 hours a
day every day to just not being able | 2:13:46 | 2:13:50 | |
to do anything. And that has pretty
much been how it has gone. It has | 2:13:50 | 2:13:55 | |
progressed really fast. There is a
disability scale. They measure your | 2:13:55 | 2:14:02 | |
disability from zero to ten, zero
being the disability and ten being | 2:14:02 | 2:14:05 | |
dead, and I went from one to six and
a half in the space of a year. And | 2:14:05 | 2:14:09 | |
you have had stem cell therapy, but
not in this country? Yeah. Sorry to | 2:14:09 | 2:14:16 | |
correct you, but it is actually the
transplant. Had Moscow last year in | 2:14:16 | 2:14:23 | |
July. I could have had it on the
NHS, but I couldn't wait because I | 2:14:23 | 2:14:29 | |
was progressing so quickly. I
couldn't wait for it to be done in | 2:14:29 | 2:14:33 | |
the UK, so I went to Moscow and had
it done there. The chemotherapy is | 2:14:33 | 2:14:39 | |
what does the job. They have missed
your stem cells from your blood. The | 2:14:39 | 2:14:46 | |
chemotherapy is like an IT reboot,
so they switch off your immune | 2:14:46 | 2:14:50 | |
system and then switch it on again.
The chemo switches it off, and the | 2:14:50 | 2:14:55 | |
stem cells speed up the recovery and
the chemo kills the immune system | 2:14:55 | 2:15:00 | |
first. Ignorant question - is that
the same treatment that would be | 2:15:00 | 2:15:04 | |
available in this country now? | 2:15:04 | 2:15:10 | |
It has not been routinely
considerate as treatment in the UK. | 2:15:11 | 2:15:17 | |
It is a very aggressive therapy and
there are side effects that need to | 2:15:17 | 2:15:21 | |
be considered. So it is great that
it soon will be considered wittingly | 2:15:21 | 2:15:25 | |
but still for people with very
active and highly aggressive MS, we | 2:15:25 | 2:15:32 | |
would encourage people to think
about treatment options and how it | 2:15:32 | 2:15:38 | |
fits in with all the therapies
available. Getting a diagnosis of MS | 2:15:38 | 2:15:42 | |
can be pretty devastating.
Absolutely, it is life changing. | 2:15:42 | 2:15:48 | |
From being fit and well and living
your life you suddenly have | 2:15:48 | 2:15:54 | |
limitations you did not expect and
it because it is the central nervous | 2:15:54 | 2:15:59 | |
system, it affects everything from
mobility which is obvious to brain | 2:15:59 | 2:16:05 | |
fog, fatigue. All manner of things.
Speech, swallowing, cognitive | 2:16:05 | 2:16:12 | |
ability, absolutely every part of
you. And what was the difference | 2:16:12 | 2:16:15 | |
before and after the treatment? I'm
about eight months posttransplant | 2:16:15 | 2:16:20 | |
and it is slow. My brain fog lifted
after the first dose of chemotherapy | 2:16:20 | 2:16:26 | |
so I am much more with it. If I am
tired it comes back a little bit but | 2:16:26 | 2:16:32 | |
generally I am more alert and
cognitive skills are better. For | 2:16:32 | 2:16:38 | |
people watching this morning you are
saying that this treatment, how soon | 2:16:38 | 2:16:42 | |
could be available? It is already
available in some centres but not | 2:16:42 | 2:16:49 | |
considered as, it will be considered
as a third line treatment over the | 2:16:49 | 2:16:53 | |
next couple of months. That means
people who have not responded to | 2:16:53 | 2:16:58 | |
other treatments available. So it is
a very aggressive treatment and I | 2:16:58 | 2:17:05 | |
think Janet and I spoke for the show
and it is quite tough to go through. | 2:17:05 | 2:17:12 | |
It is but I would say from the
perspective of the patient I did not | 2:17:12 | 2:17:17 | |
get the treatment until I was at
this massive level of disability. If | 2:17:17 | 2:17:24 | |
I had had a similar I would not be
fighting the same disabilities | 2:17:24 | 2:17:26 | |
because it is designed to hold the
progression of the disease. If you | 2:17:26 | 2:17:32 | |
hold it soon before you get disabled
then you have a better chance. But | 2:17:32 | 2:17:38 | |
now I'm fighting disability that I
already had existing. So people who | 2:17:38 | 2:17:45 | |
this could help, would they be aware
of that? There's a lot of great | 2:17:45 | 2:17:52 | |
information on the website. We are
working with health care | 2:17:52 | 2:17:55 | |
professionals around the UK, trying
to encourage people with MS to be | 2:17:55 | 2:17:59 | |
really informed about treatment
options. I found most of my | 2:17:59 | 2:18:03 | |
information from this group groups,
there strong network of faith group | 2:18:03 | 2:18:13 | |
books for the UK which all share and
help the charity. You're obviously | 2:18:13 | 2:18:20 | |
incredibly well informed and also
explain it very well. Thank you both | 2:18:20 | 2:18:23 | |
very much. A very busy morning in
terms of the weather. Some big | 2:18:23 | 2:18:33 | |
issues in Devon and south-west
England. | 2:18:33 | 2:18:36 | |
Here's Sarah with a look
at this morning's weather. | 2:18:36 | 2:18:40 | |
We had a lot of heavy snow, up to 20
centimetres across parts of the | 2:18:40 | 2:18:46 | |
South West of England. And some
really icy conditions. So the | 2:18:46 | 2:18:50 | |
weather continues to cause some
disruption to date but the good news | 2:18:50 | 2:18:54 | |
is that the cold spell is easing.
Today we expect a dry day and over | 2:18:54 | 2:18:59 | |
the next few days temperatures
rising. This week of course we have | 2:18:59 | 2:19:02 | |
the spring equinox, tomorrow, and
temperatures just edging closer to | 2:19:02 | 2:19:07 | |
where they should be for the time of
year. And after that cold start to | 2:19:07 | 2:19:12 | |
the week a bit of rain arriving
later in the week. For this morning | 2:19:12 | 2:19:16 | |
many of us dry, a bit more cloud
around across southern England | 2:19:16 | 2:19:21 | |
bringing in the odd flurry of snow.
But some blue skies and sunshine | 2:19:21 | 2:19:27 | |
elsewhere although it is going to be
feeling bitterly cold especially | 2:19:27 | 2:19:29 | |
where you are exposed to that risk
North easterly wind across England | 2:19:29 | 2:19:35 | |
and Wales. For the south-west of
England and Wales a lot of lying | 2:19:35 | 2:19:42 | |
snow still around. Heading north
across the country largely dry for | 2:19:42 | 2:19:46 | |
Northern Ireland and Scotland and to
the north-west feeling relatively | 2:19:46 | 2:19:51 | |
pleasant in those lighter winds. | 2:19:51 | 2:19:57 | |
the north-west feeling relatively
pleasant in those lighter winds. | 2:19:57 | 2:20:01 | |
Temperatures still not great for the
time of year this afternoon. Well | 2:20:01 | 2:20:05 | |
below what we would expect for the
time of year. Nearing the end of | 2:20:05 | 2:20:09 | |
March. But moving through into the
evening with the somewhat cloud | 2:20:09 | 2:20:14 | |
heading in across England and Wales.
Scotland and Northern Ireland | 2:20:14 | 2:20:17 | |
keeping those clear skies tonight
and temperatures falling, as low as | 2:20:17 | 2:20:25 | |
-5 tonight through the central Alps
of Scotland. And for many of us | 2:20:25 | 2:20:32 | |
temperatures below freezing. And
some really icy conditions likely as | 2:20:32 | 2:20:36 | |
well on Tuesday morning. Some
freezing fog patches possible in the | 2:20:36 | 2:20:41 | |
West. Tuesday not a bad day with
high pressure in charge. A bit more | 2:20:41 | 2:20:46 | |
cloud around so some showers for
Lincolnshire, down towards Sussex. | 2:20:46 | 2:20:51 | |
Most other parts of the country
looking dry with some sunshine | 2:20:51 | 2:20:55 | |
towards the West. Not raising the
temperature is in too much of a | 2:20:55 | 2:21:00 | |
hurry but we could get eight, 9
degrees. Then towards the middle of | 2:21:00 | 2:21:03 | |
the week we have more of an Atlantic
influence, so the wind coming from | 2:21:03 | 2:21:09 | |
the West. More cloud across Scotland
and Northern Ireland through into | 2:21:09 | 2:21:14 | |
Wednesday morning. A bit more patchy
rain arriving across Scotland and | 2:21:14 | 2:21:18 | |
Northern Ireland. That lasts on and
off through the day on Wednesday. | 2:21:18 | 2:21:23 | |
The best of any sunshine towards the
south and east. A few places could | 2:21:23 | 2:21:27 | |
just about creep into double
figures. So ending the week on a | 2:21:27 | 2:21:32 | |
much milder note. | 2:21:32 | 2:21:35 | |
figures. So ending the week on a
much milder note. | 2:21:35 | 2:21:38 | |
Thank you very much. And the weather
has caused some issues in the | 2:21:38 | 2:21:44 | |
south-west of England. We will tell
you about one of those issues and | 2:21:44 | 2:21:47 | |
one couple very much affected by
this. | 2:21:47 | 2:21:56 | |
80 motorists
were stranded overnight in Devon. | 2:21:57 | 2:22:00 | |
Many had to abandon their cars
and stay the night in a college. | 2:22:00 | 2:22:04 | |
One couple who had to stay
there is John and Sara Lund - | 2:22:04 | 2:22:07 | |
they got married on Saturday
and were on the way | 2:22:07 | 2:22:09 | |
to their honeymoon in Cornwall. | 2:22:09 | 2:22:13 | |
Congratulations on getting married.
How did you end up where you are | 2:22:13 | 2:22:17 | |
now? Well we were heading out to
Newquay for what would've been very | 2:22:17 | 2:22:24 | |
luxurious honeymoon in a beautiful
bridal suite but we got caught up | 2:22:24 | 2:22:33 | |
just outside Okehampton. But the
lovely people at Devon County | 2:22:33 | 2:22:39 | |
Council looked after us very well.
Obviously not what you imagined at | 2:22:39 | 2:22:45 | |
all to spend one of your first
married delights in this kind of | 2:22:45 | 2:22:49 | |
environment expect I did not imagine
snow in March to be honest with you | 2:22:49 | 2:22:55 | |
and certainly not expecting to spend
our first night in a school college. | 2:22:55 | 2:23:02 | |
Tell us a bit about the wedding
itself, did you know that it was | 2:23:02 | 2:23:06 | |
snowing outside? On Saturday we had
some flurries of snow and it was | 2:23:06 | 2:23:14 | |
lovely and then on Sunday it was a
blanket of snow. But we were | 2:23:14 | 2:23:18 | |
thinking we will be OK. Bristol was
fine, not too much around. And then | 2:23:18 | 2:23:24 | |
you got | 2:23:24 | 2:23:29 | |
you got onto the A30 and it was
quite bad. We got to a junction and | 2:23:29 | 2:23:33 | |
we were able to get off but I know a
lot of people are still stranded. I | 2:23:33 | 2:23:37 | |
love the idea that you just got
married and your in the car, tell us | 2:23:37 | 2:23:42 | |
about your decision to get out and
walk. I do not think we had a great | 2:23:42 | 2:23:49 | |
deal of choice. We were amongst the
lucky ones, we could see a pub in | 2:23:49 | 2:23:54 | |
the corner of our eyes and that is
what got us out of the car. And you | 2:23:54 | 2:23:58 | |
had this great plan, bridal suite,
we are well looked after, did people | 2:23:58 | 2:24:05 | |
realise that you were newlyweds and
bring you a few biscuits! I had a | 2:24:05 | 2:24:13 | |
second sugar in my tea. But everyone
has looked after us wonderfully. We | 2:24:13 | 2:24:18 | |
have a lot of volunteers as well as
the good people of Devon County | 2:24:18 | 2:24:23 | |
Council and I think our Storey
helped to keep morale | 2:24:23 | 2:24:34 | |
helped to keep morale high top. And
when you think you will get to the | 2:24:34 | 2:24:39 | |
honeymoon destination? Well I think
the A30 is now we're pulling so we | 2:24:39 | 2:24:47 | |
are going to keep on trying to awake
down there. Will you get an extra | 2:24:47 | 2:24:52 | |
day now you have appeared on
television! Well we can speak to the | 2:24:52 | 2:24:59 | |
hotel about that. We are there for
three nights. So let's hope we can | 2:24:59 | 2:25:05 | |
get the rest of that time. Best of
luck to you both and thank you for | 2:25:05 | 2:25:09 | |
your good-humoured and many
congratulations. You're never to | 2:25:09 | 2:25:12 | |
forget where you spent the first
night. Congratulations. John and | 2:25:12 | 2:25:23 | |
Sarah, ever married over the weekend
and had great plans, a beautiful | 2:25:23 | 2:25:29 | |
bridal suite and instead on a floor
with 80 other people near | 2:25:29 | 2:25:35 | |
Okehampton. Well we have been joined
now by our next guest. Hello, | 2:25:35 | 2:25:46 | |
everybody. We have all been so
quiet! UK non-when we were speaking, | 2:25:51 | 2:25:58 | |
the wonderful world of television.
Hiding down here! | 2:25:58 | 2:26:11 | |
Hiding down here! Tracey, are you
all right? Lovely to see you all. | 2:26:13 | 2:26:18 | |
Thank you. And in the next few
minutes we will be talking about | 2:26:18 | 2:26:24 | |
your projects. You are going back on
shore. And you have a new album out. | 2:26:24 | 2:26:29 | |
I'm going on tour in December so
there is a lot going on. The | 2:26:29 | 2:26:35 | |
Strictly family this morning. We
will chat in a minute. | 2:26:35 | 2:26:45 | |
will chat in a minute. Tracy likes
to stay incognito! | 2:26:45 | 2:26:52 | |
to stay incognito! Time for the
news, travel and weather where you | 2:26:52 | 2:26:55 | |
are. I | 2:26:55 | 2:30:18 | |
newsroom in half an hour. | 2:30:18 | 2:30:21 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast
with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin | 2:30:25 | 2:30:30 | |
Here's a summary of
this morning's main | 2:30:30 | 2:30:32 | |
stories from BBC News. | 2:30:32 | 2:30:34 | |
More than 80 drivers have been
stranded overnight on a major | 2:30:34 | 2:30:36 | |
road in south west England
- the A30. | 2:30:36 | 2:30:41 | |
Within the last half hour
that road has re-opened. | 2:30:41 | 2:30:45 | |
A 64-mile stretch had to be shut
for the night after heavy | 2:30:45 | 2:30:48 | |
snow fell in the area,
making many roads impassable. | 2:30:48 | 2:30:52 | |
Devon and Cornwall Police are urging
people not to travel | 2:30:52 | 2:30:55 | |
until later on this morning. | 2:30:55 | 2:30:57 | |
And we'll have a full weather report
for you in about 10 minutes. | 2:30:57 | 2:31:03 | |
International chemical weapons
experts are due to arrive | 2:31:03 | 2:31:05 | |
in the UK later today to test
the nerve agent used to poison | 2:31:05 | 2:31:08 | |
former Russian spy Sergei Skripal
and his daughter Yulia. | 2:31:08 | 2:31:11 | |
President Putin says
claims his country was behind | 2:31:11 | 2:31:12 | |
the attack are "nonsense",
but Boris Johnson claims Russia has | 2:31:12 | 2:31:15 | |
been stockpiling Novichok for years. | 2:31:15 | 2:31:16 | |
Test results could be seen
in around two weeks' time. | 2:31:16 | 2:31:24 | |
Official results from Russia show
President Putin has been | 2:31:28 | 2:31:30 | |
re-elected with more than 76 percent
of the vote. | 2:31:30 | 2:31:35 | |
He told a victory rally that
Russia must maintain unity | 2:31:35 | 2:31:41 | |
following his landslide win,
but CCTV footage from a number | 2:31:41 | 2:31:44 | |
of polling stations appears to show
election officials stuffing boxes | 2:31:44 | 2:31:46 | |
with ballot papers. | 2:31:46 | 2:31:53 | |
The television presenter
Ant McPartlin has been arrested | 2:31:53 | 2:31:55 | |
on suspicion of drink driving. | 2:31:55 | 2:31:57 | |
Police say they were called
to reports of a collision involving | 2:31:57 | 2:31:59 | |
three cars in south-west
London yesterday afternoon. | 2:31:59 | 2:32:01 | |
A child passenger in one of them was
taken to hospital as a precaution. | 2:32:01 | 2:32:06 | |
In a statement, Scotland Yard said
a 42-year-old man was arrested | 2:32:06 | 2:32:09 | |
at the scene after failing
a breathalyser test. | 2:32:09 | 2:32:17 | |
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, has died at
the age of 80. The cardinal who | 2:32:23 | 2:32:30 | |
resigned in 2013 | 2:32:30 | 2:32:37 | |
resigned in 2013 after admitting
sexual misconduct. Was injured | 2:32:37 | 2:32:41 | |
recently in a fall. | 2:32:41 | 2:32:44 | |
A British woman has been
killed in northern Syria, | 2:32:44 | 2:32:47 | |
fighting alongside Kurdish forces. | 2:32:47 | 2:32:48 | |
It's understood that Anna Campbell -
who was 26 and from Lewes | 2:32:48 | 2:32:50 | |
in East Sussex - died
in the town of Afrin, | 2:32:50 | 2:32:53 | |
which has been the target
of a Turkish offensive. | 2:32:53 | 2:32:55 | |
Her father has told the BBC
she was idealistic, and knew | 2:32:55 | 2:32:58 | |
she was putting her life at risk. | 2:32:58 | 2:33:00 | |
Scientists have
announced a significant | 2:33:00 | 2:33:01 | |
breakthrough in the treatment
of Multiple Sclerosis.? | 2:33:01 | 2:33:07 | |
Results from a decade-long
international trial have shown | 2:33:07 | 2:33:09 | |
a stem cell transplant can halt
the disease and improve symptoms. | 2:33:09 | 2:33:12 | |
The disabling condition affects
about 100,000 people | 2:33:12 | 2:33:16 | |
in the UK.?Doctors in Sheffield,
who were part of the study, | 2:33:16 | 2:33:18 | |
say the new treatment is a "game
changer" for many patients. | 2:33:18 | 2:33:23 | |
That brings you up to date. | 2:33:23 | 2:33:27 | |
Coming up on Breakfast
this morning... | 2:33:27 | 2:33:33 | |
Strictly's Kevin
and Karen Clifton will be | 2:33:33 | 2:33:37 | |
here to tell us how they're stronger
than ever professionally, | 2:33:37 | 2:33:40 | |
despite their recent split. | 2:33:40 | 2:33:42 | |
These homes in Norfolk are in danger
of falling in to the sea - | 2:33:42 | 2:33:45 | |
we'll be live there a bit later on. | 2:33:45 | 2:33:53 | |
Can you believe it's
10 years since Alexandra Burke won | 2:33:54 | 2:33:56 | |
the X Factor? | 2:33:56 | 2:33:57 | |
She'll join us a little later
to talk about the happiness | 2:33:57 | 2:34:00 | |
and sadness of the last few years. | 2:34:00 | 2:34:05 | |
All that still to come. | 2:34:05 | 2:34:09 | |
And we had our lovely Tracy lying
down. What we didn't realise is her | 2:34:09 | 2:34:19 | |
feet were sticking out. She does not
want to appear on television. They | 2:34:19 | 2:34:26 | |
made other debut. | 2:34:26 | 2:34:36 | |
made other debut. Rory McIlroy has
had to take himself away and | 2:34:36 | 2:34:40 | |
reassess and every time the Masters
come around, it is the Major that | 2:34:40 | 2:34:45 | |
has eluded him. He looked great over
the weekend. The last couple of | 2:34:45 | 2:34:49 | |
years he has been coming into the
Masters not looking like he is in | 2:34:49 | 2:34:52 | |
contention. But this time he is
favourite to win. He often is. | 2:34:52 | 2:34:58 | |
Whether or not he is on form. Like
Tiger Woods, he played well again. | 2:34:58 | 2:35:04 | |
He is third favourite. Yes. Rory
McIlroy won thenald palmer invite | 2:35:04 | 2:35:16 | |
Tacingal in Florida. | 2:35:16 | 2:35:21 | |
Tiger Woods rejuvination continued,
the 14 time major winner | 2:35:23 | 2:35:28 | |
was tied for 5th, 8 behind McIlroy. | 2:35:28 | 2:35:31 | |
All these barriers you have to
overcome, whether it is physical or | 2:35:31 | 2:35:36 | |
mental, it is huge for my confidence
going into the next few weeks. I | 2:35:36 | 2:35:40 | |
kept saying I didn't need a win
going into Augusta. I just wanted to | 2:35:40 | 2:35:46 | |
see signs of good golf. Thankfully I
got both today. | 2:35:46 | 2:35:54 | |
Another Brit returning
to form was Laura Davies. | 2:35:54 | 2:35:56 | |
She finished tied for second
at the Founders Cup in Phoenix. | 2:35:56 | 2:36:00 | |
It's her best finish
on the LPGA tour since 2007. | 2:36:00 | 2:36:01 | |
She said maybe now people will stop
asking her when she'll retire | 2:36:01 | 2:36:04 | |
Chelsea will face Southampton
in the semi-finals of the FA Cup, | 2:36:04 | 2:36:07 | |
coming through 2-1 against Leicester
after extra time. | 2:36:07 | 2:36:09 | |
It was Pedro's goal
that sealed Chelsea's | 2:36:09 | 2:36:10 | |
spot in the final four -
it's their 10th FA Cup | 2:36:10 | 2:36:13 | |
semi-final in 18 years,
and their only realistic chance | 2:36:13 | 2:36:15 | |
of winning a trophy this season. | 2:36:15 | 2:36:20 | |
Mark Hughes had a good first game
in charge of Southampton | 2:36:20 | 2:36:23 | |
as they beat League One side
Wigan 2-0 to reach the FA | 2:36:23 | 2:36:26 | |
Cup Semi-Finals. | 2:36:26 | 2:36:27 | |
Defender Cedric Soares scored
their second in stoppage time. | 2:36:27 | 2:36:32 | |
Roger Federer's incredible run
at the start of this year | 2:36:32 | 2:36:34 | |
has come to an end -
he was beaten in the final | 2:36:34 | 2:36:37 | |
of the Indian Wells Masters
by Juan Martin del Potro. | 2:36:37 | 2:36:40 | |
It's the Argentine's second
tournament win in a row. | 2:36:40 | 2:36:42 | |
The former US Open champion had
to save three match points, | 2:36:42 | 2:36:45 | |
before becoming the first person
this year to beat | 2:36:45 | 2:36:47 | |
the World Number One. | 2:36:47 | 2:36:48 | |
Naomi Osaka won the
women's competition | 2:36:48 | 2:36:55 | |
They were in action, Andy Murray,
who was fast asleep in bed when this | 2:36:55 | 2:37:00 | |
happened. Take a look. This is for
Sport Relief. You can watch it on | 2:37:00 | 2:37:06 | |
Saturday night. He breaks into
people's bedrooms, Michael McIntyre | 2:37:06 | 2:37:12 | |
and he wakes them up. But this time
the victim was expecting him. | 2:37:12 | 2:37:21 | |
Welcome to the Sport Relief midnight
game show. BLEEP. Sir Andy Murray. | 2:37:21 | 2:37:29 | |
Sir Andy Murray is the victim and
look at the crew. They're all there. | 2:37:29 | 2:37:34 | |
Tennis gear. Head bands on. There is
Peppa Pig's dad coming in to play | 2:37:34 | 2:37:42 | |
his part in what must have been a
surreal experience. You think you're | 2:37:42 | 2:37:48 | |
having the most bonkers dream ever.
Hang on there is a TV Kara and a | 2:37:48 | 2:37:56 | |
person -- camera and a pig. Not many
A-listers would take that in such | 2:37:56 | 2:38:03 | |
good spirit. He could have been out
with a golf club under the bed. Or a | 2:38:03 | 2:38:14 | |
tennis racket! Thank you very much.
You can see the full piece of that | 2:38:14 | 2:38:21 | |
available on Friday. We did see him
wearing panda print pajamas after | 2:38:21 | 2:38:35 | |
his injury. Your knowledge of
pajamas is incredible. Sport Relief | 2:38:35 | 2:38:42 | |
is on all week. We are doing some
rowing - BBC against ITV. Yo said if | 2:38:42 | 2:38:53 | |
I lose I'm not allowed back on. I
know how much you want to win. | 2:38:53 | 2:39:00 | |
Next - a dancing duo who've
starred in five Strictly | 2:39:00 | 2:39:02 | |
finals between them. | 2:39:02 | 2:39:03 | |
Karen and Kevin Clifton have danced
with singers, actors, chefs - | 2:39:03 | 2:39:06 | |
and even the odd BBC presenter. | 2:39:06 | 2:39:07 | |
Now they're bringing
their own brand of ballroom | 2:39:07 | 2:39:12 | |
and Latin to a stage near you. | 2:39:12 | 2:39:13 | |
Let's take a look at them in action. | 2:39:13 | 2:39:21 | |
# Now you're in New York... | 2:39:45 | 2:39:55 | |
I'm just tidying up. Kevin and Karen
are here. Sorry about the surprise | 2:40:12 | 2:40:17 | |
earlier. How are you both doing.
Good, thank you. Doing great. | 2:40:17 | 2:40:23 | |
Getting excited for our tour that we
open May 22nd and we are going into | 2:40:23 | 2:40:28 | |
rehearsals, looking for new dancers
at the moment. We are scouring the | 2:40:28 | 2:40:33 | |
world for new talent. Are you
available on Thursday? Fortunately | 2:40:33 | 2:40:39 | |
not. We are looking for a tall guy.
I'm sure I can find someone. It has | 2:40:39 | 2:40:46 | |
been a strange time, because you
know let's get the elephant in the | 2:40:46 | 2:40:50 | |
room out there, during the series
there was speculation about what was | 2:40:50 | 2:40:54 | |
happening in your marriage. You
spoke on Friday on the radio with | 2:40:54 | 2:41:00 | |
Chris Evans about where you are now
and you're together but not | 2:41:00 | 2:41:02 | |
together. Is that the best way of
putting it? Yes, because there has | 2:41:02 | 2:41:07 | |
been so much speculation it is best
to be honest with everyone and not | 2:41:07 | 2:41:13 | |
be scared. Privately our situation
has changed. Professionally, we are | 2:41:13 | 2:41:16 | |
still dancing together and stronger
than ever. I say, I said, dancing's | 2:41:16 | 2:41:24 | |
the glue that keeps us together and
it is how we met and we are still | 2:41:24 | 2:41:28 | |
excited about going on tour. We have
been even more creative now and it | 2:41:28 | 2:41:34 | |
has given us a freedom to explore
and this tour is something that we | 2:41:34 | 2:41:40 | |
have been dreaming about for a lot
of years and last year's tour was | 2:41:40 | 2:41:45 | |
fantastic and we had such great
feedback. This year we are bringing | 2:41:45 | 2:41:49 | |
in new dancers and singers and our
orchestra and choreography and it is | 2:41:49 | 2:41:55 | |
about all of our inspirations and
what's shaped us to become the | 2:41:55 | 2:41:58 | |
dancers that we are today. Of
course, it brings a different | 2:41:58 | 2:42:03 | |
dynamic to it and presumably in your
choreography, maybe not in a bad | 2:42:03 | 2:42:07 | |
way. I think this is what we were
talking about the other day, since | 2:42:07 | 2:42:12 | |
we have been up front about
everything, it unlocks this new | 2:42:12 | 2:42:17 | |
creativity. There is all the new
ideas, as performer you want to come | 2:42:17 | 2:42:22 | |
from a place of truth. It has
unlocked this new stuff. It has not | 2:42:22 | 2:42:28 | |
changed our chemistry and our
passion on the dance floor. We are | 2:42:28 | 2:42:31 | |
still best friends and we care about
each other and respect each other as | 2:42:31 | 2:42:37 | |
performers, this guys amazing. I
can't believe sometimes I was | 2:42:37 | 2:42:42 | |
dapsing with him -- dancing with
him. The energy we want to bring and | 2:42:42 | 2:42:45 | |
it is for our fans as well. They
have always supported us and it is | 2:42:45 | 2:42:51 | |
great to hear their feedback and see
them coming to support us. Do you | 2:42:51 | 2:42:57 | |
know whether you will be doing
Strictly this year? When do you find | 2:42:57 | 2:43:02 | |
out. We don't know yet. We sit by
the phone. Hoping we are going to | 2:43:02 | 2:43:07 | |
get that call. We would both love to
be back. We both adore being on | 2:43:07 | 2:43:13 | |
Strictly. We love it. It is a
massive part of our lyes and we owe | 2:43:13 | 2:43:18 | |
so much to Strictly. We know we
wouldn't get to do things like this | 2:43:18 | 2:43:23 | |
tour without Strictly and putting
dancing on the platform it is on | 2:43:23 | 2:43:27 | |
now. We love the show and we want to
get that call. I'm hoping you might | 2:43:27 | 2:43:33 | |
get that call as well. Is that
something... ? I asked Dan about | 2:43:33 | 2:43:38 | |
these rumours that were in the
papers, that you and a presenter on | 2:43:38 | 2:43:46 | |
another side might be having a dance
off. It's not going to happen. We | 2:43:46 | 2:43:51 | |
are good coaches if you need help.
Thank you for the offer. That is | 2:43:51 | 2:43:59 | |
interesting, because I assumed that
you would know whether you are on | 2:43:59 | 2:44:05 | |
the programme. You can't do snig. We
leave that half of the year free. | 2:44:05 | 2:44:11 | |
When you heard about Brendan not
being part of that, was that a shock | 2:44:11 | 2:44:15 | |
to you? Did that come out earlier
than it should have done? I have no | 2:44:15 | 2:44:20 | |
idea. I don't know how they work.
Maybe the fact that Brendan has been | 2:44:20 | 2:44:25 | |
on the show for so long they talked
it out. I don't know how it works. | 2:44:25 | 2:44:30 | |
But Brendan has been there since
series one, and him and Anton were | 2:44:30 | 2:44:36 | |
like our parents on the show! Any
time we needed advice we would go to | 2:44:36 | 2:44:41 | |
one of them. He will be hissed. But
I'm sure -- he will be missed. And | 2:44:41 | 2:44:50 | |
they have had a baby. I have seen
you two out and about, the impact | 2:44:50 | 2:44:55 | |
that Strictly had on the public and
the dancing public. It has | 2:44:55 | 2:44:59 | |
encouraged so many people to get
involved. It is a beautiful thing | 2:44:59 | 2:45:04 | |
and it is such a family show and
inspires people and kids from all | 2:45:04 | 2:45:10 | |
ages and adults and everyone wanting
to dance and everyone being so | 2:45:10 | 2:45:14 | |
knowledgeable about dancing. That is
fantastic and it means a lot to us | 2:45:14 | 2:45:18 | |
that a family can get together on a
Saturday night and watch dancing and | 2:45:18 | 2:45:22 | |
learn it and want to be part of it.
We get a lot of messages from | 2:45:22 | 2:45:28 | |
children, it is my first competition
or people going to dance classes. I | 2:45:28 | 2:45:33 | |
think it is healthy and fun. | 2:45:33 | 2:45:42 | |
Are any of the Strictly guys helping
out with your tour? It'll be | 2:45:42 | 2:45:46 | |
massive. Six extra dancers. We have
the creative director of Strictly | 2:45:46 | 2:45:55 | |
directing the show. That's really
big for us. It's Jason. He's kind of | 2:45:55 | 2:46:00 | |
the best in the world. He is the
best in the world! Absolutely, the | 2:46:00 | 2:46:07 | |
best. That's exciting. We are in
talks with one of the other | 2:46:07 | 2:46:12 | |
professionals from Strictly, so
we're waiting to see, but it looks | 2:46:12 | 2:46:16 | |
like it might happen. But nothing
has been signed yet, so I cannot | 2:46:16 | 2:46:20 | |
say. We are looking for two extra
dancers to join our cast. Maybe they | 2:46:20 | 2:46:24 | |
are out there. Maybe you two. We can
do the time warp. | 2:46:24 | 2:46:31 | |
You and Susannah were fantastic. I'm
sure she would do it. | 2:46:31 | 2:46:36 | |
When does it start? 22nd of May, in
Northampton, it runs until the end | 2:46:36 | 2:46:44 | |
of July, and it finishes in Dublin.
And you go to Grimsby. Twice. You | 2:46:44 | 2:46:50 | |
cannot be Kevin from Grimsby without
going to Grimsby. | 2:46:50 | 2:46:52 | |
Thanks for coming in and talking to
us. Really appreciate it. | 2:46:52 | 2:46:58 | |
Let's check out the weather. Dancing
indoors would be your thing, right? | 2:46:58 | 2:47:04 | |
Or skating outside. It is slippery
underfoot. Lots of ice and lying | 2:47:04 | 2:47:08 | |
snow. There's been accumulation in
the South in particular. Today will | 2:47:08 | 2:47:16 | |
be a dry day. Some sunshine later
for many. But things would be | 2:47:16 | 2:47:20 | |
warming up in a hurry today. Through
the rest of this week we have the | 2:47:20 | 2:47:26 | |
spring equinox tomorrow. | 2:47:26 | 2:47:27 | |
the rest of this week we have the
spring equinox tomorrow. | 2:47:27 | 2:47:27 | |
Temperatures will gradually creep up
by a few degrees. After the cold | 2:47:27 | 2:47:34 | |
start, rain pushing in later in the
week. Quite a lot of cloud to start | 2:47:34 | 2:47:38 | |
the day in London and across other
parts of southern England. Snow | 2:47:38 | 2:47:42 | |
flurries towards the Channel Isles.
Most other parts of the country | 2:47:42 | 2:47:46 | |
looking dry and fairly clear. Sunny
spells for many. But it is still | 2:47:46 | 2:47:50 | |
feeling cold, particularly across
England and Wales where there was a | 2:47:50 | 2:47:53 | |
biting north-easterly wind. Not as
windy or as cold as it was over the | 2:47:53 | 2:47:59 | |
weekend. A drier story for the South
West of England, and Wales, sunshine | 2:47:59 | 2:48:04 | |
likely here. Heading north, largely
dry the northern England, Scotland, | 2:48:04 | 2:48:08 | |
Northern Ireland. A bit more cloud
pushing in from the east. For | 2:48:08 | 2:48:14 | |
Western Scotland and into Northern
Ireland, light winds. It'll feel | 2:48:14 | 2:48:17 | |
pretty pleasant. We could see up to
eight Celsius in the sunny spells | 2:48:17 | 2:48:22 | |
towards the north-west. Feeling cold
for England and Wales with the wind | 2:48:22 | 2:48:26 | |
chill. And temperatures nothing to
write home about, around three to | 2:48:26 | 2:48:31 | |
seven Celsius. Not as cold as it has
been, but still cold for the time of | 2:48:31 | 2:48:35 | |
year. Into this evening and night,
more cloud filtering in from the | 2:48:35 | 2:48:38 | |
east across England and Wales.
Scotland and Northern Ireland stay | 2:48:38 | 2:48:44 | |
with the clearer skies and light
winds. We will see temperatures | 2:48:44 | 2:48:47 | |
falling lowest here, to around minus
five degrees throughout the central | 2:48:47 | 2:48:52 | |
belt of Scotland. Tomorrow morning,
starting off with that cold and icy | 2:48:52 | 2:48:55 | |
night. Really sharp frost. After the
date on floor and night-time | 2:48:55 | 2:49:00 | |
refreeze, very cold conditions
likely. -- daytime thaw. Tuesday is | 2:49:00 | 2:49:09 | |
shaping up to be too bad. Some rain
showers for the likes of | 2:49:09 | 2:49:15 | |
Lincolnshire, down to London, Kent
and Sussex, as well. Away from this, | 2:49:15 | 2:49:20 | |
more sunshine, lighter winds, too.
It shouldn't be too bad tomorrow. | 2:49:20 | 2:49:26 | |
Some of the snow starting to thaw,
with temperatures up to 9 degrees. | 2:49:26 | 2:49:32 | |
Middle part of the week, milder air
coming in from the Atalanta, pushing | 2:49:32 | 2:49:36 | |
card across Scotland and Northern
Ireland with patchy rain as we head | 2:49:36 | 2:49:41 | |
into Wednesday. -- from the
Atlantic. The Southeast will have | 2:49:41 | 2:49:47 | |
rain and cloud in Scotland. Driver
England and Wales. The best of the | 2:49:47 | 2:49:51 | |
sunshine will be towards the south
and east. Temperatures will be | 2:49:51 | 2:49:55 | |
creeping back into double figures.
-- dry for England and Wales. It | 2:49:55 | 2:50:00 | |
looks like we will eventually lose
this cold spell by the weekend. | 2:50:00 | 2:50:04 | |
Things turning milder. But not that
much like spring just yet. Back to | 2:50:04 | 2:50:08 | |
you. | 2:50:08 | 2:50:09 | |
much like spring just yet. Back to
you. | 2:50:09 | 2:50:10 | |
Thanks very much.
It is done's birthday today. Instead | 2:50:12 | 2:50:18 | |
of me giving him a present, he has
given me a cold. I was fine when I | 2:50:18 | 2:50:24 | |
arrived.
I have a bit of an issue. | 2:50:24 | 2:50:27 | |
Anyway, happy birthday. With so many
talent shows on TV not every winner | 2:50:27 | 2:50:35 | |
goes on to find fame and success. | 2:50:35 | 2:50:42 | |
But in the 10 years since
winning the X Factor, | 2:50:43 | 2:50:45 | |
Alexandra Burke has enjoyed
a string of hit records. | 2:50:45 | 2:50:47 | |
Not only that, but she's
starred in West End | 2:50:47 | 2:50:49 | |
musicals and very nearly won
the most recent series | 2:50:49 | 2:50:51 | |
of Strictly Come Dancing. | 2:50:51 | 2:50:52 | |
Now she has a new album out. | 2:50:52 | 2:50:54 | |
Before we speak to Alexandra,
let's have a quick listen to one | 2:50:54 | 2:50:57 | |
of the tracks from it. | 2:50:57 | 2:50:58 | |
# You got me running down the wrong
road | 2:50:58 | 2:51:00 | |
# Swimming in the shadows
# What you are giving to me | 2:51:00 | 2:51:06 | |
# I want a love that runs deep
# One as deep as the sea | 2:51:06 | 2:51:12 | |
# I just keep holding on to your
shadow | 2:51:12 | 2:51:15 | |
# Trying to run but I always return
to your ghost | 2:51:15 | 2:51:23 | |
# And the truth is I get a little
scared now that we're older | 2:51:23 | 2:51:28 | |
# And the truth is I get a little
scared of life without you | 2:51:28 | 2:51:37 | |
# You're the one to lift me up if
I'm weaker | 2:51:37 | 2:51:43 | |
# And the truth is I feel like I'm
alive when I'm with you #. | 2:51:43 | 2:51:49 | |
And Alexandra Burke joins us now. | 2:51:49 | 2:51:55 | |
We were midway through chatting
there. Sorry. You were talking about | 2:51:55 | 2:52:01 | |
this album being a long time in the
making. Yes... That's a picture of | 2:52:01 | 2:52:05 | |
me when I was 12! I didn't know you
had that. Adorable. It's been a lot | 2:52:05 | 2:52:12 | |
of stop and starting because I was
away doing musical theatre on the | 2:52:12 | 2:52:15 | |
road for a long time. Then it just
took its toll on me trying to do it. | 2:52:15 | 2:52:23 | |
Because of my mum and life in
general. And every Sunday whilst in | 2:52:23 | 2:52:29 | |
Strictly I was in the studio. Then I
got really sick. So I couldn't sing. | 2:52:29 | 2:52:35 | |
I finished this album while I was on
tour with Strictly about one month | 2:52:35 | 2:52:39 | |
ago. It's been a quick turnaround.
With all of that in mind, | 2:52:39 | 2:52:44 | |
considering everybody watched you,
and they know what happened to your | 2:52:44 | 2:52:47 | |
mum last year, you went straight on
the Strictly tour, have you had time | 2:52:47 | 2:52:54 | |
to grieve? To be honest, no. It's
been my decision but mine to work. | 2:52:54 | 2:53:00 | |
I've kind of thrown myself into
nonstop, headfirst working. Some may | 2:53:00 | 2:53:05 | |
say that isn't healthy but it is
just my coping mechanism. It is | 2:53:05 | 2:53:08 | |
still pretty fresh for me. I don't
speak too openly about my mum | 2:53:08 | 2:53:14 | |
because so much went on at that
time. It's still for me and my | 2:53:14 | 2:53:20 | |
family. It's been difficult. But I
have great people around me that | 2:53:20 | 2:53:22 | |
keep me grounded, try and keep me
strong. They are loving and amazing. | 2:53:22 | 2:53:28 | |
I would do anything for my family.
Their support means the world. And | 2:53:28 | 2:53:33 | |
my fiance. My whole team.
Management. And my friends. I could | 2:53:33 | 2:53:38 | |
not ask for a better support system.
In some ways does it inspire your | 2:53:38 | 2:53:43 | |
writing, is it an outlet? Yes. The
songwriters and producers that | 2:53:43 | 2:53:49 | |
worked on this album knew what was
going on. They helped me be a bit | 2:53:49 | 2:53:53 | |
stronger to come out and write
certain things to do with just | 2:53:53 | 2:53:56 | |
everyday life. I don't want people
to think this new album is | 2:53:56 | 2:54:00 | |
depressing. But there are some
heartbreaking songs. But there are | 2:54:00 | 2:54:03 | |
also happy songs. It's a mixture. It
is just me being honest and | 2:54:03 | 2:54:09 | |
vulnerable and finally learning that
being vulnerable isn't a weakness. | 2:54:09 | 2:54:13 | |
It's a strength. If I could
encourage anybody to be open when | 2:54:13 | 2:54:18 | |
they are going to a hard time, it's
OK to say you are not all right at | 2:54:18 | 2:54:23 | |
times, and be honest about it. We
couldn't believe that it is ten | 2:54:23 | 2:54:27 | |
years since you have been on X
Factor. It seems ridiculous. On that | 2:54:27 | 2:54:31 | |
final you sang with | 2:54:31 | 2:54:38 | |
final you sang with Beyonce, you
sang Listen how long did you have to | 2:54:38 | 2:54:43 | |
practice? 15 minutes. If you look
back, you can see where we are | 2:54:43 | 2:54:48 | |
telling each other when to sing, and
which lines. There was only one | 2:54:48 | 2:54:52 | |
liner wants to sing with her. We
agreed it. The rest we just did it. | 2:54:52 | 2:54:58 | |
It was an amazing experience. When
she arrived with her mum, we spent | 2:54:58 | 2:55:02 | |
the hour that we could have
rehearsed, I spent 45 minutes of it | 2:55:02 | 2:55:05 | |
crying. Telling her how thankful I
am patchy game all that way to | 2:55:05 | 2:55:10 | |
England to sing with me. She started
crying. Her mum started crying. -- | 2:55:10 | 2:55:16 | |
how thankful I am that she came all
that weight England to sing me. So, | 2:55:16 | 2:55:23 | |
yeah, 15 minutes rehearsal because
of me. You can see why you might. It | 2:55:23 | 2:55:29 | |
must have been so exciting. I'm
interested about what you said about | 2:55:29 | 2:55:33 | |
confident women and the criticism of
confident women. It is just a thing, | 2:55:33 | 2:55:37 | |
I think, in the UK. It's a shame
that when some women can be | 2:55:37 | 2:55:44 | |
confident about what they want to do
in life. Men and women should always | 2:55:44 | 2:55:47 | |
be confident. But it is a shame when
it gets mistaken for anything that | 2:55:47 | 2:55:52 | |
it isn't, like arrogance, being big
headed... Do you think other women | 2:55:52 | 2:55:57 | |
mistake it for something else? I'm
actually not sure. As soon as I | 2:55:57 | 2:56:02 | |
spoke out about it a lot of women
and some men have come to me and | 2:56:02 | 2:56:05 | |
said, on Twitter and stuff like that
have been vocal and said well done | 2:56:05 | 2:56:09 | |
on speaking out and well done on
raising an issue so many people are | 2:56:09 | 2:56:12 | |
afraid to talk about. I feel like
I'm at that point in my life where I | 2:56:12 | 2:56:17 | |
feel like, let's just talk about
things that matter, things that | 2:56:17 | 2:56:21 | |
matter to people. Men or women. I
don't want to be one-sided. Because | 2:56:21 | 2:56:25 | |
I have so many amazing men in my
life who are strong and powerful and | 2:56:25 | 2:56:29 | |
confident, and women too. Some women
find it hard to be confident and be | 2:56:29 | 2:56:34 | |
all there, say what they want to say
without feeling, like, I can't be | 2:56:34 | 2:56:39 | |
like this, I cannot over react, but
you should be joyous about things. | 2:56:39 | 2:56:44 | |
Just be confident. Go out, do what
you need to do in life, I say. | 2:56:44 | 2:56:48 | |
Absolutely. You are going to be in
Chess, as well. I'm going straight | 2:56:48 | 2:56:54 | |
to London and started my first day
of rehearsals today. That's with | 2:56:54 | 2:56:58 | |
Michael Ball? Yes, really looking
forward to it. I cannot wait. I'm | 2:56:58 | 2:57:03 | |
nervous to meet everybody. I know
Michael but I haven't met everybody | 2:57:03 | 2:57:06 | |
else. I'm scared. It's like the
first day at school. Meeting | 2:57:06 | 2:57:12 | |
everyone. You walk into a room and
you have to say who you are. I'm, | 2:57:12 | 2:57:16 | |
like, I'm Alex, I am playing this
role. I'm a bit scared but I am | 2:57:16 | 2:57:20 | |
looking forward to it. When people
come up to you, do they talk to you | 2:57:20 | 2:57:24 | |
about X Factor, Strictly, life in
general? I didn't realise that your | 2:57:24 | 2:57:30 | |
jive, weak four, was the most
watched television moment of the | 2:57:30 | 2:57:35 | |
entirety of last year. While we were
on tour we got the most tens in the | 2:57:35 | 2:57:41 | |
programme. I didn't know that. For
what we achieved, we are all proud | 2:57:41 | 2:57:45 | |
of each other, but we all achieved
something very special on that show. | 2:57:45 | 2:57:50 | |
I don't how I got through it week by
week, learning what of those | 2:57:50 | 2:57:54 | |
stances, because it isn't easy. It's
really hard. You just looks like you | 2:57:54 | 2:58:00 | |
are having fun. I absolutely loved
it. The tour was amazing. I miss | 2:58:00 | 2:58:06 | |
being so carefree and not thinking
of anything else in life. Because | 2:58:06 | 2:58:10 | |
when you are on that state and
dancing for 90 seconds you cannot | 2:58:10 | 2:58:13 | |
think about anything else but that.
-- on that stage. I miss those | 2:58:13 | 2:58:18 | |
moments. I loved it. Just watching
you smiling there. Absolutely. That | 2:58:18 | 2:58:25 | |
tour was amazing. I cannot wait to
get back on the road and do my own | 2:58:25 | 2:58:29 | |
tour and just be happy and singing.
That's the main thing in life, I | 2:58:29 | 2:58:32 | |
guess. | 2:58:32 | 2:58:34 | |
Alexandra's album is called
'The Truth Is' and she'll be | 2:58:34 | 2:58:36 | |
on tour from September. | 2:58:36 | 2:58:39 | |
We saw you sing live the other day.
Thank you very much. Thank you. We | 2:58:39 | 2:58:46 | |
promised we would take you back to
Norfolk. | 2:58:46 | 2:58:48 | |
Residents of 13 seaside chalets
teetering on the edge | 2:58:48 | 2:58:50 | |
of cliffs in Norfolk have been
evacuated from their homes - | 2:58:50 | 2:58:53 | |
after parts of the fragile coastline
gave way during high winds and waves | 2:58:53 | 2:58:56 | |
over the weekend. | 2:58:56 | 2:58:57 | |
Our reporter, Robby West,
is there for us now. | 2:58:57 | 2:58:59 | |
Robby have there been any
developments overnight? | 2:58:59 | 2:59:03 | |
These homes really are in danger,
aren't they? Morning. Yes, the | 2:59:03 | 2:59:09 | |
weather has taken a turn for the
worse. It looks nice and bright and | 2:59:09 | 2:59:12 | |
sunny but the waves are crashing
against the shoreline, giving more | 2:59:12 | 2:59:17 | |
problems for the homes up on the
hill. They are being eaten away. We | 2:59:17 | 2:59:21 | |
are joined by somebody from the
county council. What are you doing | 2:59:21 | 2:59:27 | |
here today? Ensuring people are
keeping away from the beach. It's | 2:59:27 | 2:59:32 | |
very dangerous. We have 13
properties likely to go over the | 2:59:32 | 2:59:35 | |
sand dunes over the next couple of
days. We are telling people that it | 2:59:35 | 2:59:41 | |
is not safe. Keep away. Meanwhile,
we are looking after the residents | 2:59:41 | 2:59:46 | |
who have been evacuated, they are
safe and well and that's been our | 2:59:46 | 2:59:50 | |
job over the weekend. I joined the
resident at the weekend, they were | 2:59:50 | 2:59:54 | |
in tears as they were leaving their
homes. They didn't know if they | 2:59:54 | 2:59:57 | |
would see their homes again. What
has the council been doing to help | 2:59:57 | 3:00:00 | |
them? It's been a tremendous effort
between the Great Yarmouth Council, | 3:00:00 | 3:00:06 | |
Norfolk County Council, the local
parish Council. The local community. | 3:00:06 | 3:00:14 | |
We have been supporting the
residents to make sure they are safe | 3:00:14 | 3:00:17 | |
and well and looked after in the
meantime. Now they will have to | 3:00:17 | 3:00:21 | |
consider their future. Especially
given that there is no way these 13 | 3:00:21 | 3:00:25 | |
properties will be inhabited again. | 3:00:25 | 3:00:29 | |
Is The parish council talked of
getting the Government in to help, | 3:00:29 | 3:00:33 | |
what does the council think of that?
That is an ongoing debate, that | 3:00:33 | 3:00:39 | |
events like this highlight how
vulnerable coastal communities can | 3:00:39 | 3:00:43 | |
be. My concern is to make sure
people are safe, that is an ongoing | 3:00:43 | 3:00:49 | |
debate. There are 13 homes in
danger, what about the homes behind | 3:00:49 | 3:00:53 | |
that? Now, it highlights the
vulnerability of these other | 3:00:53 | 3:00:59 | |
properties for the time being
they're safe. But we're going to be | 3:00:59 | 3:01:04 | |
working together with the local
community to ensure that we have a | 3:01:04 | 3:01:09 | |
response plan in place, so that if
this happens again we can ensure | 3:01:09 | 3:01:13 | |
that these people are safe. The
protection is another debate and | 3:01:13 | 3:01:19 | |
discussion to be had. Thank you for
joining us. Today people will be | 3:01:19 | 3:01:24 | |
coming back to their homes to see
what state they're. They hope they | 3:01:24 | 3:01:30 | |
are saveable, but it looks doubtful.
What a beautiful shot that is I know | 3:01:30 | 3:01:36 | |
those homes are in peril. You can
see the power of the waves. You saw | 3:01:36 | 3:01:42 | |
his hat blowing about. | 3:01:42 | 3:01:45 | |
There are concerns the decline
of local papers could be | 3:01:45 | 3:01:48 | |
fuelling the rise of fake news. | 3:01:48 | 3:01:49 | |
Steph is looking at why. | 3:01:49 | 3:01:56 | |
Yes f if you look at the industry,
there has been a decline in local | 3:01:56 | 3:02:02 | |
newspapers and the Government is
looking at whether that is causing | 3:02:02 | 3:02:05 | |
there to be more fake news, because
there are fewer local journalists | 3:02:05 | 3:02:10 | |
working on the story. So they have
launched a review in how they can | 3:02:10 | 3:02:15 | |
fill that gap and how bad it is.
Since 2005, 200 local newspapers | 3:02:15 | 3:02:22 | |
have closed. A lot are still working
online. I went to the Coventry | 3:02:22 | 3:02:31 | |
Evening Telegraph to see how they're
coping. | 3:02:31 | 3:02:36 | |
By 3:30, nearly 100,000 copies
of the paper have been printed. | 3:02:36 | 3:02:38 | |
For over 100 years,
the Coventry Evening Telegraph has | 3:02:38 | 3:02:40 | |
been a trusted source of news
in this city. | 3:02:40 | 3:02:43 | |
And only once in that time
have its presses stopped rolling - | 3:02:43 | 3:02:45 | |
when it was hit by the Blitz
in 1940. | 3:02:45 | 3:02:49 | |
At its peak, it had 600 staff
and sold 130,000 copies every day. | 3:02:49 | 3:02:54 | |
But things are different now. | 3:02:54 | 3:02:58 | |
In the last 12 years,
about 200 local papers have closed | 3:02:58 | 3:03:01 | |
and the reason is simple -
they are not making as much | 3:03:01 | 3:03:04 | |
money from advertising. | 3:03:04 | 3:03:06 | |
So back in 2007, about
£3 billion was coming | 3:03:06 | 3:03:08 | |
into local papers from ads. | 3:03:08 | 3:03:11 | |
By last year, it was
under £700 million. | 3:03:11 | 3:03:14 | |
The thing is, advertisers
are still spending, it's | 3:03:14 | 3:03:16 | |
just going elsewhere. | 3:03:16 | 3:03:22 | |
A lot of that money is going online,
but it isn't going online | 3:03:22 | 3:03:25 | |
to online newspapers. | 3:03:25 | 3:03:26 | |
It is generally going to big
classified specialist sites | 3:03:26 | 3:03:29 | |
like Rightmove or Auto Trader,
it's also going to Google | 3:03:29 | 3:03:31 | |
search and in the last
couple of years, it's been | 3:03:31 | 3:03:34 | |
going to Facebook, big-time. | 3:03:34 | 3:03:37 | |
So this is one of the old presses. | 3:03:37 | 3:03:38 | |
It was state-of-the-art
when it was installed. | 3:03:38 | 3:03:42 | |
The editor of the Coventry Telegraph
says although newspaper sales | 3:03:42 | 3:03:44 | |
were down by a fifth last year,
more people than ever are reading | 3:03:44 | 3:03:47 | |
the work of its reporters. | 3:03:47 | 3:03:48 | |
We can see how the presses
were used in the past. | 3:03:48 | 3:03:51 | |
Obviously, all of this
kit is redundant now, | 3:03:51 | 3:03:53 | |
but the paper certainly
isn't, is it? | 3:03:53 | 3:03:55 | |
There's so much innovation going on. | 3:03:55 | 3:03:57 | |
No, no. | 3:03:57 | 3:03:59 | |
So we still publish three editions
a day, six days a week, but also, | 3:03:59 | 3:04:03 | |
our website is absolutely thriving. | 3:04:03 | 3:04:05 | |
We reach a bigger audience now
across print and digital | 3:04:05 | 3:04:08 | |
than we have done in decades,
so nostalgia is great | 3:04:08 | 3:04:10 | |
but the world's changed,
we've changed with it, | 3:04:10 | 3:04:12 | |
and my reporters are as adept
as doing a Facebook Live | 3:04:12 | 3:04:15 | |
as they are at writing 400
words of copy. | 3:04:15 | 3:04:19 | |
This paper has moved on,
but does it matter if others close? | 3:04:19 | 3:04:21 | |
Well, the government is worried
the decline of local newspapers | 3:04:21 | 3:04:23 | |
could be fuelling the rise of fake
news and has launched | 3:04:23 | 3:04:26 | |
a review of the industry. | 3:04:26 | 3:04:29 | |
A recent study by Kings College
London found people in areas with no | 3:04:29 | 3:04:35 | |
local daily paper were less engaged
in local elections and had less | 3:04:35 | 3:04:38 | |
trust in local institutions. | 3:04:38 | 3:04:41 | |
So, how do the people of Coventry
get their local news? | 3:04:41 | 3:04:44 | |
Do you ever buy a local newspaper? | 3:04:44 | 3:04:47 | |
No, no, because it's really easier
to access everything | 3:04:47 | 3:04:50 | |
that is going on and,
you know, cross-checking everything | 3:04:50 | 3:04:52 | |
at the same time via my phone. | 3:04:52 | 3:04:56 | |
I have the local Telegraph
delivered every day. | 3:04:56 | 3:04:59 | |
If we need to find anything,
it's Google, Coventry Telegraph | 3:04:59 | 3:05:02 | |
comes straight on the app. | 3:05:02 | 3:05:04 | |
And it's news rather than having
to look at all of the adverts. | 3:05:04 | 3:05:08 | |
People still want local news,
but with the papers facing a fierce | 3:05:08 | 3:05:12 | |
battle for our attention online,
can they find the audience | 3:05:12 | 3:05:14 | |
and the advertisers
they need to make it pay? | 3:05:14 | 3:05:17 | |
Well, if they can't,
there's a chance we'll | 3:05:17 | 3:05:19 | |
all be poorer for it. | 3:05:19 | 3:05:27 | |
I love the footage. I think the
important point is you know the | 3:05:29 | 3:05:33 | |
local newspapers are not making as
much from advertising any more, | 3:05:33 | 3:05:36 | |
because you don't make as much, even
if they're doing well online. If you | 3:05:36 | 3:05:41 | |
look at the figure for how much
they're going online, the Manchester | 3:05:41 | 3:05:45 | |
evening news sells about 40,000
physical copies, but they have over | 3:05:45 | 3:05:51 | |
a million people who visit the
web-site. That is where they have | 3:05:51 | 3:05:53 | |
got to look at where they can get
growth and make more from online. | 3:05:53 | 3:05:58 | |
This is part of a Government review.
But some obviously good local news | 3:05:58 | 3:06:02 | |
we have here, it is your birthday
and I didn't know. He kept it quiet. | 3:06:02 | 3:06:07 | |
Keep under the radar. Only 27 once!
I did get a date out of him. It took | 3:06:07 | 3:06:16 | |
a while. Can you rereel it. --
Reveal it. 41. A spring chicken. | 3:06:16 | 3:06:27 | |
There is no shame in age. You have
time to sort some cake out. | 3:06:27 | 3:06:35 | |
We'll be back in a moment
but first let's take a last, | 3:06:35 | 3:06:38 | |
brief look at the headlines
where you are this morning. | 3:06:38 | 3:08:15 | |
will get sunnier and stay dry. I'm
back at 1.30. | 3:08:15 | 3:08:22 | |
Let us take you back to 2013
and to a story that dominated | 3:08:24 | 3:08:27 | |
the headlines that October. | 3:08:27 | 3:08:30 | |
It was the story of two teenage
sisters, Ayan and Leila Juma, | 3:08:30 | 3:08:33 | |
who left their home in Norway
to join Islamic State. | 3:08:33 | 3:08:36 | |
It was a decision that
ripped their family apart | 3:08:36 | 3:08:38 | |
and led their father,
Sadiq, to risk his own life | 3:08:38 | 3:08:40 | |
travelling across Syria
to bring his daughters home. | 3:08:40 | 3:08:43 | |
His efforts were in vain
and now award-wining | 3:08:43 | 3:08:49 | |
journalist turned
author, Asne Seierstad | 3:08:49 | 3:08:50 | |
has turned the girls' radicalisation
and the destruction it brought | 3:08:50 | 3:08:52 | |
on their family into
a best-selling book. | 3:08:52 | 3:08:54 | |
Asne, welcome. | 3:08:54 | 3:09:00 | |
We have told a bit about the story.
Start, where did you start with this | 3:09:00 | 3:09:05 | |
story? I was contacted by the
father, who was in shock when the | 3:09:05 | 3:09:14 | |
girls s suddenly left the house,
pretending to g to school, but going | 3:09:14 | 3:09:21 | |
to Turkey. He discovered that had he
only knew what those signs were, | 3:09:21 | 3:09:27 | |
that they were, they were starting
to dress differently to pray five | 3:09:27 | 3:09:32 | |
times a day and changing opinions.
Had he known he could have averted | 3:09:32 | 3:09:38 | |
it he thinks. He wanted me to write
the book to warn other parents and | 3:09:38 | 3:09:43 | |
also to tell the family story. It
started, his wife, they brought in a | 3:09:43 | 3:09:51 | |
teacher of the Koran and started
going to other meetings and started | 3:09:51 | 3:09:57 | |
being radicalised online. Yes, it
was a step by step process. As kids, | 3:09:57 | 3:10:04 | |
because these girls, they grew up in
Norway with a Somali family. They | 3:10:04 | 3:10:10 | |
were just like their class mates,
doing sports, swimming, when they | 3:10:10 | 3:10:16 | |
became teenagers, the mother who was
not integrated, she was afraid she | 3:10:16 | 3:10:19 | |
was losing the girls to Norway and
felt they were becoming too | 3:10:19 | 3:10:25 | |
Norwegian and hired a Koran teacher,
that is where the nightmare started, | 3:10:25 | 3:10:32 | |
according to the father. That he
started, the process of getting you | 3:10:32 | 3:10:38 | |
know dive into Islam and getting
away from the European society. You | 3:10:38 | 3:10:45 | |
describe vividly the moment when
they come back and they have gone to | 3:10:45 | 3:10:53 | |
buy themselves a niqab and the shock
of the family. Yes they were young, | 3:10:53 | 3:10:59 | |
they were 14 and 17 and it... It's
not an extremist family, this is | 3:10:59 | 3:11:08 | |
very typical. Very few of the young
people who got radicalised, they | 3:11:08 | 3:11:16 | |
don't come from particularly
religious families. It is kind of a | 3:11:16 | 3:11:22 | |
protest against the father, the
mother, the society the school. They | 3:11:22 | 3:11:25 | |
want to be, it is a seven for
identity and meaning and usually | 3:11:25 | 3:11:31 | |
starts with something that is not
dangerous, teenagers look for | 3:11:31 | 3:11:36 | |
something more. But these girls,
they went so deep into it that in | 3:11:36 | 3:11:41 | |
the end they felt that they were
suppressed in Norway and couldn't | 3:11:41 | 3:11:45 | |
live a true life and they were, one
got married online to an Isis | 3:11:45 | 3:11:53 | |
fighter and they left and felt real
life was happening in Syria. | 3:11:53 | 3:11:57 | |
Although the book is out there, in
some ways the story has not | 3:11:57 | 3:12:01 | |
finished. Are you continuing to
follow it and having contact with | 3:12:01 | 3:12:04 | |
the father? He is still wondering
what is happening with his | 3:12:04 | 3:12:07 | |
daughters. Yes I'm still following
the story. It has been four and half | 3:12:07 | 3:12:14 | |
years, they have both married Isis
fighters and are mothers, if they're | 3:12:14 | 3:12:21 | |
still alive. The last time we heard
from them was four months ago, they | 3:12:21 | 3:12:26 | |
were in the last bit of land
controlled by Isis. The father has | 3:12:26 | 3:12:30 | |
been going to Syria. He was arrested
by Isis. He was tortured and met the | 3:12:30 | 3:12:36 | |
girls and they said, I'm sorry, but
we are married, we want to stay | 3:12:36 | 3:12:41 | |
here. But dad's already... Four
years ago. Who knows how their lives | 3:12:41 | 3:12:46 | |
are. You said at the start that the
father wanted you to write it, this | 3:12:46 | 3:12:51 | |
is a warning for other families and
it gives you a sense of the sort of | 3:12:51 | 3:12:55 | |
ripples from the start of this, how
many people are affected? Yes, I | 3:12:55 | 3:12:59 | |
think it is also important to work
with schools w the mosques, the | 3:12:59 | 3:13:05 | |
police that this information is
shared and there are signs. You | 3:13:05 | 3:13:10 | |
don't get radicalised just like
that. So if we all knew better what | 3:13:10 | 3:13:15 | |
to look for, it would be easier to
talk with these girls and young boys | 3:13:15 | 3:13:19 | |
to say, what are you thinking, why
do you think, to start your | 3:13:19 | 3:13:23 | |
question, the problem is they live
in circles where they only meet | 3:13:23 | 3:13:28 | |
those who agree and suddenly this
sounds like their new logic is to | 3:13:28 | 3:13:33 | |
leave and protest to Sir wra. It is
a brilliant book. | 3:13:33 | 3:13:43 | |
Asne's book is called 'Two Sisters'. | 3:13:43 | 3:13:44 | |
That's it from us today. | 3:13:44 | 3:13:45 |