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:00:00. > 3:59:59a woman has been arrested after three of her children are found dead

:00:00. > :12:46.at their King Henry IV is being staged by the

:12:47. > :12:51.RSC for the 450th birth anniversary of Shakespeare. So what makes this

:12:52. > :13:01.playwright such a huge success amongst actors?

:13:02. > :13:11.It is a mixture of language, beautiful beautiful images but also

:13:12. > :13:18.unforgettable images. It is the combination of that and his giant

:13:19. > :13:23.portrait of mankind. He shows absolutely everything there is about

:13:24. > :13:28.us, the good, the bad, the strong, the week and he does it in the most

:13:29. > :13:35.compassionate and loving way. But you don't have to be an actor to be

:13:36. > :13:41.touched by the Bard. Most of us don't realise we use Shakespearean

:13:42. > :13:47.language in everyday speech. You are a sorry sight! That is rude

:13:48. > :13:52.but he is quoting Shakespeare. You are taking for ever and a day.

:13:53. > :13:55.So is she. All is well that ends well.

:13:56. > :13:58.Yes, that is Shakespeare. Beyond the market, the world truely is

:13:59. > :14:01.Shakespeare's stage. In 2012 The Globe Theatre in London put with 38

:14:02. > :14:05.productions in 38 languages, There's no denying it, Shakespeare is not

:14:06. > :14:14.just for the theatre and thespians, Shakespeare is ours.

:14:15. > :14:20.Shakespeare isn't just for the theatre and thespians. Shakespeare

:14:21. > :14:32.is ours and there is no denying it. There was a major Shakespeare

:14:33. > :14:44.conference taking place in France. I am joined by Paul in Paris. How come

:14:45. > :14:48.you are in France? Well, the Shakespeare Centre is used to

:14:49. > :14:53.welcoming people from all over the world during the year but our good

:14:54. > :14:57.friends at the Society of Shakespeare and France have gathered

:14:58. > :15:01.hundreds to celebrate the anniversary year with a major

:15:02. > :15:04.international conference. It is absolutely fascinating. We have had

:15:05. > :15:08.talks on Shakespeare in the First World War, the French were our

:15:09. > :15:16.allies of course and this morning a group of us scholars met to discuss

:15:17. > :15:21.Shakespeare's friends and colleagues so Stratford upon over and kept

:15:22. > :15:25.popping up in France. And you will take Shakespeare on the

:15:26. > :15:29.road in the summer in July to North America.

:15:30. > :15:35.Yes, we have partnered with the University of Warwick and we will

:15:36. > :15:40.travel 10,000 miles across 25 states visiting 14 Shakespeare festivals

:15:41. > :15:45.around the States and North America. These are groups of people who are

:15:46. > :15:52.making Shakespeare live year in, year out for their communities and

:15:53. > :15:55.we want to start conversations and map the sense of Shakespeare across

:15:56. > :16:02.America and they are invited to deposit records in the archives for

:16:03. > :16:05.posterity so when people look back and say what worthy anniversary

:16:06. > :16:10.years like previously, we will have a sense of what Shakespeare in

:16:11. > :16:15.America was like at that time. It is a huge project. Walking around

:16:16. > :16:22.Stratford, I have had French, German, Swedish, Japanese, what is

:16:23. > :16:29.the international appeal? Well, it is his great power of

:16:30. > :16:34.storytelling, the way different people translate him into their own

:16:35. > :16:40.language and it is the way people feel close to Shakespeare, connected

:16:41. > :16:43.with the way he views the world and phrases things so we decided to take

:16:44. > :16:48.Shakespeare on the road around the United States as a 450th birthday

:16:49. > :17:04.celebration. Enjoy the celebrations. Thank you for joining us. That is it

:17:05. > :17:07.from Stratford for now. A teenager with terminal cancer has achieved

:17:08. > :17:09.his final wish of raising one million pounds for the Teenage

:17:10. > :17:11.Cancer Trust. Nineteen`year`old Stephen Sutton from Burntwood in

:17:12. > :17:15.Staffordshire tweeted what appeared to be a goodbye message and photo

:17:16. > :17:17.from hospital yesterday ` after his tweet donations dramatically

:17:18. > :17:26.increased Smashing Stephen's million pound fundraising target. Jon Brain

:17:27. > :17:30.reports. He has a smile on his face but Stephen Sutton says this picture

:17:31. > :17:34.is this final farewell to the world. A world he's leaving ?1 million

:17:35. > :17:39.better off. On his Facebook page he says it is a final thumbs up from

:17:40. > :17:43.me. I have done well to blag things as well as I have, but unfortunately

:17:44. > :17:50.I think this is to one hurdle too far. Diagnosed with terminal

:17:51. > :17:54.cancer, the teenager decided to turn his plight into something positive

:17:55. > :18:00.and raise money for charity by completing a wish list. The crowd

:18:01. > :18:08.surfed in a dinghy, went skydiving, played the drums in front of 90,000

:18:09. > :18:11.people in Wembley, met and an offence and got a tad too.

:18:12. > :18:16.I don't do it for recognition, I like nice comments but I do this

:18:17. > :18:23.because the best way to help myself is to help others. I'm proud the

:18:24. > :18:29.feeling. The story has attracted the attention of celebrities like

:18:30. > :18:34.Russell Brand, Roger Daughtry and Frank Lampard. It raises the profile

:18:35. > :18:38.of the campaign further. Breaking the million pound barrier has helped

:18:39. > :18:49.faces situation, he says that is it for me, life has been good. Very

:18:50. > :18:55.good. Earlier I spoke to the director of fundraising at the

:18:56. > :19:01.Teenage Cancer Trust. We are overwhelmed the target has been hit

:19:02. > :19:06.and in the time. It speaks so highly of Stephen's ability to inspire

:19:07. > :19:09.people but also a huge chance for us to say thank you to everyone who has

:19:10. > :19:13.got involved because it wouldn't have happened without thousands and

:19:14. > :19:21.thousands of people text in or going online to give. Stephen made a huge

:19:22. > :19:25.impression on people in the office. You have met him, how do you

:19:26. > :19:30.describe him? Remarkably calm, down to earth,

:19:31. > :19:39.determined. I would never want to say no to Stephen. When I first

:19:40. > :19:47.spoke to him after he secured a remarkable donation from corporate

:19:48. > :19:52.supporters at their dinner, it was a donation of ?400,000 and I phoned

:19:53. > :19:58.him to thank him and I was overwhelmed. Stephen was just calm

:19:59. > :20:03.and said, yes, it is a good start. He is a really really remarkable

:20:04. > :20:07.young man. A leaked report suggesting six

:20:08. > :20:09.Birmingham schools are to be put in special measures because of concerns

:20:10. > :20:12.over alleged Muslim extremism has been condemned by the council

:20:13. > :20:15.leader. The Daily Telegraph and its sister title The Sunday Telegraph

:20:16. > :20:19.claimed Ofsted is taking the action. It has inspected a number of schools

:20:20. > :20:22.accused of being part of a so called Trojan Horse plot to influence

:20:23. > :20:28.teaching methods. But the findings aren't due to be published until

:20:29. > :20:32.next month. Of course Shakespeare's birthday is also St George's Day and

:20:33. > :20:35.there was a special Citizenship Ceremony in Dudley today. One of the

:20:36. > :20:38.20 people becoming British today was Jeanette Tranter, who despite living

:20:39. > :20:41.in Kingswinford for more than 50 years, was actually born in

:20:42. > :20:44.Colorado, after her mother met an American GI. Joanne Writtle followed

:20:45. > :20:54.her journey to dual citizenship and her report contains some flash

:20:55. > :20:59.photography. This is my parents on their wedding day. Jeanette

:21:00. > :21:05.Tranter's mothered an American GI in 1945. Emigrating to his remit farm

:21:06. > :21:12.in Colorado was a culture shock. No electricity on the farm, if she

:21:13. > :21:19.wanted food, chickens, she would go out, kill a chicken, pluck it and

:21:20. > :21:24.cook it. She churned her own butter. She felt homesick at times

:21:25. > :21:28.and that is when my brother was born. And then my second brother was

:21:29. > :21:34.born and then a six`year gap until I was. Eventually, because of

:21:35. > :21:39.unforeseen circumstances, my father committed suicide and my mother

:21:40. > :21:46.could not run the farm by herself. And so very sadly she sold

:21:47. > :21:51.everything up and we came back to England. This is the American

:21:52. > :21:58.passport Ginette and her brothers travelled with. Six years ago, their

:21:59. > :22:02.mother died here, Jeanette has made Kingswinford for home. Today, 60

:22:03. > :22:06.years after arriving in Britain, Jeanette is about to become a

:22:07. > :22:11.British citizen at a ceremony at deadly register office. Until my

:22:12. > :22:17.mother died, it was difficult because she was so proud of us being

:22:18. > :22:24.American and so I felt as though I had the go`ahead after she died and

:22:25. > :22:29.also I have lived here most of my life. I am British really. Ginette

:22:30. > :22:36.was among 20 to achieve citizenship today. A day she has waited many

:22:37. > :22:44.years to celebrate. Absolutely brilliant. Really good. What would

:22:45. > :22:56.your mum think? Oh, she would be really proud. Yes. A good place to

:22:57. > :22:59.be. Let's head back to Stratford`upon`Avon for the weather.

:23:00. > :23:05.Shefali is in the gardens at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. I am

:23:06. > :23:08.taking shelter, not the best day to be outdoors but it is this sort of

:23:09. > :23:13.weather, moody and atmospheric that has been the inspiration for poets

:23:14. > :23:16.and writers the world over, not least Shakespeare whose works have

:23:17. > :23:20.been littered with references from Forgan filthy air to winds that

:23:21. > :23:24.crack your cheeks. The folk we may seem soon enough but the wind we

:23:25. > :23:28.must wait for one to the weekend when things become increasingly

:23:29. > :23:35.unsettled. Looking at the pressure chart, we can see a front straddling

:23:36. > :23:39.the country containing a narrow area of rain. It is moving quite rapidly

:23:40. > :23:43.so it should be out of the way fairly quickly but looking at the

:23:44. > :23:50.timing, we are just about into the thick of things right now. Because

:23:51. > :23:55.it is fairly quick moving eastwards it will be concentrated but out of

:23:56. > :23:58.the way quite quickly. By the latter part of tonight, looking much drier

:23:59. > :24:04.with clever spells, fairly widespread mist and fog developing

:24:05. > :24:11.in low`lying areas. There could be problems by the morning. Be aware of

:24:12. > :24:16.that. The temperatures are down to six or seven Celsius. Miss dinners

:24:17. > :24:20.and murkiness tomorrow, that will lift into brightness and sunny

:24:21. > :24:24.spells by the afternoon, largely dry conditions but we are looking at

:24:25. > :24:32.potent and sharp showers `` mistiness. 14 or 15 Celsius. The

:24:33. > :24:37.showers will gradually start to fade tomorrow night, looking a lot drier

:24:38. > :24:42.than tonight and clear spells with temperatures dipping to around six

:24:43. > :24:46.or seven Celsius. For the rest of the week, Friday, things go

:24:47. > :24:51.downhill, deteriorating through the weekend with prolonged rainfall,

:24:52. > :24:59.windy conditions and temperatures pegged back to 13 Celsius. That is

:25:00. > :25:03.it from here. Over to Nick. A few want to get involved in the

:25:04. > :25:06.celebrations for the 450th anniversary here in Stratford, the

:25:07. > :25:09.main focus will be this weekend. On Saturday, crowds will be lining the

:25:10. > :25:11.streets to see actors, foreign diplomats and civic dignitaries lead

:25:12. > :25:14.the 1,000`strong grand Birthday Procession from 1030. And on Sunday,

:25:15. > :25:30.it's the Shakespeare Marathon from the town centre from 9am, with 3,700

:25:31. > :25:55.runners on the start line. Good night, good night.

:25:56. > :25:57.'The last two generations have been robbed

:25:58. > :25:59.'of an opportunity to vote on the EU.

:26:00. > :26:02.'And yet it has a greater impact on our everyday lives

:26:03. > :26:08.'and not leave it for another generation.'

:26:09. > :26:12.I want a Britain that is free to control its own destiny.