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west yorkshire police are continuing to search for people involved in violent disorder in leeds on thursday. five people have already been arrested in connection with the disturbances in which a police car was overturned and a bus set alight. the trouble began after social services investigated a child protection issue at a house. our reporter phil mccann is in leeds. talk us through the response. talk us through the response. leeds talk us through the response. leeds city council has released a statement on behalf of the council and on behalf of the romanian and roma community, which signifies the kind of tension is that there have been here come up with local people especially in the romanian and roma community blaming the council for being biased against them. this all goes back to the incident that happened here on thursday night when some children were removed by social services with police assistance from

a localfamily. that lead over the coming hours to disturbances on the streets, it led to a police car being overturned and a double—decker bus was set alight. that happened just here. you can still see on the road behind me the charred remains. you can still smell it as well. the acrid smell that you get from when you have a bonfire, from what happened here, a couple of nights ago. the statement from the council and the romanian and roma community says that the council has agreed to undertake an urgent review of the case that led to those children being removed, and work with romanian and roma led communities. in that statement they also appeal for calm. yesterday we also heard from the home secretary, yvette cooper, she came to leeds, spoke to police, said that the full force of the law should be used against those who were responsible for the disturbances here. west yorkshire police have said that their investigation will be relentless. it is important to mention that we also saw people from the local community,

including local councillors, come here on thursday night, pleading with people to go home, shouting at people, saying, this is our community, this is your community, ask them what they were doing. then the next day, on friday, we saw people in the community coming together to dry to clear things up, physically taking part in the clean—up. then we also spoke to people yesterday from that roma community, which is quite sizeable and as part of leeds, they said that they thought that the council and they thought that the council and the authorities biased against them. one person said the authorities, they think, we are bad. that is with they think, we are bad. that is with the tensions have come from in the suburb of leeds which is full of lots of terraced streets, quite tightly packed year. lots of appeals for calm. this afternoon it is calm.

bbc understands that an above—inflation pay rise of 5.5% will be recommended for teachers and nhs staff. let's get some more detail on this from our political correspondent charlotte rose. charlotte has there been any reaction to these reports? we should say this relates to the school teachers review body, that represents about half a million teachers, and also the nhs workers pay review body, which represents about 1.3 million nhs workers. but not, importantly, doctors and dentists. that is a separate pay review body. these discussions are different to the ongoing pay dispute in england withjunior different to the ongoing pay dispute in england with junior doctors. different to the ongoing pay dispute in england withjunior doctors. the government is due to resume those negotiations next week. this is about the annual pay review settlements. but we have heard some reaction from unions this morning. the general secretary of the national education union said that a pay award is needed to stop that recruitment and retention crisis in schools. he suggested that if the

government works to beat the recommendation is of the pay review body in full then that could lead to strike action. what would the consequences of those kind of numbers be? the consequences could be a problem for the government, because at the moment they have budgeted for around a 2% increase, that is of course in line with the current levels of inflation. if they were going to have to meet 5.5%, they would have to find an extra £1 billion to pay teachers, and double that for nhs workers, and of course that could then have a knock—on effect for other public sector pay workers whose review bodies we have not heard from yet. and because we know that rachel reeves, the chancellor, has set yourself some very tight financial rules to stick to, she said she is not going to increase borrowing, she does not want to increase taxes, there are questions about where the money is going to come from stop at the ticket is going to be a challenge for the new governments. parklife, country house, girls and boys — just some of the singles which made blur one of the biggest british bands of the last 30 years.

now a documentary to the end has just been released in cinemas. our entertainment correspondent, colin paterson, has been speaking to the band. forget parklife, this is stadium life. to the end is a behind the scenes look at blur getting ready for last summer's shows at wembley. good evening. we've been waiting for this moment all our lives. the band reuniting after an eight year hiatus. this is the view you got on stage at wembley. well, sure. it's wembley. sold out wembley, isn't it? was it memories? um, well, it's more like a dream now, to be honest with you. i've been going around the world

saying the thing about wembley is it's actually a quite a small footprintjust built around the football pitch and isn't much bigger. so you can actually see the smiles on people's faces. looking at that. i've been lying. you can't. i don't know how they manage it or why they care, but something's happened in their minds. and really, this is a brotherhood that has been sustained by our musical relationship. i hope i've made the rest of the band proud. blur gave us their only interview about the film ahead of a special screening. bang on, sir. thank you. and they all agreed damon should do his part separately to stop him hogging things. damon. wembley. why did it mean so much to you to play wembley stadium? well, we've never played it before. we didn't really intend to play it again. it wasn't like part of a tour where we were playing lots of stadiums. it was, uh, the best show we've ever done. inasmuch as 90,000 people can feel exclusive

it was an exclusive thing. only the people two nights who went there will have experienced that. we didn't replicate it anywhere else. i remember getting in the getting in the van and texting the tour manager, saying, we're on our way to wembley and it's, and i was like, oh yeah. and i started singing it and i was with the kids and they were like, shut up, dad, shut up dad! and then we came into view. we came into view. see those fabled arches. and, you know, it's monumental. it is actually a monument. it's so emblematic. and i went quiet at that point. and that's when the kids started singing. when you come off stage, you go, that was as good as it gets. you look ecstatic. yeah, there's a bit of kind of sort of sadness to that because there's literally that's as good as it gets. i don't think it will ever get as good as that again. you know, maybe or maybe not. i mean, who knows?

is that difficult to deal with? no. not really. ijust go on and do something else. i'm quite good at walking away from things, you know. while still holding them in my heart. the fact that we haven't always got on, it's one of the chemistry points that has led to us being able to make the moves that we do. why the decision to let a documentary crew follow you through the whole way? well, they always say don't worry, at the end of day one, you won't even notice we're here. and then day seven, they're shoving their cameras right in your face. say that again. so, yeah, you always regret it by about halfway through. yeah. it's sort of hard sometimes when you're just in the middle of a gruelling rehearsal and you're in a bad mood and your finger ends are killing you because you've been playing for six hours. and can we just have a do a, do a half an hour's interview, a little bit of a chat and then you're like, mhm.

but i think there's a lot of decent paddys i think, i think there's the all of the emotional food groups in there, and i think we all have a few our favourites. oh, thanks. you're my favourite. time is not infinite. it's a weird thing when you go back to something that was so well documented. people feel like that's what you are, but they're so long ago. a large part of the film is about ageing and mortality. so are you thinking about it a lot more now? only in the sense anyone who's my age would think about that, you know? i mean, it's like... yeah, because i mean, you know, you have parents if you're lucky enough at my age to still have your parents, but they're getting very old, you know, you've got kids, they're getting older. you know, it's kind of it's a mad it's a mad time, really. they call it sniper�*s alley, don't they? bob dylan announced this week he's going to be playing the uk right at the age of 83. yeah.

of course. is that something you aspire to do? well, i'd love to be. so i mean, we'll wait and see, won't we? he's banned mobile phones for the gig. you've got to put them in a holder. yeah, ijust, i mean, i'm not, i mean i oh, god. if you start banning things i mean, where does it end? you know, i think you've just got to just turn up and do your thing and, you know, people won't want to be on their phone if you're engaged in anything. in the film, parklife, you get phil daniels back. have you heard robbie williams

brought on danny dyer in hyde park? i fell in love with danny dyer. after his who do you think you are? which was the best one ever. i mean, really, it was a true revelation that he was a member of the royal family. for him and everybody watching it. it's a compliment, isn't it, i think. well, i mean, he's definitely from the east end. yeah. you know, he's a cockney, so. and i, we're all cockneys. i mean it's good. it's a song for us then it's good. it's a i hope everyone has their own version of it. success will mess you up far more than failure. this is going to work or not? well, the film is called to the end. where are we with blur? uh, well, we're definitely at the end of another chapter. give it eight years or so again. you might be back. i mean, eight years.

0k. no, i'm not going to say eight or one or 20. it's the end of the chapter. colin patterson, bbc news. now on bbc news...it�*s newswatch. on this programme, we hear from the woman leading bbc news. welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. coming up... i think it's trust that is the issue for us. ..deborah turness talks to us about trust, impartiality and transparency and about how bbc news maintains its influence in a time of falling television audiences and declining budgets. it's fair to say that big news

follows deborah turness around. after a career in the commercial sector, where she ran itn, she arrived at the bbc in september 2022. before the week was out, a new prime minister, liz truss, had taken office and the queen had died. significant events since then have come thick and fast, including two more new prime ministers, the war in gaza and, this week, the attempted assassination of former president trump. one of her biggest challenges has been to ensure the impartiality of bbc news output — identified by the director—general, tim davie, as the corporation's number one priority. she gave this definition of impartiality recently to a parliamentary select committee. it's about not taking any sides. it's about reporting withoutjudgment, journalism withoutjudgment. and that the bbc is seen to be the most scrupulously aware of anything that might be perceived as some kind of bias or preference

to either side of an argument. but not everyone agrees with that. we've heard criticisms during the recent election of bias in all directions. steven pullen wrote to us during the campaign, saying... ..whereas gerald freel thought... meanwhile, susie hq this week raised the subject of airtime for nigel farage... well, let's speak to deborah turness, the chief executive of bbc news. thanks for coming on newswatch. the director—general has identified impartiality as the bbc�*s number one priority, and you've heard accusations from viewers of bias during the general election campaign. what was your approach to impartiality during the campaign? well, thank you for inviting me on the programme, samira.

when i came to the bbc, understanding the director—general�*s