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good morning to you. at 6:00 on saturday, the 27th of april. today a royal return . the king today a royal return. the king set to resume royal duties on tuesday following cancer treatment. buckingham palace made the announcement yesterday . made the announcement yesterday. >> humza yousaf faces political . >> humza yousaf faces political. chaos. scotland's first minister has insisted he will not resign despite facing a vote of no confidence in his leadership. >> critics are wrong on rwanda, the home secretary hits out, saying opposition to the policy wilfully ignores the progress made by the african state and will be meeting legendary singer marty wilde to tell us about his new album and his career spanning over 65 years. >> good morning leicester city have sealed promotion back to the premier league at the first attempt without even kicking a ball last night, as leeds were
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thrashed four nil at queens park, rangers and liverpool reached an agreement with dutch side feyenoord to appoint arne slot as their replacement . for slot as their replacement. for jurgen klopp, although it's still going to be rather cool this weekend. >> a few showers to watch out for today and then something wetter arriving later. i'll have the details coming up. >> morning to you. i'm stephen dixon and i'm ellie costello, and this is breakfast on . gb news. i just wanted to start off with something really lovely this morning. go on then. it's a great picture. >> i have something lovely, too. oh, good. >> but you go first. all right. in the daily star. and look at this fella here. nine. where's nine.7 there you go. have a look at this fella here. and that is 99 year old, no, 98 year old alec penstone .
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alec penstone. getting a kiss from the d—day darlings yesterday , marking 80 years yesterday, marking 80 years since d—day and i just think that's just such a fantastic shot, isn't it.7 and this 98 year old getting treated like a he looks great for 98. he does. and there's a few of him in here. this this guy is, stamford. and he also looks great. he's also he's also 98, meeting a school girl yesterday. and i think that's nice as well. the intergenerational thing . intergenerational thing. >> oh, it's so important, isn't it? >> oh, it's so important, isn't it.7 yeah. because they are the last of that generation. >> so i just i just think it's really nice to mark that. it's really nice to mark that. it's really nice to see it. it's really nice to see it. it's really nice to celebrate it. >> yeah. and those children will never forget it either. no. oh lovely. >> well i just think getting a kiss from the d—day darling like that. that's lovely, isn't it.7 >> oh, and good on him. he would have loved that as well. well, this is what i've found for you in the daily mail. this morning. i think you'll like this. all right, 30 minutes of birdsong in the morning. can send your spirits soaring. oh, really? yeah apparently, it's really, really good for you. benefits? your mental health, bird
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watching was associated with 12.1% increase in well—being . 12.1% increase in well—being. it's even better than walking in nature, apparently. >> oh, just listening to the birds. >> just listening to birdsong apparently increases any particular bird because i do like a blackbird. now that's a very good question. blackbird. i'll have to get back to you on that one, because blackbird, sparrows and starlings . all right. >> yeah, i couldn't i couldn't tell you what they sounded like particularly. but blackbird is quite specific in how they sound. it's beautiful. we've got quite a few around the house. have you. yeah. well, i mean, not inside, obviously. >> i don't like the ones that wake me up in the morning in the bush outside. what would that be? >> it could very well be blackbirds. >> it's quite. it's more of a squawk. >> oh, don't know, maybe magpie. if it's a squawk, it might be magpie. >> oh, yeah. maybe it's magpie. see, i don't like them, but apparently it's, better than other forms of nature. i don't know why. no, i don't know, i love it, i love it, i know you
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do. i don't think i've ever really paid attention, paid much attention to birds, to just find them quite annoying. >> yes. because. yes. because she's not old enough. >> is something you enjoy more as you get older. >> it's one of those things that you because you start to appreciate as you get older. i didn't really notice it until we were in lockdown. then every day iused were in lockdown. then every day i used to just love sitting there listening to the birds. oh, that's nice. >> do you like watching the birds? would you go into a little hut with your binoculars, no, no, i wouldn't go that far. >> no, i don't think, i don't think, i don't think i'd go that far into a hide. but you never know. maybe one day. >> i like seeing a robin. >> i like seeing a robin. >> oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> they're quite nice. yeah when you see a robin on the fence or on a garden. yeah furniture not. ihave on a garden. yeah furniture not. i have a garden i talk about very often. i can imagine it's very often. i can imagine it's very lovely. and the other thing in the daily mail, which i think is probably the most obvious thing i've ever read, is, taking the stairs gives your heart a healthy workout. well, yes. so we should be taking the stairs rather than taking a lift. those are the two things you can do this weekend. or escalators.
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yeah, if there's an escalator. >> i mean, there's only one set of stairs here, and i still take the lift because i cannot be bothered. that's true. >> we always have. >> we always have. >> apart from when you're with me. and then we take the stairs. yeah, yeah we do. i just find it. yeah. i don't have the patience for a lift. yeah, i'd like to get moving. all right. >> i don't mind waiting for a lift. >> but if you can bird watch this weekend or take the stairs, those two things are very beneficial. we're going to be feeling great by monday. perhaps not us, because we're. we're here. >> well, there you go. right. anyway, i tell you what. who else is feeling great? that's the king. yes, because he's set to return to public duties on tuesday following the positive effect of his cancer treatment. >> yes. a palace spokesperson says king charles is greatly encouraged to be resuming some pubuc encouraged to be resuming some public facing duties and very grateful to his medical team, who's been getting care since early february. >> and this will provide a much needed boost to the monarchy. >> well, many people have sent their well wishes, including the prime minister, rishi sunak, who simply said on x brilliant news to end the week, the labour leader, sir keir starmer, sent his well wishes as well on x, saying delighted to see his majesty looking so well, i wish
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him and the princess of wales all the best as they continue with their recovery with the support of their families. well, joining us now is former butler to king charles grant. harold, good to see you. this morning. grant rishi sunak has got this right, hasn't he? this is just brilliant news. >> absolutely. good morning to you both. it is fantastic news. and i think this is what people have all, you know , the country have all, you know, the country everybody's going to be hoping for with anybody obviously going through this horrendous disease. these are the kind of can i say the glimmers of hope. you know when you hear something like this, the fact that he's returning back to some kind of normality is important. and i think also i can imagine also for the mind, you know, he's somebody that does not, as i've said in the past, he doesn't like sitting around doing nothing. so and he hasn't been i mean, behind closed doors, he's carried on. but this is more of a public side of it. now. we will actually get to see him out and about. i've noted it's going to be outdoors , i believe, for to be outdoors, i believe, for a lot of this, which again, is just sensible and apparently a state visit in june which is equally good news. and that will be interesting to see how he's
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progressing at that point as to how much of a state visit that is , tell us about him as a man. is, tell us about him as a man. as you said, he doesn't like to sit about and do nothing. but we do know that these public engagements can be quite tiring. and he is obviously the age that he is. and will he really be that desperate to get back to it ? >> 7. >>i ? >> i think 7_ >> i think yes, ? >> i think yes, stephen, the thing is, i was lucky enough an occasion some occasions to be with them. and yes, they're tiring , you know, there's a lot tiring, you know, there's a lot of handshaking and a lot of smiling. and can you imagine if you're not feeling 100, you know what it's like, let alone any? you know, if you're not feeling 100, you've suddenly got to kind of go into a room smiling and they do it all the time. and i think what's really important with this is that this is again, this is what he's like. this shows you his character. i've always said that he would not like the fact that, you know, it's one thing getting this disease. it's another obviously having to then stop and focus on the treatment and that is what he's doing. but at the same time, he is not somebody that likes to stop doing stuff. he is he's a goer. he's always busy. i
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remember when i worked for him, i may have said this in the past. he would be up before i even was there in the workplace, and when i went to bed, he was still working. you know, this is somebody that works as many hours as possible in a day . hours as possible in a day. >> and what do you think about a queen camilla as well? because we've seen so much of her, haven't we, in recent months? she really has had to just keep calm and carry on whilst the king has been unwell. it's been a challenging time for them as couple. >> it really has. i mean , it's >> it really has. i mean, it's almost unprecedented that, you know, so soon after a coronation, you know, within a few months later, obviously the cancer diagnosis or a double blow, obviously with the princess of wales and queen camilla has suddenly had to kind of step up to that role of the both of them at the moment. you know, with prince william, i should say recently, obviously him returning back to duties as well. but again, she would never have expected this. i mean, as the wife of the king, you know, she would be there to support
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him by his side, carrying out her own duties. but he has suddenly she's having to take the duties for both of them. and i'm sure as you both know, as well as being a the wife of the king, you know, queen consort, she's also a mother. she's got her own children, her own grandchildren, she's got her own life as well. and a young, you know, young grandkids. so she's trying to still focus on her own family as well as taking on this, added responsibility, which, again, knowing what she's like, she wouldn't even she wouldn't even have thought twice about this. it would just be an automatic thing. she's going to do whatever she can to support her husband , support her her husband, support her daughter in law, and just go on with it. and this is what's amazing because she obviously wasn't born into this. you expect this from family members that are born into it, like the late queen who just got on with it. she's actually had to kind of step up. and i think she has shown that she really is an amazing, wife of the king, you know, queen camilla. >> okay, grant, really good to see you this morning. thank you very much indeed. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i was so pleased by that news last night. >> lovely. >> lovely. >> when we heard we were going
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to hear something about the king, i was like, oh, no, you just fear the worst, don't you ? just fear the worst, don't you? i was positive, yeah, i feel like you are. i was worried , i like you are. i was worried, i was a bit anxious. >> i thought they wouldn't say anything, unless it was good news, i think. but it is. it's really good news. it's great to see him getting back into action and determined to do these royal visits and all the rest of it. i just think, and as grant says, it shows the character of the man. >> yeah. it does. i mean, he is buoyed by these visits, isn't he? and by these walkabouts that was clear at easter. yeah yeah, he's someone else. >> we keep saying we want to meet the royals . i would, i've meet the royals. i would, i've never met, charles the king, i'd love to. i'd love because he seems like he just seems like someone i'd get along with. >> get along with. yeah. >> get along with. yeah. >> is it funny? i don't know, maybe you both like the outdoors. maybe you wouldn't like me at all. you never know. >> oh, he would like, but he's. >> oh, he would like, but he's. >> i mean, i couldn't when i met camilla. i mean, she was so lovely. well, she really, really
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lovely. well, she really, really lovely. i mean, i was out, it was a charity diabetic thing, but she was really, really, you know . crossed the game and knew know. crossed the game and knew what it was all about and very involved . and, and they seem involved. and, and they seem really impressive. >> they seem also really in love as a couple. you get i think you see this picture all over the papers today. but they do just seem very, very happy together. they've been together 17, 18 years now, married 17, 18 years now. you think it's something that's happened very recently, but it hasn't really. they've been together a very long time and the only time that i've seen them will be in a very close proximity to them was when southend became a city. all right. and the two of them came to down do the royal decree or whatever it is to seal the deal. and they just were very giggly and very sweet together. >> well, they can't argue with that. >> yeah, it was lovely , lovely >> yeah, it was lovely, lovely to see them like that. so best of best of luck to him. best
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wishes from all of us @gbnews. and it's great news isn't it, that he's going to be returning to public life. >> he certainly is. >> he certainly is. >> now . humza yousaf has said he >> now. humza yousaf has said he will not resign as scotland's first minister, ahead of a crucial test of his leadership next week. >> yes, he says that a minority government, his party will need to make some concessions as it negotiates with other parties as it's after the collapse of the snp's power sharing deal with the greens yesterday. but humza yousaf says he'll fight on. >> i fully intend to not just win that vote, but i intend to fight to make sure that the government stays, not just the government stays, not just the government continues to deliver on the priorities of the people like, for example, investing in affordable housing. so there's all that political game playing happening from the opposition. it will not be taking part. it will be getting, of course, on with the job. and when the vote comes, i fully intend to win. >> let's talk to political commentator suzanne evans. i mean, look, what else could he say? suzanne? frankly, but how grim is it? look, looking for him next week? >> well, he couldn't really say anything else. i don't think so. let's see what happens. he might join that long list of politicians that say they won't resign and end up doing so. but it is very grim for him. let's be clear about that. so the lib
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dems, the labour party, the green party, the conservatives are all going to vote against him in a vote of no confidence next week, which puts him in a very strange position of being reliant . on the support of one reliant. on the support of one member of the scottish parliament, ash regan, who was a member of his party, the scottish nationalist party, but then left, over the row when she wasn't elected leader of the snp and because of her opposition to the gender recognition bill in scotland , so she defected to the scotland, so she defected to the alba party, which she's the only alba party, which she's the only alba alba party msp. it was a party that's led by the former snp leader alex salmond. so he is going to be entirely reliant on her support because there is only one vote in this and she has yet to say what she's going to do. so it is looking extremely precarious for him. >> it is the most extraordinary time in scottish politics at the moment, isn't it, suzanne? >> it is , in a sense, we've had >> it is, in a sense, we've had the whole implosion of the scottish nationalist party,
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arguably culminating in the arrest of nicola sturgeon's husband last week. we've had the possibility, i think, of a second referendum on scottish independence. pretty much dead independence. pretty much dead in the water now. the economic fortunes of scotland are still very much up in the air, so, sorry, my light has just gone off, so we'll have to see what happens , i mean, it's happens, i mean, it's interesting, isn't it, that even if he loses this vote, if he's not forced to go , it doesn't it not forced to go, it doesn't it doesn't force any change. but would there be would there be enough, pressure from within to, to force him out at that point? >> well, if he gets the backing of all his own party, then, as you say, yes, he doesn't have to go. and arguably he could lead a minority administration. but but, you know, if you're a party leader and you've had a vote of no confidence go against you, that does put you in a very difficult position. and it gives you, of course, it gives you an
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opportunity for , the rest of the opportunity for, the rest of the government to continue to have something to beat you with. there's no doubt about that. >> and one thing the greens and the snp had in common was independence and a want for scottish independence. what do you think this means for independence going forward ? independence going forward? >> well, unless westminster actually grants another referendum, which i don't see, it's going to do, certainly not under this government and i suspect not under any forthcoming labour government as well. then it basically leaves them, i suppose, in a sense, rebels without a cause because they're not going to get another referendum, so they're going to be stuck in the union, it does leave . them with their, their leave. them with their, their kind of main objective, really stymied. they've got nowhere to go from here. they just keep campaigning and that's all they can do. >> okay, suzanne, good to see you. thanks very much indeed. if you. thanks very much indeed. if you are watching or listening in scotland, it'd be great to get
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your thoughts on that. gbnews.com/yoursay what would you like to see happen? is it time to call? i mean, the, the, parliamentary elections in scotland aren't due till 2026. do you want it brought forward ? do you want it brought forward? >> i mean, ash regans this morning said it's up to the people to decide now, or it should be up to the people to decide now. it's crazy. >> it's all sort of hanging in the balance for her. i can't see how she's going to back him, to be. i mean, i'd be very surprised because when she. when she left the party, he said, well, it's no great loss. yeah. >> good riddance. basically wasn't it? >> yeah. it's going to be, could come back to bite him now. i think it will anyway, let's say particularly if you're in scotland. >> i'd love to hear your thoughts on that this morning. >> now, at 6:16, let's take a look at some other stories coming into the newsroom, and the families of three men murdered in the reading terror attack are calling for urgent change after a coroner ruled that their deaths were probably avoidable. friends james
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furlong, doctor david wales and joseph ritchie—bennett were fatally stabbed in june 2020 when a libyan refugee targeted them in a town centre park. the coroner said failings by the home office and the local nhs community, mental health team contributed to their deaths . contributed to their deaths. >> pupils are being taught on the cheap. that's according to a study by the union unison. it found pupils were missing out on essential support as teaching assistants are increasingly having to lead lessons and managed classes by themselves amid ongoing teacher shortages . amid ongoing teacher shortages. and the military horses from london's household cavalry that bolted through london on wednesday morning are set to return to duty in due course. >> that's according to an army spokesperson. they added every one of the horses involved continues to be cared for and closely observed. all our horses receive the highest standards of care .
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care. >> the ukip looks after very, very well . very well. >> well, i'm glad you said that because there was there was a lot of concern this week after seeing those videos that perhaps they're not very well looked after. >> oh they are. >> oh they are. >> they get better treatment than the men and women who look after them. >> oh, really? oh yeah. >> oh, really? oh yeah. >> they are the most beautiful horses. i mean, they look very well looked after. so you would hope they would be. >> oh, oh, they really are. >> oh, oh, they really are. >> so i tell you, it's a relief they're back to work. so i think there was a horse charity this week that said we'll take them in for you if you like. >> no, they don't need it. they'll get they'll get better care where they are. honestly. they're really they are. well they're the king's horses aren't they. yeah. so they get, you know, only the best. >> and they do look very regal don't they. apparently it was falling concrete from a building site. yeah. that caused them to bolt. >> really spooked them. >> really spooked them. yeah. >> really spooked them. yeah. >> it's interesting though, isn't it? we're talking about the welfare of the horses, which is very important. we haven't asked about the household cavalry. >> oh, that's very true. >> oh, that's very true. >> who were who were knocked off a dismounted and a couple of those were, were badly injured,
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i imagine . i imagine. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so falling from a horse, the soldiers don't. >> they'd be all right. >> they'd be all right. >> oh dear. well we hope everybody's okay. horses and soldiers alike. but, that certainly was quite a scary sight, wasn't it? especially that white horse covered in blood. >> well, it looks it shows up, but horses . well, if you if but horses. well, if you if a horse cuts itself, it bleeds and bleeds and bleeds and doesn't. >> oh, really? >> oh, really? >> it doesn't clot the same as humans. so they do just bleed and bleed and bleed. >> so it looks worse. >> so it looks worse. >> might look worse than it is. >> might look worse than it is. >> yeah, yeah, we'll do anyway. >> yeah, yeah, we'll do anyway. >> listen to me like i'm a proper horseman . proper horseman. >> the suit shoe. yeah. >> the suit shoe. yeah. >> there you go. now a business in the west midlands has been handed a king's award for enterprise in the ceremony yesterday. >> yes. the award is the highest official uk honour for british businesses aiming to promote both small and large enterprises. >> well, now, west midlands reporter jack carson has the story . story. >> for a business in the uk, it's the highest accolade achievable and the west midlands
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is not afraid to make its mark. at a ceremony at their factory in smethwick, the lord—lieutenant of the west midlands, sirjohn lord—lieutenant of the west midlands, sir john crabtree lord—lieutenant of the west midlands, sirjohn crabtree obe lord—lieutenant of the west midlands, sir john crabtree obe , midlands, sir john crabtree obe, presented the team at remedy health with the prestigious king's award for enterprise in the innovation category. we recognise in the outstanding achievement of the said award recipient as demonstrated in the application of innovation in our united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, our channel islands and isle of man, wishing to show our royal favour, confer upon it the king's award for enterprise innovation. >> the prize aims to reward both small and large businesses with an innovative product or service, and recognise their contribution to enterprise, with last year being the first awarded by his majesty king charles rempe . charles rempe. >> health and their nourished brand won the award for their 3d printed customisable nutritional gummies. the business has developed and innovated to be able to combine seven different active ingredients into one daily personalised stack. customers can choose their favourite vitamins and supplements and at their factory
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in birmingham, they'll 3d print the selection on demand . award the selection on demand. award winning female entrepreneur melissa snover is the brains behind the business. she describes what it means to be honoured with the king's award for our business is really the highest honour that we could ever receive . ever receive. >> we were really founded on the idea that innovation is going to be the single biggest factor in changing the world, and so you can imagine we're all overwhelmed with pride . overwhelmed with pride. >> the nourish brand was only one of ten west midlands winners out of the 262 rewarded in total, and the only winner in birmingham in the innovation category. but it isn't just about running a business. melissa says she's passionate about the next generation of female entrepreneurs and works with by women, built a platform for female owned businesses , is for female owned businesses, is less than 80% of young people can name a female entrepreneur, and that is something that we're really committed to changing the narrative on at bwb . narrative on at bwb. >> i think you can't be it if you can't see it and so myself and the other women involved in
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that cause are really trying to raise the profile of female entrepreneurs and make sure that young people are seeing them at the beginning of their career , the beginning of their career, where they're starting to think about what will i be having launched in 2019, this business has already had to navigate a pandemic and high inflation. >> but with its king's award for enterprise proudly on display, their future has the royal seal of approval. jack carson gb news smethwick . smethwick. >> oh, this is what she does every morning. you know, she polishes archewell busy cleaning. it's been very nearly a year since we walked onto that stage and picked that up. >> so it's that very special day. >> it was very, wasn't it? >> it was very, wasn't it? >> such a special day? >> such a special day? >> a very special day , anyway, >> a very special day, anyway, we're up for a tric award again this year for the breakfast show , if you would like to vote for us. because the important thing about the tric award is it is voted for you, and not by people in the industry who decide what they approve of or not. you can go to pole dash tricorn.uk and vote for us. it's the best news
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programme . programme. >> that'd be nice, wouldn't it? go for the double two years in a row. i'ow. >> row. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and then we got nigel. and i'm not the best news presenter and camilla tominey with alistair stewart for interview of the year. that was about his, diagnosed nhs's. so actually that would be nice to. i'd love to see that for alistair. >> i'd really like to see that because, yeah, alistair is such a legend as well, isn't he? so it'd be so lovely to see. so two years on the trot would be lovely if you are able to hedge the tric awards website and vote for us, that would be really good, wouldn't it? >> she's redesigned it though. it's a weird looking thing, isn't it? >> it is a bit funny, you know. >> it is a bit funny, you know. >> must be wrong with the little cop. a big plaque or something. >> oh, you prefer that, would you? >>i you? >> i don't know what that's meant to be. >> i just like, you know, the old school trophies. like yeah, like a cup. that would be nice. is it engraved? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it is. yeah. look at that. so hopefully we'll have another one to add to the collection. that would be nice, wouldn't it, pop that over here. >> there you go . right. let's >> there you go. right. let's see what the weather's going to do for you today.
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>> a brighter outlook with boxer , the sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> morning. we have some heavy, persistent rain arriving later today. meaning tomorrow is going today. meaning tomorrow is going to be pretty wet for some of us. however, before then, it's a rather showery day for many of us today. first thing, we do have quite a bit of cloud across southern areas and some outbreaks of showery rain pushing their way into parts of the midlands. more central parts as we go through the day across scotland , northern ireland, a scotland, northern ireland, a touch of frost first thing this morning and then a scattering of showers developing as we head into the afternoon, and some of these could turn a little bit wintry over the higher ground. there will be some sunny spells around, but temperatures still a little bit below average for the time of year. some places staying in single figures highs of around 14 or 15 celsius. further south, some heavy rain then feeding into southern parts. as we go through this evening. so a pretty wet end to the day here and that rain. then continuing to push further
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it begins here at bang on. 6:30. good morning to you. >> good morning to you both. good to see you. >> let's talk about the foxes. should we. >> absolutely. well, they didn't kick a ball last night, stephen. and yet they went back to the premier league at the first time of asking. leeds united needed a point, a minimum at loftus road last night. qpr, just a couple of miles away from here, and i was lucky enough to be at the game. now qpr needed at least a point really to stay up, so there was something in it. i think they were going to stay up anyway, but the worry from leicester's point of view and ipswich's point of view, who are the promotion rivals of leeds in the promotion rivals of leeds in the championship, was that maybe qpr might invoke that phrase that we hear there on the beach. they've already quit for the season, they've already signed off, but not so. queens park rangers absolutely brushed them aside by four goals to nil, and leeds united looked absolutely desperate throughout the game.
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and there's a picture of me at the ground actually , which the ground actually, which you'll see see in a minute, which we'll pick up . which we'll pick up. >> i'll look at it. well you never know. >> you never know. >> you never know. >> we'll have it. >> we'll have it. >> we'll have it. >> we'll have it in a sec. but, but nonetheless, qpr are absolutely outstanding. leeds united they played on monday at middlesbrough . they won four middlesbrough. they won four three. a really emotional game, a little bit unfair that they have to play just a few days later, especially as they were. both matches were on the road, but what it meant, their failure to even get a point means that leicester city were promoted and they're on course for 100 points this season. and a word on leicester as well because very difficult relegation for them last season .jamie difficult relegation for them last season . jamie vardy eight, last season. jamie vardy eight, 37 years old or 37 years young. he's waiting with 18 goals to help them back. but they had a really difficult spell around about february time. they just lost four games out of six and just took one point and it was a very difficult spell and everyone thought that having had a 12 point lead at the top of the table, they would fall away. in fact , there was 14 points in fact, there was 14 points between themselves and third place. they do have this issue with being charged by the premier league for alleged breaches in profit and
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sustainability. charges actually on the start of next season so they could start next season with a points deduction, which makes their makes their situation very , very difficult situation very, very difficult for next season. but nonetheless at the moment they're celebrating ipswich . play celebrating ipswich. play tonight against hull city. so they have they've had a real boost as well from leeds not winning. and if leeds are left to go in the play offs, given that they came down last season, it could be a difficult time for them as well. you don't really want to drop into the play offs even when you've you've just failed to get automatic promotion. it puts you in a bit of a bad frame of mind. what you want to be in the play offs is a side that's going into it in form, but nonetheless, congratulations to leicester and qpr did the business last night on their behalf. lots of lots of thanks from all those clubs to qpr last night. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> yes. >> yes. >> and is congratulations in order to arne slot. >> well i think so. yeah. it looks, it looks that way. there were reports late last night dunng were reports late last night during the game actually while i was at qpr that, that qpr that qpr on the brain. >> no liverpool, no change. there yeah. >> liverpool have agreed a £94 million package. now it's rare that you pay for a manager but
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that's how valuable they see this guy as being. now it's add ons as well. it's i think it's seven and a half up front and it's dependent on success as well. i mean it's like if signing a player. yeah, this is how this is a 45 year old guy from from holland . holland is from from holland. holland is a key thing here because just like players and just like managers, sometimes . they do well when sometimes. they do well when they come from holland, they they come from holland, they they acquit themselves well in they acquit themselves well in the premier league. sometimes they simply don't. we've had loads of players that have either been outstanding or absolutely useless. erik ten hag is of house. he's still is one of the house. he's still the jury's still out. he's went to he went to man huge to he went to man united huge job years ago. it looks like job two years ago. it looks like he's going to his job this he's going to lose his job this summer. ronald koeman was another one 810 years ago who came to england, had spells at southampton quite successfully and then everton, a really stellar playing career but couldn't quite cut it at a really big club at everton doing the job. so. so the jury's out on that. but they like his playing style. they like the fact that he is able to develop players. he won the eredivisie last season. he won the dutch cup. this season. they're going to finish second in the league. it looks like this time around and i'll get a picture later on, but it means all the main four
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managers in the north west this next season are all going to be bald , which we've not had. all bald, which we've not had. all right, we'll get a picture. but i mean, it's great. this seems to be a move towards bald managers. >> bald managers. yeah. yeah. so we've got ten. >> well ten hag might not stay but guardiola . arne slot. of but guardiola. arne slot. of course. sean dyche at at everton and erik ten hag if he survives. >> oh there you go . >> oh there you go. >> oh there you go. >> so what are the key games we're looking at for today ? we're looking at for today? >> well we've got west ham and liverpool. liverpool have one last hurrah today to try and get their title challenge back on track. i did say on this very program in january, steve, and if you remember when klopp announced his departure, i did say that they would struggle because when you announce your leave yourself, right. well, no. well i told you, you know that. you know how it works. if i get them right, i'll remind you of them right, i'll remind you of them and the rest of them we just forget. but i did say that midway through the season, if you're announcing a leave, even for a side with high standards, with as high standards as liverpool , you might see a drop liverpool, you might see a drop off. and we're seeing that in the last few games. i think it's just like alex ferguson in 2002. i feel he handed arsenal the title that season. when he
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announced in january that he wasn't going to be continuing, and that was a really stupid thing to do by fergie because he all he wanted was a new contract, which he eventually got. he ended up staying, but i think that anyone in, you know, just in life in general, you know, if you're in, if you're in a job and you know your boss is leaving, it's natural to kind of look ahead to what's happened, what happens after that? i mean, if you've seen some terrible results in the last couple of weeks, they lost to crystal palace. they went they went out of the europa league against atalanta. that's a real that was a that was a match they really or a competition they really should have won. and of course they they lost at the weekend as well against or sorry on monday against everton, which was a terrible result. so i think you've seen that drop off. i think it's between manchester city and arsenal now. those two are in action tomorrow. arsenal got a massive game against tottenham, who will be keen to do them no favours whatsoever . do them no favours whatsoever. >> aiden, good to see you. thank you very much indeed . now do you very much indeed. now do stay with us still to come . stay with us still to come. we're going to be going through the papers with susan holder and emma woolf. that's
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next. >> it's 638. let's have a look at some of the papers for you this morning. we'll start with the mail. it leads with the news that the king will return to work following cancer treatment . work following cancer treatment. >> the times also reports on the king's return to work, but says his cancer treatment is still not over. >> the telegraph has the king marking his return with a visit to a cancer treatment centre this tuesday, and the sun also leading with the king's return to public duty. it's bound to be the top story, isn't it ? and the the top story, isn't it? and the daily star leads with the mysterious curse of the pharaohs being solved. you know, guess what? it is radiation. so they say. oh, really? from what? how? who were had no idea. >> well read that. >> well read that. >> certainly very interesting and a bit different from the start shall be revealed. oh, yes. we look forward to that. wolf who is here alongside susan holder . good wolf who is here alongside susan holder. good to see you wolf who is here alongside susan holder . good to see you both holder. good to see you both this morning, ladies. good
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morning susan. let's start with you shall we? because it is leading almost every newspaper. this morning. of course, the king returning to public duty. yeah. >> and i have to say it was with great relief that i saw that update yesterday . i knew there update yesterday. i knew there was going to be an update coming out, and i was very relieved that the update was good news, as i'm sure everybody else is. and not only because, that's what we all want, but how reassuring for people . i just reassuring for people. i just know how reassuring it is. the story of the king and princess of wales having cancer is obviously it's so shocking. and i don't know why because cancer affects 1 in 2 people and i don't know why because cancer affects1 in 2 people and it i don't know why because cancer affects 1 in 2 people and it can affects 1 in 2 people and it can affect anybody . but what what we affect anybody. but what what we can see why this is how much treatments have come on, what hope there is out there for people who are, who are, who are struggling and suffering. and it does give hope to people when you can see that, that people are going , getting back to work. are going, getting back to work. >> well, that was always the dreaded c word was it was. yeah, it was a kiss. >> well, exactly the c word. people wouldn't even say the word. >> and it is especially, you
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know, we're we're from or where you are now. anyway, if everyone went to christie's. yes. if you heard someone was going to christie's, it was like, yeah . christie's, it was like, yeah. >> and i yeah. and obviously because my husband has been treated for cancer at five years ago and we've, we've spent a lot of time at christie's and it's the most wonderful place. and i don't go in there with any sense of dread because you just know you're being you're just getting such marvellous treatment. yeah, yeah. but it is, it, it is really positive and it is for people. there will be so many people. there will be so many people out there watching who are going through something like that, who have relatives going through it, and it's all i used to cling to stories of people defying odds and, and getting good news. and you just it is just because it's the mental strength you need to go through. it is even is the most important thing. and for the king and the queen, i think getting back to work will be hugely important , work will be hugely important, because you just want life to go back to a bit of what you know is normal. and for him, that's
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that's going back to public dufies that's going back to public duties and public facing duties. and he will want to do that desperately. >> and you can see how much he takes from meeting the public. and he enjoys those walkabouts. it will it will really buoy him won't it? >> i think so, yeah. and there's been some doctors actually commenting in the media as well saying this is a good sign. this, this shows that, you know, of course he's not out of the woods yet, but this shows that things are going in the right direction. given that the medical advice is , yes, you're medical advice is, yes, you're ready to sort of, you know, work again , of course. i was thinking again, of course. i was thinking overnight, though, about catherine and worrying and then you start to worry and i think, well, we haven't heard anything from her, but i do think that she needs her privacy. she needs time to rest and recover and go through whatever she's whatever her treatment is. but i wish we could have a as as equally a positive update from from catherine. >> well, hopefully soon that comes in time. yeah. we'd all we'd all like to hear that. yeah emma, let's stay with you, shall we. and look at the guardian front page . and this is at the front page. and this is at the scale of the teacher shortage. crisis >> yeah. so this is a really shocking, sort of study or poll
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finding the a survey, finding that thousands, hundreds of thousands of pupils in england and wales are actually being taught by effectively unqualified teachers. they're being covered. their classes are being covered. their classes are being covered. their classes are being covered by teaching assistants . assistants. >> they're not teachers at all. they're not, you know, all due respect to a teaching assistant, they're not a teacher. >> they're not teachers. they're not qualified. they're not qualified in their subjects. lots of them are covering at primary level with a few minutes notice. primary level with a few minutes nofice.so primary level with a few minutes notice. so they're going in from sort of nursery level to year six. and then at secondary level, they're covering gcse subjects. no, no, no where teachers have left and just have not been able to be replaced. so teachers are routinely going off sick. they're they're they're not filling the places , and it not filling the places, and it just seems and particularly , just seems and particularly, special needs children, special educational needs, there are 1.5 million of those in the uk , and million of those in the uk, and they're being particularly badly affected by it. but, you know , affected by it. but, you know, we've seen it in the nhs, we see it in education now the real scale of this crisis is apparent
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i >> -- >> but apparently, you see, it's not that many years ago when, when my mother was teaching and we'd go when she was going into teaching it was seen as a really well respected profession. it was a really viewed as a really important job. and that all just seems to have disappeared now. well, it's quite weird as well that the one thing, one thing that the one thing, one thing that i remember when i was at school, when you were trying to talk about careers to teachers , talk about careers to teachers, the only thing they ever wanted you to, to tell you to be was a teacher, because . teacher, because. >> so if they can't kind of encourage people to follow them, then i don't know what hope there is really, because trying to tell them that you want to be a journalist, you just used to 90, a journalist, you just used to go, i got laughed in the face. yeah, they had no experience of that. but oh, be a teacher, be a teacher was what they all encouraged. presumably they've stopped doing that now, and that's quite interesting to know. why, because they're the they should be the best advocate for the job and they should be able to kind of encourage their prodigies who are coming through to them so that that's to follow them so that that's what needs to happen. >> i mean, i've got friends that are teachers and they just say they they are on the verge of burnout. yeah, they're finding
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the workload really, really difficult. they have very challenging. children often don't have the support in the classroom to help with that. they feel as though they're social workers as well. >> as i was going to say, as teachers, that's the problem. >> they don't they don't just teach now it's all the breakfast clubs, after school stuff , you clubs, after school stuff, you know, hygiene. yeah, hygiene stuff . stuff. >> and i think, stephen, you make a good point. it's not seen, it's not high status the way that it used to be. i don't think the pay and conditions are necessarily always the best. it's not something that people are drawn towards as a kind of high status profession. and as you say, you're dealing with so many other issues around just, you know, it's not just the kind of classroom hours. i think it's a very, very gruelling profession with not that much reward . reward. >> and they don't get back up from parents in the way they used to do they. so it's not the children usually that are the problem. it's the fact that you, you might reprimand a child or you might reprimand a child or you might reprimand a child or you might have a child that's difficult to deal with, but then you have to deal with the parents who don't back the teacher up in what they're trying to kind of instil or, or kind of, well, they are moulding an entire generation.
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>> so it should be the i think it should be high status and i tell you what really annoys me is that when people say, oh, it's an easy job, they get six weeks off in the summer. >> no they don't. no, they really don't. it might be six weeks worth of not teaching children, but they're not. they don't stop working, tell don't stop working, i'll tell you nothing. you that for nothing. >> yes , well, we are both the >> yes, well, we are both the product of teachers, aren't we? >> yeah , yeah, both of our >> yeah, yeah, both of our parents were teachers. >> and did did either of you think about going into teaching? >> no. >> no. >> couldn't do it. no but we've seen how hard it is. >> yes. >> yes. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> my mom never stopped. no, she never stopped. she was writing reports , going through books and reports, going through books and all the rest of it till nine, 10:00 at night. every night? yeah. >> in during the holidays, sorting out classrooms and doing results. and you know, timetables and all that sort of thing. so it's a real drama for years in schools, in primary schools for about ten years. >> but i would go in and do drama and come out again. so i wasn't there permanently. but the one thing about working with children that you learn very quickly used to working in newsrooms and doing that sort of thing. there's no you can't you can't stop, you can't turn your back on a room of children and just have a cup of tea or read
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the paper you're on all the time. it is. and it's that sort of mental stress. i think that people don't quite understand that you can't be in front, you can't be in a classroom of children and take a moment for yourself at all. yeah. it is really full on vocation. >> you've got to have a passion for it . yeah, definitely. i for it. yeah, definitely. i mean, my mum, she loved it. she loved. yeah >> and so did my parents. >> and so did my parents. >> it was, you know, really hard work. >> but that is a concern , isn't >> but that is a concern, isn't it? you'd think it'd be very detrimental to children not even having a qualified teacher at the front of their class at gcse level . oh, let us know what you level. oh, let us know what you think about that. gbnews.com/yoursay >> susan, let's have a look at the. i, well, we're looking at mega farms supplying chicken. >> so it's the front page. there's the i is the only paper not to go with the king as its front page lead because they've gone with toxic gas surge from us style chicken farms. so it's the sort of intensive farming places that supply, your big supermarkets , tesco, marks and supermarkets, tesco, marks and spencer or mcdonald's and nando's and what they're saying is that the emissions from these intense chicken farms put ammonia into the air, which ,
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ammonia into the air, which, when it combines with other things, can be really detrimental to health, and, although overall it's gone down since 2017. in the country, there are pockets where it's really kind of stepped up, and one of those areas is powis and neighbouring herefordshire , neighbouring herefordshire, gloucestershire and monmouthshire, and it's actually having a real effect on the, on, on the, the rivers nearby as well as i say, being something that people are concerned about for health. so it can kind of, mix and affect the lungs and the bloodstream and this sort of thing , which bloodstream and this sort of thing, which is bloodstream and this sort of thing , which is which. yeah, thing, which is which. yeah, you're a vegetarian, so you're you're a vegetarian, so you're you're you're okay. yeah. you're well, you're not okay if you walk past the chicken farm, presumably. but it doesn't make you want to go and have a chicken, you know, a chicken burger. does it really. >> no. >> no. >> steven, don't you think the more you hear about this stuff, the more you go, i'm vegetarian. i haven't eaten meat for about 21 years, and i just. and i'm not criticising people that do. i'm absolutely fine with it. but the more you hear about the way that animals are intensively farmed, the way that they're
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slaughtered, the way that they're treated in life and afterwards , i just think, how afterwards, i just think, how can you shut your eyes to this unless you're, you know, spending a huge amount of money and going organic and going to these very, very exclusive butchers, you must . acknowledge butchers, you must. acknowledge that if you're buying in the supermarket, you know, lots of this is in kind of intensive farming. >> i don't know how you get around it, really, apart from going back to the good old days and, you know, proper farmers, obviously the welfare of their animals is absolutely key. >> but it's, it's supply and demand, isn't it. if you if you know, if nando's and mcdonald's and all the other places and people, how much people are prepared to pay for whatever product they need. and also when it comes to farming, i don't know enough about farming to know, but it's all very well. criticising chicken farms . but criticising chicken farms. but there could be that you hear a lot that the vegetarianism is fine, but there's lots of things that go on in farming for all sorts of products that can actually have an effect as well. it's not all just because it's vegetarian. it doesn't have any effect on the environment. there are there are other other issues there as well , yeah, it's
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there as well, yeah, it's a difficult one. >> it's a difficult one. >> it's a difficult one. >> but you don't really want a toxic gas from a chicken farm. doesn't sound great, does it? no. you're having your breakfast, i do apologise. emma, let's take a look at humza yousaf, shall we? >> who is standing strong for now? >> well, he says this is. this is his desperate attempt to cling to power. the snp leader in scotland , he's had a very. in scotland, he's had a very. well, what would you say? chaotic few days. very chaotic few days, obviously he he decided to end his, well, to scrap the coalition with the scottish greens, which has spectacularly backfired on him because now labour are attempting to or everybody clubbed together and basically unseat him. there's going to be a confidence vote. no confidence motion expected this week. probably voting on that on wednesday or thursday. >> but what will it do to him? that's the issue because it doesn't force him to go . no. doesn't force him to go. no. >> and if he loses it, how he responds to that? well let's see, but yeah, it could, it could force it could eventually lead to a holyrood election , but
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lead to a holyrood election, but we shall see. but obviously all eyes on scotland at the moment. it's been quite exciting and quite dramatic . quite dramatic. >> it's been quite interesting to watch. i mean, from, from an outsider perspective, it's been quite interesting to watch the snp implode . i mean, look, it snp implode. i mean, look, it happens to all political parties once they've been in power for a long time quite quickly, hasn't it? >> i mean, sturgeon has had a quite dramatic fall from grace as well. yeah and suddenly the snp are really, really quickly in tatters. and it's amazing how fast that can happen . fast that can happen. >> but surely he can't cling on if he loses a no confidence vote next week. i mean, politically you can't cling on if everybody i mean the to me, the more damaging thing that's been going on recently with him is, is the whole that hate speech kind of bill and everything. >> i think the mess that's been created with that, it just that does call into question his judgement and everything else . i judgement and everything else. i do wonder what on earth he was thinking and why on earth that that that was something that he may cling on as a minority and try and carry on as a minority government would be almost impossible to get anything
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through . through. >> and then what happens anyway, when we have a general election later this year? you know, i mean, i think labour are rubbing their hands, aren't they. >> well, yeah. >> well, yeah. >> well, yeah. >> well that's seeing a resurgence aren't they. >> yeah. i mean absolutely. yeah. it's going to be interesting to see what happens with, with westminster seats north of the border. yeah. it's going to be interesting. i can't see how the snp are going to do particularly well on that. but of course the snp westminster leader steven, on his surname now, but he's standing shoulder to shoulder, he says with humza yousaf until he isn't, until he isn't, until he isn't. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well yeah. >> well yeah. >> until he regretfully. yeah >> until he regretfully. yeah >> stephen flynn, whenever they give the full confidence it's always it's always just before they don't. it's. >> yes, yes. it's never a good sign is it, this this intrigues me, susan in the telegraph saying joe biden would be happy to debate with trump in the presidential election. >> well, again , he would say >> well, again, he would say that, wouldn't he? >> when finally he's finally said, you said it, but he said
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it to, the shock jock howard stern. >> so which yeah, who on a radio interview in america. and when you put on the spot by howard stern, i mean, where else are you going to say you're not? i would think that he is going to say that. but and trump went straight on on x, formerly twitter and said, well, he doesn't really mean it. so until he's again , you believe it when he's again, you believe it when you see it, won't you. really? he has got to say, though, that he was he is going to he is going to debate. but, but yeah , going to debate. but, but yeah, i mean whether or not it could just be the kiss of death. >> well, he's been avoiding this issue for months and months and months, so he said so. >> howard stern said, look, are you going to are you going to debate because trump's up for it? trump will absolutely be, you know, thinks he'll wipe the floor with him, which he may well do . and he said, yeah, well do. and he said, yeah, okay. yes, of course i will. at some point . and he was sort of some point. and he was sort of vague about it. and trump immediately said, brilliant, come down to the courthouse where he is, where he's being tried for all this stuff, trump, trump said, you know, let's debate right now. so i think biden needs to be careful because he does, i think, need to debate with trump at some
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point. they need to have a head to head or is he going to keep avoiding him? he's been dancing around this issue for a while because he knows that what he's not as sharp as. >> what do you think about debates over here then? because there was this big push. we had there was this big push. we had the first one, it was back in. was it 2010, wasn't it? >> who? >> who? >> alex. yeah alastair stewart hosted the very first one, i'm against them. oh. are you. >> i have to say, do you think do you think it gives a false kind of reading on on what people i do. >> i think it's all because it's all about performance and not about substance. >> well, but it does show whether people are across their brief. it does show whether people can string a sentence kind of lucidly together. >> and enough is it? well it's better than not being able to do that. well, i quite like the debates. yeah. well, i mean i think it's entertainment value. >> i was going to say it's a good spectacle, but really does it give us any more. >> we know they can string as well. they can or can't, but they can't because they do. but but no, but i mean, they all of our candidates , we see them give our candidates, we see them give lots of public speeches. they
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pretty much all do the round of the interviews they have to do. but i think you're right. is the head to head really? is that the. >> i think it highlights weakness a lot more than you would see in something like a media round that you're prepared for. i think in a debate you can't prepare often. for what? for what comes up, what comes up. yeah. and it does highlight weaknesses and gaps in knowledge. >> i think often the ones where the public well obviously, but they're selected as well. i was going to say the public asking questions is often quite revealing and more revealing in a way, because that puts potential candidates on the spot. potential prime ministers on the spot. but whether the actual kind of, you on the spot. but whether the actual kind of , you know, actual kind of, you know, starmer versus sunak is, well , starmer versus sunak is, well, it is it's a good public spectacle. >> i mean, the problem is, you know , they will kind of fall know, they will kind of fall into just having a pop and trying to trip each other up. and that's not, that's not, that's not always what, because the last one, that the first ones were very good and quite interesting. >> the last set that were done, there was some of the debates because obviously every channel gets a pop at it, some of the debates i just thought were
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really poorly handled. and you came away having learned nothing about what they stood for or who they were as a person or anything else. and we do see them every wednesday in the in them every wednesday in the in the chamber , having a go at each other. >> so it's not as though we never see them head to head. yeah, but yeah , i quite enjoy them. >> emma, we've got 40s for you to tell us about the pharaohs. we're desperate. >> well, there's a there's this legendary pharaoh's curse . and legendary pharaoh's curse. and when they opened the tomb in 1922, people died . and 1922, people died. and apparently there's loads of radioactive material, a lot of radioactive material, a lot of radioactive material, a lot of radioactive material that's built up in the tombs because of unopened tombs, which can actually cause serious cancer and radiation sickness . that's and radiation sickness. that's the curse of the pharaohs, apparently. but it's according to the journal of scientific exploration. it's not just the star going, i think you messed with a curse at your peril. >> i don't think we should try and make a scientific thing on it. >> i think you're probably right. lovely. thanks both. here's your weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb
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news. >> morning. we have some heavy , >> morning. we have some heavy, persistent rain arriving later today, meaning tomorrow is going today, meaning tomorrow is going to be pretty wet for some of us. however, before then it's a rather showery day for many of us today. first thing, we do have quite a bit of cloud across southern areas, and some outbreaks of showery rain pushing their way into parts of the midlands. more central parts as we go through the day across scotland, northern ireland. a touch of frost first thing this morning and then a scattering of showers developing as we head into the afternoon, and some of these could turn a little bit wintry over the higher ground. there will be some sunny spells around, but temperatures still a little bit below average for the time of year. some places staying in single figures highs of around 14 or 15 celsius. further south, some heavy rain then feeding into southern parts as we go through this evening. so a pretty wet end to the day here. and that rain then continuing to push further northwards overnight, feeding in across much of central southern england into some northern parts of england and perhaps into
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wales as well. first thing tomorrow morning, towards the northwest , though, some clearer northwest, though, some clearer skies. so again we could see a touch of frost . first thing. it touch of frost. first thing. it is going to be a wet start to the day across much of england and wales then tomorrow, but that rain , although will be that rain, although will be quite heavy and persistent for a time, is gradually going to clear its way northwards, could fringe into some eastern parts of scotland, but more western parts of scotland and northern ireland, going to stay largely dry and we should see some sunshine also breaking out across parts of west and wales and southwest england. two temperatures similar to today but obviously feeling a bit more unpleasant when it's going to be very wet. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on
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april. today a royal return. the king set to resume royal duties on tuesday following his cancer treatment. >> humza yousaf faces political chaos. scotland's first minister has insists that he will not resign. that's despite facing a vote of no confidence in his leadership . leadership. >> humza yousaf is clinging on by the tips of his fingers. but can he last the week with pressure on all sides? find out what with me very soon. >> critics are wrong on rwanda. the home secretary hits out , the home secretary hits out, saying opposition to the policy will be wilfully ignores the progress made by the african state. >> and we'll be meeting legendary singer martin wild. tell us all about his new album and his career spanning over. 65 years. >> good morning . it's slot in >> good morning. it's slot in for klopp. we'll be looking at
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the liverpool's appointment of the liverpool's appointment of the dutch manager, the feyenoord boss, of course , as he takes up boss, of course, as he takes up the role at anfield next season. leicester city also won promotion to the premier league after leeds crashed at qpr last night. more later this hour. >> hello, it's still going to be rather cool this weekend. a few showers to watch out for today and then something wetter arriving later. i'll have the details coming up . details coming up. >> morning to you. >> morning to you. >> i'm stephen dixon and i'm ellie costello, and this is breakfast on . breakfast on. gb news. we've been talking about birdsong . been talking about birdsong. >> oh, yes, we have. >>— >> oh, yes, we have. >> apparently, it's very beneficial for your mental health. >> birdsong? yes. >> birdsong? yes. >> it's better than a walk in nature, apparently, for your mental health, you get both. >> go for a walk in nature. you get your birdsong . get your birdsong. >> that's very true. but you can also sit in the garden with a coffee. maybe that's what it is. maybe that's the difference. peter says bird songs. good for you. not at 4 am. when the canadian geese start squawking.
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sounds like they're killing each other. that's my experience as well, clive. all right. birdie says my wife keeps doves. we started with four. we've now got 12, and they're really good for wellbeing. they do sound very calm. doves, don't they? do they? are they. they're know it's. >> oh. oh, that's the two. okay. tell someone's bird watch that with your hand while you say it. >> yes. very good. did you have doves at your wedding? i feel like that's something that. >> no, i didn't know. i know you would like to add that to my list. >> yes. very nice. nice touch . >> yes. very nice. nice touch. and that's true, helen says i open the window an hour ago to have birdsong as a backdrop. what a lovely start to the day it is. >> it's really good. it's just good for you. the sooner, the closer you are with nature, the better you feel , and just better you feel, and just a quick one from elaine who says, fantastic news about the king. and that is our top story today, because the king is set to return to public duties on tuesday following his cancer treatment . treatment. >> yes, a palace a palace
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spokesperson says king charles has greatly encouraged to be resuming some public facing engagements , and is very engagements, and is very grateful to his medical team. well, of course, many people sent well—wishes, including the prime minister, who said on it's brilliant news to end the week. and the labour leader, sir keir starmer, also posted a message on the platform saying delighted to see his majesty looking so well, i wish him and the princess of wales the best as they continue their recovery with the support of their families. >> well. oh, we've got a palace statement. apparently they're saying his majesty the king will shortly return to public facing dufies shortly return to public facing duties after a period of treatment and recuperation following his recent cancer diagnosis . diagnosis. >> well, joining us now is former royal correspondent . former royal correspondent. nicholas owen. very good to see you this morning, nicholas. and isn't this just the most wonderful news? >> it is indeed. yeah, absolutely . well done. well absolutely. well done. well done. to the king, remind ourselves that we knew he was unwell . well, early, very early
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unwell. well, early, very early part of the year, february the 5th. we got the news that he actually had cancer, which was beginning to be widely , worried beginning to be widely, worried about. we've never been told exactly what the cancer is by. okay. and here he is getting back to duty . but okay. and here he is getting back to duty. but this amuses me, really? because you know anything about this man, he's always on duty, i was reading somewhere that one of his. one of his relatives, one of his many relatives, said that he was hugely frustrated that he couldn't get on with with work in the same old way. but he's still been doing a lot. he still sees his private secretaries and all those other people every day. he's been doing that. he's been still being meeting prime minister, the prime minister for the tuesday engagements , still the tuesday engagements, still being going through the red boxes. and then he goes off to sandringham and there's a garden there, the new garden. he's looking after you. this is a restless individual. can't keep him down. but wasn't it his mother who said something along the lines of , you know, we've the lines of, you know, we've got to be seen to be believed, seen to be believed . exactly. seen to be believed. exactly. yes. actually, this goes back a lot further than that . i think. lot further than that. i think. really it was i think george the
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third, who had a lot of children, george the third, and they were a bit of a reluctant bunch, rather rather ne'er do wells. you have to say he got very cross with them because he said, the important thing about us is to be seen . our job is to us is to be seen. ourjob is to be out there and that's gone right through. and certainly the majesty the queen took that view . it turns out, you know, after the queen's death, i was . quite the queen's death, i was. quite surprised about this. she had more bouts of illness than you might have expected in her life. yeah.i might have expected in her life. yeah. i mean, stories began to come out understandable. lady lived on to nearly 100, so why wouldn't she. but you never. if you looked at her diary and looked back at what she'd done, looked back at what she'd done, looked at all the films over the years, the tv coverage and so on, this was endless work, you know, out and about. yeah. >> and she was so stoic as well, wasn't she? i mean, we're talking about king charles being a restless individual . well, you a restless individual. well, you can imagine that this news is great news for him as well, because it will be so beneficial for him to be back to work and being amongst people. >> yes. i mean, it's interesting, isn't it? the first engagement in the new round .
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engagement in the new round. yeah. as you as i'm saying, he's been doing lots of things, but this is public duties. now. there are defined expression . there are defined expression. one is to go to a cancer treatment centre next tuesday. i'll be very interested to see which cancer treatment centre it is. this is a subject i know a bit too much about. as i've probably said here before , but probably said here before, but that's the first thing he's going to be doing. but it's absolute classic example of the sort of way he wants to get involved and where he wants to be seen. >> but that's the acknowledgement of the power of all of this, isn't it? and although , i mean, for one thing, although, i mean, for one thing, you know, why can't they just have their privacy? and if they want to be, you know, if they're ill, just be ill privately like the rest of us. it's different for them. if only because actually the positive impact sharing their stories can have. and going to the cancer treatment centre on tuesday will have a huge impact. >> well, when it was announced he had cancer and of course in the background, we know that the princess of wales, there's a whole herb. her struggles with the same thing had an enormous
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pubuc the same thing had an enormous public impact. and that's that's inevitable, isn't it, but this business about getting back to work, i mean, full time work. and in the case of the king, he's one of these people who gets up early. he's the sort of person who wants to see everybody very, very early. does. he doesn't believe in lunch and all this sort of thing. oh, yeah. yeah, but retiring , tiring sort of retiring, tiring sort of business altogether. but getting back to sort of full time work, i think it is very, very. important. or whatever you do in life, you may not have a job to do, but if you've got a family to run or relatives to see or people to care for, once you're with a bit of luck through your own, medical toil, getting back to doing that is so beneficial. you've got a very packed programme coming up. if he decides to do everything . i was decides to do everything. i was having a look through the list. i mean, it ranges from. there's the trooping the colour coming soon. there's the anniversary of the coronation, may the 6th. that's that's an interesting point. i mean, i'm sure something will be done to mark that. but then further out,
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there's, commonwealth heads of government meeting in samoa, not just around the corner, is it? that's going to be a tiring journey, even for the king. and, and he's also planning a trip to australia. whether all these things happen , i think doctors things happen, i think doctors will probably be saying, sir, sir, hang on a minute. let's just just come here. let's have a look at the old blood pressure monitor on. yeah, but but no, it's terrific. and it and it will i think help in the way that his initial diagnosis helps sort of encourage people. i think this will give even more encouragement. >> and what do you think this means for the monarchy as well? because it has been a really challenging few months, hasn't it? i mean, it really is a slimmed down monarchy. we've seen the pressure on prince william, who has his own pressures. obviously with with his wife as well, and queen to camilla challenging time for her. and she's been wonderful. >> she has. yeah. well she's she's had to carry the carry a lot of the load hasn't she. because of course we know others are not, not available. we mustn't forget either prince edward and now the duke of edinburgh and his wife sophie.
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they've done. they've really stepped up. they've really stepped up. they've really stepped up. they've really stepped up. yeah, yeah . and i stepped up. yeah, yeah. and i think prove themselves terrifically. but of course there's one very senior royal who's not around doing things and prince andrew and i'm afraid that will be the case for the future . but i'm hoping queen the future. but i'm hoping queen the queen gets a bit of a rest now. she deserves it, doesn't she? she deserves it, doesn't she? she really does deserve it. another little line i love was the idea that the king has said to his age, you know, i want to actually your your point about being seen quite literally when he's in london. he wants to be in the car driving, you know, that nice stately speed they do. i think it's about 22 miles an hounl i think it's about 22 miles an hour, i believe in order that, you know, everybody . what was you know, everybody. what was that? the king? oh, yes, it was. you know, that'd be nice, actually. >> isn't that lovely of him to drive past me somewhere? >> yeah. well we loved it, didn't we, at the coronation? >> oh, fantastic. yeah. and he came by. >> that was one of the best moments it really was. and how lovely as well that he takes so much joy from being out and about amongst us. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well he's. yeah, i, if you go
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back to the sort of 1990s and the days of i remember as a royal husband of princess diana and said it was said that she sort of taught the royal family this business about getting out and amongst people, you know, but i think he's always been quite good at that. if you go back even to his university days and so on. and when he was in the navy, he was always , he's the navy, he was always, he's probably, like most of us, shy underneath. but actually he's been pretty good in public always. i mean, this is this is nothing new for him, no. good on you, sir. great to see you back. great to see you back. >> well, said, lovely nicholas. >> well, said, lovely nicholas. >> thank you very much indeed. good to see you . good to see you. >> now, humza yousaf says he will not resign as scotland's first minister ahead of a crucial test of his leadership next week. >> he says that as a minority government, his party will need to make some concessions as it negotiates with other parties. all coming, of course, after the collapse of the snp's power sharing deal with the greens .
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sharing deal with the greens. but the first minister says he will fight on. >> i fully intend to not just win that vote, but i intend to fight to make sure that the government stays , not just the government stays, not just the government stays, not just the government continues to deliver on the priorities of the people like, for example, investing in affordable housing. so there's all that political game playing happening from the opposition. it will not be taking part. it will be getting, of course, on with the job. and when the vote comes, i fully intend to win. >> well, joining us now is gb news political correspondent olivia utley. to good see you this morning, olivia. so humza yousaf we heard him there fighting talk yesterday. do you think he can survive this though? >> well, he says he's going to fight on, but in a way, i mean, it's not really up to him. there will be this vote of no confidence next week. he is at the moment on a charm offensive , the moment on a charm offensive, trying to persuade either the green party, who he unceremoniously dumped from his coalition, or ash regan from the alba party, to support him. it is vital for him that he gets at least those two green msps or ash regan to support him, because in holyrood the snp are
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one seat short of a majority. so without the votes from those extra parties, he stands no chance of winning . will he be chance of winning. will he be able to get those votes? well, he's reached out to the greens. the greens have pretty much rebuffed him in no uncertain terms. meanwhile, ash regan has given a list of demands that she is intent on him fulfilling before he votes for her. and one of those fascinating is that scotland introduces all of the recommendations from the cass report, that report into, how children are treated in gender areas . and the ash, regan and areas. and the ash, regan and humza yousaf fell out big time over this. so it would be a huge concession if humza yousaf had to had to give her that. >> he's not going to do it, is he? i can't see him doing it. >> i mean, i can't see otherwise how he'll manage to win this vote of no confidence. it seems almost absurd that ash regan has this much power. it's sort of unbelievable karma for her. she was she feels she was sort of
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hounded out of the snp because of her disagreement with humza yousaf on these gender issues, and when she left the party, he said she was no great loss. so perhaps it's not surprising that she's insisting on on pretty bold demands from him . bold demands from him. >> could he be prepared to lose the vote and refuse to go, which he i mean, he could do it. >> well , i he i mean, he could do it. >> well, i mean, that's a good point. the vote is non—binding. he could cling on to his position. but of course, there is also this other vote that's going to be taking place, tabled by labour anas sarwar is tabling a vote of no confidence in the entire snp government. now, it's not clear what the all important greens would do if that vote were to go ahead, but they haven't ruled out voting for no confidence in the snp government . so it's possible that humza yousaf loses that vote of no confidence in himself, tries to cling on, and then there's a vote of no confidence in his government and that would be binding. he wouldn't have to resign immediately. the government wouldn't be dissolved immediately . government wouldn't be dissolved immediately. but if government wouldn't be dissolved immediately . but if the government wouldn't be dissolved immediately. but if the snp couldn't find a new leader
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within 30 days, then he would go and there would be a holyrood election. so whichever way you look at it, it's a pretty uncomfortable situation for humza yousaf. >> well, that it is. it has backfired spectacularly, hasn't it? speaking yesterday, he said he hadn't meant to upset or anger the greens. do you think there's a bit of regret here from humza yousaf? >> i think there probably is. i mean , you know, you could argue mean, you know, you could argue that the relationship between the snp and the greens has been proved to be totally unworkable. it was a situation of the green tail wagging the snp dog. the green was sort of getting their tail wagging the snp dog. the way on everything, and lots of their policies did turn out to be unworkable. so you could say that humza yousaf had no choice but to end that coalition. that said, the way he handled it seemed to be pretty unfortunate. the greens were sort of given no notice. it was very unceremonious removal of them from his coalition. they had almost no notice that this was happening. might things have been different if he'd played his hand a little more gently, if he'd sort of buttered them
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up, if he'd made some sort of concessions to them, might things look a bit different ? things look a bit different? there are those saying that perhaps he's just a bit wet behind the ears , not a very behind the ears, not a very experienced politician. he should have known that it the green party would be pretty upset and angry about being dumped from his coalition. >> so, i mean, that's what i just find so, so odd about it. obviously they didn't like being wagged by a two person snp tail in the two in the two greens, but he could end up being wagged by a one person alba tail. well exactly. >> and that's what's so funny about all of this. and really , i about all of this. and really, i mean, of course it's not funny for the people in scotland, but when you're looking at it from, from a sort of outsiders perspective, this, this implosion of the snp, which has happened so quickly is absolute bizarre. and ash regans demands are are , are bolder almost than are are, are bolder almost than anything that the snp has has proposed . and if, humza yousaf, proposed. and if, humza yousaf, who was fully behind that gender recognition act in scotland, which would have allowed people to change their gender with with
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just signing a piece of paper , just signing a piece of paper, ends up having to do a total u—turn and implement the policies recommended in the cas report. i mean, you're absolutely right. it will be the alba party running the snp. >> it's extraordinary time, isn't it? yeah. olivia good to see you this morning. thank you very much indeed. >> it's 7:16. let's have a look at some of the other stories coming into the newsroom this morning. >> and the families of three men murdered in the reading terror attack are calling for urgent change after a coroner ruled that their deaths were probably avoidable. friends james furlong, doctor david wales and joseph ritchie—bennett were fatally stabbed in june 2020 when a libyan refugee targeted them in a town centre park. the coroner said failings by the home office and the local nhs, community mental health team contributed to their deaths, pupils being taught on the cheap, according to unison. >> it said pupils are missing out on essential support as teaching assistants are increasingly leading lessons and
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managing classes by themselves amid teacher shortages . amid teacher shortages. >> and an army spokesperson has said that the military horses from london's household cavalry that bolted through london on wednesday morning are set to return to duty in due course. they said every one of the horses involved continues to be cared for and closely observed. all our horses receive the highest standards of care. yeah. >> plenty of you getting in touch. still, this morning, on the snp thing , here we go. the snp thing, here we go. catherine says it's time for an election in the scottish parliament. the snp government, catherine says, has done a lot of damage to scotland in the first minister is out of his depth. >> yeah . terry says it's time >> yeah. terry says it's time the snp allowed the people to have their say. schools, nhs, local government and businesses are all suffering under the snp leadership or lack of it. he
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says. >> if you're i mean, if you're a supporter of the snp, i'd love to hear your perspective on that as well. you do want i mean, from again, from this outside perspective, you look at it and say, how is this not going to lead to early elections for the scottish parliament? be a clean slate at least. but of course you can understand why the snp doesn't want to do that at the moment, because they probably wouldn't do very well. >> well, no , do keep those views >> well, no, do keep those views coming in on that story or indeed anything else that we're talking about today. gbnews.com/yoursay shall we see what the weather's doing? >> let's. >> let's. >> it's raining. i think, but alex will tell us. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> morning. we have some heavy , >> morning. we have some heavy, persistent rain arriving later today. meaning tomorrow is going today. meaning tomorrow is going to be pretty wet for some of us. however, before then, it's a rather showery day for many of us today. first thing, we do
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have quite a bit of cloud across southern areas, and some outbreaks of showery rain pushing their way into parts of the midlands. more central parts as we go through the day across scotland, northern ireland. a touch of frost first thing this morning and then a scattering of showers developing as we head into the afternoon, and some of these could turn a little bit wintry over the higher ground. there will be some sunny spells around, but temperatures still a little bit below average for the time of year. some places staying in single figures highs of around 14 or 15 celsius. further south, some heavy rain then feeding into southern parts as we go through this evening. so a pretty wet end to the day here. and that rain then continuing to push further northwards overnight, feeding in across much of central southern england into some northern parts of england and perhaps into wales as well. first thing tomorrow morning, towards the northwest , though, some clearer northwest, though, some clearer skies. so again we could see a touch of frost . first thing. it touch of frost. first thing. it is going to be a wet start to the day across much of england and wales then tomorrow, but that rain , although will be that rain, although will be quite heavy and persistent for a time, is gradually going to clear its way northwards, could
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fringe into some eastern parts of scotland, but more western parts of scotland and northern ireland going to stay largely dry. and we should see some sunshine also breaking out across parts of west and wales and southwest england. two temperatures similar to today but obviously feeling a bit more unpleasant when it's going to be very wet. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> talking about the king, yes. and nicholas owen was saying he wants to be seen driving through london, apparently at a very stately 22 miles an hour or something very sedate , william's something very sedate, william's beenin something very sedate, william's been in touch. morning, william. who says if the king drives through london at 22 miles an houn through london at 22 miles an hour, he's breaking the speed limit, which actually is true . limit, which actually is true. >> that's true. 20 miles an houn >> 20 miles an hour. so what would the king have to do to be sedate in london now ? sedate in london now? >> 15, 15. oh, lord, it'd be quicker to walk. >> it would be. he probably
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prefer that as well. yeah, he probably would prefer. no, it's a fair point. >> 22 miles an hour is breaking the speed limit in london. the world's gone slightly crackers that it has now . that it has now. >> there is some good news as well. this morning. that summer is just around the corner. and of course we want to make it sizzle for you. so we've got an incredible £20,000 in cash up for grabs in the latest great british giveaway. it's how much? £20,000. yeah. so our biggest cash prize to date would you know. and it could all be yours. so here's how you could be the winner. >> we've blown the budget by giving you the chance to win a totally terrific £20,000 in tax free cash to make your summer spectacular. you could use that cash to splash out on a holiday, make the garden glam, buy a new car, or just save it for a rainy day. whatever you'd spend £20,000 on, make sure you don't miss the chance to make it yours for a chance to win. £20,000 in tax free cash, text win to
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elasticised instead of elasticated. that one won't creep in, david. but would you say that anyway? language evolves. >> it does, it does , and it is >> it does, it does, and it is influenced by what we see on tv and which is obviously very american and things. >> so it does evolve. but i understand your frustration, david, i do, but sometimes these things just happen . you know, at things just happen. you know, at least we're not 20 year olds because sometimes you're out and about , you know, going to the about, you know, going to the shopping centre or something, and you see all these groups of teenagers or whatever. i don't understand what they're saying . understand what they're saying. >> yeah, it seems like we've got a whole new lingo. it's like a totally foreign language, i know. >> so there you go. so i'm sort of with you, david, but it's just the way of it. yeah. >> do you stay with us? still to come? a business in the west midlands has received the king's award for enterprise. we'll be telling you all about it. that's
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next. oh, you're being told off this morning. again. again when john says. stephen, your impression of a dub sounds more like a pigeon. and that is a fantastic point. do you want to do it again? cool, cool . no. you've again? cool, cool. no. you've listened, now you've cheated. >> no, that's exactly what i know . know. >> your original was elongated. do it again. >> was it? yeah. cool. yeah, cool. >> and it's not that. >> and it's not that. >> it's cool . >> it's cool. >>- >> it's cool. >> it's cool. >> it's a lot shorter bursts. >> it's a lot shorter bursts. >> it's a lot shorter bursts. >> it's shorter . >> it's shorter. >> it's shorter. >> let's listen to it now. >> let's listen to it now. >> i've got it here for you. >> i've got it here for you. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> cool cool cool cool cool. >> so you've changed your sound now, but it's correct . you now, but it's correct. you sounded like a pigeon earlier, but that is the sound of a dove. >> yeah, i know i love the fact that this makes ellie sound like she's a country woman. >> yeah, no, she's a country. hilariously, because this obviously i pulled i pulled the thing up on the computer here. >> we've actually had to
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youtube. there you go. >> and at the bottom, she's just said to it, i haven't told you this, but she just went, oh, and look at all the lovely beads by its feet. that'll be seed, darling . that'll be seed, she darling. that'll be seed, she thought. it's one of the decorated. the plank with beads to make it look pretty. it's seeds to get it there . oh, oh, seeds to get it there. oh, oh, i thought it was like a magpie and it'd been collecting loads of pretty beads. >> i thought like that dove's got taste. okay it's seeds. okay, so i'm not very outdoorsy people . she's. no, no, i did people. she's. no, no, i did recognise that sound . so that's recognise that sound. so that's something. oh, dear. that's as if you didn't tell me i couldn't wait. >> i couldn't wait to share it with our lovely. i'm so embarrassed. >> anyway , we're talking about >> anyway, we're talking about bird songs. apparently. it's very good for you if you've just woken up and you're thinking what is going on with these two this morning? >> makes you laugh anyway. >> makes you laugh anyway. >> bird song is very good for you. better than a walk in nature. apparently listening to bird songs. so that's why we're talking about doves. >> there you go. anyway oh. >> there you go. anyway oh.
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>> that's embarrassing. >> that's embarrassing. >> oh, right. let's tell you about a business in the west midlands, which has been given a king's award for enterprise . king's award for enterprise. this all happened at a ceremony yesterday. >> yes. the award is the highest official uk honour for british businesses aiming to promote both small and large enterprises. >> west midlands reporterjack >> west midlands reporter jack carson has the story for a business in the uk, it's the highest accolade achievable and the west midlands is not afraid to make its mark. >> at a ceremony at their factory in smethwick, the lord—lieutenant of the west midlands, sirjohn lord—lieutenant of the west midlands, sir john crabtree obe, presented the team at remedy health with the prestigious king's award for enterprise in the innovation category. >> we recognise in the outstanding achievement of the said award recipient as demonstrated in the application of innovation in our united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. our channel islands and isle of man, wishing to show our royal favour, confer uponit to show our royal favour, confer upon it the king's award for enterprise innovation. >> the prize aims to reward both small and large businesses with an innovative product or service
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and recognise their contribution to enterprise. with last year being the first awarded by his majesty king charles. remedy health and their nourished brand won the award for their 3d printed customisable nutritional gummies. the business has developed and innovated to be able to combine seven different active ingredients into one daily personalised stack. customers can choose their favourite vitamins and supplements, and at their factory in birmingham, they'll 3d print the selection on demand. award winning female entrepreneur melissa snover is the brains behind the business. she describes what it means to be honoured with the king's award for our business is really the highest honour that we could ever receive . ever receive. >> we were really founded on the idea that innovation is going to be the single biggest factor in changing the world, and so you can imagine we're all overwhelmed with pride. >> the nourish brand was only one of ten west midlands winners out of the 262 rewarded in total , and the only winner in birmingham in the innovation category . but it isn't just
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category. but it isn't just about running a business. melissa says she's passionate about the next generation of female entrepreneurs and works with by women, built a platform for female owned businesses less than 80% of young people can name a female entrepreneur , and name a female entrepreneur, and thatis name a female entrepreneur, and that is something that we're really committed to changing the narrative on at bwb. >> i think you can't be it if you can't see it. and so myself and the other women involved in that cause are really trying to raise the profile of female entrepreneurs and make sure that young people are seeing them at the beginning of their career, where they're starting to think about what will i be having launched in 2019, this business has already had to navigate a pandemic and high inflation. >> but with its king's award for enterprise proudly on display, their future has the royal seal of approval. jack carson gb news smethwick . smethwick. >> oh, fabulous isn't it? we're heanng >> oh, fabulous isn't it? we're hearing all this great news about the king. >> yeah, it's really positive at the moment and the fact i just think it's very good if you can
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meet a lord lieutenant . meet a lord lieutenant. >> oh, yes. >> oh, yes. >> we had one in dartford on tuesday. a lord lieutenant . tuesday. a lord lieutenant. lady, i want to say karigan . oh. lady, i want to say karigan. oh. who was there, but representatives of his majesty. >> it's really nice. >> it's really nice. >> she was lovely, actually . >> she was lovely, actually. >> she was lovely, actually. >> oh. that's lovely. >> oh. that's lovely. >> there you go. >> there you go. >> oh, you're not forgetting dartford soon, are you? >> i'm not such a lovely day. >> i'm not such a lovely day. >> it's ingrained in my mind. >> it's ingrained in my mind. >> oh, it's our day in dartford. >> oh, it's our day in dartford. >> it was very special . it's >> it was very special. it's nice to be out. it felt like a school trip. yeah. >> lovely . and if you were >> lovely. and if you were there, it was great to see. we met loads of people . met loads of people. >> oh yeah. it was endless, wasn't it? an endless stream of love. >> i don't know how to respond to that. >> it was, wasn't it? >> it was, wasn't it? >> this all sounds wrong . >> this all sounds wrong. >> this all sounds wrong. >> well, it does a bit, but it wasn't. it was lovely. >> it was lovely . right. >> it was lovely. right. adrian's going to have all your sports news. that's in just a couple of minutes
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i >> welcome back. >> welcome back. >> it's sports time now with aidan magee. morning to you, aidan. >> good morning to you both. >> good morning to you both. >> and the slot has been filled. >> and the slot has been filled. >> fantastic. yeah, it's been the slot has been filled by slot. exactly. i'm not convinced he was ever the first choice, because i think xabi alonso was probably the preferred target. he's the next liverpool player and he's won the eredivisie with sorry, not the eredivisie. the bundesliga, of course, with bayer leverkusen, ellie's favourite team. yeah. so look , favourite team. yeah. so look, they've moved last night. we got some information yesterday from various sources that liverpool had agreed . a package £7.7 had agreed. a package £7.7 million up front, with a possible 1.7 in add ons. now, it's interesting because that sounds that sounds like a football transfer and that's the amount that's the amount that i mean, it's not the amount that it's a bit lower than what you pay it's a bit lower than what you pay for a player, but it's very rare that you pay substantial compensation for a manager, mainly because they're here today and gone tomorrow. they're
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very kind of transitory. at least with a player, there's a chance you might keep them for 3 or 4 years to prove themselves, but nonetheless they look to have got the deal done. if we look at his credentials for the job, he won the league last season and i suppose you'll say to me, well, feyenoord are a big club in holland, but they've only won at once in the previous 25 years. so he initiated a culture change there, which meant that they could overcome psv and ajax , who tend to be the psv and ajax, who tend to be the dominant sides over in holland. they like his style of play. they like his style of play. they believe he can develop players , and developing players players, and developing players is extremely important, even for a rich club like liverpool, because why pay £100 million for a player when you can get them at an earlier stage and develop and develop them later on? so in terms of his personality, it's one of those clubs where the big six need big personalities. that's why i think erik ten hag hasn't really succeeded at manchester united. i'm not sure you're not big enough . i don't you're not big enough. i don't think he's its personality. just in press conferences , he doesn't in press conferences, he doesn't come across as the big personality. you're you're ahead of a huge organisation. these
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are global organisations , are global organisations, especially liverpool and manchester united. the other problem would be how well do dutch imports translate to the premier league. we've seen some excellent players and some very poor players with big reputations come to england and failed. likewise with management . we've seen erik ten hag .we've seen erik ten hag largely fail at manchester united. i'm not sure he'll be there next season. ronald koeman back in the day as well when he went to everton, couldn't quite cut it. so the jury will be out on a slot but he'll fit right in because he's bald as a coot. >> well he . is. >> well he. is. >> well he. is. >> this is fantastic. we've got a picture actually here because it means that as things stand, assuming erik ten hag keeps his job, we're going to be hero to hero to zero. no, hero to zero. hair today. gone tomorrow. oh, that's what you're looking for. >> oh, look at them all. there they are. >> there they are. so top left. for the benefit of our radio listeners, we've got pep guardiola at manchester city. we've got arne slot who've been discussing right, who's discussing top right, who's taking at liverpool. bottom taking over at liverpool. bottom left sean dyche, everton and bottom right erik ten hag, who i fear might not be there. he might break up that little, that bald cartel , might break up that little, that bald cartel, but it might break up that little, that bald cartel , but it looks like bald cartel, but it looks like that's going to be the case.
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possibly at the start of next season. i don't know what it is about, about these bald managers. it means that, i don't know, maybe there's something maybe, maybe the information stays in their head a bit a bit better. they can impart it onto the players. i don't know, i don't know. >> oh, they all look good on it. >> oh, they all look good on it. >> did you just go off and make the montage? >> somebody else did . >> somebody else did. >> somebody else did. >> a friend of mine. a friend of mine. >> very skilled. >> very skilled. >> i'm not going to credit him. no, because he's taken a lot of my stuff down, mind you, let's talk about leicester city back in the premier league without even touching a football. >> without doubt. well, all the action happened at loftus road, just down the road from here. i was there watching my beloved queen's park rangers. now qpr did need a point just to be absolutely sure . of staying up absolutely sure. of staying up in the championship, but leeds united need at least a point and you can see me at the game last night. that's me just celebrating on the just up above the on the terrace, up above the pitch. i don't know if you can see that on the, not on the radio. >> you can't. >>- >> you can't. >> no no no no. but that's my i was going to wear that outfit into work this morning, but i thought you'd take the mickey out of me. yeah, we would. you.
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you think i've come straight from there to here? >> yeah. basically >> yeah. basically >> but i was worried that the qpr would be on the beach, if you like. not really much to do. they wouldn't really put up much of a fight against leeds, but i was completely wrong because leeds only need a point to stay in the hunt for promotion. and then qpr absolutely brushed them aside by four goals to nil, two goals in each half. leeds didn't offer much of a resistance actually, and i think partly steven, if we're going to look at things in a really balanced way. they went to middlesbrough on monday . way. they went to middlesbrough on monday. big fixture. they won four three. that takes a lot out of you. middlesbrough are a decent side. they're on the road again coming to london. i mean they must have had about another 2500 fans there last night. leeds it's a it's a lot of travelling. it's a big undertaking at this stage of the season. don't forget in the championship you play 46 games. that's eight matches more than they play in the premier league and they look leggy. last night they looked weary and because of that leicester city got promotion. they had a real stumble about a month ago, but they really pulled it out of the bag in the last couple of games and got themselves over the line owing in no small parts of the fact that leeds failed to win last night. ipswich in action tonight away to hull city. they have to get five points in their
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remaining three games to get automatic promotion. if they got promoted, given they don't have any parachute money from being in the premier league recently , in the premier league recently, that would be an extraordinary story. leeds, therefore, would be in the play offs and you don't want to be in the playoffs when you've just suffered the heartache of not getting up automatically. >> okay, aiden, we're out of time, but we'll catch up with you a little bit later. thank you a little bit later. thank you very much indeed. now do you stay with us? >> we'll be going through the papers next with susan holder and emma woolf.
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if you want. children. yeah. >> so this is a really interesting study , a very big interesting study, a very big study of women in their 20s and 30s who may be wanting to have children , looking at the effects children, looking at the effects of vaping basically on your fertility . and obviously we talk fertility. and obviously we talk a lot about, you know, not smoking , not drinking, not doing smoking, not drinking, not doing drugs, kind of getting yourself in shape before you have children. all of that vaping i think we know less about we know less about the general effect of vaping. and it does seem to have a not very good effect, maybe even suppressing this hormone called amh, which is the anti—mullerian hormone , which is anti—mullerian hormone, which is anti—mullerian hormone, which is an indicator of your fertility. it's an indicator of your ovarian reserve, and so obviously, you know, correlation and causation, they can't make the link immediately. but it does seem that vaping isn't particularly good for your fertility, and it's sort of wide ranging study. it was 325,000 women. i think it was, and, you know, a lot of i mean, it was done by a women's health firm called hostility. but it obviously it just highlights the
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fact that things like smoking, things like alcohol and all of those lifestyle factors , those lifestyle factors, unfortunately, are not great for your for your fertility and that women need to think about these things, what's quite interesting in the article as well was it said that people tend women do tend to go kind of a bit mad just before they get pregnant and kind of do a lot of socialising , and kind of do a lot of socialising, going out drinking, because they know that once they perhaps have a baby and start a family, they can't do that. or maybe that's how they end up pregnant, i don't know, but it's also interesting. it doesn't say anything about vaping and men. how does it affect sperm count ? how does it affect sperm count? i mean, it does. there are two people. it does tend to kind of involve making a baby. it's putting an awful lot of kind of onus on the women to get themselves healthy and get themselves healthy and get themselves doing this. and a really interesting to know that whether whether actually the vaping does anything to men, it does. >> it does. exactly. and smoking and alcohol are really not good for. >> well, we don't want to have a go at man over that because, male fertility is dropping like a stone anyway at the minute. >> yeah. and i think there's lots of factors involved. i think there's a lot of funny hormones and drugs and things in, in, in water and in food and
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things like that because people started taking so much. >> you want to have children. the word get in shape, basically don't eat or drink anything. oh no, don't even water very very bad. avoid it or not do anything anymore , susan. yes, the great, anymore, susan. yes, the great, the most amazing . peter kay, the most amazing. peter kay, i love them. >> you love peter kay. >> you love peter kay. >> we all love peter . >> we all love peter. >> we all love peter. >> he's having a swipe at a manchester venue. >> well, he's meant to be opening the new the brand new £365 million arena in manchester, and it's been put back. so if people have got tickets and were hoping to see peter kay in the next couple of days, it's been put back another month. so there are issues with this arena and the issues are to do with safety and capacity and the electrics and everything else. they had a they had a test run. i think rick astley did a gig- run. i think rick astley did a gig. i did, yeah. and that went. but they reduced the capacity and that was the test run. but the test run hasn't gone well and they're still working on it. so yeah , i just feel so sorry
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so yeah, i just feel so sorry for anyone who's got pete obviously getting peter kay tickets are the best of times is like getting, you know, a golden ticket to the willy wonka factory. and unfortunately, if you've got them and you've made your arrangements and you've got your arrangements and you've got your travel and you booked your hotel , well, what a disaster for hotel, well, what a disaster for people that they're going to have to they're going to have to rebook again. >> i feel sorry for anyone who's got peter kay tickets. i think stand up comedy is the worst thing in the world. i would pay, i know, i know, everybody will hate me and everybody will disagree. >> but it's peter kay. >> but it's peter kay. >> i literally take me to a stand up comedy night and i would anybody funny . i don't would anybody funny. i don't want comedy like that. funny things are funny that happen . or things are funny that happen. or funny funny conversations or just events in life. someone standing up and telling jokes and being funny. there is a really funny makes me want to just literally cringe. you you not fun. i can't bear it. >> oh i've never because you feel it before. >> i've never heard that before. well my i was going to say my daughter emily, well my daughter in law to be my son is getting married this summer and his, his
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girlfriend is a stand up comedian. she, she works on the on the london circuit. she's hilarious. she's called beth fox and she's brilliant. find her on instagram, but i understand what you mean . a bad comedy gig when you mean. a bad comedy gig when you're there live is very awkward . and difficult. i mean, awkward. and difficult. i mean, if you don't like it on the television, you just switch it off. and if you're in the room and somebody is not going down, well, this never happens to beth. she's always funny, but to not like any comedians is victoria wood. does that not do anything for you? no. >> absolutely not, billy connolly. it's not that i dislike them. i just the idea of going to stand up comedy really just makes me want to just eat my. >> you must have had. i think you must have had a bad experience somewhere in your just. >> no, it's just not in my, you know, live music. absolutely, absolutely . i you know, we're absolutely. i you know, we're all wired differently. we're all wired differently, aren't we? well, some people love the theatre. some people love musicals, some people love opera. i love all that. but i don't want to go to a stand up comedy gig. gig even the thought of it. oh, yeah. >> no peter kay, though i tell you, i tell you i have a bad word said about peter kay. he's one of the funniest men alive.
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but i'll tell you what i'd be really annoyed if i was the co—op. it's called the manchester co—op live, this venue. so i mean , how much have venue. so i mean, how much have they paid for the sponsorship of this and all they're getting at the minute is negative publicity, but good. >> i'm glad that they're really going through all the safety stuff. and you know, they're obviously being cautious . and obviously being cautious. and we've seen issues with safety and with overcrowding or whatever it is capacity. and i think in a way, a couple of months delay is probably in the end will be a good thing. >> it'll be and peter will be all the more brilliant when he gets to kind of do it. and peter, i have to say, i've met peter, i have to say, i've met peter a few times. he's he's he's funny off kind of stage. he's just a naturally very funny person. he just makes you just laugh all the time. he's amazing. >> he's your ears pricked up then i did. yeah. you'd love to meet peter kay. >> well, i'll tell you what. let's all get healthy this morning. emma should we? and have, an m&s pasta salad? this is hilarious. >> it's a this is a 750 calorie cheeseburger pasta salad from m&s. now. no i'm not criticising m&s, but this is huge. this has
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more calories in it than a big mac. more fat in it than a big mac. >> it contains look very big. >> it contains look very big. >> it's called the viva summer. yeah, exactly. it looks like a salad, but it's the cheeseburger salad. >> does it look like a salad? i can't see anything. >> i mean, it looks like it might be a pot of pasta. salad is what i mean. it doesn't look like it carries that much of a punch. it contains meatballs , punch. it contains meatballs, cheese and burger sauce. and, yeah, as i say, 33g of fat, and massa had a few. they've had a bit of criticism recently for charging people £6 for a posh 999 charging people £6 for a posh egg and cress sandwich and all of that, but it's more calories than a mcdonald's triple cheeseburger. >> yeah , and more calories. >> yeah, and more calories. >> yeah, and more calories. >> more fat than a big mac. i mean, this really is. and almost double. i'm almost double the amount. that's what i mean. it doesn't look particularly. >> you have to read your food labels, but the label is quite clear. >> it says cheeseburger and pasta, if you're reaching for the salad in your hand, wanders to the cheeseburger pasta, then you're making a mistake, but suzanne , it's in the pasta
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suzanne, it's in the pasta range, so maybe people are thinking it's. but but m&s have said it's a limited edition summer treat . summer treat. >> well, yes, but you're better off with a cheeseburger . off with a cheeseburger. >> it's like when people when you get these things saying, oh, something's fat free, or then it tends to be full of sugar. >> full of sugar. >> full of sugar. >> yeah. if it's sugar free, it tends to be full of fat. yeah. i mean, things that are promoted as healthy often aren't exactly, exactly . exactly. >> i do think this thing probably needs a warning, though, because that is a lot of it's a lot of a sort of daily, daily calorie intake. it's probably over half of a daily. >> i'd like to know how how they've got someone to agree that the word salad could even be on there, because i can't see anything in the ingredients other than that it's cold, which doesn't not cold food doesn't mean it's a salad, does it? >> no, it reminds you of a few years ago, a neighbour of mine was showing me her. she loved having, the it was an m&s , rice having, the it was an m&s, rice pudding thing. and, you know , a pudding thing. and, you know, a fancy rice pudding, but it was only like a portion for they say , for two. but you know, when i looked at it, it was 4000. >> yeah. and rice pudding sounds
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fairly, you know, sugar sounds fairly, you know, sugar sounds fairly healthy , doesn't it. fairly healthy, doesn't it. >> and she was eating the two person portion as a one. >> of course. yeah >> of course. yeah >> do you think that there should be some responsibility on these high street shops though to i mean, when you are offering products that are a person's daily calorie allowance , that daily calorie allowance, that perhaps it comes with some sort of warning. >> well, i'm not really into kind of i think that counting calories and fat makes people a little bit, you know, obsessive and worried and anxious about all that. but then again, people do need to keep account of this. and i know that if you're trying to lose weight, it can be really, really healthy. i think something like that, to be fair, it's not a salad. you're absolutely right. it's not a salad and it probably shouldn't be in that range if you're doing it once in a while. >> just need a cheeseburger. >> just need a cheeseburger. >> yeah, yeah yeah. had to have a cheeseburger. >> yeah, can we have a look at. i love this susan in the sun, i love chimaera. >> yeah, well, isn't that we've got the picture of it. it is incredible. now, i confession not a particular cat person , but not a particular cat person, but this one is a very, very special cat. it's called chimaera because it's like two things
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blended together. and they're saying the headline is kattenberg because it looks like a battenberg cake . yes. it's a battenberg cake. yes. it's also got beautifully one orange and one blue eye bit david bowie ish , yeah. so it's a cat that ish, yeah. so it's a cat that somebody adopted from a cattery in belgium, and it's called domino . and it is. domino. and it is. >> oh. is it? what a surprise. >> oh. is it? what a surprise. >> have we put the picture up? >> have we put the picture up? >> no we haven't. if you hold up, you hold it up and you get the camera because you need to see that beautiful cat . see that beautiful cat. >> if you don't like cats, but you do like battenberg. also, you do like battenberg. also, you might look at that. it's incredible. >> beautiful. >> beautiful. >> so does it look like a battenberg cake ? is it link. battenberg cake? is it link. >> yeah, it does with the little square in different squares and the owner says that people think it's a, it's got a huge instagram following that they think she's kind of done some painted it or done something trickery with, with, you know, computer generated. but that is naturally how the cat it's kind of two cells fusing together and that's what comes out a chimaera cat. very unusual. but she got it from a cattery. >> so yeah. wow. that's beautiful . thank you. you too.
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beautiful. thank you. you too. time. thank you very much. >> we'll take a look at the weather for you. now >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on gb news. >> morning. we have some heavy, persistent rain arriving later today. meaning tomorrow is going today. meaning tomorrow is going to be pretty wet for some of us. however, before then, it's a rather showery day for many of us today. first thing, we do have quite a bit of cloud across southern areas and some outbreaks of showery rain pushing their way into parts of the midlands. more central parts as we go through the day across scotland, northern ireland. a touch of frost first thing this morning and then a scattering of showers developing as we head into the afternoon, and some of these could turn a little bit wintry over the higher ground. there will be some sunny spells around, but temperatures still a little bit below average for the time of year . some places time of year. some places staying in single figures highs of around 14 or 15 celsius. further south, some heavy rain then feeding into southern parts as we go through this evening. so a pretty wet end to the day here. and that rain then
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continuing to push further northwards overnight, feeding in across much of central southern england into some northern parts of england and perhaps into wales as well. first thing tomorrow morning, towards the northwest , though, some clearer northwest, though, some clearer skies. so again we could see a touch of frost . first thing. it touch of frost. first thing. it is going to be a wet start to the day across much of england and wales then tomorrow. but that rain, although will be quite heavy and persistent for a time, is gradually going to clear its way northwards, could fringe into some eastern parts of scotland , but more western of scotland, but more western parts of scotland and northern ireland going to stay largely dry. and we should see some sunshine also breaking out across parts of west and wales and southwest england. two temperatures similar to today but obviously feeling a bit more unpleasant when it's going to be very wet. >>
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humza yousaf faces political chaos. scotland's first minister has insisted he will not resign. that's despite facing a vote of no confidence in his leadership. >> humza yousaf is clinging on by the tips of his fingers. will he be able to survive next week? and if he does, what does the future have in store? find out more with me very soon. >> critics are wrong on rwanda. the home secretary hits out, saying opposition to the policy wilfully ignores progress made by the african state. >> brexit border controls are set to come into effect in northern ireland. >> as physical customs checks right across britain this week, that could well have an effect on food inflation. prices >> and coming up, we're going to
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be meeting legendary singer marty wilde to tell us about his new album and his career spanning more than 65 years. >> good morning leicester. have sealed promotion back to the premier league at the first attempt. last night, without even kicking a ball as rivals leeds united crashed four nil at queens park. rangers and liverpool reached an agreement with dutch side feyenoord to appoint arne slot as successor to jurgen klopp, although it's still going to be rather cool this weekend. >> a few showers to watch out for today and then something wetter arriving later. i'll have the details coming up . the details coming up. >> morning to you. i'm stephen dixon and i'm ellie costello, and this is breakfast on . and this is breakfast on. gb news. >> we've been talking about birdsong this morning because apparently it's very beneficial for you. better than walking in nature , hearing the birdsong. nature, hearing the birdsong. mike says birdsong. where i am
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consists of loud calling of dozens of seagulls, little bit different to the tweeting of garden birds. >> yes, well , seagulls are >> yes, well, seagulls are a little bit less. mind you, they're getting protected now, aren't they, because they're concerned about the number of seagulls. >> they don't need any protection . we need protection protection. we need protection from them. >> they do. >> they do. >> they do. brazen >> they do. brazen >> maurice says best. birdsong in the morning is robin and a blackbird sets up for the day. yeah.i blackbird sets up for the day. yeah. i couldn't tell you what a robin sounded like. >> no, neither could i. we'll get that one up on youtube next. and antony says bird songs this time of year in my village is so uplifting . people in high rise uplifting. people in high rise posh apartments in the city don't know what they're missing. >> oh, there you go. there you go. do keep those views coming in on any of those stories that we're talking about today. >> gbnews.com slash your say, sean williams has been in touch on that chimaera cat we were looking at in the papers . looking at in the papers. >> come here. cats are the ones where they're sort of split down the middle with their colours. and he says, i don't think we should celebrate hybrid animal breeding. i don't think it is hybnd
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breeding. i don't think it is hybrid animal breeding in that sense. it'sjust hybrid animal breeding in that sense. it's just a genetic, flaw. i mean, they're, you know, they're just moggies, aren't they, that have. >> yeah. and i mean, i don't think it's a chimaera. >> cats aren't bred to be chimaeras. >> yeah. i mean, i'm saying i think that cat looks quite scary. yes. >> it's very mean. okay it's a lovely, beautiful thing. sorry, gorgeous. >> but i did find it a bit scary looking. just the different colour eyes. wasn't sure. yeah, yeah, but anyway , anyway, enough yeah, but anyway, anyway, enough of that. >> if you want to get involved. gb news dot compusa. >> now the king is set to return to public duties on tuesday following successful cancer treatment . treatment. >> palace spokesperson has said king charles greatly encouraged to be resuming some public facing engagements and very grateful to his medical team. well, people have sent their best wishes, including the prime minister, rishi sunak, who simply said on x brilliant news to end the week and the labour leader, sir keir starmer said delighted to see his majesty looking so well, i wish him and the princess of wales the very
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best as they continue their recovery with the support of their families. >> well, we're now joined by former royal correspondent for the sun newspaper, charles rea. very good to see you this morning , charles. very good to morning, charles. very good to see king charles as well in that photograph. what a relief to hear that he's going to be returning to public duties. >> it is absolutely fantastic news. and that is a brilliant photograph by millie pilkington . photograph by millie pilkington. i mean, it just summed up the whole day , of the great news whole day, of the great news that he has had. he's not out of the woods yet, and he's not pretending to be out of the woods, but his treatment is going so well that he is coming back into public duties. he's going to be meeting people, you know, public facing people and everything else. and there's a whole list of events that are coming up throughout the year as, he may not do all of them. it will very much depend on his doctors advice. but two things that are on the cards are very lengthy trips to samoa for the government, heads of state and also, australia . so it's, you
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also, australia. so it's, you know, he's got a lot of plans going on. >> you necessarily think, charles, it's the right thing and will it will he be pressured into this? i mean obviously we want we want to see him back. it's you know, it's very positive in one respect. we wouldn't want him to feel obuged wouldn't want him to feel obliged to come back before he's ready. >> no, i suspect that he is the driving force, the to come back. i mean, he's not a man. as nichi hodgson said earlier on today, who just sits around in his pipe and slippers. he does, he is a very hard working man, and he gets up very early and goes to bed very late at night. and i'm sure that camilla has been making sure that he has been resting as much as possible, but i suspect he is the driving force about getting back to what he is loathed not having to do the things that , you know, a the things that, you know, a king should do, but i think his doctors, i think he is listening
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to his doctors. i hope he's listening to his doctors. and i'm sure that they are giving him the right advice. and they will look at each individual event that crops up and will say to him, we think you could do this and maybe just take this one easy. well, it'll it'll depend on that advice. >> it might be the case of one thing at a time. charles, what does this mean for the wider family as well? because we know the slimmed down monarchy , that the slimmed down monarchy, that this has been a very challenging time for the family, especially for prince william, who obviously has his own thing to deal with, doesn't he? with with his wife also, battling with cancer. his wife also, battling with cancer . what do you think this cancer. what do you think this means for prince william and also queen camilla, who's really had to step up to the plate? >> well, it'll be a slight relief because the king will be able to do some of the duties that they had. >> they had been taking on, and so it's great that he's back and more importantly, i think will be waiting as well with bated breath really to in the hope that we hear some great news about the princess of wales and her battle, but i think , you
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her battle, but i think, you know, the family, is coming back together again. they will they will cope quite amazingly as they have done and they will continue to do so. i mean, the fact that the slimmed down is, is a natural thing. that's that's happened. you know, harry in montecito , you've got andrew in montecito, you've got andrew clearly who can't do anything else. but people like the duke and duchess of edinburgh have stepped up to the plate and helped out. obviously, princess anne, the royal workhorse, she's been doing all the all the stuff that she normally does and a bit more. so yeah, no, no, they're in fine fettle in terms of pubuc in fine fettle in terms of public reaction to this and the pubuc public reaction to this and the public support there's been whilst whilst we've known he's been ill, what does that do for him. >> does he really take that on board. >> oh absolutely. >> oh absolutely. >> i mean he has been i mean he's had thousands of get well soon cards and he's been reading most of them and looking at them . and we know he's taken a tremendous, you know, fillip that that these people have
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taken the time in trouble, to send, you know, actual cards to go on twitter to go on the social media and wish them all the best. and i think that is one of the great things , that one of the great things, that has helped, him his recovery . has helped, him his recovery. vie and the other thing as well, you've got to remember as well, the fact that he is produced this news, this great news, gives hope to so many other cancer sufferers as well as as it did when he first announced in february that he has got cancen in february that he has got cancer. and we know that the very first thing he's going to do is on tuesday. he's going to a cancer treatment centre where he's going to be meeting medics and, you know , people who are and, you know, people who are being treated for cancer. again, this will be this will be great for people who are suffering from this dreadful disease, well, i was going to ask you about that trip , actually, about that trip, actually, because if anything, that is just a continuation of really what an amazing job the king has donein what an amazing job the king has done in his openness with his treatment and how beneficial it is for awareness and for other
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people suffering with the disease . disease. >> yes, we know that when he first announced his cancer , the, first announced his cancer, the, cancer charities saw a great rise in a number of people who were contacting them and, and also people who were getting checked by their doctors and hospitals and so forth. so all this is to the good. and this is the great thing about you know, the great thing about you know, the royal family, when they do things like this, it helps people, it helps members of the public. and i think one of you said earlier on that this is the great way to end, you know, a week with a fantastic news and long may it continue. >> yeah. well charles, really good to see you this morning. and it's lovely that the nation are behind him. so many, well wishes. oh, can't say that anymore, can we? >> good wishes. >> good wishes. >> good wishes. >> good wishes, wishes, best wishes coming in from loads of you and actually from around the world. kimberly leonard is in kenya this morning sending her best to the king. i mean, it's just loads of people watching
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and paying attention and just hoping for the very best for the king. oh it's lovely. >> and we do as well, don't we? >> and we do as well, don't we? >> we do. >> we do. >> of course we do. sending our best wishes this morning. now humza yousaf says he will not resign as scotland's first minister. it's ahead of a crucial test of his leadership next week. >> he says that as a minority government, his party will need to make some concessions as it negotiates with other parties. it's after the collapse of the snp's power sharing deal with the greens yesterday. humza yousaf says he'll fight on. >> i fully intend to, not just win that vote, but i intend to fight to make sure that the government stays, not just the government stays, not just the government continues to deliver on the priorities of the people, like, for example, investing in affordable housing. so there's all that political game playing happening from the opposition. it will not be taking part. it will be getting, of course, on with the job. and when the vote comes, i fully intend to win. >> well, joining us now is gb news political correspondent olivia utley. good to see you this morning, olivia. and fighting talk there from the
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first minister. >> absolutely fighting talk. but the idea that he'll just have to make some concessions, i would say is a bit of an understatement. >> the greens are absolutely furious, as we know, with the unceremonious way in which humza yousaf ended that coalition now douglas ross, the leader of the scottish conservatives, has tabled this vote of no confidence in humza yousaf, the snp is one seat short of a majority in holyrood, which means that to win this vote of no confidence, humza yousaf will need the support of at least one, probably two msps from other parties. now he's trying to butter up the greens, but perhaps unsurprisingly , they've perhaps unsurprisingly, they've said that they will vote against him in the vote of no confidence . his other potential hope is ash regan, who is the only alba party msp. alba is the breakaway scottish nationalist party. unfortunately for humza yousaf, he fell out big time with ash regan a couple of years ago when they disagreed over trans rights and she ended up leaving the party when and he said that she
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was no great loss. well, now she could be the person who makes or breaks his political future career. this vote of confidence will happen next week. humza yousaf, between now and then will be on the on the charm offensive. both to the greens and to ash regan because unfortunately for him , everyone unfortunately for him, everyone else in holyrood has come down on him like a ton of bricks. laboun on him like a ton of bricks. labour, the lib dems and the conservatives all saying variations of well, the snp are clowns. we need to end this farce. if he does survive that vote of no confidence next week, if he manages to get probably ash regan on side , his political ash regan on side, his political future is still very, very uncertain . it's going to be uncertain. it's going to be really, really tough for him. governing as a minority government in holyrood, and it's quite possible that he ends up just not being able to get any policies over the line just becomes impossible for him to govern. >> what if he doesn't win ? >> what if he doesn't win? >> what if he doesn't win? >> if he doesn't win, well, the vote wouldn't be legally binding, so he wouldn't actually have to stand down. and perhaps what he was saying yesterday was
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an indication that he may try and not stand down, but it would be pretty difficult for him politically to remain in that post after holyrood had voted no confidence in him. and, you know, you could end up in a situation like theresa may found herself in at the end of the brexit days, where she was she she was the leader, but she was sort of leader in name only because every time she tried to get one of her flagship policies over the line , there was a hold over the line, there was a hold up in parliament and she just wasn't able to. there was a blockage and i think that's what humza yousaf can expect . whether humza yousaf can expect. whether or not he wins that vote of confidence next week, he's just going to really, really struggle to actually govern. at which point his leadership may become untenable. okay. >> olivia utley, good to see you this morning. thank you very much indeed. >> now the government's going to begin physical checks at the border on medium risk and high risk goods coming into the uk at the end of the month. >> yes. the final major change
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will come in october, though, with the government requiring safety and security declarations whilst also introducing a single trade window aiming to reduce the number of forms needed for importers , well, it's all very importers, well, it's all very confusing. presumably that's coming into northern ireland from the irish border. meanwhile, in ireland , goods meanwhile, in ireland, goods coming in that direction are going to be checked after october this year. >> well joining us now is gb news northern ireland reporter dougie beattie. good to see you this morning dougie. it all sounds very complicated. do tell us more. us more. >> us more. >> yes it is very complicated in fact we were reporting from northern ireland on it is because for the last three years we have put up with it exactly those sort of systems. now the british government has said these checks for european goods coming into the uk is for veterinary safety, food safety , veterinary safety, food safety, food standards, which is totally understandable . but we of course understandable. but we of course have border checks coming from britain into this part of the uk, because we are held inside
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european regulations now , i european regulations now, i can't tell you that we had northern ireland had asked for trusted trader status as the deal that would put that through, and we were told it would not work. technically it would not work. technically it would not work. and therefore europe went against it and we ended up with trader support services. now the problem really gets to when you decide . to gets to when you decide. to start filling in more forms, you go down the route of light, touch. what happens is the bureaucracy around that accelerates and keeps on going, and you end up with mountains and you end up with mountains and mountains of paperwork, which then stops the flow of goods coming in the regularity of those flow of goods. and of course, it adds to the price and the cost of the goods that are coming to your shelves now , that coming to your shelves now, that is a natural outworking of brexit. and that's why i'm standing here. this is customs house in belfast. customs .
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house in belfast. customs. house square and back in the day, all goods coming into this part of the world would face the customs charges and checks here before going into the markets. so britain, now that they have pulled out of the eu, they are no longer following eu regulation and legislation. and as that divergence continues to go on, what britain is really looking at is stopping trade or food that is not just up to their standard coming from a third country, but that's slightly ironic because both europe and britain take food from outside the eu. so argentina brazil supply much of the beef that comes into europe and that is put into ready meals . and that is really what they'll be looking at. so what britain now will be looking at is checks on things such as pizzas that has meat from foreign countries such as ready meals and hi hi that gets into our retail system will be crucial . and what will really crucial. and what will really light the touch paper on this is how much bureaucracy will come
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in on that as it comes into britain. and of course in northern ireland, it brought down a government. that government was put back up again by the promise that goods from this part of the uk would be able to travel in to britain unfettered . and go straight in unfettered. and go straight in without those customs checks and that's why i have been watching this and seeing is this deal all that was sold to northern ireland? because if our goods from northern ireland, this part of the uk are amongst those customs checks going in to britain, well then the deal. well it wasn't the deal that was sold . so we now have to look sold. so we now have to look further down the road to the sist further down the road to the 31st of october, when really . 31st of october, when really. these customs get into full flow for goods coming in from the eu into britain and from the rest of the world this morning. >> thanks very much indeed. >> thanks very much indeed. >> now, at 8:18, let's take a look at the weather for you now
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with alex burkill. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , sponsors of boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> this morning we have some heavy, persistent rain arriving later today, meaning tomorrow is going to be pretty wet for some of us. however, before then, it's a rather showery day for many of us today. first thing, we do have quite a bit of cloud across southern areas, and some outbreaks of showery rain pushing their way into parts of the midlands. more central parts as we go through the day across scotland, northern ireland. a touch of frost. first thing this morning and then a scattering of showers developing as we head into the afternoon, and some of these could turn a little bit wintry over the higher ground. there will be some sunny spells around, but temperatures still a little bit below average for the time of year. some places staying in single figures highs of around 14 or 15 celsius. further south, some heavy rain then feeding into southern parts as we go through this evening. so a pretty wet end to the day
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here and that rain. then continuing to push further northwards overnight, feeding in across much of central southern england into some northern parts of england and perhaps into wales as well. first thing tomorrow morning, towards the northwest, though, some clearer skies. so again we could see a touch of frost. first thing it is going to be a wet start to the day across much of england, and wales then tomorrow. but that rain, although will be quite heavy and persistent for a time, is gradually going to clear its way northwards could fringe into some eastern parts of scotland, but more western parts of scotland and northern ireland going to stay largely dry. and we should see some sunshine also breaking out across parts of west and wales and southwest england. two temperatures similar to today , temperatures similar to today, but obviously feeling a bit more unpleasant when it's going to be very wet. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news. >> now hopefully summer is just around the corner, so we want to make it sizzle for you this year with an incredible £20,000 in
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channel. >> it's ruined! your tea coming out of that break. >> i'm just going in for a sick going in. >> never mind to miss it. never mind. it's all worth it. because aidan magee zigi aidan magee mcginn renaming u aidan magee. >> there has been. yeah, yeah, look, what should we talk about? what do you want to go with first? >> i think we should just touch on leicester, actually, because i was at the game last night which saw them get promoted. and even though they weren't playing in that game, they weren't playing. didn't kick a ball. so nice. nice work. if you can get it, get promotion, get all that adulation without even touching adulation without even touching a football on a blade of grass. well, look, they've had a tough season in many ways. they were leading it, leading by 12 points back in january. that lead got whittled away and they had a really rough patch phase of about six matches where they lost four and drew one, and they turned it around with some big results, including a five nil win over southampton just last week. now leeds needed to go to loftus road, just down the road from here, home of queens park rangers, and get at least a
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point to keep themselves in contention for automatic promotion. steven and they were blown away four nil. somebody said to me, a good friend of mine in hospitality said to me last night, what are qpr going to do tonight? aidan you know. and i said, look, i hope we just give a good account of ourselves. i hope our minds aren't on the beach. well, they proved me wrong because they needed a point just to guarantee survival. and as i say, they brushed leeds united aside. they look fatigued. actually, leeds, they went to middlesbrough on monday, had a very emotional, highly charged game against a semi rival in middlesbrough, i suppose you could say. used to be your part of yorkshire, middlesbrough isn't it. and so they won four three and then a few days later they happen to come down to london and as i say they got absolutely hammered last night. but leicester it means a promoted automatically a big boost as well for ipswich town because they're in the running. they need five points from the last three games they travel to hold this evening at 8:00 and a decent side. i know that because they beat qpr the other week and so a big job for them tonight at the kc, but if they can do that they take a huge step towards promotion. and
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for them, given that they don't have any parachute money, they've not been in the premier league since 2002. it would be a huge, huge fillip for them. >> yeah, it would be, would be. >> yeah, it would be, would be. >> what else have you got for us, well, i think we should mention liverpool and arne slot. >> it looks like we're going with ana because we're going. yes. we didn't know whether it was arnie. arne. well if it's arnie, if it's arnie, i suppose if he gets sacked, he can always say i'll be back only. oh, this is true. very good. so we think it's arne. ana ana, ana. >> arne slot. yeah, yeah. >> arne slot. yeah, yeah. >> look, he's we're not sure. are we really? >> we're not sure. we're fine. we'll find out. i remember when arsene wenger got the arsenal job back in 1996, and he was universally known for about a week as arsene wenger. and it was only when he corrected it in a press conference he said, my name, my name is arsene. i don't know why i said it in a russian accent, but well, there you go. but but no, listen, he. arne slot is somebody who has developed a bit of pedigree in feyenoord. i know you probably say to me, look, fine, order a big club in holland. they should be winning trophies anyway. but actually, before they won the league under him last season, they don't. they won it just once in 24 years. so he brought
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about a change of culture there. liverpool are attracted by the fact that he has developed players. he has a proven track record of that. he's a big personality and you do need to be a big personality to manage any premier league club these days, even in the top two divisions, but particularly in those big juggernaut clubs in the top six, you need to have something about you. there's also the issue about some some players and managers come from holland and do very well, some don't. there's a big, big gap between the two, well, the two, the two countries in terms of their football culture now it's much smaller back in the day, but the premier league is streaked ahead just because of the money involved. and you know, it's a jurgen klopp said yesterday look i'm happy for this. he's he's he looks like a good fit. and he said that actually he's coming in with something to improve. he's acknowledged the fact that jurgen klopp that he's not finished the season very well and a bit like leeds last night, the tires have been let down on their party bus or their farewell tour and they show that's what they've been saying. and so they're going to end up with nothing. they're in action today though, against west ham, liverpool. this is and i think arne slot will be looking from afar and seeing what's what he has to do for next season, because there's a few players
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who could be leaving anfield because klopp's leaving. okay, can we have a look at well it's manchester city isn't it, and their financial fair. >> yeah. worth an update on this because i mean, these two other stories have been so big that it's been kind of, overshadowed really, but richard masters, the premier league chief executive, was giving a speech yesterday, the european conference or, european league, league conference, events. and he said that he gave an update on manchester city's situation. don't forget, they were charged with 115 charges of alleged breaches of profit and sustainability rules. that was in february 2023. now, i said at the time, steven, that city would use their lawyers to wrap the situation up in litigation. that's proved to be correct because 14 months later, we're no sooner knowing it didn't seem to stop everton being dealt with quickly and nottingham forest, but he said that a date has been set, but he refused to reveal any any details. so we should get a resolution on whether on what's going to become of manchester city, whether they're going to get relegated, whether they're going to be hit with a points deduction, a huge fine or whatever city would should say. and it's often forgotten in all this. but city deny any wrongdoing. all right. >> okay . i'm
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wrongdoing. all right. >> okay. i'm only smiling because you like a badger. aiden is renowned for very bad jokes. >> i don't know about that. >> i don't know about that. >> deborah bet has just messaged him just this second. just saying. i think klopp's brother clipity should have taken over . clipity should have taken over. very good. >> yeah. very good. you like that one? the horse one? >> yeah. he's not there for long. >> oh yeah , i get out. >> oh yeah, i get out. >> oh yeah, i get out. >> right. good. aiden, you about yourself? >> don't worry. thanks very much. see you later. we'll see you tomorrow. yeah. >> yes. see you then. still to come. a business in the west midlands has received the king's award for enterprise. we'll be telling you all about it
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businesses aiming to promote both small and large enterprises. >> well, it is a big deal. so we sent our west midlands reporter jack carson to take a look . jack carson to take a look. >> yeah, for a business in the uk it's the highest accolade achievable and the west midlands is not afraid to make its mark at a ceremony at their factory in smethwick, the lord—lieutenant of the west midlands, sirjohn lord—lieutenant of the west midlands, sir john crabtree obe, presented the team at remedy health with the prestigious king's award for enterprise in the innovation category . the innovation category. >> we recognise in the outstanding achievement of the said award recipient, as demonstrated in the application of innovation in our united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, our channel islands and isle of man and wishing to show our royal favour, confer upon it the king's award for enterprise innovation. the prize aims to reward both small and large businesses with an innovative product or service and recognise their contribution to enterprise, with last year being the first awarded by his majesty king charles raneem oudeh . king charles raneem oudeh. >> health and their nourished
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brand won the award for their 3d printed customisable nutritional gummies. the business has developed and innovated to be able to combine seven different active ingredients into one daily personalised stack. customers can choose their favourite vitamins and supplements and at their factory in birmingham, they'll 3d print the selection on demand. award winning female entrepreneur melissa snover is the brains behind the business. she describes what it means to be honoured with the king's award for our business is really the highest honour that we could ever receive. >> we were really founded on the idea that innovation is going to be the single biggest factor in changing the world, and so you can imagine we're all overwhelmed with pride. >> the nourish brand was only one of ten west midlands winners out of the 262 rewarded in total, and the only winner in birmingham in the innovation category. but it isn't just about running a business. melissa says she's passionate about the next generation of female entrepreneurs and works with by women, built a platform
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for female owned businesses less than 80% of young people can name a female entrepreneur , and name a female entrepreneur, and thatis name a female entrepreneur, and that is something that we're really committed to changing the narrative on at bwb. >> i think you can't be it if you can't see it. and so myself and the other women involved in that cause are really trying to raise the profile of female entrepreneurs and make sure that young people are seeing them at the beginning of their career, where they're starting to think about what will i be having launched in 2019, this business has already had to navigate a pandemic and high inflation. >> but with its king's award for enterprise proudly on display, their future has the royal seal of approval. jack carson gb news smethwick. >> vitamins. >> vitamins. >> they're not vitamins, are they? vitamins? yeah >> so what the company does . >> so what the company does. i've not been paying a visit . i've not been paying a visit. he's been busy talking about dartford. >> and all day we were talking about. i thought they were mint humbugs. oh, well then i thought
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they were oddly round. >> yeah, vitamins. >> yeah, vitamins. >> but i meant humbug would be a good idea. >> it would be. they look like. >> it would be. they look like. >> they look like the vitamins. are they all right? there you go. bank of them. >> then to suck on the way home. >> then to suck on the way home. >> yeah. might not be a bad idea. >> no . >> no. >> no. >> should we, we should probably go to a break, shouldn't we? i think you might need
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welcome back to breakfast. we're going through the papers now with writer and journalist emma wolf and author and journalist susan holder . very good to see susan holder. very good to see you both this morning. and, susan, let's talk about those cavalry horses, shall we? yes. who bolted through london on wednesday morning ? wednesday morning? >> they did. >> they did. >> and i mean, in a way, i suppose the amount of kind of ceremonial things that go on in london that involve the horses, it's almost surprising this hasn't kind of happened before or doesn't happen more often,
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but for anyone who remembers on wednesday there was footage, there was two horses in particular were shown bolting. they went on a six mile rampage. it took about an hour. somebody dropped some builders dropped concrete near where they were rehearsing the trooping of the big shoots. yeah, and that does make a hell of a noise, doesn't it? and it spooked some horses for actually went running off through through riders. for actually went running off through through riders . and the through through riders. and the one that you see the white horse is that a grey that you call it, i don't know with the blood has had an operation , and there are had an operation, and there are fears that they might have an infection, might have set in. and so it is touch and go. that horse is called vader. so the update is that they are obviously they are trying very hard to take care of these horses, but they were very badly injured. what happened with vader is that she, careered into a line of those scooters, e—scooters and bikes, and that was the damage that you sort of trust. so it was quite spectacular to see that horse covered in blood. really horrifying. and for anyone who is around between 830 and 930 in london and saw those horses
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going past, it must have been really scary. >> i was amazed at how empty aldwych, that's aldwych in central london, how empty that was at the peak of, i mean, 830, normally you i mean mercifully so because a lot of cars have just got out of the way as well. >> but they and the black horse actually banged into a taxi, broke the window. i mean, those horses, they're big and they're powerful . so hopefully they're powerful. so hopefully they're going to be okay. but as i say, they have been operated on. so that's the latest. >> and the riders were thrown as well. >> they were they were treated i mean yeah, we're lucky that there wasn't more severe injuries, but yeah. so that's what's going on at the moment. >> yes. apparently they were on watering duty , which is watering duty, which is something that they do only just take them out and they call it watering duty. >> okay. >> okay. >> don't ask me why. >> don't ask me why. >> because it's that sort of like when you feed in water, like when you feed in water, like the dog, you know, sort of. >> but you just sort of take them out for a stroll and. yeah, get them used to the noises and things. >> but london is a very noisy
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place. >> that is, emma, let's take a look at the telegraph, shall we? and this is sir keir starmer. yes. if he lost his seat, what job would he want? >> well, in the unlikely event that he loses his seat or that he doesn't win the general election whenever it happens, keir starmer has been saying that he'd like to go and work in a bookshop. i think lots of people can associate with that, can identify with that. he'd love to work in a little bookshop. he'd love to serve people coffee and just, you know, potter, it always seems like such a nice job. >> he's actually dynamic, though , is it? you'd expect him to be saying, oh, do something really dynamic and exciting? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> change the world. do i go and work at the un or something? yeah. no, he would just is would he be more suited to working in a bookshop? >> that's the question. >> that's the question. >> yeah. yeah. he was asked on this podcast rosebud, what he would do and he said, oh, i've already got that plan. there's a little bookshop on kentish town high street. i actually know the one he's talking about. i think it's the owl bookshop, he says. and i've already i've always fancied working there. if all goes badly, you can come and see me in my bookshop. bring your book and i'll make you a cup of coffee. oh, right. it does sound
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a bit mundane, doesn't it? a bit tame, but sounds a bit tame. >> i mean, it makes me like him a little bit more, though, because bookshops are the most fantastic places i've been. >> well, i've been going round bookshops as an author and i go and do talks in bookshops quite and do talks in bookshops quite a lot, and the people who run bookshops are the most fantastic people. and the book bookshops i've been to, there's one in ludlow that has a secret garden at the back, and as an author, if you go there and have an event, you do it in the secret garden, which is so magical. i did one in nantwich as well, not long ago, and that's in like a tudor building. they are the they are there. if you go and find your local independent bookshop because they are amazing. but then if keir starmer was behind the desk, would it, would it make you go in or would it put you off? i don't know. >> well, in 2019 he had a 28,000 seat majority. so it's very unlikely that he's going to have to put his sort of second career into action. any time soon. >> more likely. very much. >> more likely. very much. >> it pays heading straight towards number 10. >> yeah. oh well there you go . >> yeah. oh well there you go. good luck keir, should you lose your seat? susan. oh, i can't mention this. this has got to be
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for you. >> we have to talk about my favourite. >> it's all women. it's all for you, ellie. yeah our taylor swift correspondent over there. so taylor swift has become the first musician to claim 12 number one uk albums in the 21st century. so she's record beating. she is phenomenal. i do love taylor swift. i think she's a great role model. good, good. ipass a great role model. good, good. i pass the ellie test. >> they're a role model. >> they're a role model. >> yeah, no, i think she's a great role model for women in many ways. like, well, she's entitled to, well she's playing the field and what's wrong with that. and also stephen, you can go on a date with somebody. >> doesn't mean you're a single lady. >> yeah, yeah. and some of these relationships that we think we know about, i don't know what's going on. i don't know how it might all be a bit for show. they might be just friends. you know, we don't know. and at least she's not kind of marrying and divorcing. marrying and divorcing. no. >> that's true. >> that's true. >> well, you know, and she's not got any children, so she's entitled to kind of, you know, and she's very successful in her own right away from all of her relationships, which is probably possibly why a lot of the
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relationships don't work. well, yeah, we could theorise on that. what i do have a question though, ellie, is so i a big fan of taylor swift. i'd love to go and see her live. i think she puts a great shame. my 13 year old granddaughter is obsessed with taylor swift, as well. she might be at her age. longeville wise, will we be singing taylor swift's songs in 40 years? >> yes, and i'll tell you why. because taylor swift specialised in something called eras. so we've gone through country music, we've gone through pop, we've had a rock era, and it's just going to keep coming and it will almost go full circle, i think. so there's something for everyone out there. >> there is. and i think she's very skilled at it. and some of the songs i know i like, but i don't know as many as i feel i should. for somebody who's such a big artist. and is that because it music isn't played in the same way that all the viewers, you're going to say no, i couldn't name a taylor swift song. could you name a taylor swift song? >> there's a romeo and juliet love story. >> love story that's. >> love story that's. >> well, i wouldn't have known it.
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>> we all know the love and you know, and, you know, shake it off, shake it off. >> oh, yes, shake it off. you must. that was her, though. >> well, there you go. so you know that song. but i do wonder about that kind of penetration into the market generally that we used to have ballads. >> are they or. >> are they or. >> but, but, but you know anthems people, people now know the beatles songs even if they can't name all the beatles. >> yes, but beatles were groundbreaking of their day, weren't they? it was. it was. everybody knew the beatles because it was like. but it's not a new thing. it was new and no, but it was a history of the song. >> no, it's not about the quality of the songs. it's a different media landscape. everybody had a radio and everybody would listen to pop music on the radio. same with dolly parton or whitney houston. the iconic songs that you're talking about. yeah, nowadays everyone's plugged to . in their everyone's plugged to. in their to their earbuds or whatever, and they're looking at stuff and we're all listening individually. >> we're not listening collectively in the same way, because you look back at the beatles and again, the classics and of their time, and also you think like something like love me do, it's a catchy tune. >> lyrics are dreadful. >> lyrics are dreadful. >> yeah, they're really dreadful. and taylor swift was a
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great lyricist. >> you'd like that she is. >> you'd like that she is. >> yes. no, no i do. >>— >> yes. no, no i do. >> she's a poet. >> she's a poet. >> what's the last number one song you wrote, though? well, ho. [10. >> no. >> no. oh, yes, but it's not. >>— >> no. oh, yes, but it's not. >> it's like you can't look at something like love me do and 90, something like love me do and go, well, actually, yes. >> lyrically it's this amazing, but it's a, it's a talent to achieve something that is like an earworm and is something that. >> oh yeah, yeah, yeah. i mean, it's not, it's not to knock it, but i think but i think they've had longevity because of the time that they existed. >> and then they become legendary. whereas a lot of the people around now it's just disposable pop and, and it'll just that is my question you know is taylor swift although she's hugely right now. >> will those songs stand the test of time. i don't know we, we won't know for another 40 years. >> she may stand the test of time, but the songs now won't she might still be churning like i beg to differ. the share is still churning. stuff out and good on her. i love cher, but it's not that her songs are anything particularly outstanding in their own right. >> believers are great. >> believers are great. >> like it's catchy tune, but i think taylor swift is smart
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enough to reinvent herself. as you say. i think she will just gone from being a hugely successful teenager as you say, with country music to a hugely successful 30 something. >> yeah, in a different way. so, you know , yeah, she knows good you know, yeah, she knows good on us, those artists at the time. >> i mean, look at marty wilde, who we're going to be talking to in the next hour. yeah i mean, his stuff, you know, which is some of it is just there for, for posterity now, isn't it? it's going to be around forever. and he's still churning out new stuff. he's got a new album out. will that have the same impact? five yeah. well that have the same impact as his old stuff. probably not. >> yeah, well, i just think people listen and consume music in a different way. completely different way. >> right. >> right. >> and we've been talking about this, this morning haven't we. how cold and horrible it is outside . outside. >> it's very odd. so april has not been cold and yet everybody you speak to says hasn't it been cold? hasn't it been miserable lately? grey and cold and wet. very wet this morning. >> we've had to put the heating on. >> yeah, exactly. we've had the heating on meteor. illogically, though, the met office data shows it's been one of the
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warmest aprils on record. it's very, very strange this that's the met office gaslighting us, isn't it? >> because we all can. >> because we all can. >> we can feel cold. >> we can feel cold. >> yeah. no, it's been warmer than the uk average. it's been one of the warmest aprils in on record in the last 30 years, which i just think is so weird. apparently it's all about perception. when we have a couple of really hot, sunny days, which we kind of got used to with. do you remember the lockdown year like 20 2021? yeah we had some very, very hot springs, like a very hot april, very hot may, and so people remember those as hot springs and now not hot springs . remember those as hot springs and now not hot springs. hot. yeah. and now because we haven't had that, we've had relatively warm april, but it's been quite grey. there's not been much sun, but it's been windy. >> it has been windy and it's been wet . been wet. >> makes it feel cold and it hasn't been very wet. but there's always been rain a bit around and it's been grey. whereas when you get actual sunshine, despite the temperature, when you get sunshine, the human brain remembers that more. >> are they telling us when it's
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going to change? that's what we want to know. >> they're vaguely saying it should get a little bit better. >> this is exactly what i looked for. there'll be a bit of dry weather, but we're not quite at the sitting out stage alfresco dining point at this time of the year that some people want. we need to wait a bit longer gaslighting us. they're gaslighting us. they're gaslighting us. >> they are. >> they are. >> they are. well, >> they are. well, in >> they are. well, in the meantime, while we wait for the nice weather, we should just walk up and down our stairs. >> we should walk up and down stairs because if you walk up and down the stairs, rather than taking the lift, you have a 39% lower risk of dying from heart disease, which is a good enough reason in itself, isn't it? really, and i do think walking up stairs is actually very important. people, when you get people get a lot older and they're finding it difficult. obviously you a lot of people do move into accommodation that doesn't have so many stairs because it's safer. so you bungalows and apartments, but actually if you don't use stairs, the muscles that you use in the tops of your legs to go up and down stairs are not used for anything else. you can just you can walk a lot and actually be quite fit. if you don't ever do stairs, you sort of lose the ability to do stairs, and those muscles also waste very quickly
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if you're off your feet. if you're if you're ever unwell and you're if you're ever unwell and you're in hospital and you're you're in hospital and you're you're bedridden for a while and you're bedridden for a while and you come out, going up the stairs is a very precarious thing. you have to go and build back up to it very gradually. and i would recommend that anybody who is in an apartment or, a bungalow for, you know, good safety reasons, if you've even got just, just go on the steps, go up and down and do those stepping exercises every now and again. it is really good for your legs, but it's actually amazingly good for your health. so i heard you joking earlier. do you always use the lift here? do you always use the lift here? do you always use the lift here? do you not use the stairs? i didn't know the stairs were here to be. >> i always use the stairs here, but i do. >> i now use the stairs now i've now i've found them tiny. >> there's only about. >> there's only about. >> it's only. >> it's only. >> yeah, it's only about six feet down. yeah, yeah, but no lift for me. >> steven would be in the lift. yeah, i will be in the lift. >> i mean, i've got a lot of stairs at home. i'm up and down the stairs like. >> no, that's true. >> no, that's true. >> i live on the third floor in a big building on the third floor and no lift. and so i feel like a paragon of virtue. yes, i curse them very often with baby shopping, bikes, prams. but you know, do you have to carry a
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pram up three flights of stairs? no, we've ditched the pram now. i just make no, we've ditched the pram now. ijust make him. what do no, we've ditched the pram now. i just make him. what do you no, we've ditched the pram now. ijust make him. what do you do i just make him. what do you do with your shopping? >> do you leave it all at the bottom and then you have to get the child into a safe place. >> so either you carry one or you just. >> oh, that is a, that is a no, it's fine. >> now that's a workout he can self though isn't it. it is. >> but you are very healthy so that's good. >> well there you go. >> well there you go. >> who knows. wow should we talk about, well, when you're being healthy, how about a piint? >> a very expensive one. >> a very expensive one. >> well, i hate to go back to the co—op. manchester arena, the troubled arena, but apparently there, when it finally opens, a pint can cost nearly. it's a pint can cost nearly. it's a pint cost nearly £9 there. >> 895. >> 895. >> but in two and a half years, the forecast price for a pint is set to hit £41 in the capital. >> ridiculous . >> ridiculous. >> ridiculous. >> i mean, this is crazy. you're getting to the point where a couple of drinks is going to be £50. >> no, he can afford that . >> no, he can afford that. >> no, he can afford that. >> it's funny, isn't it, when you get i mean, i don't buy a pint, but when you buy a couple of glasses of, of wine and it's cheaper to buy the bottle , it's cheaper to buy the bottle, it's cheaper to buy the bottle, it's cheaper to buy a good bottle of wine than it is to buy a drink for you and a friend. yeah.
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>> and if they're doing it to discourage you from drinking too much. but actually what they're doing is encouraging you to buy a bottle of wine that's kind of not really working, is it? >> yeah, it happened to us the other day. i went out with a friend, becky. >> oh, becky. which? becky. >> oh, becky. which? becky. >> drinking. becky. >> drinking. becky. >> clearly drinking. becky. yeah. >> that one. and it was £13 a glass and then. yeah, for a glass and then. yeah, for a glass of red wine. and then we didn't realise until we'd ordered it and then we're like, oh, sorry, can we have the bottle please? they said, oh, you can't do that. you can't just have the rest of the bottle. so then we just bought bottle. >> don't go there again. >> don't go there again. >> yeah. it's extortionate, absolutely extortionate. >> i just i it drives me mad. absolutely. >> and then we wonder why people are not going out and are staying in and buying wine at home or buying, you know, staying in and buying wine at home or buying , you know, beer home or buying, you know, beer from the supermarket. >> well, i'll tell you what, you never see an empty wetherspoons unless they sell it all on the it's cheap and they're always packed. >> anyway , emma, thank you very >> anyway, emma, thank you very much indeed for having us. see you. >> good to see you both. let's take a look at the weather. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news.
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>> morning. we have some heavy , >> morning. we have some heavy, persistent rain arriving later today. meaning tomorrow is going today. meaning tomorrow is going to be pretty wet for some of us. however, before then, it's a rather showery day for many of us today. first thing, we do have quite a bit of cloud across southern areas, and some outbreaks of showery rain pushing their way into parts of the midlands. more central parts as we go through the day across scotland, northern ireland. a touch of frost first thing this morning and then a scattering of showers developing as we head into the afternoon, and some of these could turn a little bit wintry over the higher ground. there will be some sunny spells around, but temperatures still a little bit below average for the time of year. some places staying in single figures highs of around 14 or 15 celsius. further south, some heavy rain then feeding into southern parts as we go through this evening. so a pretty wet end to the day here. and that rain then continuing to push further northwards overnight, feeding in across much of central southern england into some northern parts of england and perhaps into wales as well. first thing tomorrow morning, towards the
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northwest , though, some clearer northwest, though, some clearer skies. so again we could see a touch of frost . first thing. it touch of frost. first thing. it is going to be a wet start to the day across much of england and wales then tomorrow. but that rain, although will be quite heavy and persistent for a time, is gradually going to clear its way northwards, could fringe into some eastern parts of scotland, but more western parts of scotland and northern ireland going to stay largely dry. and we should see some sunshine also breaking out across parts of west and wales and southwest england. two temperatures similar to today but obviously feeling a bit more unpleasant when it's going to be very wet. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on
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treatment. >> humza yousaf faces political chaos. scotland's first minister has insisted he will not resign. that's despite facing a vote of no confidence in his leadership. >> yes, humza yousaf is saying that he's going to stay on, but is the decision out of his hands now? find out more with me very sooi'i. 500“. >> soon. >> critics are wrong on rwanda. the home secretary hits out, saying opposition to the policy wilfully ignores progress made by the african state. >> brexit border controls are set to come into effect in northern ireland. >> yes, border controls right across the uk coming into force. what effect will this have on food pricing ? food pricing? >> and we're going to meet legendary singer martin wild to tell us about his new album and of course, his career spanning over 65 years. >> hello . it's still going to be >> hello. it's still going to be rather cool this weekend. a few
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showers to watch out for today and then something wetter arriving later. i'll have the details coming up. >> morning to you. i'm stephen dixon and i'm ellie costello, and this is breakfast on . and this is breakfast on. gb news. see, ellie's in trouble for a whole host of reasons. want you probably her to turning the papers on the newspaper. >> it's a very big paper. and plus, now you've covered everything. >> all my notes. >> all my notes. >> what do you need? >> what do you need? >> i've just. all my stuff. look at it all. >> everywhere. it's not my fault. the papers are so big. >> it's terrible. >> it's terrible. >> they need to downsize . >> they need to downsize. >> they need to downsize. >> they need to downsize. >> they should've done this research in plenty of time. yeah anyway, we better crack on because we've got a shadow minister standing by. we want to talk first and foremost about humza yousaf at the first minister of scotland, who said he will not resign ahead of a crucial test of his leadership next week. >> yes, he says that a minority government, his party will need
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to make some concessions as it negotiates with other parties , negotiates with other parties, as after the collapse of the snp's power sharing deal with the greens yesterday. >> but humza yousaf says he'll fight . on fight. on >> i fully intend to not just win that vote, but i intend to fight to make sure that the government stays, not just the government stays, not just the government continues to deliver on the priorities of the people, like, for example, investing in affordable housing. so there's all that political game playing happening from the opposition. it will not be taking part. it will be getting, of course, on with the job. and when the vote comes, i fully intend to win. >> let's talk to . do apologise . >> let's talk to. do apologise. we throw it about everything. just felt very slightly mad. let's talk to our political correspondent olivia utley. so humza yousaf seems determined to butter his greens. >> he does. >> he does. >> he does. >> he is saying that he's going to cling on, but it's not quite clear whether the decision is actually up to him. there's going to be a vote of no confidence in him next week, and
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unless he manages to butter up at least one msp from another party outside of the snp, then he is going to lose that vote of no confidence. now he's got pretty slim pickings for people who he can turn on the charm to and try and get them to vote for him. there are the greens, but obviously he has very much upset them by unceremoniously ending them by unceremoniously ending the snp green coalition, and they've already said that they are not going to be voting for him in a vote of no confidence. and then there is ash regan, alba party's only msp . well, ash alba party's only msp. well, ash regan and humza yousaf fell out in a big way a couple of years ago when they disagreed over the gender recognition act. and ash reganis gender recognition act. and ash regan is saying that she will vote for, humza yousaf on the condition that he implements the recommendations in the cas report and basically undoes a lot of what humza yousaf and the snp have been doing. in terms of genderin snp have been doing. in terms of gender in scotland. so humza yousaf is walking on, on very,
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very thin ice here. and even if he does win that vote of no confidence next week, it could be that his position becomes untenable very soon anyway, because it'll be very, very difficult for him to govern with a minority government if he does survive. >> i mean, is it is it likely that he could survive or cling to power if he loses that vote next week? >> well, he could. he doesn't have to stand down. the vote isn't actually binding, but it would be politically very awkward for him to stay in position. and there is also going to be a vote at some point. we expect on a no confidence motion in the whole of the snp as a government. that motion has been tabled by anas sarwar of labour. now the greens haven't said which way they would vote in a vote of no confidence in the snp government. they haven't ruled out voting in favour of removing the snp government, so we could see in a few weeks an absolute implosion in holyrood and an early election. >> okay, olivia, thank you very much indeed. let's talk to the shadow minister for industry , shadow minister for industry, sarah jones, who joins us now. good to see you. this morning.
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is it is it time for parliamentary elections in scotland, do you think is that the way this has to go now? >> i think so, and i mean it just looks like for humza yousaf, now that it's a matter of when, not if, doesn't it. >> and i think that him going in and of itself won't deliver the change that scottish people need, it's time to put the question back to the people of scotland. let them decide what they think should happen. we've had chaos since all the stories emerged around nicola sturgeon , emerged around nicola sturgeon, and really, i think the public are fed up with political chaos across the uk as well as in scotland. i mean, we've got new figures out today showing 1.1 businesses are saying 1.1 million. sorry businesses. that's 1 in 5 million. sorry businesses. that's1 in 5 overall. million. sorry businesses. that's 1 in 5 overall. say the economic uncertainty is the number one factor impacting their turnover. well political uncertainty causes economic uncertainty. and i think we need to get back to a point where
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we're serving the people of scotland, not just going from crisis to crisis, as seems to be the case at the moment. >> i wanted to ask you about labour's plans to remove the vat exemption on independent school fees, because there's warnings in the papers today from government sources that state schools would simply not be prepared for an influx in students. and we've got another story that we've been covering this morning about a teacher shortage crisis that teaching assistants are routinely having to cover lessons in england and wales because there simply are not enough teaching staff. i mean , these government sources mean, these government sources would say that these labour plans are detrimental to children's education. >> i'd say this government is detrimental to children's education, the failures that we have seen, the growing gap in terms of attainment, is really worrying . in
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terms of attainment, is really worrying. in our terms of attainment, is really worrying . in our schools. and of worrying. in our schools. and of course, our teachers are overstretched. i've got three kids in state schools, and i see the impact, as i think all parents do, of the shortage of teachers and the need we have to encourage more people to go into the teaching profession. now on the teaching profession. now on the private school policy, the institute for fiscal studies looked at this. they said that they thought we would raise, over £1 billion from this policy. i think it's right that where resources are there, we put them into our schools across the board, which is the majority state schools, to try and bring standards up so that we get to a point . where people say, well, point. where people say, well, i don't need to send my child to a private school because actually the local school is brilliant. that's where labour want to get to. >> yes, but that doesn't get rid of the problem, does it? that if you suddenly slap vat on on the fee for private schools , 20, and fee for private schools, 20, and then you are going to end up with or at least it's claimed a whole lot of people immediately pulling their children out and putting them into state schools that aren't prepared for that
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influx. i mean, it's an immediate i know you've got long term goals there, which is great, but what do you do about the immediate problem? >> well, that is not an immediate problem that has been identified by anybody in terms of any evidence. >> that's just the government's putting that forward. the institute for fiscal studies think we will make money from this, which is based on people remaining in the private sector, if you look at private education, how much the fees have increased over recent years , they've increased well above, inflation . in most cases. so we inflation. in most cases. so we have seen increases and that hasn't seen a reduction in people using them. so the evidence i think is just not there that this is going to happen. there that this is going to happen . now we want all our happen. now we want all our schools to be great. we want people to have choice, but we want all our schools to be great. and where there is a loophole in the tax system, as there is currently when it comes to vat and private schools, we think we should put that right. that's only fair in terms of youn that's only fair in terms of your, your key point on on
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businesses and economic uncertainty . uncertainty. >> the whole western . world you, >> the whole western. world you, if you want to put it in those terms, has been suffering with economic uncertainty at the moment. i mean, it's partly in the wake of covid and all the rest of it. you can't pin that entirely on the government so that there may be 1.1 million businesses very worried because of economic uncertainty. it doesn't mean that a change of government is going to immediately bring that under control . control. >> well, i think you make a fair point. of course, that you can't look at the economy and rule out the impact of all kinds of global shocks, like the war in ukraine. >> of course, that's true. but if you look at the chaos we had under boris johnson, with 70 of his ministers resigning and him having to be forced out, if you look at the mini—budget with liz truss that crashed the economy, if you look at where we are compared to other countries , you compared to other countries, you know, the first parliament in history, this parliament, to see
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a fall in living standards. and we've got the lowest business investment in the g7. these are decisions that have consequences that the government is making. rishi sunak told us this week that we turned a corner. but of course prices are still rising and we're still in recession. >> and when he changes his ministers every five minutes, is embroiled in internal battles . embroiled in internal battles. >> the whole time we've had ministers out this morning in the papers saying that backbenchers shouldn't revolt against rishi. when you have that level of chaos and in central government , it of course central government, it of course it has an impact on businesses and we talk to businesses all the time. in my role, it's my job to do and what they say is, please, if you do nothing else, give us some stability, give us a plan, some certainty. get a grip on the national spending so that we know where we can invest, when we can invest, and we can take those managed risks so that we can grow our businesses and grow the economy. >> it's interesting to talking labour politicians like yourself, because obviously this
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is an election year. you're all acting with a degree of confidence because you feel like you are a government in waiting. and we we'll have to , you know, and we we'll have to, you know, see what the polls say. but you all have that degree of confidence . and look, we look at confidence. and look, we look at the polls. it's understandable. but how comfortable do you feel then, with all that in mind . then, with all that in mind. david lammy, the shadow foreign secretary, has been holding meetings with. this is, according to the telegraph, holding meetings with a series of trump world figures over recent months, you know, waiting to see if donald trump should get back into the white house in november. is that a sensible thing to do, or does that make you feel uncomfortable ? you feel uncomfortable? >> no, i think it's absolutely the right thing to do. look, the reality is the american people will decide who their president is , and it'll either be biden or is, and it'll either be biden or trump. and they are the americans, our closest allies . americans, our closest allies. we must keep that relationship and we must build on it and try and we must build on it and try and make sure whether it comes to the global situation, the war in ukraine, the uncertainty in
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the middle east, we're working handin the middle east, we're working hand in hand. and in terms of our trade and our economy, it's really important that whoever is in the white house has a good relationship with us, and you're right, the labour party is having those conversations, as you would expect. but we don't take anything for granted in terms of the election. it's going to be a difficult fight and we wouldn't assume anything, but it's only right that we would be preparing to have a strong relationship with whoever is in the white house after the election . election. >> okay. sarah jones, really good to talk to you this morning. thanks very much indeed i >> -- >> well, let emma >> well, let us know what you thought about any of that this morning. gb news eckmuhl say. >> yeah, economic uncertainty . >> yeah, economic uncertainty. how do you can you pin that on the government? you can pin how they've you can criticise how they've you can criticise how they've responded to it, i don't know whether any of the party would have responded any differently or in a way that had a better impact , and there are
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a better impact, and there are global factors, aren't there, as you say, being felt around the world. yeah. so i don't know how much can be pinned on the tory party, but do let us know . the party, but do let us know. the labour party will say it just hasn't been handled particularly well. yeah let us know what you think. >> yes. difficult to say from our position. all right. let's look at the king. should we? yes. he's going to return to pubuc yes. he's going to return to public duties on tuesday following his cancer treatment . yes. >> a palace spokesperson says king charles is greatly encouraged to be resuming some pubuc encouraged to be resuming some public facing engagements and very grateful to his media team. >> well, many people have sent their well wishes, our best wishes, including the prime minister who said on x brilliant news to end the week . news to end the week. >> labour leader sir keir starmer also posted a message on the platform saying delighted to see his majesty looking so well, i wish him and the princess of wales the best as they continue their recovery with the support of their families. >> well, earlier we spoke to the sun's former royal correspondent, the great charles rae . rae. >> fantastic news and that is a
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brilliant photograph by millie pilkington. i mean, it just summed up the whole day, of the great news that he has had. he's not out of the woods yet and he's not pretending to be out of the woods, but his treatment is going so well that he is coming back into public duty. he's going to be meeting people, you know, public facing people and everything else. and there's a whole list of events that are coming up throughout the year , coming up throughout the year, he may not do all of them. it will very much depend on his doctor's advice. but two things that are on the cards are very lengthy trips to samoa for the government, heads of state and also, australia . so it's, you also, australia. so it's, you know, he's got a lot of plans going on. >> do you necessarily think, charles, it's the right thing and will he be pressured into this? i mean, obviously we want we want to see him back. it's very positive in one respect. we wouldn't want him to feel obuged wouldn't want him to feel obliged to come back before he's
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ready. >> no, i suspect that he is the driving force, the to come back. >> i mean, he's not a man. as nichi hodgson said earlier on today, who just sits around in his pipe and slippers , he does, his pipe and slippers, he does, he is a very hard working man. and he gets up very early and goes to bed very late at night . goes to bed very late at night. and i'm sure that camilla has been making sure that he has been making sure that he has been resting as much as possible, but i suspect he is the driving force about getting back to what he is loathed not having to do the things that you know, a king should do, but i think his doctors, i think he is listening to his doctors. i hope he's listening to his doctors. and i'm sure that they are giving him the right advice . and giving him the right advice. and they will look at each individual event that crops up and will say to him, we think you could do this. and maybe just take this one easy, although it'll it'll depend on that advice. >> it might be the case of one thing at a time. charles, what does this mean for the wider
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family as well? because we know the slimmed down monarchy , that the slimmed down monarchy, that this has been a very challenging time for the family, especially for prince william, who obviously has his own thing to deal with, doesn't he? with with his wife also, battling with cancer. his wife also, battling with cancer . what do you think this cancer. what do you think this means for prince william and also queen camilla, who's really had to step up to the plate? >> well, it'll be a slight relief because the king will be able to do some of the duties that they had. >> they had been taking on, and so it's great that he's back and more importantly, i think will be waiting as well with bated breath really to in the hope that we hear some great news about the princess of wales and her battle, but i think you know, the family, is coming back together again. they will they will cope. quite amazing as they have done and they will continue to do so. i mean , the fact that to do so. i mean, the fact that the slimmed down is, is a natural thing. that's that's happened. you know, harry in montecito, you've got andrew clearly who can't do anything else. but people like the duke
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campaigns for the next general election. >> who will be left standing when the british people make one of the biggest decisions of their lives? >> who will rise and who will fall? >> let's find out together for every moment. >> the highs, the lows, the twists and turns. >> we'll be with you for every step of this journey in 2024. >> gb news is britain's election . channel. >> welcome back to breakfast. now the government will begin physical checks at the border on medium risk and high risk goods coming into the uk at the end of this month . this month. >> meanwhile, in ireland, goods coming in will be checked after october this year. >> well joining us now is gb news northern ireland reporter dougie beattie. good morning to you, dougie. can you make sense of all of this for us? >> good morning and welcome to customs house square in belfast. and why am i here? well, it's
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easy to explain that this used to be where when goods came into northern ireland, the customs levy was set on them. here they were checked just across the road and that included live animals and food. and of course, when we joined the eu, we all kept the same regulation and legislation on production of food and goods , and therefore food and goods, and therefore the customs levels were were set and the legislation was known. once you were inside europe, well, then everybody had the same level playing field. so this is really an outworking of brexit, and it has took quite a long while to get here. and of course, in the rest of britain you will now have places like this coming back again where you will have customs checks on goods coming in from all over the world, including europe. now, labour have always said that they want to get closer to the regulation and legislation of europe wants more, and that would do away with a lot of
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these checks . but of course, these checks. but of course, when you get checks, you get bureaucracy , and bureaucracy has bureaucracy, and bureaucracy has to be paid for in some way or another. and that will, of course go to you and me at the checkouts. so it's how much of that will actually be present at that will actually be present at that time . now, britain has said that time. now, britain has said that time. now, britain has said that they are going to operate this trusted trader system, and this trusted trader system, and this was the very system that northern ireland had asked for after the brexit negotiations. and of course, northern ireland was held inside the eu market. so therefore we actually have customs posts coming from goods from britain into northern ireland. and that whole process brought down a government in northern ireland because we then had green and red lanes. so what we are looking at now is a gradual introduction again of customs into the uk for goods coming from outside the uk and of course that will play into
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the deal that the dup did that brought the government back here again , where they have told the again, where they have told the voting population here that we will not, as part of the uk, our goods will not be checked. going back into britain , but goods back into britain, but goods from the republic of ireland will be. and that will, of course cause problems with, the regularity of goods arriving into britain. and it could well see shortages on shelves and certain goods and as like here in northern ireland, many of the, the manufacture and suppliers to northern ireland just simply stop supplying because the cost of the trader support scheme was absolutely running into millions of pounds and it wasn't worth goods coming in that were very small profit margins. so that's what we have to watch in britain over the next few months while we've got you, dougie , what's going on in you, dougie, what's going on in terms of tensions in northern ireland over the rwanda bill?
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well, it's not in northern ireland. this is in the republic of ireland. and you remember back well, 21st of january last yeah back well, 21st of january last year. i had been reporting on this very issue and what is called the common travel area that exists between ireland, northern ireland, south wales, scotland and britain. and of course, that means you could travel anywhere inside that. now, the rwanda bill has taken out certain issues out of the court of human rights, and a lot of those people from london, that and immigrants that came in there that are thinking, oh , i there that are thinking, oh, i might end up in the plane, have now over the past couple of years, headed for the republic of ireland. now the republic of ireland has had huge problems with infrastructure. and i was slammed for saying this, but the repubuc slammed for saying this, but the republic of ireland is a beautiful country. it's an absolutely smashing country. the people are great, but they do have a small population and that has risen in the last few years. and last night outside
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newtownmountkennedy, which is a small village between bray and wicklow, south of dublin, the riot police were actually involved in holding back , crowds involved in holding back, crowds of locals there who were trying to get to in their own village. and these, these demonstrations have been happening all across the republic of ireland over the last year or so, and it will have a serious consequences for the european elections. and we'll see which parties actually take control there. >> okay. dougie beattie, thank you very much indeed . right. to you very much indeed. right. to things that are very important to some of you, because you've beenin to some of you, because you've been in touch to say i couldn't name a taylor swift song, says john, kelly says , who's taylor john, kelly says, who's taylor swift? is it a new type of bird. and livy says, my grandson is three. he loves dancing to motown. oh, you're you're a swiftae . swiftae. >> i am a swiftae. yes. and there's something for everyone . there's something for everyone. i will say you've just got to
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find your genre right from miss swift, and you'll be away all right? >> okay, so there you go, kelly and john. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> you're missing a trick. >> you're missing a trick. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> have a little. listen, take your time. we're talking about the new album, weren't we? because the new album is out this week. stephen said to me this week. stephen said to me this week, how are you feeling about the new album? >> you weren't sure. >> you weren't sure. >> i wasn't so sure it does. you really have to focus your mind , really have to focus your mind, but it's a grower. >> i would say it's a grower. it is? yeah >> well, there you go. as long as you get there at the end. we're back in a minute. we're back in a minute. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> morning. we have some heavy, persistent rain arriving later
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today. meaning tomorrow is going today. meaning tomorrow is going to be pretty wet for some of us. however, before then, it's a rather showery day for many of us today. first thing, we do have quite a bit of cloud across southern areas , and some southern areas, and some outbreaks of showery rain pushing their way into parts of the midlands. more central parts as we go through the day across scotland, northern ireland, a touch of frost first thing this morning and then a scattering of showers developing as we head into the afternoon, and some of these could turn a little bit wintry over the higher ground. there will be some sunny spells around, but temperatures still a little bit below average for the time of year. some places staying in single figures highs of around 14 or 15 celsius. further south, some heavy rain then feeding into southern parts as we go through this evening. so a pretty wet end to the day here and that rain then continuing to push further northwards overnight, feeding in across much of central southern england into some northern parts of england and perhaps into wales as well. first thing tomorrow morning, towards the northwest , though, some clearer northwest, though, some clearer skies. so again we could see a touch of frost . first thing. it touch of frost. first thing. it is going to be a wet start to the day across much of england and wales then tomorrow. but
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that rain, although will be quite heavy and persistent for a time, is gradually going to clear its way northwards, could fringe into some eastern parts of scotland , but more western of scotland, but more western parts of scotland and northern ireland going to stay largely dry. and we should see some sunshine also breaking out across parts of west and wales and southwest england. two temperatures similar to today, but obviously feeling a bit more unpleasant when it's going to be very wet. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news . on gb news. news. >> now, a business in the west midlands has been officially handed its king's award for enterprise in a ceremony at their factory yesterday. >> yes, the award is the highest official uk honour for british businesses, aiming to promote both small and large enterprises. >> jack carson has the story for a business in the uk. >> it's the highest accolade achievable and the west midlands is not afraid to make its mark. at a ceremony at their factory in smethwick , the
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in smethwick, the lord—lieutenant of the west midlands, sirjohn lord—lieutenant of the west midlands, sir john crabtree lord—lieutenant of the west midlands, sirjohn crabtree obe lord—lieutenant of the west midlands, sir john crabtree obe , midlands, sir john crabtree obe, presented the team at remedy health with the prestigious king's award for enterprise in the innovation category. we recognise in the outstanding achievement of the said award recipient as demonstrated in the application of innovation in our united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, our channel islands and isle of man and wishing to show our royal favour, confer upon it the king's award for enterprise innovation. >> the prize aims to reward both small and large businesses with an innovative product or service, and recognise their contribution to enterprise, with last year being the first awarded by his majesty king charles raneem oudeh . charles raneem oudeh. >> health and their nourished brand won the award for their 3d printed customisable nutritional gummies. the business has developed and innovated to be able to combine seven different active ingredients into one daily personalised stack. customers can choose their favourite vitamins and supplements and at their factory in birmingham, they'll 3d print the selection on demand . award
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the selection on demand. award winning female entrepreneur melissa snover is the brains behind the business. she describes what it means to be honoured with the king's award for our business is really the highest honour that we could ever receive. >> we were really founded on the idea that innovation is going to be the single biggest factor in changing the world, and so you can imagine we're all overwhelmed with pride . overwhelmed with pride. >> the nourish brand was only one of ten west midlands winners out of the 262 rewarded in total, and the only winner in birmingham in the innovation category. but . it isn't just category. but. it isn't just about running a business. melissa says she's passionate about the next generation of female entrepreneurs and works with by women, built a platform for female owned businesses. >> less than 80% of young people can name a female entrepreneur, and that is something that we're really committed to changing the narrative on at bwb. i think you can't be it if you can't see it. and so myself and the other women involved in that cause are really trying to raise the profile of female entrepreneurs and make sure that young people are seeing them at the beginning
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of their career, where they're starting to think about what will i be having launched in 2019, this business has already had to navigate a pandemic and high inflation. >> but with its king's award for enterprise proudly on display, their future has the royal seal of approval. jack carson gb news smethwick . smethwick. >> lovely . >> lovely. >> lovely. >> now coming up, legendary singer marty wilde is returning to his birthplace to perform. we're going to be speaking to him all about it. that's
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few times. i have to say along with kim. actually, a lot of the time going appearing on programs together there. what a pair. what a father and daughter combo they are. anyway, marty's going back.to back. to his roots this evening because he's performing tonight in blackheath, where he was born , and he's doing it all because he's launching a new song, two eyes streaming. let's have a look , darling. every time. look, darling. every time. >> you know, i have to go. i know what you're feeling. and you're feeling low. you'll stand. with two eyes streaming. stop those discussed. go tomorrow. >> well, the one and only marty wilde joins us now. it's always a wilde joins us now. it's always 6 joy wilde joins us now. it's always a joy to see you, marty. along with lilibet on your lap there. how are you? >> i'm great. absolutely great. stephen. absolutely wonderful.
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i'm >> i say this to you every time. but now that you're. dare i say, 85 years old, do you still feel like a teenager in love? >> not in the mornings. >> not in the mornings. >> no . >> no. >> no. >> well, we appreciate you getting up for us. >> yeah. getting out of bed is sometimes. is quite an effort, but. no. well, i've been very fortunate . i mean, you you, all fortunate. i mean, you you, all of us, we all depend on our health and, obviously. and, i've been fortunate because at this time of life, you know, you can be vulnerable. so i'm going to keep going as long as i can. >> yeah, quite right too . i have >> yeah, quite right too. i have to say, i might be wrong, marty, but i was just looking at the shot because. because i'm a nosey devil . and you've got nosey devil. and you've got lilibet there. is that a picture behind you? of you with queen elizabeth? >> it is. that's when . yeah, >> it is. that's when. yeah, that's when she gave me, my mba. so yeah, it was for me. she was always a growing up, as a young child, you know, just after the
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war, i remember seeing her drive past . i told her that when i past. i told her that when i went up to receive my medal, i said, i saw you when you came by with your new husband. i said, my goodness, you look so beautiful. i had to tell her that because i think she was just a stunning looking queen. i mean, when you looked at the, the, the, the pictures, pictures of her and the stamps are our stamps were fantastic. you know, she she's very, very special lady. so that day for me was a very big highlight in my life. and that picture really captures it all, i what amazed me about our . queen at it all, i what amazed me about our. queen at the time was, was the fact that she could stand there all that time, for ages and several hours, you know, presenting medals. a lovely lady. i'm a big royalist. >> well, as are we. and what a wonderful highlight. and what a beautiful memory . you've been in beautiful memory. you've been in the industry now for 80 years or eight decades. i mean, absolutely incredible. you must have so many highlights from all that time . oh, yeah.
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that time. oh, yeah. >> oh yeah, i have, yeah. i mean , >> oh yeah, i have, yeah. i mean i , >> oh yeah, i have, yeah. i mean , i mean, kim's career taking off was a big thing for me that was, obviously my own. my first endless sleep. that was a big thing, obviously. but kim's career as well, to be able to be involved with her career was , involved with her career was, was an honour because, i love her very much and she was a great, great artist. and to be part of that team with ricky, my son was was wonderful . son was was wonderful. >> always struck me, actually, is that when we've met in the past and you've always had kim with you, she's always turned up and chipped in on your interviews when she wants to. she doesn't let you do it on your own very often, but i think it is. you can just see, especially off camera, what a lovely relationship you have. >> yeah, well, families are families are very important. and, you know, she, as i say, she's or she's getting wiggly. now go on. off you go, lady. bette. down you go. >> oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> she's going now. she yeah. it's she's just a just a lovely kid, you know. and she's easy to
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work with. i find all the, all the, all the stars, you know, most of the stars are pretty easy going and, you know, great to work with. and so it's been an honour to work for her, what's it like ? i mean, looking what's it like? i mean, looking looking back in history a little bit to your very, very early days. well, you were born before you can even remember, in blackheath. how important is it to you to be going back to blackheath to to, perform? >> oh, very important to me , >> oh, very important to me, stephen. very important because i haven't been back there for a long, long, long, long time. and as a child i used to float my little boat on the pond there a little, a little boat that i used to sail round every time i'd mum or dad would take me out there. and it was always a place to look up to. it's got a lovely georgian buildings there and a lovely church and a beautiful village. it's blackheath, got everything and it's classy and i came from the lower end. if you know what i'm saying. in a way i won't say where, but i came from the lower end. so to go up
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there, which it was, you had to go there, which it was, you had to 9° up there, which it was, you had to go up the hill to get to the heath. it was a very special occasion and i adored it. at greenwich park they have blackheath, the village. the whole thing was just so important to me growing up, and it was always a place to look up to. it was something to reach for and i believe in those things. i think if you're always reaching out for something or wanting to wanting to be part of that, you, it will help you in youn that, you, it will help you in your, in your life, we just had a little listen to your new song, two eyes streaming. you are still making music, aren't you? that's still something that you? that's still something that you love all this time. later >> oh, i love, i love writing, ellie. >> i adore writing, it's been, you know, it's been a it's been the biggest money earner in my life, you know, shows and things that didn't provide me my living. it's always been writing, and it may be an area i neglected for quite some years, but, i love it, you neglected for quite some years, but, i love it , you know, to. but, i love it, you know, to. and that song was, particularly nice thing. it came as a surprise, i must say, because
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when you write songs, you never know. you don't know what how the public are going to receive the public are going to receive the song, you know, but it seems to gel with people. and i think maybe they they went through some of the things that i went through as a child, which was you know, separation from my from someone i love because it wasn't his fault. he had to go around training men. there's me there with my little dad's hat and my little, my dad's bag and and my little, my dad's bag and a walking stick as a as a rifle. but i adored him, and i couldn't get near him. i used to, i used to. i remember one time in capel curig where a running away from where the little cottage that we were in running a or at least a mile to where he was, and of course people were panicking. where was this young child, you know, where had he gone? you know, where had he gone? you know, and i'd gone to try and find my father. and i think that a lot of a lot of youngsters and it happens today. i mean , it it happens today. i mean, it happens all the time, you know, people, you know, sometimes your parents have to go away because that's their job. so if you're
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that's theirjob. so if you're a submarine commander or you're, you know, you're working on an oil rig or whatever, it's always that separation. and that song is a little thing of, you know, one day this, this will all end, i'll be home. i'm going to give you a big cuddle and, you know, it's just just a, it's just a, a warm song, it's lovely. and it reminds us to all make the most of those we love while we've still got them . marty. still got them. marty. absolutely. as always, it's a real joy to talk to you. thank you very much indeed. and enjoy the concert in blackheath. >> thank you very much. well, i'm a big fan of u2 , so i shall i'm a big fan of u2, so i shall carry on. >> thanks, marty . >> thanks, marty. >> thanks, marty. >> yeah, we're big fans of you and lilibet as well. >> yeah , fabulous. >> yeah, fabulous. >> yeah, fabulous. >> want to partake in the whole real legend of a man? >> yeah. lovely as well. >> yeah. lovely as well. >> yeah. lovely as well. >> yeah. he is really , really, >> yeah. he is really, really, really lovely. >> and i like the way you spoke about the late queen as well. >> that was nice. >> that was nice. >> it was actually really nice, wasn't it, really . wasn't it, really. >> what a lovely memory to have. right. don't go anywhere because coming up, we've got some breaking news. we're going to be
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all right. some breaking news for you this morning. let's talk to our home and security editor, mark white. what have you got? mark >> well, this is a rescue operation that is underway at goodwin sands, which is a notorious ten mile long sandbank . off the kent coast near deal. reports that a migrant boat with 50 people on board has run aground onto that sand bank, that large groups of migrants who were in the boat have left. the bolton are now standing on the sand bank. the tide has turned. so the area they're on will be under water, in the minutes ahead , this rescue minutes ahead, this rescue operation is involving several lifeboats , the coastguard lifeboats, the coastguard helicopter is overhead. what we're told is happening is that smaller rnli rigid inflatable
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boats are being used because they are shallower , obviously, they are shallower, obviously, in terms of their keel, they're able to get up to the sand bank. they're taking , the migrants off they're taking, the migrants off a few at a time and transferring them to larger lifeboats, so a worrying incident, no reports of any casualties at this stage, but that life, that raft , but that life, that raft, carrying those migrants has run aground on this, goodwin sands, sandbar bank. and it is one of four migrant boats that have made it into uk waters today. we've had over the last couple of days , weather conditions just of days, weather conditions just about permitting, these illegal journeys across the channel and the people smugglers , true to the people smugglers, true to form of taking advantage of that, pushing these boats out. so four boats have come across into uk waters this morning, but one now at the centre of a
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dramatic rescue after managing to run aground on this sand bank off the kent coast incident. >> it is a reminder of just how dangerous this journey is. it was only on tuesday of this week when we had the deaths of five migrants in the channel >> yes, authorities on both sides of the channel are increasingly alarmed at what they are witnessing now in terms of these boats being crammed with ever more migrants . yes, with ever more migrants. yes, they are unsafe, flimsy vessels at the best of times that are given to burst at the scenes especially seems, especially when there are 20, 30, sometimes 50, 60 or 70 migrants on these boats coming across, and of course, there's the increasing violence on the other side of the channel as well, where migrants are actually fighting each other to get on these boats and are presenting themselves here in the uk as they land at
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dover with injuries, including stab wounds from this violence. but for the moment, the focus is on this rescue operation. as i say, one of the boats didn't make it to being picked up, run aground and now those migrants are being rescued, before that tide comes in, fully keep us up to date. >> but for now, thanks very much indeed. >> now, at 10:00 this morning, ben and emily are here with saturday morning live, and they're here in the studio to tell us all about it. morning. you >> how are you feeling today? >> how are you feeling today? >> i'm feeling really happy and pumped. >> we've been very giggly this morning. >> i think saturday is going to be the whole day for everyone. it's going to be brilliant, it's going to be good vibes and our show is going to be great as well. >> i heard there was a little bit of innuendo going on in your show. i didn't hear it myself. >> do you? >> do you? >> a little bit of naughtiness, a little bit of cheekiness, a bit of a naughty mood this morning, haven't we? oh, that's nice, isn't it? because there's a lot of doom and gloom. it's nice to have a little bit of a joke, even if it is a bit of innuendo, yes , of course we're innuendo, yes, of course we're going to be talking about the
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king, the impact. well, that's good news, family. that is lovely news for the nation. lovely news for him , of course. lovely news for him, of course. and we're going to reveal what are we going to reveal, ben. >> so in the times this morning there's some great colour about how the king's been spending his time amid his recovery. so there's some great detail about what he's been up to and his hobbies. so we're going to reveal, oh, don't read the times. wait for us. >> wait for us to tell you . and >> wait for us to tell you. and of course, we're going to be talking a little bit about too, politics whether it's been a good week for rishi sunak, lots of people seem to be saying he's had some good announcements. he got the rwanda bill through , got the rwanda bill through, we've got a national insurance cut and lots of other little bits and pieces. >> he's done some really good social media videos. his his onune social media videos. his his online content with the hardest geezen online content with the hardest geezer. yes. did you see that? so he did a he did a run from downing street through hyde park, past buckingham palace. and so on with the hardest geezen and so on with the hardest geezer, the lad who ran the length of africa . and on the way length of africa. and on the way they were chatting about he was being asked about, you know , being asked about, you know, your toughest day as pm, how do your toughest day as pm, how do you deal with the haters and so on and so on, and actually rishi made some nice comments about his faith, saying that in hinduism there's something called dharma which he tries to
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live by. so yeah, it was a really, i thought it was a nice piece of content and i was most impressed that he remained in breath. >> he was he was doing an interview and running at the same time. he's there. i couldn't have done that. >> body is my temple, isn't he? oh, he eats very healthily. he does intermittent fasting. >> he he's very he doesn't drink alcohol. >> so there you go. rishi sunak, the health guru and elsewhere, civil servants at the ons, they are striking because they're being to told go into the office for two days a week. >> should they be sacked and elsewhere. >> shame. >> shame. >> i know, two days a week. >> i know, two days a week. >> no, it sounds quite nice. >> no, it sounds quite nice. >> oh, we've got some bits about infidelity. oh, wow . if you're infidelity. oh, wow. if you're unfaithful, you may not be unfaithful, you may not be unfaithful or disloyal in other parts of your life. so people who cheat will worry more about being disloyal to a colleague than they would about being disloyal to their partner. yeah. which is quite incredible. >> it's a survey showing that some people are more loyal to, say, their football club or brand of coffee than their partner, which is, i'm quite surprised at that. >> very, very odd. >> very, very odd. >> if you're a disloyal person, you'd just be disloyal across the board. >> well, my argument is if you
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can't be loyal to the one person that matters, how can you be loyal in any other? >> apparently you can. apparently you can. >> so there you can be. >> so there you can be. >> years ago, hearing someone talk about some goal somewhere for their football club and said it's the greatest moment of my life. and he was. it was a married man with three children. oh, no. if that's the greatest moment of your life, something's gone wrong. >> oh, god. it's like a wedding speech. and it's all about their football team or something. >> well, you've got to brace yourself. you never know what's going to happen, emily. >> you never know what's going to happen. and ellie, who knows? well, who knows what her what our partners will say at our wedding and just, just lastly, a little bit of showbiz , including little bit of showbiz, including declan rice, the arsenal and england footballer. >> his missus, his girlfriend has been cruelly trolled on social media in recent weeks and months because she just looks like a normal, beautiful girl. she's not some sort of, you know, plastic wag. how they can be sometimes. >> and she looks lovely and she gets all this hate . gets all this hate. >> it's not right, is it? we're out of time. youtube. we'll see you in just a few minutes. is your weather? >> a brighter outlook with boxt
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solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> morning. we have some heavy , >> morning. we have some heavy, persistent rain arriving later today, meaning tomorrow is going today, meaning tomorrow is going to be pretty wet for some of us. however, before then it's a rather showery day for many of us today. first thing, we do have quite a bit of cloud across southern areas and some outbreaks of showery rain pushing their way into parts of the midlands. more pushing their way into parts of the midlands . more central parts the midlands. more central parts as we go through the day across scotland , northern ireland, a scotland, northern ireland, a touch of frost first thing this morning and then a scattering of showers developing as we head into the afternoon, and some of these could turn a little bit wintry over the higher ground. there will be some sunny spells around, but temperatures still a little bit below average for the time of year. some places staying in single figures highs of around 14 or 15 celsius. further south, some heavy rain then feeding into southern parts. as we go through this evening. so a pretty wet end to the day here and that rain. then continuing to push further northwards overnight, feeding in across much of central southern england into some northern parts
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of england and perhaps into wales as well. first thing tomorrow morning, towards the northwest , though, some clearer northwest, though, some clearer skies. so again we could see a touch of frost . first thing. it touch of frost. first thing. it is going to be a wet start to the day across much of england and wales then tomorrow. but that rain, although will be quite heavy and persistent for a time, is gradually going to clear its way northwards, could fringe into some eastern parts of scotland , but more western of scotland, but more western parts of scotland and northern ireland going to stay largely dry. and we should see some sunshine also breaking out across parts of west and wales and southwest england. two temperatures similar to today but obviously feeling a bit more unpleasant when it's going to be very wet. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on
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and this is saturday morning live . live. >> it is indeed. it's fantastic to have your company this morning. we have got an action packed show for you lined up today. we do indeed all of the day's top stories with author and broadcaster nichi hodgson and broadcaster nichi hodgson and founder of the youth vote uk, alexander cairns. >> good stuff now a royal return relief across the nation this morning as the king is to resume pubuc morning as the king is to resume public duties after a positive response to cancer treatment. >> yes, very good news. >> yes, very good news. >> elsewhere, lazy civil servants. they've been asked to return to the office for two days a week, but they're refusing and instead they're going on strike. so should they get the sack? >> oh, you couldn't make it up. and our children getting naughfier. and our children getting naughtier . england's set for the naughtier. england's set for the highest number of school suspensions in a year. but what can we do? and who is to blame? we've got a parenting expert with us later on in the show. >> so really good news about the king. he's going to be out and
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