this is bbc news, the headlines at seven: a drug addict is jailed for 12 years after running over and killing a young boy and his aunt, makayah mcdermott was just ten years old. the family say they're disappointed with the sentence. we came here today to see justice done and in the hope thatjoshua dobie would show remorse and sorrow for killing our beautiful rosy and oui’ for killing our beautiful rosy and our wonderful mackay, but he has shown justine greening insists selective education can close the attainment gap but heads express frustration at the government's priorities. a judge orders the former apprentice star katie hopkins to pay £24,000 in damages after committing libel on twitter. bt bows to regulator demands for a legal separation from 0penreach, which runs the uk's broadband infrastructure. rivals sky and talktalk cautiously welcome the move. singer ed sheeran makes chart

history, he is the first act to make every single song from his album into the top 20. he said it was something he never expected. he said it was something he never expected. and the perils of live broadcasting. have a watch what happened when babies crashed an interview over on our sister channel bbc world news. i would be surprised if they do... pardon me. an interview on a political crisis in south korea goes unexpectedly viral after an unexpected intrusion. good evening and welcome to bbc news. a 23—year—old drug addict who crashed his car into a family during a police chase in south london has been sentenced

to 12 years in prison. in august last yearjoshua dobby lost control of a stolen car killing 34—year—old rosie cooper and her 10—year—old nephew makayah mcdermott and seriously injuring two other children. it emerged in courtjoshua dobby has 53 previous convictions dating back to when he was 13. tom symonds reports. it was a summer's day. the family had been on their way to the park when this car came skidding off the road, hitting a bar large, hitting a bollard, lifting it into the air and down on top of three children and their aunt. the aftermath was horrific. there were five bodies under one car. little kids screaming, like... people passing by, drivers tried to move the car and realised there were two girls under the bonnet at the bottom of the car. the injuries suffered by rozanne cooper and makayah mcdermott could not have been survived.

he loved sport and acting. she was the mainstay of her family, the court was told. they were taken from us with still many years of their lives to live and have left our family with a deep void that will never be filled. joshua dobby ran away before being caught nearby. he was a drug addict, desperate to escape being sent back to prison. the court heard a statement from a 13—year—old who described dobby stepping over her in an attempt to get away. this stupid, ugly man has shattered my life and crushed my confidence, she said. her legs were badly scarred when she was crushed under the car. five days before, in kent, police had chased dobby in the same car, up to 80 mph, so risky that officers stopped the pursuit. but in the penge incident, that did not happen. the independent police watchdog

is carrying out a criminal investigation into the conduct of officers involved. butjoshua dobby took a deliberate decision to drive that way on that day. his life as a drug addict was as out—of—control as the car. the families say they will never recover. and we'll find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:40 this evening in the papers. 0ur guestsjoining me is melanie eusebe, executive producer of the women of the world festival, and joseph harker, deputy opinion editor at the guardian. schools in england are being forced to make impossible choices, dropping gcse and a—level courses and cutting back on school trips, in an effort to balance the books according to a head teachers‘ union. and the education secretaryjustine greening was heckled by headteachers at their annual conference as she spoke about the new wave of grammar schools. 0ur education correspondent gillian hargreaves reports from birmingham. give me an example of a receptor.

peter woodman might be a headteacher, but he still likes to work at the chalk face, partly because he enjoys it, and partly because it saves money for his school. the only reason we can survive is that we are carrying forward money from last year. if the government stick to their pledges over the next five years with the cash flows and budget, we will be making cuts of something like 70,000 every year, year—on—year. a poll of more than 1000 union members said 72% said they had to remove gcse options or vocational subjects from the syllabus, while 79% said they had reduced their a—level or vocational offering, and 82% say that class sizes have had to increase. if head teachers here are warning that creative subjects like music are under threat. money, or lack of it,

has dominated the conversation. this is the first time the education secretary has spoken to a teaching union. headteachers are generally a professional bunch, but they did jeer the education secretary when she said there are plans for more grammar schools, at a time when headteachers say there is not enough cash for existing schools. such is the sensitivity around the issue, we were prevented from filming the speech. the only images available were photographs on the union's twitterfeed, and heads were not impressed with her words. it's annoying to find government constantly saying that funding has never been higher. that is true, because we have more students. we have got an 8% cut and we are expected to continue delivering quality. it is absolutely dire. we are having to make cuts to our curriculum and it is untenable, really. the chief inspector of schools has also caused controversy,

saying that some heads are deliberately offering less academically rigorous subjects to boost results. we sometimes see easier qualifications used, blanket entries, people being entered for overlapping qualifications. things that can drift away from giving children what is absolutely right for them. the government insists the £40 billion being spent on schools this year is the highest cash figure ever. we need to think carefully about resource in the education system because obviously we are leaving the european union and we will need a very rich variety of skills and academic individuals who will be able to fill the jobs that we have. but with teachers saying they need more money, the arguments will continue. with me is andrew baisley, a rep for the national union of teachers, with more than 20 years experience as a teacher. well done! how bad situation are

many schools facing at the moment?‘ very, very difficult situation financially for schools. we know from the national audit office report just before from the national audit office reportjust before christmas that many schools are running deficit budgets and that was just before the election. the government is taking £3 billion out of school budgets over this parliament and so we have reached the crunch point. the survey today shocked me. i know quite a lot about school funding, but i was shocked by just how about school funding, but i was shocked byjust how severe the consequences are by now. with respect to teaching unions, we have been listening to complain about the state of education from unions like the nut for years, haven't we? that is why unions exist, to highlight the problems, but why should we believe it is any worse now? you

have also got the institute for fiscal studies and the national audit office, the government's own accountants, talking about the amount of money that is coming out of england's schools at the moment. as with the health service and social care and as the electorate we have to make a decision. we have. do we wa nt have to make a decision. we have. do we want to pay more taxes or change the shape of the education system to something we can afford? that would be fair enough if it were not for the fact that the conservative party we re the fact that the conservative party were elected on a manifesto pledge saying they would continue to protect school funding. they were elected on a pledge to keep school funding— to make sure school standards stayed where they are. what is changing is class sizes are rapidly rising in schools. we have got the report today which says a—level courses are being fact, gcse courses are being cut and parents

we re courses are being cut and parents were assured at the election when they voted for the conservative party they believed they were voting to maintain those standards in schools. theresa may has made more grammar schools are big thing for her. justine greening famously went toa her. justine greening famously went to a comprehensive. that they are very popular with parents. how can you argue against grammar schools, selective education, when it is directed at those who are more disadvantaged. very few jewel in from disadvantaged backgrounds get to go to grammar schools. everyone would like to send their child to a grammar school, no one would like to send their child to a secondary modern. if you open the grammar school in the area you drag and the standards of the neighbouring schools by taking out all the high achieving students. what does this country need in terms of an education that is fit for the jobs children might be doing, once we have not even invented yet. we need

a creative education service, we need lots of options for children. what is wrong about the direction of education is the curriculum has been rapidly narrowed into a select bunch of skills and i do not think that that meets the needs of british business. the cbi agree with us on that. thank you very much. thank you very much. an 83—year—old farmer has been cleared after shooting a suspected thief in the foot on his property. kenneth hugill was found not guilty of grievous bodily harm. the jury heard he used a shotgun to shoot at the side of a vehicle he found on his land in the middle of the night because he was afraid the driver was going to run him over. the former apprentice contestant and newspaper columnist katie hopkins has had to pay thousands of pounds in damages after libelling a food blogger in a series of tweets. ms hopkins suggested that jack monroe approved of vandalising war memorials when there was no evidence of it. after the verdict, ms monroe's lawyer said people need to understand that being defamatory

on social media is permanent and you can be sued. david sillito has more. jack monroe is a food blogger and campaigner. throughout these tasks, i hope i have never trodden on anyone to get where i have got to. you have. katie hopkins made her name as an outspoken contestant on the show the apprentice macro, and went on to become an even more outspoken columnist for the daily mail. the two met on twitter. this tweet in may 2015 from katie hopkins to jack monroe asked her about scrawling and vandalising a war memorial. katie hopkins had sent her message to the wrong person. jack monroe asked for an apology. she did not get one. today, jack monroe left court having won her 21 month libel battle. it struck a nerve and i knew

there would be a tidal wave of hate, abuse and vitriol, and i was right. if it is a simple mistake, people apologise. i have made mistakes on twitter and i put my hands and say, sorry, my hands up and say, sorry, i was out of order and i hope we can move on. if she had done that, we would not be here today. jack monroe says she is relieved, rather pleased. for katie hopkins? two tweets have proved expensive, £24,000 in damages and an extra £107,000 for katie hopkins in court costs. it is not the first time that a tweet has led to legal action but it certainly points out the risks. generally, people are unaware that they are exposed to the libel laws when they tweet. this case and others will help make that clear. a lesson notjust for katie hopkins but for anyone on social media. 0nline comments can be very costly. bt has bowed to demands to hive off

the part of the business that runs the uk's broadband infrastructure — 0penreach — into an entirely separate company. it's in response to demands by the industry regulator 0fcom and follows accusations that it prioritised its own customers over rivals like sky, talktalk and vodafone. but will the move make any difference to customers in terms of a better service and faster broadband? technology correspondent rory cellan—jones reports. 90% of british homes can now get fast broadband but in this part of rural buckinghamshire, you can't get any connection at all from bt. gary, who has campaigned to get his village connected, thinks the company and its broadband division, 0penreach, are failing britain. they have a quasi monopoly on the market, and with a monopoly come reponsibilities.

there should be a responsibility to connect every house in britain with broadband. now, after pressure from 0fcom, bt has agreed to separate from 0penreach, which will have its own boss and board. the regulator had been urged to act by other firms unhappy with the broadband supplier's performance. they, like us as a regulator, have been concerned that 0penreach has not been performing well enough, broadband has not been good enough. and they see the greater independence as a great means for 0penreach to operate with the interests of the whole telecoms industry at heart, notjust bt. 0penreach has been criticised for letting down british broadband industry. among the charges, it is accused of investing too little, providing poor customer service and diverting profits to other bt priorities, like sports rights. now, as an independent operation with much of bt‘s influence and its logo removed, the hope is that things will improve. bt said that a shadow

had been lifted from the company and its employees. there had been the threat that it could have been forced to sell off 0penreach. there is no evidence that produces better outcomes for customers. it often creates instability that undermines investment. what we need in the uk is certainty, to create conditions that promote investment and service, and this model allows us to do that. the theory is that 0penreach will now be able to cooperate better with other companies, boosting investment in broadband. but whether that will mean every home in britain gets a connection remains to be seen. the headlines: a drug addict is jailed for 12 years after running over and killing a young boy and his aunt. the boy wasjust over and killing a young boy and his aunt. the boy was just ten years old. justine greening incest

selective education can close the attainment gap, but headteachers expressed frustration. the judge ordered the former apprentice star katie hopkins to pay £24,000 to bloggerjack monroe after committing libel on twitter. more now on the news that schools in england are being forced to cut gcse and a—level courses in an effort to make savings. the association of school and college leaders is warning that budget constraints are driving up class sizes. with me is ed dorrell from the times education supplement. thank you for coming in. we are used to hearing unions complain about the state of education whoever is in power. what is the real basis for their unhappiness at the moment? there is no doubt about it funding in schools is very tight at the moment. for many years it was

growing or stable. the government would say that the core funding is still as high as it has ever been and ring fenced, but the funding around the edges is being cut and the ring fencing does not take into account inflation. the costs schools are facing are going up and the budget is staying the same. you had a reporter at the conference in birmingham today, what was the reception like for the education secretary? it was relatively polite for most of the speech, but when it came to the grammar school staff, when she was asked about the policy being driven by number ten and she defended it, the heads who were present, a large number of them heckled, they were not happy. that comes on top of the cuts, so this is a really unhappy group of people.- what extent are the cuts related to the creation of more grammar schools? the feeling you would get when you speak to heads, and i speak toa

when you speak to heads, and i speak to a lot of them, is that money is being spent needlessly on the extension of grammar schools when budgets are being squeezed elsewhere. it is like superfluous and unnecessary, political spending. how convinced and committed to grammar schools do you really think justine greening is as a woman who attended a comprehensive school? justine greening is as a woman who attended a comprehensive schoonm is not without irony that she is the first education secretary to be the first education secretary to be the first comprehensively educated. from what i understand she is not over the moon, but she has got a lot of other policies she wants to push through. certainly there is no denying that the grammar school stuff is being driven very much by number ten. i do not thinkjustine greening has a huge amount of choice over that, but it will be seen through. what was her attitude towards the teaching profession from what you could see today? it is very positive. it is not without irony

that of all three conservative education secretaries since the coalition in 2010 justine greening is probably proving, early stages, though, proving to be popular with the profession. she says a lot of great things about getting teaching right, teachers being caught in improving education and teaching development is essential to what she wa nts to development is essential to what she wants to achieve. a lot of her m essa g es wants to achieve. a lot of her messages are welcome. people in the trade unions and school leader unions are surprisingly pleased, but then there are the grammar schools. how are schools trying through their own creative means to bridge the funding gap effectively? there is the negative stuff which a lot of schools are dealing with. there are redundancies in many schools, subjects are being cut. but there are other ways of going about it. there is a formation of multi—academy trusts when schools

come together to form federations. they are thinking creatively about ways of saving money and retention. what about asking parents to chip in? i know not all parents can, but some are prepared to. there seems to be an increasing phenomenon that pa rents a re be an increasing phenomenon that parents are receiving letters from their heads orfrom parents are receiving letters from their heads or from the bursars saying, would you mind awfully coughing up 200 quid, 400 quid? we have heard reports of 600 year. that is quite a lot of money. that is veering towards what i would call school fees. they are volu nta ry, call school fees. they are voluntary, but there is a lot of pressure. thank you very much. in south korea, two people have died in clashes between police and demonstrators who were protesting at the removal from office of the president by the country's highest court. park geun—hye was found guilty of corruption and stripped of all her powers.

she could face charges. the decision was met by cheering in the streets by her opponents. her supporters have reacted angrily. so where does this leave the country? dr seung—young kim is a senior lecturer in korean studies at sheffield university. thank you for sharing your evening with us. what is your reaction to the scenes we have seen, the protests in which some people have died? they were quite staunch supporters of the president and they are mostly representing the conservative side of south korean society. they expected that the outcome of the transitional court would be different. how much of an upset is this for the political

establishment in south korea? the political establishment would accept it with calm, likewise the mainstream media. there is a kind of broadly shared view that former president park went beyond the boundary allowed by law. what direction might south korean politics go in now as a result of her removal? according to the constitution south korea is looking for new presidential elections within two months. how would a more left of centre candidate change the shape of the country? when it comes to the economy the left, right,

conservative or liberal, their tasks would be similar, creating jobs and boosting employment for young people. however, when it comes to foreign policy and policies to deal with north korea there are quite different views. there is a liberal camp which tends to have more dialogue and discussion with north korea and takes more time, although the threat from north korean missiles and nuclear weapons are picking up speed because their progress has recently been rapid. also the liberal side would also have more deals with china than unilaterally siding with the united states. these would be changes because the most promising candidates in the forthcoming election is a former opposition leader. you were talking about missiles and seoul has been

cooperating with the united states on an anti—missile system. how might that project and the relationship with the donald trump administration change? the donald trump administration, and it is hard to predict things, it is siding quite closely with south korea and japan. if the new president from the liberal side takes a more liberal course, then there will be some adjustment and it would be inevitable. but there are always differences among the allies as well. we appreciate your insight. it isa well. we appreciate your insight. it is a fascinating time in south korean politics for stewart. —— for sure. british workers took fewer sick days in 2016 than at any time since comparable records began almost 25 years ago. the office for national statistics says on average workers claimed 4.3

days leave due to ill health last year. sickness absence totalled 137 million working days last year. coughs and colds accounted for a quarter of days lost last year. for more on this let's talk to hr consultant yvonne akinmodun who joins us via webcam from bromley. thank you forjoining us. are we left six generally speaking now?|j think left six generally speaking now?” think a lot of the reason for lower sickness is really because a lot of firms have tightened up on the way in which they pay people when they are off. in the past more companies we re are off. in the past more companies were more generous with sick pay, but as companies are losing staff and they have to tighten up on

budgets, we have seen a lot of policies that have been introduced of penalising staff when they take time off. for instance they might not pay them for the first few days they have off sick and that is having a significant impact. what we are finding is that people are more inclined to come to work even when they are not feeling very well. inclined to come to work even when they are not feeling very wellm there not a law against that? is there not a law against that? is there not a statutory entitlement to sick pay? absolutely, but a lot of companies offer enhanced pay. for most employees companies might take the view they will not offer them the view they will not offer them the enhanced package if they take time off. i think that is a way of trying to discourage absenteeism at work. how do the private and public sectors compare? the public sector

generally tend to have a much more generous package, so they were tapped perhaps the average public sector organisation would have six months full pay and six months have pgy- months full pay and six months have pay. a lot of public sector organisations adhere to that. in the private sector they tend to start with the statutory entitlement, so there is quite a big difference in entitlement depending on the sector you work in. what is your advice to employers and employees whether it isa employers and employees whether it is a sensible idea to have six people in work when perhaps everybody would be better off at home? i know sometimes it is difficult, but my advice would be as you say, if you are not feeling well the thing is to be at home because you spend less time off sick and when you are off sick, or when you

are in work you are more likely to spread an illness in the workplace which could have an impact on the whole workforce, so it is better to be of home and recover from it and come back to work. what if you feel you are being denied sick pay that you are being denied sick pay that you are being denied sick pay that you are entitled to? how brave would you are entitled to? how brave would you have to be to challenge it?” you are entitled to? how brave would you have to be to challenge it? i do not think companies are denying entitlement that people actually have, but what they are doing is reducing the amount of packages or generous enhancements they might offer. it is about really looking at what your company is offering and it is all usually stated in the sickness absence policy. individuals should look at that and make sure they understand what they are entitled to and they are claiming what they are entitled to under their contract of employment.“ what they are entitled to under their contract of employment. if on, it is good to talk to you. and hr

co nsulta nt it is good to talk to you. and hr consultant talking to us from bromley. and hr consultant talking to us from bromley. he's the multi—millionaire singer—songwriter whose hits including thinking out loud and a—team. ed sheeran‘s current hit single, the shape of you, is staying at number1 in the singles chart for a ninth week. it is being played on a loop in my house. yes, that is the one. yes, that is the one. and it'sjust beenjoined in the top 20 by every other song from his new album, making chart history because of the number of times they've been downloaded or streamed. the 26—year—old has made art history. he is only 26! ed sheeran said he was most proud records had sold so much on vinyl as well as downloads. i like the fact that it has been a lot of vinyl in the last few years. when you did some

interviews at the start of this album campaign, you are confident of everything and you said you were confident of what you have got and the album you have got and you knew people would like them. did you think it would go this well? no. i do not know if they have got to change how they stream now, but i did not expect this ever in my life. with as is the newsbeat reporter jimmy blake. this is his third album and outsold the rest of the other albums in the uk combined this week. so that makes it the fastest selling album by a uk male artist ever and it's also the third fastest selling in uk chart history. it's only behind adele's

25. all of the 16 tracks are in the top 20, nine in the top ten and the top 20, nine in the top ten and the top five is entirely his songs. why hasn't an artist been able to do that before? some people might say why didn't do it with 25? her album wasn't on a streaming site straight toa wasn't on a streaming site straight to a comet came later. so 150 streams on things like spotify and apple music become one download. it had 56 point 3 million streams on spotify on monday. it is down to timing a bit because he had the announcement saying i will disappear for a bit before this album, capitalised on dick simon with two

singles and speaking to scott mills injanuary, singles and speaking to scott mills in january, he moved singles and speaking to scott mills injanuary, he moved this album back a few months to avoid any other releases that might have been competition. he said he thinks the way the charter works probably needs to change. is that because you are pulling together the way people are buying music across so many different formats? in the clip you heard, he was speaking to greg james how excited he is about the success. he said it is we had someone can dominate in this way and talked about how streaming need to change. the company said it is something they look at. but they always continually look at their methods and how they work but they cannot have a knee jerk reaction to one extreme sales like this. how different are these songs? a lot of them are ballots, others are like

shape of you bit more upbeat, sound like some of the things he has written forjustin bieber and one direction. i bet none of them have been bought on a cassette? thank you. now tied for the weather. the weather is not changing in a hurry. we have high pressure in charge. the weather front moving into the north—west will bring rain across northern ireland and parts of scotla nd across northern ireland and parts of scotland in the night. england and wales dry and cloudy. temperatures between eight and 10 degrees for most first thing. i would start to the weekend. 0n most first thing. i would start to the weekend. on saturday there will be cloud and patchy rain across southern scotland and northern england into wales. to the south and east of that, the cloud should break nicely and temperatures 17, possibly 18 degrees and also a return to sunshine towards the north—west. heading to saturday evening

overnight into sunday, the rain heads across many parts of the country, pushing gradually eastwards through sunday, lingering long list across east anglia and the sabbath. a return to sunshine and scattered showers though it will feel fresher by sunday. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: a drug addict is jailed for 12 years for running over and killing a young boy and his aunt in south london. we came here today to see justice done and in the hope that joshua dobby would show remorse and sorrow for killing our beautiful rosie and our wonderful makayah. but he has shown none. schools in england are having to drop gcse and a level courses, head teachers blame a funding crisis. it comes as the education secretary was heckled at a conference over her plans for more grammar schools. the controversial columnist katie hopkins has been ordered to pay £24,000 in damages

for libelling the food writer jack monroe on twitter. the racing legend john surtees, the only man to win world championships on two wheels as well as four has died, aged 83. more now on one of our top stories this evening. the telecoms giant bt has bowed to demands to hive off the part of its business that runs the uk's broadband infrastructure 0penreach into an entirely separate company. it's in response to demands by the industry regulator 0fcom and follows accusations that it prioritised its own customers over its rivals like sky, talktalk and vodafone. let's speak now to the conservative mp grant shapps, who led a cross—party report calling for bt to sell 0penreach, in his role as chair of the british infrastructure group of mps. he joins us from hatfield in hertfordshire. thanks forjoining us. what was your

objection to the way it was organised before? the way it was organised before? the way it was organised before, you had the people running the infrastructure, also competing with all the other providers to run the internet service itself. bt, you could buy the service from bt or anybody else, but 0penreach was completely owned by bt, run by the same people, effectively. it meant that was unfairon the effectively. it meant that was unfair on the competition. but that's beside the point. more so it was unfairon that's beside the point. more so it was unfair on consumers who found it didn't matter how much they went to their own internet provider to complain about the service, it was this 0penreach group behind it and they had no control. it seems obvious what you were saying, don't politicians take some responsibility for that? i think they take all the responsibility, i think it is wrong the way it was set up. while the

group of mps is welcoming what happened today, this is a step in the right direction to have a step aboard, it doesn't go far enough. you still have british telecom the 100% share owner of the infrastructure company. you have them with remarkable powers, to set them with remarkable powers, to set the budget of 0penreach and also to effectively veto the appointment of 0penreach's chief executives. bt is still in the driving seat, albeit this is a welcome move. it should go further. you wouldn't have this situation in any other industries, and it shouldn't be in this most critical communication industry are broadband. what will it mean for consumers if there is a complete separation? what has happened is a bit better so i hope these terrible service delays were people experience all sorts of delays with the internet broadband and then get the internet broadband and then get the speeds they are paying for, i hope this means the broadband

infrastructure company, that is 0penreach, will be more responsive because they will be answerable to the 150 or so in service providers. i hope it will be an improvement. if you think about our railways, we have network rail maintaining the infrastructure, but you would never dream of having network rail running a rail company as well, running trains and competing against virgin and those people on the same lines. that is effectively the position we have, even after this welcomed news for the infrastructure for broadband in this country. it is one of the reasons it is nowhere near as good as it should be and one of the reasons the infrastructure group will campaign on. we will launch a campaign to compensate people who are buying internet at 24 megabits per second, but only getting 15. why can't they getting refunded? i hope with bt and 0penreach splitting a

bit, is the start of going much further. how far can you go in splitting things up but ensuring there is better and faster coverage as years go by? the competition can only go so far? competition could go further still, as i explained with the suggestion you shouldn't have the suggestion you shouldn't have the same companies providing the infrastructure as delivering the service. i think we can go further through that. there are the disruptive technologies we should be using, satellite. there are a few challenges, but it can make things interesting with a lot more competition involves. i think the set up the consumers should be better. why should you pay every month for a service you don't receive. you signed up for 24 megabits and you don't get anywhere near it. if you are due to get compensation for it, you can bet the

service providers, particularly 0penreach will be more responsive in addressing the network. this isn't over yet. we welcome what has happened the day, but we feel there isa happened the day, but we feel there is a lot further to go yet to get this right. grant shapps, mp, thanks for talking to us. downing street says it is confident it will meet its own deadline of the end of march, for triggering the start of britain's departure from the european union. it comes as eu leaders have been meeting in brussels to shore up unity between the other 27 nations. 0ur correspondent ben wright has this report. business not quite as usual this morning, as 27 eu heads of government gathered without britain. within weeks the uk will start to unpick its decades long relationship with the eu and try to build a new one. everyone here expects the divorce to be difficult. a crucial player on the eu side will be this man, donald tusk, re—elected yesterday to the job of president of the european council, which represents eu leaders. in a fortnight eu leaders will meet in italy to celebrate 60 years since the treaty

of rome was signed, a today's debate was not about brexiter. —— brexit. ithink jean—claude juncker can confirmed as opinion, we will be ready in 48 hours. the president of the european commission said he helped brexit would not be for ever.” commission said he helped brexit would not be for ever. i don't like brexit because i would like to be in the same boat as the british. the day will come when the british will re—enterthe day will come when the british will re—enter the boat, day will come when the british will re—enterthe boat, i hope. day will come when the british will re-enter the boat, i hope. in a fortnight, eu leaders will meet in italy to celebrate 60 years since the treaty of rome was signed. but

brexit will undoubtedly overshadowed the party. theresa may, who left the summit last night, insists she will trigger the start of brexit by the end of the month. the foreign secretary has been clear about one aspect of the talks to come, the future cost of access to eu markets. it is not reasonable for the uk, having left the eu, to continue to make vast budget payments. i think everybody understands that and that is the reality. but there will have to be compromises about money, trade, the rights of eu citizens and more. an eu state has never left the clu b more. an eu state has never left the club before and the risks for both sides are high. the racing driverjohn surtees has died at the age of 83. he was the only man to have been crowned world champion as a motorcyclist and as a driver in formula one. paying tribute, murray walker said he was undoubtedly one of the greatest people who has ever lived in the history

of motor sport. andy swiss looks back at his career. hot favourite after wins in 1958 and 59, number threejohn surtees... he was a natural racer, skilful and determined. just as fast on two wheels, as he later became on four. in his ferrari, john surtees, number seven going like a bomb... encouraged by his father, a motorcycle dealer and former sidecar champion, young john won his first race at the age of 17. with british motorbikes dominating racing, his future looked secure with norton. but they refused to back him for the 1956 season, so he went to italy to join the mv agusta team. between 1956 and 1960, surtees dominated the 350cc and 500cc classes. the master has done it again... winning seven world championships.

john surtees is the hero with the double in the first classic meeting of the year. on his way to win his sixth tt and his third successive senior tt... he became the first man to win the senior isle of man tt three years running. is this your life's ambition now achieved? not really, i suppose i don't set out with definite ambitions, ijust try and do my best, whatever i do. he switched to cars full—time in 1961, driving a cooper. but once again he had to go to italy to find success, this time with ferrari. the man first isjohn surtees. and a second place in mexico clinched the 1964 world championship. a year later he almost died when his lola crashed in practice in canada. flown back to london, he eventually made a full recovery.