this is bbc news. lam martine i am martine croxall. the headlines at 8.00pm. a drug addict is jailed for 12 years after running over and killing a 10—year—old boy and his aunt. but the family express disappointment with the sentence. the education secretary is heckled over her plan for new grammar schools. teachers say they're having to drop courses due to a lack of funding. a judge orders the columnist katie hopkins to pay 2a thousand pounds in damages — after she libelled a blogger on twitter. bt bows to demands for a legal separation with openreach — which runs the uk's broadband infrastructure. rivals sky and talktalk cautiously welcome the move. the singer ed sheeran makes chart history — he's the first artist to get every single song from his new album into the top 20. and the perils of live broadcasting — have a watch what's been happening over on our sister channel,

bbc world news... i would be surprised but pardon me. an interview on a political crisis in south korea goes unexpectedly viral — after an unexpected intrusion. and in half an hour — we look at team gb‘s preparations for the 2018 winter olympic games. 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 year, joshua dobby lost control of a stolen car, killing

34—year—old rosie cooper and her ten—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 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 on 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 13—year—old yahla mcdermott, who described dobby stepping over her in an attempt to get away. her legs were badly scarred when she was crushed under the car. five days before, here 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 now carrying out a criminal investigation into the conduct of the 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 — our guests joining me are melanie eusebe, executive producer of the women of the world festival and joseph harker, deputy 0pinion 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, that's 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 of the weald school 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 found 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. heads here are warning that creative subjects like music are under threat. young musicians tuning up for teachers learn to play in less straitened times. money, or lack of it, has dominated the conversation. this is the first time the education secretary justine greening 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 really annoying to find government constantly saying that funding has never been higher. that is true, because we have more students and because of inflation. 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 do sometimes see easier qualifications used,

sometimes we see 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 about resourcing 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. i've been speaking to editorial from the times education supplement his collea g u es the times education supplement his colleagues cover just in the times education supplement his colleagues coverjust in grinning's speech and asked what the reaction like for the education secretary. speech and asked what the reaction like for the education secretarym was relatively polite for most of

the speech i understand, but when it came to the grammar school stuff, when she was asked about what has been coming from the mckernan she defended it, the heads who were present, a large number of them heckled. they weren't happy. that comes i think on top of the cuts, so this is a really unhappy group of people. to what extent, though, are the cuts related to the creation of more grammar schools?|j the cuts related to the creation of more grammar schools? i think the feeling you would get if you speak to heads, and i speak a lot of them, is that money is being spent needlessly on the growth of grammar schools when budgets are being so squeezed elsewhere. so it feels like superfluous spending, unnecessary, political spending. an 83—year—old farmer has been cleared, after shooting a suspected thief in the foot on his property. kenneth hugill, who farms near york, 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 reports. jack monroe is a food blogger and campaigner. throughout all of these tasks, i hope i have never trodden on anyone to get where i have got to. oh, you have. 0h, oh, i haven't. yes you have. katie hopkins made her name as an outspoken contestant on the show the apprentice, 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 really struck a nerve and i knew there would be a tidal wave coming 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 up and say, i'm sorry, i was out of order and i hope we can move on. if she had done that, two years ago, we would not be here today. jack monroe says she is relieved, rather pleased. relieved, rather than pleased. for katie hopkins? two tweets on an evening in may two years ago 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. david sillito, bbc news. 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 ashworth, 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. it is a necessity, part of everyday life now. 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 the regulator, have been concerned that 0penreach has not been performing well enough, that 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. bt‘s 0penreach has been criticised for letting down british broadband industry.

among the charges, it is accused of investing too little, and providing very poor customer service and diverting 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 a shadow had been lifted from the company and its employees. after all, 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. indeed, it often creates instability that undermines investment. what we need now 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. 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. he says it will only take two days

to respond to tourism in‘s article about triggering article 50. today was not about brexit. but i think we are well prepared, and jean—claude can confirm this, i have no doubts that we will be ready in 48 hours. the president of the european commission said he hoped that brexit might not be forever. commission said he hoped that brexit might not be foreverlj might not be forever. 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 vote, day will come when the british will re—enterthe vote, i hope. in a fortnight, eu leaders will meet in italy to celebrate 60 years since the treaty of rome was signed, a foundation stone of the european union. but brexit will undoubtedly overshadow 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 borisjohnson has been clear about one aspect of the talks to come.

the future cost of access to eu markets. it's not reasonable, i don't think, for the uk, having left the eu, to continue to make vast budget payments. i think everybody understands that, and that's the reality. but there will have to become from eyesisin but there will have to become from eyes is in talks about money, trade, the rights of you're citizens and more. an eu state has never left the clu b more. an eu state has never left the club before. the risks for both sides are high. the headlines on bbc news: a drug addict is jailed for 12 years after running over and killing a ten—year—old boy and his aunt. the family expressed disappointment with the sentence. the education secretary heckled over her plans for new grammar schools. head teachers say they are having to drop courses due to a lack of funding. a judge orders the former apprentice started

hopkins to pay £24,000 to blogger jack munro after committing libel on twitter. ——jack —— jack monroe. sport now with tim. the penultimate weekend of the six nations is underway with wales hosting ireland in cardiff. the welsh are coming up two defeats, while the irish to have a chance of taking the title, but if they lose in cardiff tonight without getting two bonus points, england will be able to claim the championship with able to claim the championship with a win over scotland in the calcutta cup tomorrow. this is the latest from the principality stadium. as you can see, ireland are doing so well so far, 3—0 up. —— ireland are doing well so far. the matches live on bbc one now. wales pushing for their first try. 0wen farrell remains a doubt for england's six nations game with scotland tomorrow, after missing training at twickenham today. england will make a call on his fitness tomorrow — they have until an hour before

kick—off to finalise their side. farrell was out on the pitch with the rest of the squad this morning but he didn't train himself. john surtees, the only man to win both the formula one and motorcycle world titles, has died aged 83. and motorcycle world titles, has died, aged 83. he won four motorcycling championships between 1956 and 1960... before switching to grand prix motor racing, and winning the 1964 title for ferrari in that too. surtees went on to run his own racing team and was awarded a cbe last year. a statement from his family said he died peacefully in hospital this afternoon. british cycling has admitted that their success has come at the expense of athlete care. it follows an independent investigation into their world class performance programme... a draft copy of which leaked a little earlier today. 0ur reporter david 0rnstein reports from the national cycling centre in manchester.

the controversy around british cycling started almost a year ago when allegations of sex is, the scrum and age in and bullying led to an independent investigation into the culture at burton's most successful and well funded 0lympic sport. the report is expected soon, and this morning a leaked draft of it was published by the daily mail. it made for grim reading, backing up many of the claims. british cycling issued a statement, disagreeing with the factual accuracy of certain points, but admitting to specific shortcomings and a failure to address early warning signs of problems. meanwhile today, sir dave brailsford, former performance director here, now boss of team sky, said he would not be resigning from his position, despite the continuing controversy his position, despite the continuing c0 ntrove rsy over a his position, despite the continuing controversy over a mystery package sent to sir bradley wiggins in 2011.

tea m sent to sir bradley wiggins in 2011. team sky have admitted mistakes were made over that package but deny breaking any anti—doping rules, and speaking to cycling weekly, b ra ilsfo rd speaking to cycling weekly, brailsford said i am finding myself and have confidence in my team. i have been through a lot over the yea rs have been through a lot over the years and it is important to make sure you can look at yourself, and say there has been no wrongdoing. i'm confident of that. british rider simon yates won the sixth stage of the paris fozz nice race. he pulled clear of the peloton on the penultimate climb and held on to win the stage by 17 seconds. he moves up to eighth in the general classification, with two stages remaining. football. norwich have sacked manager alex neil. he got them promoted to the premier league in 2015, but they were relegated after a single season. a club statement said the board reached a unanimous decision. norwich are eighth in the championship, nine points from the playoffs. that is almost all the sport for

now, just a day that the wales— ireland game in the six nations is still 3—0 macro to ireland. 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. from seoul, stephen evans reports. the moment a president was ousted. president park committed a grave breach of the law. it was against the constitution and the trust of the constitution and the trust of the people. 0utside the constitution and the trust of the people. outside the court, the one protesters died. two protesters died. the central

allegation is that the company's his company —— the country's biggest companies paid money to the president's friend for favours. top business leaders face questions that may yet put them behind bars for stop the police have been out in force because feelings run so high. families are split on the issue. there will be a general election in 60 days. one of the consequences of that may be a move to the left. if the government here moved to the left, there would be a different attitude towards north korea. probably more cooperative. every saturday night for three months now, there have been huge demonstrations against president park. but what pushed her from office against president park. but what pushed herfrom office was against president park. but what pushed her from office was a constitutional court finding her guilty of crime, in a country which

has only been a democracy for 30 yea rs. has only been a democracy for 30 years. stephen evans, bbc news, south korea. an american pilot — who turned up to fly an airliner from glasgow to newjersey while over the legal limit for alcohol — has been jailed for ten months. carlos roberto licona from texas had been due to pilot the united airlines flight last august. other members of staff smelt drink on his breath. 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. minor illnesses, such as coughs and colds, accounted for a quarter of days lost last year, it kills more people than bowel, breast and prostate cancer combined but many may never have heard of it. it's called sepsis, and today the health watchdog says it must be treated within an hour in the fight against life or death. sepsis occurs when the body's immune system goes into overdrive as it

tries to fight an infection — it must be treated quickly with antibiotics. in the uk, there are 44,000 deaths from the condition each year. severe symptoms include slurred speech, passing slurred speech, passing no urine no you're in in a day, extreme shivering and discoloured skin. i've been speaking to tom gray who suffered from sepsis. he told us of his experience of the life—threatening condition.” his experience of the life-threatening condition. i was a 38—year—old husband and father, never had a day's sickness in my life, very strong, hale and hearty. but sepsis kortsmit very quickly. within about 24, 36 hours, i went —— caught me very quickly. i went from a normal routine life to the

intensive care unit, and went into a coma forfour months, intensive care unit, and went into a coma for four months, and woke up with my arms and legs amputated, and most of my face, for my eyes downwards also removed. so it was very, very powerful. why haven't the doctors recognised what it was more readily? it is a question that we've often asked, and we've done a bit of research into it. i think the problem... there were several problems, one was that we live in a rural location. we found it hard to get urgent assistance in a end a in a major city in peterborough. we arrived on a friday night, and it was very, very crowded, and the symptoms, because i had no medical history of any problems, i was a bit

ofa history of any problems, i was a bit of a mystery case, so i was kind of put into a sideboard, really, and they sort of left me till last to try and work out what was wrong with me. and of course one of the other problems was that blood tests in those days, this was december 1999, took several hours to come back with results, and by that time, once they have the results, the news was really that there was no hope for me, and they told my wife that i would just die. he's the multi—millionaire british singer—songwriter whose hits including thinking out loud and a—team. ed sheeran's current hit single, shape of you, has stayed at number one in the singles chart for a ninth week. and it's just been joined in the top 20 by every other song from his new album, divide — because of the number of times they've been downloaded or streamed.

it means the 26—year—old has made chart history. speaking to greg james on the radio 1 chart show earlier this evening, ed sheeran said he was most proud that his record had sold so well on vinyl, as well as downloads. do you know what i like? that it is the biggest selling vinyl in the last 20 years, i like that. huge congratulations, what a week it has been. when you did some interviews at the start of this album campaign and the inverted commas comeback, you are confident of everything, and you are confident of everything, and you said you are confident of the songs, you knew people would like them. did you think it would go this well? allan no. like i do know if there are some with things that spotify and apple music are going to have to change now with streaming, but i never expected to have nine songs in the top ten in my life. well, they do say you should never work with children and animals... this morning, south korean expert professor robert kelly certainly added weight to at least half that argument. during a live interview on bbc world news, he soldiered

on, despite a couple of unexpected and energetic intruders. the question is how to view democracy in light of those scandals. what will it mean for the wider region, adding one of your children hasjust wider region, adding one of your children has just walked wider region, adding one of your children hasjust walked in? do you think relations with the north may change? i would be surprised if they do. the... pardon me. that's quite all right. my apologies! what is this going to mean for the region? my this going to mean for the region? my apologies. sorry. south korea's policy choices on north korea have been severely limited in the last six month to a year... professor robert kelly, time for a look at the weather forecast.

after a mild and cloudy day, the weather is not changing in a hurry through this evening and overnight. still high pressure in charge. the weather front moving into the north—west will bring rain across parts of northern ireland and scotla nd parts of northern ireland and scotland late in the night. england and wales staying largely dry and prydie cloudy. temperatures between eight and 10 degrees for most of us first thing. certainly a mild start of the weekend. during saturday, a zone of mild patchy rain for a time into the north wales. to the south and east of that, the cloud should break quite nicely and temperature 17, possibly 18 degrees also a return to sunshine to the northwest, 13 or 14. saturday evening and overnight into sunday, the rain sta rts overnight into sunday, the rain starts to come up across many parts of the country, pushing its way gradually eastwards through sunday, lingering longest across east anglia and the south—east. it will feel fresher by sunday, with temperatures tend to 13 degrees. hello.

this is bbc news. the headlines: a drug addict driving a stolen car being chased by police has been jailed for 12 years for running over and killing a young boy and his aunt in south london. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines: a drug addict driving a stolen car being chased by police has been 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 that there would be remorse and sorrow shown for killing. but he has shown on. schools in england are having to drop gcse and a level courses. headteachers 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