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hello this is breakfast with dan walker in llandudno in north wales. we are nine days away from the general election so we decided it was a good idea to bring breakfast to north wales and the beach. we are live in llandudno this morning. we are on the road! good morning, i'm here with the bbc breakfast butte van. i'll be talking to businesses and workers about what will get their vote. i'm at the magnificent castle here in wales. we'll hear how it will be punching above its weight when it comes to the results in this general election. good morning it's tuesday 30th may. i'm louise minchin, the main headlines this morning. the female keeper killed by a tiger at a zoo in cambridgeshire is named as 33 year old rosa king.
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hundreds of people attend a vigil to mark a week since the manchester bombing; the city's victoria station has reopened this morning. no head to head butjeremy corbyn and theresa may face a studio audience and a grilling. in sport, huddersfield town are in the premier league. they beat reading in a dramatic penalty shoot out to win the championship playoff final. and matt has the weather. good morning. we are down here on the beach this morning. incredibly mild start to tuesday, a few showers in the north and west. if you are on half—term this week, i have some good news in the forecast. join me if you can. thank you very much. it's an improving tale in the weather. we are taking bbc breakfast in this
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last full week before the general election to northern ireland tomorrow and to scotland on friday. we'll look at some of the issues in those countries but also across the uk as well. a bit of a geography lesson. if you go west, if you go that way you get anglesey, east, conway and look at these hardy souls. would you like to come to the beach at six. they said yes. good morning, everybody. thank you very much. we have given you a soaking wet table, your own bbc bbc brea kfast wet table, your own bbc bbc breakfast umbrella, sea shells and hopefully a cup of tea. we'll speak to these voters later on. we'll also be speaking to politicians later. in terms of today's issues, we are looking at immigration, poverty and brexit. we'd love to know what you think the main issues are as well. particularly in light of what we saw last week in manchester. is security high on the agenda for you now? what
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about social care? what about police numbers? whatever your concern is, we'd love you to get in touch with us we'd love you to get in touch with us today. the usual e—mail address. you can find us on twitter too and on facebook. louise, hopefully, as matt promised, we might throughout the morning see a little shard of sun come through in north wales at some point. but at the moment, i'm promising nothing. good morning. first, our main story. bbc news has been told the name of the female zookeeper in cambridgeshire who was killed by a tiger yesterday. rosa king, who was 33, worked at hamerton park zoo. it will remain closed today while an investigation continues. amy cole reports. mauled to death by one of the park's tigers. police say the female zoo keeper who has been named locally as
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rosa king was killed inside the animal enclosure. it's not known yet exactly what happened. busy with bank holiday visitors, several people posted photographs as the air ambulance landed. those in the park we re ambulance landed. those in the park were led away, although some claimed they were allowed back in for a short period before the park was closed by zoo officials who later handed out a short statement which said: this appears to have been a freak accident. at no point during the incident did any animals escape their enclosures and at no point was public safety affected in any way. nine years ago, a cheetah escaped through a broken electric fence, it was later recaptured nearby and no—one was hurt. police say there are no suspicious circumstances and full investigation‘s under way. the zoo says full investigation‘s under way. the zoo says it will remain closed today. amy cole, bbc news. we'll be speaking to our correspondent ben ando about the latest on that story.
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he'll be live from hamerton zoo at 7. in the last hour, manchester victoria station has reopened after it was damaged in last week's bomb attack. last night, at the exact time of the bombing, a vigil was held in st ann's square. frankie mccamley is at manchester victoria for us this morning. what is the very latest? good morning. good morning. this is the station thatis good morning. this is the station that is joined to the arena and it was just between the two where the bomb went off. now, part of the station still does remain closed because it has been severely damaged. we have seen the transport secretary, chris grayling, and andy burnham, the mayor of greater manchester, walking around this morning. they've been meeting staff as they've been arriving and of course some of the staff were the first responders on the night of the attack they were here before any of the police got here so i've just seen some of those arriving, seeing the station again visibly upset.
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last night, a vigil was held in the centre of the city, a minutes‘ silence at 10. 303, the time when the bomb went off, a time for people to contemplate. police have released another cctv image of salman abedi carrying a blue suitcase which they are trying to trace. they are saying to the public they don't believe it's dangerous. this follows on from an arrest in shoreham by sea yesterday of a 23—year—old man on suspicion of terror offences which ta kes suspicion of terror offences which takes the total number of arrests to i6. with just over a week to go until the general election, theresa may will today turn the focus of the conservatives‘ campaign towards brexit. jeremy corbyn will campaign on the issue of childcare as labour seeks to turn the spotlight on public services. last night they both faced questions in a live television broadcast. our political correspondent ben wright was there. this was the first time theresa may
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and overminute had appeared at the samesen yew in front of the same audience for a grilling in front of the cameras since the election was called. the labour leader had wanted to debate with the prime minister one—on—one, but the tories refused. jeremy corbyn was the first to face the audience, the order decided by the audience, the order decided by the toss of a coin. he was asked about his determination to deal with terror threats. he was also asked about his approach to business. this country is badly divided between the richest and the poorest. you put corporate tax and tax at the top end down, the tuition gets greater. are you happy that so many of our children are going to school with super sized classes? so many of our children are going to school hungry. next it was theresa may's turn and she faced questions over the tory‘s social care policy. so why, prime minister, should we and my generation vote for you? so what happens is, people are paying for
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care, people are finding that they are having to sell their house, many people are having to sell their house to pay those care bills and many find that they're not able to leave money to their families. now, i want to take those risks away and that's what the proposals i've put forward a re that's what the proposals i've put forward are about. it's about ensuring that nobody is going to have to sell their house to pay for ca re have to sell their house to pay for care in their lifetime. afterwards, it was clear neither leader had landed or suffered a killer blow. the grilling has just ended and senior politicians from the political parties are out giving their own slant on how it went. i think team corbyn and team may will both be pretty pleased. the two people wanting to be prime minister afterjune 8th will have another chance to make their case at a bbc question time special on friday. ben wright bbc news. the scottish national party will launch its election manifesto today. it was originally planned for last tuesday, but was delayed due
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to the manchester bomb attack. our political correspondent steven godden is in perth for us this morning; steven what's likely to be in the manifesto? good morning. you can see the general pitch on the banners behind me. that is a vote for the snp, a vote for a strong voice for scotland at westminster. this manifesto is key to their plans to maintain their dominance of the electoral map here in scotland, an outcome that they argue should bring with it influence over key areas of policy like brexit where nicola sturgeon wants a seat at the negotiating table. another key area, the prospect of a second independence referendum this year, winning the vote here in scotland would not only give them the right to hold that but it would allow them to hold that but it would allow them to deck tate the timing. another important area for them is an anti—austerity plan, the snp want to release £118 billion over the course of the parliament, extra money to be
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spent on public services. as for some other detail; pensions, they wa nt to some other detail; pensions, they want to protect the triple lock and they want to increase the minimum wage too the level of a real living wage. the speech is at 11 and voters then have nine days to decide. later this morning we'll speak to the snp's deputy leader angus robertson, that's around 07110. british airways says it'll operate a full schedule at heathrow and gatwick today for the first time since the computer failure on saturday disrupted flights around the world. the airline says its it systems are now back up and running but significant numbers of passengers are still without their luggage which could take some time to sort out. tiger woods has denied he'd been drinking when he was stopped whilst driving his car in florida yesterday morning. police charged him with being under the influence of alcohol but the golfer‘s blamed an unexpected reaction to some medicine he had taken. bangladesh has evacuated at least 350,000 people as a cyclone
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scientists in the us say they've made a major advance in the fight against infections that are becoming resistant to antibiotics. researchers have modified an existing medicine to create what they call a magical new version, which is about a thousand times more powerful. antibiotic resistant infections are thought to cause around fifty thousand deaths a year in america and europe. a soldier from gloucester has equalled the all—time record for the most cheeses won in the region's annual bank holiday cheese race. thousands of people turned out to see chris anderson win all three men's downhill races at the event in the village of brockworth. he's vowed to return next year to break the record. there are just nin days until the general election so breakfast is back on the road finding out what matters to voters.
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dan is in llandudno for us. morning! good morning. the mist is clearing. we are only 15 minutes into the programme and it's getting better already. the breakfast butty van and cameras are out all this week. we'll be in northern ireland tomorrow, scotla nd be in northern ireland tomorrow, scotland friday and today we are looking at issues across wales and some of the things you will be voting on in nine days' time across the uk. welcome to llandudno. it's the uk. welcome to llandudno. it's the queen of the resorts. here are some facts for you which i was picking up from people on social media yesterday. home to the longest pier, 700 metres, inspiration to alice in wonderland. home to one of the oldest punch &judy shows in the uk. matt will be doing the weather from there later on if it shops
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raining. and home to 21,000 people as well. plenty to see around here. we sent steph up on the great orm for not only a history lesson, a geography and politics lesson wrapped into one. here is professor mcgovern! llandudno and the great cop ermine, 110w llandudno and the great cop ermine, now a tourist attraction, the history of this mine goes back to the bronze age. for thousands of yea rs, the bronze age. for thousands of years, copper, coal and the bronze age. for thousands of years, copper, coaland iron mining we re years, copper, coaland iron mining were the industries that helped shape this country. at its peak, wales controlled half of the world's copper production. the labour party has dominated this heavily industrialised and unionised nation, having won elections here for more than 70 years, but could that be changing? despite not winning any seats here in 1997 an 2001, the conservatives are now polling well in wales. above ground, the great
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tramway has been chugging up the limestone head land of llandudno for over 100 years. keeping the wheels of this tram turning is largely thanks to a £1 million injection of funding from the european union. as one of the poorest states in the eu, wales qualifies for high levels of funding from the european union so by2020, funding from the european union so by 2020, it will have received £5 billion worth of it. despite this, wales decided to leave the european union in the referendum injune. a big employer here is the public sector and the nhs in particular is steeped in wales's past and present. the largest workforce across wales is in health and social work and it was the welshman nye bevan who founded the nhs. wales has a strong, proud national identity and it was here over 90 years ago that the political party plaid cymru was formed. the aim was to preserve the
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welsh language. unlike the growth of nationalism in countries like scotla nd nationalism in countries like scotland where they've seen the popularity of snp rise, it hasn't quite worked out like that here. but... with the greats ofjim callaghan, david lloyd—george, michael foot and michael howard ail hailing from here, it's pretty clear that this country has a strong political landscape. let's talk a bit more about that. we can see the wales rugby team bashing a ball around. we arejoined with oui’ a ball around. we arejoined with our first a ball around. we arejoined with ourfirst guest on a ball around. we arejoined with our first guest on the sofa from uk ina changing our first guest on the sofa from uk in a changing europe. wales is an interesting example of how the debate rages around the build—up to the general election because, there's more eu funding in wales than anywhere else in the uk yet wales voted to leave. it's hard to explain that really isn't it? it is ha rd to explain that really isn't it? it is hard to explain. also remember that
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60% of welsh exports go to the eu so wales is tightly bound into the eu market. it's a picture you see across a lot of the country, people voted partly out of frustration with what they saw as a politics that wasn't working, as well as irritation with the eu. that's why wales, along with industrial parts of the uk, voted to leave. there are quite a few signs up here saying, this was funded by the eu, so tangibly you can see what influence what's had. given that and that frustration that maybe led to that vote, how do you think brexit will influence the general election voting next week? that is the massive question. no—one knows for certain just whether we have a new brexit divide in our politics or not. it's worth noting welsh politics was changing before the referendum. 2010 and 2015, lots of voters went to ukip. the question 110w voters went to ukip. the question now is whether some go back to labour or whether, as some expect, they slide over to the conservatives. we face the prospect
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of the conservatives possibly winning in wales for the first time ina long winning in wales for the first time in a long time. labour's won in wales since i think 1922 but the polls at the moment are all over the place so it's very hard to predict. theresa may will be speaking later on and we'll see that the conservatives are going to hammer home the brexit point from this point onwards. we have had the ma nifestos point onwards. we have had the manifestos now as well, you have had a good look through those. this has been an accusation from some parts of the uk that there is a lack of understanding about what devolved power will mean. you are nodding vigorously, do you think that is the case, do parties not understand it and maybe voters don't either?” don't know whether they understand it or not. they haven't spelled out their visions in informs in any detail. it makes devolution more messier. power's come back in environment, fisheries and agriculture. they don't necessarily come back to london. there is a debate about whether they go to cardiff, edinburgh or belfast. the
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conservative manifesto seems to see the powers as coming back and sitting in westminster. that's not something the government in wales will agree with. you will be with us throughout the programme. since you sat on the sofa, the weather's improved. no longer need for the massive umbrella. let's head over to matt. toss your ball away. the irish sea behind me is one of wales's largest windfarms there, the second largest in the world. we have oui’ second largest in the world. we have our own wind power here at the moment with a bit of a breeze. the forecast for the rest of today across the uk; it's very mild. temperatures 16 or 17 in the south at present. showers will move into the north and west and things will gradually turn fresher. you can see cloud moving away. that's
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yesterday's showers. it's the cloud towards the west which is moving in across northern ireland. 0utbreaks of rain through this morning's rush hour. showers in wales, northern england and also into parts of scotland. lots of low cloud at the moment. to the south and east, that will break up. we'll see some sunshine develop. we'll gradually see the showers across scotland push from west—to—east. some will be on the thundery side before things brighten in the west later on. it will feel warmer than it did yesterday probably once the sun comes out. showers on and off in northern england. as the band of rain pushes south, there is lots of cloud into the midlands and wales through the afternoon. southern and eastern parts will see sunny breaks, lifting temperatures to 22, potentially more. across the south—west we'll continue to see further cloud pushing at times. wales will brighten up to the north
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and west with sunshine developing through the end of the evening into the overnight period. through tonight, showers will push south and east fairly eratically. not too many showers in the south. we'll see clearer skies develop elsewhere across the uk and with that it will bea across the uk and with that it will be a rather chilly night in store. certainly across the northern half of the uk compared with what we have seen, temperatures will sink back into single figures. mist and low cloud lingering in southern counties. temperature also stay in the teens as we go into tomorrow morning. into tomorrow morning, we've got a bit of low cloud in southern parts. that may take a while to shift. some of it will linger round. it will feel humid. but a fresher start to the day. cloud and breeze in shetland but most will see lots of sunshine develop. long spells of sunshine across many parts of the uk. big improvement we have seen in the past few days. a bit fresher but with the
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sunshine overhead, it will feel more pleasant. rain into northern ireland and western scotland late on thursday but temperatures are on the rise again thanks to the southerly winds. i'm going back to the rugby. back to dan. the rugby boys will be with us throughout the morning. ground boys, around lang dud 0no bay is the little orm in the distance. colwyn bay and rhyl and prestatyn is around there. the other way, beyond the other side of the cameras, we have the great orm where steph was filming. past the grand hotel and the long epier in wales, 700 metres long. around the corner, you get to anglesey. that is where jane is for us anglesey. that is where jane is for us this morning. good morning, you have the longest
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pier but the pier here in anglesey has the best crabbing. look at this, the magnificent beamaris castle, built in 1295, infer complete add show of strength by the english against the welsh, but listen to this. in this general election, the welsh are punching above its weight in terms of this westminster election. it's going to have way more influence than any other country in the outcome of this election because it has more marginal seats. this is the fifth most marginal seat. i've also been filming in gower, the most marginal seat, to find out what is happening down there and how the battle lines have been drawn. take a look. cockling was once a way of life for neil, not any more. these are too small. something is stopping the
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cockles from reaching maturity here. he once earned £7,000 in a month. today he's lucky to get £700. you nearly lost your house? twice. i know two or three of the boys that have lost their homes. people don't wa nt to have lost their homes. people don't want to know. he tells me no politician's ever cared about the demise of cockling here, nor he says the demise of the heavy industry which once dominated gower‘s coastline. all gone. so when the ballot paper comes through your door... it goes in the pin. parts of gower have changed beyond recognition, politically too. in 2015, after 100 years of solid labour support, the conservatives won with a lead over labour ofjust 28 votes. what way has your family historically voted? traditionally labour. however i voted conservative in the last election. what's changed? well, a lot of people have
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been laid off and forced to go self—employed. been laid off and forced to go self-employed. minority parties have supports but they don't come close to the votes harnessed in the batsle between red and blue. the winds good? yes. are you going up? i am. we'll give you a wave. gower represents something seismic in welsh politics, rise above this most marginal of marginals just a month ago, you would have seen polls suggest the conservatives have a 10—point lead across wales. look out now and a fresh poll puts labour backin now and a fresh poll puts labour back in the lead. these are turbulent political waters, nothing is certain. gower is of course dillon thomas territory, a life long socialist. this pub is on his old stomping ground along the famous mumbles mile. what would dylan
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thomas make of this? he'd be spinning in his grave. he'd love over—lynn and loathe theresa may. my feelings are about the same. why? -- he'd love jeremy feelings are about the same. why? -- he'd lovejeremy corbyn. he was for the distribution of wealth. he wa nted the distribution of wealth. he wanted everybody to have as much chance to enjoy what everybody else does. this is a historical moment in wales. what's changed? if i was to give you a lecture on this topic i could talk for an hour but i know we are on tv... 20 seconds. if i had to say nit a word, brexit. polls suggest the sun might be setting on ukip support, the fight between red and blue for just ukip support, the fight between red and blue forjust a dozen or more of those votes could make or break labour or conservative control here. ellen is from aberystwyth
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university. in gower in the valleys, we have some of the west pockets of deprivation in europe, some of the biggest beneficiaries of eu funding, wales voted to leave. what is going on and why is brexit so important here? brexit created these very uncertain political times, unpredictable voting by the electorate and a sense of perhaps frustration with their lot and really bringing that through and people voting very differently to what was expected given what you have said already. also very ago cultural and rule areas have gain add lot of subsidies from the european union. again in those types of areas of wales, they voted out. so it's redrawn the batam lines isn't it, it's not that labour is gaining support, it's that the conservatives are gaining on the back of ukip, is that right? it's a really interesting picture. the earlier polls on wales suggested that the conservatives were going to
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wina that the conservatives were going to win a historic vote. they hadn't been over 40% in this century, but what we have seen in is this growth in the conservative vote. yes, as a result of drawing votes from ukip and since then we have seen this recovery in the labour vote as well. the two main parties doing really well in wales at the moment and brexit is a key political issue. it is drawing the boundary lines between the parties because people wa nt between the parties because people want the strength but also people you know are concerned about defending wales in what will be politically turbulent times. more on this later. first we have to go to the regions, the news and the weather and the travel where you are. sisters uncut says it wants the
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prison which closed last year to be turned into a centre for women who suffered domestic abuse. police have agreed to let them remain until the end of the week and the ministry of justice says security is on site to maintain safety and order. three men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was found in a car with severe head injuries in essex. emergency crews were called to millwoods in harlow on saturday night. the 39—year—old was taken to hospital where he died. in sport, reading missed out on promotion to the premier league yesterday evening after losing in the championship play—off final. it came down to penalties with huddersfield town's christopher schindler scoring the winning goal. it's reading's fourth play—off final defeat. a new art work has been commissioned for the cross rail station at farringdon. it's been designed to reflect the victorian metal work of the smithfield market
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directly opposite. the work will cover three of the station's glass sides when it opens next year. time for a look at the travel: a good service on the tubes with no reported problems. the roads, roadworks continue in parliament square with one lane closed near millbank. in upton park, the barking road is closed between central park road and inniskilling road. fulham road and inniskilling road. fulham road is closed and in high barnett, barnett hill is closed near the tube station. after a worm night, let us get a check on the weather. —— a warm night. you possibly had an uncomfortable night's sleep because it's been so mild. starting with temperatures in mid teens. cloud any in london at the moment as well. as the day wares on, we'll see some
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brea ks the day wares on, we'll see some breaks come on. it's a cloudy day and most le dry. we have the warm start. 16 degrees at the moment. we need to see that cloud thinning and breaking as the day twos through. we'll breaking as the day twos through. we' ll start breaking as the day twos through. we'll start to see that happen. there could be a few light showers here and there from the thicker cloud, nothing more than that expected. another mild start tomorrow, again a bit of cloud around. towards the north we get some nice breaks coming through and they filt tore most of us through and they filt tore most of us by the afternoon. temperatures do a bit better too. pretty settled week of weather. nice for half—termers. high pressure in control. we are dry and settled with warm air moving up from the south eventually. into thursday and friday, it's brighter and more sunshine, turning warmer too, albeit temporarily. more in half an hour. welcome back. dan walker is out and
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about in llandudno with our latest election road show. we have steph there also with the bbc breakfast butty van. matt will have the weather there as well. here is a summary weather there as well. here is a summary of the main news. first, our main story. bbc news has been told the name of the female zookeeper in cambridgeshire who was killed by a tiger yesterday. rosa king, who was 33, worked at hamerton park zoo. it will remain closed today while an investigation continues. amy cole reports. mauled to death by one of the park's tigers. police say the female zoo keeper who has been named locally as rosa king was killed inside the animal enclosure. it's not known yet exactly what happened. busy with bank holiday visitors, several people posted photographs as the air ambulance landed.
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those in the park were led away, although some claimed they were allowed back in for a short period before the park was closed by zoo officials who later handed out a short statement which said. nine years ago, a cheetah escaped through a broken electric fence, it was later recaptured nearby and no—one was hurt. police say there are no suspicious circumstances and full investigation's under way. the zoo says it will remain closed today. amy cole, bbc news. we'll be speaking to our correspondent ben ando about the latest on that story. he'll be live from hamerton zoo at 7. in the last hour, manchester victoria station has reopened after it was damaged in last week's bomb attack. last night, at the exact time of the bombing,
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a vigil was held in st ann's square. frankie mccamley is at manchester victoria for us this morning. with just over a week to go until the general election the conservatives' are focusing on brexit and labour childcare. but last night the leaders of both parties faced questions in a live television broadcast. theresa may was questioned byjeremy paxman on her u—turn over brexit. we gave people the choice. you've changed your mind? we gave people the choice jeremy and the british people decided to leave the european union and i think it's important for them to see their politicians delivering on that choice and respecting the will of the people. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn defended his stance on corporation tax. this country is badly divided between the richest and the poorest. you put corporate tax and tax at the top end down, the division gets greater. are you happy that so many of our children are going to school
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with supersized classes? so many of our children are going to school hungry? british airways says it will operate a full schedule at heathrow and gatwick today for the first time since the computer failure on saturday disrupted flights around the world. the airline says its it systems are now "back up and running" but "significa nt numbers" of passengers are still without their luggage which could take some time to sort out. the former military leader of panama has died at the age of 83. he was once seen as has died at the age of 83. he was once seen as key us ally in latin america. in 1989 american troops invaied panama and the general was forcibly removed. he went on to spend 17 years in a usjailfor drug trafficking and money laundering. tiger woods has denied he'd been
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drinking when he was stopped whilst driving his car in florida yesterday morning. police charged him with being under the influence of alcohol, but the golfer has blamed an unexpected reaction to some medicine he had taken. i'm joined by kat in the studio. i'm not entirely alone. ijust keep p°ppin9 not entirely alone. ijust keep p°pping up not entirely alone. ijust keep popping up every half an hour. and huddersfield town will be celebrating. all their dreams have come true yesterday winning the championship play—off final on penalties as well. huddersfield haven't scored many goals in the league this season, but they have when it matters particularly when it comes to penalty shoot outs. huddersfield town will be a premier league side for the first time next season after winning a dramatic championship playoff penalty shootout against reading. after the match finished goalless, liam moore and jordan 0bita missed from the spot for reading. christopher schindler scored
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the decisive penalty to send huddersfield into the top tier of english football for the first time in 45 years. promotion is worth around £175 million to the club, who'lljoin brighton and newcastle in the premier league in august. this is a fairytale that's not usually possible. i'm one of the happiest men on the planet and i'm so happiest men on the planet and i'm so proud and happy for everybody that's connected and especially the chairman. the arsenal board will hear today what's been decided about arsene wenger‘s future. after celebrating their fa cup win on saturday, the bbc understands wenger and majority shareholder stan kroenke have already held the face to face talks at which a final decision has been made. england were soundly beaten by south africa in their final one
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dayer england's top order crumbled to 20 for 6 inside five overs and they never really recovered from there. south africa — world number ones — cruised to the target of 154 for the loss ofjust 3 wickets. england still won the series 2—1. they now go into the champions trophy — their first match is on thursday against bangladesh. south africa tested our defensive technique and it wasn't a case of playing too aggressively or taking the ball on. the guys nicked half—volleys. there was a lot of green grass there and that cost us the game which is unfortunate, but there is a huge amount of positives to ta ke there is a huge amount of positives to take from the series. we've beaten the world number one 2—1. 0nto tennis and britain's best hopes at the french open get their challenge underway today — johanna konta plays jeh su—wei of taiwan. andy murray meanwhile plays andrey kuznetsov hoping to improve his run on clay this season — he's lost as many matches as he's won: although it's frustrating you have
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to enjoy this part of what we do as well because you know the struggles are, you know, part of what make the good times so enjoyable. i need to enjoy them. i'm struggling a little bit and that will help me get through it a bit quicker. british number three aljaz bedene is considering switching his allegiance back to slovenia in order to compete at the olympics. bedene — who won his first round match at the french open — became a british citizen in 2015 but hasn't managed to overturn a ban that's stopped him playing for great britain in the davis cup. a player must have been available for the davis cup to represent that country at the olympics, so bedene is now exploring the possibility of representing slovenia in tokyo in 2020. novak djokovic is also through to the second round — the defending champion — seeded second in paris — eased to a straight sets victory over spain's marcel granollers. rafa nadal is bidding for a record
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10th french open title. he safely negotiated a tricky looking opening match against frenchman benoit paire. the fourth seed already has three clay court titles to his name this season. meanwhile women's champion garbine muguruza got her defence off to a good start. she eased past the 2010 winner francesca schiavone in straight sets. castleford cemented their place at the top of rugby league's super league with a 38—0 thrashing of leigh centurions greg eden kept up his phenomenal scoring record for the tigers. he scored three tries in four minutes in the first half. his fourth hat—trick in a row — and added another after the break. castleford are two points clear of salford, who themselves won at warrington. great britain struggled once more in their america's cup qualifers — losing theirfourth race in a row sir ben ainslie and his crew made an error around the third turn and couldn't recover against france.
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they'll now take on the other five teams again over the next few days — starting against sweden today. they got the win. we're clearly disappointed with that. we've got to go away and have a look at our development programme, our configuration for the coming days and obviously make improvements. 0ne and obviously make improvements. one more story. the british and irish lions have set off for their tour of new zealand hoping for their first victory in the series over the all blacks. they will play a three test series against the champions across five weeks as well as seven other tour matches. sam warburton will captain the squad having led them in the series win in australia four years ago. so there they go, off on the plane,. lions squad. it will be a tough series. thank you very much, kat. one week on and at the exact moment
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of last monday's bomb attack people gathered in manchester last night for a vigil to remember the 22 people who were killed and those injured shortly after a concert by the american singer ariane grande ended. earlier this morning, victoria train station which was damaged in the blast, reopened. 0ur reporter frankie mccamley is there for us. let's talk about st ann's square. i was there at the weekend. it is a focus of quiet and contemplation, isn't it? it is and that's it. thousands of people have been coming and going throughout the week and that's one of the things that really does strike you when you get there. it's very quiet. people are there to contemplate and last night a vigil was held and a minute's silence at 10.33 the time that the bomb went offa 10.33 the time that the bomb went off a week ago that killed 22 people. people surrounded by
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flowers, teddy bears, candles, balloons, all to come and pay their respects and we spoke to a few people and asked them why they felt the need to come down yesterday evening. ijust feel the pain. evening. ijust feelthe pain. ijust evening. ijust feel the pain. ijust feel the hurt of what these families maybe going through. it'sjust heart wrenching. we're all standing together and we're not going to let it beat us and show respect to the victims' families. being from manchester i just feel that victims' families. being from manchester ijust feel that it's super important to show that we care and that it breaks my heart knowing that somebody‘s little girl died and someone's family members are not here anymore and it's just really sad. frankie, of course, there is so many people trying to get back to normal in so many ways particularly for example at manchester victoria station which has been closed since the attack happened ? station which has been closed since the attack happened? well, that's it, yes. parts of the station do
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still remain closed because there is the severe damage indoors there so you won't you able to get to the foyer where the bomb went off which joins the arena to the station, but yes, people are trying to come back to some form of normality. staff from the station were the first people on the scene before the police and the emergency services got here last monday night and some of those visibly upset coming back to work this morning, but like i say, this is a city that's reopening, that's trying to gain some sort of normalityjust a week, just over a week after this attack took place. frankie, thank you very much. live from victoria station, thank you. with just 10 days until britain goes to the polls, breakfast is on the road talking to voters across the uk. this morning dan's in llandudno.
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welcome to north wales. we brought the sofa on tour. if you come down to the beach front to have a little word with us. be aware, if you want to sit on the sofa, don't sit from here there to there, it's soaking wet! it is now becoming a glorious day here in north wales. let's show you day here in north wales. let's show you some day here in north wales. let's show you some shots from our bbc brea kfast you some shots from our bbc breakfast drone which is up in the skies above us here. here we are down on the beach. away to the left—hand side is a great orm here. at one end of llandudno bay, up there is a golf course, there is a toboggan run, that's where steph was filming over the last few days. there is the longest pier in wales and the grand hotel where the beatles stayed and winston churchill stayed in room 109 and then as we go down the bay and around to our right—hand side there is the little
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orm to match the great orm at the other end. you can see the curve of the bend and the irish sea. it used to be the case that when the victorians came on their holidays they would drink two cups of seawater every day to keep them healthy. there is a little bit of information for you to dazzle your friends with! we're going to go and find some breakfast friends because we persuaded these lovely people to come and have a word with us this morning. there they are with sea shells and cups of tea and coffee. some of the issues we will be talking about today is immigration and poverty and brexit. sam, good morning, welcome to the programme. now, in terms of your situation, your parents came across from east africa, so how are you judging immigration in the build—up to the general election. how big an issue is it for you? it is a concern. i wa nt to is it for you? it is a concern. i want to know immigration caps have been promised for a long time, who is best placed to deliver on them.
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hannah, you are a teacher, have you seen hannah, you are a teacher, have you seen the positive effects of immigration in wales? yes, i have. i have seen it through the nhs when my father has been there with life limiting illnesses, and they have done a good job. i'm concerned about the effect on the nhs, but the immigration policy on universities and the free movement of the staff on the scientific research in particular. we'd love it know your views this morning, as well. another issueis views this morning, as well. another issue is that of poverty. angela is a full—time carerfor issue is that of poverty. angela is a full—time carer for your son. why is that a big issue? i want to know what party is going to be most appropriate to look after carers and special needs education particularly. those are the main issues for me because you imagine it issues for me because you imagine it is close to home. my son has a disability and i want to make sure that he's well provided. john is a local historian. john, if we get any
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of our llandudno incorrectjohn can sort them out for us this morning. how is the issue of poverty changed in wales? well, i think that it's a disgrace really. we are one of the wealthiest countries in the world and we have to have a foodbank in this town. we used to have that sort of thing before the war, but now, i think it's a disgrace. 0k. a quick word on the issue of brexit. for you, your wife is from poland. i would imagine you voted remain with that in mind? yes, yes, i did. it's a tragedy that we voted to leave the eu. my main concerns are what are the implications for wales with brexit negotiations. i feel like wales has been sidelined throughout the negotiations, gibraltar has been mentioned a lot more rather than wales. so that's what my concern is, what does it mean for my wife and me going to poland as well? a final word are ross, you voted leave and wales voted leave. what are the
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issues for you? i don't think the british people have been prioritised by the government recently and i think brexit gives us the opportunity to really push that forward and give people the best start in life that they can have. listen, we will behaving a chat with you at various points throughout the morning. i didn't think i would be on bended knee on llandudno beach. but let's find out what's happening with the weather. here is matt. this is a welsh rugby club. a big clu b this is a welsh rugby club. a big club up in north wales. they are playing the national team on friday. good luck to them on that one. but it's not a bad start to the day here. we had some drizzle earlier on. the low cloud has cleared. you can see the little orm behind me in the distance. let's look at the forecast for the day because it is a mild start to the day across most of the uk. and we are going to see things turn gradually fresher from the north and the west as showers
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start to push their way in. in a moment we've got the showers across northern ireland, a few heavier bursts as well, they are pushing their way from west to east and through late morning and into early afternoon we will see the showers push across scotland. the showers pushing in across northern england. notice across parts of northern scotla nd notice across parts of northern scotland we start to see sunshine come out. it will be a better afternoon across much of scotland. the rain will linger across shetland and elsewhere, showers will become fewer in number and brightening up across much of northern england, but still some showers by the time we get to apm. quite humid this afternoon where you see the sunshine. temperatures around 22 to 24 celsius once the sun is out. still a lot of cloud though here and there particularly to some southern and western coasts which could a lwa ys and western coasts which could always threaten a bit of drizzle on the hills and coast, but for wales, showers through the afternoon, brightening up across the north coast by the time we get to the end of the evening and northern ireland,
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once you have lost the showers a fine day in store and it will feel warm. temperatures could hit 17 or 18 celsius. now, as we go through the rest of the evening and into the night, it does look like we will see the showers push erratically southwards towards southern parts of england and wales. most places will stay dry. staying muggy and misty for some across the south, but a fresher night in store for scotland and northern ireland, northern england, north wales and the midlands. temperatures down into single figures as we start wednesday morning. so a fresher start to wednesday for most of you, but a lot of sunshine around. great news if you are on half term break at the moment. there will be patchy cloud across southern couldn'ties of england where it may feel on the humid side. shetland will continue to see outbreaks of rain and a gusty wind. temperatures high teens and maybe low 20s. thursday, we will see most maybe low 20s. thursday, we will see m ost pla ces maybe low 20s. thursday, we will see most places dry again. the rain pushing into northern ireland and western scotland later on, but as the winds go into a southerly direction it will start to feel warmer particularly across england and wales and potentially eastern
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parts of scotland. that's how it's looking. i'll hand you back to dan. it's turning into a very nice day on the beach in llandudno. we have got the beach in llandudno. we have got the breakfast buttie van. can i come in? you can if you're wearing the appropriate clothing. you're cooking the bacon... people don't believe i do it myself. are you serving ice cream later? i am. watch your arm on this, love. i'm disappointed, you should be selling your wares. look at that for the blankest menu. it's because i have been told the seagulls are quite aggressive here. i don't want to tell them what we've got! i'm bored now. bacon hand-over. see new a bit. let's talk serious stuff because, of course, we're here as well to find out what business people and workers think about what they'd like to hear from the politicians in the run—up to the election. i've got some guests here.
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good morning to all of you. you grew up good morning to all of you. you grew up here, didn't you, you're a local hotel owner. tell us how you have seen hotel owner. tell us how you have seen it change in terms of business? i think llandudno is booming in terms of tourism and where it is. it is one of the most successful seaside resorts in the uk, but as a small business owner, what i have seen small business owner, what i have seen change is the burden on small business in terms of taxation. we have just had enrolment for pensions, and hikes in business rates and minimum wages affecting us, we pay minimum wage and we're fighting for cutting vat on tourism and things like that. so you feel like you're paying out a lot in tax? when compared to the big corporations we seem to be paying a higher percentage is what i feel and that limits what we can reinvest into our own businesses. you're a businessman. you have got a global tech firm. you have some of the same
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business issues. do you feel like it's the same for you? the major problem we have is the shortage of skilled people and we can see that there hasn't been enough investment in education and training and we are suffering as a result of that, so what we have to rely on is skilled people coming from abroad to the uk. so, that is the major issue and also i think none of our political parties are concentrating enough on digital economy and digital economy is the future of this nation and the future of the whole world. if you look at say like latvia, a place like that, or sweden, they have got over 40% of their buildings are served by fibre technology and the uk is below 1% which is disgraceful. so it's about infrastructure and the things you want cost money so what would you sacrifice? what are we spending too much money on that we could not spend as much money on to
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help businesses like yourselves then? it's a tough one. there is a lot of money going abroad to countries maybe india as well that have a large economy and i think a lot of people question. i heard this a lot, why can we not reinvest that within our own economy rather than send massive foreign aid abroad still? let's bring in our economist. we've got ed here. you are from bangor university. give us a bit of context how wales compares to the rest of the uk? i can understand what they are saying about the lack of skills in the area. this is not a solution we can come across overnight unfortunately. it's something that's going to take years to develop, but we can see that the universities and the local colleges, they are working working together with the schools to come up with a plan on how do we develop the skills to meet the requirement of industries in the future? thank you very much, guys. i will give you some breakfast shortly, i promise that, but we are having a gorgeous
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occasion, aren't we and we just really wa nt occasion, aren't we and we just really want to show it off this morning. while we hand to the news, travel and weather where you are, have a look at the beautiful pier and the great 0rm. good morning from bbc london news. the family of a young woman who was shot dead in kilburn on friday evening say they are in shock and need answers as to why this happened to her. the 20—year—old was with friends when they were approached by two men on bicycles atjust before 9pm. police say a number of shots we re 9pm. police say a number of shots were aimed at the group and montana was fatally wounded. activists from a woman's rights group have broken into the former holloway prison in north london and are staging an occupation. sisters
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uncut says it wants the prison which closed last year to be turned into a centre for woman who suffered domestic abuse. the ministry of justice says security is on site. sport, reading missed out on promotion to the premier league yesterday evening after losing in the championship play—off final. it came down to penalties with huddersfield town scoring the winning goal. it's reading fourth play—off final defeat. a new artwork has been commissioned for the crossrail station at farringdon. it has been designed to reflect the metal work of the historic smithfield market opposite. the work will cover three of the station's sides when it opens next year. on the tubes, there is a good service. if we move on to the roads, the road works continue in parliament square
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with one lane closed near millbank. in upton park the a124 barking road is closed between central park road following a crash. fulham road is closed westbound between edith grove and gunter grove for gasworks. now the weather. you possibly had an uncomfortable night's sleep because it has been so mild. cloudy across london at the moment as well, but as the day wears on, we will see some brea ks the day wears on, we will see some breaks coming through and that cloud. it is a nice day of weather because it is mostly dry and we have got the warm start, 16 celsius at the moment. so we need to see that cloud just thinning and breaking as the day goes through and we will start to see that happen. there could be a few light showers here and there from the thicker cloud. nothing more than that expected. top temperature 21 or 22 celsius. another mild start to tomorrow morning. again quite a bit of cloud
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around, but towards the north we get nice breaks coming through and they filter to most of us by the afternoon and the temperatures do better. a settled week of weather. nice for half termers. high pressure in control. not until late on friday will we see this slipping in. dry and settled before with warmer air moving up from the south. into thursday and friday, it's brighter. more in the way of sunshine as you can see turning warmer too albeit temporarily. i'm back in half an hour. good morning, we are nine days away
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from a general election. we have brought the breakfast team out and about, we are in wales, we are in llandudno. you are watching bbc brea kfast llandudno. you are watching bbc breakfast and we are on the road. good morning, i'm here with the brea kfast good morning, i'm here with the breakfast butty van. i'll be talking to businesses and workers and this lot who're in the queue about what they want to hear from the politicians in the run—up to the election. i'm live at the beautiful bow maris castle in anglesey to hear how wales is punching well above its weight when it comes to influencing the outcome of this general election. good morning it's tuesday 30th may. i'm louise minchin, the main headlines this morning. the female keeper killed by a tiger at a zoo in cambridgeshire is named as 33 year old rosa king.
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hundreds of people attend a vigil to mark a week since the manchester bombing; the city's victoria station has reopened this morning. in sport, huddersfield town are in the premier league. they beat reading in a dramatic penalty shoot out to win the championship playoff final. and matt has the weather. good morning. we have the deck chairs out. all we need now is the cloud to break and the sun to come through. some of you will see the sunshine today and there are sunnier skies on the way through tomorrow and thursday. details coming up. full forecast in 15 minutes. we are
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taking the sofa across the uk in the next few days. tomorrow we'll be in northern ireland, friday we are going to be in scotland. today we are in north wales looking at some keyissues are in north wales looking at some key issues here and across the uk. if you were watching when we started, it was absolutely throwing it town. we can show you our bbc brea kfast it town. we can show you our bbc breakfast clone this morning —— drone this morning, it was glorious. the great orm at one end, the little orm at the other end of the bay and we'll be looking particularly at some of the issues we have chosen to look at today. immigration, poverty and brexit as well. we'd love to know what you think the key issues are, particularly in the light of what we saw in manchester last week. police numbers, are those the issues for you, social care and security? we have a collection of voters. good morning to all of you. thank you very much for coming down. we'll be speaking to some politicians later too. you can get in contact with us at the usual addresses. i will
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furnish you with some facts later on today. i asked people to get in touch. michael morrison said he did a crash course in revenue law here in1973, a crash course in revenue law here in 1973, andrew swain apparently was attacked by a seagull who stole his brother's ice—cream in 1975 and andy turnstile told us the beatles played here in the 0deon cinema for six nights in 1963. is that correct? yes, everyone knows it. they stayed in the grand hotel over there. plenty more facts coming your way between now and 9. 15 from the beach. and i can see the sun behind you. thank you very much. good morning. bbc news has been told the name of the female zookeeper in cambridgeshire who was killed by a tiger yesterday. rosa king, who was thirty—three, worked at hamerton park zoo. it will remain closed today while an investigation continues.
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let's join our correspondent ben ando, who joins us live from the zoo this morning. ben, what's the latest you can tell us? they are having an investigation here. the police were here for much of yesterday. they sent scientific investigation vans up to examine the scene. they concluded that the death of 33—year—old rosa king was not suspicious, nonetheless the park itself is having an investigation andi itself is having an investigation and i suspect that at the heart of that investigation will be trying to establish how it was that she came to be in the enclosure with the animal that attacked her. friends have paid tribute to rosa, saying she was a shining light here at ham ayrton zoo park which is a popular attraction —— hamerton park. they said the park almost revolved around
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rosa and she cared passionately about the animals in her care, in particular the big cats and she had a particular affinity for cheetahs. the park had recently increased its collection of tigers and was developing that side of thing so. this could be a setback for them. that investigation continuing while the park remained closed. thank you very much. manchester victoria station has reopened after it was damaged in last week's bomb attack. last night, a week on from the exact time of the bombing, a vigil was held in st ann's square. frankie mccamley is at manchester victoria for us this morning. so many people at st ann's square last night to pay tribute to the victims. good morning. yes, it was a very sombre evening, hundreds gathered in the centre surrounded by balloons, flowers, candles lit and teddy bears laid for
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the 22 victims and families to show support. here this morning you can probably see people are arriving here at manchester victoria station, the station is now open. however, some parts still remain closed, this of course was damaged in the bomb attack last week. the foyer where the bomb went off which connects this station to the arena still remains closed. now, the police in the latest on the investigation, they have released another image of salman abedi. they are looking for a blue suitcase he was carrying in the day before the attack. that follows on from an arrest that was made yesterday of a 23—year—old man in shoreham on sea. with just over a week to go until the general election, theresa may will today turn the focus of the conservatives' campaign towards brexit. jeremy corbyn will campaign on the issue of childcare as labour seeks to turn the spotlight on public services.
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last night they both faced questions in a live television broadcast. 0ur political correspondent ben wright was there. this was the first time theresa may and jeremy corbyn had appeared at the same venue in front of the same audience for a grilling in front of the cameras since the election was called. the labour leader had wanted to debate with the prime minister one—on—one, but the tories refused. jeremy corbyn was the first to face the audience, the order decided by the toss of a coin. he was asked about his determination to deal with terror threats. he was also asked about his approach to business. this country is badly divided between the richest and the poorest. you put corporate tax and tax at the top end down, the division gets greater. are you happy that so many of our children are going to school with super sized classes? so many of our children
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are going to school hungry. next it was theresa may's turn and she faced questions over the tory‘s social care policy. so why, prime minister, should we and my generation vote for you? so what happens is, people are paying for care, people are finding that they are having to sell their house, many people are having to sell their house to pay those care bills and many find that they're not able to leave money to their families. now, i want to take those risks away and that's what the proposals i've put forward are about. it's about ensuring that nobody is going to have to sell their house to pay for care in their lifetime. afterwards, it was clear neither leader had landed or suffered a killer blow. the grilling has just ended and senior politicians from the political parties are out giving their own slant on how it went. i think team corbyn and team may will both be pretty pleased. the two people wanting to be prime minister afterjune 8th will have another chance to make their case at a bbc question time special on friday.
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ben wright bbc news. the scottish national party will launch its election manifesto today. it was originally planned for last tuesday, but was delayed due to the manchester bomb attack. 0ur political correspondent steven godden is in perth for us this morning; steven what's likely to be in the manifesto. this manifesto is central to their strategy which is to secure the votes that would allow them to maintain their electoral dominance here in scotland, an outcome that they argue should translate into influence in key areas of policy. 0ne influence in key areas of policy. one of those areas is brexit where nicola sturgeon wants a seat at the negotiating table. another is the prospect of a second independence referendum, winning the election in scotland, the snp say would reinforce their mandate to hold that vote but also to dictate its timing. the third plank of this manifesto is an anti—austerity plan. the snp want
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to slow down deficit reduction, they wa nt to to slow down deficit reduction, they want to release an additional £180 billion into the economy over the course of this parliament to be spent on public services. some of the other details in there, on pensions they want to protect the triple lock, on wages they want to inrhys the minimum to a real living wage that would eventually be more than £10 an hour and on immigration, they want all the powers fully devolved to holyrood. we'll hear more on that speech from nicola sturgeon at 11 o'clock, then voters will have time to decide what they make of it. and later this morning we'll speak to the snp's deputy leader angus robertson, that's around 0740. british airways says it'll operate a full schedule at heathrow and gatwick today for the first time since the computer failure on saturday disrupted flights around the world. the airline says its it systems are now back up and running but significant numbers of passengers are still
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without their luggage which could take some time to sort out. the former military leader of panama, general manuel noriega, has died at the age of 83. he was once seen as a key us ally in latin america. in 1989, american troops invaded panama and general noriega was forcibly removed. he went on to spend seventeen years in a usjail, for drug trafficking and money laundering. tiger woods has denied he'd been drinking when he was stopped whilst driving his car in florida yesterday morning. police charged him with being under the influence of alcohol but the golfer‘s blamed an unexpected reaction to some medicine he had taken. there are just nine more days until the general election so breakfast is back on the road finding out what matters to voters.
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dan is in llandudno for us this morning. a few moments ago, i'm sure i saw some sunshine. at6 some sunshine. at 6 o'clock, there was some rain but we have seen a few shards of some sunshine. as we look out across the irish sea, you can see the wind turbines in the mid distance. if you fa ncy turbines in the mid distance. if you fancy a good swim, 70 miles that way you get yourself to the isle of man. all sorts of topics this morning for you, i want to show you some of the front pages helped by the wonderful men of north wales rugby. a round of applause for the men, maze. the front—page of the daily telegraph with evan. corbyn ducks terror challenge, talking about la night's tv debate on channel 4. and more news on the terrible story about the keeper killed by the tiger at hamerton zoo. the daily mirror, cop
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hunt for the bomber‘s suitcase. 0ne of the major stories, the hunt for more information about the manchester bomb last week. the times is being beautifully held byjacob. may woos working class with tough line on brexit. the main picture is a black—and—white shot of the duke and duchess of cambridge. the guardian, corbyn tells paxman i know dictator in tv debate. beautifully held by tim with his magnificent beard! and the daily mail we have got for you this morning, more terrible news on the zoo girl killed at hamerton by the tiger and a picture ofjohn noakes, the blue peter presenter who it was announced yesterday he died and talking about some of the tv footage, he climbed nelson's column in trafalgar square, no safety harness. tv of a by—gone age. 0ne no safety harness. tv of a by—gone age. one of the reasons we are
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talking about poverty here in wales, which is one of the issues we have chosen to highlight along with immigration and brexit, is because when you look at the figures, they are quite stark. for one in every £5 that's spent by the welsh government, it's spent addressing above city. it's believed there are 200,000 children living in poverty in wales. with that in mind, graham satchell‘s been filming in wrexham forrious. quite a treat for the children in wrexham primary school. it's the first time many have been this close toa first time many have been this close to a pony and it's changing the way some of them think about their future. what do you think your dream job would be? one was being a ca reta ker of job would be? one was being a caretaker of horses and one was being an adventurer. it was being a pilot because i really like flying. what would your dream job be?l singer. there is no reason these
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children can't reach their dream but there are challenges here. levels of childhood poverty are higher in wales than anywhere else in the uk. at the charity the wrexham warehouse project, they help young people who're not in education employment ortraining, who're not in education employment or training, neat. we have to go to the bigger cities, liverpool, manchester birmingham. that's all if england, you can't estay in wales? exactly. no, there isn't anywhere. reef left school at 16 and struggled to find a job. there is not much round here. ithink to find a job. there is not much round here. i think that's why a lot of people go into like drugs and stuff and into prison because they've got nothing to do when they're growing up because they can't get the jobs. with help from the project, reef is now working in construction. if i didn't have this job, i think i would probably be in prison now. it did change my life around. the venture playground in
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wrexham sits in one of the least affluent wards in the uk. for pa rents affluent wards in the uk. for parents with young families, in—work poverty is a real issue. single parent, three children. low income. survive on tax credits really. i wouldn't be able to eat if we didn't have it. every time i hear something about tax credits and the changes to them, i panic. no politicaljokes now, come on. . . them, i panic. no politicaljokes now, come on... at the diva house day centre, older people are thinking about fuel costs, and pensions. the way the situation is going with cuts, cuts, cuts, people are living on their nerves. well i am most of the time living on my nerves. how would you normally vote? labour. labour. labour. we are in a labour. labour. labour. we are in a labour seat. so what do you think of jeremy corbyn? rubbish. the thing is, i don't like corbyn. i mean he
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hasn't done anything yet, has he? mike has never voted tory in his life, but will this time. and why are you voting conservative?” life, but will this time. and why are you voting conservative? i think they've got the right idea. the conservatives have got the money, they create the work. evelyn can't decide. what if i go and say yes, i'll vote conservative and theresa may lets us down? five and five... tough choices for many in this election with just over a week to go. i want to see you all next monday, no excuses... graham satchell bbc news. let us speak to some of our voters who we have assembled on the beach. sean, you have worked in wrexham yourself, what kind of things have yourself, what kind of things have you seen, yourself, what kind of things have you seen, i imagine that echoes some of the things you have seen?” you seen, i imagine that echoes some of the things you have seen? i was wrexham born and bred, i worked of the things you have seen? i was wrexham born and bred, iworked in of the things you have seen? i was wrexham born and bred, i worked in a venture centre which people may rememberfrom the venture centre which people may remember from the riots venture centre which people may rememberfrom the riots in 2003. it's a generation app problem, it's
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not something that will be fixed by one pot of money. it's something that needs to be invested in for the long—term and unfortunately it's passed down the general races. long—term and unfortunately it's passed down the general racesm there any politics that you have heard from any politicians or policies that you think could address that? for me personally it's address that? for me personally it's a problem that wales needs to address as a country. we are the poorest country in western europe and the only party that is going to do that is plaid cymru. thank you very much. we should apologise to 0scar, we have soaked him. bbc brea kfast 0scar, we have soaked him. bbc breakfast will be getting a dry cleaning bill. 0n the issue of poverty in wales particularly, what have you found and how would you like to see that addressed? the major problem is the fa ct addressed? the major problem is the fact that there are food banks in wealthy towns these days and the problem the people have having to put up with zero hour contracts in their work. there's no guarantee. it's people who are having to work
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two, threejobs it's people who are having to work two, three jobs and then they're still unable to pay their bills and being forced to go for weekly food to the food bank. i think the lib dems have got it right where they are saying an extra penny because on the income tax, the thing is we need to have extra money put into the health services and into education. that is where the poorest are being affected. if you agree with nia or sion or have other issues, you can get in touch. if you ask 0scar, he'll say it's wet but here is matt with the rest of the weather! sorry. this town offers a special place in my heart, this is where my nan was born, just behind me on the great
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orm. it's an actual limestone head land here in llandudno and provides that bit of extra shelter in south—westerly winds, breaking up the cloud, allowing a bit more sunshine to come through. it's doing a good job so far. it means things have brightened up here and there is a sign that things will brighten up for many as we go through the rest of the day with a bit more sunshine developing. if you are on a half—term break, good news for you too. let us take a look at today. we have showers coming our way, especially to northern and western parts of the uk. that'll introduce some fresher air and clearer air. a bit more sunshine as well. the rain in northern ireland will produce the best conditions. heavy bursts possible. couldn't rule out the odd rumble of thunder but
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only a very slim chance. the further south and east you are, the morning cloud will break up. feeling humid out there. the fresh airwill be into feeling humid out there. the fresh air will be into parts of scotland, northern ireland and northern england through the afternoon. as we ta ke england through the afternoon. as we take a look around, we have the sunshine out, rain in shetland. a few showers in eastern scotland and a few showers mid afternoon in parts of northern england as well. further south, most places will be drying, showers few and far between. with the sunny breaks, it will still feel humid. temperatures could reach 22 or23, humid. temperatures could reach 22 or 23, maybe even a bit more. there'll be some low cloud lingering around the english channel maybe affecting parts of the south—west and south and west wales too. there'll be some showers in across parts of wales as we go through the afternoon. some sunshine to the north coast and across northern ireland. northern ireland should have a fine day once the rain clears. tonight, the showers will
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move south across england and wales. most move south across england and wales. m ost pla ces move south across england and wales. most places staying dry. we hold on toafair most places staying dry. we hold on to a fair bit of low cloud and humid weather in southern—most counties. clearer skies and a fresher night with cooler conditions into tomorrow morning with temperatures well down into single figures. that does mean on wednesday a much brighter day for many. still low cloud in the english channel and southern counties, so maybe a bit grey at times and humid. elsewhere, very pleasant. temperatures around 17, 18, maybe 19. into thursday, rain to parts of western scotland, northern ireland, but many other areas will be dry and warming up too. that's how it's looking. back to dan. here is the bbc breakfast sofa. we are live in llandudno looking at some of the issues in north wales. northern ireland tomorrow and scotla nd northern ireland tomorrow and scotland on friday. delighted to say, one of our sofa guests,
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slightly less wet than the poor chap under the gazebo. a professorfrom uk in changing europe. specifically for wales, how big an issue do you think brexit will be for voters here? it's very, very hard to know for certain. what's certainly happened is that brexit‘s led to a realignment or might be leaning to a realignment or might be leaning to a realignment in politics in that some people claim we have a new divide between levers and remainers and that's altering how people are voting. as you speak to people in wales, we are talking about poverty and immigration, does it tend to be different in terms of the key issues that would affect things in the uk andi that would affect things in the uk and i wonder whether some of the things we saw in manchester would be at the forefront of people's minds when they go to the polls in nine days' time. some things are the same so. days' time. some things are the same so. immigration was a real issue, particularly in south wales in the referendum. i think that was true for many leave voters as well. there
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are specific local issues as well and the state of local economies throughout wales has been very, very important. you see that in england as well. there is a correlation between areas of industrial decline and big votes for leave. earlier we we re and big votes for leave. earlier we were talking about the main party ma nifestos were talking about the main party manifestos and how they were addressing the issues of devolved power. your speciality is looking at brexit. 0n power. your speciality is looking at brexit. on that issue, and theresa may is trying to make sure people vote on that, that is what her rhetoric will be today, how do you see that addressed in the main ma nifesto see that addressed in the main manifesto parties? i wasn't concerned about what any of the parties said on devolution. it's tremendously complicated, what happens to powers when they come back to the uk, who gets to keep them and wield ago cultural policy is going to matter a lot and the parties don't say anywhere near enough on that for voters to be well informed. do you get that speaking
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to people as well, they don't know enough or there wasn't enough detail for the general voterfor enough or there wasn't enough detail for the general voter for people that know their stuff as well like people like you? the general voter doesn't read the manifesto so that is not an issue but there is a lack of clarity about what devolution will mean post—brexit. of clarity about what devolution will mean post-brexit. the wind is picking up and the rain has gone. live in llandudno this morning. we have been in wrexham and also we are here in llandudno bay. if we show you the beautiful drone out there this morning, you get a lovely shot of the bay. we have the little orm and the great orm. hopefully you can see a lovely shot of anglesey in the distance write is where jane is for us this morning at bow maris castle. good morning, jane —— bow maris castle. — beaumaris castle.
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this is the unfinished masterpiece. work began way back in 1295. imagine out here on the grass at one point there were 2,000 construction workers who lived and worked here, commissioned by king edward i to build this place. the king ran out of money, the castle was never finished. but king edward had done this to try to stamp his authority on the welsh. but in this general election, really interesting, it could be the welsh who stamp their authority on these results. here is the reason why: more more marginal constituencies here in wales than anywhere else in the country. that means that those marginal constituencies like this one here, like the one we have been filming in in gower, they could contribute brass to a labour resurgence in this election or there could be a labour landslide. it's all to fight for.
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these are really interesting times and labourand these are really interesting times and labour and conservatives here really are drawing the battle lines. much more on this throughout the morning, first the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london news, i'm alice salfied. the family of a young woman shot deadin the family of a young woman shot dead in kilburn say they are in com plete dead in kilburn say they are in complete shock and need answers as to why it happened. the 20—year—old girl was with friends on malvern road when they were approached by two men on bicycles before 9pm. police say shots were aimed at the group. activists from a women's rights group have broken into the former holloway prison in north london — and are now staging an occupation. sisters uncut says it wants the prison which closed last year to be turned into a centre for women who've suffered domestic abuse.
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police have agreed to let them remain until the end of the week. the ministry ofjustice says security is on site to maintain safety and order. in sport, reading missed out on promotion to the premier league yesterday evening, after losing in the championship play—off final. it came down to penalties with huddersfield town's christopher schindler scoring the winning goal. it's reading's fourth play—off final defeat. and new art work has been commissioned for the crossrail station at farringdon. it's been designed to reflect the elaborate victorian metalwork of the historic smithfield market directly opposite. the work will cover three of the station's glass sides when it opens next year. time for a look at the travel now. starting with the tubes and there's a good service all round this morning with no reported problems elsewhere on public transport. in upton park: the a124 barking road is closed between central park road
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and inniskilling road following a crash. fulham road is closed westbound between edith grove and gunter grove. after a warm night let's get a check now on the weather with sara thronton. you possibly had an uncomfortable sleep. temperatures in mid teens we are starting off with. i think as the day wears on, we'll see some brea ks the day wears on, we'll see some breaks coming through. it's a pretty nice day of weather because it's mostly d ray nice day of weather because it's mostly dray and we have got that warm start. 16 degrees at the moment. we need to see that cloud thinning and breaking as the day goes through. we will start to see that happen. there could be a few light showers here and there from the thicker cloud. nothing more than that expected. top temperature 21 or 22. another mild start tomorrow, againa bit 22. another mild start tomorrow, again a bit of cloud around, but
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towards the north we get some nice brea ks towards the north we get some nice breaks coming through and eventually they felter to us by the afternoon. —— filter. high pressure in control for the half—term. late on friday we see this slip in. warmer air moves up see this slip in. warmer air moves up from the south. into thursday and friday, it's brighter, more in the way of sunshine and, as you can see, turning warmer too, albeit temporarily. i'm back with the latest in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. now though it's back to louise in the studio and dan in llandudno. hello, this is breakfast with louise minchin in the studio and dan walker in llandudno. we'll be back out there soon, but first a summary of the morning's main news. bbc news has been told the name of the female zookeeper
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in cambridgeshire who was killed by a tiger yesterday. rosa king, who was 33, worked at hamerton park zoo. it will remain closed today while an investigation continues. manchester victoria station has reopened after it was damaged in last week's bomb attack. last night, a week on from the exact time of the bombing, a vigil was held in st ann's square for the 22 people who were killed by a suicide bomber at the manchester arena. with just over a week to go until the general election, the conservatives are focusing on brexit and labour childcare. last night the leaders of both parties faced questions in a live television broadcast. theresa may was questioned byjeremy paxman on her u—turn over brexit. we gave people the choice. you've changed your mind? we gave people the choicejeremy and the british people decided to leave the european union and i think it's important for them
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to see their politicians delivering on that choice and respecting the will of the people. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, defended his stance on corporation tax. this country is badly divided between the richest and the poorest. you put corporate tax and tax at the top end down, the division gets greater. are you happy that so many of our children are going to school with supersized classes? so many of our children are going to school hungry? british airways says it will operate a full schedule at heathrow and gatwick today for the first time since the computer failure on saturday disrupted flights around the world. the airline says its it systems are now "back up and running" but "significa nt numbers" of passengers are still without their luggage which could take some time to sort out. the former military leader of panama, general manuel noriega, has died at the age of 83.
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he was once seen as a key us ally in latin america. in 1989, american troops invaded panama and general noriega was forcibly removed. he went on to spend 17 years in a us jail, for drug trafficking and money laundering. tiger woods has denied he'd been drinking when he was stopped while driving his car in florida yesterday morning. police charged him with being under the influence of alcohol, but the golfer has blamed an unexpected reaction to some medicine he had taken. matt will bring you the weather from llandudno's beach in ten minutes time. it started badly, the weather, that is. a little bit of sunshine there and more details later. kat is here. it isa it is a vast empty sofa. talking
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about wild celebrations for huddersfield yesterday, finally in the premier league for the first time in their history, they have played in the top flight before. it's a wonderful picture. not only are they in the premier league, but it's it's the money, given all the players and their budget is £12 million, and they are about to get £170 million at least! that's what promotion to the premier league is worth. congratulations huddersfield town fans. huddersfield town will be a premier league side for the first time next season after winning a dramatic championship playoff penalty shootout against reading. after the match finished goalless, liam moore and jordan 0bita missed from the spot for reading. christopher schindler scored the decisive penalty to send huddersfield into the top tier of english football for the first time in 45 years. promotion is worth around £175 million to the club who willjoin brighton and newcastle in the premier league in august. this is a fairytale that's
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not usually possible. but they've done it. we are very, very happy. i'm one of the happiest men on the planet and i'm so proud and happy for everybody who is connected and especially the chairman. the arsenal board will hear today what's been decided about arsene wenger‘s future. after celebrating their fa cup win on saturday. an announcement is expected from arsenal later. england were soundly beaten by south africa in their final one dayer. england's top order crumbled to 20—6 inside five overs and they never really recovered from there. south africa, who are world number
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ones, cruised to the target of 154 for the loss ofjust 3 wickets. england still won the series 2—1. they now go into the champions trophy — their first match is on thursday against bangladesh. south africa tested our defensive technique and it wasn't a case of playing too aggressively or taking the ball on. the guys nicked half—volleys. there was a lot of green grass there and that cost us the game which is unfortunate, but there is a huge amount of positives to take from the series. we've beaten the world number one 2—1. tennis and britain's best hopes at the french open get their challenge underway today. johanna konta plays su—wei hsieh of taiwan. andy murray meanwhile plays andrey kuznetsov hoping to improve his run on clay this season. he's lost as many matches as he's won. although it's frustrating you have to enjoy this part of what we do as well because you know the struggles are, you know,
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part of what make the good times so enjoyable. i need to enjoy them. i'm struggling a little bitjust now and that will help me get through it a bit quicker. british number three aljaz bedene is considering switching his allegiance back to slovenia in order to compete at the olympics. bedene, who won his first round match at the french open, became a british citizen in 2015 but hasn't managed to overturn a ban that's stopped him playing for great britain in the davis cup. a player must have been available for the davis cup to represent that country at the olympics, so bedene is now exploring the possibility of representing slovenia in tokyo in 2020. novak djokovic is also through to the second round. the defending champion, seeded second in paris, eased to a straight sets victory over spain's marcel granollers.
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rafa nadal is bidding for a record tenth french open title. he safely negotiated a tricky looking opening match against frenchman benoit paire. the fourth seed already has three clay court titles to his name this season. meanwhile women's champion garbine muguruza got her defence off to a good start. she eased past the 2010 winner francesca schiavone in straight sets. castleford cemented their place at the top of rugby league's super league with a 38—0 thrashing of leigh centurions. greg eden kept up his phenomenal scoring record for the tigers. he scored three tries in four minutes in the first half. his fourth hat—trick in a row and added another after the break. castleford are two points clear of salford who themselves won at warrington. great britain struggled once more in their america's cup qualifers, losing theirfourth race in a row sir ben ainslie and his crew made
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an error around the third turn and couldn't recover against france. they'll now take on the other five teams again over the next few days, starting against sweden today. they ground us down and got the win. we' re clearly disappointed with that. we've got to go away and have a look at our development programme, our configuration for the coming days and obviously make improvements. i masterminded one of the greatest come backs and he will need not as quite a remarkable achievement this time, but he will need some form of comeback. when you get into it, you're totally gripped. at the 2015 general election the scottish national party swept to power taking all but three of the scottish westminster seats. in just over a week's time, they'll be hoping to maintain their hold.
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later this morning the party launches its manifesto, proposals include an end to austerity cuts, improvements in living standards and on the issue of brexit, it wants to keep scotland in the european single market. let's get more detail now from deputy leader, angus robertson who is in perth. thank you forjoining us. a few things to ask... thank you for having me on. nicola sturgeon has talked, hasn't she, about being part ofa talked, hasn't she, about being part of a progressive alliance. what does that mean? well, it means if there isa that mean? well, it means if there is a majority in the house of commons where we are resist the tory excesses of austerity that we will vote with other political parties to protect the interests of people not just in scotland, but the rest of the uk. however, ithink just in scotland, but the rest of the uk. however, i think it has to be said that there hasn't been a single opinion poll during this general election campaign that has suggested that kind of arithmetic is possible. so we're focussed on doing what we can do to ensure that the
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maximum number of snp mps are returned in the election because otherwise we won't have the strong voices which are necessary to stand up voices which are necessary to stand upfor voices which are necessary to stand up for the interests of people in the face of cuts to the likes of the pension which we expect from the tories. ok, just to be clear, if it we re tories. ok, just to be clear, if it were to be the case and obviously, it's nine days before the vote, there were a hung parliament, the snp would therefore be supporting a labour government? well, we have no ambitions to be part of a coalition government in the uk, but if the maths of the election result suggests that it is possible to vote against austerity and to protect pensions and to support the economy then that's exactly what we would do, but! then that's exactly what we would do, but i think we have to deal with the world as we find it and as i've already said and i think probably everybody including the dog in the street agrees that the last thing that we're going to see is a labour government orjeremy corbyn in downing street. i'm sorry that it is likely to be theresa may who is
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re—elected as prime minister and she is going to pursue a very damaging agen darks not least for pensioners who are going to lose the triple—lock, who face a dementia tax and an end to winter fuel payments. i think people need to understand in scotla nd i think people need to understand in scotland given the election is a straight fight between the snp and the tories, it's really important to re—elect the maximum number of snp mps to westminster to provide the strong voice working as the effective opposition at westminster given the ineffectiveness of the labour party there. you said what you will stop. you're talking about investment, aren't you, you talk about an end to austerity, investing in public services, but can you be clear with me, how will you fund these policies? well, that's a very important question and in the snp ma nifesto important question and in the snp manifesto will be we will be outlining how we plan to do that by a mixture of reprofiling the fiscal plans of the uk and that would be beneficial not just for scotland, but for the rest of the uk. so in
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effect it's choosing a different repayment path for the national overdraft a nd repayment path for the national overdraft and what that does is that releases £118 billion. we are in favour of abincrease in the upper rate of tax from 45 pence to 50 pence across the united kingdom. we think that that is socially just and fairand think that that is socially just and fair and what that does is, it sets us apart from the other political parties at westminster who seem to have pretty much have an austerity consensus and we think how damaging thatis consensus and we think how damaging that is on the weakest in society is not something that we're prepared to supportment we stand for a different kind of politics, an anti—austerity agenda and we would be happy to work with people elsewhere the uk to ensure we dot have the cuts and pressures on the poorest in our society. just one last question, what does the snp offer to those who scotla nd what does the snp offer to those who scotland who want to stay as part of the uk? well, this election isn't an independence referendum. it's about who is your local mp going to be? is
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it going to be an snp mp or a tory mp? there is not an independence referendum happening now and we're not in favour of a referendum happening now, but we do think that the end of the brexit process, when everybody else is going to have a say on scotland's future, some people aren't aware of this, the other 27 member states of the european union are going to have to say, have a say on our future. we think that the people of scotland should have a say too and what's important to remember about this, because some people do remember the fa ct because some people do remember the fact that this was actually an election issue in scotland last year and the party that went to the country and won the election with a ma nifesto country and won the election with a manifesto commitment of the people having a choice in a referendum actually won that election so, we support the scottish parliament and the scottish government which has taken a the scottish government which has ta ken a vote the scottish government which has taken a vote on the issue that people in scotland should have a say and whether one is in favour of independence are not, it's the people who should be able to decide as democrats surely we shouldn't be saying that people can't have a choice about their future. angus
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robertson, thank you. a week on thursday britain goes to the polls, and ahead of the general election, breakfast has been hitting the road talking to voters about the issues that matter to them. dan is in llandudno for us this morning discussing among other things poverty and immigration. and showing us stunning views swthanks, dan. good morning, louise. a few more of those stunning views in a moment. good morning to you at hom. we will be in northern ireland tomorrow. scotla nd be in northern ireland tomorrow. scotland on friday, but as louise was saying today we're in llandudno with the red sofa and it has been range for most of the morning. one of the secrets of television, we have got a gaggle of breakfast fans down here as well. good morning, everyone. let's show you the beautiful pictures from the beach in llandudno. in the bay. you can see the sea, the irish sea looking gorgeous this morning. we've got the
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great orm and the grand hotel and the longest pier in wales and a beautiful view and thank you to the people who are sending in information about this fine welsh town including that it's the birthplace of the great neville southall and kath wilson says there are more than 30 shipwrecks out there in llandudno bay and chris says that he was stung on the foot bya says that he was stung on the foot by a jellyfish under the pier in 1980! more personal. chris, but nonetheless just as important. 1980! more personal. chris, but nonethelessjust as important. we're going to have five politicians with us later on. let's have a word with some of our voters who have come down this morning as well. we have got a mother and daughter, hannah and elizabeth joining us got a mother and daughter, hannah and elizabethjoining us here. good morning. elizabeth, we'll start with you. what sort of issues are floating your boat going into this general election? what is concerning you? what are you worried about? my boat is floated by poverty and the fct it has on our children and their education is spoilt. their health is spoilt. and also education in general. the school funding is not
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enough for any school even though new measures have been brought out and there are new policies coming. it's not enough for a basic school. so that the money for each child should be built up. what about for you hannah, did you watch the leaders debate last night? does something like that make a difference? it was nice to see something less biassed. i'm concerned about the fact that 80% of our media is owned by people who don't even live in this country and it's implicit in what they want to do. they want to keep certain governments in power that are going to benefit them financially. my biggest concern is for the nhs and for education and if we leave the eu the effect it might have on the universities and it is happening with the drain brain. i teach a—levels. i had students the day the leave vote was announced in tears because they could see how it was going to affect their futures and they're our future. we have got a
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father and son further round here as well. this is ross and william. do you two agree on what you're voting on next week? dad? generally, we do, but basically i'm a ukip voter, but i will be landing my vote to theresa may to get things underway. it has been a year since the referendum nearly and no one is any further on whether you're for remain or leave, nobody really knows what is happening. ourfarmers nobody really knows what is happening. our farmers need nobody really knows what is happening. ourfarmers need to know. ourfishermen need to know and like in llandudno, they say 75% hospitality staff are immigrants. we, theresa may, should have a strong hand and she should use it and i'm fora strong hand and she should use it and i'm for a strong real brexit, but that isn't to, for the points
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based immigration system. ok. what about for you ross? i believe we need a sensible immigration policy and that's got to include the people that are in the nhsment they need the certainty that they are going to be able to be here and we need them to be here and it is the same with all the different industries, but i also believe we shouldn't be sending billions of pounds to europe unnecessarily when we have £1.7 trillion worth of debt and people in this country in desperate need. some big issues. ishouldn't this country in desperate need. some big issues. i shouldn't have knelt down because now it will take a while to get up with the old knees! would you vote for a party if they guaranteed you free bacon sandwiches and good weather? no. no. i'm sure many of our viewers would go for that. on that note we've got steph and matt in the breakfast buttie van! come on, steph, i have been waiting all morning. do you want a bacon buttie. yes. why don't you do a bit
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of work first. welcome to the promenade in llandudno. we have had drizzle. it has eased off and it will be a day when we will see sunshine. it is a mile start. it will turn fresher from the north and the west, but with the fresher weather we will see more in the way of sunshine which will be great news as we go through the next few days. the fresher weather is coming courtesy of the clouds to the west of ireland. that's producing outbreaks of rain across northern ireland at present, pushing its way from west to east, but once that's gone by mid—morning, sunshine all the way through. the showers are pushing across scotland and a few showers into north wales again as we go through the second half of the day. you might get drizzle, but it will break up into thursday, we'll see more in the
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way of dry weather. it looks like later on we'll see rain push into northern ireland and eventually through western parts of scotland. the winds will be coming in from a southerly direction, meaning temperatures will be back on the up, particularly across wales and eastern scotland. turning increasingly humid before the day is out. temperatures could peak at around 25. so, turning fresher but turning sunnierfor around 25. so, turning fresher but turning sunnier for many. around 25. so, turning fresher but turning sunnierfor many. now, that is the forecast. the main thing is, will i have my bacon butty ready? come on, steph. i have a young apprentice helping me out. oh, dear!
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bacon sandwich, anyone. you can have dan's effort or an ice—cream. bacon sandwich, anyone. you can have dan's effort or an ice-cream. i'll plump for the ice—cream. dan's effort or an ice-cream. i'll plump for the ice-cream. health and safety issues here. let's do some work, you crack on. watch out for the naked blame. —— naked flame. work, you crack on. watch out for the naked blame. -- naked flame. we are talking about what businesses and workers in the area want to hear from the politicians in the run—up to the election so i've gathered some guests here this morning. sion, for you, you think there should be more work here to keep you here and there should be more investment in that? yes, i think it's about the quality of the jobs that we have here. there is a lot of retail and ca re here. there is a lot of retail and care and support work in the town that i'm from, denby. but if you don't have qualifications in that area, that's no use to you, you are not going to hang around. how hard has it been to get work for you? i've come back from cardiff. i've
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been here two months. i have an interview tomorrow. up until that point, i applied for 13 jobs interview tomorrow. up until that point, i applied for 13jobs in one day and wasn't hearing anything back. really, in one day? yes, one day. and do you feel like you might have to leave the area in order to get work? well, hopefully tomorrow might go well but it gets to the point where you think, what am i staying for, maybe i do need to go back to the city. let us bring ross in. tell us about yourself, you're working as a barman aren't you? yes, i graduated from university last year. i totally agree with what has been said. the only industry i can go into is tourism and all the jobs are seasonal there. that's not really what i want to do, i want to progress to a career and want something i can plan for for the future. of course. what would get your vote then, what do you want to hear from the politicians? something that would bring industry to north wales. it's lovely having the tourists here but we need something more to keep everybody here. we are
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getting driven away. people who want to stay are getting driven to the city. i want to stay here and work here. ed, put this in context, you are an economist at bangor university, so put this in context? i'm not surprised in what i've heard. it's difficult to get a job. the structure of the industry in north wales is different to the rest of the uk. we haven't got a big service sector economy here. the main industries are tourism, the agriculture and maybe a bit of manufacturing, so if you are not working in those areas, your chances of getting a job are very slim. so it's about investment? absolutely. thank you very much for your time and good luck for your interview, i'm sure you will nail it. back to dan, wherever he might be. has he else camed ? dan, wherever he might be. has he else camed? he has, hasn't he. it's time for the news travel. weather. where you are. good morning from bbc london news.
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the family of a young woman shot deadin the family of a young woman shot dead in kilburn on friday evening say they are still in complete shock and need answers as to why this happened to her. 20—year—old montana abdu was with female friends near malvern road when they were approached by two men on bicycles just before 9pm. police say shots we re just before 9pm. police say shots were aimed at the group. activists from a women's rights group have broken into the former holloway prison in north london and are staging an occupation. sisters uncut says it wants the prison which closed last year to be turned into a centre for women who've suffered domestic abuse. police have agreed to let them remain until the end of the week and the ministry ofjustice says security is on site.
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in sport, reading missed out on promotion to the premier league yesterday evening after losing in the championship play—off final. it came down to penalties with huddersfield town's christopher schindler scoring the winning goal. it's reading's fourth play—off final defeat. new art work has been commissioned for the cross rail station at farringdon. it's been designed to reflect the victorian metal work of the historic smithfield market directly opposite. the work will cover three of the station's glass sides when it opens next year. time for a look at the travel. on the tubes, a good service on all lines. no reported problems. on the roads, long delays on the a 3 in both directions because of temporary traffic lights in wandsworth. the queues on tibbets corner there. elsewhere,
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wandsworth. the queues on tibbets cornerthere. elsewhere, roadworks continue near parliament square in millbank and fulham road is closed for gas works into edith grove. now the weather. you possibly had an uncomfortable negotiate's sleep because it's been so mild —— uncomfortable night's sleep. as the day wears on, we'll see some breaks coming through the cloud. it's a nice day of weather because it's mostly dry. we have got that warm start, 16 degrees at the moment. we need to see that cloud thinning and breaking as the day goes through. i think we'll start to see that happen. there could be a few light showers here and there from the thicker cloud, nothing more than that expected. top temperatures 21 or 22. a mild start again tomorrow. a bit of cloud around. towards the north, nice breaks come through and they will filter to most of us by they will filter to most of us by the afternoon eventually. temperatures do a bit better too. a settled week of weather. nice for
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half—termers. high pressure in control. not until late on friday will we see this slipping in. dry and settled before. warm air moves up and settled before. warm air moves up from the south. into thursday and friday, it's brighter, more in the way of sunshine and, turning warmer too albeit temporarily. i'm back with the latest in half an hour. bye. good morning. hello, this is breakfast, with dan walker in llandudno in north wales. and wait for it — we are on the road. and i am here with the brea kfast road. and i am here with the breakfast buddy/ ice cream van. oh, my goodness. i will be talking to workers about what they want to hear from the election. do you want that one? and i am here at the gorgeous beaumaris castle in anglesey castle to hear how the welsh electorate is punching way above its weight when it comes to the influence it might have on this imminent general election. good morning.
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it's tuesday 30th may. the main headlines this morning: the female keeper killed by a tiger at a zoo in cambridgeshire is named as rosa king — her employers have called it a "freak accident". hundreds of people attend a vigil to mark a week since the manchester bombing — the city's victoria station has reopened this morning. no head to head — butjeremy corbyn and theresa may face a studio audience and a grilling. in sport, huddersfield town will play in the premier league for the first time in their history. they beat reading in a dramatic penalty shootout to win the championship playoff final. and matt has the weather. how is the weather? clear skies here
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at the moment, but i will have a forecast which is more optimistic than those of you in half term at the moment. over the next few days, we will see more sunshine and once the sunshine comes out, it will feel very pleasant. full details coming up. good morning. we are in llandudno this morning. you can see the beautiful pictures from our bbc breakfast drones. we are in llandudno bay, right down on the beach. we have brought our beautiful reds over this morning. it was a bit damp earlier. that is why we brought the towel. we also have a gaggle of breakfast fans. morning, everybody. you can see megan at front with the alpaca, very imaginative. we also have some politicians who have beenjoining us and in ten minutes, we will talk to them about some of the key issues for the major parties. today, the
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issues we have chosen to concentrate on our immigration, poverty and brexit. our politicians will be here. we have got them all a stick of rock as well. and we have our own collection of voters on how incredibly wet tables under the gazebo with their own umbrella. we will get a word with them. and we would love to know what you think. you know about facebook and twitter. you know about facebook and twitter. you can also send us an e—mail. back to louise. see you in five minutes. i love breakfast viewers. they are everywhere. first, our main story. bbc news has been told the name of the female zookeeper in cambridgeshire who was killed by a tiger yesterday. rosa king, who was 33, worked at hamerton park zoo. it will remain closed today while an investigation continues. amy cole reports. let's join our correspondent ben ando, who joins us live from the zoo this morning. ben, what's the latest
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you can tell us? i know it is closed. what is being said about 33—year—old rosa king, the zookeeper who was mauled to death by a tiger here yesterday, is that she was someone who cared passionately about the animals in her care. she cared a lot about big cats. she had a special affinity for cheetahs. she was someone around whom the park revolt. today, the parkis whom the park revolt. today, the park is remaining closed while it carries out an investigation into what happened, how she came to be in the wrong place at the wrong time in the wrong place at the wrong time in the same enclosure as the tiger that attacked and killed her. the police we re attacked and killed her. the police were here for most of yesterday. lots of forensic science vans were here, but they have concluded that there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.
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nonetheless, people here will want to learn lessons from it and to establish what happened. the park was busy at the time with bank holiday visitors. it is a popular attraction, very well—known. many of those people have paid tribute on social media to how staff reacted in the aftermath. we have been told that staff are too distressed to talk at this time. i can imagine. thank you. manchester victoria station has reopened this morning after it was damaged in last week's bomb attack. last night, a week on from the exact time of the bombing, a vigil was held in st ann's square. frankie mccamley is at manchester victoria for us this morning. so many people are going to st ann's square to pay tribute to the victims of the attack. and the city is trying to get back to normal today? yes, last night was a very sombre evening. hundreds of people gathered together side by side in an area
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that has become a focal point to leave flowers, teddy bears, balloons and anything people want to leave to show their support for the victims and families of those who have been affected. at 10.33, exactly the time the blast happened, a minute's silence was held and people took a chance to reflect on what had happened in their city. here at manchester victoria station, things are trying to return to normal. you can probably see passengers arriving, people coming and going. pa rt arriving, people coming and going. part of the station does still remain closed. that is the part that has been severely damaged which connects the arena to the station. as for the investigation, police are appealing for anyone who saw salman abedi carrying a blue suitcase in the hours leading up to the attack. they have released an image. they say the suitcase is different to the backpack that he brought to the station on that night when 22 people
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we re station on that night when 22 people were killed. raids took place yesterday across the country and a 23—year—old man was arrested in shoreham—by—sea. with just over a week to go until the general election, theresa may will today turn the focus of the conservatives' campaign towards brexit. jeremy corbyn will campaign on the issue of childcare as labour seeks to turn the spotlight on public services. last night, they both faced questions in a live television broadcast. our political correspondent ben wright was there: this was the first time theresa may and jeremy corbyn had appeared at the same venue in front of the same audience for a grilling in front of the cameras since the election was called. the labour leader had wanted to debate with the prime minister one—on—one, but the tories refused. jeremy corbyn was the first to face the audience, the order decided by the toss of a coin. he was asked about his determination to deal with terror threats. he was also asked about his approach to business. this country is badly divided
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between the richest and the poorest. you put corporate tax and tax at the top end down, the division gets greater. are you happy that so many of our children are going to school with super—sized classes? so many of our children are going to school hungry. next, it was theresa may's turn and she faced questions over the tories‘ social care policy. so why, prime minister, should me and my generation vote for you? so what happens is, people are paying for care, people are finding that they are having to sell their house, many people are having to sell their house to pay those care bills and many find that they're not able to leave money to their families. now, i want to take those risks away and that's what the proposals i've put forward are about. it's about ensuring that nobody is going to have to sell their house to pay for care in their lifetime. afterwards, it was clear neither leader had landed
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or suffered a killer blow. the grilling has just ended, and senior politicians from the political parties are out giving their own slant on how it went. i think team corbyn and team may will both be pretty pleased. the two people wanting to be prime minister afterjune 8th will have another chance to make their case at a bbc question time special on friday. ben wright, bbc news. the scottish national party will launch its election manifesto today. it was originally planned for last tuesday, but was delayed due to the manchester bomb attack. our political correspondent steven godden is in perth for us this morning. what will be top of their agenda? this manifesto is central to the snp's election strategy. the aim is to secure the votes that would allow them to keep their position of power in scotland. they hope that will
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translate into influence over key areas of policy. one of those would be brexit. nicola sturgeon wants a seat at the negotiating table. another area is the prospect of a second independence referendum. she would like to hold another one and winning the election here in scotland, the snp said, would reinforce that mandate. the third plank of this manifesto is their anti—austerity plan. they want to invest a n anti—austerity plan. they want to invest an additional £118 billion in public services over the course of the next parliament. we will also hear about pensions. they want to protect the triple lock on wages. they want to increase the minimum wage to a real living wage that would eventually be more than £10 an hour. and on immigration, they want all of those powers to be transferred to holyrood. we will hear the speech around 11 o'clock this morning. voters will then have nine days to consider its contents and work out whether they want to vote for it. british airways says it will operate a full schedule at heathrow and gatwick today for the first time
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since the computer failure on saturday disrupted flights around the world. the airline says its it systems are now "back up and running" but "significa nt numbers" of passengers are still without their luggage, which could take some time to sort out. the former military leader of panama, general manuel noriega, has died at the age of 83. he was once seen as a key us ally in latin america. in 1989, american troops invaded panama and general noriega was forcibly removed. he went on to spend 17 years in a us jailfor drug trafficking and money laundering. bangladesh has evacuated at least 350,000 people as a cyclone lashes coastal areas. the storm made landfall between the fishing port of cox's bazar and the city of chittagong, with winds of up to 73 miles per hour. parts of india and myanmar are also expected to be affected. it comes after heavy rains
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in sri lanka caused floods that killed at least 180 people. tiger woods has denied he'd been drinking when he was stopped whilst driving his car in florida yesterday morning. police charged him with being under the influence of alcohol — but the golfer has blamed an unexpected reaction to some medicine he had taken. there are just nine more days until the general election, so breakfast is back on the road finding out what matters to voters. it is half term in parts of the uk, which normally means it is raining. dan, is it? it was reining at six o'clock this morning, but the weather has cleared up morning, but the weather has cleared up somewhat. this is llandudno. welcome to north wales. we will be
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in northern ireland tomorrow, scotla nd in northern ireland tomorrow, scotland on friday. but today we are concentrating on wales. this is simon and eden hope in our bbc brea kfast simon and eden hope in our bbc breakfast deckchairs. you have ruined my sand castle. i spent at least ten seconds making that. you are already on the ice cream, what a way to start half term. let me introduce you to our politicians. representing the conservatives, alec cairns. david hanson from labour, christine humphreys from the liberal democrats, plaid cymru and ukip as well. a ripple of applause for our politicians this morning. see, they like you, really. we had a breaking campaign because of the event in manchester just a week ago. campaign because of the event in manchesterjust a week ago. i wonder whether you think that security and police numbers will now affect the
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way people vote onjune the 8th? police numbers will now affect the way people vote on june the 8th?” think they will. what happened was a terrible event, and it obviously is related to the drop in police numbers. it is essential that this campaign focuses on those police numbers because immunity policing is where we will get the information and make those contacts with the local population so that they give us information about what is happening on their streets. has there been a drop in police numbers under a conservative government?” don't accept the claim that it is directly related to police numbers. it isa directly related to police numbers. it is a complex debate. we know how many cases have been foiled over the la st many cases have been foiled over the last five years by counterterrorism. we also need to recognise that manchester and the north wales economy are tightly entwined and as
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a result, there has been an impact across north wales, with many north wales people at the event. there is a range of aspects that need to be brought to counterterrorism. the prevent strategy is working,, but it has to be continually reviewed to ensure that we are working actively in the community. there are lots of schemes that cover a range of initiatives that people don't recognise as being associated with prevent, but they are in the community, working across the whole of wales and the uk to get that intelligence in the most significant form possible and the result has been the numberof form possible and the result has been the number of cases that have been the number of cases that have been foiled. what is the plaid point of view on this? we are all of course united in our condemnation. the horror of what happened in manchester struck us all. but it is right that in the context of what
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happened, we do talk about issues of safety and security. we can't escape from the cuts in police numbers and our fear for the undermining of intelligence work. for us in wales, policing is important. we need to have policing devolved to wales. that would bring with it an additional £25 million in funding for police to bolster police numbers on our streets. but it is still early days after that attack. our thoughts are with those affected. how big an issue is security at the moment to people you talk to on the streets ? moment to people you talk to on the streets? it is huge, these are barbaric and evil people trying to kill our people and change our way of life. i think it's crucial we have a properly funded security service but not bound by political correctness, they should be able to deal with the problem where ever it is and the main thing we should do is and the main thing we should do is engage in the democratic process
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because that is one of the things which makes us better than those who oppose us and it is one of the reasons they will never beat us. do you think it has changed the make—up of how people will think going into the general election? there was a shock wave going through are part of north wales because manchester arena is one of our local arenas. the fact people can go a long and have a night out and be destroyed by a horrendous bombing is disgusting. what we need to do i think in the light of that is look at some of the issues. it is not her now but we had 20,000 more police officers when i left office in 2010. we need to look at intelligence led policing, making sure we invest in that because we cannot protect every building, we cannot protect every building, we cannot protect every building, we cannot protect them all, what we need to do is have intelligence led and how police focusing on tracking down those people who are seeking to
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down those people who are seeking to do harm to our society. it's important we invest in that and focus on that and we'll be boxing on that in the next few weeks and it's an issue people are talking to us about. we will be talking about immigration and poverty later and if you would like to get in touch, and we will ask our panel of voters later on on those issues, i don't know if you have noticed we have given you all a stick of rock which is the colour of your parties here is the colour of your parties here is another question, putting you on the spot, if there was another word which ran through the stick of rock to summarise your party, what would that one word they? and fortunately we'll that one word they? and fortunately we' ll start that one word they? and fortunately we'll start with you at that end, what is your one word? freedom. ok. openness. society. success in brexit
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ifi openness. society. success in brexit if i can get away with that? you cannot. one word. brexit success. one word. success. can we get some applause, we appreciate you joining us, we will also be talking about the differences between north wales and south wales. that can affect things as well, thank you for the moment. thank you to our voters, thank you. we will pick up with the weather. it was raining at 6am but it is getting better what's going to happen in the rest of the uk? idid not happen in the rest of the uk? i did not think i was built for by i did not think i was built for rugby and! i did not think i was built for rugby and i know it is sure with this lot, i am with the welsh national champions, big match for you lads on friday? definitely, big
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game we are looking forward to starting preparation already. we play the welsh national team before they go on tour. fantastic, good luck with that. let's quickly get the weather. it started a bit damp first thing this morning but things have improved. for many of you things will improve throughout the day with sunshine on the if we look at the details, quite mild and muggy at the details, quite mild and muggy at the details, quite mild and muggy at the moment, it will turn pressure but that was after a spell of rain. the rain at the moment coming from the cloud to the west of ireland, pushing across northern ireland as we speak but once it's gone it will bea we speak but once it's gone it will be a lovely afternoon, plenty of sunshine, rain spreading west to east and into the early part of the afternoon hopefully clearing by mid afternoon hopefully clearing by mid afternoon and then showers into northern england and north and west wales. by the end of the day much of scotla nd wales. by the end of the day much of
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scotland in the sunshine and feeling pleasant, showers across eastern areas of scotland particularly shetlands, but going into northern england we will hold onto a lot of cloud, but we should finish the day with some sunshine. across the midlands, east anglia and the south mcleod at the moment of them and break, where you do get the breaks today, most should stay dry. it may stay a bit grey and drizzly over the hill‘s. we should see the sunshine coming out down here. the sunshine will be with you for much of the day in northern ireland and it will feel pleasa nt in northern ireland and it will feel pleasant once the sun is out. through tonight we will see showers erratically push towards southern areas, not too much around, holding onto some misty low cloud throughout the night, could stay a bit on the
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muddy side but elsewhere if pressure night than recently, wednesday looking like a cracking game for many, it's a dry day you have been craving, we will see low cloud across southern counties of england which will thin and break at times, breezy but gray in shetland, long sunny spells, as for thursday we will see rain pushing into northern ireland and western parts of scotla nd ireland and western parts of scotland but for most of you it will be another dry day, winds from a southerly direction so it will feel increasingly humid. that's how the weather is looking here, as you can see we have got grey skies overhead but if we look beyond towards anglesey, grey skies there but i think we can join jean anglesey, grey skies there but i think we canjoinjean makoun.
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i thought we had dodged the rain but we have just had a little flurry. the castle here, absolutely magnificent, king edward the first built it to try to stamp his authority over the welsh but in this imminent election it could be the welsh electorate that stamp their authority all over westminster because there are more marginal seats here in wales than anywhere else in the country and they are seats that are too close to call so what happens in those seats could be absolutely influential in the outcome of this election, we went to the most marginal seat to see how the most marginal seat to see how the battle lines are being drawn. cockling was once a way of life for neil, not any more. these are too small. something is stopping the cockles from reaching maturity here. he once earned £7,000 in a month. today he's lucky to get £700. you nearly lost your house?
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twice. i know two or three of the boys that have lost their homes. people don't want to know. he tells me no politician's ever cared about the demise of cockling here, nor he says the demise of the heavy industry which once dominated gower‘s coastline. all gone. so when the ballot paper comes through your door... it goes in the bin. parts of gower have changed beyond recognition, politically too. in 2015, after 100 years of solid labour support, the conservatives won with a lead over labour ofjust 28 votes. what way has your family historically voted? traditionally labour. however i voted conservative in the last election. what's changed ? well, a lot of people have been laid off and forced to go self—employed. minority parties have support but they don't come close
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to the votes harnessed in the battle between red and blue. the winds good? yes. are you going up? iam. we'll give you a wave. gower represents something seismic in welsh politics, rise above this most marginal of marginals just a month ago, you would have seen polls suggest the conservatives have a 10—point lead across wales. look out now and a fresh poll puts labour back in the lead. these are turbulent political waters, nothing is certain. gower is of course dylan thomas territory, a life long socialist. this pub is on his old stomping ground along the famous mumbles mile. what would dylan thomas make of this? he'd be spinning in his grave. he'd love corbyn and loathe theresa may. my feelings are about the same.
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why? he was for the redistribution of wealth. he wanted everybody to have as much chance to enjoy what everybody else does. this is a historical moment in wales. what's changed ? if i was to give you a lecture on this topic i could talk for an hour but i know we are on tv... 20 seconds. if i had to say it in a word, brexit. polls suggest the sun might be setting on ukip support, the fight between red and blue forjust a dozen or more of those votes could make or break labour or conservative control here. let's be introduced ellen from aberystwyth university, what happens in these marginal constituencies could make or break the main result for the main parties? certainly, we have got tight marginal seats, we
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thought there would be more, what we have seen during the campaign is a recovery of the labour vote and potentially less marginal seats in that mix but all to play for for the political parties, very tight contest, the labour party calling for stopping the tories trampling over wales, you could say similar to the castles. a poster campaign being launched today, we are talking like this is a two horse race, is it? there are a number of constituencies where it is a two horse race, but in seats such as this it's a different campaign because plaid cymru is very strong, it holds the assembly seats here, it is leading the local government. it also did well in the last general election. there are those type of seats across wales with plaid cymru and the lib dems, a whole variety, it will be exciting.
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it will be so exciting following what happens here, more honest the morning but first the news weather and travel where you are. quite a mild start for most of us. things will turn fresh as we go into the afternoon. brighter skies for many. there will also be showers as well. the showers this morning will be across parts of northern ireland and into scotland, but a few showers edging further south and east. the fresh air comes behind this weather front. it will turn less humid across the north and west. we are still holding onto the warmth in the south—east. tonight, clear skies across northern areas. that will make it quite chilly. temperatures here are down into single figures. but across southern areas, still quite mild. feeling quite humid. for wednesday, largely dry. there will be brighter conditions for most of us and it will be dry for all of us as well. this is business live
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from bbc news, with jamie robertson and ben thompson. ryanair is riding high. the budget airline reports record annual profits, despite tough competition and worries over brexit. live from london, that's our top story on tuesday 30th may. hello and welcome to business live. the no frills airline ryanair has reported its latest set of financial results. ryanair is riding high. the budget airline reports record annual profits, despite tough competition and worries over brexit. how low can you go? ryanair slashes ticket prices by 13%
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as it reports soaring profits.
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