commission according to this piece says there are 450,000 children in england and wales alone who are gambling every week. now, as someone who likes a punt, albeit not a big one, iam who likes a punt, albeit not a big one, i am genuinely concerned about those numbers. it says that britain... britain spend £34,000 a minute on online gambling. it is a gateway, i think, minute on online gambling. it is a gateway, ithink, to minute on online gambling. it is a gateway, i think, to the next stage. you are dragging them in, and it is an easy cook. and they are calling for some action to be taken, so we will see how this goes. goodness me. helping students cheat in essays. i could have done all right. this is the quality assurance agency for higher education. they are calling it an epidemic of essay

mills which sell essays. lecturers are taking cash basically. vulnerable lecturers. what is that? one who was paid not as much as eve ryo ne one who was paid not as much as everyone else. they are helping stu d e nts everyone else. they are helping students cheat in their degrees. my understanding is much of this cheating was being tackled because of algorithms. they could spot the copying and pasting. this is a different angle. the lecturers are... there is a lot of coursework. if you have a lot, you can see why this happens we have to be honest, eve ryo ne this happens we have to be honest, everyone copies from someone. not a lot of original thought out there. the report recommends universities add an explicit clause in contracts

that assist in a student in academic efforts will be subject to disciplinary action. you would expect that to be obvious. we will stay with the sunday telegraph. i had to read this twice. popcorn related injuries. the little bits that don't expand. those are my favourite. the ones that have not stopped. i like crunching them. you would do your teeth in. apparently one in two dental issues in children has to do with popcorn. it was brought about by madonna munching on popcorn. they have doubled in the la st popcorn. they have doubled in the last five years as crisp sales have declined. dentists have said this is

a big problem. it is not cracking teeth on heartbeats alone, it is the thin husker round popcorn. it gets stuck in. —— hard bits. apparently they are so thin even dental floss does not get them out. we are not happy about this. this is bad. i will have to be hard on my children and tell them not to have any popcorn. do you make your own at home? yes. the old-style in the microwave. no, that is not proper. ifi microwave. no, that is not proper. if i can turn on the microwave i have succeeded. thank you, both of you. we will leave it there. enough popcorn for all of us, i think. that is it from the papers. don't forget, coming up at midnight, we will talk

live to the united nations secretary general anthony —— antonnio guterres. until then, it general anthony —— antonnio guterres. untilthen, it is general anthony —— antonnio guterres. until then, it is meet the author. peterjames created a detective, roy grace, who leads an army of readers through the routine and mystery of his work. apparently straightforward crimes are not quite what they seem. we care about him, we sympathise with him, we worry on his behalf. the police procedural novel has an enduring appeal and in need you dead, the latest roy grace story, peter james produces another taught and hypnotic tale. welcome. peter, why do you think so many people get hooked on policemen and women and the trials

and tribulations of their everyday lives? well, i think good crime fiction actually reflects the world in which we live, in a better way than any other genre. i started my career writing spy thrillers. not very good ones! i'd just had my first book published and we got burgled. a young detective came to the house to take fingerprints and he was married to a detective and he said to me, if you ever want your research help with the police, give me a call. my then wife and i became really good friends with them, had a barbecue and all of their friends, as is normal, were also cops, everything from response, traffic, neighbourhood policing, child protection, crime scene investigators. as they told me their stories, i started to realise that nobody sees more human life in a 30—year career than a cop. i think part of my love of crime is seeing the real world. what we also get in these roy grace novels, it moves through time,

a glimpse of what is new, the new equipment, the new technique the new way of looking at something. beginning to inhabit that world. yes, the police and the villains are always playing catch up with each other. the villains use the internet for their activities and the police cotton on. every now and again, the police are the innovators and i've used a couple of examples in recent novels. one is a forensic podiatrist called haydn kelly, who discovered that he is a world authority on gait analysis and is used regularly by police forces. somebody‘s gait is as unique as their dna. just by a single footprint... you can't disguise it? can't disguise it, james, he could pick you out walking in a crowd. the other thing i've used in my latest book is very low—tech, after the london riots the police were trying to identify the looters and they were all wearing

hoodies and baseball caps. you and i can probably recognise 23% of faces we've ever seen. the average cop, with all their training, can only do 24%. the world best computers, 25. scotland yard discovered there's a tiny group of people, they've nicknamed them super recognisers, who can pick out somebodyjust by the flair of the nostrils, the flair of their lips, the earlobe, and they've got people who can get 95% accuracy. they've already had 150 convictions from the riots just using these people, who are a mixture of police and civilian volunteers. one of the problems with discussing a novel like this, a thriller, need you dead, is that we can't talk about it in any great detail because we give away what happened and people want to know. but it's another story in which the things are not as they seem and what appears to be rather straightforward and simple and the beginning, a cut and dried case, suddenly becomes a much, much more complicated and all kinds of avenues open up.

as you say, that's life, isn't it? we think something is clear and we know really that it never is. yeah, i love walking down the street and looking at houses and thinking, what's really going on behind those doors? that's also part of the fascination of genre. for me, you read what seems to be a simple story and it gets deeper and deeper. also, i see myjob, as an author of crime thrillers, to keep the readers on their toes and guessing. my third stage play has been on tour and i was doing a q&a onstage, with shane ritchie and laura whitmore a few weeks back and a guy in the audience said, why do you make the endings so damn hard to get? and i said, i think i've done myjob, sir! as long as you don't play tricks. there's a kind of honour among crime writers, it seems to me, that you mustn't pull a fast one,

that makes the reader feel tricked. they may feel confused, they may feel stupid that they didn't spot it, but it's got to be fair, somehow, don't you think? you've always got to play fair, i agree. part of the attraction of the crime genre, people love doing puzzles, most of us love doing a crossword or whatever it is. every major crime, murder or whatever it is, is a huge puzzle and the detectives have to painstakingly piece together, bit by bit. if you're doing yourjob right as a writer, you're feeding a few of those clues out to your readers as well, so you don't want them to get ahead of you but you can't suddenly have, and in one bound, he was free, kind of ending. i was fortunate to spend some time with ed mcbain, evan hunter, his real name,

who was a master of this form, the 87th precinct novels, anyone who knows them in new york. he was one of two writers who got me into crime writing. really? yeah. his style was just fabulous, there was a chandler—esque quality. he used to spend hours, days, weeks with new york cops, looking at how they sat, what they ate, quite apart from the technical stuff, absolutely immersing himself in it and writing his beautifully chiselled novels. how did you get into it, his work? i've been weaned, obviously, on the english traditional crime novel, agatha christie, dorothy l sayers. but with all of those books there was a kind of tradition, you start with a dead body in chapter one and the rest of the book is kind of a puzzle to solve it. first of all, graham greene's brighton rock was the first time i'd read a crime thriller where the victim is still alive at the end of chapter one. and the menace created

in the first paragraph of that. the first line is great, "within three hours of arriving in brighton, hale knew that they meant to murder him." you have to read on. and then somebody said that i might like ed mcbain and i read conman first and then i've read everything he wrote. what i love about that style of storytelling is that he, incredibly gripping, you really feel ed mcbain knows what he's talking about. people who read fiction are smart from the fact they really but people don'tjust want a good story, we want to learn something about life and the human condition. talk about roy grace. when we first meet roy grace in the first novel, dead simple, he is 39, just coming up to his 39th birthday and his wife, sandy, who he loved and adored, has vanished from the face of the earth. he literally comes home and she's gone. and for ten years,

that was when he was 30 and for ten years he's been looking for her, doesn't know if she's been abducted, kidnapped, run off with a lover, and he functions as a very successful homicide detective but all the time he's wondering, is she going to suddenly turn up? and during the roy grace series, which is obviously ongoing, i seed a bit more about what happened and speculations. and i chose that route to go because what really good detectives do is solve puzzles and i thought, rather than having a detective with a drink problem and a broken marriage i thought it would be more interesting, because today a detective with a drink problem wouldn't last 24 hours in the british police. much more interesting to have a detective with a private puzzle he couldn't solve. i always joke about roy grace, but slightly serious, if i was ever an lucky enough to have a member of my family murdered, roy grace is the detective i'd want running the investigation. and the reader knows that and they are with you all the way. peterjames, author of the latest roy grace novel, need you dead, thank you very much. jim, thank you very much.

hello. not much of a thriller about the uk weather seen. saturday, nice enoughin the uk weather seen. saturday, nice enough in some spots. a glorious view. barely one at all in plymouth. we start the new day on sunday. at least not a cold start. the north of england, some degrees on the thermometer. quite a bit of cloud around for the new day on sunday. hopefully as the day gets going, the rain eases a bit. elsewhere, there could be quite a bit of dry weather. a little bit of sunshine, i6— could be quite a bit of dry weather. a little bit of sunshine, 16— i7, possibly 18. the chance for six

pieces of cloud around. —— thick. you get a sense there is dry weather and the later on in the north—west when there is more rain to come. this is bbc news. will i'm alpa patel. the un secretary general antonio guterres is in the caribbean to see the devastation caused by hurricane irma. i'll be talking to him live on this programme. as thousands rally for spanish unity, the prime minister says there will be no compromise or mediation with the catalan government. in russia, arrests as people take to the streets to support opposition leader alexey navalny. and, preparations on the us gulf coast as another hurricane is set to hit in the coming hours. it has already caused damage and

ta ke it has already caused damage and take on life in south central america.