who have all these pans shopkeepers who have all these pans and have to get them through very quickly. i would and have to get them through very quickly. iwould imagine and have to get them through very quickly. i would imagine there will be some compromise from the treasury and the royal mint to make the extent that transition period. much like brexit, they will be a cut—off date. everything comes back to brexit. the daily mail, gender nuclear —— gender neutral census, we may not have to declare whether we are male orfemale. may not have to declare whether we are male or female. this is the awareness considering whether in the next survey you will have the option of saying whether you are male or female, much might —— much like your religion. the ons say this is not definitely going to happen, they are simply consulting it. it is so those who are non—binary they don't have to say if they are female or is not

—— mail. if you take the gender pay gap, if you don't know how many women there are in the uk, how can you figure out where the resources are to ensure you can you figure out where the resources are to ensure you can compare you figure out where the resources are to ensure you can compare the pay of males and females? sometimes you need to know those hard figures? absolutely. the notion that there may not be clear statistics any more as tory mps up in arms, one in particular, philip davies, who says, the world is going mad. this kind of cuts to the idea of the culture we have, this pc increasing. the ons cuts to the idea of the culture we have, this pc increasing. the cns is keen to say this is not an official recommendation, it is just keen to say this is not an official recommendation, it isjust about thinking about it more sensitively. thinking about those who don't identify themselves in a particular gender. those would probably still

fill in the form anyway. it is worth considering. i think many forms often have males and females, prefer not to say. if they do have this, more people will take which sex they are. could is the key thing. that is it for this error. it is sunday. we will be back for another look at the front pages later. meet the author is next. 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 0&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 2a 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. the benign conditions of the weekend looks set to continue into the first part of the new week. at times, decent sunny spells. there is no escaping the fact there has been a lot of cloud across the british isles. that kept the temperatures up overnight. not too much of a shock to the system on monday. temperatures in many towns and cities in double figures. it is not

going to be the most sparkling u psta rts. going to be the most sparkling upstarts. a lot of cloud in scotland with bits and pieces of rain. for northern ireland, something drier perhaps. still the odd spot of rain possible. across the greater part of england and wales a lot of dry weather, maybe some brightness. that will probably be the case in the western quarter. the total sidlow on the moors in the south—west. there could be some drizzly outburst of rain. i'm hoping that as the day gets going some of that cloud and rain will dissipate and which will brighten up in parts of the west midlands, wales, parts of scotland as well as the weather fronts pull away to the north sea. northern ireland starts not too badly but the cloud thickens later. in the early pa rt cloud thickens later. in the early part of the evening you get to see some rain. that is the moment at which in wales you should have a decent evening as wales take on the republic of ireland in a crucial

world cup qualifier. a wet night in store on monday and tuesday in the northern half of the british isles. as the weather system moves south on tuesday, nothing more than a band of cloud with the odd showery burst of rain. behind it, this goes —— skies brightened. there is no escaping the fa ct brightened. there is no escaping the fact there is more cloud and rain to finish the day for a western scotla nd finish the day for a western scotland and northern ireland. these weather fronts accompanied by strong winds. they will bring heavy rain to the west of scotland. the cumbrian fells, the pennines, and eventually the welsh mountains. not too much rain in the south and east of east anglia. brighter skies following behind. a decent thursday. friday and into the first part of the weekend we could see a return of some warmth after that wet and windy weather. this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 11pm: in barcelona, hundreds of thousands demonstrate forunity in spain following catalonia's

banned independence referendum. we want to stay together, we don't want to break the country. i am catalan and i am spanish and i'm here because i'm proud, but i don't want catalonia to go out of spain. theresa may says she's determined to carry on as prime minister as one of her predecessors calls for an end to tory infighting. as the snp conference gets under way, nicola sturgeon says she won't think about a timescale on a second independence referendum until the brexit deal becomes clearer. doesn't mean i will stop making the case for scotland being independent,