archive: the new national health service starts providing hospital and specialist services. nurses were a crucial part of the nhs from its inception, but their role was often undervalued and recognition came slowly. archive: and this job needs doing just as much as this. anyone that's interacted with a nurse will know that it's not a stereotype, we're not in the carry on films, this is real—life. and actually, most of the time, whatever healthcare you're receiving, you will spend your time with a nurse. i don't think in 1948 we even took blood pressures. you know, now we're giving chemotherapy, we're giving life—saving drugs, we're monitoring conditions and actually we are the glue. that's why 86% of the population trust nurses. these are two of the faces of modern nursing, as it filters through the generations. ghislaine stephenson has enjoyed a 35—year career working in hospitals across london, while her daughter grace is at the beginning of hers.

i think 30 years ago, the nurses were handmaidens to the doctors, following their instructions. whereas nowadays, we're breeding nurses now that are making those decisions for patients and that, to me, is the absolute, the difference, the nurses making those decisions. a well—respected member of the multi—disciplinary team. and nurses are under so much pressure these days in hospitals, staffing levels, pay, that hasn't put you off at all? definitely not. there's always going to be sick children and families that need our help and no otherjob has job satisfaction like that. if there was one small bit of advice that you'd give to grace about her starting her career, that may stay with her the whole way through, what would it be, do you think? never stop caring. adina campbell, bbc news. by by the way tomorrow, we will bring you the latest figures that we have on the problems of recruiting and retaining nurses in the nhs.

now on bbc one it's time for the news where you are. welcome to bbc london news. i'm chris rogers. there could be dire consequences for the capital following the collapse of construction giant carillion — one union is warning the full impact is not yet known. bbc london has learnt that a multi—million pound development at one of our busiest hospitals has been hit as a result. and we've also discovered that the met police has contracts with the company. here's our political correspondent, karl mercer. st helier is in need of repair. these parts of the sutton hospital are well past their sell by date. which is why bosses here decided they needed to shell out £12 million on repairs. good evening and welcome to sportsday. coming up tonight, alexis sanchez looks like he's off, but he's not the only big name to leave arsenal. we have all the latest transfer news.

johanna konta gets into the second round at the australian open but cut a rather frustrated figure after her win melbourne. and the war of words between anthonyjoshua and joseph parker begins. there were five fa cup replays tonight. var technology was used to collect a rule a iheanacho goal should stand. in the season when jamie vardy produced 31 goals, he was duly snapped up by leicester. on the bench for the replay. leicester have not scored since a 3—0 win over huddersfield. fleetwood were having the best of the first half chances,

one came close if you've minutes later. the difference is stretched, iheanacho kissing later. the difference is stretched, ihea nacho kissing leicester later. the difference is stretched, iheanacho kissing leicester head. but this will be his striker. who scored the first goal in english football awarded by var? the answer, iheanacho. 2—0 to leicester. the other big talking point of the night, and those replays, west ham who were taken to extra time by shrews be at the london stadium. wiesberger the winning goal as the hammers snuck through to the next round. it's emerged that arsene wenger labelled the premier league

referee mike dean a disgrace and not honest, as details were released about the manager's touchline ban. the referee awarded a late penalty against his team. dean is quoted as saying he was very aggressive, leaning towards me... chelsea head coach antonio conte has this afternoon said he does not think the club have joined the race to sign arsenal striker alexis sanchez, one player who does look to be on the move is sanchez‘s team—mate, theo walcott who was on merseyside today ahead of what is a proposed £20 million move tojoin sam allardyce‘s side. with the world

football still coming to terms with the death yesterday of former west brom striker cyrille regis, one of his fellow black players at the club, brendan batson, has been paying tribute his friend and team—mate helps change attitudes towards black players in the english game. awful. i think where everybody concerned just feels really non—, shocked. saddened. can't believe it. —— just feels really non—, shocked. he inspired a lot of people, black and white you want to become professional footballers. we realise 110w professional footballers. we realise now how loved he was. we always knew he was not fired and we realised how much she was loved by so many. johanna konta reached the second round of the australian open after a straight sets victory after a

difficult end to 2017. a strong start in melbourne suggests she may have just we found some of the form that occur in the semifinals two yea rs that occur in the semifinals two years ago. memories of the australian open sit well withjohanna konta having made the quarterfinals and semifinals in successive years. her coach says that she could win it this time but he also said so could 20 others. she dominated from the outset, madison brengle struggled to deal with her stellar server and clever placement. her path to the second round would have been even smoother had it not been for flurry of unforced errors. her new coach did not look very impressed but that mood would not have lasted long, johanna konta won the second set in just over half an hour. it could've been a lot less had she managed to nail match point. but finally at the fourth time of asking she sealed her place in the

second round and will face the american. bernardo pana. i was trusting in my shots regardless of where she was, looking to move forward. i knew that was how i would give myself the best chance of creating opportunities. she gets a lot of balls back and is used on some of those points, i think that's definitely in her comfort zone. i wanted to make sure i was playing most of the match in my comfort zone. heather watson couldn't join konta in the second round. she lost in straight sets to yulia putintseva. it was close but she could not hold on, losing in the end on a tie—break. sharapova is through, this herfirst

match at melbourne since failing a drug test. six time champion novak djokovic came through in his first match since wimbledon, eating donald young having missed the second half of 2017 with an elbow injury. —— beating donald young. the defending champion roger federer beat brit ali ashburton eight, federer having won the last two slams of the season, the last two slams of the season, the 36—year—old said he did not think he would be able to match defeat this season, as he has another year older but of course with the way he's playing, he just seems to get better with age. would not bet against him. now, simone biles says she was sexually abused by the former team usa gymnastics doctor larry nassar. she made the revelations in an emotional statement on social media. nassar was involved in the usa

gymnastics until he was sacked. she was the outstanding athlete from the rio olympics, the most successfulfemale gymnast ever in the sport. and she always looks so invincible and confident. so bubbly, so to think that she's been subjected to this and suffered so much is almost unthinkable for people i think. ronnie 0'sullivan rattled through his first round match against marco fu, who only potted eight balls. 0'sullivan‘s won this tournament a record seven times... and he made three century breaks in the first four frames in a match that only lasted just over an hour and a half at alexandra palace. world heavyweight champion anthonyjoshua and fellow world championjoseph parker have come face to face in cardiff ahead of their unification clash at the end of march. the fight will unify joshua's wba and ibf belts with the kiwi's wbo title, and he wants to do it in style.

i need to win, i can't afford to lose. i want to do it in a clinical way, that's important. if we have to go to war, and train my body, sweat, energy, i will do that to get the win, no problem. but i'd like to do it the clinical way, not easy way, but rational way. wales have named two uncapped players in their squad for the six nations — worcester wing josh adams and scarlets flankerjames davies are both in. number eight taulupe faletau has been included despite being ruled out of the first two matches with a knee injury. warren gatland has also picked george north for his 39 man squad, even though he, too, has a knee injury. and former captain greig laidlaw returns to a ito—man scotland squad. he hasn't played a test for almost a year and is just returning from a broken leg. john barclay will still be skipper. there are four uncapped players included — props murray mccallum and d'arcy rae, full—back blair kinghorn and scrum—half nathan fowles.

that is all for now, coming up in a moment, the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the former pensions minister baroness ros altmann and the writer and broadcaster mihir bose. good to see you both. let us start... the ft reports that carillion was cash—strapped at the end. it held just 29 million pounds left before it collapsed.

"taking the piste" is the headline in the metro. it says whilst workers face redundancy the former chief executive of the company is living it up in a luxury ski home. the daily telegraph says poppi worthington‘s mother may finally see justice after the coroner in the case urged prosecutors to to carry out a fresh investigation into the toddler's death. the express is angered by the french president's call for the uk to take in more migrants from calais and pay more for border security. while the i has a different take on the thorny issue of migration, reporting that the nhs is losing doctors, because red tape is stopping qualified migrants getting in... a senior scotland yard detective is urging that five year old's should be taught the dangers of knife crime, that's the lead in the guardian. and finally, the daily mail says the prime minister is to appoint what it describes as a minister for the lonely. there's no one big story dominating the headlines for our guests to sink their teeth into. it's really a mixed bag

of front page news... but the shock of the collapse of carillion is still reverberating and that's where we start on the front page of the financial times... cash strapped karelian held just £29 million in its final days, they had £16 billion worth of orders on the books? and the way the accounting seems to have been managed, cash was just not coming in fast enough. they were trying to move things around in different bits of the company. it had a very complex structure but at the end of the day the company seems to have been so broke to the firm ‘s auditors were approached to administer it decided they did not wa nt to administer it decided they did not want to get involved because they thought they would not be enough money to pay them. this company seems to have managed to have fool a

lot of people. they had seen on i page 150 or something that actually a lot of the bills were not being paid, they had booked the orders and delivered some goods but it was not being paid. sometimes because customers said it had not been delivered properly, or itjust wasn't being managed right. it's a good example, the classic story that if you borrowed so much money from the bank the banks can't let you fail. too big to fail, donald trump knows that. but career leon when to 25 million from five bankers, like a foot ball 25 million from five bankers, like a football squad, three of the bankers said no, to said we would. in a way that people who we say mismanage the company that people who we say mismanage the com pa ny clearly that people who we say mismanage the company clearly did because they said we can go on, the banks will not allow us to fail. this whole business of public and