we of... we tried really hard(!) we can't ignore it, a secret plot to thwart abraxas, apparently, a picture of mr george soros? —— thought brexit. apparently it is his plot, he is a billionaire, known quite famously for breaking the bank of england, that is in reference to the fact that he bet against the pound during the 1992 black wednesday currency crisis. he did not literally break it! he has been accused of coming up with plans over accused of coming up with plans over a dinner, a secret document has been lea ked a dinner, a secret document has been leaked that would put the government ina leaked that would put the government in a position where it would have to call a general election will probably hold a second referendum. the goal is not to get a soft brexit, it is to reverse the decision. i don't think it is particularly newsworthy that some people have enough money to be holding a private dinner are discussing the fact that they would like to remain in the european union. even putting a document together is not shocking. i imagine lots of people are doing this. the most newsworthy thing about me is at

the end, sources at the dinner said that the message fell flat and that donors left without giving money. evenif donors left without giving money. even if you are very opposed to brexit, it is hard to see how it is not going to happen at all. that is probably not because people are going to get behind. soft brexit, maybe, but not at all, that is unlikely. the daily telegraph, we know where they stand? absolutely, the byline, the first name is nick timothy, i think the beard the byline, the first name is nick timothy, ithink the beard has the byline, the first name is nick timothy, i think the beard has gone, but he is still very much a man connected into number 10 and was very against this kind of you. i was a remainer, iwould very against this kind of you. i was a remainer, i would like us not to leave the eu, but i am also a democrat. we had a referendum and voted to leave. i think everybody has the right to make arguments about what kind brexit, get people to change their minds. what is about this is the fact that it is the people that really want to stop brexit happening, it is like they learned nothing from the remain

campaign. it did not do well, is lost. it should have spoken to working men and women, particularly outside of london. again, we have a millionaire, a billionaire businessman, lots of other rich, white, powerful men, based in london, trying to reverse something that has happened. that is not the way to get a successful outcome on brexit. these other guys that look like they could have been presidents club. they are not really... we are not casting aspersions, mr soros, you are a very rich man, please do not sue! it shows a ten year to what is going on. make the arguments about why you are worried, don't have a rich, powerful, mail dinner to thwart it. what is funny, planted a document discusses having momentum style rallies and concerts. there is recognition about what is getting people excited and motivated. i

don't think the people at this dinner would necessarily be the people attending those rallies and concerts. there is a recognition of it. i think they love that the jeremy corbyn phenomenon and said, we will have a piece of that. it is not as simple. the thing that motivated these people, they felt that they were the underdogs that would not go to rallies for the 1% that have just come back from davos, you know what i mean? they want a change, and brexit is the change.“ you disagree with brexit, this is not the way to do it. we are all brexiteers now. does brexit mean brexit? the times, the uk's richest cou nty brexit? the times, the uk's richest county hit by £100 million cash crisis, how can that be? well, it looks like many, many areas of the uk are falling short when it comes to council funding. nearly every pa rt

to council funding. nearly every part of england is warning that tax rises, particularly council tax, to make ends meet. nine out of ten councils will be hit by williams of pounds of deficit. the average looks to be 6.9% of the budgets. there are a few reasons that this is happening, of course. the government has cut funding to local areas, and this means they either have to reduce services or make up the funds in some way. it is understanding that there are certain services they don't want to cut, particularly related to children. they are looking at new ways to raise revenue. the problem is that council tax has risen by 60% since 1998. councils are needing to find funding, but families have to find extra cash. i am very nervous about this. i call for a pause before they raise taxes to look where they could be making more efficiency. surrey cou nty be making more efficiency. surrey county council said in a statement this evening that they have agreed a three—year budget, despite severe

pressures . three—year budget, despite severe pressures. we aren't councils across the country, they are keen to stress, a re the country, they are keen to stress, are under pressure due to rising demand for services and falling government funding. we have been managing the growing need for social care, partly by making savings of £540 million since 2010. the key, ayesha, is that this is one of the richest, a tory council, if they have trouble, everybody does? that is what i was shocked by. the average gap was 14.7 million, and you wonder why. it gets you to a broader point. local authorities and councils have been under severe pressure for a very, very long time, since the financial crash, since 2010. they have really had budgets cut and cut. actually, the first councils that bore the brunt of it we re lots of councils that bore the brunt of it were lots of northern councils, lots of labour run councils. some of the cuts were political in terms of how it was meted out. all councils are facing it. you cannot underestimate

the knock—on affect people's lives that these things have. you mentioned services being cut, cuts to the roads. sure start centres closing. that has a huge impact on childcare. adult social care has a huge impact on the nhs. we have seen older people not being able to get out of hospital, bed blocking, backing up a&e. and adult social care, the cuts to councils. youth centres, it has a huge knock—on effect crime. i would argue that you need to rethink taxes. there has to bea need to rethink taxes. there has to be a better way to redistribute money, whether it is locally or nationally. if you are a family, you don't care whether the money or the tax, where it is coming from, it affects you directly. staying with the times, sit more exams to beat stress ? the times, sit more exams to beat stress? yes, the claim here is that children should be setting more exams, not fewer, so that they find them less stressful. nick gibb is actually talking about internet or

social media pressures rather than assessments, on the other side you have a labour mp saying that exams bring women in particular to breaking point. she mentions a high achieving girls school. you know, i think we have to look at this from more of a social perspective. children are facing all kinds of pressure that ayesha and i would not have grown up with. particularly online. the point about internet and social media is very important. is there one way of teaching kids how to ta ke there one way of teaching kids how to take exams or schooling that will fit all? of course not, some stu d e nts fit all? of course not, some students will do a lot better if they are sitting more exams, some will need to wait until the day and thatis will need to wait until the day and that is how they will perform. i wish we could speak more about the individual and notjust wish we could speak more about the individual and not just what wish we could speak more about the individual and notjust what kids in need. is there logic to doing more exams? no! if you run more marathons, you will get better. kids are not marathon running machines. we put so much pressure on them and

we should let kids be kids, let their minds expand and let them learn things. one thing that would really help children is more creativity, the curriculum on creative subjects that have been cut, more sport provisions. i think you have better, healthier, more intelligent and better rounded children if they have healthy brains, intellectualism, creativity, healthiness through sport. all of this isjust healthiness through sport. all of this is just completely wrong.“ healthiness through sport. all of this isjust completely wrong. it is interconnected. there is not a one size fits all. kids need options. the front page of the financial times, we will quickly took at this. angela merkel looks like she has her grand coalition. the ft is reporting that. she has given ground in order to get the coalition and stay in the chancellery. we are going to go to the express. ayesha, gift from heaven, £700,000 request. this is a lovely story? we had a negative

story about local councils and this isa story about local councils and this is a positive one. if village was trying to raise funds for a community hall for 60 years. yesterday they found out a resident left them £700,000 in his will so that they could do the job. what a lovely story. absolutely amazing. his wife deserves credit as well. they have identical wills, who ever passed away first sent the money to the other and then they were jointly planning to give. it shows that local things are really important, having community spaces, they are going to build a fantastic amenity space for birthday parties, communal activities. people need these things in their communities. absolutely. finally, the bold truth. gust of wind revealing donald trump's bald truth. you don't think this is the biggest story? why are we doing this

last? we should have done it first. sending people off to bed with a smile on their face. you know they say hairdo? this is a hair don't! there were pictures of him with his mother and he has identical hair. you need serious hairspray to keep that in place. it looked like a very windy day. i am sure this happens to supermodels all the time as well... it does not, you're not going to see them... wind going through your hair isa them... wind going through your hair is a good look. he is not going to be on the armani commercial, no matter what his doctor says. this is why he is so upset as a human being. he would be happier if he sorted his hair out. why doesn't he just face up hair out. why doesn't he just face up to it, like me? if you are bald, you are bald! sorted out, i know you

are watching online. don't tweet at us! that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you — seven days a week at bbc.co.uk and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. that is what donald is going to do! thank you kate andrews and ayesha hazarika. goodbye. hello there. a frosty night for those of you who finished the day with some sunshine today, but for many parts of the uk, skies were a good deal more like this weather watcher‘s shot, captured in north berwick through the afternoon. greyer conditions. that will stop the temperatures from dropping too much and will help to introduce something a little less chilly for tomorrow. if i show you the chart, where you see the yellows, the slightly less cold air, a finger of it nosing towards us at the moment, and it's all linked in around

the area of cloud. it's been pushing its way southwards and eastwards through the day. there's still some breaks to be found across central and eastern england in particular, and it's here where skies will be largely clear through the night. there will be some high cloud blotting out the stars, but it is here where the temperatures will drop the furthest. away from that, cloud in scotland, northern ireland, produces some outbreaks of rain, sleet and hill snow, works into northern england, north and west wales later in the night. but on our temperature chart you will notice there are not as many blues, so temperatures staying above freezing for many here, central and eastern areas of england, this is where we will drop below. maybe as low as minus six in parts of east anglia into the morning. it will take a while to warm up here, because any early morning sunshine will give way to cloud, stopping that rise in temperature. our main weather front to start the day will be somewhere across northern england towards wales and the south—west. so here, during the first part of the day, during the morning rush hour there will be some occasional rain at times, where the skies will be greyest. not wet everywhere, some of you will stay dry throughout. there could be a few breaks in the cloud to the east of the welsh mountains and through some parts

of north—east england too. these are the areas most likely to see some rain at first. these are the areas where that rain band will sit all day long, perhaps turning heavier towards parts of wales and the far south—west. north of it, a few wintry showers in north—west scotland. a good deal of dry weather scotland, northern ireland, cloud breaking at times to allow some sunshine, clouding over after a sunny and frosty start in the far south—east. temperatures struggling, but elsewhere higher than recent days. maybe up to round 10 degrees south—west wales, south—west england, where in the evening some heavier rain fronts reinvigorates and pushes its way eastwards into thursday night, and by friday morning it will be across east anglia and the south—east for the early commuters. wet and windy early on, then brightening up. sunshine and showers through the morning across many areas, mixture of rain, hail, sleet and snow just about anywhere, but as a ridge of high pressure builds in later, more in the way of sunshine, fewer in the way of showers, but the showers will be primarily of snow as the temperatures drop in scotland and northern ireland, and there will be a coating of snow in places too. as for the weekend, some windy weather on the way, particularly on saturday night. saturday, the wetter and milder of the two days, sunday the brighter but the colder.

this is bbc news. i'm clive myrie. the headlines at 11. victims of the serial sex attackerjohn worboys, have been given permission to challenge the parole board's decision to free him. theresa may reaffirms her post—brexit vision —as government forecasts predict a negative impact on the economy across the uk. jon venables, one of the killers of two—year—old james bulger, has admitted possessing indecent images of children for a second time. the un says 400,000 people under air bombardment in syria are suffering a humanitarian emergency — we have a special report. and newsnight, the cabinet committee

is arguing about brexit. we will have an in—house gathering to thrash out those arguments.