police in leeds have been called to one of yorkshire's busiest shopping streets after an attempted ram raid took place. as you can see, men in two cars drove onto a pedestrianised street in the centre of leeds and attempted to rob a high end watch shop. the men in balaclavas didn't succeed in gaining entry and escaped before the police arrived. hopefully, those pictures can help them to quickly identify the people involved. time now to take a look at the weather forecast. the weather for the next 2a hours or so. the weather for the next 2a hours or so. plenty of this around, will lead and skies, bits and pieces of rain in the forecast as well. it is how things shape up to the evening and through the night. a warm weather front thickening the cloud across western areas. already rain into northern ireland pushing towards the west of scotland. the western half of the british isles until late in the night when it moves further east. but with all the cloud around,

and the breeze coming in from the south—east, not a cold night or a cold start to tomorrow. the warm weather front that pushing its way across. the cold weather front that clears away a lot of the cold weather out in the atlantic, so we're weather out in the atlantic, so we‘ re pretty weather out in the atlantic, so we're pretty much start with what we —— stuck with what we start with. any good news? yes, some brightness around the irish sea coast, and here 11 or 12 is possible. time tojoin inside out time to join inside out for potholes. hello. i'm at the east anglian railway museum near colchester. it's kind of the perfect place for the programme really, because our second film is about british rail. but first, there's something nasty on our roads which can cause serious problems. vehicles are being damaged, and in some cases people are being seriously hurt. the cause of all this misery? the humble pothole. here's martin friend. potholes are the bugbear

of every road user. it seems there are more now than ever. they are the cause of a big spike in breakdowns this time of year. it seems everyone who uses the roads has a story to tell. butjust how bad is it? i've come to northampton, i'll meet someone who has made it his mission to rid our roads of potholes. you can't make it out now, but at this very spot five years ago there was a massive pothole in the road. tell me what happened here. it was a dangerous pothole on that bend. people were trying to avoid it, because obviously they did not want to damage their vehicles, but we have heavy goods vehicles coming along here. i reported it to the council and nothing happened. i reported it to the police and it was repaired within two hours. i needed to make sure i could do everything i could to make

sure no one was injured. that's what started your passion to rid the roads of potholes? i thought someone has to stand up. we spend an awful lot of money on our taxes and get a decreasing quality of roads, someone needed to make a stand so i started with a small social media campaign. mark has become a bit of an expert in road construction. he has been nicknamed mr pothole. mark reckons there are so many potholes close to where he lives, it's almost an epidemic. inside out has come up with a challenge. we will find out how many potholes there are within a is—minute drive from his house. i will be timing him. off we go, mark. this is a lovely one you will go over. you really feel that. as we come round this bend, you see there are more. there is a massive cluster,

you can feel them, day in, day out. i can really feel it in my seat. it's quite uncomfortable. this feels more like off—road rallying. i'm going to avoid these ones because i don't want to damage my tyres. you can have a blow out later when you don't notice the damage, that can be really dangerous on a motorway. this one is more like a paddling pool. getting on for a swimming pool. that is at least three and a half, four inches deep. is that one of the deepest you have seen? no. i have seen over a foot deep. you've got a nice one forming there, just over there. over there an extremely rough patch breaking up quite considerably. everywhere you look there are potholes? there are some craters you could hit your car on the sump with if you went down.

we will find out later how mark got on with his challenge. of course, car and lorry drivers aren't the only users of our roads. potholes might be a nuisance for motorists, but for cyclists, they are a much scarier and more dangerous. and more dangerous hazard. these members of a local cycling club say they are always trying to dodge and avoid potholes. they claim the roads in northamptonshire are some of the worst. it can be quite scary, because there are so many potholes that we spend so much time looking out for them that it does spoil the enjoyment of the cycle ride itself. have you yourself had any accidents? i have been fetched off by a pothole on a roundabout in northampton, i was making a turn, my narrow front wheel got caught in the pothole, fetched me off. lots of traffic about.

fortunately a man working on the road stopped the traffic so i could get up and get away. as a cyclist you must see potholes in the road all the time. do you report them to the council? we do. they do not always get fixed. i feel aggrieved about that because having bothered to report it and give a location, we would expect some follow—up action. this is hawthorn road in northampton, and a pothole repair team are busy at work. the plan is to do longer lasting repairs across the county, but only the worst potholes get filled. in northamptonshire we are not able to fix every pothole that is reported to us or picked up on our inspections. what constitutes a pothole is a hole that is 15 millimetres deep and about a foot wide, and is really a risk to the public. if it is slightly less

than that it won't get filled. it would not meet the criteria at the moment. we constantly monitor the network of roads and paths to look at these potholes and we will fix them if they are a safety defect. something smaller could be a hazard on the road even though it does not meet your criteria for size? we are unable to fill those at the moment. again it's about using our budget to the best of our ability, and using the resources available to us. as is so often the case, it boils down to money. there is just not enough to fix all the potholes. so who is responsible? the funding of roads is split between central and local government. basically the government pays for all motorways and a roads. and the rest, that's about 98% of the roads we use, are the responsibility of local authorities. why do we see so many potholes on our roads? the simple answer is weather.

we have had one of the harshest winters we have had for a long time, prolonged cold patches, rain, snow, wind, you name it. do you have any idea exactly how many potholes there are in northamptonshire? in terms of how many there are an existence, i know how many we fll, roughly speaking. many we fill, roughly speaking. 47,000, thereabouts in an average year. the government told us it will have given northamptonshire county council more than £97 million for highway maintenance between 2015 and 2021. plus a bit extra from a special pothole fund, but the council say that is still not enough. what have the government told you when you say we need more money? they appreciate that but as with all these things they say there is only so much money. we have had 1.1 million

from the pothole fund this year, possibly a similar amount last year but a drop in the ocean compared to what we need. the council is now tackling the biggest cash crisis faced by any council in the country for the last two decades. potholes won't be a priority. we are trying to maintain them at their current level, we are doing a rather good job of that. they won't deteriorate but they won't necessarily improve. we asked mark to record the number of potholes on a is—minute drive from his home. are you disappointed by what you found? yes, we need government to invest in our roads. it's all right putting in new infrastructure but we need to maintain the roads we use day in day out that drive this economy. mark has finished his is—minute challenge, how did you get on,

how many potholes did you find? over 75. 75? wow. i thought you would say 20 or 30. that's an incredible amount. were you surprised? not really. i can see how roads are deteriorating. it's notjust here, it's across the whole country. there are potholes everywhere. not only on motorways and local roads. everywhere you can see. some had been left for such a long time, someone will get killed. they have some fantastic old trains here at the east anglia railway museum. 2018 is the 70th anniversary of the creation of british rail. last week the government said it may have to take back the east coast service. so is it time to turn the clock back and renationalise the network? 0ur railways were originally private companies. then 70 years ago there were nationalised and became british railways. in 1994, john major's government privatised them again. i'm looking back at the history

of rail to see what lessons we can learn from the east coast line today. this station closed to passengers in 1968, now the mid norfolk railway is a tourist attraction and proof that railways are still very popular. i am going to discover how our railways have been affected by nationalisation, and in turn privatisation. once there were 120 private lines, by the 19405 these had become four big companies which were nationalised. why were the railways nationalised in the first place? after the second world war, railways are hugely worn out. we don't have any money. there are big four railway companies, great western, southern, lms and lner, two of them are particularly struggling, they will go bankrupt.

one reason for nationalisation is to stop that happening. in 1994 it was all change again, and the government privatised british rail. but one line has struggled to make money for its owners, and with price hikes and delays, have been the cause of misery for commuters. this line, the east coast mainline which runs through peterborough has been in a state of change for years. it's been run by several private companies and has been nationalised twice so far. are our railways still in a state of flux, and can they get back on track? cat hobbs runs a campaign calling for the renationalisation of the railways. the idea of having a market is that you have swashbuckling entrepreneurs who are taking risks. but we take all the risk and they take all the profit. that does not really work if the private sector just takes all the profit and the public sector takes the risk.

last week the transport secretary announced that the east coast franchise currently run by virgin and stagecoach has failed, and will end early. this is what you expect in a competitive franchise system, private businesses risk substantial amounts of their own capital and if they fail to live up to their targets they lose out, not the taxpayer. this has happened before. in 2009, national express walked away from the same franchise. a government—owned company stepped in, run by michael holden. we spend a lot of time investing in people and in systems, but also on the trains and stations themselves. if you can make the east coast mainline work, why couldn't the private sector? they were struggling for cash because there weren't generating enough revenue from the business to pay the premium due to the government. they did not have the money to do what is needed. it's the same story again this month. would the line be better run if it was nationalised? you can run railways

successfully in either the public or private sector, you pay your money and take your choice. governments generally speaking are not good at running things. my view is that the government ought to set the sense of direction and vision, if you like, for the industry, then leave it to professional people to get on and deliver that vision over a period of 20 years or so. 20 years gives time for long—term investment and planning. the east coast has had four operators, including the government operator in the last 20 years since privatisation. before that, it ran for almost 50 years under british rail. once upon a time, british rail was the jewel in the crown of our national transport system. though there are some who don't remember it like that. charles swift spent his working life on the railways, based in peterborough. he started at lner when he was 15 years old in 1945, three years

before nationalisation. when it went from lner and it was run privately, into nationalisation, did it feel differently straightaway? no, it had to work its way. for several years after, when we were first nationalised, we still had the same, then we started getting a different type of management in. people that started to tell you what you should be doing when they did not even know what the hell they were doing themselves. are you with me? people then eventually wanted to get off the job. to be quite honest, i was quite happy to get away at the end of the day because there were not supervisors that had been railway drivers and things like that. you had someone coming from outside to do the job. people did get a bit peed—off with the red tape and things like that. there is still a romantic view of the glory days of railways,

i love trains, of any kind. mostly steam trains, grandad was a driver. i used to go down to the loco shed, years ago. there was a job going at the lner savings bank, so i applied for it and got it. did you notice a real difference in the way things had run pre—nationalisation and post—nationalisation once everything became british rail? it didn't seem the same. there wasn't the family atmosphere with it. even with a nostalgic perspective, would anyone want to turn the clock back to the times when british rail was known forjokes about its sandwiches? no.

we can't go back to the 19705, and i don't think we would want to. i think we need to learn the lessons from the past and make something fit for the modern time. british rail was underinvested in. where does the money come from? we don't have to buy back the tracks, we already have network rail. the rolling stock would be pretty expensive? that is leased, the trains are owned by private companies, the government can buy trains directly and that will be much more efficient. right now railways are a blame game, everyone can blame everyone else. network rail, the dft, the train companies, the rolling stock companies, actually if you run the system as one integrated system, you would not have those problems. if push came to shove and we decided to buy back the franchises, do you think it's something we could afford or should afford? i think it would be a very bad idea, and if the treasury was involved in the decision—making

after the next election, i think they would say, do you want to spend this much money buying the trains back or would you prefer to spend it on improving the nhs, and i think it's obvious what the answer to that would be. charles's long history as a train driver has given him at strong views about re—nationalising the railways. they talk about putting the railways back under the government or nationalising them again, it's the biggest load of codswallop i've ever come across because it would not work. of co loved op i've ever come they loved the job. are there any lessons from history that the troubled east coast line can learn from today? we really do need to learn or decide if our railways are a service or there to make a profit. when it was british railways, people complained about

the money being spent on it. now it's privatised, people complain about the amount of money they have to spend on a train ticket. people really need to make a proper decision about what we want from our railway system. it is now thought that 1% of the british population is gender nonconforming. more people every year are seeking treatment to change their gender. sophie has been to meet the parents who support their children who are desperate to change. what colour are we going to do next? do you want to go a bit darker next time? yeah. for cheerleading, can i have my hair in a ponytail then curled at the back? if you want to, darling. emma lives in bedfordshire with her three children. her eldest daughter is keira, who used to be a boy. keira was more, i want to dress up as a girl. she was dabbling with make up.

wanting to grow her hair. looking back, it's because she was so uncomfortable in herself as a boy. she didn't want to go and face people and do anything. when she transitioned and became keira, something clicked overnight in her and she is more confident. she knows what she wants and she is sticking to her guns. and she is still only 13. is this your room? wow. wonderful. a year ago, keira ditched the boy's clothes and went shopping

for a whole new wardrobe. i said, you can choose what you like. she said, whatever i like? i said yeah, if you want girls' clothes, go and choose them and her whole face lit up. where is the sparklyjacket? this. that's her favourite. that is really, really nice. do they do this in a size 12?! i want one. from that day on, she wanted to be known to the world as keira. although keira looks like a girl, she won't be able to have surgery to change her physical form until she's an adult. until then, she will be offered medication to delay puberty. this will give her time to decide what she wants to do. do you ever worry about her future? of course, absolutely i do. we have things coming up like hormone blockers. puberty kicking in,

what effect that will have on her mental health overall. that's what really concerns me. a lot of transgender children do try to commit suicide and self harm. that's due to lack of support from family or for how they feel about their bodies. although there are organisations that can help parents deal with the challenges of bringing up a transgender child, emma has decided to find some local support. mienna lives 30 minutes away in hertfordshire. her son dexter is now seven. i think it was around two and a half, that he started to protest about wearing knickers and wearing girl's clothes. the terminology he would use was, ifeel a boy. he would say that.

ifeel a boy and point to his heart. by five and a half, dexter had realised he was not meant to be a little girl. i'm not a girl. i'm a boy. he came running in from the garden one day and said, "i've got it, mummy," and i said, "got what?" "i am dexter, mummy." "i am dexter. " i said, "awesome, love that name." he ran back out into the garden and carried on playing. emma and keira have arrived in st albans. many parents feel quite alone when raising a transgender child. today, keira's mum and dexter's mum are meeting up to offer each other support. i really feel like i have grieved, i grieved for talia, and not because i'm unhappy with who i'm left with, i love dexter to bits.

it is like a loss of somebody. what do you think, mienna, is the hardest thing for parents like us with transgender children? what's the hardest thing to cope with? the hardest thing is not being able to fix him, not being able to take his pain away and his anxiety away and not being able to, you know, when he's awake in the night and he says, mum, why did you make me wrong? why don't my privates match my brain and my heart? i can't make that better and as a parent, that is all you want to do. to fix everything for your kids. my biggest fear is her being bullied or discriminated against. or for her mental health being affected, because at the minute it's not. i don't care what anyone thinks, ijust don't want anyone being mean to her. there is one place in the country within the nhs which deals with a child facing gender difficulties.

based in london, the tavistock sees 2000 children a year, and last year they took around 300 children from the east. it's a figure that's rising all the time. today is mienna and dexter's fourth visit and even though he's only seven, mienna's is worried about puberty kicking in. she does not want to let him down. for us, the thing we needed confirmation on from tavistock was, am i doing the right thing by being so accepting of him? sometimes you need the confirmation and reassurance from a professional. with dexter getting older, it's a race against time to get him the hormones he needs to block his female puberty. and mienna wants to know if this practice will be safe. it's fair to say that the evidence base in this area is poor. but as far as we know, this is a fully reversible treatment. as far as we know, the long—term implications in terms of health seem to be positive.

as i say, we don't have full evidence. we have to be realistic. at the moment, there is enormous interest in gender. we always have and we continue to work carefully to ensure young people and their families are fully aware of what they are undertaking, and that there is time to consider that. it's about not shutting doors and not making assumptions about how things will be in the future. the nhs advises time and space for a child who is questioning their gender. while mums like emma and mienna continue to learn what it means to be transgender, children like keira and dexter can work out their true identity. hello, thanks forjoining me.

time we updated you on the weather prospects for the whole of the british isles for the next 24—36 hours or so. plenty of this sort of thing around. plenty of leaden skies. there'll be bits of rain in the forecast as well. this is how we shape f things through the evening and through the night, thickening cloud in western areas, already rain in northern ireland pushing into western scotland, the western half of the british isles until later in the night when it starts to get across to eastern scotland, eastern side of the pennines but with that cloud around and breeze from the south—west, not a cold night, nor indeed a cold start to the new day on monday. here is how we shape up, we have the warm weather front pushing across the british isles, the cold weather front that will clear away a lot of the low cloud, way out in the atlantic so we are pretty much stuck with what we start with, perhaps the rain pepping up across eastern parts as we get into the

afternoon. any good news? yes, some brightness around the irish sea coast, and here 11 or 12 is possible. this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines at five: brendan cox, the husband of the murdered mp, jo cox, resigns from two organisations set up in her memory, after claims of sexual misconduct in the past. her friends say it's the right thing for him to do. i'm not defending his actions, i am trying to think about this person who i know, and my friend who isn't here, and make sure that there is a change in the future. the education secretary says university students should pay different amounts, to study different courses ahead of a review of higher education funding in england. also in the next hour, final preparations are under way ahead of the 2018 bafta film awards. i'm jane hill live at the awards at the royal albert hall ahead