: w596 1596 to i15%to cap-ex. to around 15% of 15% to cap—ex. to spend on the network, upgrades in future proofing. capital expenditure. is that enough? it could be. over the next two years, maybe. as an absolute figure, 100% not. this will evolve over the next 10-15 not. this will evolve over the next 10—15 years. 56 is something we have been talking about a long time but it will not be a reality for between let's say ten years. ag will coexist with 56 let's say ten years. ag will coexist with 5g networks until the mid 20205. it is a good starting point but it is plain catch up. you have telecoms on the continent who have been investing a long time, such as spain which has fibre roll—out to 33% of households. a big difference. monumental. this is part of the

reason why the government has put pressure on bt to upgrade the networks and make sure the uk as an economy is ready to tackle the digital era. many thanks. the metropolitan police has launched a dedicated unit to tackle stalking. the number of cases being reported in the capital has recently doubled with many more victims believed to not be coming forward. a new approach may see offenders wearing electronic tags with victims being alerted if they are nearby. frankie mccamley has this report now a master at self defence, della was stalked over a period of over three years. i felt in fear of my life, 100%. ididn't think... i didn't think it was just some guy with a little obsession, i felt internally, and my intuition was kicking off, that i was in real danger. she was just a teenager at the time and didn't realise what was happening. it was a case of things like relentless calling, messaging, turning up at places uninvited

and stuff like that. a lot of threats of what could potentially happen to me if i didn't do this, didn't do that. it was quite ongoing for quite some time. she said she asked for help but was told she could not get it until her situation escalated. they said they cannot arrest him unless he does something physical to me. it made me feel helpless. a situation many victims have found themselves in, which the met police alongside other agencies have recognised and now want to change. this is an evolving process. it hasn't happened overnight. you can'tjust set a unit up like this easily. any force would acknowledge that maybe we have not provided the best service and so hopefully now, moving forward, we will do. the £1.a million pilot funded by the home office will not only identify perpetrators, but also offer medical help for those who need it. the aim, some say, is a much more efficient operation. what we will have is staff from health

actively involved with the police and understanding these cases at an early stage. i think police often find it difficult, even if they understand somebody might be mentally ill, they find it sometimes difficult to access help for them. since changes in the law recognised stalking as a separate offence, the met has seen significant increases of reporting. in 2013, there were nearly 200 reports, which went up to over 1,000 in 2017 — a sixfold increase. and with numbers increasing, this specialist unit wants to find new ways of helping victims, including for example an app on a mobile phone that would help alert a victim if their stalker, who could be wearing a tag, is close by. for della, though, after taking her own steps to protect herself, she now trains others to do the same. i want them to feel empowered, because i didn't. now i do, i feel how amazing it is. she's now looking forward to her next challenge. there is simply no looking back for her. now it's time for meet the author.

when you call a book ordinary people, you might be tempted to wonder about them. tempted to wonder why we'd want to read about them. but diana evans takes two families who do live ordinary lives and invests them with endless interest — in their race, their class, their midlife worries and weariness, their love lives and their hopes. this is london early in the 21st century, how people live now, a book about what makes them all much more than ordinary. welcome. it is interesting, i think readers will find it interesting,

that you find ordinary lives, as they're lived everyday, as they're lived every day, more intriguing and more the stuff of a novelist‘s trade than melodrama. yes, what i'm trying to do with this book is to present an accurate picture of the kind of ordinary british lives that i know. it's not necessarily huge dramatic moments, or a storyline in this book. it's more about the quieter but very piercing moments in people's lives. it's more about human psychology. there are piercing moments. there are two families that become entangled for reasons that everyone will be familiar with. the boredom of a midlife marriage, all that kind of thing. you're also going into questions of race, which many of your readers won't be familiar with. they won't think that

is an ordinary life. and you're taking them into lives which they were no day in, day out. yes, exactly, that's exactly what i'm trying to do. i think theme of race has been connected in a very direct way to black writers. i don't think there has been enough visibility of black lives and characters in their ordinariness. i think there's been this mass dehumanisation of black lives through things like the legacy of slavery and the continuing realities of racism and mainstream representations of blackness in the media. what i'm trying to do is draw attention to the ordinariness, to reclaim that ordinariness. recover the reality of lives that most black people live in one form or another. in this case in a fairly sort of middle—class kind of way — setting.

that's the milieu you have chosen. yes, of course, i mean, the black middle class is something that some people don't even know exists. i think we've never really seen it in fiction. i'm very influenced by the writer john updike, who presents a picture of middle america in middle life, and that's exactly what i'm trying to do, but what is new about this is that i'm expressing it from a black perspective and that hasn't really been done before. very much so, because you open the book with a party that is being held to celebrate obama's election in november 2008. so the motif with which the book opens is one of celebration about that particular moment. it was a huge moment, it was universal and there was this element of real celebration and i wanted to capture that. i wanted to be able to, many years from them, many years from then, to be able to open a book and remember what that felt like.

it was also a dichotomous moment, because there was this darker aspect to it. london was in a moment of crisis. knife crime statistics were very high. we had also just entered a recession, so even though it was a very celebratory moment, it was also anti—climatic, so i was trying to capture both sides of that. there is a sense, which is strong in the book, that after a high like that, as far as the characters in the book are concerned, anyway, there is bound to be inevitably, because life is life, disappointment. and, you know, a retreat from the mountaintop. yes, of course. the couples go through various smaller crisis points in their own lives but i think essentially it's quite hopeful book. it is hopeful because they are bad people. they are not bad people. there is no sense of creeping evil, or great mischief making or wickedness in the book. no.

i think they're ordinary people trying to cope with points in their lives where they feel like they're losing a sense of self, and that's what i do in all of my books, really. my first book was about the loss of a twin, what happens beyond that loss. the second book was about the loss of the dancing body in a dancer's life. what happens beyond, and in this book it's ordinary people wondering what happens to them beyond the massive changes of parenthood and marriage. one of the couples at the centre of the story is, i suppose, a classic suburban couple. it is part of suburbia, a very sort of common idea of how life is lived — going off to work in the morning, coming home on the same train or tube. a lot of people might look at it and think, oh, my goodness, am i going to get interested in this, am i going to get drawn into...?

what is it, do you think, that draws people into a story like this, what do you have to do as a writer to make it sing? it's all about the characters. you have to inhabit your characters as the writer. their good aspects and their bad points. you have to present characters who are immediate. also description and language is important to me. i appreciate writing that shows an interest in language, in the potential of sentences. i think when you bring those two together — character and language and description — you can create so much drama. you've got a kind of soundtrack running through the book. we can hear songs. it's a neat device, isn't it? yes, the title is taken from a john legend song, from his album get lifted. music is a big part of my life and it's very important to me. it's a big part of the characters' lives.

i was trying to do something beyond literature, to bring in this other dimension. i'm always trying to do something a little bit different to push the boundaries of sentences a bit more. you talked about how you are trying to present a picture of london, really, or how lives are lived in london. at this juncture in our story, our national story, what is your view of the state of london? people moan about house prices, busyness and dirty air and all the rest of it. what is it you feel about the place you're trying to capture? i'm a londoner. i've lived in london all my life. it's such a rich and fascinating, wonderful place. it's so full of stories and history and beauty, but there's also another side to it that is quite ugly. it's a very difficult place to live. it's increasingly difficult, financially, socially. yet there is this desire

in londoners to remain in london and there is this sense of this is our home. you say this story of ordinary lives, ordinary people and their lives, is a hopeful story, why? it is a hopeful story, because it's about the endurance of the human spirit and about the insistence on the human spirit to claim life and to claim a sense of fulfilment. so i'm trying to celebrate that in the book, as well, at the same time as acknowledging that it's difficult. diana evans, author of ordinary people, thank you very much. thank you. hello, it it was cooler today but

nevertheless find with a lot of sunshine. we have been lucky between the band of cloud that gave rain yesterday and this developing area of cloud the looks angry in the west which will come into play tomorrow. tonight, generally clear skies. temperatures already dropping away and later we will see cloud increasing and the wind picking up in northern ireland. a colder night than last night. many start dry and sunny but we will see wet and windy weather across northern ireland, the rain rushing western scotland and into west wales southwest england but elsewhere many places will be dry will be sunshine and it might warmer than today. a colder look to the weekend. uncertainty but we could see rain in eastern areas, lingering in scotland. some sunshine swear but also heavy showers. ——

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