parts of the city, you in certain parts of the city, you are not allowed to behave in this way, and it is sort of a... egregious case such as a man who was jailed for four once the begging, and the judge was sending him down said, —— four months, the judge said... this is about treating begging and homelessness as an anti—social behaviour problem rather thana anti—social behaviour problem rather than a poverty or addiction problem. it it is of whose the abuse of what they call the public space protection order. i did big that was intended to clamp down on homelessness. it is good to see that this is getting back to life, this kind of reality. that we all know in oui’ kind of reality. that we all know in our towns and cities, we see a great many more homeless people and what is being done to them at the minute is being done to them at the minute is that they are receiving jail sentences which is going to compound the problem, because they are never going to be able to return to normal life. where is the impetus coming from with this keys because councils have the power to do it, but it

feels like an over reach to people, so feels like an over reach to people, so why do it if it is an overreach, a severe interpretation, is it because there is a public pressure? peopled it would see people on the streets ? peopled it would see people on the streets? line or maybe -- or maybe the council don't know what to do. the story doesn't really flesh it out exactly why the councils are resorting to this rather extreme measure. it doesn't solve the problem. no. that is it for the papers on this hour. we will let and come back and talk about dresses again within reason. henry will be there, too. that is at half past 11, do come back. next, we have got meet the author. it's probably the most famous love story in the world. two youngsters in a fatal embrace, their warring families unable to let

them live out their dreams, but this isn't a shakespeare story, it isjuliet and romeo, a tale retold by the novelist, david hewson. set in the same place, verona, and firmly in the last days of the 15th century. with characters whose lives are given new twists and new histories, how do you turn shakespeare into a novel. well... this book, this novel, started life as an audio book, it was done to be listened to. tell us the story about that, because it is fascinating. essentially, it was a one—man play, which i wrote, for richard armitage, who can play any part,

and we were recording about two years ago here in london, and richard said to me, when is the book coming out? and it had never occurred to me that there would be a book, because it was a script. and then when it came out, lots of people said, when is the book coming out? so i decided to try and turn it, having turned a play into a one—man play, or audio book, to turn it into an actual novel. because you had already changed the structure of shakespeare's original, to make this audio book, how would you describe the transition that you made from the drama that we all know to the one man played? —— one—man play. it fascinates me, the difference between drama and novel fiction, because both of them are very similar in some ways and very different, there are things you can do in drama that you can't do in fiction, and vice versa. the key thing that i had to adding, was the internal voice. because, in drama, you don't

have an internal voice unless you break the fourth wall and do that thing of speaking directly to the camera, which of course we don't do normally, because it is not very naturalistic. but in a novel, we expect to hear the internal voice of the characters, so i had to invent these internal voices, and these back stories. and the back story? they don't have time for it in drama. what we see in the novel is the whole life of a particular character, being laid bare. of course, in the course of a play, two or three hours in a theatre, that can't happen, but with all the brilliant psychological insight of a shakespeare play, but here, you have got to invent so much? absolutely. we need to know why mercutio is such a funny, weird strange and unhappy character. why did you decide that was caused now “— why did you decide that was caused now —— that was? why did you decide that was caused now -- that was? because he came from venice, and he fell in love

with a high—class lady and was found doing naughty things to her in a convent, it was an early kind of casanova. lucky to escape with his life. you can have great on with this. you don't have to worry about trashing shakespeare, because even a nurse has got a back story. rahman the nurse had a back story, because we don't know really who she is in a book. it was fascinating when richard did the play, because he said, i hope you like the accident i have given her. i said i am sure it will be fine, and then he started to perform it and the accent of the nurse in the play, is a brummie. that taught me an awful lot about... i learned so much from him in writing this book, you don't need to try and be italian, need to try and

be real. because that worked perfectly. and that tells you where she comes from. the other thing that is very vivid in the book, and you write about this in the preface, as the afterword, is the sense of italy at that moment, right at the end of the 15th century where everything was happening, even machiavelli busy, his painting is at a peak, the politics of the places heaving, and you bring it all to bear.|j politics of the places heaving, and you bring it all to bear. i did. and we don't know from the earlier versions that shakespeare nicked all from shakespeare when the story was set, but i have to create... 4099 and there is a fence that runs right in the middle of the story which is the renaissance, and most people are sitting on the other side of the fence which is the pre—renaissance mindset, do what god tells you. but juliet, crucially is on the other side, the opposite side where she wa nts to

side, the opposite side where she wants to be free. one of the things that brings is it of this book very powerfully, apart from your conviction that this is one of the great immortal stories, is your obvious love and indeed admiration for italy and northern italy. that can't be make up —— made up. it must be real. it is real. i spent a couple of weeks walking around the rhone. looking at what i thought would be the real place. —— looking around verona. it is wonderful, because... i think it is really important that books have a really firm multidimensional important that books have a really firm multi dimensional world. you don'tjust want firm multi dimensional world. you don't just want to see firm multi dimensional world. you don'tjust want to see it, you want to smell it, you want to feel it. you want to know what it tastes it. i dug you want to know what it tastes it. idug up you want to know what it tastes it. i dug up menus from 1499, and they are eating the most disgusting stuff. i wanted people to feel that they were there. you have done this

with great confidence and verve, but you have done it with boldness, because you have taken quite a few liberties. we won't go into... there area liberties. we won't go into... there are a couple that would spoil it for the reader, so we would go into them, but do you worry about that? the things i changed, i hope i change in the spirit of the story. which, for me, this is a story about juliet. that is why i call itjuliet and romeo. this is the story of her fighting for the right to establish her own identity, and not have it forced upon her by her parents or by the charge by society. that is the core of it, i think. and the structure of the story, the warning, families of the impossibility of this love, because it forces that terrible boundary, that core is still there, that is the structure of the story, because that is what makes it tick. i think so, and i think the relationship between romeo and juliet is actually much more complex than we often appreciate. it

is not simply a love story. love is a label that we stick on lots and lots of different things from infatuation to passion, to friendship, to support, and i wanted to cover all of that, and in a way, romeo is a bit of a twit. all he wa nts romeo is a bit of a twit. all he wants is a hot girlfriend, because the poetry has told him that is what it is about. juliet is facing a death sentence, she is basing a forced marriage to a man she hates, which will take out all of the intellectual life that she once, so this is really about her and in the end, i think she feels that romeo is in fact end, i think she feels that romeo is infact in end, i think she feels that romeo is in fact in part an escape route, and this idea that love is selfless, but also selfish. and if somebody wanted to plunge into verona in 4099, what would you tell them to expect? -- 40 99. you were tethered to expect a

very troubled place, because that world was, there were parallels with today, in many ways, it was full of hope and science and culture and experimentation, but it was also full of danger, and you know, we had the catholic church being challenged, we had machiavelli working there as you said, michelangelo and da vinci, but we also have the turks trying to invade from the east, directly through dennis, which at that stage owns verona, and this playground, and anything, so it is a hotbed of all kinds of passion. so there is the backdrop for a story. david hewson, author ofjuliet and romeo. thank you very much. another sunny and warm day across

many parts of england and wales. see a fog patches, some of that will come and go through the rest of this week. and across scotland and northern ireland a good deal cloudier, rain at times and looking cool and bustier. this is the cloud responsible for that. it searches all the way out to the eastern azores, strengthened by a jet stream coming down across the atlantic. we will start to seem rain across northern ireland and north—western scotla nd northern ireland and north—western scotland turn a little bit heavier and more persistent. some see fog patches across north sea coast which will develop more inland as we go through the morning, but on this, it will be a dry night, largely clear skies, damages than into single figures, but nothing too untoward in the monday morning. could be a bit grade, visited the coast, and we will see rain at times in northern ireland and far west of scotland. some of it will be heavy and persistent, and it will wriggle around the same sorts of areas throughout the day. at the same

time, cloud bubbles up three southeast, but take a look around through the afternoon, temperatures reaching 24 celsius. one or two isolated showers, or thunder storms. much of northern england will be fine, maybe some see fog patches, there. same to across coastal part of aberdeenshire. 20 in edinburgh, but cooler conditions than average, rains and highlands and islands, and in northern ireland. the rain lacks the fizzle out as we go into the evening. some showers through well and the south west. all because of this area of low pressure expanding in western europe causing the risk of this showers to develop. introduced, pressure builds the north, and that brings rain on monday. that really kills off the rain, bit patchy drizzle, a lot more cloud, but temperatures never too high, here. away from that one to see fog patches, again, especially for north sea coast, and if you

isolated showers and thunderstorms developing in the south. but most will be dry and with sunny spells and warm when the sun is out, too. it is the general theme through this week. fog patches, a chance of a shower or two, but most predominantly drive. warm, this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 11:00. the designer who created the dress seen by millions says she felt part of a historic moment. i think with meghan, she's just so modern and fresh and i think that was part of what she wanted to be. it really wanted to represent her. the biggest train timetable change for a generation causes some disruption and delay — the changes affect thousands of trains on several lines. chelsea football club owner roman abramovich faces delays in renewing his uk visa. also coming up — the lava flow from hawaii's volcano... the situation for residents is worsening as more people are urged to evacuate. you can hear it even from this distance. people who live nearby say at times their homes have been shaken by the sheer force of the eruptions.