hello. it's thursday. it's nine o'clock. i'm chloe tilley. welcome to the programme. today could be the hottest day ever on record in the uk. with temperatures set to rise to 37 degrees, is this the new normal? today mps are warning that thousands more people will die due to higher temperatures, unless the government acts. the whole of the first hour of our programme today is devoted to the heat. we'll be talking both about the immediate impact of the heatwave on all of us, on our health, and our safety. it is 56 days since we had a spot of rain and we are getting very parched. it is remarkable weather. i have never known anything like it as a farmer. and we'll talk about the future. we've brought together a group of experts to talk about what needs to change if higher temperatures become the norm. how will hospitals and schools and workplaces need to adapt? how will the way we build houses and create green spaces change? and can our transport infrastructure cope? the chair of the mps committee who is warning

that we are underprepared is here. and we want to hear from you too. how are you coping and what do you think needs to be done? also today: do you regret going to university? new research suggests that almost half of those who graduated in the last five years wish they hadn't bothered. and meanwhile there's been a huge rise in the number of people being offered places at university regardless of the grades they get. is university now just about bums on seats? also today, we talk to reality tv star megan mckenna on bullying, anger management and the price of fame. i had therapy just i had therapyjust after coming out of all the reality tv things that i've done. ifelt like i needed that. i've had a lot of my private life splashed out on tv, in the press, and it is hard to deal with sometimes. hello.

welcome to the programme. we're live until 11 this morning. are you still enjoying the hot weather or are you feeling uncomfortable, worried about the wellbeing of loved ones or pets in the heat? what needs to change in this country to allow us to cope with heatwaves in the future? do get in touch on that and all the stories we're talking about. use the hashtag victorialive. if you re emailing and are happy for us to contact you and maybe want to take part in the programme, please include your phone number in your message. if you text, you ll be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today: a heatwave warning. as uk temperatures creep towards the all—time record, a report by mps says current conditions could become the new normal for british summers within the next 20 years. it also predicts that the number of heat—related deaths could treble if the government fails to take urgent action. here's our environment analyst, roger harrabin. elderly people and severe heat don't mix.

the 2013 heatwave saw double the usual number of consultations for heat—related illness. people with diseases of the heart, lungs and kidneys are especially at risk. the heatwaves affect our health, our well—being and our productivity. our message is this report is that the government needs to do a lot more to educate the public about the risks that heatwaves pose, the actions they need to take to protect themselves and other people, and we need to fundamentally redesign our cities so they are able to cope with higher temperatures. here is something the mps want more of. these london apartments have movable sunshades. the flats behind them have balconies that cut out the fiercest sun from windows below. unlike these flats nearby, in full glare of the midday heat. we would like government to recognise overheating as a risk to people's health and well—being. we would like it to be introduced within the regulatory framework, from building regulations

to planning regulations, in a holistic manner. of course, some like it hot. for children, this is a summer from heaven and it looks as though hot summers will increasingly become the new normal. but the mps are saying that while the kids are having fun, we must make sure that the elderly are protected too. as the population ages, the mps say we will have to start taking hot weather more seriously. roger harrabin, bbc news. annita mcveigh is in the bbc newsroom with a summary of the rest of the day's news. good morning and thank you. the united states has agreed to work towards lowering trade barriers with the european union. donald trump announced plans yesterday in washington during a meeting with european commission president jean—claude juncker. mr trump said a new phase in their trade relations had begun and the two sides were aiming for zero tariffs. let's hear what they had to say

about the break through. we have identified a number of areas on which to work together. work towards zero tariffs on industrial goods, that was my main intention. to propose to come down to zero ta riffs to propose to come down to zero tariffs on industrial goods. the united states and the european union together account for more than 830 million citizens and more than 50% of the global gdp. in other words, together we are more than 50% of trade. the desperate search is continuing for dozens of people missing after deadly wildfires in greece. more than 80 people are known to have died. andrew plant has the latest. seen from above, the scale of the disaster here is clear. this is an eu humanitarian

aid helicopter. on the ground, aid is coming in — clothing and food for the hundreds now left homeless. alexandros arkas has lived here for decades, used to seeing summer fires, but nothing like this. translation: the fires came swirling, like a tornado. it was the wind. wherever the flames touched down, there was a new fire. the flames looked like they were coming from a flame—thrower, not from a burning tree. the flames came down the hillside here, through the houses. those that survived did so by scrambling into the sea. this phone video shows them standing, watching as their village burned. many died as they tried to get here. slowly the horror stories have emerged. a newlywed killed on his honeymoon.

brian o'callghan westhrop from dublin was separated from his bride zoe. she is now in hospital. now anger is replacing grief. greek authorities criticised, many feel there was no plan, no training for how to deal with this disaster in a country where forest fires are common and have killed people before. though this now officially the worst such disaster that this country has ever seen. andrew plant, bbc news. pakistan's former cricket captain imran khan appears to be on his way to becoming prime minister. his party has taken an early lead in the country's general election. there have been claims of vote—rigging, but election officials have declared the poll 100% fair and transparent. residents had to be evacuated from a block of flats in north west london overnight, after a fire broke out in a fourth floor flat. 100 firefighters and 15

fire engines attended the blaze in west hampstead. london fire brigade said 50 people were evacuated and no—one was injured. the bbc will seek permission to appeal a ruling over its coverage of a police raid on sir cliff richard's home. the singer won an initial £210,000 in damages last week after the high court ruled that the bbc had infringed his privacy over its reporting of the story in 2014. facebook‘s shares have fallen more than 20% after its revenue and user growth fell short of investor expectations. the firm, which is facing a backlash for its handling of fake news and privacy, said it had 2.23 billion monthly active users at the end ofjune. facebook is typically a company that exceeds expectations of its investors. for these earnings announced, the stock price of facebook was at an all—time high. then it became clear that for the first time since 2015, facebook was

going to fall short on revenue growth and use the growth compared to what analysts had expected. 0n growth and use the growth compared to what analysts had expected. on a conference call with investors, mark zuckerberg warned them to brace themselves. this could be a pattern that could last and least until the end of this year. mark zuckerberg blames data bridge the concerns, compliance with new data regulations, and a movement towards a more positive engagement on the platform which could make it harder to sell advertising. he also gave a figure for the first time of the total number of users across all of facebook‘s products, which is 2.5 billion. people are not leaving the service in droves as some have suggested. however facebook may faint it more difficult to make as much money from them as it has up until now. bbc news in san francisco. there has been a huge rise in the number of unconditional offers being made to students for university places. ucas says the total made to 18—year—olds from england, northern ireland, and wales has

risen by almost 66,000 over the past five years. that's a summary of the latest bbc news. more at 9.30. thank you. you can get in touch with us thank you. you can get in touch with us on all the stories we are talking about this morning. use the hashtage victorialive and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. let's get some sport. azi farni is at the bbc sport centre. just four stages of the tour de france to go, and still geraint thomas leads the way? yes, we are trying not to get ahead of our shows that gerraint thomas has a two minute lead ahead of the chasing pack. he is looking to win his first tour de france title, extending his lead over chris green yesterday, after the defending champion faded in the final kilometres of stage 17. he is now two minutes 31 off his team sky

team—mate. dutchman tom dumoulin has moved up to second. colombia's nairo quintana won the stage. and many people will remember the incredible performance of the england's women's hockey team winning gold, but at the world cup they are not doing so well. yes, they're facing a battle now to reach the quarterfinals after being held to a 1—1 draw by the united states. england opened the scoring with a brilliant individual goal from captain alex danson in her 200th international appearance, which equalled the all—time england and great britain combined scoring record. her side are second in pool b, and could now face a play—off to reach the last eight. of course it is very special, that this is a team game. you can't play the game without your team—mates. you can't score any goals without somebody party knew the ball and you can't be on the field without another 15 people with you. i am

obviously very grateful but this is i have ever played with, every code i have ever played with, every code i have ever played with, every code i have ever worked with, who have got me to this point. —— every coach. now the football world cup, they have just announced the goal of the tournament even though it feels like ages ago. there were so many to choose from, weren't there? it really did feel like we were spoilt for beautiful goals in russia but the fans have spoken. 3 million of them cast votes on the fifa website and the winner has been decided. it was benjamin pavard's strike for france in their last—16 victory over argentina which was named goal of the tournament. this goal brought france level at 2—2, before they went on to win the match 4—3. france of course then went on to become world champions for the second time, beating croatia in the final. no world class goals at celtic park but the scottish

champions are in control of their champions league qualification tie with norwegian side rosenborg, after a 3—1 win last night last night, while burnley are playing in theirfirst european match for 51 years tonight, they take on aberdeen in the first leg of their all—british europa league qualifying tie. that's all the sport for now. thank you. as we all know, temperatures are soaring with the mercury in parts of england set to rise to a scorching 37 degrees by friday. it could see the uk's all—time temperature record broken by the end of the week. so today's report from a group of mps warning what could happen if we fail to adapt to climate change is incredibly timely. we're going to talk about the longer term consequences of higher temperatures later on, but first, let's look at the immediate impact. john 0wen reports. as you may have noticed, britain is sweltering hot. relentless sun and a lack of rainfall have left the country parched as the warm weather persists relentlessly. week after week. many of us have been taking

advantage of the clear skies with day—trippers flocking to parks and sun—drenched coastal towns. but a country not used to this kind of prolonged heat is learning that it isn't all fun and games. mps have warned today that the number of heat related deaths is set to treble by 2050 if the government doesn't act. meanwhile fire brigades, public health officials and weather forecasters have issued warnings about the intense heat. so what are some of the more ominous consequences of the warm weather? and is what we're experiencing just a periodic freak weather event or could climate change mean that this kind of heatwave becomes the new normal? here on a sun—frazzled hampstead heath in north london, i met angela, an environmental scientist who advises on how to adapt to and reduce the impact of climate change. how in keeping with what the science says

is this kind of heatwave? are we to expect more of this kind of thing in future? absolutely. u nfortu nately we a re in a period where the temperatures are, every year, becoming hotter and hotter. and that is both generally and also these extreme heatwaves that we are experiencing. and that's happening in the uk and it's happening all around the world and it is because of global warming, the climate is changing. and it is continuing to change, so extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, but also the temperatures are becoming hotter. she explained that heatwaves of this kind can have an adverse impact on many aspects of our lives and if they are to become more frequent we may need to learn to adapt. there's three big issues with this heat. 0ne is the impact on human health. it's just really hot so it's really important to take precautions. the second is the lack of rain, without

water we cannot grow crops, we cannot look after animals and their rivers and streams dry up. and the third problem is the wildfires. so basically lightning, or a spark from a machine or a cigarette butt, anything that causes a fire, it will spread so much quicker because the land is so dry. the woods or the grass are so dry. as angela pointed out, much of the farmland across britain is currently bone dry. with rainfall well below the annual average, farmers are getting increasingly worried about the crops. and many also say they are being forced to use food for their animals that had been stockpiled for the winter. here in east anglia, guy smith says his farm is on the front line of the challenges that heatwaves of this kind present. this is the driest part of the british isles and the absence of rain for weeks on end has caused serious problems. it's 56 days since we had a spot of rain and we are getting very parched. it's remarkable weather.

i've never known anything like it as a farmer. tell me about where we are standing now. this is my irrigation reservoir. we are already in the driest spot in the british isles so like many farmers in east anglia i like to accumulate surplus rainfall in the winter, so i can use it to irrigate my crops, thirsty crops like potatoes. the good news this year was that we had plenty of rain in the winter and the spring and it was nice and full. the bad news is that we've had no rain injune and july and the demand on the water from here for my crop has proven too much and now we are simply running out. for a thirsty crop like potatoes, when it doesn't get anything from the sky, it needs this artificial irrigation and i'm simply running out of water. guy took me for a drive in his truck to see how his crops are faring for myself. it looks like the savannah

but actually it's the heath where we farm. and normally it's extremely productive farmland. but it does need a bit of moisture from above to keep it ticking over. and as we go round the corner, these are onions and again you can see how they are singed and stressed and that is heat that's caused that, more than lack of moisture. the weather is just very intense at the moment. the crops and mother nature, it's just not enjoying this. it's not used to this. this is more like north africa than essex. after a rough journey over some parched landscape, we finally arrived in his potato field. these are my potatoes. my thirsty potatoes. and if i don't keep irrigating my spuds that we see behind then they will quickly turn into these stressed crops and they won't produce very large tubers. i'm sort of facing

a bit of a struggle. as farmers like guy battle against the baking sun, several parts of the country are on high alert for wildfires. giant blazes have engulfed areas of the countryside up and down the uk but it's not just the countryside that is at risk. grassland in cities has been combusting in the heat. a fire that engulfed woolwich common here in south east london this week has left the area completely devastated, as you can see. the fire has been out for some time now but you can still smell the burning from this huge area of grassland that was set ablaze. and firefighters are warning that whole sections of the country are like a tinderbox at the moment and one carelessly discarded cigarette could spell disaster. as fire brigades across the uk remain on high alert, doctors are warning of the adverse effects of the heat on public health. professor helen stokes lampard

is the chair of the royal college of gps. i think everyone is very familiar with the winter pressures on the nhs, the rise of infections. but in extreme hot weather we see a significant spike in attendances at gp surgeries and hospitals and a&e departments. and that's because people's breathing difficulties often get worse. those with lung disorders, problems like asthma, chronic obstructive airways disease, heart failure, are really badly affected. the groups of people most at risk to the heat are the very elderly, people who are frail and have lots of multiple health conditions, particularly those affecting the heart and lungs, but also very young children. babies and young children, and pregnant women are particularly prone to bad experiences in the heat. we're used to winter pressures. we're not used to summer pressures and perhaps we need to start thinking about that and planning for it better right across the nhs. as the uk continues to roast in the heat, many will be

happy to say let the good times roll. but for farmers with parched crops, firefighters looking nervously over tinderbox grasslands and health professionals trying to cope with increased demand, a break in the heat could only be welcome news. alina jenkins from the bbc weather centre is here. she will guide us through this. we were chatting earlier and you were saying the hottest day of the year was back in 2003 that the hottest june was in southampton. yes, still unbeaten, 1976. for those of us who can remember back that far, there have been comparisons. 1976 was hotter overall, 15 consecutive days when it got above 32 celsius. so far in our current heatwave we have had 13 days above 30 celsius but not consecutive but every day injuly, somewhere has gone above 25 celsius. notjust

somewhere has gone above 25 celsius. not just the temperatures, somewhere has gone above 25 celsius. notjust the temperatures, the drought, the lack of water in 1976 which everyone remembers. not washing your car became patriotism really. sharing the bath! all of that. and in 1976 the hydrological situation was different. we came off the back of a very dry spring and winter and our spring and winter in 2017 and 2018 had reasonable rainfall amounts. there are parts of the country that haven't seen any rainfor the country that haven't seen any rain for over 50 days and that becomes more worrying unsurprisingly. in last 40 years, the temperature has risen globally. yes, june 2018 continued the warm trend of the last 40 years and nasa scientists have been doing analysis of monthly global temperatures and what they are saying is that this june has surpassed the 1951 to 1980 june has surpassed the 1951 to 1980 june byjust over three quarters of a degree. —— june june byjust over three quarters of a degree. ——june average. this has

been beaten only by 2015 and 2016 and the ten warmestjunes have been since 1955. given people talking about climate change, you can never about climate change, you can never a tribute just one event to climate change but there have been so many heatwaves around the world at the same time, across japan, scandinavia, the arctic circle, and so scandinavia, the arctic circle, and so that question is being asked more and more. the met office have said in recent days that they expect these kinds of temperatures, what we think of as extreme temperatures, to become the normal summer by 2040 but we have also got to look at the weather patterns. the temperature in the atlantic ocean is something we can consider. but also the jet stream, the fast moving wins in the atmosphere, which drive our weather systems. the jet stream atmosphere, which drive our weather systems. thejet stream is atmosphere, which drive our weather systems. the jet stream is quite wea k systems. the jet stream is quite weak at the moment and there is this meandering pattern, like a roller—coaster. when that happens, the weather that you have at one time stays put and does not go

anywhere. so it is summer and we are going to get higher temperatures, but because we are getting them day after day, the night—time is a very warm, and the pattern of the jet strea m warm, and the pattern of the jet stream is something to consider. thank you for that. before we go on about what will change in the coming decades, let's talk about how we are coping with the extreme hot weather at the moment. let's speak to mary creagh, a labour mp who led this climate change inquiry. kim sunley, national officer at the royal college of nursing, conservative councillor peter fleming, who is deputy chairman of the local government association. how serious is the threat of climate change to our daily lives? climate change to our daily lives? climate change does pose a significant threat to our lives. the biggest

risk our country faces is from flood risk our country faces is from flood risk and that tends to be where all the media attention and all the government attention and the money falls. when we see those very wet winters, we see homes, streets and with rivers flooding, that is when the threats to life occurs. but creeping up on us, with the warmer winters you are talking about, and the hotter summers, we are starting to see risks creeping up from heatwaves. during the 2003 heatwave, 2000 people died over ten days. this period of excess deaths, where people with heart, lung and kidney conditions, the vulnerable, the frail elderly, and children and babies, more at risk. what we have not really done is woken up to that and prepared ourselves and our cities to cope with those temperatures. so we have been caught napping? yes, and it is set to continue. we have no building regulations to stop homes from

overheating and homes where water use is more than the amount we will have. water supplies are twiddling by 4% to 7% but we are merrily using flats where people can use 130 litres per person per day and we should be cutting that back to 110 litres per person per day. and in oui’ litres per person per day. and in our planning framework we are not building in parks, green walls and trees, which help our cities cooler at night. if you walk out onto a london street right now, you have hot buildings, black robes, asphalt, and the heat is absorbed and at night it is still pumping out, even when the sun goes down, the heat is pulsing through the city. we need to build in more green space to help as cool at night. i am keen at the moment to discuss the issue of climate change so we will talk more about that in a moment. we can't ta ke about that in a moment. we can't take one summer about that in a moment. we can't take one summer as about that in a moment. we can't take one summer as evidence, but is this a growing pattern of proof of climate change happening now? yes,

and it really is an exceptional summer, particularly from the global perspective, which was covered in your report. we know it has been hot in the uk but notjust in the uk. it has been really hot injapan, greece, sweden, quebec recently, records in california have fallen. this is across the whole northern hemisphere. it is really an exceptional summer and it is not a coincidence that these events are happening in different parts of the world. it is happening because the earth as a whole is warmer and the climate has warmed, and a likelihood of these events has increased very substantially. what happens if we don't change as mary is suggesting? we carry on behaving in the way that we behave now and climate change is a reality, what are we heading for? asummer like a reality, what are we heading for? a summer like what we are doing thing in the uk is likely to become the norm by the 2040s and by the 20805 it the norm by the 2040s and by the 2080s it will be relatively cool. there are to magazines we need to do in relation to climate change. we

need to —— there are two things we need to —— there are two things we need to —— there are two things we need to do. we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but also adapt to the changes that are already happening now and adapt in the future. there will be more heatwaves and some will be more severe than this year so we have got to adapt. do you think the public ta kes to adapt. do you think the public takes it seriously? no. our grandparents grew up in an age when these things were rare and extraordinary. and that is why we go back to the summer of 76. but actually 15 of the 16 hottest summers have taken place since 2001. this is a trend that is increasing and accumulating in frequency. and people are not educated. particularly older people are not educated about this risk. people are going about their normal business, still playing golf in the midday sun, and then wondering why they have heatstroke in the evening. we are not telling people to stay indoors. if you go on holiday to mediterranean countries, you don't see older people going round and

doing sport and exercise between 12 o'clock and four. notjust older people but locals generally. everybody has got siesta time building, sitting in shaded doorways, chatting to neighbours, and they do the cooking in the morning when it is cool and they walk in the evening when it is cool. if you are in a city, you are working, you are nervous of firefighter fighting fires, you don't have a choice about those things. —— you are nurse. we need to make sure that workplaces are adapted and people need to take action. the most important thing is staying hydrated and cool and opening the windows at night, if you can. some people can't because of the fear of crime and the issue around air pollution if you live next to a busy road and the noise stopped you sleeping. george, what should we be doing to protect ourselves? clearly hydration is important. yes, mary made the important. yes, mary made the important points. we need to learn to cope with the heat. we can't do

what we normally do. in workplaces, if it is hot inside, people who work outside, they have got to adjust their working patterns. employers have got to include this in their project planning. people need more breaks, more rest periods. and as mary said, hydration is very important. and we have got to think about older people especially. the elderly are less sensitive to dehydration so they don't have the first impulse to as much as younger people have. —— thirst impulse. they need to ingest enough fluids and salts with this if it goes on for a long period of time. this week and a short term things. if we feel very hot, we can take a cool shower. a cool bath. always a warning when you don't feel well, you feel dizzy, be careful because

you feel dizzy, be careful because you can slip in the bath. wearing cool you can slip in the bath. wearing cool, damp cloth is. putting a damp cloth on your neck is a way of cooling you down. put it in your armpit. even wearing a wet t—shirt. 0ne armpit. even wearing a wet t—shirt. one of the problems we have with clothing is a lot of people are forced to wear a certain type of clothing, a uniform. it is quite traditional that people wear a certain amount of clothing, so they are less likely to shed a lot. when it gets this hot, you need to evaporate to cool down. we can only do that if we have enough skin to it —— exposed that allows us to do this. you have set up this conversation beautifully. 0ne this. you have set up this conversation beautifully. one thing i want to raise, when you are talking about hot, working environments, some people do struggle. if you are a firefighter, if you are a norris, it is going to be challenging. i picked my daughters up from school last week,

walked into their classroom and thought, how do they get any work done? and the poor teachers. is the a nswer done? and the poor teachers. is the answerair done? and the poor teachers. is the answer air conditioning? i am guessing that you will say absolutely not. apart from costed is bad for the environment? air conditioning does have a rule. use renewable power. fundamentally what we must not do is install lots of air conditioning that increases greenhouse gas emissions. that is a short—term fix. it may be nice for a short—term fix. it may be nice for a short while but it would be a disaster for our children. some m essa 9 es disaster for our children. some messages have come in. one was talking about somebody saying they had bought an air conditioning unit, which i'm guessing you are going to say is a bad thing. i will speak to you while i find it. one of the real issuesis you while i find it. one of the real issues is heat for nhs workers. it

issues is heat for nhs workers. it isa issues is heat for nhs workers. it is a massive problem. it is for a patients as well as staff, isn't it? absolutely. we have had some reports of hospitals exceeding 30 degrees. patients fainting, visitors fainting. examples of people vomiting. also, nursing staff feeling dizzy, exhausted and generally very rundown, which is really bad for them because it has an impact on their ability to care for a patients. why is there not air conditioning in hospitals? is it down to cost? it is an issue of cost. there are complex building regulations around hospitals, the consideration of infection control. you will have air—conditioned areas, specialist units, but on the whole it is not widespread. we do know of older office units that have pipes expelling heat. the whole building

control in hospitals is quite questionable at the moment and certainly not fit for purpose for the future. i found the e-mail. neville says it heatwaves are going to be the norm, every new home should have air conditioning generated by renewable energy. he has a personal air—conditioner, which is a godsend. it cost 25 quid. the national lottery could be used to air—conditioned at least one room so people do not die. air conditioning does have a role but the way it is powered is fundamental. if it is powered by an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, that is a disaster. increase in greenhouse gas emissions, that is a disasterlj wa nt emissions, that is a disaster.” wa nt to emissions, that is a disaster.” want to look at the information about this, some of the hard facts. the environmental audit committee issued a report warning that thousands of people will die every year as a result of higher temperatures if the government does not act. it has made a series of recommendations. it goes on to recommend

infrastructure targets in cities to boost greenery. and calls for an assessment of the risks of extreme heat on public transport infrastructure. let's get a reaction to that. i want to get a sense if i can first of all from nicola, who is sitting on the end, head of equality and strategy at the tuc. george was talking earlier about relaxing dress codes. you were nodding away furiously. we have been calling on employers to take a common—sense

approach to make sure employees are safe at work. while enjoying the sunshine when not at work, it is a real health and safety issue. it is not reasonable for employers to require their staff to work in conditions which is a risk. what it means in practice in the medium—term we think it's mainly employers sitting down with their staff, with the unions, and coming up with a workable policy that takes account of the particular circumstances their workplace has. for workers outside for a lot of the day, builders, gardeners, people working in farmers builders, gardeners, people working infarmers —— builders, gardeners, people working in farmers —— farming, we need to look that shaded areas where people can have a break, making sure there is regular water available, making sure the protective clothing is made available for people. making sure there is free sunscreen available on—site. for people in offices, we have talked about that already. there are another set of considerations in making sure the temperatures are low enough, making

sure can work flexibly if they have a hot commute in. making sure working patterns take account of the different temperatures at different times of the day. then there are people who are driving for a living. that is one of the areas where there could be more serious risks. people do not have a supply of water in these vehicles. that could be a serious situation for the person driving or other people on the roads. let's not present this as a niche issue. it is causing real problems for workers across the uk. it could also be dealt with in the medium term with some practical common—sense measures. medium term with some practical common-sense measures. what about people, police officers is the obvious one? you will not expect to see a police officer in shorts and flip—flops. if you go to see your bank manager, you would expect them to dress smartly. it is a tricky one, isn't it? it is common sense. everybody wants a police officer who is able to do theirjob and is not dehydrated, suffering from heat

exhaustion, feeling dizzy, risk of serious sunburn. in that situation people need to take a common—sense approach to make sure they have the protective clothing they need, but also clothing that will not cause them to overheat. similarly, in a banki them to overheat. similarly, in a bank i can't think of a health and safety reason why, if the bank is not air—conditioned or doesn't have founds are the ability to open the windows, most people would be relaxed with their bank manager taking his jacket off if that was likely to lead to a good decision, and to people being able to work faster through the issues they have come to the bank to get dealt. with these are small recommendations in the short term that we think can make a big difference to the working environment people find themselves in. i want to bring in laura from money .c0 in. i want to bring in laura from money .co .uk. you have got an office from heaven, i think. are you going to give us a guided tour about

all of the benefits that you have got? absolutely. we are incredibly lucky in that we are based in a castle, believe it or not. it is sustainable the air—conditioned. we also have a pool to the left—hand side and a gorgeous park to the right—hand side. it is really great working conditions. our offices are very different. this is one of our meeting rooms. it is all air—conditioned. we are encouraged very much to work wherever we feel is right for us. if one of the rooms is right for us. if one of the rooms is too stuffy or hot, we may go into a room like this, which is much more open plan. it is really well air—conditioned. we have even got an ice room, which looks a bit like this. we have got a polar bear. a penguin in the corner. essentially,

it's a really lovely working environment. we are very much into dressing down as well. we don't wear suits. we were short and flip—flops a lot of the time. this is our kitchen. we have a pool table. people can chill out. people are encouraged to move around the castle as and when they see fit. we have flexitime as well, so people come in later. they leave early. we also have access... it sounds fantastic but some people might say, what is the carbon footprint of that building when you have so much air conditioning? not much good for the environment but lovely for the workers. it is a sustainable system. the boss spent £3 million refurbishing it so it was environmentally friendly. as you can see up here, the system that we have is very clever in that it is not a normal air—conditioned unit. it is

pumping around the castle. it is not environmentally bad. it is a clever system. mary is nodding next to me. if we did this in every workplace and office block and home across the country, the cost is phenomenal? that's right. what we are looking to do is decarbonise our homes. we're looking at using pumps. they are a very efficient way of bringing heat into the home and a very efficient way of cooling homes. they are also cooling pumps. you can turn on the other way and cool your home down in the summer. it is about smart ways of doing it and building it so it works in the cold winters but in the hot summers. there is this thing about building it in the beginning. it costs us more money to retrofit air conditioning and shading. we need to build buildings with movable shades on the outside. these things can be built in the design and

planning stage, and that is the real price we have to capture. hugh is from the head policy —— is head of policy... how much is this not been thought of at the moment? completely. we de—prioritised climate change as a political issue after 2010. we have completely —— kind of lost a decade. we abandoned zero carbon homes as a standard. we stripped out lots of standards from the planning framework. we are building homes now in a way that means you can't apply standards on planning light green infrastructure and green space. there are 90,000 units coming through that route. time expired office buildings, buildings on industrial estates been converted to homes, where you have kids playing in car parks. no green space. i can't tell you what an enormous mistake we have made in the

future of our cities. the tragedy is that these problems are a solvable. there are solutions to almost everything that we could do right now if we redirected how we think about buildings, settings and our communities. —— cities. you need to transform it quickly. it takes a long time to rebuild a city. peter fleming is deputy chairman of the local government association. would you agree with that assessment? you are absolutely right. development rights in particular, where we are taking office buildings that probably would not be fit for purpose as office buildings now and turning them into homes, is not a great use. up and down the country we have got council staff working with vulnerable members of our communities, elderly people, frail elderly people, doing that work to make sure that actually we know what's going on in our communities beyond the buildings. but actually, just making sure people are all

right. 2000 people lost their lives la st right. 2000 people lost their lives last year in that heat wave. we are determined, as local authorities, to make sure we have a massive effect on that number this year. we went to the local government association and asked you for evidence for our enquiry. we were told the government had cut the money for climate ready. we were told you had nothing to say. the concern we have is not about the elderly in the purview of the social ca re elderly in the purview of the social care staff. i'm worried about the people living on their own, generally women, frail elderly women, who are not getting meals on wheels, they are not getting social care. they are most at risk. we haven't seen any plan from any area of local government to look after them. that's not quite right. local authorities have severe weather plans. what we are talking about is a national plan. that has to be led by the government. the government

has taken its eye off the ball. local authorities, whether it is snow in the winter or heat in the summer, we do have plans. we work with people who we don't necessarily always come into contact with. we work with vulnerable people. we work with charities and other community groups to make sure that actually that message is out there that you need to look after your neighbours, you need to look after your family members, you need to check on them and make sure that they are ok at both extremes of the weather, whether freezing cold or boiling hot. your budget has been cut by 4596 in the last eight years. your ability to put that message out, all those lines clubs in my area in wakefield all disappeared. absolutely. we have been the hardest hit of all the public sectors. that does not stop our staff from going out every single day to try to make things better for our communities and try to get the message out. we

will not abdicate responsibility just because we do not have the money. we will do the bestjob just because we do not have the money. we will do the best job we can. we have called for a policy change in one area which may lead to longer term change, a maximum workplace temperature of 30 degrees. i'm amazed that is not the case already. absolutely. the legislation says employees and staff can't be expected to work in on reasonable temperatures. we have a minimum temperature, which probably says more about our recent experience of weather. when it gets below 16 degrees, employers are not legally obliged to ask staff to come to work because of safety. we don't have a maximum temperature. we were glad to see it supported in mary bus report and from the parliamentarians. we would like to see a maximum temperature of 30 degrees and a requirement on employers when it

gets to 34 degrees to put changes in place to bring the temperature down. we think that sort of policy would, overtime, we think that sort of policy would, over time, drive the sort of changes we need in building design and standards and that everybody recognises the risks to people going to work in such temperatures. anybody travelling on the trains will know how hot it is. nigel harris is the manager of rail magazine. if this is going to be the new normal, much higher temperatures, people were know we had issues with speed restrictions during this heatwave, on trains with concerns about rails possibly bending. what needs to change in the rail industry and the transport industry generally to enable us to cope with these higher temperatures? now at the moment we can't here nigel, which is slightly

frustrating. i'm hoping we can get that back. no. can you hear me, nigel? raikkonen. perfect. what needs to change? we can't change the laws of physics. when it gets hot heat expands quite a lot. we can set the rails up to operate and be safe. the coldest and the hardest. if we are going to get significantly hotter temperatures, then there could be a massive amount of cost involved to handle that. what would probably happen is the monitoring of the places more likely. you can put more stone ballasts on the edges of the track. but it is a very real problem. this e-mail is from ruth. "we live in the west country. i hope the show talks about the terrible conditions on the trends in this heatwave. time and again no air

conditioning working on the trains. carriages full to bursting point and the public feeling ill. the train companies make the same old excuses every time. 0ld, dirty rolling stock to make matters worse. the buses are not much better. antiquated, uncomfortable and hot. when are we going to get better updated efficient transport? " 0ther countries manage in these extreme weather conditions, ruth says. why don't we? i was waiting for that one! and always comes up. there is a new fleet of trains being introduced right now on great western railways. asa right now on great western railways. as a side issue, these are not excuses, these are real problems that need sorting. what they need to do is write to their mps. the train operating companies operate on tight contracts which the government sets. the government sets the number of carriages. the train operators do is

run the service what they are given by government. this happens in hot countries, too. there is a range of temperatures that you prepare for. in hotter countries they simply set them higher. they cope with higher temperatures. if they get hot summers, they get problems on their rails as well. mary, what needs to be done to sort out the trains? i got on the underground yesterday. lots of tourists were trying to open the events. i didn't have the heart to tell them they haven't worked for decades. it is so frustrating when it is so unbearably hot? absolutely. it is difficult on those very deep tube lines. the volume of people, the calories we are giving off as we travel underground. these are quite cool tube lines. there are deep in

the ground. it is the number of bodies on the tubes. transport for london said to people to stay hydrated. hydration, hydration, hydration. some of our railways, particularly more subsidised areas like wales, scotland and east anglia, they don't have the continuously moulded steel track. i said, what does it mean? if you think about the noise the train makes over the tracks, it is steel pegged together, that is what gets buckled and that is where the problems lie. we also have a problem on the roads. the roads are rotting in the heat. the asphalt is melting. particularly on hills. and you are getting grooves in the road. 0nly half of our roads are climate resilient. we don't want the roads melting. you also end up with water pipes bursting. in wakefield we have a village that was without gas because the water got into the gas pipe. everybody needs to be thinking

about this stuff as we go forward. we need to sort out the roads as well. the tarmac starts to melt in extreme weather, doesn't it? we do but that is part of an overall approach. the real frustrating thing about this as i went to my first meeting about climate change 25 years ago. ministers, civil service and government have known about these consequences and non—about the science. the report is all there. there is an extraordinary problem we face as a nation. we have no national plan. no integrated programme. local authorities are pretty much on their own. it is probably the greatest political failure of the 215t century. because it has not been made a political priority over the last ten years, we have a desperate attempt to put this right. we were talking about re—engineering places, you need to do that with every system you have got. there's a lot we could do.

planting trees can take several degrees off the temperature of a city. why didn't we do it? that responsibility ultimately rests with central government and political leadership because we know the science, we know the solutions. why don't we act? anybody on social media in recent days will have seen so many pictures of dogs with burnt paws. people are saying, why are people taking dogs out for walks? what is the advice? if you have a dog should you take it in this heat? daniele de rossi on plus, a vet. no dog will die from missing a walk but dogs will die from going for a walk. i have seen fatalities this year. dogs can't sweat. the most they can do is planned. if you are taking them out in this heat, it is like us

going for a walk in a fur coat and woolly hat. don't do it. do it late in the evening. take extra care with the elderly pets, the obese pets.” have to say my cats are just lying in the garden. they're black and they've done what to do with themselves. make them a cold water bottle! alex howes noticed several dead birds. he thinks they are suffering because of the lack of accessible water. he has put out a booklet with an inverted flowerpot and stone so they can get some water in the garden. there is a washing up bowl. any water offered should be shallow, he says. of course, the levels should be checked regularly as water evaporates in heat. the ground is so hard they can't forage for food. that is a real

ground is so hard they can't forage forfood. that is a real commitment to the cause. should we be putting water out for birds? notjust birds. a hedgehog came into my garden last night. i haven't seen one for a long time. i put out a source of water and he went straight for it. a lot of wildlife struggling. you keep saying there is no political ambition here at all. why is it that there isn't a political ambition to look at this? is it because climate change is seen as something that is a bit more —— a bit further away, unlike brexit? climate change is going to play out over decades. it requires us to prepare for a hundred year period. the dutch do that. we find it very much more difficult to think about planning long—term. it is also very difficult because many of the actions on climate change

require us to have effective planning and good government, smart government using good data. there has been an attitude that government is wrong, regulation is difficult, it gets in the way. actually, the real lesson is that many other european countries do this very well and they have competitive economies, but they also have resilient cities. almost every northern european city i have visited a much better than this than we are. london is doing some good stuff, manchester as well. but on the whole we are well behind. it is very difficult. this is an obvious critical problem. when you ask me why we are not doing anything about it, i don't have an answer, except to say that when future generations look at this they will ask the same question. you knew what the problem was. you knew how to solve it. you did nothing. it is probably the biggest political failure of the 215t century. probably the biggest political failure of the 21st century. there isa failure of the 21st century. there is a political inertia thing here.

it doesn't happen every year. we only get the mortality statistics six months, sometimes a year later. there aren't headlines this week saying 400 extra people died, check on your grandmother. it tends to be seen with a year's drag. it is not the public health emergency it is. it is also seen as something, hot weather, that is good. when we have that amber heat alert, on monday we had, nanny state, get off our backs. this is good for tourism. it is a good thing if you are at the seaside. it is not a good thing if you are on the piccadilly line. we have had quite a lot of e—mails saying, for goodness' sake, we never get decent summers. stop moaning.” don't think anybody is morning. i was ( in the sun yesterday having a lovely time. it is about when people are in work doing a job. nobody

wants people to be suffering health problems as a result of the heat we are seeing. and nobody wants to see increased accidents at work, people falling down in factories, collapsing from dizziness at work. and all because nobody is taking ca re of and all because nobody is taking care of the impact the heat is having on the ability to do the job. when people are required to go to work and doing jobs that benefit all of us, it then it is important they are able to do so in a way that doesn't mean their own health is being put at serious risk. i think thatis being put at serious risk. i think that is all anybody is saying. in terms of the wider climate debate there is a significant argument we need to have in this country. we can talk about the small changes we need to make to make officers adapt to climate change, and to make sure workplaces take account of the increased temperatures. but ultimately, the answer is in addressing climate change. i have been at the tuc for a decade and in that time we have had a policy calling for a transition to a lower carbon economy, where we can see a

reduction in carbon emissions, more efficient workplaces. very little has been done at central government level to take account of that. these are significant chips... people should recognise the relevance of these events around the world. there isa fine these events around the world. there is a fine line between what is quite nice and what's really dangerous. we have seen it in greece and we have seen it injapan. we can cross that fine line very rapidly. and the other aspect of recognising the relevance of those events around the world is, it is a global problem. we can'tjust look world is, it is a global problem. we can't just look at what is going on here. those interconnections existing allsorts of ways. the greek government put out international help. there will be more calls. we have supply chains that connect the world globally. we are notjust in

our little corner. in some ways we are fortunate in the uk that we don't live in a climate that is particularly hot. a bit of warming can be quite nice. that's not true elsewhere. it is a very connected world. george, a finalword elsewhere. it is a very connected world. george, a final word from you. what is the one thing that has to change to help people going forward ? to change to help people going forward? one of the things mentioned by one of your panel is that we need to get better regulation of what happens in workplaces. yes, at home we enjoyed. but in the workplace we estimate it is between 30% and 40% of production lost. if this stays long the economic impact will be massive. we are working with a group of european labs and institutes to try and come up a better guidance to tackle this without putting air—conditioning everywhere, but looking at easier ways, simpler

ways, energy efficient ways, to help people work in this hot environment and how to cope with it and give warnings. thank you all for coming in. you can step out of our air—conditioned studio and into the heat of london. on bbc two tonight there will be a special programme looking at the impact on causes of the heatwave. it is on at 8:30pm and it is called feeling the heat. coming up: do you regret going to university? research suggests that half of those who graduated in the last five years wish they hadn't bothered. we will talk to two graduates with different perspectives. now the latest weather with lucy. as it is no surprise, some very hot temperatures on the way today. temperatures warm for most than yesterday and as we move through the day, temperatures building, particularly in the south—east. that is where we are

expecting to see the hottest temperatures with high temperatures of 35 or even 36 today, so the hottest day of the year so far. we have got change on the way this weekend. these weather fronts towards the west will bring breezier and fresh air into the weekend. the first weather front already moving into northern ireland and the western isles, bringing increasing amounts of cloud and showery outbreaks of rain. dry weather and good spells of sunshine today with patchy cloud pushing up from the south for parts of england and wales through the afternoon. the risk of some showers in the midlands, lincolnshire and the north east of england. temperatures mainly in the mid to upper 20s but ties of around 35 possible in the south—east. —— high temperatures of around 35. through the evening the cloud and patchy rain pushes east, moving very slowly. in the east, the possibility of heavy and thundery showers. temperatures not falling too far and humid night to come and in london

some areas could get no less than 21 or 22. we start tomorrow with thundery showers from the word go, pushing north as we move through the day. there could be some disruption with showers in the east and a large amount of rainfall in a short space of time with localised flooding, band and lightning and hail mixed in. there is also the possibility of outbreaks in the west with thunder associated with it. temperatures are associated with it. temperatures are a bit less hot compared to today, with temperatures up to 35 but uncertainty in the south—east because of the thundery showers. more prolonged spells of rain in the north of scotland. a weather front working its way through, meaning outbreaks in the north and west and a bit drier the further south at least you are. temperatures not as hot as we are expecting over the next couple of days. into sunday,

the next weather front working into the next weather front working into the south and west and a bright start further north with cloud increasing. showery outbreaks of rain in the west. drier in the east with sunny spells and temperatures cooler than we are expecting in the next couple of days, in the mid 20s. that is your forecast. thank you, lucy. hello. it's thursday. it's ten o'clock. i'm chloe tilley. as record—breaking temperatures are expected across the uk, mps are warning that thousands more people will die due to higher temperatures unless the government acts. we've got no building regulations that stop homes from overheating. we are still building homes where the water use will be more than what we have got in the future because water supplies will dwindle. in the next hour we will take you back to 1976 when the country last experienced a sustained heatwave. also coming up: do you regret going to university? new research suggests that almost half of those who graduated in the last five years wish they hadn't bothered. and there has been a rise in the

number of people being offered university places which are not dependent on their grades. we will hear from dependent on their grades. we will hearfrom a former dependent on their grades. we will hear from a former student he regrets having got the degree and a university vice chancellor. also today, we talk to reality tv star megan mckenna on bullying, anger management and what happens when you get trolled over a rumour that you have six toes. i will never forget the moment when that first started coming out about the six toes situation. i was out with my friends shopping. ijust burst out crying because it got to the point where people were finding my numberand the point where people were finding my number and prank calling me and leaving me messages saying i had six toes. good morning. it's ten o'clock. here's annita mcveigh in the bbc newsroom with a summary of the day's news. thank you. good morning. there's a warning from a group

of mps that the number of heat—related deaths in the uk could triple by the middle of the century. the environmental audit committee says the current hot weather could become the new normal and the government must do more to ensure vulnerable people are looked after. the united states has agreed to work towards lowering trade barriers with the european union. donald trump announced plans yesterday in washington during a meeting with european commission president jean—claude juncker. mr trump said a new phase in their trade relations had begun and the two sides were aiming for zero tariffs. let's hear what they had to say about the breakthrough. we have identified a number of areas on which to work together. work towards zero tariffs on industrial goods, that was my main intention. to propose to come down to zero tariffs on industrial goods. the united states and the european union together count for more than 830 million citizens and more than 50% of the global gdp. in other words, together

we are more than 50% of trade. officials in greece are trying to identify the victims of the wildfires. at least 80 people are known to have died. it makes them the deadliest ever recorded in greece. brian 0'callaghan—westropp from ireland is amongst the victims to have been named. he was on honeymoon with his wife who was injured in the fires. dozens of people are still missing. pakistan's former cricket captain imran khan appears to be on his way to becoming prime minister. his party has taken an early lead in the country's general election. there have been claims of vote—rigging, but election officials have declared the poll 100% fair and transparent. the bbc will seek permission to appeal a ruling over its coverage of a police raid on sir cliff richard's home. the singer won an initial £210,000 in damages last week after the high court ruled that the bbc had infringed his privacy over its reporting of the story in 2014. facebook‘s shares have fallen more

than 20% after its revenue and user growth fell short of investor expectations. the firm, which is facing a backlash for its handling of fake news and privacy, said it had 2.23 billion monthly active users at the end ofjune. that's a summary of the latest bbc news. more at 10.30. thank you. do get in touch with us throughout the morning. so many of you getting in touch with us about the heatwave that we have been talking about for the last hour. use the hashtag victorialive. if you're emailing and are happy for us to contact you and maybe want to take part in the programme please include your phone number in your message. if you text, you'll be charged at the standard network rate. let's get some sport now. azi farni is at the bbc sport centre. good morning. geraint thomas is getting closer to winning the tour de france for the first time. he's now almost two minutes ahead of his closest rival. defending champion chris froome had been chasing thomas

but he lost time in the final kilometres of stage 17. he's now third with welshman thomas extending his lead after a near faultless performance in the mountains. england facing a battle now to reach the quarter—finals of the hockey world cup after being held to a 1—1 draw by the united states. england opened the scoring with a brilliant individual goal from captain alex danson in her 200th international appearance, which equalled the all—time england and great britain combined scoring record. her side are second in pool b, and could now face a play—off to reach the last eight. of course it is very special, but this is a team game. you can't play the game without your team—mates. you can't score any goals without somebody passing you the ball and you can't be on the field without another 15 people with you. i am obviously very grateful but this is for every player

i have ever played with, every coach i have ever worked with, who have got me to this point. celtic came from a goal down to beat norwegian side rosenborg 3—1 in the first leg of their champions league qualifier. record signing 0dsonne edouard scored twice, to give celtic a two goal cushion going into the return leg in norway next wednesday. the winners of the tie will face greek side aek athens in the third round of qualifying. liverpool beat manchester city 2—1 in newjersey overnight. before that game liverpool's manager jurgen klopp told the bbc he's unaffected by the added pressure brought on by a big spending summer. the reds have forked out nearly £170 million on goalkeeper alisson and midfielders naby keita, fabinho and xherdan shaqiri. we improved our position for us. what it means for the league, we will see. but you are right, it is pressure coming from outside, probably increasing. i don't care about that. we want to play the best

football we can play and make more fa ns football we can play and make more fans happy. that's it. other people say i don't care. the world cup is becoming a bit of a distant memory but we do now know which of the 169 goals from russia 2018 was the best. that's after a vote by 3 million fans on the fifa website. this strike from benjamin pavard in france's last—16 victory over argentina was judged to be the goal of the tournament. france went on to become world champions for the second time, beating croatia in the final. there's a big match tonight as burnley play their first european game for 51 years. they take on aberdeen in the first leg of their all—british europa league qualifying tie. burnley have sold out their 2,000 tickets for the match in scotland but it will also be shown on a big screen at turf moor. that's all the sport for now. thank you. for many, it's your first time away from home, parents and rules. promises of a freshers week

to remember, friends for life and the gateway to a career of your dreams. it's why one in three 18—year—olds in england went to university last year. but new research commissioned by barclays shows more and more school leavers are now regretting their decision. almost half of univesity graduates in the last five years regretted going and 70% felt their parents would have been disappointed if they hadn't gone. it comes as a huge rise in unconditional offers of university places — that's when students are offered a place regardless of how they do in their exams — has been called irresponsible and a bums on seat approach to learning by the universities minister. so are apprenticeships and other forms of further education more likely to guarantee a job and salary these days? and our unconditional offers the way forward in university admissions? let's talk now to tirion havard. she's a lecturer in social care

and says the industry survives off university graduates. louise brennan struggled to get a job after university and regrets going. she now does an apprenticeship. mike thompson is from barclays bank and is part of the government's apprenticeship delivery board. and we also have the vice chancellor of portsmouth university who knows all about university admissions. louise, let's start with you. when you are at school, what kinds of m essa 9 es we re you are at school, what kinds of messages were you getting about university, whether it was from your school or your mum and dad? when i was at school and college, the options seem to be go to university or get a job. the very strong message i got from college was that if you don't go to university, your career will stuff and you will not be as successful as if you had a degree. -- your career will suffer.

and what about your parents? not necessarily my parents. they would have been supportive of whatever i choose and they still are today. they have always been very proud. they have always been very proud. the thing about university is, yes, you go and get a degree, but it is also about learning to fend for yourself and to live on a certain amount of money each week, and do your own washing. pretty basic things but there are lots of 18—year—olds who were not able to do that. yes, and i benefited from that aspect of going to university and it was one of the reasons i decided to go because i was very much on the fence about whether i wanted to go one up. i was very shy as a teenager andi one up. i was very shy as a teenager and i wanted to live away and not rely on my parents and my family and the friends i had around me. and learn to be a bit more independent. but you have regrets now? it hasn't helped my career, i would say. i really struggled when i graduated to find a job. i studied television production which is a very

competitive industry and ifound i left university with knowledge but not necessarily experience to back that up. when i went to job interviews, i might get far in the process but i didn't necessarily get thejob at the process but i didn't necessarily get the job at the end of it. and process but i didn't necessarily get thejob at the end of it. and i ended up working in a school as a cleaner for ended up working in a school as a cleanerfor some time ended up working in a school as a cleaner for some time just so that i had a job. that is not something that i would have needed a degree to do. do you think too many people are going to university, mike?” wouldn't say too many people are going to university. what we need to be careful of is people making good choices. what the government has done in recent years has been really smart, opening up pathways to university for those who wa nt pathways to university for those who want to go, but also introducing the degree apprenticeship, which means you get the benefit of a degree that you get the benefit of a degree that you go into the workplace straightaway from school. for many

thatis straightaway from school. for many that is the better option. we have many whojoin that is the better option. we have many who join our degree that is the better option. we have many whojoin our degree programme at ba rclays many whojoin our degree programme at barclays who couldn't go to university perhaps for financial reasons or because they are caring for a parent but they still want a degree and experience and the benefit of university education. they get it in a different way. they don't get that growing up thing, the moving away from home and learning to fend for yourself. correct. but if you move into the work environment, you have got to grow and develop as an individual very rapidly. you are still learning social skills, in our case meeting customers and clients from day one in barclays, customers and clients from day one in ba rclays, and customers and clients from day one in barclays, and you are learning and mature in very quickly. you still get the benefits of going to university. we do send our students to study blocks at university and they get the benefit of lecturers and everything that comes with the university experience, but they also get pay and work experience at the same time. and not the debt? and not the debt. and you are real advocate of going to university?” the debt. and you are real advocate of going to university? i think university is a wonderful experience because of all the life skills that you have spoken about and which you have benefited from. but also university gives a real opportunity for students notjust university gives a real opportunity for students not just to learn how

to do things, but why they are doing it like that, and giving them theoretical choices, a theoretical underpinning to the choices that they make. i think university is a safe place for them to make mistakes. they have got people within the university that they can come to to talk things through, that are not necessarily related to their practice. and i think it offers them the space to critically reflect and learn in that sort of way. do you think too many people go to university? i remember the headlines of golf course management being a degree, and people saying that is utterly ridiculous. have we swung too far where we have encouraged to many people to go to university and it is not the right thing for them? i think options are really important. different people learn in different ways. but i do think university is important. it is difficult for students to get into a degree course and that hasn't really changed. they have got to reach a

minimum standard and prove to us that they can get on the course. did you think you did the wrong course? do you think you shouldn't have gone to university in hindsight?” do you think you shouldn't have gone to university in hindsight? i think if there were options such as apprenticeships, and busy there were at the time, but not necessarily the focus or the range of apprenticeships that there are today, then i might have made a different choice if i had my time again. i want to bring in the vice chancellor at the university of portsmouth. another element of the story we are talking about today is the massive rise in unconditional offers. that means that students don't have to get certain grades in order to get their university place. do you think that is irresponsible? well, clearly i don't, for the right candidates who can demonstrate the potential to do extremely well at university. this idea that we are irresponsibly handing out unconditional offers without any thought is simply not true. it is

certainly not true of the university portsmouth. let me give you the figures, if i may, just for people watching at home. in 2013 there were 2985 unconditional offers. five yea rs later 2985 unconditional offers. five years later in 2018, there were 67,000 915. how is there such a massive rise? —— 67,915. 67,000 915. how is there such a massive rise? -- 67,915. this is in the context of an increased number of people going to university, so we have to look at that proportionally. but it is also important to put it in the context of what we are seeing, which is damaging pressure on young people when they are in the process of sitting a—levels and going to university, and they feel it isa do or going to university, and they feel it is a do or die decision. and if they don't quite get the grades, somehow they have completely failed. i think we have got to be conscious

of the pressure that young people are under. i think and i'm conditional offer is made to stu d e nts conditional offer is made to students who have already demonstrated potential to do well at university. —— unconditional offers are made. they have good predicted a—level results and often they have passed an interview. the university minister has said it is irresponsible and said it is a bums on seats approach and it is just to get universities to make money and we all know universities have got to be more imaginative about the way they raise funds. do you think that is fair criticism? we have got to look at the fact that the evidence andi look at the fact that the evidence and i get very worried when people make sensational statements without having the evidence to back it up. 0ne having the evidence to back it up. one thing we have been doing at portsmouth university is monitoring very carefully what the performances of those students when they university after unconditional offers. and we are doing a big study

offers. and we are doing a big study of that over the next few years. it looks like they are doing as well as other students when they come to university. maybe the question we have got to ask is whether a—levels are good determinant of future success and whether the a—levels system works effectively for young people. do you think that unconditional offers are good thing? not necessarily, because if you know you have got an unconditional offer, it might take off some of the pressure. that could be a good thing. i wouldn't say it is necessarily a bad thing either because it gives people some security. and if people don't perform quite as well under the pressure of a—level exams, as they know they could do otherwise, it doesn't mean they are not necessarily worthy of going to university and studying on that course. mike, do you think it is just a way for universities to make

more money and to get more people to go? the bums on seats approach?” actually think it is quite encouraging that we are taking a broader view of the individual rather thanjust looking broader view of the individual rather than just looking at academic performance. at ba rclays, rather than just looking at academic performance. at barclays, in the entry—level apprenticeship programmes, we don't require any academic grades, because we don't find they are differentiator in performance. we look at someone for the individual potential and that is what we should be looking at as a country, and not putting the pressure people necessarily, which is the be all and end all if they don't get that particular grade. and that personality and the attributes that personality and the attributes that you have, as much as the academic. tom on email says i did 0k at university but i regret going. i got a 2—1 in modern light wood is but i didn't want to be a peach and i was but i didn't want to be a peach and iwas in but i didn't want to be a peach and i was in no better position in terms ofjobs. —— i was in no better position in terms of jobs. —— 2— i was in no better position in terms ofjobs. —— 2— in modern languages

but i didn't want to be a teacher. i was ina but i didn't want to be a teacher. i was in a lot of debt. i think people should think long and hard before they go to university, unless they are doing a career which needs a degree, such as dentistry. and this one: all of my friends have unconditional offers and not one has met the entry requirements. they know much more about love island than the course. we hope that will change! thank you for coming in. the bbc is expected to seek permission to appeal against the judgment in a privacy case brought by sir cliff richard, which the singer won last week. the singer took legal action against the bbc after they filmed a police raid which was part of an investigation into historical child sex allegations. but sir cliff was never arrested or charged and took the bbc to court complaining they breached his privacy

when they reported the search. the bbc apologised but says a wider principle of press freedom is at stake. so what's likely to come next? 0ur resident legal expert, clive coleman, is outside the royal courts ofjustice now. just tell is exactly what we are expecting to happen today. the main thing we are expecting to happen is that the bbc will seek leave to appeal. that is a bit technical so let me explain. there can't be appeal unless permission is given and there two ways in which a party like the bbc, on the receiving end ofa like the bbc, on the receiving end of a judgment that they want to appeal, can go about trying to do that. firstly, and the preferred initial way, is to come back to the judges gave the ruling against you, and to seek leave from thatjudge. this particularjudgment, and to seek leave from thatjudge. this particular judgment, as and to seek leave from thatjudge. this particularjudgment, as people will be very well aware now, it was very long and detailed, and it took mrjustice manor considerable time to write. the chances of asking and

inviting thatjudge leave to appeal is very long and detailed judgment are very is very long and detailed judgment are very slim. but nonetheless it is considered to be good form and good practice to come initially and asked thejudge you practice to come initially and asked the judge you make a decision and knows all about the case and the law and the facts to grant leave. if, as we think is likely, he does not grant leave, then the bbc has the option of going directly to the court of appeal, and that application would be made on the papers, in other words they submit written grounds of appeal, which would go to a single lord or lady justice of appeal and if they consider it and they consider the grounds to be sufficient, we would have a full appeal at the court of appeal. if in the unlikely event that mrjustice mann agrees to an appeal, it would go to the third

stage of the court of appeal. i think the likely chain of events today will be that the application will be made and turned down. the bbc then has time to consider whether it goes directly to the court of appeal. i understand it is giving it very serious consideration. i also understand that the grounds of appeal effectively seek to repeal every major finding effectively seek to repeal every majorfinding on the effectively seek to repeal every major finding on the law by mr justice mann, including the finding that sir cliff richard, while a suspect in a police investigation, was entitled, had a reasonable expectation of privacy, had a right to privacy. that effectively trumped the bbc‘s right under article ten of the bbc‘s right under article ten of the human rights act, the right to freedom of expression, to publish details of his identity and to cover the police raid on his home. that is the police raid on his home. that is the central ground on which they will be appealing, as well as a number of other matters. 0ne will be appealing, as well as a number of other matters. one is the fa ct number of other matters. one is the fact that sir cliff richard was effectively awarded

damages for injuries to his reputation. normally that would only happen ina reputation. normally that would only happen in a defamation case but here it happened in a privacy case. that is another ground. the bbc will be arguing that the large award of damages to sir cliff richard will have a chilling effect on media outlets. if they become aware of the name ofa outlets. if they become aware of the name of a suspect in a police investigation, and they are worried about the damages figure that they might have to pay out if they name the suspect, then they might not do so. it is those kinds of issues that would form the basis of the grounds of appeal and that is what will be argued in court this morning. we also know that cliff richard's legal fees ran at £3 million. is it clear whether the bbc will have to cover those costs? we are expecting some argument and maybe some decisions in relation to the costs. sir cliff richard, i understand, relation to the costs. sir cliff richard, iunderstand, is relation to the costs. sir cliff richard, i understand, is seeking money on account of some of those costs. we may get a ruling on that and a figure on that today. if the

matter then does go to an appeal and if the bbc succeeds in an appeal, then that will change the entire landscape in relation to who pays the costs. costs follow the event. it is eventually the party that succeeds that gets their costs. we will wait to see what is determined this morning in relation to the costs. but they are very, very considerable. clive coleman, thank you, speaking to us from the royal courts ofjustice. you, speaking to us from the royal courts of justice. still to you, speaking to us from the royal courts ofjustice. still to come: reality tv star megan mckenna talks about the impact of online trolling on her life. and time now for the latest news with annita mcveigh. good morning. there's a warning by a group of mps that the number of heat—related deaths in the uk could triple by the middle of the century. the environmental audit committee says the current hot weather could become the new normal and the government must do more to ensure vulnerable people are looked after.

the united states has agreed to work towards lowering trade barriers with the european union. donald trump announced plans yesterday in washington during a meeting with european commission president jean—claude juncker. mr trump said a new phase in their trade relations had begun and the two sides were aiming for zero tariffs. let's hear what they had to say about the break through. apologies. we don't have that clip for you. officials in greece are trying to identify the victims of the wildfires. at least 80 people are known to have died. it makes them the deadliest ever recorded in greece. brian 0'callaghan—westropp from ireland is amongst the victims to have been named. he was on honeymoon with his wife who was injured in the fires. dozens of people are still missing. pakistan's former cricket captain, imran khan, appears to be on his way to becoming prime minister. his party has taken an early lead in the country's general election. there have been claims of vote—rigging, but election officials have declared the poll 100% fair and transparent. that's a summary of

the latest bbc news. here's some sport now with azi. geraint thomas has extended his lead in the tourde geraint thomas has extended his lead in the tour de france. the british tea m in the tour de france. the british team sky ride is two minutes ahead of the pack as he chases his first title in the tour de france. england face a battle to reach the knockout stages of the hockey world cup after being held to a draw by the united states. celtic are in control of their champions league second round qualification against rosenberg after beating them 3—1 at celtic park last night. the return leg in norway next wednesday. and benjamin pavard's stunning strike against argentina for france has been voted the goal of the world cup in russia. france went on to become world champions for the second time, beating croatia in the final. those

are your headlines. thank you. the former minister for children is calling for urgent funding for the family drug and alcohol court, known as f—dac. it s a family court service that actively works with addicted parents to get them clean of drugs, with the goal of getting their children out of care sooner. research found almost half of parents stopped misusing alcohol and drugs by the end of f—dac court proceedings, in contrast to the 30% who went through the ordinary court process. there are currently ten f—dacs working in 15 courts and serving families in 23 local authorities. these won t be closed down, but the national unit that oversees them, which was funded by the department for education, has no funding as of september. it needs £250,000 annually to continue. last year, this programme spent time with some people who've been helped by the family drug and alcohol court. here's a reminder of what we found. john's 49 and lives in paddington, london. i started using drugs kind of at the end of school. and then a few years later

i started taking heroin. very, very quickly i knew i was in trouble. i knew i was out of my depth. i started getting dependent, physically dependent on it. after more than two decades of heavy drug use, john found himself preparing for the birth of a son, archie, with another addict who'd already had several children put in care. not only was i using heroin, i was using crack, i was using prescription drugs, i was using alcohol. i was homeless. you know, iwasjust kind of floating around. his mum had been on heroin substitute methadone throughout the pregnancy, so there was a little bit of concern of archie's kind of physical dependence on that so he was monitored for ten days. then he was instantly placed into foster care. and that's, that's when... that's when i knew this is serious. this is really serious. john was assigned to a new type of family court with the hope of helping him keep archie. the family drug and

alcohol court, or fdac. i often think it must be terrifying to be a parent, to have to come to court knowing that at the end of the proceedings they may well lose their children. judge nicholas crichton founded the court in 2008 after witnessing years of children being taken from their parents as a family courtjudge. the system, historically, has been built on an adversarial process, which just deals with a problem that it sees. it sees a child not being taken care of and so the system removes the child to a safe place. we, the judges who sit in fdac, try to give them some sort of reassurance when they first arrive that this is a process that genuinely wants to help. the way sort of, normal family court works is you're just

represented by a solicitor. you're not really given a voice. everything has to go through your solicitor. hearings are sort of every three months. so in that big gap a lot can happen. but fdac was totally different. we bring the parent into court every two weeks. most of those hearings take place without their lawyers. so the parents begin to find their voice and they begin to become confident in a system that they really understand is trying to help them. in partnership with the fdac team, with the local authority social work team, the parents and the judge, we seek to find solutions to the problems. fdac is different from the standard family court process. it creates a team trying to fix addictions and return children. social workers, psychiatrists, as well as experts in substance

misuse, domestic violence, finance and housing. parents see the same judge throughout, at regular short meetings, aiming to work as a team. you know, you need to address your drug problem. we can help you do that. it was going into detox for a short time, for 12 days. then it was going into a day programme and it was just consistent and you kind of always knew what was happening. itjust makes total sense to actually tackle the problem that is kind of, right at the front. let's talk now to former child ren's minister conservative mp, tim loughton. james brown in manchester, who owns a family law firm and is attempting to crowd fund the money needed with other law firms. and emma long in kent, a mother who has been through the programme. tim loughton, what are your concerns

about what will happen to this f—dac court programme if this money is not found? the f-dac unit supports those ten effects we have got. it is there to broaden the number of f—dacs. the aim is to have at least half of the family courts covered by the f—dac scheme within the next few years. without that unit, the expansion will not happen. the support mechanism of the existing f—dacs is not going to be there. that would be a huge shame because this is an effective, innovatory way of dealing with some complicated cases. a very family sympathetic way. and at the end of the day more kids get to stay with their parents. more of those pa rents with their parents. more of those parents come off drugs and other addictions. it is a win— win situation. socially for the families and financially for the cost. is a

quarter of £1 million, clearly a lot of money but a drop in the ocean in the ground swell of government budgets. why is it not been given? it isa budgets. why is it not been given? it is a drop in the ocean. it is a false economy. it needs to be mainstream within the justice system. it needs to be expanded as quickly as possible. when i was children's minister, i sat in the court many times and saw how well it works. it needs to come together with the home office. have a proper expansion across the whole country. more families can benefit from this. we save money and have more happy families. james, you are trying to crowdfu nd families. james, you are trying to crowdfund for this. it sounds bizarre, a law firm trying to get the money together for something the government should be paying for? certainly its unorthodox. 0ur approach is relatively simple.

myself and a lawyer called sam hall in manchester, we don't do care proceedings. we don't use the f—dac court but we know of the exceptional work it does. it is £250,000. it needs emergency funding now. we will throw in £12,500 every year for the next three years because by that time hopefully it will be self evident, the benefits it will have. we then contacted the other 49 top family law firms in the country to say, why don't you do the same? let's keep this going. we have had an anonymous donor join. let's keep this going. we have had an anonymous donorjoin. a firm in london. an organisation who specialise in addiction but privately funding help. and we have also doubled our commitment. we need also doubled our commitment. we need a lot more. we are up to 60,000. if

we are a lot more. we are up to 60,000. if we a re lawyers a lot more. we are up to 60,000. if we are lawyers doing high—end matrimonial work don't use the f—dac courts know how amazing they are, surely the government will feel a little bit embarrassed that if we are putting our hands in our pockets and our clients don't even use it, surely they will fill the gap. emma, i know that you have used this programme. tell me a little bit about how it worked for you? well, when i worst —— first went to court i was when i worst —— first went to court iwas given when i worst —— first went to court i was given the chance to do normally care proceedings or f—dac. ididn't normally care proceedings or f—dac. i didn't know much about f—dac. what i learned is that it helps you, you get some lot —— you get lots of one—to—one help with a social worker and a drugs specialist. in normal proceedings you go to court whenever it is and the judge sort ofjust looks at your case. with f—dac you

get one—to—one meetings every couple of weeks. it is quite informal. you get to know him, he gets to know you. you work with f—dac. you do group work, one—to—one. it's really, really good. i mean, it really helped me. without f—dac i think i probably would have been dead by now. i wouldn't have my children. i think it's really, really good. emma, you went through this programme between 2016 and 2017. your son was taken into care as you tried to overcome your heroin addiction. i know it was incredibly difficult, wasn't it? but it really focused your mind to stop in order to get your son back. it was every couple of weeks you were being drug tested to make sure that you are staying clean, so you could be reunited with your son?”

staying clean, so you could be reunited with your son? i was getting drug tested, saliva tested, every week. it was more us every tom we nt every week. it was more us every tom went there. —— it was more are less timel went there. —— it was more are less time i went there. i had her strength tests. —— hair strand tests. you have been reunited with your son. emma is the success story that you were talking about, tim. james is hoping to embarrass the government into funding this. you area government into funding this. you are a conservative mp. this is your government. can't you put this pressure on them? i'm trying to embarrass the government as well. it isa embarrass the government as well. it is a false economy. emma is a great example of how this works. it is not a walk in the park. it is very

intensive. at the end of it it works. twice as many kids get reunited with their parents as they do in the normal court. what we are saying to the government is, if you have got lawyers prepared to put up the money, what about match funding at least? their own numbers of judges coming forward. the president of the family law division says this is the best thing here seen for a number of years. it works very small amount of money. roll it out to the whole of the country so more people are able to keep their children and able to get off addiction. this works. it is a no—brainer. let's get on with it. thank you all for coming in. a department for education spokesperson told us: the tavistock and portland nhs

foundation trust successfully applied to the life chances fund but have since withdrawn their application. a network of nine family drug and alcohol courts will continue to operate across the country in 14 courts and 21 local authorities, offering important support to families. now, meghan mckenna caught the attention of millions when she starred in celebrity big brother and later the only way is essex. since then, she's found more success as a country music singer. she supported michael buble in a concert in london's hyde park. now she's a published author too. but her rise to fame has not been easy. now, meghan mckenna caught the attention she had a notorious outburst on celebrity big brother and she's had therapy to deal with her anger. megan has been talking to victoria about her life, including her teenage years when she was badly bullied and sometimes found it a struggle to go to school. she talked about the impact online trials had had on her after they picked up on a rumour that she had six toes. being in them situations, it's just like the worst thing. there is no way

of getting out of it. you have to go to school, do you know what i mean? and my family couldn't afford to take me out and send me somewhere else at that point. so i suppose ijust had to deal with it. but it was an awful situation for me. why did you think it was important to be open about that? i wanted to explain everything in detailjust because i want, not just young girls, young boys, to see like, oh megan, she can speak her mind, she's a really strong woman. but she went through that herself, you know? like, that's why i want people to read that and see that. when you started appearing on reality shows, ex on the beach, the only way is essex, celebrity big brother, we saw you have some meltdowns. yeah. and becoming really angry. and i'm going to come back to the bullying in a moment, but let's just have a quick look at you on celebrity big brother. you said it's all right, you've seen it a million times,

but let's just have another look. beep i'm sick of those beep. he is a beep. lying little beep. mac is a liar. this beep. megan, sit down. let me in there. megan, sit down. no, you let everyone else demand, everyone apart from the! beep laugh in yourface. so let me out! let me out! when you look back at that now, i mean, you are laughing, but what do you think? what was going on? do you know what, i look at that and ifeel sad because ijust think, that situation kind of got so out of hand. everybody had had a little bit to drink, you know, we'd been doing tasks for a few days, and really that came from a good place. i was actually backing someone up. but what my problem is sometimes, because i get so defensive about situations, about sticking up for people, sometimes it can just come out all wrong. my words come out alljumbled. that's what i wanted to ask you, so,

do you, have you considered if there is any link between you being bullied at school as a girl, and you seeing perceived bullying in some of those, you know, bizarre situations on reality tv, where you've gone to stick up for someone? yeah, i mean me being in them situations definitely gets my back up more than other people. probably because of what i've been through. and i think people sometimes look at me and they think, oh, because she's the mouthy one, like, she's the one starting the trouble when really and truly it's because i don't like the situations that are happening and i'm just standing up for myself. you've had therapy to deal with your anger, tell us a bit about that? i had therapy, like, just after coming out of all the reality tv things that i've done and i felt like i needed that. you know, i've had a lot of my private life splashed out on tv, in the press and it is hard to deal with sometimes and i feel like going back to therapy did help me. like, i spoke about all the stuff at school, i spoke about my relationships,

like my friendship breakdowns on national tv. it's horrible, it's not a normal thing to have to deal with. so like, i do highly recommend that. there will be some people watching saying you chose to go on all these programmes, you know what the score is, you know what they do, you know how they edit you, you know how they try to provoke you and you made that decision to say yeah, i'll do that show. yeah, signing up for these sort of shows you do sign on to that. you know you will be put into drama. but obviously, with me, the main storylines that i've been in recently, it was all real. going into that tv show, into them tv shows, you don't think bad things are going to happen. but things do happen in real life. normally you deal with it in private. mine was just put everywhere. you've got 2.1 million followers on instagram, 645,000 on twitter. i'm going to ask you about some of the negative comments. loads of positive ones but some really, really horrible ones. let's just look at some

of the recent comments on a picture of you having a night out. and so it goes on. how do those make you feel? some of them i haven't even seen. do you know what, i don't even, i try not to read the comments so much any more. ijust think like, i don't understand why people have to be so nasty. like, for me, i would never think to sit there and go on someone and pick holes at them. ijust think like, no one's perfect, why should you make me feel like that? it's horrible, just because i'm in the limelight, why does that make it ok to pick holes at me like that? what is your message to the trolls then? well firstly, i ignore absolutely everyone. there is no point even replying to these sort of people. but they must be very unhappy

in their life, that's all i think. and i'm lucky that i have such a good supportive family and friends around me. whereas what's worrying is there must be some people that don't have that. and they may not be able to deal with things as well as i do. i laugh it off now. it's clearly got to you before and there is one in particular, because it does get really, really personal. a few months ago some people started talking about your toes. let's look at this photo. and then some of the comments that came with it. right, her left foot has six toes. just saying. some people will laugh, and you're laughing now, but that did really hurt you? do you know what, that is actually

another picture that they're commenting on my toes. that's another picture? 0k. yeah, that's another one, that's why i'm so shocked. there's been so much stuff about my toes, saying i had six toes, it's absolutely ridiculous. really and truly i should just laugh about it and ignore it but it got a point where i had to do a video about it just show people because it... what, to show your feet? to show my feet. that you have five toes on each foot? yeah, basically. and ijust, iwas, i'll neverforget the moment when that first started coming out about the six toes situation. i was out with my friends shopping and i burst, ijust burst out crying because it got to a point where people were finding my number, prank calling me, leavingme messages saying i had six toes. it took over my phone. i'm not even joking you. it was on radio stations, apparently megan has six toes. ijust think how ridiculous can that sound? but i know people probably laugh and i do laugh now but at that point in my life it really, really got to me because it was just crazy.

i want to talk to you about music because that is what you want to do. you want to be one of the most successful country singers in the world. i think when people first hear your voice there are quite often taken aback. let's show a clip of you, this is you singing high—heeled shoes. # you know i'm not complaining, # as much as re—explaining, # boys just can't understand us, # you don't know what we go through, # feeling like we've got to fit in a size two, # because otherwise we'll never get a guy, # and be alone until we're 92, # you don't know what it feels like, # to be scared going home at night, # if you want to see the world the way i do, # walk a mile in my high heeled shoes.# this is the goal isn't it? to do more of that.

and you've had success, you knocked taylor swift off the top of the country itunes chart, how was that? honestly, i couldn't believe it. when it was the top of the itunes chart, the country thing, i couldn't believe that. i rang my manager, like, what, is this actually happening? i went to bed that night, woke up the next morning, it was top of the main chart on itunes, honestly i was like, how is this happening to me? so what's the goal, what's the ambition? i want to tour, i would love to do a world tour. i want to release an album. like, i'm working on new tracks now, i love writing. my music is very personal to me so i love doing that. you are now going out with mike thalassitis, also known as muggy mike. people will know from last yea r‘s love island. you seem really happy. could you see yourself settling down with him? 100%. 100% i can. that's marriage then? yeah, i would, yeah, i want to get married.

of course i want to get married to him. he's such an amazing person. do you know what ijust love about mike? it's the fact that like, my world is crazy and his world is crazy but we can just come together at the end of the day, we have our little cooking nights, we like to do really chilled out things together. that's what i love about it. it's the little things that i love. are you waiting for him to propose, or are you going to propose to him? i am definitely not proposing. i want to be proposed to. finally, the real full monty. yes. did you enjoy? i mean, it was absolutely amazing. one of the best experiences of my life, it was amazing. what i didn't know was that when, one of the first times that we took our clothes off and showed people stuff, you were really worried and you actually went off and had a private cry didn't you? idid. to mike. and that's interesting because we look at you and you've got an amazing figure and you look amazing, but like everybody you have

insecurities about your body. i worry about a lot. you know, i think me being, i do get trolled a lot and that does play on my mind so much. and ijust think, things in my head can be so small and be turned into something so big and i think when i was put in that situation, we had to do the photo shoot and take our clothes off i was thinking, oh my god what are people going to say? as they going to comment on this, are they going to comment on that? i was so paranoid about the camera being behind me. people will think i'm crazy but that's all that's going on in my head. it's difficult. megan, thank you. thank you. thank you so much, good luck with everything. thank you, thank you for having me. megan mckenna speaking to victoria. some breaking news. we were talking about sir cliff richard earlier on with clive coleman. we understand the bbc has agreed to pay sir cliff

richard £850,000 on account to cover his legal costs within 14 days. the bbc has agreed to pay £850,000 to sir cliff richard to cover his legal costs within 14 days. more on that throughout the day. back to our top story. the met office is advising people to stay out of the sun and with temperatures set to reach 37 degrees by friday, there seems to be no end in sight to the heatwave. well, a drought here in the uk back in 1976 led to standpipes being introduced on streets, as a hosepipe ban took effect. we are going to show you now how the bbc covered the impact of the hot weather throughout much of the country back then. # feeling hot hot hot — the merrymen. the water authority are screwing up

the taps even tighter now, because water is still being used too fast. the reserves in the reservoirs are dwindling rapidly. 0ne reservoir has only two weeks supply left. other other major reservoirs have between five and ten weeks to go. so families who've got used to being without water at night will be without water on tap for much of the day. the mood is one of resignation. what about the people in the desert? they've got to manage, we'll manage. how will you manage? well you won't bath so often will you ? i haven't got a garden to water. that's what we done last night, we all bathed in the same water. four of us actually, my two kids, my mrs and myself. throughout the country the various water authorities have been reviewing the situation and they'll be discussing with representatives of industry, management and unions

and the fire brigade and the health authorities what to do next if there is no rain. meanwhile in london the various ministries have received internal briefings on how to coordinate their operations. the extent of industry's dependence on water is enormous. even in heavy industry to make one tonne of steel for example takes 44,000 gallons of water. to refine one gallon of petrol takes 70 gallons of water. even one single morning newspaper requires 40 gallons. and one piny of ale can take up to nine pints of water before you get it in the pub. others, like food processing are seasonal, beans are now being harvested at the rate of 200 tonnes a day for cooking, freezing and packing. looking back on the heatwave of 1976. 0n the bbc news channel tonight there will be a special programme looking at the impact and causes of the summer heatwave. it's called ‘feeling the heat‘

and is on at 8.30pm this evening. bbc newsroom live is coming up next. thank you for your company today. don't get too hot. drink lots of water. speak to you soon. hello there. today is expected to be the warmest day of the year so far. highs of 35, perhaps 36 celsius and south—east england. it comes with a good deal of dry weather and sunshine. the risk of showers in the midlands and north west england this afternoon. they could be heavy and sundry. you could see some disruption. turning cloudy from the west with outbreaks of rain pushing into northern ireland and the

western isles courtesy of a warm front working its way slowly eastwards as we move through the night. the chance of further thundery showers for eastern england and scotland. temperatures not falling too far in the south. hot and humid. 21 to 22 degrees for part of london. tomorrow we start with showers from the word go. 0utbreaks of rain. there could be the rumble of rain. there could be the rumble of thunderfor of rain. there could be the rumble of thunder for western areas. in the east, the potential for of thunder for western areas. in the east, the potentialfor seeing some thundery showers which could cause disruption. not as hot as today. this is bbc news i'm annita mcveigh. these are the top stories

developing at 11:00. the heatwave continues with forecasters predicting the hottest day of the year temperatures could reach 35 degrees. as the mercury continues to rise a warning from mps that regular heatwaves could lead to thousands of deaths by 2050. the government needs to do a lot more to educate the public about the risks that heatwaves pose, the actions they need to take to protect themselves and other people".> the bbc will ask a judge to appeal the ruling in sir cliff richard's privacy case against the corporation. it begin to deal process of losing its biggest case. partial results from pakistan's general election suggest the country's former cricket captain imran khan is on course