good morning. welcome to breakfast with dan walker and steph mcgovern. our headlines today: theresa may warns another eu referendum would cause irreparable damage to british politics. but supporters of the vote insist it could be the only way of breaking the brexit deadlock. a father fights for his life after a house fire that killed his wife and two children in nottinghamshire. good morning. gearing up for the getaway. it is set to be the busiest winter wheat for britain's airports, so winter wheat for britain's airports, so how are they making sure it all goes to plan? i'm at heathrow to find out. the 2018 sports personality of the year is geraint thomas. and geraint thomas is named as the 2018 sports personality of the year. there will hear from the man himself

and get reaction from all the styles, as we go behind the stage in birmingham. —— we will hearfrom. plus: after stacey and kevin stole the show on saturday night, shirley ballas will be on the sofa to deliver her verdict on this year's strictly. good morning. it is a dry and chilly start today for us. i will have more 15 minutes. —— in 15 minutes. good morning. our top story: theresa may will set out her opposition to another brexit referendum today, warning mps that it would break faith with the british people and cause "irreparable damage to the integrity of our politics". two of the prime minister's senior allies have denied reports over the weekend that they'd been discussing the possibility of holding another vote. here's our political correspondent, chris mason. postponing a vote she would have lost, facing a confidence vote to oust her, and then an eu summit — long on drama and confrontation but short on breakthroughs. at least the prime minister

found someone willing to play ball over the weekend. and yes, she is still trying to get her brexit plan through parliament. but many are now publicly discussing other options and talking down the ones they don't like. supposing we had another referendum, supposing the remain side won it by 52—48 but it was on a lower turnout. entirely possible. let me tell you that, if there is another referendum, which i don't think there will be, people like me will be immediately demanding it's best of three. where does that end up? yesterday, two of the prime minister's closest allies denied they were toying with another public vote. her chief of staff said he wasn't planning one, and her deputy said he's long thought it was a bad idea and would be divisive. but those hoping for another referendum say it might eventually be the only option. if parliament is gridlocked and there's no way of resolving the impasse and no consensus can be met in parliament, then how else do you resolve this other than referring it back

to the people? the stage is set, then, for the coming parliamentary drama. the prime minister will be back here this afternoon. chris mason, bbc news, at westminster. our political correspondent iain watson is in westminster for us this morning. iain, good morning. there's been lot of talk about a fresh referendum over the weekend. the prime minister as we heard there is going to be talking about that today. if it ever was the go—ahead what would the actual process be? the usual process would be for the government, led by the prime minister of course, to introduce the necessary legislation. this cannot just go through a vote, they would need to be a proper bill going through parliament, properly debated. but there is a big clue as to her feelings on this subject because as you were saying she is going to be saying this afternoon to mps that a new referendum would do irreparable damage to policies, as

she sees it, it would tell people that democracy did not deliver, it would break faith with the british people, so she is unlikely to do that. another potential option is that. another potential option is that she does this, the deal is voted down, she then has the weeks to come back to parliament with an alternative, that can then be changed, amended by mps, perhaps to include another referendum, but they would still have to go through the whole process of getting legislation through the parliament. they were also had to get the electoral watchdog to decide and approve on the questions and the length of the campaign, and that is unlikely to happen before we are due to leave the european union, so we will probably have to try to extend our stay, if you like, for the referendum to take place. the other barrier to a referendum quite frankly is the attitude of the labour leadership, the main opposition party has been overwhelmingly on the side of a second referendum, it has not been able to get enough votes for it to go through. at the moment, jeremy corbyn would rather have another

general election, and then he would look at many options, of which a second referendum is just look at many options, of which a second referendum isjust one option and it is an option opposed by many of his senior people. his supporters say there is no majority for anything else, then it will become inevitable. 0k, plenty to think about. thank you for the moment. and later this morning, we'll speak to the business secretary, greg clark. he'll be joining us at 8:30am. a five—year—old boy has become the third person to die following a house fire in nottinghamshire. the boy's mother and eight—year—old sister were also killed in the blaze in the village of collingham yesterday. the children's father remains in a serious condition. ben ando reports. the cause of the fire that pull through this family home in the village of collingham in nottinghamshire remains under investigation. justin cole is in, aged 3a, her daughter isabella who was eight and her son harvey, aged five, were all killed, while gavin

collison on the right is fighting for his life in hospital. the only other survivor was mrs collison's mother, who was helped out uninjured. on social media, tributes we re uninjured. on social media, tributes were paid, including this one to mrs collison, here in our wraf uniform sitting on the left. —— raf uniform. she was lovely, could not meet a nicer woman. she was was smiling and adored her children and her husband. over the weekend, prayers were said for those who died and those who survived, and the local church will remain open during the day between 110w remain open during the day between now and christmas day for those wishing to pray or leave messages of condolence. donations to chester zoo following a large fire over the weekend have now reached nearly £120,000. the number of animals killed in saturday's blaze at the monsoon forest habitat still remains unknown. bosses at the site, which has now reopened, have praised the hard work of keepers and thanked the public for their support.

will be live there a little bit late on this morning. —— we will. from today, the directors of firms who make unsolicited phone calls can be fined. it comes after the passage of new laws. previously, some had escaped penalties by declaring ba n kru ptcy escaped penalties by declaring bankruptcy and then setting up a new firm. have you been injured at work 01’ firm. have you been injured at work or been involved in a car accident? these kinds of questions have become the bane of many people's lives. according to new research, three quarters of us get at least one nuisance call a month, many of which are scams, claiming to be from bt, hmrc and is talk talk. after some delay, the government is strengthening the law to tackle this menace. until now, only businesses could be fined for nuisance calls and text in many bosses evaded the

penalty by just and text in many bosses evaded the penalty byjust declaring bankruptcy and opening up under a different name. now they could be held personally responsible to the tune of up to £0.5 billion. last year, just a couple of dozen companies we find that the data watchdog hopes these new measures will lead to more convictions. complaints about nuisance marketing have fallen recently, but with almost 4 billion calls and texts still being made each year, the government will hope the people behind them know they too on the line. —— are. people can cross the severn estuary toll free for the first time in at least 800 years. the charge for vehicles has been scrapped after the bridge's return to public ownership last year. our reporter tomos morgan is on the severn bridge for us this morning. there will be a lot of people who are very happy with this news, thomas. why now have they decided to scrap this toll? well, yeah, it has

been a long time coming. i think when the bridges came back into public ownership not long ago, they thought that this decision would come and it has come and within the next 15 minutes, we are expecting the first lot of cars that will ever cross the two severn bridges to cost free, the first time in 52 years as you say, the first british —— bridge was built in 1976. there has been a toll ever since those bridges were created, the first time today though there will be no fees for any cars that pass here. it is expected that this move will be helpful for businesses and the economy and the surrounding area but there is, of course, also an increase of about 20 to 23% of traffic across this area and moving towards other cities

along the south—west corridor, they may be able to see behind me that they have actually gotten rid of two of the toll booth in the middle here so they can start bringing traffic through without having to stop or slow down as they come through here that it will be a few weeks into the new year before this whole structure is completely removed, so that traffic can be free—flowing here across into the welsh side, across the other side of the severn estuary. thank you very much. we're sort of staying in wales. tour de france winner, geraint thomas, has been named bbc sports personailty of the year. the results of the public vote were revealed at a ceremony in birmingham last night. sally was there. what was it like?” was. actually, when i got up this morning, a sort geraint thomas had tweeted and said thanks for great night, so sent a message saying is that mean you're not coming on bbc breakfast? i think you is probably

having a sleep. we were hoping to get in on the davies spoke to him yesterday. we still might get in, we still might get him on the phone. i very much aware of his transport situation this morning and tea, yeah, he is going be awake, probably... in fact, awake now. how do you know? because i know these things, he is booked on the flight some very important, c will be in a car by now. in fact, i will give him a call when i finish this bulletin, shall i? but we have got all sorts of interesting people coming up, we have tracey neville hopefully on the programme. did you see him? i actually love him. i actually love him. yeah, his brilliant. i know there was the high speech and then he came back later to finish up, and the way that he spoke and the sort of confidence of what he said an all those people. no notes, no nothing,

and he was, and so calm as well. he was talking about is really emotional stuff, we're going to run a little interview we did with him talking about how his dad actually blamed himself for the accident, which meant that he had to have partial amputation on both legs and he said on air in front of all those people, bad, it was not yourfault. but also, the men of the night was of course geraint thomas, who was slightly shocked, i think, by the result. we spoke afterwards and i said did you plan to speak to anything? and basically, he said no. listen to this. i wasjust that no, it is not going to happen. but it was unbelievable. it is something i have watched since i was a kid, yeah, my front room and to be a public vote makes it all that more special, to get that public appreciation. there you go, you just did not think he would win.

appreciation. there you go, you just did not think he would winm appreciation. there you go, you just did not think he would win. it is because he is so modest, isn't he? is unbelievable, he was just brilliant all night. he had a picture with everybody, send m essa 9 es picture with everybody, send m essa g es to picture with everybody, send messages to everybody, he was fabulous. it is such a great night when everyone is so positive. —— he is. billie jean when everyone is so positive. —— he is. billiejean king, talking about positivity and sport, and that runs through the whole evening. what about lewis hamilton's jackets? well, i am really disappointed, the whole point of the night was to get lewis hamilton's jacket on, the one person i did not track down. it was brilliant. i cannot work out whether it is called or green. yes, this is like one of those, we were trying to work it out. mine is green, definitely. that might is definitely black and gold. this is black and gold. so you think it is green? on that shot, it looks green. remember like flash gordon? yeah. don't take

this the wrong way, it looks a bit like one of those tops from flash gordon. all that. i am glad you like it anyway. i really do like it. here's carol with a look at this morning's weather. i'm wearing blue to match the weather, because it's a chilly start to the day! good morning. today we have a cold start and for many it will be dry and bright to start, but later on as a weather front approaches from the west, the cloud will thicken, patchy light rain and drizzle and the wind will strengthen. on the satellite, you can see this first blob of cloud, that brought some rain that's cleared to the north sea, this second area is wrapped around an area of low pressure and through the course of the day, this first front, the warm front with the red semicircles, will be coming our way bringing the patchy light rain and drizzle but

later we will see more persistent rain. first thing not a bad start, some low cloud in central scotland, northern england and that could produce drizzle. any patchy mist and fog around lincolnshire and durham for example will lift and a lot of dry weather and sunshine in the east. patchy light rain in northern ireland. western scotland, north—west england, parts of wales and south—west england too and the wind strengthening by the end of the afternoon, gale force wind western scotla nd afternoon, gale force wind western scotland and gusting to gale force wind the irish sea and picking up in the south—western approaches. here later we'll see gusts to gale force wind. through the evening and overnight, quite a bit of cloud on our first weather front going through and by the end of the night the second more potent one is coming in from the west and that will introduce once again heavier more persistent rain and still, don't forget, strong winds. overnight camps, look at this in the west, tens and 11s, not cold, further

east, temperatures lower but not as low as this morning. we start with a fair bit of cloud tomorrow morning, the weather front moving from west to east, heavy rain with it and a windy day in prospect but behind it it will brighten up across northern ireland with a few showers and later on we will see that process continue in other western extremities of great britain. temperature—wise, tuesday not much difference in the west compared to the overnight lows, but not too bad, an improvement on what we had over the weekend. something else about tomorrow's weather, because it's going to be milder, it means where we got snowed in parts of scotland it's likely to melt and couple this with heavy rain going through and there's the risk of localised flooding. heading on into wednesday, we start on a bright note, variable cloud, some showers developing through the day. especially in the south and west, some banding together to give more organised bands of rain, if you

like. temperatures if anything down a notch on what we're looking at in the next couple of days, dan and steph. thanks, kate, see you in a bit. it is mild tomorrow, that's exciting! i didn't know if that was fated tele— enthusiasm or not.” just said out loud what i was thinking! —— fake tv enthusiasm or not. let's take a look at the front pages of today's papers. most of them lead with brexit this morning. the guardian quotes theresa may as saying a new referendum would break faith with the people. the main picture there is geraint thomas, who was last night crowned bbc sport personality of the year. the telegraph goes with comments from boris johnson who says a fresh vote would provoke instant, deep and ineradicable feelings of betrayal. next to that is actress ella purnell, who's been speaking about her battles with mental health. the express says, "don't dare steal our brexit". that refers to theresa may's warnings against going for another referendum." it also reckons strictly champion

stacey dooley is set to land her own tv show. she's got her own tv show! they are brilliant! she is great. absolutely, i love her. but the mirror has chosen not to go with brexit on its front page. it's campaigning to save free tv licences for over—755. former prime minister gordon brown is backing their campaign. you were out on saturday night at a do. yeah, out with my friends for dinner. lovely, excellent, what did you have? how did you know that? i know everything! i asked you whether you saw the strictly strictly final, you saw the strictly strictly final, you have caught up with it. yeah. did you watch it? no. where have you been? out having a good time. i was at the panto. i watched highlights of it. a great final. we will speak to shirley ballas, head judge,

surely ballots will be here later. can someone shout what time she is here? 8:10am. 8:10am! he's behind you! 8:10 a.m.... she is in panto as well. i'm linking it altogether. what have you got? unilever got about me! we've been talking about sports personality of the year —— i'm you forgot all about me. xherdan shaqiri, came on as a sub and helped liverpool beat manchester united 3—1 yesterday. can you see the shot ofjose mourinho's face at the shot ofjose mourinho's face at the bottom? teeny tiny, that sums up their position at the moment, his and manchester united's. lots of the papers this morning with analysis about what's going on with him and manchester united. he was full of praise and said robertson was unbelievable. couldn't take their eyes off them. is that part of his tactic for

talking up the opposition? i don't know. it's not always tactics. it is with mourinho. does he just say what he thinks? i don't know. something you might have missed yesterday in all the fuss, brilliant picture, thatis all the fuss, brilliant picture, that is how fast they were going. katie archibald and laura kenny winning gold in the women's madison at the track cycling world championships last night. orjust a really bad picture! i think it's just a really good picture! it's the sort of picture i would take. it's all right, isn't it? good speed! christmas, go on. you've got christmas, go on. you've got christmas stories? i've got sprouts and ponsati is. sprouts against b how many people said he is do you think marks & spencer is sell over the christmas period ? think marks & spencer is sell over the christmas period? must be hand, hundreds of thousands. —— must be hundreds of thousands. —— must be

hundreds of thousands. it is a red leafed plant which is very popular. the reason why this is in the papers isa the reason why this is in the papers is a price war, liddy liddell and aldi have cut—price versions. —— lidl. they don't last very long, do they? neither of you have ever bought one. i'm not very good at looking after them. it is peak week, this is the week to buy them because they only last a certain time. you don't want to spend £10. do you scored your sprouts? no, but i do shred them. i thought you said score them as in give them scores! nine tenths! seven! —— nine out of ten! what is an acceptable score for a sprout! ? i liked a good seven.

everyone loves a good seven! the process of marking them on the bottom. you haven't got a clue, have you? i have done scoring with engineering, not vegetables. a p pa re ntly engineering, not vegetables. apparently you shouldn't score your sprouts, because this guy, paul brown stadium a food texture analyst has taken time to score and not score them, boiled them in separate pans for nine minutes, then crushed them to see what force is required. what he has found is if you do score a sprout it makes them soggy and largely pointless. clearly, all the water goes in them. someone has spent months studying that, i could have told him that! what would you mark that sprout of out of ten? that story? about a four. i will come back with a better one later.” story? about a four. i will come back with a better one later. i will as well. all the magic from sports personality through the morning as

well. more than half of teachers in england say children in their schools will go hungry this christmas, that's according to a survey by the national education union. nearly two thirds reported that more and more families will be unable to afford proper shoes and clothes. breakfast'sjohn maguire has been talking to teachers and parents at one south london school to see how they are coping. it's christmas time, and so much going on. very busy time of year, but... this woman provides a lifeline. she works for the charity school home support. as the name suggests, it helps families ensure their children are in school and learning even if they're struggling to make ends meet. some of the parents here at this south london primary school prefer not to be identified. the stigma of the financial struggle especially acute at christmas.” haven't even started, you know,

buying any presence for the children. i haven't got the money yet, but i'll try and work it out how much i'll get. i've done all of these hours, all of this work... tanya has been through tough times and believes the more people talk, the more they share, the better chance they have. it got to the point where i was able to buy food, but then i got myself into a financial situation with the council. it took me a lot of months. i made sure i had the bare essentials, like the food. the national education union survey its members and found child poverty is having an increasing impact on schools. 53% of the teachers and said there are children in their school who'll go hungry over christmas. 63% said the past three yea rs has christmas. 63% said the past three years has seen an increase in families unable to afford adequate winter clothing or shoes, and 46% believe there's been a rise in the number of problems with housing. we

find many children are homeless, to a certain extent, sharing accommodation, 3—bedroom flat will be shared by four families so each family's living in one of the rooms. so accommodation is one of the a huge issue. sometimes it's feeding the children, bathing them, because there's such a rush for the bathroom and toilets and stuff like that. the government says teachers shouldn't have to step in to tackle theseissues shouldn't have to step in to tackle these issues and it's already taking action to make sure it, they don't have to. sits 2010, their 300,000 fewer children living in absolute poverty and it spends £90 billion a year on welfare for people most in need. meanwhile, charities work to fill in the gaps. sometimes it's more busy, like the christmas period now more definitely, because the needs are greater as we discussed with the challenges around poverty with the challenges around poverty with christmas. there's never a dull moment, there's always a child, a

family, to support, someone to look out for. and that support, the bridge between families and school, for many people is vital. john maguire, bbc news, london. plenty of traffics on the roads this week and this morning we're looking at the logistics of moving millions of passengers in and out of one of the world's busiest airports for a festive getaway. ben is at heathrow and can tell us more. good morning. welcome to heathrow, in terminal 2. it's pretty calm, it has to be said, so far this morning but really the calm before storm. a flight but really the calm before storm. a flight to oslo leaving over there, istanbul, geneva, all those flights leaving here this morning but they're preparing for what is going to be one of the biggest weeks of the year. 250,000 passengers will pass through heathrow alone on friday, that's the biggest day for departures. them for arrivals,

interestingly it's the second of january, all those people who've gone away coming back on the second of january. they've clearly been planning this for the entire year to make sure they've got the right people in the right places, particularly in the so—called pinch points, things like security and check—in where you often find there are long queues. heathrow says we'll be ok this christmas. i'm going to talk to the boss, tom hollander k, to talk about their preparations. it's a busy time of year for cargo, 140,000 tons of cargo will go to the airport to travel around the world, all sorts of things on the list. scottish salmon, christmas trees, i'm not sure who air freight is a christmas tree, but those are passing through! i look at what they do to make sure yourjourney goes smoothly this christmas. we will talk to the boss later to have top tips on what you can and can't pack. join us first is the news wherever you are

this morning on breakfast. good morning from bbc london news, i'm alice salfield. from today, the met will be trialling live facial recognition as part of their crack down on violent crime. the technology will be used near soho, piccadilly circus and leicester square until tomorrow. campaigners are describing it as a breach of rights to privacy and freedom of speech. new cycle routes that will be developed from next year are to be a minute's silence has taken place... at football matches in memory of a teenager who died after a collision during a match in west london. 14—year—old luca campa naro was injured while playing in goal last weekend and died in hospital. his father, americo, says it was a freak accident, and doesn't believe protective headgear should be compulsory for young footballers. it's a contact sport, but it's not by. it's a contact sport, but it's not rugby. it's not american football. it's not martial arts or anything

like that, yeah, it's football, you know, and that just like that, yeah, it's football, you know, and thatjust says how much of a freak accident it was. you can't see a football player running around with a helmet on or some pads, you know? new cycle routes that will be developed from next year are to be confirmed by the mayor today. city hall says it will insist on certain safety criteria when it gives out money to the schemes. it's part of tfl's commitment to invest more in walking and cycling. houses being put up for sale in london have cheaper asking prices than a year ago, and 2019 is forecast to be a similar story. the property website rightmove says the average price of a home is nearly £10,000 cheaper than it was just two months ago. time for a look at the travel now. starting with some good news for those of you travelling by tube this morning, currently a good sevice on all lines at the moment. if we turn to the roads in grove park, this is baring road. there are temporary traffic

lights near the train station for roadworks. in drayton green, drayton bridge road is closed because of a burst water main. and the a21 is closed southbound at sevenoaks for barrier repairs. now the weather, with elizabeth rizzini. hello, good morning. today is said to bea hello, good morning. today is said to be a fairly quiet day of weather, it will stay dry, there'll be plenty of sun shone around throughout the day and it will just turn a of sun shone around throughout the day and it willjust turn a bit breezy as we had through the afternoon with increasing amounts of cloud in the west as well. reasonably mild for this time of year as well. we start off on a frost free no, temperatures between 4-7. frost free no, temperatures between 4—7. lots of early sunshine around, the sunshine will last for most of us as we the sunshine will last for most of us as we head through the afternoon with the cloud thickening in western and home counties towards the end of the day, top tens between 8—10, not bad at all for december. the breeze picking up as we head into the evening rush—hour and staying windy overnight tonight, so a blustery start to the day tomorrow. lots of

cloud around too overnight, lows between 7—a mild start tomorrow. tomorrow a mild day but rather windy, outbreaks of rain through the afternoon and then cooler on wednesday and thursday, some showers at times. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. now it's back to steph and dan. hello, this is breakfast. thanks for watching us. you're with dan walker and steph mcgovern. coming up... following the large fire that broke out at chester zoo at the weekend, we'll speak to the boss to get the very latest on the damage and the public support they've received. geraint thomas has won the bbc sports personality of the year. we'll hear from the tour de france winner and get all the behind—the—scenes gossip. and stacey dooley was

crowned strictly‘s dancing queen on saturday. we'll have reaction to her ballroom blitz from the woman in the know — head judge, shirley ballas. here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. theresa may will warn mps today that a further brexit referendum risks making faith with the british people and will cause irreparable damage to the integrity of british politics. ina the integrity of british politics. in a speech in the house of commons, the prime minister will say a fresh vote will further divide the country. over the weekend, two the senior allies denied reports they had been discussing the possibility of holding another boat. a5 your boy has become the third member of the family that died as a result of a house fire in nottinghamshire. his mother and sister were killed in a blaze yesterday in the village of collingham. the boy's father is in a serious condition in hospital. a

fifth person has died following last week's shooting in the christmas market in strasbourg. the victim was a polish national. a memorial took place last night in the city to remember those who had lost their lives. new laws to better protect agency workers and people in o—hours contracts will be set up by the government today. the business secretary greg clark says the reforms of the biggest upgrade the worker's rights in more than a generation, it will guarantee that employers are informed of their pay and eligibility for maternity, paternity and sick leave on the first day of the newjob. the geraint thomas said the rules will not shift the balance of power in the economy. donations to chester zoo the economy. donations to chester zoo following a large fire over the weekend had now reached £125,000. the number of animals killed in saturday's blaze at the monsoon forest habitat still remains unknown. bosses at the site, which has now reopened, have praised the hard work of keepers and thanked the public for their support.

if you are crossing either of the two bridges across the severn street this morning, they will be toll—free for the first time in 52 years. —— severn estuary. the tolls were dismantled overnight. it now mean drivers could save as much as £1400 a year as a result. the charge for vehicles was scrapped following the bridge's return to public ownership last year. i used to go there every single summer, for my holidays. the bridge? we were struggling family. on the way to cardiff. yeah. and i remember we did not have the toll one year, my dad had the asked me for my pocket money. did you? it was not match. did you get it back? i can't remember, i will have to be my dad later. sally is here. we have the weather coming up shortly. you had a

very busy at night yesterday evening. yeah, of course geraint thomas was the winner and he was a little bit shellshocked, there were also some lovely moments. billy monger and the women's netball team, my goodness you should have seen on dance floor, i gotjealous. gozza speu dance floor, i gotjealous. gozza spell special access behind the award ceremony in birmingham last night. here's what i got up to. —— got some special welcome to sports personality 2018. welcome to sports personality 2018. we are going to rub shoulders with some sporting royalty tonight. the world cup itself was such a whirlwind. i always like to promise you lots of exclusive backstage access, let's hope she is ian and hope she is ready to answer the

door. are you ready for us? am, come in. thank you so much. it is going to be an absolutely incredible night, is obviously so nice to celebrate everyone's sporting achievements. as in here, the excitement is all around, this theatre is crazy. i've actually never known the atmosphere to be like this, and about to take my seat. —— as you can hear. —— i am about to take my seat. gareth southgate, congratulations on an incredible evening and an incredible year. people kind of denying they cared about international football because they did not want to get hurt any more but the most pleasing aspect of the summer to be was that we took everybody on a journey that really reconnected the team and brought pride back to our supporters. the 2018 team of the year is england netball team. supporters. the 2018 team of the year is england netball teamm supporters. the 2018 team of the year is england netball team. it is exciting for netball and to get the recognition and hopefully the sport

just keeps growing. that memory of that moment and the entire game is just something that will be with me in the rest of the squad for ever. and it is so special for it to be celebrated like this in the women's sport to be in the headlines. please let's welcome the 2018 henry wallace and award winner, the extraordinary ruling on the. congratulations. yeah, thank you so much. it was so composed on the stage. did you have any idea about what you are going to say? i had an idea about what i was going to say. unfortunately, i got cut off a little bit early when i was going to... yeah, you got cut off. this is your moment, when they stopped to, what we are going to say about your mum and dad? is going to say how strong they were for me at the right time, because my dad, he does not really said often but he blamed himself quite a lot for my accident because he was the one who got into racing. i was going to do it anyway, so i was just going to

basically thank you for being so influential in my life because without them, i would be nothing. 2018 sports personality of the year is geraint thomas! it has been 22 yea rs now is geraint thomas! it has been 22 years now i have been riding the bike, and 12 years as a professional in the tourde bike, and 12 years as a professional in the tour de france. —— and the knights tour de france, and nothing went wrong. which is unusual for you. yeah, yeah. no punches are no crashes or anything, and then yeah, to end up winning the tour de france, and still clad pinching myself. it has been a whirlwind since, it is so crazy stop white —— iam since, it is so crazy stop white —— i am still kind of pinching myself. it is so crazy. see you. sorry. it was really, really. it looked really heavy. it was really, really heavy. ijust miss

heavy. it was really, really heavy. i just miss the heavy. it was really, really heavy. ijust miss the end of that but i was trying to take a selfie with him andi was trying to take a selfie with him and i could not do it. too much weight in the forehand. yeah, so we had to do it for us. all those pictures have been posted online. there was a big discussion online and on social media about who was not in the six. jonathan ray was second last year, in the six, and georgia hall. there is always, golfers never really do well in the main awards. i know francesco molinari won the international sportsperson award. to particular sportsperson award. to particular sports a look at and think what is going on, golf and maybe cricket and think why we're not getting more cricketers and more golfers as kind of like more high—profile figures that the public wanted to get behind? —— two particular sports. we had this great personalities, this great characters and it has been an incredible year with the ryder cup, but yeah. there is always somebody

left out. that is the most impossiblejob, choosing left out. that is the most impossible job, choosing that shortlist. there is a lot of shouting going on, that it was a good show as well. yeah, it was a lot of fun. anyway, something else happened yesterday. liverpool are back at the top of the premier league after their 3—1 win over manchester united at anfield. xherdan shaqiri came off the bench and scored twice to consign jose mourinho's side to another defeat. they're now 19 points behind liverpool in the table. fantastic game. the whole 93, 95 minutes was just, we were in charge of the game and dominated it and they came of it up, we had to stay in the game, so we did and second half just in the game, so we did and second halfjust do it and do it, the kind of annoying, do it and do it, and then he came on and scored these two goals, isjust then he came on and scored these two goals, is just brilliant. everyone has players that are fast, their transitions are phenomenal,

but without qualities and managed to balance the game and in the second half was when the game was progressively dying, was when i think probably a huge dissent of those in the stadium and were starting to feel this is going to end 1—1. rangers have gone back to the top of the table in the scottish premiership, after a narrow 1—0 win over hamilton academical at ibrox. daniel candeias scored the only goal of the game early in the second half and managed to hold on. the three points were enough to move them above kilmarnock on goal difference. leicester's hopes of reaching the champions cup knockout stages are all but over after they were beaten by racing 92. leicester's disappointing season continues. the tigers have now lost eight successive games for the first time since 1975. racing remain unbeaten after a bonus point win. and finally, you're going to love this.

we've all heard about putting your body on the line in sport. well, this is taking that to the very extreme. take a look at these goaline clearances from dulwich hamlet. they are fantastic. have a look. in total, i think... they are fantastic. have a look. in total, ithink... it looks they are fantastic. have a look. in total, i think... it looks like table tennis. it is like lord of the rings, none shall pass. six clea ra nces rings, none shall pass. six clearances there. to deny wingate & finchley, in an epic goalmouth scramble during their fa trophy first—round fixture on saturday. but despite the heroics, wingate & finchley won the match 2—0. that is not quite seem fair. that is the best scramble ever.” that is not quite seem fair. that is the best scramble ever. i love a match like that. he gets his face involved. get his nose onto it. that is what it is all about. thank you. much more gossip on last night and all the backstage stuff and shenanigans, some of it anyway. tracey neville is here at 8:20am. take my hat off to her because of

the early hours of this morning, she promised to be this programme by an early, i think that the eight o'clock hours. that's right, listen to what i am saying. i said a 20 a.m. . what, what? we have got kirsty, the unsung hero. and shirley ballas so, i am not sure how we're going to fit all in. do you know what? with finishing the show with live music today. no? are you going to live dj asim? let's go to carol, she is far more important than any of us. here's carol with a look at this morning's weather. sally, you looked gorgeous last night, i saw the pictures of you. more than we can say for the weather! a chilly start, sunshine with bright spells, and later in the west, our weather front is coming in introducing figure cloud, stronger winds and patchy light rain. last night's rain on the satellite

picture here moving away, this next system is wrapped around any area of low pressure and under this cloud are two weather fronts. the first one will introduce the patchy light rain to the west. look at the isobars, the winds will strengthen, and later this next weather front comes in, introducing heavy rain. this morning, some low cloud around in parts of central scotland, northern england. we've also got some patchy fog in parts of yorkshire and durham, but that should break and left leaving a fair bit of sunshine or at worst brightness. the cloud will continue to build in northern ireland and western fringes of the uk generally, and you can see patchy light rain moving through but at the same time the winds will strengthen. by the middle of the afternoon we'll be touching gale force wind the western highlands but you can see in the irish sea, we're starting to see gusts reaching gale for, perhaps not quite, quite in the south—western approaches but later that could be the case for you —— gale force wind. later in the night the front goes

through and it takes the cloud and rain with it, and in the second half of the night the second one comes through with persistent rain and strong winds. look at the temperatures in the west, tens and 11s, in the east, that bit lower but not as cold as this morning. tomorrow we start with the rain continuing to advance to the east, windy day in prospect and the further east you are, east anglia hanging the driest conditions for the longest, and brightening up in northern ireland behind the band of rain with few showers. —— having the driest. quite mild for this stage in december. where we have the low in scotland, that is likely to melt. couple that with heavy rain, there's the risk of localised flooding. wednesday is mostly dry for the bulk of the uk's. alan gent variable amounts of cloud with sunny spells. uk -- amounts of cloud with sunny spells. uk —— again. sunny spells of course

in the channel islands and southern england. some showers, though. temperatures down a touch but not too bad at all. the king at a range of eight, 11 or maybe 12 —— looking at. she's always nice, saying nice things! she is lovely. just a kind person. yeah. it's the start of the busiest winter week for the uk's airports. ben is at heathrow looking at how they are working out the logistics for the great festive getaway. good morning. good morning. there's a lull for them to contend with this morning. the start of the busiest winter wheat. 250,000 passengers on friday with the busiest day for departures bash a lot. for arrivals, people coming back on the second of january —— a lot. you might want to consider avoiding it, january —— a lot. you might want to consideravoiding it, pretty january —— a lot. you might want to consider avoiding it, pretty busy. so far everything going smoothly at

terminal 2 so far everything going smoothly at terminal2 in so far everything going smoothly at terminal 2 in heathrow —— at heathrow. let's talk about their issues, john holland—kaye is the boss. good morning. simon calder is with us, the travel editor at the independent. talk us through this, a hugely just independent. talk us through this, a hugelyjust a good challenge to make sure this time of year goes right and you're planning it all year i assume? absolutely, we have to start planning for next year pretty much as much as soon as new year is out of the weight. we make sure there's ple nty of of the weight. we make sure there's plenty of people around to help travellers out — — plenty of people around to help travellers out —— out of the way. we try to make sure there's fun at the airport, expect to see santa, choirs and people to help you out. your holiday starts at heathrow and we wa nt holiday starts at heathrow and we want people to have a fantastic journey going through here. where are the pinch points? normally a few places, check—in and security have the queues, how can you make that easier? people tend to worry about them so make sure you have the right weight in your bag for your airline,

make sure you have your liquids and your laptops ready to take out to go through security quickly. we will have extra people to make sure you get through the airport really smoothly. i'd recommend people to come in good time mainly because transport on the roads can be busy at this time of year, so you want to leave plenty of time and you want to be relaxing and enjoying yourself, starting your holiday as soon as you get to heathrow. we have things like kids eat free in our restaurants, kids eat free in our restaurants, kids travel free on heathrow express, so we're doing everything to make it easy for families. simon, we talked about security in terms of what you can and can't take, we're getting used to those liquid and laptop rules, but it's different at christmas, isn't it? liquid and laptop rules, but it's different at christmas, isn't mm is, i used to frisked people at gatwick and the main thing is presence, don't wrap them all beautifully because someone like me is probably going to want to look at them at security if they're in your hand luggage —— frisk. don't bring

things like brandy butter, they will breach the liquids rules. the other element is christmas crackers, some airports, including heathrow, will allow them through as hand luggage but other airlines won't allow them. before you take crackers or presence, check with the airline and the airport. we are hearing about what the airports are doing to make people get through those quickly, but there's pinch points as far as industrial action is concerned that could be a problem? virgin atlantic pilot is belonging to the professional pilots union have called a strike from the 22nd of december two christmas day, four days. the airline says we are working flat out to make sure everyone gets to their destination. crucially overnight they said they applying for a legal injunction to stop the strike, just like ba did nine years ago with their cabin crew when they threatened strikes over christmas, and virgin atlantic says make sure we have your contact

details. they promised to release contingency plans later today. if you're flying with them and haven't heard anything yet, assume it will be ok but keep watching. john, briefly, if things don't go right, with the best will in the world they well, but if there are pinch points, what can people do? people will be here if you get lost or you're not sure, look for someone in a purple top. they are either the volunteers or colleagues helping out on busy days like this. they will look after you and put you in touch with the right people. the first thing to do, as simon says, is contact your airline, they'll have the best and most up to date information. thanks, we will talk later. that is the picture at heathrow. up the picture at heathrow. up and down the country this is a scene that will be repeated, but 250,000 people through this airport on friday alone, they're gearing up for their busiest winter wheat. i'll talk more about how they do it later and show you around. ben, thanks.

ben will be at heathrow all morning. you know nuisance calls? they do my head in. how do you respond, put the phone down? a mix, depending on the mood i am in. sometimes i let them cracked on... do the full spiel. -- cracked on... do the full spiel. -- crack on. for many of us, there's nothing worse than getting a call from someone trying to sell you something you don't want. yeah. it sounds really familiar, i'm sure most people have had one of those calls. if that scenario is familiar to you, then there's good news. from today, bosses whose firms pester people with unsolicited calls will be personally liable and could face fines of up to £500,000. it seems the change couldn't come soon enough. i often get nuisance calls three or four times a day about accidents and ppi. i get them about twice a day at about ppi i get them about twice a day at about pp! and being in a car accident. most often i put the phone down. accident. most often i put the phone downm it's an automated one as well, anonymous, i put it down. it is

sometimes about insurance, sometimes you've had a crash. i work from home so i'm at home and sometimes i picked up the phone thinking it's a work call, i don't always look at the number display and i'd get them quite a lot. i try to block them but they keep bringing all the time, they are frustrating. to the point where i get rid of my landline! we're joined now by steve eckersley, who is director of investigations at the information commissioner's office. it feels like it's taken ages to get to this point, why now? why now? first of all, we're really pleased with the positive step the government has taken and the reason they've taken this step is they've listened to our concerns. we've been investigating the cold calling issue for a number of issues now and it's because of our experience of organisations, particularly company directors, getting away with it if you like and being held accountable and responsible that's led to the change

in the legislation and we're pleased, it's a positive step. it's added a new dimension to investigative powers and enforcement powers and we're looking forward to taking this forward and making a real impact. you can now target these individuals, that's the change essentially, because what's happening is actions are on a business and they declare themselves bankrupt and move elsewhere and set up bankrupt and move elsewhere and set up another business. that's the problem we're facing. it tended to bea problem we're facing. it tended to be a bit like whac—a—mole were the countries were a phoenix and re—emerging and reinventing themselves. —— companies. it is a real positive step. it means we can target the individuals responsible. these are the key decision—makers within these companies, lots of them are small and medium enterprises. hopefully we can use the legislation to target the individuals and hold them to account. that's what people wa nt to them to account. that's what people want to see us doing, taking positive action. there's a hell of a lot of people who get unsolicited

calls at all times of day, especially... we have a duty and responsibility to protect those borough boat people if we can. how do the numbers compare now to a few yea rs do the numbers compare now to a few years ago? —— those vulnerable people. is it falling or is it going 7 people. is it falling or is it going up? there was a report that suggested there were 4 billion unsolicited calls, which is unacceptable. a year? over a period of time. we are seeing a couple of years ago we introduced an online reporting tool, and in the first year we had 180,000 concerns reported. since then, we've been taking more action, issuing more finds. we've seen a steady decline and now we receive around 100,000 concerns —— more finds. if you get a text, if you press 7726 that goes straight to your mobile

network operator. if you get an automated call, a live call, you can jump automated call, a live call, you can jump on our website. there's an online reporting tool, you can record your concern. principally what we're looking for from individuals is for them to identify the cork liner, the number that's calling them, the time and put that into the report online and we amalgamate that with complaints we get via the telephone preference service —— call liner. this is a list that companies shouldn't be on. if you get... 7726, it will go to the mobile network operator and eventually we get that information. the one i get quite often, it is a recorded individual talking to you about an accident you might have had, even when you respond it's a recorded message, what do you do with those? a combination, if you get the number, you can go on our online reporting tool and record your concerns and basically give us

a summary of what was said and we use that information to target organisations. what we will do is we will look at the top 20 organisations and then we will start building upa organisations and then we will start building up a case of evidence against them and where possible issue a fine. we can issue up to £500,000 to directors, which is obviously going to be really healthy in terms of enforced mid action. can you see a day where we won't have them any more? i can't promise that, but hopefully this will reduce the number of calls people receive. to be frank, people are sick of them, they are causing lots of frustration and annoyance. steve, thanks for coming in. appreciate that. live from chester zoo in the next hour getting an update on the fire. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london news, with me alice salfield. a former executive at hs two says he

believes the company misled mps about the cost of purchasing land along the rail route between london and birmingham. douglas thornton told the bbc‘s panorama the figure was hundreds of millions of pounds too low. hs two rejects the claims and says it followed procedure for keeping parliament updated. from today, the met will be trialling live facial recognition as part of their crack down on violent crime. the technology will be used near soho, piccadilly circus and leicester square until tomorrow. campaigners are describing it as a breach of rights to privacy and freedom of speech. a minute's silence has taken place at football matches in memory of a teenager who died after a collision during a game in west london. 14—year—old luca campa naro was injured while playing in goal last weekend, and died in hospital. his father americo says it was a freak accident, and doesn't believe protective headgear should be compulsory for young footballers. it's a contact sport, but it's not rugby.

it's not american football. it's not martial arts or anything like that, yeah, it's football, you know, and thatjust says how much of a freak accident it was. you can't see a football player running around with a helmet on or some pads, you know? hs2. new cycle routes that will be developed from next year are to be confirmed by the mayor today. city hall says it will insist on certain safety criteria when it gives out money to the schemes. it's part of tfl's commitment to invest more in walking and cycling. time for a look at the travel now. starting with some good news for those of you travelling by tube this morning, currently a good sevice on all lines at the moment. if we turn to the roads in grove park, this is baring road. there are temporary traffic lights near the train station for roadworks. in drayton green, drayton bridge road is closed because of a burst water main. and the a21 is closed southbound at sevenoaks for barrier repairs. and the a21 is closed southbound at sevenoaks for barrier repairs.

now the weather, with elizabeth rizzini. hello, good morning. today is set to be a fairly quiet day of weather, it will stay dry, there'll be plenty of sunshine around throughout the day and it will just turn a bit breezy as we head through the afternoon, with increasing amounts of cloud into the west as well. reasonably mild too for this time of year as well. we start off on a frost—free note, temperatures between 4—7. lots of early sunshine around, the sunshine will last for most of us as we head into the afternoon, with the cloud thickening in western and southern home counties towards the end of the day, top temperatures between 8—10, so not bad at all for december. the breeze picking up as we head into the evening rush—hour and staying windy overnight tonight. so a very blustery start to the day tomorrow. lots of cloud around too overnight, we'll see lows between 7—8, so a fairly mild start tomorrow. tomorrow a mild day but really rather windy, outbreaks of rain through the afternoon and then cooler on wednesday and thursday,

some showers at times. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. now, though, here's steph and dan. see you soon. good morning. welcome to breakfast with dan walker and steph mcgovern. it is 7am. your headlines this morning: theresa may warns another eu referendum would cause "irreparable damage" to british politics. but supporters of a vote insist it could be the only way of breaking the brexit deadlock. a father fights for his life, after a house fire that killed his wife and two children in nottinghamshire. good morning, gearing up for the getaway. it's the start of the busiest winter week for britain's airports. so, how will they make sure it all goes according to plan. i'm at heathrow to find out.

the 2018 sports personality of the year is geraint thomas. the tour de france champion geraint thomas is named as the 2018 sports personality of the year. we'll hear from the man himself and get reaction from all the stars as we go backstage in birmingham. having stolen the show on saturday night, shirley ballas will be here on the sofa to deliver her verdict on this year's strictly. good morning, it is a chilly start that for many of us it is a dry and a bite one. a further east tour, that will bring truth in the east later, the cloud will build, the wind will strengthen and we will cease raina via. but i will have more than a quarter of an hour. —— see some raina arrive. -- rain. it's monday the 17th december. our top story: theresa may will set out her opposition to another brexit referendum today, warning mps that it would break faith with the british people and cause "irreparable damage to the integrity

of our politics". two of the prime minister's senior allies have denied reports over the weekend that they'd been discussing the possibility of holding another vote. here's our political correspondent, chris mason. postponing a vote she would have lost, facing a vote of no confidence to oust her, and then an eu summit — long on drama and confrontation but short on breakthroughs. at least the prime minister found someone willing to play ball over the weekend. and yes, she is still trying to get her brexit plan through parliament. but many are now publicly discussing other options and talking down the ones they don't like. supposing you had another referendum, supposing the remain side won it by 52—48, but it was on a lower turnout, entirely possible. let me tell you that if there is another referendum, which i don't think there will be, people like me will be immediately demanding it's best of three. where does that end up? yesterday, two of the prime minister's closest allies denied they were toying with another public vote.

her chief of staff said he wasn't planning one, and her deputy said he's long thought it was a bad idea and would be divisive. but those hoping for another referendum say it might eventually be the only option. if parliament is gridlocked and there's no way of resolving the impasse and no consensus can be met in parliament, then how else do you resolve this other than referring it back to the people? the stage is set, then, for the coming parliamentary drama. the prime minister will be back here this afternoon. chris mason, bbc news, at westminster. our political correspondent iain watson is in westminster for us this morning. good morning to you. so, if this was to happen, how might the actual, i suppose process of a second referendum, how about work? yeah, let's go through it and bear with me, but! let's go through it and bear with me, but i think the top line is it is not straightforward, it is not

easy. the easiest way for this to happen is for the government introduce legislation to make it happen but we have heard from theresa may it is breaking faith in the british people to do so, so it is unlikely unless she is deposed thatis is unlikely unless she is deposed that is going to come the government. if a deal is voted on and defeated though, she has to come up and defeated though, she has to come up with an alternative plan within three weeks and that could be changed by mps to save let's have another referendum. the legislation would still have to be introduced after that and in order to win that vote in the first place, she probably needs an overwhelming number of labourmps to probably needs an overwhelming number of labour mps to back it that currently, the leadership position is that they would rather have a general election then a referendum simply to be left on the table, and some people around jeremy corbyn are dead set against it. so that is another barrier that would have to be overcome. and once you get all of that out of the way, you have to go to the independent elections watchdog, the electoral commission, they had to decide on the question or questions on the timescale as

well for any electoral campaign. by the time that happens, we are due to leave the european union at the end of march, so it is likely would have to extend our state to get this matter settled certainly may is making her position very clear in the house of commons today, she believes that any further act of democracy, any further referendum would be undermining the last one and do irreparable damage to politics. there is a political battle, never mind the lengthy process that would follow. the debate continues. pity for the moment. —— thank you. and later this morning, we'll speak to the business secretary, greg clark. that's at 8:30am. yes. the other news for you this morning. a five—year—old boy has become the third person to die following a house fire in nottinghamshire. the boy's mother and eight—year—old sister were also killed in the blaze in the village of collingham yesterday. the father remains in a serious condition. ben ando has more. the cause of the fire that tore through this family home in the village of collingham, near newark in nottinghamshire, remains under investigation.

justine collison, aged 34, her daughter isabella, who was eight, and her son harvey, aged five, were all killed, while gavin collison, on the right, is now fighting for his life in hospital. the only other survivor was mrs collison's mother, who was helped out uninjured. on social media, tributes were paid, including this one to mrs collison, here in an raf uniform, sitting on the left. this woman worked with her at a nearby school. she was lovely, could not meet a nicer woman. she was always smiling and adored her children and her husband. over the weekend, prayers were said for those who died and those who survived, and the local church will remain open during the day between now and christmas day for those wishing to pray or leave messages of condolence. ben ando, bbc news. seven at seven a.m.. if you're heading over to south wales from england this

morning, it will be a free journey for the first time in 52 years. the toll charge for vehicles has been scrapped after the bridge returned to public ownership last year. our reporter tomos morgan is on the severn bridge for us this morning. why has this happened? well, it is happen because the government has made a decision after the bridges came back into public ownership, that they wanted to scrap the tolls, so local businesses are happy, and also local punters are happy because they do not have the paper £6 fee they do not have the paper £6 fee they had to pay and lorries had to pay up they had to pay and lorries had to pay up to £20 at one stage the cost be severn bridge. —— to cross the severn bridge. the first lot of vehicles as you can see behind the an hour free—flowing here, vehicles as you can see behind the an hourfree—flowing here, there are gaps in the middle of a long row of toll booths here, there are laying of three coming through here. they're having to slow down to about

50 miles an hour at the moment as there are temporary roadworks in place, as i mentioned, local businesses happy with the actual scrapping of the tolls. there are some concerns that actually reducing or scrapping the fees he will actually create more traffic and other areas of the m4 corridor, a little bit further down the line. it will be a couple more weeks before this whole building works is taken down but for now i'll at least, that these have gone, businesses and local punters alike are very happy they do not have to pay any time they do not have to pay any time they cross back into wales. thank you very much. they are absolutely flying through there. do not have to slow down any more. tour de france winner geraint thomas has been named bbc sports personailty of the year. —— personality. the results of the public vote were revealed at a ceremony in birmingham last night. sally was there. looking very gorgeous. thanks, do

not feel very gorgeous this morning, to be fair. had ten second slip, a nano sleep. four copies and i have a blanket on a cushion outside the studio. you had a great night. it was brilliant. there were so many sort of standout moments on the night. yeah, it is really tricky. when you add an event like that, sometimes the atmosphere can be a little bit weird because it is big and it is a television programme and is very much a made for television rather than the people in the audience, but last night was very special. the others who was brilliant. i do not know how surprise people were that geraint thomas one baitieri who was most surprised about it and that was the man himself, let's listen to him.” wasjust like no, it is not going to happen. but unbelievable, like i said it isjust something i have watched since i was a kid. yeah, sat in my front room. and for it to be a public vote and everything makes it that much more special and to get that much more special and to get that public appreciation. he was a

bit shocked, he had not quite prepared anything for his big speech. that it is part of his magic. he is brilliant. we have had him on he quite recently, the other group who are just brilliant where the england women's netball team. brilliant. they won gold at the commonwealth games, i do not know of we have got pictures of them. yeah, we have got pictures of them. yeah, we have got pictures of them. yeah, we have got pictures of them. let's have a look at them. this is the moment they found out they had won, they won team, they also won sporting moment of the year. there are the golfers, awkward. they did not know, tracey neville was telling me that when they announced the second award on stage, she did not even hear it. she was standing there thinking what is going on? they genuinely did not know. that was such a good moment though. genuinely did not know. that was such a good moment thoughm genuinely did not know. that was such a good moment though. it was an amazing moment but helen, who is in the piece that we are showing you this morning and has a red dress on, she is somewhere in that crowd there, she was actually saying she

now has six, fed up of seeing that moment. surely not. she hates it, do you know why? i'm going to show your newspaper, i do not know of we can get a little shot of this newspaper. sorry the director. if ijust hold this newspaper, there is a reason helen hates that moment. so, i'm just going to show it everyone again now. there is helen, look at the colour of the time. it is blue. is that the only reason? she just said she does not like the picture, she is over it and has a bluetongue and eve ryo ne is over it and has a bluetongue and everyone goes why have you got a blue tongue? why has she got a bluetongue? ecology had a blue slushy before... no, not really. they had those blue energy gels. geraint thomas is an absolute star, we are going to hearfrom him later in your package. yeah. the message that we had the billy monger —— from billy mongerfor his that we had the billy monger —— from

billy monger for his dad was gorgeous, really, really lovely, properly. we will see later on. it has been a very busy night. now, you probably saw these pictures over the weekend, really horrible pictures to see. this is of course a huge fire that happened at chester zoo, that devastated its tropical enclosure. sumatran orangutans, which were housed in the enclosure, are now safe, but staff are still trying to account for other species. let's speak now to jamie christon, who is the zoo's chief operating officer. thank you so much for coming on the programme this morning, i know you probably still very busy with trying to sort things out. tell us exactly what happened and where we are up to now on how things are going this morning. well, it has been 48 hours in the fired work out about 11:30am on saturday. obviously, this saturday night in the sunday was mainly doing things of management

and yesterday afternoon, we were working with cheshire fire and rescue to complete the first part of the investigation into what happened in our monsoon forest building. we got four in our monsoon forest building. we gotfour main in our monsoon forest building. we got four main areas of focus this morning and for the rest of this week really, the first one is the welfare of the animals that are still inside that building or are being moved from that building the other temporary locations around the zoo, and it is quite a complex task. for example, we have got 51 primate moves, 51 moves of large mammal species across the zoo over the next few days to make sure their welfare is maintained. some of the animals within monsoon forest remaining in there and are being looked after by our cu rating there and are being looked after by our curating team there and are being looked after by our cu rating team and there and are being looked after by our curating team and also out that teams. although the fire was devastating in one part of the building, it only actually affected the right—hand side of the building so we are able to maintain services and power to the rest of the building and keep some animals there. and the third area within monsoon forest is actually some of

the smaller animals that are in there, many of the birds and the frou parts. —— rutba. the third area of focus is really the road to recovery, how we rebuild, we are open to the public and make sure that we can put our animals back in there. and before the area is really responding to the hundreds and hundreds of requests we've had for help, the lovely comments that have come in the mud around the world and also, collecting money, we set up a page on saturday and that was really based on many, many pages from people asking how can we help, how can we donate to the zoo and to your mission, which is preventing extinction? —— come in. mission, which is preventing extinction? -- come in. once you are aware there is a fire in there on how quickly does everything moving to evacuating animals and how quickly do you do that? very, very quickly. we have an emergency response team here at the zoo who

are on call within the zoo to any four hours a day. and immediately, we have a very sophisticated fire system within that building and we have staff in the building is well prepared to evacuate the people, the visitors and staff and that building. —— 24. immediately, we managed to bring our emergency response team down into the building in working with cheshire fire and rescue service and cheshire police managed to make sure the building was safe and allowed cheshire fire and rescue to go in and tackle the flames. you mention the £120,000 outpouring of support, there's been criticism saying you are insured and insurance will pay for that, so what do uni the money for? can you reassure people this morning what the money will be spent on and are you covered by insurance? -- you need. we are totally covered by insurance for the rebuild of the building. the money was, as i said, based on the

pledges from the public about donating and volunteering and helping the cause and the mission, that will be spent on conservation projects either here in the zoo or around the world. in terms of impact on the animals, what about the staff? anyone who has been to chester zoo watching this morning will know there's a real relationship between those who work there and the animals they look after. what's been the impact on the people that work at chester zoo this weekend? as part of our emergency response team we have an on—call hr tea m response team we have an on—call hr team that come in with support for ohs, we have support for cheshire police and council is to talk to the staff, who were on site on the day and were affected in the forest building or around that area on saturday. they've been working with us ever since mid— saturday afternoon and will continue to work with us over the next few weeks. were very close team here, a big organisation but very close. we've

been proud of the passion our staff have shown over the next few days —— last few days. we will continue to monitor the staff. you have rehouse the animals elsewhere in the zoo and you are back open for business? -- rehoused. we opened today at 10am. the process of moving the animals will take a number of days. we found homes for them, we won't be moving any of them out of the zoo and we will move them around over the next few days to make sure they're looked after. thanks for talking to us, jamie, i know it's been a busy weekend. appreciate your time and have a great christmas. speak to you later. here's carol with a look at this morning's weather. that's a very gorgeous picture, is that the kind of whether we've got to look forward to? for many today yes it is, steph. good morning, a chilly start today with patchy mist and fog around durham and yorkshire, that will lift. for many, bright and sunny skies, particularly the

further east you are. in the west, that they change coming. on the satellite, you can see this cloud. that brought rain overnight, it has moved away but this next area of cloud wrapped around an area of low pressure has two weather fronts embedded in it. the first one is coming our way embedded in it. the first one is coming ourway and embedded in it. the first one is coming our way and that will bring patchy light rain and drizzle, look at the isobars, really quite tightly packed so windy later on. the second weather front comes in, packed so windy later on. the second weatherfront comes in, bringing heavy or persistent rain. a lot of bright skies and sunshine, any low cloud in parts of scotland and northern england lifting, then the first weather front coming in bringing this cloud, patchy light rain and strengthening winds. by mid—afternoon, looking at gales in exposure in western scotland, just to gale force around the irish sea and picking up in western approaches for you through the evening and overnight with gusts to gale force. through the opening and overnight, our weather front drips from the west to the east, taking cloud and light rain and drizzle with it ——

through the evening and overnight, our weather front goes from the west to the east, taking cloud and light rain and drizzle with it. ten and 11 in the west, they would be good daytime maximums, much less overnight lows. not as cold in the east as currently. through the course of tomorrow, quite a cloudy start for many. a band of rain, heavy and persistent, comes in from the west, drifting east. still a windy day. as the rain clears northern ireland, it will dry up and brighten up with the risk of a couple of showers. these temperatures in double figures in particular across scotland, quite a change from the weekend, meaning any lying snow is likely to melt, couple that with the rain going through and there's the risk of localised flooding. wednesday, we start on a mostly dry note, variable amounts of cloud through the day, some sunny spells and also showers. most of the showers will be in the south and also the west. some of them merging

to give longer spells of rain and temperatures just down a touch on what we were looking at during tuesday —— we're looking at on tuesday. by thursday, a similar story, variable amounts of cloud, bright spells, some sunny spells and again you can see where we have the showers in the south and west. temperatures not too dissimilar to what we're looking at on wednesday, steph and dan. sunny spells and sounds good to me. thanks, see you later. you're picking out selective bits!” thanks, see you later. you're picking out selective bits! ijust ignore the rain and go for sunny spells! i hope you're having a nice morning, thanks for being with us on bbc breakfast on this monday morning. most of them lead with brexit this morning. the guardian quotes theresa may as saying a new referendum "would break faith with the people". the main picture there is geraint thomas who was last night crowned bbc sportt personality of the year. he is on quite a few of the papers this morning. that was in birmingham. the telegraph goes with comments from boris johnson who says a fresh vote would provoke "instant, deep and ineradicable feelings of betrayal." next to that is actress ella purnell, who's been speaking

about her battles with mental health. the express says "don't dare steal our brexit". that refers to theresa may's warnings against going for another referendum. it also reckons strictly champion stacey dooley is set to land her own tv show. she's already on bbc three. she's got loads of brilliant... stacey dooley investigates. surely ballots will be here later on. we'll get the gossip! —— shirley ballas. but the mirror has chosen not to go with brexit on its front page. it's campaigning to save free tv licences for over—755. former prime minister gordon brown is backing their campaign. we've talked about the fact brexit is on the front page of many of the papers, if you think british politics is a bit of a joke at the moment, you're not alone. the american sketch show saturday night live poked fun at the brexit process over the weekend, taking aim at mrs may. let's take a look.

hgppy happy christmas, brexit! everything is fine, everything is good. happy christmas, christmas! wow, hello, my dears. thank you so much. i'm prime minister theresa may and happy christmas, britain. what a dreadful week it's been. my brexit deal is falling apart, i almost got voted out and no one in the world likes me at all. it's still christmas, so let's. .. likes me at all. it's still christmas, so let's... sounds a bit more like angela merkel than theresa may! that kind of comes with the pa rt if may! that kind of comes with the part if europol addition, there is a log of mimicking that goes on. that's another form of flattery —— if you're a politician. it's like if someone takes the mickey out of your family if they're not in your family. you get defensive. that's very true. you just do your own fellow! but it was quite funny! there's lots of talk in the papers

about traffic and travel. villages sticks of moving everyone over christmas. millions of passengers in and out of one of the world's busiest airports for the festive getaway. ben is at heathrow and can tell us more. i'm probablyjust getting in the way this morning. good morning from terminal 2 at heathrow. really a busy week, their busiest winter week of the year. 250,000 passengers will travel through this terminal over the course of friday alone, that is expected to be their busiest day. but, of course, they've been planning this all year. today is when it starts to get busy and we've been here since around 5:30am. pretty quiet then but starting to fillup, as pretty quiet then but starting to fill up, as you might be able to see, some flights leaving, oslo, istanbul, copenhagen all leaving this morning. 250,000 passengers

going through here on friday alone but it's not just going through here on friday alone but it's notjust people, there's cargo as well that will go through this airport. 140,000 tons of it and a lot of it christmas related. there's a lot of scottish salmon being exported around the world, a fair few christmas trees, even a snowplough on one of the inventory is being sent out of the airport today. we've been talking to the boss of the airport about what's involved in making sure it all goes well. the pinch points tend to be check—in where you might get queues, but also security. we've been talking about what you can and can't take. snow globes are a no—no, they breach the liquids rules. christmas crackers, with some airports and some airlines you're allowed them, at some you're not. we will get clarity on that later. all sorts of different things, raptor presents, don't wrap them if you're taking them abroad because chances are they wa nt to them abroad because chances are they want to see what's inside. simon

calder, travel editor at the independent, he will tell us what you can and can't take a. we will show you later about how they run things and making sure everything goes to plan. more on that later. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london news, with me, alice salfield, a former executive at hs2 has said he believes the company misled mps about the cost of purchasing land along the rail route between london and birmingham. douglas thornton told the bbc‘s panorama programme the figure was hundreds of millions of pounds too low. hs2 rejects the claims and says it followed procedure for keeping parliament updated. from today, the met will be trialling live facial recognition as part of their crack down on violent crime. the technology will be used near soho, piccadilly circus and leicester square until tomorrow. campaigners are describing it as a breach of rights to privacy and freedom of speech. a minute's silence has taken place

at football matches in memory of a teenager who died after a collision during a game in west london. 14—year—old luca campa naro was injured while playing in goal last weekend, and died in hospital. his father americo says it was a freak accident, and doesn't believe protective headgear should be compulsory for young footballers. it's a contact sport, but it's not rugby. it's not american football. it's not martial arts or anything like that, yeah, it's football, you know, and thatjust says how much of a freak accident it was. you can't see a football player running around with a helmet on or some pads, you know? new cycle routes that will be developed from next year are to be confirmed by the mayor today. city hall says it will insist on certain safety criteria when it gives out money to the schemes. it's part of tfl's commitment to invest more in walking and cycling. time for a look at the travel now. on the tube board, you can see

there are some minor delays on tfl rail between paddington and hayes & harlington. a good service everywhere else, though. if we turn to the roads in grove park, this is baring road. there are temporary traffic lights near the train station for roadworks. in drayton green, drayton bridge road is closed because of a burst water main. and the a21 is closed southbound at sevenoaks for barrier repairs. now the weather, with elizabeth rizzini. hello, good morning. today is set to be a fairly quiet day of weather, it will stay dry, there'll be plenty of sunshine around throughout the day and it will just turn a bit breezy as we head through the afternoon, with increasing amounts of cloud into the west as well. reasonably mild too for this time of year as well. we start off on a frost—free note, temperatures between 4—7. lots of early sunshine around, the sunshine will last for most of us as we head into the afternoon, with the cloud thickening in western and southern home counties towards the end of the day, top temperatures between 8—10, so not bad at all for december. the breeze picking up as we head into the evening rush—hour and staying windy overnight tonight.

so a very blustery start to the day tomorrow. lots of cloud around too overnight, we'll see lows between 7—8, so a fairly mild start tomorrow. tomorrow a mild day but really rather windy, outbreaks of rain through the afternoon and then cooler on wednesday and thursday, some showers at times. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. now though here's steph and dan. see you soon. hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and steph mcgovern. the main stories: theresa may will warn mps today that a further brexit referendum risks breaking faith with the british people and will cause "irreperable damage" to the integrity of british politics. in a speech in the house of commons, the prime minister will say a fresh vote

would further divide the country. over the weekend, two of her senior allies denied reports they'd been discussing the possibility of holding another vote. a five—year—old boy has become the third member of the same family to die as the result of a house fire in nottinghamshire. harvey collison's motherjustine, and his eight—year—old sister isabella, were also killed in the blaze on saturday, in the village of collingham in newark. the boy's father is in a serious condition in hospital. a fifth person has died following last tuesday's shooting in a christmas market in the french town of strasbourg. an official at the prosecutor's office in paris said the victim was a polish national. a memorial took place last night in the city to remember those who lost their lives. new laws to better protect agency workers and those on zero hours contracts will be set out by the government today. the business secretary greg clark says the reforms

are the biggest upgrade to workers's rights in more than a generation. it will guarantee that employees are informed of their pay and eligibility for maternity, paternity and sick leave on the first day at a newjob. the tuc say the rules won't shift the balance of power in the gig economy. donations to chester zoo following a large fire over the weekend have now reached nearly £120,000. the number of animals killed in saturday's blaze at the monsoon forest habitat still remains unknown. bosses at the site, which has now reopened, have praised the hard work of keepers and thanked the public for their support. they say they will have lots of work ahead of them. is quite a complex task, for example we have got 51 primate moves, 51 moves of large novel species across the next few days to make sure there welfare is maintained. some of the other animals within monsoon forest

remaining in there and are being looked after by our curating team and also out that teams, although the fire was devastating, it has only actually affected one side of the building so we were able to maintain services in part of the building and keep some of the animals there. if you're crossing either of the two bridges across the severn estuary this morning, they will be toll free for the first time in 52 years. the change could mean that drivers will save as much as £1400 a year as a result. the charge for vehicles was scrapped following the bridge's return to public ownership last year. now, do you do much diy?” now, do you do much diy? i will do anything apart from gas and electric. that is fair enough. that is correct, i would never dare to touch that. tackling a bit of diy can often be cause for tension in some households, but surely not when you've got two time lords on the case. you would think that would be all right. have a look at this picture. david tennant, who played the tenth tenant of the tardis,

and peter davison, who was the fifth doctor, changing a lightbulb. the chandelier. yeah. it was shared by davison's daughter and david tennant‘s wife, georgia, who captioned it: "how many doctors does it take to change a lightbulb"? that is quite an elaborate... i mean surely, it is just a bayonet, that is quite an elaborate... i mean surely, it isjust a bayonet, you just twisted in. yeah, just twisted. they have probably got a posh one. our director tim, who is obviously well into his electrics, he says that it horribly ae gu10. one of those ones, what is that? push and twisted the side. we know lightbulbs, don't we? mostly do leds. carol will be here in 10 minutes to tell you what's happening with the weather. sally. someone rescue me, please.

you do not want the bright light this morning. i do not mind the bright lights, it is the chat about the bright light that... sorry, i have not had much sleep. you need to keep me awake. i was at the sports personality of the year last night, which was in birmingham, finish quite late. i was about as they did not go to... then i remembered, yes, idid. i not go to... then i remembered, yes, i did. i did not go to bed long. everyone letting their hair down, particularly the england netball tea m particularly the england netball team because they had a great night. geraint thomas on the dance floor had a final time. you have all watched it on the tv last night. i got some special behind the scenes access at the awards ceremony in birmingham. here's what i got up to. this is it, folks. welcome to sports personality 2018. we're going to rub shoulders with some sporting royalty tonight. the world cup itself was such a whirlwind. i always like to promise

you lots of exclusive backstage access. let's hope she's in and let's hope she is ready to answer the door. are you ready for us? i am, come in. thank you so much. it's going to be an absolutely incredible night. it'sv obviously really nice to celebrate everyone's sporting achievements. as you can hear, the excitement is building all around this arena, arena, it's crazy. i've actually never known the atmosphere to be like this. i's about to take my seat. gareth southgate, congratulations on an incredible evening and an incredible year. -- i'm. people were kind of denying they cared about international football because they

didn't want to get hurt anymore, but the most pleasing aspect of the summer to me was that we took everybody on a journey that really reconnected the team and brought pride back to our supporters. the 2018 team of the year is england netball team. it's exciting for netball and to get some recognition, and hopefully the sport just keeps on growing. that memory of that moment and the entire game is just something that will live with me and the rest of the squad forever, and it's so special for it to be celebrated like this and for women's sport to be in the headlines. so please let's welcome the 2018 helen rollason award winner, the extraordinary billy monger. congratulations, billy. yeah, thank you so much. you were so composed on the stage. did you have any clue about what you were going to say? i had an idea about what i was going to say. unfortunately, i got cut off a little bit early when i was going to... yeah, you got cut off. so, this is your moment. when they stopped you, what where you going to say about your mum and dad? i was going to say how strong they were for me at the right time, ‘cause my dad, he doesn't really say it that often but he blamed himself

quite a bit for my accident because he was the one got me into racing. basically, whether he wanted me to race or not, i was going to do it anyway, so i wasjust going to basically thank them for being so influential in my life, because without them, i would be nothing. the 2018 sports personality of the year is geraint thomas! it's been 22 years now i'vt been riding the bike, and 12 years as a professional and my ninth tour de france, and nothing went wrong. which is unusual for you. yeah, yeah. no punches or crashes or anything, and then yeah, i ended up winning the tour and riding down the champs elysee,

i am still kind of pinching myself. it has been a whirlwind since, it is so crazy. it is heavy, that trophy. when i was getting at this morning, i saw that he said banks were good night, so i sent a message to say you therefore going to come or or are you going to bed now? he said enjoyed the show.” know he was going to take a flight. i wonder if he might be missing that flight this i wonder if he might be missing that flight this morning. his parting words to us last night were this is only going to happen once in my lifetime. how many times and i going to win this? so he's going to enjoy it. he enjoys it. absolutely. there was also some other sports. liverpool are back at the top of the premier league after their 3—1 win over manchester united at anfield. xherdan shaqiri came off the bench and scored twice to consign jose mourinho's side to another defeat. they're now 19 points behind liverpool in the table. fantastic game.

the whole 93, or 95 minutes was just, my boys were in charge of the game and dominated it, and they came a bit up, we had to stay in the game, that's what we did, and then second half, just do it and do it, be kind of annoying, do it and do it, and then shaqiri came on and scored these two goals, it's just brilliant. everyone os their players is fast, is aggressive, their transitions are phenomenal, we had some difficulties to cope with it, but then with our qualities, we managed to balance the game, and in the second half was when the game was progressively dying, was when i think probably a huge percentage of the ones in the stadium would feel this is going to end with a 1—1. what is going on in there? he does not look happy. meanwhile, rangers have gone back

to the top of the table in the scottish premiership, after a narrow 1—0 win over hamilton academical at ibrox. daniel candeias scored the only goal of the game early in the first half and managed to hold on. the three points were enough to move them above kilmarnock on goal difference. leicester's hopes of reaching the champions cup knockout stages are all but over after they were beaten by racing 92. leicester's disappointing season continues. the tigers have now lost eight successive games for the first time since 1975. racing remain unbeaten after a bonus point win. finally, the best pictures of the morning. we've heard about putting your body on the line in sport. well, let's look at something taking that to the extreme. take a look at these goaline clearances from dulwich hamlet. somehow they made six clearances to deny wingate & finchley, some great groans. that was my favourite bit in it. can

you listen to the groans? i will be quiet. listen to this. come on, come on, come on! that is incredible. six goalline clearances. eventually, they lost. yeah, they lost 2—1, after about, all of those heroics. thank you very much. go have a little lie down. it is 8:40 a.m.. one of the other big things over the weekend, strictly head judge shirley ballas will be here. why do you keep doing now the? she is head judge. but also this morning, we are

talking about the fastest trains in europe connecting england's biggest cities. that's the ambition behind the multibillion pound hs2 rail project. but a former director says mps were mislead about how much it would cost to purchase land along the proposed route. panorama's justin rowlatt has been looking into this and join us now. the awning. so can you do to mind is about what pages two years and where they are up to with that? so what haters to is is this hugely ambitious high—speed network and the idea is to knit a great cities of an altogether with birmingham and london, create the sort of superfast corridor to the country, as you say of the fastest trains in the world, itaims to of the fastest trains in the world, it aims to be up to 225 miles an hour, she is ambitious, by far the biggest building project in britain at the moment, indeed in britain since the second world war, biggest in europe they say, but it also comes with a vast pricetag, £56 billion, so very, very pensive. we

can see some nice pictures behind us that this is not tell the whole story because quite a few properties are having to be compulsorily purchase to get people out of the way. —— expensive. you have spoken to homeowners as a result of this —— asa to homeowners as a result of this —— as a part of this panorama programme. yeah, if you are in the path of a railway, you've got to move. interestingly, haters to says they manage to agree a price of most people but quite a few people have been upset with how they have been treated. we saw this guy with a wonderful house in buckinghamshire, he has spent tens of thousands of pounds doing tlc to this place, four generations of his family live there, haters to is saying you've got to get out because railways coming through. this is what he told a. i'm not the one who wants move. i will stay here then. it is going to cost them millions, that is not my fault, that is their fault. they wa nt fault, that is their fault. they want to knock the house down, pay the piper. ifi

want to knock the house down, pay the piper. if i want to buy something that i can't afford, i don't buy it and i am not getting like for like, i'mjust don't buy it and i am not getting like for like, i'm just getting a silly offer. he is talking a lot of sense there. what about this mention benefit being grossly underestimated. we talk about that a lot, cost of projects over running in going over budget, what have you found on that? the thing is when you begina found on that? the thing is when you begin a project like this you want to estimate the cost overrun. we spoke to a guy called doug thornton, it was his idea to determine how much the purchase of all the property was going to cost. he realised that the figure that haters to have a significantly lower than what he thought the real price was going to be. he said haters to knew that properties had been less out of the estimate that did not upgrade the estimate that did not upgrade the estimate that did not upgrade the estimate it put the mps and they we re the estimate it put the mps and they were considering the cost, and he was what he told us. typically, you would see houses, said £100,000 or

£200,000 the difference, more complex numbers you are seeing up to £7 million difference. were you? yes, and that really very much concerning as the final imprecations of the cost of haters to. what age is to say about all this side of things? as you can imagine, haters to say they did not mislead and i spoke to the chief executive mark thurston, he said listen, on big projects like this, costs are always evolving, as they get new information about the written word is going to go, cost developer may get a better idea of what is going to cost. they said they followed the correct procedure to out and the watchdog, the national audit office, had a look at land and property. it did find that cost had increased massively, tripled over four years, but it said it was not about to tell mps about those cost increases. thank you very much for coming in to

tell us about this. panorama: hs2: going off the rails is on bbc one tonight at 7:30pm and then on the bbc iplayer. i get the feeling will be talking about that for quite a few years to come. devastating you're watching breakfast from bbc news. the headlines: theresa may is expected to tell mps that a second brexit referendum would break faith with the british people. tour de france winner geraint thomas has been crowned bbc sports personality of the year. we're hoping to get him on the phone, but i don't know what our chances are! i think our only hope is that he is still up and has pulled an all—nighter. the apprentice final, strictly come dancing, shirley ballas on the way. head judge, shirley ballas! you have to do that! it is like when you see carol, you have to macro three all or curtsies. good morning, carol! good morning. a chilly start to the day if you haven't yet stepped outside, but for many it will be to,

bright and sunny but a change is coming from the west in the shape of some rain and strengthening winds. on the satellite, you can see this big lump of cloud that brought rain through the night, it has now moved away, and this one is wrapped around an area of low pressure and it's concealing two weather fronts. the first one coming our way will introduce patchy rain, look at the isa bars, you can see the wind will strengthen and the second one comes in later, bringing heavy and persistent rain. first thing, a chilly start, low cloud in parts of scotland, northern england, patchy fog in durham, yorkshire and that will lift and will brighten and it will lift and will brighten and it will be a fine day for most of the uk. however, out to the west, as the weather front approaches, the cloud will build and we'll see patchy rain moving from the west very slowly to the east. the wind will strengthen. in between these two weather fronts, the tightly packed isa bars, so we're looking at gales across western scotland with exposure and

gusts to gale force through the irish sea and through the afternoon into the evening we'll see gales through the south—western approaches. heavy and persistent rain coming ourway. approaches. heavy and persistent rain coming our way. check out those temperatures, it's a mild night, especially for this stage in december, 11. we'd be happy to see that by day, but we will see it by dave too. not as cold as the night just gone in eastern areas tonight _by just gone in eastern areas tonight —— by day too. tomorrow, you'll find it's a cloudy start with patchy light rain to be usurped by heavy rain coming ourway, light rain to be usurped by heavy rain coming our way, more persistent and behind that, drying up and brightening up in northern ireland with a few showers. because it's unseasonably mild tomorrow, you'll find where we do have any snow, for example lying snow in scotland, it will melt and couple that with all this rain, we could see issues with

localised flooding. by the time we get to wednesday for the bulk of the uk, it's going to be dry, some bright spells and sunny intervals. you can see showers floating into east anglia, southern england, wales, north—west england, western scotla nd wales, north—west england, western scotland and northern ireland. some of those will merge to give longer spells of rain and attempts slipping a bit compared to tuesday. —— and temperatures. thursday is similar, bright, sunny spells. showers in parts of the south and west and temperatures not too dissimilar to what we're looking at on wednesday. we've got the rain, five, six, seven to maybe around 11. carol, thanks very much. not too bad for this time of year. you'll take that before christmas? yeah. a really busy week, notjust on the roads, was reading an article about the chaos... the traffic. driving home for christmas! also for those

going on a winter break. ben is at heathrow looking at how they are working out the logistics for the great festive getaway. this is the busiest week for airports all over the country? it is the busiest winter week of the year, they call it. 250,000 people will pass through here on friday alone. clearly everyone trying to get home for the holidays or maybe trying to avoid the holidays entirely and go somewhere warm and sunny. we're at heathrow this morning, starting to get busier as the flights get under way and people jet of where they're going. how do they make sure it goes on smoothly and what top tips might you need to rememberfor your and what top tips might you need to remember for your travelling? what can you take with you? with me are john holland kay, the chief executive, good morning ——. and simon calder, the travel editor at the independent —— john holland—kaye. you plan this all year, how do you make sure you get it right? christmas is about families, we change the field,

there's a lot more fun and light around. —— the feel. we have carol singers and santa in the terminals, kids eat free, lots of fun things, and they go free on heathrow express, we make it as easy and quick as possible for people. there will be pinch points at check—in and security and there will be queues, how do you make sure people get through quickly when it is so busy, 250,000 on friday alone. we have more people on the desks and security lanes, so people fly through. uq at security for two minutes at heathrow, a world—class experience —— you to. get your liquids out of your bags, big electrical light, items, making sure you have weighed your bags and making sure they are within the limits for your airline —— electrical items. if you do that you will get through quickly and you will get through quickly and you will start your holiday at heathrow. simon, that's the picture at heathrow, something repeated up and down the country but interestingly,

different dates when they will be busier, it tells you a lot about what we're doing. birmingham, manchester, edinburgh and glasgow international, next friday will be the busiest day of the christmas season. gatwick, stansted and bristol, sunday the 23rd of december and the last big airport in the uk, luton, the 28th of december will be the busiest, so after christmas. at all of those places you truly got to concentrate on security, because that's what trips up so many people —— you've really. i used to frisked people at the airport at gatwick. don't take your presents, i used to have to unwrap them to see what's inside, no snow globes, no brandy butter —— frisk. at you want to bring christmas crackers, check with your airline, they have different rules, but also the airport, some don't allow crackers in hand luggage. john, one of the things people will notice, clearly they have control

over check in, do they have control over check in, do they have control over security, yes, getting the right things in the right bags, but the thing that will be frustrating is coming back. border queues, passport control always a nightmare, lots of long queues, but that's outside your control. the arrival is a journey and a ring through immigration is under the control of the home office and border force —— the arrivals journey. january the second will be our busiest day for arrivals. there will be lots of families and with young children you can't use the gates, they are world—class for people that can use it but for under 12s you have to go through the normal lanes —— e—gates. we make sure we are staffed up as much as possible. that's a frustration, they see lots of e—gates with no one at them or they are closed. why? that is for uk border force to work out in terms of their staffing, it isa out in terms of their staffing, it is a resource issue. tuesday the

second of january is is a resource issue. tuesday the second ofjanuary is the busiest day here. it's going to be an interesting long festive break, most of the airports are saying their busiest day will be the sixth of january. people will be enjoying a long holiday and then they will come back to let's hope not too long queues. speaking of the new year, john, two really big issues that will affect the airport, brexit will be one of them, not some uncertainty about what that means with our flying and where we can fly —— lots of. and the potential new runway, where are we on that? it is bang on track, planning starting in 2021 and opening in 2026. lots of work to do and it will come by quickly. the end of march, brexit, a big day for us. people will be confident they can fly after brexit, book your holidays for next summer. things will feel very much as normal. it's a big issue for the uk as a whole and as a business, and the biggest port in the uk, we're looking for certainty

so we don't have a hard brexit at the end of march. that will allow everyone to plan and make sure we get the best opportunities as we leave the eu. you can't open a newspaper or read any headlines at the moment without seeing fears of planes grounded in march, that won't happen? planes will fly after march, 2019. people can book with confidence, we'll have a normal operation and people will be able to leave and come back in the same weight and we're working closely with government to make sure that will happen. —— same way. when we hear 250,000 on friday, it's already a busy airport, do we have the capacity? are the things happening this year enough to make sure we are well prepared? the whole uk aviation policy is we've been squeezing a quart into a pint pot for years. the capacity they extract from the busiest two ru nways they extract from the busiest two runways in the world and from gatwick from one runway is extraordinary. as with anything to

do with travel, hope for the best but be prepared for delays and disruption. there's a thought! nice to see you both, john and simon, see you soon. that's a taste of what's happening at heathrow. as you heard from simon, this will be repeated up and down the country, a busy week. be prepared, know what's in your bags, p within the limits, and if you're jetting in your bags, p within the limits, and if you'rejetting of in your bags, p within the limits, and if you're jetting of for christmas, have a great time but do it smoothly to get through the airport —— be within the limits —— jetting off. see you later. that's a good tip about the presents, don't wrap them if they're going in your case. also a great excuse if you don't take presents! sorry, security took them away, here's a cheap candle instead! couple of things to mention, traffic on the roads, papers are saying thursday will be the busiest day on the roads, m25, m6, m4 did the most difficult. and the sprouts, do you

score your sprouts? of course i do, six out of ten! i didn't know what you meant. my mom got me to do that, the criss—cross at the bottom. if you score your sprouts, you shouldn't, a food texture analyst called paul brown has done a series of studies and he's discovered that boiling them, scored and non—scored sprouts for nine minutes, you have ruined it by scoring them. so don't do it! i'm glad there are people out there doing this research to make our lives easier. it is crucial. coming up we have greg clark, the business secretary. tracey neville. jung sung—ryong wrote from —— the unsung hero from strip the come dancing. and shirley ballas will be here. i bet she is good at scoring sprouts. i bet she loves to score sprouts! time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. we'll be back with the headlines at

8am. good morning from bbc london news, with me, alice salfield. from today, the met will be trialling live facial recognition as part of their crack down on violent crime. the technology will be used near soho, piccadilly circus and leicester square until tomorrow. the technology is designed to identify people on the street by scanning their faces and cross referencing the results with a database. campaigners have called its use authoritarian, dangerous and lawless. a minute's silence has taken place at football matches in memory of a teenager who died after a collision during a game in west london. 14—year—old luca campa naro was injured while playing in goal last weekend, and died in hospital. his father americo says it was a freak accident, and doesn't believe protective headgear should be compulsory. it's a contact sport, but it's not rugby. it's not american football. it's not martial arts or anything like that, yeah, it's football, you know, and thatjust says how much of a freak accident it was.

you can't see a football player running around with a helmet on or some pads, you know? new cycle routes that will be developed from next year are to be confirmed by the mayor today. city hall says it will insist on certain safety criteria when it gives out money to the schemes. it's part of tfl's commitment to invest more in walking and cycling. houses being put up for sale in london have lower asking prices than a year ago, and next year is forecast to be a similar story. that's according to the property website rightmove, which says the average price of a home is nearly ten thousand pounds cheaper than it was just two months ago. -- £10,000. time for a look at the travel now. on the tube board, you can see there are some minor delays on tfl rail between paddington and hayes & harlington. a good service everywhere else, though. if we turn to the roads in grove park, this is baring road. there are temporary traffic lights near the train station for roadworks.

in drayton green, drayton bridge road is closed because of a burst water main. and the a21 is closed southbound at sevenoaks for barrier repairs. —— barrier. now the weather, with elizabeth rizzini. hello, good morning. today is set to be a fairly quiet day of weather, it will stay dry, there'll be plenty of sunshine around throughout the day and it will just turn a bit breezy as we head through the afternoon, with increasing amounts of cloud into the west as well. reasonably mild too for this time of year as well. we start off on a frost—free note, temperatures between 4—7. lots of early sunshine around, the sunshine will last for most of us as we head into the afternoon, with the cloud thickening in western and southern home counties towards the end of the day, top temperatures between 8—10, so not bad at all for december. the breeze picking up as we head into the evening rush—hour and staying windy overnight tonight. so a very blustery start to the day tomorrow. lots of cloud around too overnight, we'll see lows between 7—8, so a fairly mild start tomorrow. tomorrow a mild day but really rather windy, outbreaks of rain through the afternoon and then

cooler on wednesday and thursday, some showers at times. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. now here's steph and dan. see you soon. good morning — welcome to breakfast, with dan walker and steph mcgovern. our headlines today: theresa may warns another eu referendum would cause "irreparable damage" to british politics. but supporters of a vote insist it could be the only way of breaking the brexit deadlock. a father fights for his life after a house fire that killed his wife and two children in nottinghamshire. good morning, gearing up for the getaway. the busiest winter week for airports. how did they make sure everything goes according to plan? i will have some top tips for you a

little later. the 2018 sports personality of the year is geraint thomas! that's him! the tour de france champion geraint thomas is named as the 2018 sports personality of the year. we'll hear from the man himself and get reaction from all the stars as we go backstage in birmingham. plus — after stacey and kevin stole the show on saturday night, shirley ballas will be here on the sofa to deliver her verdict on this year's strictly. good morning, a chilly start to the day to day but for many it is dry and bright with some sunny spells but it will change in the west as thicker cloud, some rain and stronger winds arrive later. i'll have more in quarter of an hour. good morning. it's monday the 17th december. our top story: theresa may will set out her opposition to another brexit referendum today, warning mps that it would break faith with the british people and cause "irreparable damage to the integrity of our politics".

two of the prime minister's senior allies have denied reports over the weekend they'd been discussing the possibility of holding another vote. here's our political correspondent, chris mason: postponing a vote she would have lost, facing a confidence vote to oust her, and then an eu summit, long on drama and confrontation but short on breakthroughs. at least the prime minister has found someone willing to play ball over the weekend. and, yes, she still hopes she can get her brexit plan through parliament. but many are now publicly discussing other options and talking down the ones they don't like. supposing we have another referendum, supposing the remain side won it by 52—48 but it was on a lower turnout? entirely possible. let me tell you that, if there is another referendum, which i don't think there will be, people like me will be immediately demanding it's best of three. where does that end up? yesterday, two of the prime minister's closest allies denied they were toying with another public vote. her chief of staff said

he wasn't planning one, and her deputy said he's long thought it was a bad idea and would be divisive. but those hoping for another referendum say it might eventually be the only option. if parliament is gridlocked and there's no way of resolving the impasse and no consensus can be met in parliament, then how else do you resolve this other than referring it back to the people? the stage is set, then, for the coming parliamentary drama. the prime minister returns here this afternoon. chris mason, bbc news, at westminster. iain watson is in westminster for us. good morning. lots of talk about this talk of a second referendum. if it were to happen, what would happen, what is the process? ok, bear with me as i run through some

of this. the key thing to bear in mind as it is not straightforward, mps can't just stick their hand mind as it is not straightforward, mps can'tjust stick their hand up and suddenly it happens. basically, the easiest way for it to happen is the easiest way for it to happen is the government to introduce the necessary legislation to make sure it happens. but with theresa may saying this would be, breaching the trust of the british people, this would be doing irreparable damage to our politics, it won't happen while she is prime minister. that's not to say she can't be moved aside, there was an attempt to do so last week. the other way to do it, she comes back to the deal, it is voted down and she has to come up with an alternative deal in three weeks. mps can then try and change that plan to include a second referendum. the trouble there is you would need the overwhelming majority of mps to get behind it and at the moment their policies to call for a second general election. some are dead set against the second referendum. let's say those hurdles are overcome, that's fine, then the politicians have to go to the independent

electoral commission. it decides on question or questions and the timescale for a referendum campaign. all of which will take us beyond the end of march when we are due to leave the european union. so could it happen? i suppose since i am caused watson i'm going to paraphrase sherlock holmes, once you eliminate highly improbable looks likely stop light a bit of sherlock holmes in the mix! i like it. you. elementary. and later this morning we'll speak to the business secretary, greg clark — that's at 8:30. a five—year—old boy has become the third member of the same family to die as the result of a house fire in nottinghamshire. his mother and eight—year—old sister were killed in the blaze yesterday, in the village of collingham in newark. the boy's father is in a serious condition in hospital. some breaking business news to bring you this morning which suggests that it's notjust the high street struggling this christmas.

in the past hour the online retailer, asos, has issued a sales and profits warning. the firm says it has experienced a "significant downturn" trading in the run—up to christmas and that conditions remain challenging. it also said unseasonably warm weather in the last three months had made an impact with shoppers spending less. yes. there's good news if you're crossing either of the severn bridges this morning — for the first time in 52 years it won't cost you a penny. the toll charge has been scrapped and our reporter tomos morgan is there for us this morning. good morning. all the paraphernalia we see behind you won't be there for long? no, they won't be. in the new year, at some point, all of this will be gone. they began dismantling the tolls over the weekend. as you can see behind me here, there are three lanes of traffic coming from the middle of where this structure still is. only at 50 miles an hour.

by still is. only at 50 miles an hour. by the new year, when this structure is gone, they will be racing through here as they would in any other part of the motorway. the first time in 52 years vehicles can now cross over the seven bridges into wales without having to pay a toll. it's the first time ever that vehicles will be crossing the estuary without paying any fees. so it's great news for businesses, because they say the financial roadblock of this structure behind me has now gone. punters that come in and out of wales obviously don't have to pay now, so they are happier. in the local area, there are some concerns this might lead to greater traffic flow and also might lead to greater house prices in the local vicinity. asi house prices in the local vicinity. as i say, this structure will be gonein as i say, this structure will be gone in the new year but for now and forever, no more tolls to cross back into wales. thank you for that. a big change if you are making that trip this morning. no need to have the loose change knocking about in that bit of your car ? the crevasses .

what is that bit cold in the middle car? where the handbrake is? where the handbrake is? where you put the coins. the cup—holder. where you put the coins. the cup-holder. yes, that bit. i don't have a cup—holder in mine! tour de france winner, geraint thomas, has been named bbc sports personailty of the year. that was last night in birmingham. the results of the public vote were revealed at a ceremony in birmingham last night. sally was there, and joins us now. you took this over and some cushions as well. i will bring them in for you at 8:30am. you have one each. yellow or white? one of each. which one do you want? yellow goes better with your merciless top this morning! i thought you are going to say my minging top. a great night, a great atmosphere in the auditorium. the bbc did it in a

different way, announced the shortlist as they went on air. so it was all down to the public vote and a shorter shortness than in previous yea rs. a shorter shortness than in previous years. geraint thomas coming out as the winner after an amazing year for him. incredible turnaround. he has really fought hard and we love an underdog, don't we? this is what geraint had to say about winning. ijust thought, it's not going to happen. unbelievable. like i said, it's something i've watched since i was a kid. just sat in my front room. and the public, that makes it more special, to get the appreciation. at the end of the night, he did let me have a little hold of the trophy. it's really, really heavy. heavier than it looks. a bit of controversy, no tyson fury in the top six. no georgia hall. and jonathan ray who finished second last year. there was an amazing speech by billy and we will be

speaking to tracey neville. we are, the england netball team were, their moment on stage was one of the moments of the night because they we re moments of the night because they were really up for it and delighted to be there. much more from that coming up in the next hour or so. geraint thomas isn't currently answering his phone. funny, that! you can take your sports personality and pack it up for a minute because we are getting out the glitter ball. after 13 weeks of fancy footwork, show—stopping lifts and the odd tabloid headline along the way, the lights on the strictly ballroom have been dimmed for another year. more than 12 million people tuned into saturday's final to see stacey dooley and her dance partner, kevin clifton lift the glitter ball trophy. in a moment we'll speak to head judge, shirley ballas, but first, let's remind ourselves how the night unfolded. music: (i've had) the time of my life music: keeping your head up music: lullaby of broadway

music: fever music: cotton eyed joe music: i bet you look good on the dance floor music: high ho silver lining iamso i am so pleased for her. what a night, a lovely young lady.

ed judge shirley ballas joins us. what weekend you have had. you have watched this programme for a long time, been involved with it for a long time. the quality of the final, an amazing show? the quality of the whole show was way beyond anything i expected from week one. there were people in it you looked at and thought, hmm, no. then they were in week 10 make the final. stacey dooley being one of them. the first couple of weeks, she didn't seem to be able to get her spine in a straight line, some funky footwork but as it progressed, she made a journey that was absolutely brilliant. for a beginner, for a girl who had never danced before, it was just, girl who had never danced before, it wasjust, i girl who had never danced before, it was just, i was girl who had never danced before, it wasjust, i was in awe girl who had never danced before, it was just, i was in awe of her. girl who had never danced before, it wasjust, i was in awe of her. is that the reason why you think stacey won, because she took us on a journey with her? i think she had the journey from the beginning but she really listened. she was a real sweetheart. as with all the other co ntesta nts, sweetheart. as with all the other contestants, that she paid attention, she improved week in and

week out, got her spine and a better line. kevin gave her choreography she could cope with so she always looked attractive in what she was doing. she is the epitome of a strictly winner. they had a lovely on—screen relationship as well. real emotion from kevin clifton at the end. that he of being in the final so many times i never quite winning it. i think it's five times the bridesmaid and then he suddenly became like their superstar. he got emotional so everybody got emotional. stacey was so kind to him, although i felt he had given her the best choreography i could possibly have ever seen. oh this thinking, that is him and his sister have both won strictly now. the clifton family! now they are both going on the west end i'm travelling and doing things in theatre so now they are notjust dancers but sinners. they are triple threats, as we say. from a judge's perspective.

i think faye and giovanni and ashley pasha, you marked them 3405 for their dances. the final is a bit different because you can sit and enjoy. it's entirely a public vote. in the end i know you are happy with stacey to win but lots of people talking on social media, there were better dancers but maybe not a better dancers but maybe not a better couple? i think everybody has an opinion. everybody wants different people to win. nobody is ever happy every week. that's partly why we watch! the drama. yes, the other two ladies had beautiful musical ears from the first week, whereas stacey was struggling to 5tay whereas stacey was struggling to stay in time with the music, she had to learn that. everything the full stacey was a journey, from footwork to everything, music, her ear, 5he had to learn from scratch to everything, music, her ear, she had to learn from scratch and the other girls, because they were singers, they already had a good ear for music. it was such a fabulous final. i love the idea of having musical ears! laughter what was your highlight? my

highlight, all the dancing is amazing and i thought all the girls and boys were terrific but it has to be bruno with his wafting of his arms and falling off his chair. he is the most entertaining person i've ever come across, he steals the show is sometimes. almost hit you on five or six occasions. i'm learning to duck! i wouldn't have him any other way. he talks with his arms, he talks with his body. he is unbelievable. he is a personality. this year, as well, has been, there's been a lot in the papers about what happens outside the dance floor. early on, it's one of those ? pa rt floor. early on, it's one of those ? part of that adds to the magic and talk ability of the programme. it is a programme, when you spend that much time with someone. i think dianne and joe have said they are in a relationship. giovanni and ashley as well. you know all the scoops! i've been reading the papers over the weekend. is it something that naturally happens with a programme

like strictly, because you spend so much time with them? any industry, when you spend time with each other you are dear to each other and become close. these people are single so good for them. ijust saw joe and dianne. he wasn't too revealing with what he had to say. wonderful. he was also amazing on the show. what a journey. when strictly finishes, that is not the end of you, you are doing a million other things come in panto at the moment. in liverpool at the empire. it has 3d, it's spectacular. john eva ns, it has 3d, it's spectacular. john evans, their most are comedian keeps me on track with my lines when i forget them! it's highly amusing and very entertaining that it is the ha rd est very entertaining that it is the hardest work i've ever done. you go from the strictly final yesterday ? drove in the car, got home at five and was up at 9 o'clock to start two shows yesterday. your christmas is pretty packed. yes, and my son is over from pretty packed. yes, and my son is overfrom america to pretty packed. yes, and my son is over from america to see my show

opening on tuesday. he does strictly in america? pasta a singer and songwriter on broadway. i'm excited he's here. the future of the programme? it is in really good health. do you think now being involved in it and enjoying it, can you see yourself doing it for many yea rs you see yourself doing it for many years to come? i'd like to think the bbc invite me back. i thoroughly enjoy it. i love anything to do with music and dance. i love to see people on theirjourney and love to help them at the beginning on the technical aspects that will serve them well when they make a final. that's always my perspective. i want to get the technique in place and then by the time you get to the end, you should be feeling solid. if you can't stand on your feet, you're you should be feeling solid. if you can't stand on yourfeet, you're not making the final. good advice. who are you playing injack and the beanstalk? mother nature, with my wand that keeps breaking! you keep breaking it or it is meant to? it's just breaking, it's not meant to. lovely to have you on the show this morning, thank you.

with shirley you think you have to sit up straight and think about your posture and carriage. i was half through thinking look so fabulous. very good. we can't maintain! here is carol with the weather. i can't turn like this. good morning. iwill start good morning. i will start deli try and stand up straight as well. a chilly start but for many of us dry with some sunshine order bright spells but a change later on in the west. you can see on the satellite picture, this cloud. it brought some rain in the early hours but has now cleared away. this other area of cloud wrapped around low pressure. there are two weather fronts concealed. the first one coming our way will bring some light and patchy rain. the isobars showing us it will be windy. the second weather front coming our way later introducing heavier and more persistent rain. first thing this morning, low cloud in scotland and also northern england. that will sing and break.

any patchy mist and fog left around durham and yorkshire in particular will tend to lift. a lot of dry weather, some sunshine, especially the further east you travel. remember the first weather front? here it is, introducing thicker cloud, patchy light rain and behind it the wind will strengthen, touching gale force in western parts of scotla nd touching gale force in western parts of scotland and across the irish sea, picking up with gusty gale force and later run it will happen in the south—west. temperatures up to 11, not too bad at all. through this evening and overnight, our first weather front weakens as it pushes towards the east with its cloud. the second weather front coming in will be bringing heavier and more persistent rain, still very windy around it and what a mild night, especially in the west and especially so compared to the night just gone. tomorrow, the rain continues to move from the west to the east. a cold front. there will be some squally nurse around it. still quite windy generally. as it

clears away from northern ireland, it breaks up with just a few showers. meanwhile, as it crosses got them with this mild air in place, we will see some of the snow that has fallen over the weekend melting. coupled with the heavy rain, perhaps an issue with local flooding but temperature wise, no issue at all, 10—12. for wednesday, still a lot of dry weather around. bright spells and sunny intervals but also some showers in east anglia, southern england, the channel islands, the isles of scilly, western parts of england and wales and scotland and at times northern ireland as well. some of those showers merging to give some heavier spells of rain. temperatures down a degree or so and what we are expecting on tuesday. on thursday, similar to wednesday, a fair bit of dry weather, still no showers across parts of the south and also the west. some of those merging to give longer spells of rain. temperatures similar to what we are looking out

on wednesday, roughly . thank you very much. there it is, as promised. a sports personality cushion. sally was in birmingham last night where geraint thomas won the big one. that ahead of lewis hamilton. and harry kane in third place. you are talking about one of the biggest winners, english netbook, two wards on the night and they enjoy themselves? they enjoyed themselves on the dance floor! it's important to note what a fantastic achievement the last year has been for them. brilliant moment. they won tea m for them. brilliant moment. they won team of the year and sporting moment of the year. they went up and were given their award for team of the year and gabby kept them on stage and said stay there, we're going to announce the next award now. they won for the moment they won gold at the commonwealth games. even if you are not a netball fan i have never watched the sport before, don't have

kids that play or play as a kid, thatis kids that play or play as a kid, that is something everyone will remember is that the moment when they won gold and did the big pile on. classic sports and patient. i said to them last night, when you do any other celebrations question what they said no, they will stick with that! that great photo of helen sticking her tongue out, which she now hate. let's have a chat with the head coach, tracey neville. i wonder how she is. oh my goodness, looking bright and cheery! who has had the most sleep, sally? two and half hours. tracy? no comment but i think i'm the best one standing out of the 12 people from last night! what a night. we saw the faces of many on the stage thinking, we have won another one? what was it like for you and what to wear your anticipations and expectations going into that night? our expectations we re into that night? our expectations

were quite low. with the teams we we re were quite low. with the teams we were up against, we were thinking we absolutely had no chance of winning the award. so when they actually named us, we were absolutely, it was just incredible. you can't imagine the emotions and feelings we've had to end an incredible year at the bbc sports personality. when we were on stage we couldn't hear gabby logan on the vt or clare balding. when they announced again, we were all looking around thinking, we were shocked, we were really shocked. i think one of the girl said, shall we doa think one of the girl said, shall we do a pile on? i looked at our heels and dresses and said i don't think it's the moment! i would totally have loved that! the thing great about this, and from the victories as they come as a girl who played netball at school, is how much good it has done for the sport, seeing the fabulous team, they are role models. are you seeing it make a difference with kids actually doing the sport as well? i think the most

important thing that has come out of this year is the impact the commonwealth games has had on our participation levels. we have seen them increase within something like a three month period up to about 130,000 people. but more importantly than that, it's the response we have had from people in respect of getting back to netball. participating, the inspiration we have heard from little girls when we go out to events. but also the impact it has had on the performance, as well. we have had new sponsorship with nike and vitality have come on board. sport england have backed us for 20 years and now they confirmed this week they are backing us for world cup and beyond. hopefully, we can continue next year. we don't want this to be the end. we want it to be the start of the vitality roses journey and we have the world cup next year. do think part of your advantage and for the whole team is that everybody, all the women on

that everybody, all the women on that team are so accessible? i was watching the girls last night. they talk to everybody, they had a laugh, they were clearly enjoying themselves. lots of people had their families there and they are all hugely approachable, not out of reach sport stars that you can't, that your lives will never be anything like. what i find with this bunch of girls is they are so unique. they all have their individual personalities. you talk about winning an event in respect of sports personality and these girls are such characters and such a vibrant part of how a winning culture, which we have created this year. i think they go out there, they are starstruck by some of the stars, to be in the same room as them is an absolute honour to them. they are so proud to be part of such an elite sports group. they know it takes hard work and that is what they do on a daily basis, to be able to put themselves in that arena. they are an inspiration to every single person out there, notjust

other netball players. you've done an amazingjob, other netball players. you've done an amazing job, you have enjoyed 2018. i hope 2019 isjust as good. tracey neville, thank you so much, go and enjoy breakfast! see you later. lovely to speak to tracey neville. just one thing for me, last night we are trying to get people to speak on the programme this morning, tracey neville said yes in three seconds flat. the moment we asked her, she had a big party to go to and she said yes, of course. 130,000 women have taken up sport on the back of that success. an incredible legacy no matter what happens. thank you, and for the cushions. and a lot more gossip from behind—the—scenes. and we have greg clark on the way very and we have greg clark on the way very soon as and we have greg clark on the way very soon as well. i don't think we'll ask him about sports personality when he is the business secretary. here is the news, travel and weather wherever you are watching this morning. wintry weather over the weekend.

things looking quieter this week. not expect any snow. for many of us, sunny spells, wet and windy weather moving in from the west. you can see the rain as it moves on from northern ireland, apache, spreading through western scotland and wales. ahead of that, cloud increasing, some brighter skies for longest across eastern areas, temperatures getting up to 8—11, 12 degrees. this evening and tonight strengthening winds around western areas, gales expected tonight, patchy rain moving eastwards, another significant band of rain moving across the west by tuesday morning. some clear spells across eastern areas, temperatures for — across eastern areas, temperatures

for—5 across eastern areas, temperatures for — 5 degrees, mild and the west, temperatures in double figures. during tuesday, quite heavy rain moving eastwards, eight short burst of intense rain, you can see the darker blue and green there, eastern parts on tuesday starting to write, some rain moving its way in. quite a windy day for all of us, temperatures similar to today. look fresher stick around for the next few days. the wind coming in from the south—west, wet weather moving away for wednesday to come sunny spells for many of us, showers around during wednesday, coming in on the south—westerly wind, into western scotland. some showers at times. sunshine for central and eastern parts of the uk, especially. temperatures about 8—11d, relatively quiet week to come this week. goodbye. this is business live from bbc

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