and now on bbc news — victoria derbyshire takes a look back at some of the highlights from her programme last week. hello and welcome to our programme. over the next half—hour we bring you some exclusive and original journalism we've broadcast over the last week. first, wildlife presenter chris packham told us exclusively about the very calculated death threat that he and his family received after he'd campaigned to get landowners‘ and farmers‘ gun license revoked for shooting certain species of birds. well, i have received parcels in the post, some of which have been humorous or innocuous. a few unsolicited letters with people ranting about their cause, but nothing offensive. one package full of human excrement

which has been taken by the police for analysis, they had some dna from that. an enormous torrent of abuse on social media. but the most perturbing thing, if i am really honest, is a number of small businesses that i work with, and charities, have been so bombarded by bullies they have had to take down their tripadvisor, take down their facebook. because of the link with you? yes. it is not their fight. i am used to getting this sort of bullying. i am extremely resistant to it. i have had a lifetime of bullying for various reasons, it goes over my head, but i do not expect them to be that resistant. it is understandable they are upset if they receive this. pick on me, do not pick on these people. they do not necessarily subscribe to all of my views. i am working with them on other things, in some cases charitable. by damaging them you are damaging the welfare of animals and people trying to look

after the environment. tell us about the horrific letter you received yesterday? i got home from filming and received a letter which was a very calculated death threat directed towards myself and my family. which at the moment we are reporting to the police, we are going through the process, they are collecting it today and taking it for analysis. all death threats are serious, why was this very calculated? in the structure of its composition it is designed to elicit as much fear as possible, they are unspecific about where and when, they are principally saying you will never be safe, you will never be able to go out. we will always be there. suggesting they will harm you in what way? a whole catalogue of things, they have listed. can i be very honest? for me, this is part and parcel of the process. i am campaigning for change, people are resistant to change

in every walk of life. we are asking them to make some pretty tough decisions in order to protect the environment. i understand that certain factions will lash out, and i expect this. it will never sway me from my cause. i will come back to that, what you are campaigning for. in terms of the nature of what has been threatened against you and your family in this horrific letter, things like what? orchestrating my death through various different means. like a car crash? yeah. we could organise a car crash. we could organise poisoning you. we could organise these things. my goodness. i know the viewers might think this is simply bravado and false stoicism.

people like myself who will not tolerate injustice actual are very dogged and determined. i cannot allow these sorts of things to sway me. there are too few people standing up and fighting to protect our environment, our landscape, our wildlife. there is no chance that i can step down, ijust have to carry on, and i will do so. can ijust ask, i will come back to that, other police taking this very seriously? they are being absolutely superb, extremely helpful. let's go back to the fact that you successfully challenge this general licence that allows the shooting of 16 species of birds, including crows, jays and wood pigeons. this has caused this latest controversy, some farmers are really cross because they say it is playing havoc with their farming calendar and they cannot protect some of their own species.

that is what is behind these threats? unfortunately lots of fake news has been generated off the back of this. our purpose was to question the validity of the implementation of these licenses, there is no doubt that in the way they currently stand and operate, huge numbers of birds are killed not because they are pests or damaging anyone‘s interests, simply because it is legal to kill them. people will go out with the sole purpose of killing something for pleasure. at no stage have we ever striven to make it any more difficult for farmers or anyone with a vested interest in whatever they are doing to control animals they might consider pests. but in order to do that they had to show they have explored every other means of control —

scaring them, netting, so on. as the licences stood, but was not being satisfied. what has happened in the aftermath, in the short period of time that licences were not available, and they are now available again, certain lobbies have used this as an opportunity to generate an enormous amount of fake news in order to try to destroy the integrity of conservationists like myself, because they are resistant to change, they do not want the ability to kill wildlife for fun taken away. as a consequence, we are mired in this. they want to do it for fun? if you are a farmer and you have a crop and animal succumbing to it and you cannot scare them off and you cannot net it, you can have a licence to do that. in many european countries you can apply for a licence. at the moment if you are a landowner

or have permission, you can go on the land, maybe miles from your own home, you may not be a farmer with any vested interest, you can shoot the 16 species of birds at any time of the year with no reason. from the british association of shooting and conservation, they say for everyone reliant on general license, the withdrawal of them has come at the worst possible time of year when land, young crops and testing birds including curlew and lapwing was continued until the end of next year and that would give natural england nine months to look at how they would change it so it could be implemented legally next year. we weren't part and parcel of that decision to remove the licences at all. we were merely doing our duty as conservationists to raise this issue. so we could better protect birds which were being needlessly killed,

let's stress that, needlessly killed, not birds which were doing damage to any crops. final thought, a number of people always ask, how are you as a bbc television presenter able to work with certain campaigns and publicly state your views in a way other hosts aren't allowed to? i'm not strictly a bbc tv presenter, i work on the bbc presenting at times, i'm not a bbc employee, i'm contracted to work on a daily basis on programmes that i work on. i am a freelancer, of course. i am employed on the basis of my expertise, i don't do cookery, gardening, i do wildlife and i think the viewers traditionally come of the bbc, expect to have those sorts of documentary programmes fronted by people who know what they are talking about. final, final thought, you've contacted the police over the letter you received. horrific letter that you received in the post yesterday, do you have confidence that they will catch the people who wrote it? i can say i had any confidence, the police would have to tell me

that, we know they are enormously skilful these days, they've taken dna from the other things which are come in the post so they are working as hard as they possibly can. i think the key thing is they are showing you diligence, they are being extremely helpful and that whatever happens, i will have to carry on and absorb this and soak it up. in the meantime, your address is on facebook, why haven't they taken it down? facebook, i can't speak so kindly about them, i'm afraid. why haven't they removed it? facebook are difficult, they are extremely resistant to these sorts of things and that address is out there, it's also out there with invitations to send me dead animals and all sorts of other things, there's definitely incitement to violence but facebook... well, over to you. in another exclusive, the university of liverpool was forced to apologise and is conducting a review of its policies after our programme revealed that disabled students had been charged for long—term extensions to their assignments because of ill—health.

when one of them couldn't pay, they were locked out of their e—mail, and other vital systems, to enable them to complete their coursework. and other disabled students told us about the lack of accessible facilities on campus. last year, over 94,000 disabled students enrolled at university in england, encouraged by universities pledging to improve inclusivity in higher education. but some students at liverpool university say these vows are empty promises. the support has been extremely inconsistent and at times just completely not there. i just feel quite marginalised really, from all of these experiences. this programme has learned that the university of liverpool has been charging disabled students who require long—term extensions to their assignments because of ill health. the university policy states that students face a fee for extending their studies into a new academic year, even if they need the extra time

because of personal or medical reasons, also known as extenuating circumstances. this happened to students felicity and kayley, who have mental and physical health conditions. we both had e—mails from the university to say we'd be charged. the invoice said £50 for each of us. this was for the first three—month extension that we both got. following this first charge, both kayley and felicity were granted a second extension. but kayley was once again contacted about a charge, this time for £200. i'm locked out of my university account because i've been charged for an extension and i can't pay for the charge at the moment. so i've got no access to my emails, no access to documents for my dissertation. kayley complained about the £200 charge to the university, but instead of this solving the problem, felicity was also

charged the same amount for her second extension. literally a week later, a week after i'd paid the £50 out of my own money, i got an invoice for the second extension i got, for £200. the two charges were both justified based on tuition. well, it was listed as tuition on the invoice, but they said it was an admin charge in person. both kayley and felicity found that no—one seemed to know which department was responsible for the charges. i think it really disadvantages disabled students. you've already got support needs that are getting in the way of you completing your studies to yourfull ability, and then you've got to put all this extra effort, all this extra energy, into getting your extension secured and challenging people when you feel like something's been done unfairly. we've raised their complaints with the university,

who now say that they are reviewing charging for extensions. they also pointed out that while her accepted extension is due to a health condition, kayley is not registered with them as a disabled student. but these deadline charges are just one of the concerns i found about disability support at liverpool university. under the equality act 2010, organisations have a responsibility to ensure that disabled people are as able to access services and education as non—disabled people. but a recent freedom of information request has revealed that only 57 out of more than 100 university buildings are fitted with general use lifts, meaning many are inaccessible for physically disabled students. and 77% of those buildings do not have an evacuation lift, which enables wheelchair users, or otherwise physically disabled students, to evacuate safely in the case of a fire. nana has cerebral palsy and uses

a wheelchair, and she's struggled with accessibility at liverpool. her support plan, a document which sets out the adjustments needed for her disability, states that she requires wheelchair accessible teaching rooms and should not be picked to speak in lectures or seminars because of her anxiety around her stammer. you can kind of turn up to some of the lectures and lecturers didn't so, how many times have you now been scheduled into rooms that are inaccessible to you?

so you can't actually see any of the lecture notes or the lecturer? no. universities are obligated to provide all disabled students with a personal emergency evacuation

plan, or peep. but nana wasn't contacted about hers when she started at liverpool. so she asked for a meeting with a member of staff in her second year, an experience she told me she found uncomfortable. what is in your peep plan then? the university of liverpool have now apologised for the timetabling of lectures in inaccessible rooms. they've also removed the frosted glass.

nana's experience is not an isolated case. undergraduate studentjulia set up the disability society to voice her frustrations. i just got to a stage where i was so angry at the university for not helping me, putting in the support in place, i realised that it wasn't just me who was having these issues, it was a lot of students. julia has various health conditions which require additional support, including chronic fatigue syndrome and the connected tissue disorder ehlers—danlos hypermobility. this is sort of my general box of medications. it causes her chronic pain, as even climbing stairs can cause herjoints to partially or fully dislocate. how has the university been in terms of their support towards you? extremely inconsistent and at times just completely not there. i'm not supposed to have two exams in the same day

because of my fatigue. i had these two exams on the same day, and i got in there and i was presented with this office chair, which was already sloping because it had got to that broken stage already. and in my support plan, it says i'm supposed to have a ergonomic chair. an ergonomic chair is a chair that at least has arms on the sides of it and properly supports your form. it was physically a test of my pain tolerance, and not my academic ability. like nana, julia was also not contacted about a personal emergency evacuation plan. the university now say that they are sorry and have since contacted them both to rectify this. they also told us that they are committed to fulfilling their obligations under the equality act, and work hard to provide individual support. but they accept that there are occasions where they have fallen short, and say they will involve

disabled students more regularly in their decision—making going forward — something all of the students in this film say they would welcome. they say they're happy that certain policies are being reviewed, but would appreciate a personal apology from the university and a justification for the £200 charge. one of the official pacers at the london marathon told this programme this week that she, and some of her fellow runners, were treated horrifically during the race last sunday. including being called fat and slow by contractors who were clearing up around them. and being sprayed by chemicals in that clear up operation. for the first mile, it was not too bad. we came out of the start, everyone was cheering and clapping, high fives, brilliant. then we got to about a mile and a half in, being overtaken by trucks, transit vans.

i was concerned because they were weaving in and out of runners. i was trying to run between runners and tell them, no headphones, vehicles coming through. i could not understand why it was happening because the road is supposed to be closed. i'd only started about 20 minutes beforehand, and already we had these vehicles. by about two miles, we noticed they were spraying things on the road. let me bring in the event director for the london marathon, over your shoulder, liz. what do you think about the way liz and her fellow slower runners were treated ? we have apologised to liz and we are very sorry to hear her experience was the antithesis of what we try to provide as an experience. we had over 42,500 finishes, a record number.

can i stop you there. i've had hundreds and hundreds of messages from the running community in support of slower runners. i've also had hundreds of messages and tweets from runners from previous years, from 2014, 15, 16. they all complain of the same thing. timing that's being pulled up before they've got halfway. timing mats being pulled up before they've got halfway. cleaning going on around them. no support, no water. this goes on for years and the only reason you're taking notice is because of one of your official pacers, one you asked for, your analysis said you needed the support for those runners at the back. i did myjob and you set me up to fail. you set me up to fail those runners. we didn't, we beat you but i will not stand for this because it goes on every year. i'm really sorry but we didn't set you up to fail. you set cleaning crews on my tail. i was 17 minutes into a race and you

set cleaning crews on my tail. coaches on my tail. why ask me to do a job if you are not going to support me? why are you not going to support my runners? so, we changed, exactly as you said, there were contractors that got ahead of you. as a result, the event control room got those contractors changed to go behind you. we have a cut—off of seven hours whereby we have to start reopening the road system. we are in the busiest capital city in one of the busiest capital cities in the world, we have a finite amount of time with which to get people on the course. what we have to do is understand in detail what went on. also this week, line of duty star vicky mcclure told us exclusively she wants the government to put more money into dementia research.

she told us the condition should be treated the same as cancer. she has been making a documentary about people living with dementia and the positive effect music can have on them. i have my own experience, and it's not something that anybody wants to go through, but there's so much going on. there's so many people trying to find different ways in which we can research it, live well with it. and this is just another part of it. what do you think people will take from this, we'll learn from this? i think you'll learn what dementia is, to start with. you can't see it, physically, what does it look like? we do actually see that, and i was really interested to say, how does the brain look if you've got dementia? does it look different to my brain? what does dementia mean? what's alzheimer's, what's the difference? people get quite confused. actually, dementia is like an umbrella term, and there's hundreds of different types of dementia. so, i think for those out there that have got experience of dementia,

it's quite nice to know that there is lots being done, there's lots of research being done. but i think one thing that will be quite shocking to people is there's a lot of laughter. it's because people are human beings, still living their lives as we all do. you can't take life too seriously, and a lot of people in this documentary tend not to. they are just doing their best. chris has frontotemporal dementia. it's attacking the front of his brain, the part that controls behaviour, leaving him unpredictable and often inappropriate. tell me what's happening here. we like a bit of action in the bedroom, vicky. we've seen various marital aids, and jane particularly liked this design, so i made it but itjust won't fit in the bedroom. it's really big. but it's still good fun, even in the garden. it's quite secluded here. she laughs. you look at the effects of music on the brains of the people in the choir,

and that is really positive. do you think that should give hope to people, how music can help people with dementia? it will give hope. i mean, it's not like we're doing research that we are not coming out with any kind of result. we are not coming out with a cure. music has an effect, an emotional effect on people living with dementia, positively. because people have this assumption that once you are diagnosed, that's it. your brain has shut down and you're no longer able to be challenged or to do certain things. what we're saying is that's completely untrue. scientifically, we know it to be untrue. and my brain and a dementia brain are working in the same way in terms of an emotional connection to music. i do think music, to me, i believe it to be a bit of the drug. it does have that kind of effect on people, where you put that song on, boom, they light up. or it brings out a really raw emotion that they

might need to release. having dementia doesn't mean you don't have emotion. music hits your soul. it's a very powerful thing. that's it for this week. remember, if you've got a story, do get in touch. we are back live on tuesday morning at 10am, on bbc two, the bbc news channel and online. thanks for watching. hello. ominous skies and a chilly feel for many of us at the start of this bank holiday weekend. there has been some sunshine, beautiful shot from the north coast of northern ireland barren. but also some impressive shower clouds. that was eastbourne earlier on. these cherokee clients have been delivering intense downpours with some hail and thunder. —— these shower clouds. some of them across

scotla nd shower clouds. some of them across scotland have been wintry. this picture from the highlands, a few smattering of snow. could be more across scotland as the weekend wears on, because we stay in the cold area. this evening showers will continue, tending to fade by midnight in most places. drier weather with clear spells to take us into the early part of sunday. extra cloud into the north of scotland, through the night. not quite as cold as it was last night but away from the north of scotland, just about anywhere we could see a touch of frost. temperatures hovering close to freezing. sunday starting with high pressure trying to build in that the high remains to the west of us, allowing us to continue feeding in some cold air from the north. whereas the winds today have been pretty brisk, particularly for the east coast, the winds tomorrow not quite as strong. it might not feel as chilly as it has done across eastern parts of england, there won't be as many showers tomorrow. patchy cloud and sunny spells.

similar for patchy cloud and sunny spells. similarfor northern patchy cloud and sunny spells. similar for northern ireland. generally cloudy conditions across scotland. some hill snow into the far north later on. losing that brisk wind so maybe not feeling quite as chilly but the temperatures still feeling below par for this time of year. bank holiday monday, oui’ time of year. bank holiday monday, our band of cloud and showery rain drift southwards, ahead of its other when, south wales largely dry with some sunny when, south wales largely dry with some sunny spells. sunshine and wintry showers into northern scotland. pretty chilly, mine degrees celsius in aberdeen and newcastle. the weather changes a little bit as we head deeper into the week. low pressure approaching from the south—west. some uncertainty about the exact track but it does bring the potential of some wet weather for but it does bring the potential of some wet weatherfor some but it does bring the potential of some wet weather for some of us, maybe some windy weather as well. particularly towards the south on wednesday. before we get there some sunshine, showers and a chilly bank holiday weekend.

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