hello, it's wednesday, it's ten o'clock, i'm victoria derbyshire. this morning: drug dealers at the school gates and taking cocaine on playdates. in our exclusive film, we speak to mums struggling with cocaine addiction, as we reveal there's been a dramatic rise in cocaine addicts — up 128% over four years, according to private addiction clinics. we would meet after school and we would do play dates with the kids and then it would be like, shall we get one in? the dealers were always around at school pick—up. i would go over to friends' houses who were single mums. i'd have my baby in the carrier on the floor and i'd be sneaking up to the

toilet to do lines. also, the falklands vet suing the ministry of defence to return the medal taken striipped from his uniform because he was bisexual. my life was devastated. my my previous 18 years had just been washed down the pan, basically. the nhs is seeing the first sustained fall in gp numbers in the uk for 50 years it's very real, the worst crisis since 19118. its future is in jeopardy, no doubt about that. and are you having less sex than you used to? a big new survey suggests that is the case for 16—to—44—year olds. one theory is that's because we take our phones to bed. if you're having less sex than you used to, what are the reasons? let me know this morning at victoria@bbc.co.uk

hello and welcome to the programme. we're live until 11 this morning. we're going to hear from three mums in a moment who have taken cocaine. mums, with jobs, kids, responsibilities and so on. so, i want to ask if you take it. have you taken it? these three mums became addicted and had to seek treatment. obviously, you get in touch anonymously. how did it start? do you still take it? first, the news. the nhs is seeing the first significant fall in gdp numbers in nearly 50 years. five years ago across the uk there were just under 65 gps for every 100,000 people. by last year the number was down to 60, and it comes at a time of increased pressure on surgeries with an ageing population and long waiting times for appointments. the nhs says it's working to improve access to services and is training more gps.

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barcelona nothing. they delighted fa ns barcelona nothing. they delighted fans as they managed to overturn a 3-0 fans as they managed to overturn a 3—0 deficit to beat the spanish champions 4—0 in the second leg of their semifinal clash at anfield. that's the summary of the news. back to victoria. there's been a dramatic rise in the number of cocaine addicts — according to the uk's leading provider of private addiction clinics. uk addiction treatment have told us exclusively that since 2015, they've seen a 128% increase in the numbers. last year, they treated 50a cocaine addicts — up from 221, four years ago. 0n the nhs, mental health admissions related to cocaine use have trebled in the last ten years. the news comes after senior government and police figures blamed what they've called "middle class" cocaine users for the ongoing rise in serious youth violence. they say a rise in demand for the drug amongst wealthier users has driven up violence amongst rival gangs selling drugs — though this is disputed

by some researchers. this programme has spoken to three former cocaine addicts — all mums — who have taken cocaine since having children. we've disguised their identities. louis lee ray has been speaking to them about the impact cocaine has had on their lives — and asked whether they feel they bear some responsibility for the increases in youth violence. awarning: you probably won't want children to watch this film, it lasts just over eight minutes and it does include graphic descriptions of drug use and addiction. i grew up in a very normalfamily. i went to a little private school. i met my partner and then i got pregnant, quite quickly. we had a lovely car, a lovely house, a mortgage and three really well brought up children. i lived in a fairly affluent area.

i did very well at school. i had dreams of being a fashion designer, when i was older. i was always very anti—drugs. don't drink alcohol, never took drugs in my life. it started back when i was in my mid—20s. one of my friends said to me, you know, he was wrapping up some cocaine, he said, "you know, just do one". my partner lived above a pub. came home one evening from working in the pub, went upstairs and he was there with a friend. they were racking up lines of what i now know to be cocaine. i tried a tiny bit and i didn't

think much of it, if i'm honest. but what happened was, over the course of eight years, every time we went out, i started to want it. i felt most like it was that thing that i was searching for, all this time. it was like, suddenly, i felt 0k, i felt comfortable in my own skin. but within a year, that degree course i was on, i was failing and i was tens of thousands of pounds in debt. never touched it during my pregnancy and then fell quite quickly with my second one and then itjust reappeared. we weren't doing the clubbing thing, any more. it had become mums at school. roundabout at that time, i met the man that's now my husband. i fell pregnant and suddenly i had the small child to look after and it was terrifying.

i felt completely out of my depth, i felt lonely, i felt like i didn't know what i was doing. it was probably the hardest thing i've ever done, having children. i eventually split with my husband. i had access to quite a bit of money from the separation. that's when my cocaine usage took a turn. we'd meet after school, and we'd too play dates with the kids and then we would be like, "oh, should we get one in?" the dealers were always around at school pick—up. i would go around to friends' houses, who were single mums. i would have my baby in the carrier on the floor and i'd be sneaking up to the toilet, to do lines. or we would be, you know, doing it on the kitchen side. and before i know it, i'm bringing men home

and sneaking them out. just using in my bedroom, with my son asleep, next door. and then, you know, six o'clock in the morning, i would be, like, "oh my god, i've done it again" and having that alarm going off and having to get my son to school. i got several grams of pure cocaine and a couple of bottles of wine and i came home and i basically shut myself in my bedroom and used the whole evening through until six o'clock the next morning. until everything had gone. at which point i had a fit. i had these paramedics in my bedroom and i can remember them doing tests on me and me just sobbing my eyes out and just saying, "i want to die, please just let me die". i phoned the dealer and he was, like, "i'm literally clocking off in, like, ten minutes, unless you can meet me now, not going to be around". so, literally, took the kids

out of the bath, got them dressed quickly, rushed up the road to meet them and my eldest was about eight or nine at the time and he was, like, "mummy, what are we doing here?" i was in a car park and i said, "oh, i've come to have a look at a hall, for your birthday". and he was, like, "but it's not my birthday for eight months". towards the end, you know, i wasn't really going food shopping properly. i noticed that i wasn't looking after the house, i wasn't being a mum. i think if i hadn't have stopped, i believe my kids would have been taken away or i would have died. i met up with my friend, the evening before my 20—week scan and she was with this guy at the time, who was a dealer, effectively. i remember being sat in this pub, 20 weeks pregnant, drinking coca—cola and he held my hand out and he put a rock of cocaine in my hand and i was absolutely

powerless to not do it. and i can remember the next day when i was getting my 20—week scan and this baby's going absolutely nuts in my belly, just thinking to myself, "i've done that to you, i've done that to you". i started engaging with drug and alcohol services and counselling sessions for postnatal depression. but i'd find that whatever had been brought up in my counselling session, ijust couldn't cope or deal with, so i would pick up and use on the way home. ijust had enough of feeling guilt, shame, remorse. i went to one of those meetings and i listened, for the first time in my life, i think ijust kind of thought if everyone in this room has got this freedom, you know, they all had bright, smiling faces and there were mums talking about how they're present for their kids. and i was, like i want that.

the only option, really, was to go into a private rehab, so i found somewhere quite local where i could see the kids at weekends. i came out of treatment and ijust threw myself into recovery. and, slowly, slowly, life got better. all those years i'd just been a burden to my family, i was finally able to make a dent on repaying some of that. two of my best friends literally climbed on the bin to get my bedroom window, banged on the window, and about four or five people marched in my house. and they went, "that's it, it's got to stop". and that was the start of my recovery. to the point where, eventually, i was able to hold my head up high and say, "yeah, i did have a cocaine problem and i am a recovering addict and i will do my best to educate people and warn them

of the dangers". i'm very aware, you know, that drug cartels and black markets and child exploitation and all sorts of things go on, to produce this drug. so, yes, the people that, you know, are recreationally using them, yes, perhaps a bit of education around this stuff actually comes from might make them think twice. but for your real drug addict, it's not going to make the slightest bit of difference. i don't agree with these different labels of class of people. you know, there's some really vulnerable, weak people out there and it doesn't matter what class you are, where you come from, everyone's trying, hopefully, trying to achieve the same thing. and, you know, look after their family the best they can and some of usjust get caught up in addiction.

we can speak now to deepti shah—armon who's the clinical director of central and north west london's nhs addictions division, ian hamilton, a drugs and mental health researcher at the university of york. and the conservative police and crime commissioner for suffolk, tim passmore. welcome all of you. deepti, private addiction clinics are treating more cocaine addicts and it's true of the nhs? we have people coming into treatment and a small percentage are for cocaine, but the vast majority of or alcohol, cocaine and heroin use. it's a small percentage but it's great they are coming into treatment. as we know, senior government and some senior police figures have said that middle—class users bear some responsibility for increasing levels of violence. what sort of demographics are you seeing in your clinics? by the time we come

into our clinics, the use has spiralled out of control but actually the percentage is still small, so even though harm is caused by cocaine, the percentage of people using cocaine, it's very small. but are they all from different backgrounds? all different backgrounds. let me ask you, ian, about the data, because you say there has been a very small increase in cocaine use amongst households earning over £50,000. the data we haveis earning over £50,000. the data we have is quite limited when it comes to proxies like income which suggest class, and the home secretary was honest in admitting that and in the same breath as saying middle—class users were to blame for arising cocaine use, he also said we know nothing about class and drug use and ordered an investigation into finding out who is using drugs and why they are using drugs. that is

something i welcome and it's a clear acknowledgement that we don't know enough about class, and the little we do know would suggest policy is class laden, namely, we pay a bit more attention to protecting the middle class than we do people from lower groups, or working class, middle class than we do people from lower groups, orworking class, in old money. what do we know when it comes to cocaine use? we know it is ubiquitous and right across the range, and the reason for that is the price. the price has come down drastically over the last ten years and in the police force we recognise that. and the potency has increased, so that. and the potency has increased, so you get cheaper cocaine with more bang. so it's no surprise that price and availability are what determine drug use in any area. so we are not seeing this as a city phenomenon, we seeing this as a city phenomenon, we see it across the country in rural and urban areas. let's bring in tim on that point, the crime commissionerfor on that point, the crime commissioner for suffolk. on that point, the crime commissionerfor suffolk. how on that point, the crime commissioner for suffolk. how much would you say middle—class cocaine

use is contributing to rising youth violence? it makes a contribution. it's not the only caused by a long way and what really distresses me following the evidence you have just shown in your clip that this is a national problem, as has been said, in rural areas as well, and it affects all classes as well, so my view is that we have to do a lot more to reduce and hopefully eliminated because it is a crime and i don't think we should be disaggregated into various sections about how the drug is used, because we know first hand in suffolk that it wrecks families, whole communities and is extremely distressing and the burden on the taxpayer is enormous. how many cou nty taxpayer is enormous. how many county lines do you estimate are in your area? in suffolk we know it is between 30 and 40, so it's a serious issue, probably one of the biggest problems and challenges we face and have done for the last year or two. and how do you combat them? you will not police your way out of this. we have a major programme of supported

initiatives for young people and the new multi—agency team that we started last year the fund of £500,000, so it involves social services, mental health, education, and of course the very important work of the wonderful people in the charitable and voluntary sectors, but we have to look at this in the long term and i had a meeting yesterday and i said to everybody there that we have to treat this problem, treat it like a health epidemic and it will take ten or 15 years, i fear. i have epidemic and it will take ten or 15 years, ifear. i have some epidemic and it will take ten or 15 years, i fear. i have some messages saying, chris on twitter agreeing with what you said that this should not be a criminal matter but a national health matter. let me read some more messages as well. ash says i have a friend who is a middle—class mum and uses cocaine habitually. we had a conversation which we both agreed that there was a sense of classes in relation to class a drug use. working people are

demonised for their use of cocaine, whereas middle—class people are glamorised for that use. these problems need to be treated an approach as mental health issues are not criminal issues. one tweet says, cocaine, lycra seco, on play dates isa cocaine, lycra seco, on play dates is a symptom of an underlying problem not because —— like pro seco. this is what society and social workers have been doing to poorer pa rents for workers have been doing to poorer parents for 20 years will stop i don't know if you want to comment on that. it is difficult. when we talk about groups of people using cocaine, we have to recognise there are people with different reasons for using drugs including cocaine. for some, like you and i, it might be recreation in the way we would have some alcohol. by the way i have never had cocaine. it wasn't an accusation. it sounded a bit too familiarandi accusation. it sounded a bit too familiar and i just wanted accusation. it sounded a bit too familiar and ijust wanted to make it clear. but other people are drawn to using drugs because they soothe problems, and as well as mental health problems they soothe social

problems, so where the home secretary has been clever is in distracting attention by making these kind of outrageous statements, that are non—evidence based, about middle—class drug users and it diverts attention away from the absolutely ravaged cups there have been to drug treatment and support and police services as well as youth services —— cuts. that gets us talking about middle—class cocaine users and our eye is taken away from pulling the rug from under people who need support, need treatment. it's interesting, all of your pieces well with women and we know that women don't access drug treatment services in a timely way in the way that men do, so that's a real problem. just to say, you properly know, we have covered all sorts of things on the programme like police cuts and things to used services and so on and so forth. from the nhs point of view and your point of view, what are the reasons that people become addicted to a drug like cocaine? as ian said, it's a

way to regulate your emotions. if you are feeling down, and it was interesting in the video you showed, all the women talked about stressful life events. having a baby, talking about loneliness, and actually taking drugs and drinking alcohol is a relief. and they are all valid explanations, looking after kids, trying to get a job? yes. they are incredibly stressful life events. and i think people are looking for some kind of relief and drugs and alcohol give you that. you know there will be a generation of people listening to you saying that who came through the second world war andi came through the second world war and i say, childbirth is not a stressful life event. we are living ina stressful life event. we are living in a different time. women's's lives are different and the expectations of women are different, so it's no surprise to see the explanations women were giving there. tim passmore said we need to treat drug addiction, cocaine, whatever it is,

drug addiction across the board as a health issue. is that right? yes, absolutely. if you break the law by taking class a drugs you should not be prosecuted? actually people are prosecuted and i would say it is against the law and its a criminal offence, so yes, you should be prosecuted but then you should be offered treatment, which actually does happen. a lot of addicted people are offered treatment instead ofa people are offered treatment instead of a custodial sentence. thank you very much all of you. really interesting. thank you tim passmore, the conservative police and crime commissionerfor the conservative police and crime commissioner for suffolk. the conservative police and crime commissionerfor suffolk. i'm the conservative police and crime commissioner for suffolk. i'm going to read your names again. deepti, and ian hamilton, a drugs and mental health research at the university of york. thank you for your insight. and if you want info or support with any addiction issues, help is available via the bbc actionline. go to bbc.co.uk/actionline , or call 0800 066 066 lines are open 24 hours a day,

and all calls are free. still to come. we're having less sex than ever before — you're now in the minority if you have it once a week — so how much sex are you having? once a day, once a month, once a year and is it enough? get in touch and let us know. a huge survey out today suggesting 16 to 24—year—olds in particular are having less sex than they used to. tanya on twitter: "i think we talk about it too much and then panic that our appetite might be subnormal". do let me know your own personal experiences. i appreciate i ask some very personal questions and if you do not want to give your name, it is fine to be anonymous on any of the subjects today. for the first time in 50 years, the number of gps in england is going down — and it's being blamed on increasing workloads .

there are now only 60 gps per 100,000 people — that's down from almost 65 in 2014. the last time the number of gps fell like this was in the late 19605. some surgeries say they now have a seven week wait for an appointment to see a doctor. let's talk to dr clare gerada, former chair of the royal college of gps. she is also the clincal director of the nhs practitioner health programme which offers support to gps who are experiencing difficulties with their mental health. and in plymouth is dr charlotte ferriday. five years ago, she quit herjob as a gp partner after struggling with an ever growing workload. thank you for coming on. doctor charlotte, describe a typical day for us. before i went off with burn—out or now? for us. before i went off with burn-out or now? before you went off with bernard. i would start seeing patients at 830, go on seeing patients at 830, go on seeing patients till about 1230, then you breakfor patients till about 1230, then you break for phone calls and do visits

and start seeing patients again at 3:30pm and finish at six or 630, then do paperwork, maybe business related things around the practice and then come home, and that is sort of what happens. and that, day after day, lead to you being burnt out? not that in itself, so much as the pressures that each contact had made it increase. we are all used to dealing with a heavy workload as doctors, but increasingly we had no where to send our patients when they needed help, so they would come to us needed help, so they would come to us and as a professional it is easy to access the other services like community mental health, benefits, social care, which had increasingly been cut under the austerity policies. but why did that put so much extra pressure on somebody like yourself? because the patients would come back to us because these

services were not available, so if there is not a community mental health team for a severely depressed individual, i would health team for a severely depressed individual, iwould have health team for a severely depressed individual, i would have to see them more regularly, because my waiting time had gone up to six weeks and i was having to fit them round the edges of the normal surgery, so therefore my surgeries became longer andi therefore my surgeries became longer and i would have very long telephone consultation lists at the end of my surgery and you ended up not being able to fit that number of very complex patient contacts into a normal working day. so i was leaving at about 11 o'clock in the evening. and it got as bad as you quitting your surgery, because you got to the point where you could not get out of bed in the morning. that's right. i did various things to try and change my workload but because of the lack of gps, i could not cut my hours down or reduce my patient numbers so one day ijust could not get out of

bed. i'd been forcing myself to go in and biting my cheek to try and make myself stay in the surgery but one day i couldn't go in and i felt i had failed as a mother, a wife, a partner, gp partner and ifelt i was failing everybody. and i went off sick and really could not get out of bed for the first few days apart from to do the bare minimum. common maternal duties. let me bring in doctor clare, is what charlotte described as unusual when it comes to gps? sadly, not at all. i run a service for doctors with mental illness and i think charlotte had depression rather than burn and over the last 18 months we have seen one in five, sorry, one in 20 of all english general practitioners in our service and that is the tip of the

iceberg. as you've heard, she very well describe it. you wanted to do the best for her patients and was fitting them in and around the edges and giving up her own needs and if anything she was becoming a martyr to the surgery. her altruism was shining out but in the end she is a human being and in the end the last thing to go is her work, which was the last thing to go. what we've seen over probably the last decade is increasing workloads for gps and i now do in ten minutes what for consultants would each have 40 minutes to do, so i am doing that in a ten minute slot in my consulting room. we are also seeing the fact that we have all almost a double numberof that we have all almost a double number of consultant numbers compared to a tiny blip in an increase in gps. yet most of the work being done in the nhs, most of the work being done today, now, is being done by general practitioners. so how do you stop people leaving

and how do you attract more?‘ so how do you stop people leaving and how do you attract more? a very, very interesting question and important question because what we don't want to do is put off people coming into what is the best of all jobs in the world. nhs england have put in place a five year plan, so the cavalry is coming up over the hills, and hopefully it will be there in time. what we are seeing now in general practice is more allied health professionals coming m, allied health professionals coming in, pharmacists, physiotherapists, and others, to help us with the workload, but fundamentally we need the system, the nhs to realise that if we want to have the health service that you as a patient want, we have to invest in gps. we have to move the money from where it is at the moment, which is hospitals, into general practice and we have to stop... and spend it on what? evenif even if we have the staff, we have

nowhere to put them. spend it on gp practices. spend it on others to help us do our work, such as, as i said, pharmacists, paramedics and the like. but also spend it on real organising how gps work together. so, there are ways of doing this. hopefully this is now going to be sorted. but in the meantime, we got to keep doctors like charlotte in the consulting room. gps are the bedrock of the nhs and our long—term plan makes clear our future of general practice backed by an extra 4.5 billion or more a year for primary and community care by 2023. in 2024. i can see you shaking your head, doctor fereday, i will come to you when i finish this statement will stop last year, a record 3473 doctors were recruited into gp training and a new historic five year contract for general practice will provide greater certainty for gps to plan ahead with funding towards up to 20,000 extra staff working in gp practices. why

we re staff working in gp practices. why were you shaking your head in disagreement? because i think they've taken a lot of money out of they've taken a lot of money out of the system and put it into privatisation and the expense of commissioning services, which never used to have to happen under the old nhs, where it was all provided by the nhs. we have 150 two view pharmacists in plymouth, we won't get a pharmacist attached to our practice —— too few. it would make our work better, definitely. we have been given one a day a week, which is just starting. but there just aren't the staff out there, there aren't the staff out there, there aren't enough paramedics, you had taken away from the ambulance service, which is ready under stress with response times going down because it has been privatised, too. ijust don't think... because it has been privatised, too. i just don't think... they talk the talk, but it's just not making a difference. not all privatised, too, as you said, but i don't want to get into a debate about contracting out

certain services. we have been here before. in the 1960s and 1970s and 19905. before. in the 1960s and 1970s and 1990s. when i first started in general practice, we had very few gps and we had a crisis in general practice. that one thing i know about my profession, absolutely, it will find a way through this. because we have to come up for our patients sake. thank you for coming on the programme. and you can get more on this story on tonight's panorama gps: why can't i get an appointment? tonight at 7.30pm on bbc 1. still to come: hundreds of thousands of tents are abandoned every year at festivals, causing more damage to the environment. now organisers are trying to stop people pitching, and then ditching, their tents. he served in the falklands, northern ireland, and the middle east, where he came underfire. but in 1992, joe 0usalice, from liverpool, was discharged from the navy on the grounds that his conduct was prejudicial

to good order and naval discipline. he claims it was really because he was bisexual. at the time, there was a ban on lgbt people serving in the armed forces and that was until the year 2000. he's now suing the ministry of defence, for the return of his long—service medal, which was taken from him. the mod say, as legal proceedings are ongoing, it would be inappropriate to comment at the moment. let's talk to joe 0usalice, in his first live tv interview. thank you very much for coming on our programme. you served in the royal navy, for 17 years, what was that like? it was brilliant. brilliant lifestyle, good comradeship, good job, excellent pay. i travelled around the world, four times, seen all walks of life and it was certainly something

i would recommend to anybody thinking ofjoining. you are bisexual. the navy didn't know that. and when you served in the navy, it wasn't permitted, shockingly, until the year 2000. you couldn't be gay, you couldn't, you know, be bi, how did that ban affect you personally, when you are serving? mainly because i was living a double life, all the time. i was living my normal life, doing myjob, but at the same time, i had to be very careful in what i was saying, who i associated with, where i went. because you didn't want anyone to find out? indeed. the slightest sniff by the sib that you was, and they would be on you like a tonne of bricks. what's the sib? special investigation branch. right. tell us about the day in 1993, when you were discharged from the navy. it was horrendous. my life was devastated.

my previous 18 years had just been washed down the pan, basically. i felt very isolated, lonely, and i had nowhere to turn, or i didn't think i had. i recall the day i left, i went back home, and when i got to my home in torpoint in cornwall, everything was just silent. i could hear birds outside, yet i wasn't recognising any sounds. and you were, literally, standing in the office, before being chucked out, and what did they do with your medal? a writer came in with a pair of scissors and just cut them off. off your uniform? yeah. and what was that like? well, again, it was devastating. i told him, in the heat at the moment, i told him he could take all the medals, and he said, "no, i'm not

here to take them all, it's just this one i want". and which medal was that? that was my long service, good—conduct medal. and that's the one you want back? that's the one i want back. it's notjust that one medal, it's the three stripes i had. and my promotion, i was an lro, at that time, i'd like that back as well. what does lro stand for, joe? leading radio 0perator. right. why were you chucked out? because they found out i was bisexual. it is a long story. but, basically, i was charged... and went for a court martial. and i was found not guilty. but with the royal navy, they always throw this second charge on the main one, which is conduct prejudicial to good order and naval discipline. whilst i was found not

guilty of the main charge, i was found guilty of the second, which proves them taking their time in the courts. and what were those charges to do with? tell our audience. it was that i had, allegedly, been in bed with another rating, and i touched his thigh. and what do you say about that? it wasjusta... i can't think of the phrase... it was just a made up, cocked up story, basically. why would they do that? why would they want rid of you? because they already doubted me, and once they do doubt you, they will keep on pushing and pushing. and every so often, they'll come back with a different story, in an attempt to try to get shot of you. did you... did you say, "look, i'm bisexual"? in the end, i had to.

during the court martial, they had a break and they put me in a little rest room with my barrister. then the sib came past, took my barrister out of the room, and left the door open. straight afterwards, a young man, i have no idea who he is, walked passed and had a look in and then carried on walking. then my barrister came back and we went into the court room. the prosecution then used this person's evidence, this young man's evidence, that he'd seen me in a gay bar in plymouth. and i said, "well, you know, yes, i have been in that bar, but it's usually on a pub crawl. and i am bisexual". so, they got it out of me, that way. and by that time, which is after three days in a court, i was totally drained.

i can't imagine the stress that was upon you, at that time. i nearly had a breakdown, when i came out of the armed forces, because it left me over £10,000 in debt. because i was single, i was paying food and accommodation at the base, and i was paying for a mortgage, and all the bills that go with a mortgage, in the west country. plus the travelling, to and from, every weekend. and paying for legal costs left me overdrawn. the ministry of defence say, as legal proceedings are ongoing, they can't comment on your case. but you have asked them for that long—service medal back, a number of times. how many times? i'd say i've asked them directly about five times. what would you say to the defence secretary, the new defence secretary, if she was watching right now,

what would you say to her about what you want? stop getting a pay rise for yourself in 24 hours and start looking after your vetera ns. i'm here for my medal and associate badges to be returned to me. i don't want any money, or anything like that, i just want what is duly and rightfully mine to be returned. thank you very much for coming on our programme and talking to our audience this morning. thanks very much for having me. no problem. we've got some nice comments about joe, which i will be due before the end of the programme. that's right i will read to you before. —— that i will read to you before. —— that i will read to you before. —— that i will read to you before. more than 250,000 tents get left behind at uk festivals each year, from glastonbury to reading and leeds, and it's bad for the environment. 0rganisers of 60 festivals have now come together to launch a campaign to try and stop revelers

ditching their tents once the festival ends. the association of independent festivals is urging shops to stop marketing tents as single—use items so that festival goers will be encouraged to take them home. we've got a few tents here, marketed as "festival tents" here. the go 0utdoors website contains a tent as cheap as £15, with three others atjust £25... we'll speak to a representative of go 0utdoors shortly. the decathlon website has tents starting from just £20 for a two—person tent, and £30 for a three—person tent — they say they "don't manufacture tents with the intention of single use" and that they "reduce the price to be more appealing to festival goers" without sacrificing quality". while the argos website is selling festival tents as cheap as £25. they say they "offer a range of tents at a range of prices" and that "they are all sold with a bag to encourage re—use". and then there's this one. it was £29.99 and bought off the high street. it's known as a pop—up tent because, well because of this. it comes in a bag. i'm scared! i told you it was a pop—up tent! i'm

not scared of pop—up tents, but it is the shock of it. fought off the high street, pops up very conveniently. but they're notoriously difficult to put down, and it's these tents that are most often left behind at the end of a festival. i could honestly try and put this tent down for no reason other than to show you that it's... you can do that but easily enough but try and get that in there. while... . life is too short. let's speak now to anna wade — who is part of the team organising boomtown festival in hampshire, ian macintosh, for go 0utdoors, a camping retailer, and jenny cawthorn, a regularfestival goer, who says it's not always easy taking a tent home. why not, jenny? ijust think, at the end of a festival, that people will be tired, they've been drinking all weekend, they've had a big weekend and the first thing you want to do is just and the first thing you want to do isjust get home.

and the first thing you want to do is just get home. me and and the first thing you want to do isjust get home. me and my and the first thing you want to do is just get home. me and my friends, if our tent is ok, we will bring it home. but normally, if they've been battered in the rain or something, we will sometimes leave them. but we have always been under the impression that charities will take the tents back. who has given you that impression? i don't know if it's a myth or we've just always thought this. that even if we leave the sleeping bags, they can be used for homeless people and reused. but it's come to light more over the last few months that this isn't actually the case and that theyjust and up in a land site. what do you think of that? i think it's shocking. when i found out that one tent is the equivalent of about 250 pints glasses, i just tent is the equivalent of about 250 pints glasses, ijust think it is bad. next time we go to a festival, it will be in our heads that we can't just leave this it will be in our heads that we can'tjust leave this here, it will just end up in a tip. and are, what are you doing to try to make sure your festival goers take home their tents —— anna. your festival goers take home their

tents -- anna. to dispel that myth jenny highlighted. a lot of people do believe that they get collected bya do believe that they get collected by a charity and end up being used for good, elsewhere, which is a damaging and dangerous blood perpetuated over the last few years. we are trying to raise that awareness because most, if not all of our festival attendees, if they knew all of their tense ended up in landfill, they wouldn't choose to leave them behind —— all of their tent tos. we are under the umbrella of aif, to try to raise that awareness byjoining of aif, to try to raise that awareness by joining forces of aif, to try to raise that awareness byjoining forces with retailers to dispel that myth and try and educate and explain that tents should be reused, they are your belongings. you have purchased them and hopefully they can be a really good festival body for years to come. and if you look after them, you will get more than your moneys worth out of them. ian, you heard the aif and anna saying retailers have to take more responsibility for

the numbers of tents that potentially get discarded because of the way they are marketed, do you accept that? to a certain extent but we don't sell anything we market as a single use. and even the cheapest tents we sell are built to last and can be used for years. on your website, under festival tents, there is one for £15. i am aware of that tent andl is one for £15. i am aware of that tent and i have used that exact tent on my multiple video shoots and work camping trips for years. you have to look after them and understand how to pack them away and make sure they are dry and you can use them again. when you watch those videos, which we nt when you watch those videos, which went viral last year of the festival waste, particularly at glastonbury, it's notjust waste, particularly at glastonbury, it's not just cheap tent£500 bell tents bust up it is about working together, retailers and festivals to educate festivalgoers as to how we can remove the festival tents from the festival. that education involves what? i produced a video

which is how to pack away your tent. showing it can be done easily in about two minutes and we are happy to share that with festival companies and get back to people so they understand. another thing that festivalgoers have is getting back to theircar. if festivalgoers have is getting back to their car. if you have a very heavy tent, can be festivals help the campers get the tents back to theircar? the campers get the tents back to their car? another thing is the campers get the tents back to their car? anotherthing is an incentive, the festival i go to, they do a recycling incentive, £20 deposit and if you do all your recycling, you get that back at the end of the weekend. when you leave the festival with your tent, you get that deposit back or a free t—shirt or something to incentivise, rather than use a carrot instead of a stick. someone on twitter says... there is something wrong with the technical here. instead of blaming the lazy, who choose to litter and leave their tense, you go after the shops that sell them. that is a

question to us and to you, anna, is that a fair point? we're not going after anybody. what we want to do is collaborate with everybody involved in the festival industry, retailers, customers and festivals ourselves. to really come together as a community, to and combat this growing problem. everybody taking ownership of their own different area. boom town we have run the uk scheme for ten years, £10 addition on your festival ticket and when you bring back a bag of recycling or general waste at the end of the festival, you get your £10 back. we have run that for years. the problem is escalating. it is reallyjust about society in general getting a lot more aware of single use plastic and the plastic problem that the world is facing. by all of us joining together to look at and identify what we can do from our individual platform, hopefully,

together, we can actually really make a massive difference in combating this issue. yeah. jenny, are you going to make sure you a lwa ys are you going to make sure you always ta ke are you going to make sure you always take your tent home with you and all of your friends as well? yes, definitely. we do usually try to buy second—hand tense. we don't like paying £500 for a family tense —— second—hand tents. we will buy a second—hand online. —— family tents. sometimes that doesn't make you value it is much but now we know about the effect on the environment and everything like that, we will definitely be doing our bit to try to help that. do you need the kind of incentives that anna mentioned, better for the environment for you to ta ke better for the environment for you to take your tent home. better for the environment for you to take your tent homelj better for the environment for you to take your tent home. i think incentives will help. i have a couple of friends who will come to festivals and maybe go to argos that week by a tent and think we will leave it there, it is cheaper than

booking a hotel for accommodation of —— overnight. incentives will help people my age. thank you for coming on the programme. we really appreciate your time. jenny will ta ke appreciate your time. jenny will take her tent with her home. she is a regular festival goer. take her tent with her home. she is a regularfestival goer. anna from a festival in hampshire and ian, from go 0utdoors a retailer. thank you for your comments aboutjoe, the former royal navy vet who served in the falklands, the middle east and other parts of the world. he had one of his medals and stripes taken from him, he says, when it was discovered he was bisexual and he is now planning to sue the mod to get the medal and the stripes back. one person has texted to say i am a vetera n person has texted to say i am a veteran from that time and i am disgusted they had taken this guy's medal away from him just because of his sexuality. and other e—mailed to say i am his sexuality. and other e—mailed to sayiama his sexuality. and other e—mailed to say i am a falklands veteran who

served abroad on hms antrim during the conflict. without hesitation, i would supportjoe. as long as anybody can perform their roles under pressure, their sexuality has no bearing of being in the armed forces as far as i am concerned. he should without doubt be given his middle back with a full apology from the mod. this is awful treatment and iam the mod. this is awful treatment and i am ashamed of the royal navy —— his medal back. when someone says they have earned a long service and good conduct or what it is not down to their sexuality. we have people we knew we were gay but they were doing the same job with the same integrity as anybody else. thank you very much for those. a big survey of 16—44 year olds has found that people are having less sex than they used to. the findings, published in the british medicaljournal, suggest nearly a third of men and women haven't had sex in the past month. that's up from less than a quarter in 2001. and less than half of men and women

have sex at least once a week. the biggest falls in sexual activity were found in the over—25s and couples who were married or living together. let's talk to talya stone, whose life includes running her own business and looking after her five—year—old daughter. also her partner runs his own business. and hopefully a psychotherapist, daniel fryer, who helps people with their relationships. there you are! what do you think of this survey? talya, sorry, go ahead. ididn't this survey? talya, sorry, go ahead. i didn't catch your question because it cut out. what do i think about the survey results? they don't surprise me at all, to be honest with you. particularly the age bracket it talks about in the survey. we are just under so much

pressure, these days. myself and my partner both run our own businesses and in between that, i am also doing and in between that, i am also doing a —— being a motherand and in between that, i am also doing a —— being a mother and doing domestic chores. i love my partner dearly but at the end of the day i am knackered and all they want to do is flop into bed. i would love to be able to have more energy to be intimate more than once a month, but the reality is that i really struggle to do that. do you think our lives are busier than our pa rents‘ our lives are busier than our parents‘ generations? busyin busy in a different way, they are more complicated. there are a lot more complicated. there are a lot more distractions. 0ur devices and technology definitely play a role in that because it has led to an always on society. it is so easy to just, you know, communicate with your phone, as opposed to you know, sometimes being intimate with your partner, as sad as that may seem. that is interesting because that is one of the theories, screen time taking our phones to bed, watching

netflix in bed, is there some truth in that, talya? definitely. i read a survey result recently that said we touch our phones first thing in the morning, but our partners and that is so sad. there is an addictive nature of technology. somehow it has allured us in. i am wondering how much that is luring us away from being intimate with our partners. alex on e—mail says i am in a relationship at uni and i have sex every other day but the people i share a house with had never had it at all. probably half the people i know don't have any sex regularly. john and melinda have e—mailed together, we are a couple in our mid—to—late 40s and we love sex so much we have sex at least once a day but sometimes two or three times on our days off work. this tweet, millennials are having less sex because few work the traditional 9—5 work shift and have less time with

their partner. a fair suggestion. this button e—mailed. 0nce their partner. a fair suggestion. this button e—mailed. once a year i have sex with the husband, three times a day with lover boy, that is a true story. wow! i hope that is true because that has cheered me up. i don't know why. talya, do you mind me asking when you last had sex? i don't know why. talya, do you mind me asking when you last had sex7m was there last month or so. i am probably due for it again. daniel is a...a probably due for it again. daniel is a... a psychotherapist, psychologist? psychotherapist. you help people with their relationship issues? my main focus is on stress in all its forms, people who live very stressed out lives and it is a affecting their performance at work, at home, in the bedroom and i helped them live more effective, stress—free lives. them live more effective, stress-free lives. when you hear the results of this large survey that there is a big fall in us having sex, particular between the ages of

16 and 44, would you, from your experience, say that is definitely true? absolutely, yes. why? i believe that. was right, technology has a large part to play in it. we are looking at our phones more than engaging with other people. —— i believe that talya was right. we are socialising more online than in reality. that is having an effect but it is the nature of modern life. we are doing too much. we have a term for that, time poor, there are as many hours in the day as there we re 50 as many hours in the day as there were 50 years ago and get everybody feel they don't have enough time to cram it all in. give us some advice for those who would like to have more sex and perhaps the kind of advice you might give couples that you see. make time. put it in your diary? schedule it? absolutely right! no! bottom of the list shouldn't be intimate time with your partner. if you can't make time, you need to find time. to go home early

from work, spend the evening with your partner. don't look at the phone, look at your partner. schedule an evening together and make that a regular part of your fixture. soon, intimate time with your partner will become a part of your partner will become a part of your routine but firstly you have to make it routine in the first place. whether you've got young kids or teenagers, and it's the final of line of duty, what do you do? find a baby—sitter or a friend that will look after them. teenagers can go around to their friends' for an evening. be assertive with their time. people these days are frightened of the results of sticking to their boundaries, whether that be telling your boss at work, i'm going home early, asking a friend to look after a child for you. how important is your sex life to you? how important is intimacy to you? if to you? how important is intimacy to you ? if it to you? how important is intimacy to you? if it is important and it's not there or there is not enough of it, you have to ask yourself what can i do about this because nobody else is going to do it for you. thank you

for that advice. talya briefly, we are coming to the end of the programme, would you schedule time with your other half to have sex? that's a tricky one. we scheduled date nights but somehow i feel a bit icky about scheduling time to have sex but i wouldn't say no. that'll do! thank you so much for being candid, i appreciate it and thank you for coming on the programme. thanks for your time and messages. have a good day. a rather wet to start to the day with heavy rain moving its way north across many areas linked into an area of low pressure which moved in from the south—west and you can see the swi of the cloud, the centre of the low

but weather fronts have stretched their way up across the uk —— you can see this swirl. heavy rain moving north. southern areas we will see drier and brighter this afternoon but heavy and perhaps thundery showers. northern areas will remain wet, particularly northeast where they will be a strong easterly it will feel chilly, temperature 7-9. southern areas, dry and bright but those temperatures will get up to 13-15 those temperatures will get up to 13—15 and those showers will continue through the evening but as we go into thursday, another fairly u nsettled we go into thursday, another fairly unsettled day. further showers particular across northern areas, temperatures 8—9 celsius, try a further south but still the odd shout about and highs of 14 or 15. goodbye. —— the odd shower about.

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