champions league final — liverpool versus tottenham. the former arsenal and spain player, jose antonio reyes, has died in a car crash at the age of 35. good news for tenants in england, as a ban on letting fees — including credit checks and viewings — comes into effect. now on bbc news, the town of middlesbrough recently played host to a special week of coverage featuring the stories that matter most to the people of the teesside town. these are some of the highlights of we are middlesbrough. i. ..love. ..middlesbrough. it's my home now. anybody describe me, i'm from middlesbrough. i think they focus on the negative and not look at the positives. are you proud to be from middlesbrough? all: yes! this is we are middlesbrough.

for the next half an hour, you are going to get a glimpse into the lives of people here in middlesbrough. for five days, bbc news has been broadcasting from this teesside town, focusing on the stories it really matter to the people here. from choirs and roller derby to art, the people of middlesbrough have been in charge and notjust on tv, it has been broadcast right across bbc news on radio, online and social media. so welcome to we are middlesbrough. for many in middlesbrough, it's the people that make the town. for some newer residents, the road her has not been easy but they've adjusted to life in the northeast. the town has one of the places asylum—seekers in the uk and are sent and people are sent

by the home office while they await a decision on whether they can stay. in some cases, that can take more than a decade. danny has been finding out how the locals and asylum—seekers arriving here have changed. middlesbrough, a town where many asylum—seekers have been sent to live mainly because accommodation is cheap. a lot has changed over the last two decades. when i first started life here in 18 years ago, there was not many shops compared to now, where there are lots and lots of shops from a very diverse background. this eritrean geologist was one of the first asylum—seekers to come here. my very good old friend. hello. long time, how have you been? really well, thank you. i am all right. he has gone on to help people develop a whole street businesses. i came here with nothing, but today i own my shop. so middlesbrough is for the people of middlesbrough to give us a chance.

desmond fled here from nigeria. is middlesbrough a good place to live? this is my home now. this is where i live now. this is my home now. anybody that describes me as being from middlesbrough. things are not always positive here. three years ago, we reported on the racist graffiti carved into the front doors of asylum—seekers. in 2019, prospects are more organised. the missing words are... this woman is a syrian refugee. improving her english so she can work in her chosen profession. i was a pharmacist and i now work there for more than three years. since i arrived here, i tried to find a certificate to be able to work as a pharmacist. good afternoon. this charity pays for those classes, but at one local hospital, the results. on boxing day, at 9am, three of the junior doctors here were from the programme.

so they were here on our bank holiday looking after patients on teesside. the realities of seeking asylum a long way from home are also being tackled. so many things, as a migrant you face, very difficult and very challenging moment in your life. but this is been a huge because it takes our distress. much has been done here to make things work for the individuals and the wider community. the river tees has been at the heart of working life are many people in this town, as it was a middlesbrough artist mckenzie thorpe. he now exhibits around the world, counting the queen among those who own his works. his latest piece focused on one of middlesbrough‘s most iconic sites. colin paterson has bent to meet him. a special guest this afternoon. this is mckenzie thorpe and he is a famous artist. back to school. mckenzie thorpe a mile from where he grew up. so you are not going to make the transporter bridge.

his art sells around the world. his inspiration — the town were he was born. i draw a heart under the bridge because i love middlebrough. so that's all it's about. love — the thing that dominates so much of his art. the transporter bridge over the river tees in middlesbrough and it means so much and because i was bornjust down the road and as the gondola starts to move out, running and leaping into the cabin on the side. one of seven children, he left school with no qualifications. the trouble is you will never get a job because all you do is draw. that is what i was told in school. starting out in the shipyards with his father... i became a man with my dad. when i was 17, i went on a real tanker bringing chemicals from the shallow end of the river down to the mouth for the big boats to come in and pick it up. quite a leap from that to be exhibited in new york. that made my laugh because i never thought of it like that before. right, i guess, i grew up on the boat.

jk rowling has some of your work, the queen has a piece. she has two pieces apparently. it is an honour, i met the queen, we talked and we laughed. i have not changed. if you picked me up and put me back in this river, i will be in the same boat. but it's a crucial part of his appeal. his work will be there for generations and it will be a message to young people that they should never ever let anybody tell them that they cannot achieve their dreams because that is what he is done. i did not think drawing was being an artist, ijust drew. but i am dyslexic. reading and writing is really hard. as part of celebrations for his 30th anniversary as an artist, he is visiting the school which studies his paintings. work as hard as you can on everything you want to and you will get there. it isjust an inspiration. as teachers, you can talk about different artists, look at different artwork but to actually have an artist

in school, the children will remember that for years. the right consistency of the overpasses and smudge them. sometimes i work upside down to get the clouds right, like this. it is called waiting for me down... at the transporter bridge, the latest piece was inspired by his childhood memories of standing there to meet his own father coming home from work. i want to make a monument in middlesbrough of the working man. so these kids are here and they've got where is my dad? dad, dad, have you seen my dad? and now he believes the success of the next generation depends on adults changing their attitude. we are not listening. and i think that is where governments and authorities and people in power are going wrong. the child is forgotten and there is a space in the world which is gone forever. i want to keep that space full because all the beauty, all the innocence, all the wonder that this world can offer with humanity is in our children.

bye. goodbye! this is where i grew up. my house is literally just over there. now, three years ago, this town was ranked the worst place in england and wales to grow up asa girl. ifor one feel so glad to be from middlesbrough. i've got an amazing group of friends, went to a great school and i used to knock aboutjust here. so steph has spoken to some other young girls about their experience. this is my hometown, middlesbrough, and i know most of you know this cos i bang on about all the time on the telly, i am really proud to be from here. it has given me my accent, a great education and some of my happiest memories. i'm independent and resilient because i grew up here. so a couple of years ago when a report here said this was the worst place to grow up as a girl in england and wales, i was absolutely raging and i was not the only one. so were liz and krista. to teach girls to believe

in themselves and when they work together that they can accomplish their dreams. brilliant answer. in response, they set up a charity called rubies to help empower girls. i was really upset and disappointed to having grown up in middlesbrough my whole life and i thought it was not right, i wanted to be associated with our girls. so we decided we need to put a different message out there. before you were doing this, did any of you feel like you were not good enough? did you? oh, my god, that makes me really sad. before we got started, everybody is like i used to be here and i don't know why, ididn't... you are not, you're gorgeous and you're brilliant. how do you feel now? definitely that i'm beautiful. you are beautiful. you said that really quietly but i am so pleased you feel like that. it is teaching us to not bother with the feelings and think that we are not enough. i would never think i would become a doctor but liz got me to believe that i can do it if i put my mind

to it and keep going to school. just because this is my hometown, i am not going to pretend things are perfect. of course they're not. it has problems just like anywhere but things are improving. would you all say that you're confident with it? yeah. meeting some of the girls today at middlesbrough college, there is no shortage in ambition. i'm going to uni in september to do primary education with... what do you want to do? work in a dentist. i actually already working electrical. doing an apprenticeship? yeah. the things being a hard being a girl here to read anywhere else in the country? no, not at all. they focus on the negative and overlook the positives. do you think anything more could be done? more work experience. i think or focus on mental health because we having confidence issues, things to help do with it and conquer it is a big issue in anywhere, not just middlesbrough. what these girls also need are role models. as female business owners,

we are giving back now and trying to encourage people. these businesswomen think they are making progress. in the last two years, i think there has been much more collaboration, much more initiatives and much more working in partnership. there have been some real challenges in the air but there is also amazing regeneration in innovation happening locally. i think that pride that you cannot really measure it account for so much was that with a minimum, we must keep it going now. we must encourage our young people to challenge themselves, to try something new committed show the opportunities that are out there. are you proud to be from middlesbrough? yes. do you think that you can do just as well as anybody else in the country? yes. good! because you can. yay! one of the best—known foods in middlesbrough is our speciality dish. this is a piece of chicken or pork covered in breadcrumbs and then deep—fried. even has a layer of bechamel sauce, loads of melted cheese and you have

got to eat it with garlic. for the first time, our colleagues from london get to try one. yes, this i'm not sure is good idea but what will do is an issue to what is described as the national dish of middlesbrough, which is this. vicky has done lots of research on this and will now tell me... oh my god! what on earth is this? the first thing, it is really healthy. yeah, it looks it. there was some research done saying that one of these and some chips is 2600 calories. this is a diet for me then. really healthy. tell me what you think is in it. i will tell you. chicken. it's nice. parmesan. there are some chips. bechamel sauce. where is that going afterwards? i know where that's going afterwards. come back with me. you're watching we are middlesbrough. as part of our work in this town,

bbc news has been listening to the people that live here to make sure we're telling the stories that matter to them. to do that, we have set up our pop—up newsroom and studio where locals can drop in and give us their stories and find out more about what we do. notjust bbc tv, we have radio, online and social media as well. take a look at some of the middlesbrough films you can see on the bbc news website. one, two, middlesbrough! my name isjulie and i skate for roller derby. i think women should get involved in sport because it really improves confidence. you get involved in something bigger, like a sense of community and you are able to bring each other up.

it has been really successful in the last ten years. we have gone from being complete unknown to being one of the most well—known teams in roller derby in the uk. we are middlesbrough roller derby! making history with your hands and things. like the old skills that you just don't learn anywhere else. we only learn in a place and you don't learn this in school, do you? hopefully we can get how it used to be, more engineering jobs coming in. with all the big industries going in the past two years,

we have struggled a little bit. i don't want this place to become a memory. i would like it to be taken on. but still cannot find the work to sustain it. every area around here had a steel works, iron works but this is a brass foundry right in the middle of all this other. hopefully take everything in, what they have to teach and pass that on again and just keep it going. that is all we have to do, isn't it? give it your all. got this laptop and i have no idea how to set it all up. everything goes in the computer now. you cannot get around the world without one. i'm not frightened of it, ijust don't know very much and i am willing to learn and keen to learn. team technology is about helping older people with their devices

so we offer support and volunteers and they come in and give individual support to older people on the phone, ipads, laptops, whatever it is that they are having issues with, we have people there to help. trying to catch up with it. ifind it difficult, really, to influence... middlesbrough has one of the best senses of community. people from here are so proud to be from middlesbrough, so we went to find out what different groups are happening in your area and how you can connect with people, that's all moving online. more of these videos, head to the website and bbc.co.uk/wearemiddlesbrough. when people think ofjobs on teesside, they think of industry or shipping but this town is a leader in the digital tech sector. and you people are helping change

the way middlesbrough does business. as megan patterson finds out. the manufacturing is hypnotic to watch, the products taking gamers to different lands. this is hobgoblin 3d, founded by teesside university graduates who make designs, downloaded and then they are made all over the world. anyone can join our website, find other sides and then what our products and can have that created on the desktop by using a printer. the demand so far as endless as the creators' imaginations. as the business expands, there is no plan to move elsewhere. we like the chances middlesbrough provides. a good number of things on the horizon with the fifth—largest digital cluster and the amount of support being put into the area at the moment, it is really interesting to see just the opportunities that are on the rise for digital tech startups and especially startups like ourselves because we are quirky and so is middlebrough. based as the launch pad site, the team benefited from local services, advice and funding support.

these are the out of revolting on cement recall that we have the two graph on the kickstarter projects, the first was for... the second one was for the builders. graduate startups from the university, and the most profitable in the uk. the sector is a really strong sector for this area. growing and creating new drives and new economic opportunities and they are also working which additional sectors helping them to modernise through digital tech. this is our zero waste section here, you can bring your own containers or we do have paper bags here for you to fill. from tech to eating, middlesbrough‘s first vegan market has a successful year thanks to the local strains and short—term licenses offered to new businesses young entrepreneurs. starting in this market, they have the enterprise team so they were able to put us in touch with an enterprise business that helps start up businesses and they gave us business advice as well who talked through setting up the business. everything is included

in your weekly rent so you don't have think about anything outside ofjust paying your weekly rent and sustaining your business so that was really helpful. and atjust 20, lucy started her pet shop, her rent £10 a day. i got a lot of help on an enterprise rate so i was able to sort of test the waters and see how business would go for a few months and see if it was something i would want to commit to all the time so if it was going to work. i had a small unit and now moved into a bigger one in a few months and businesses are still going well. new businesses are the pride of middlesbrough and hopefully can encourage others to enjoy their success. when i was a teenager, i did not really know what i wanted to do, ijust knew i wanted to be we successful. we wanted to show some of the students from here how high they can set their sights so we took them to see a top teesside chef. my name is michael and i am a chef here and my mission is to have a fine dining restaurant in leeds. i lived in middlesbrough and went

to school in redcar by the coast. i have really fun memories of it and i love teesside, for me it's where i feel at home. i have not ever really worked there since like 19 years old. but it has always been home. today we have got four students coming in for middlesbrough college, a great chance for them and a great chance for me also to have the young talent from the college coming in to my restaurant in a position i was once in, to hopefully inspire them to see what is possible and how far you can actually take it. in middlesbrough college, i am learning how to be a chef. a special chance to be on this team. want balloons to make edible shells, last thing i expected to do. use a method of cooking i've never used before come as a dish is made

that i have never seen or eaten before. to learn everything i can. yeah, it is from where i left, so quite inspirational. i want to see the scope of what is achievable by doing the same thing and working the same hours but trying little bit harder, focusing on being more creative and i want them to come out of it and still want to be a chef. my dream is to be a pastry chef. this has been... not that many pastry restaurants in middlesbrough. i don't feel like we're i come from in the country, i thought it will help me forward and it will do in the future. fair to say that 100% of you're influenced by what it is around

you and what you experience about your entire life and cooking here, here is to cooking great high end food but with familiarity and flavours everyone understands. so we have milk ice cream... just as if you had put on red cabbage, so it's really good. yeah, with chocolate. really proud to know that everyone else is going to eat that because... coming here today, it was really inspirational, the way they mix the flavour, the colour and everything from today is like the best experience i ever have. they have motivated me and hopefully use some of it in my future cooking. so whilst this is the end of the pop—up, it's certainly not the end of your involvement. we still want to hear your stories,

just visit our website for more. pure joy. best way i can describe it. made me happy and confident and made me smile. it's like everything else melts away and there is only that moment in time. music. you 1.45p from going down and i've seen some people who have successful jobs and then one redundancy turns and spiralling but then he found there is a lot of reason why people are homeless and it is not as black—and—white as people can make to be. there is a lot of people that have

come and gone through this that have experienced real homelessness also think it's given the confidence to come back into a society really. music. never heard of an opera in my life to him and never seen one, so to me was more like it's a rich person's thing. then i went to my first opera and i loved it. i never thought i would be into opera because it is such a high culture thing. within three minutes, you were just in that song and you really want to give it your best and give it your all and do your very best because you don't want to let other people down. music.

i suffer with a lot of mental health problems. having somewjere to go out of the house has really helped me and give me a reason to leave the house with my confidence up as well. my name is daryl... it makes me feel like i'm not invisible and makes me feel alive. it got me out of a dark place that i was in, it made me want to live my life again. where i did not want to before. i am retired and i am just getting through this and now i've come back to life with a vengeance and would tell anybody who gets in my way when i'm singing. music. i felt i used to be worthless but i am actually worth something and i should be here, i should be strong. you see you see such a transformation in people and i think it gives them the confidence then

to move on in the world. goodbye! adios, arrivederci...! hello there. across northern england, plenty of cloud. some of us are having a rainy saturday afternoon as well in the south of england and wales as well, it is warm, hazy sunshine has shown up it is warm, hazy sunshine has shown up through parts of scotland as well. the chance of a bit of patchy rain in the south later on, a few showers in northern scotland. see whether warp this, coming up from iberia. 32 in madrid this afternoon.

you have to be south of the area to tap into some of those areas. this area of rain is slowly fizzling onto the rest of the afternoon into the evening so feeling increasingly light and patchy but holding temperatures down to the mid—teens where you have that, a big range of temperatures this afternoon across the uk. some heavy rain on the way tonight, spreading across northern ireland as the evening goes on, across scotland overnight, towards parts of wales, western england as well. a mild night pretty much whatever you are but a muggy one where you have had that higher temperatures today. still largely clear skies for east anglia in south—east england. tomorrow, low pressure, the weather front moves eastwards, showers, but starting the day in the north—west with outbreaks of rain. it moves east, it will wea ken of rain. it moves east, it will weaken as it does so but eventually ta kes weaken as it does so but eventually

takes showers to eastern parts of england. not until late in the day so england. not until late in the day so ahead of its arrival, it will build in hazy sunshine again, behind it it will feel cooler and fresher. with a few showers. blustery sunday, particularly in the north—west. especially later in the day. a big range of temperatures but not as many have the heat into the upper 20s, really just into many have the heat into the upper 20s, reallyjust into east anglia, as these spots in south—east england, most other areas are just in the mid and high teens. tuesday, the winds turn lighter, the showers by tuesday turn more widespread, slower moving on wednesday. they will be some sunny spells around but notice these temperatures where some have been in the upper 20s. maybe a bit below average for this time of year. but there is chance of getting rain in the garden in the week ahead, in the form of showers, at

least. that's your week ahead.

this is bbc news. i'm geeta guru—murthy. the headlines at 3pm... ahead of his state visit to the uk, president trump defies protocol — he praises borisjohnson and his bid to become prime minister. i've always liked him. i don't know whether he's going to be chosen, but i think he's a very good guy, a very talented person. in madrid, fans gear up for this evening's all—english champions league final — liverpool versus tottenham. it takes place here at the wanda metropolitano stadium in five hours' time. tottenham and liverpool vying for club football's biggest price. and here in the heart of the city, the fans are gathering for what is guaranteed to be a glorious night for english football. the former arsenal and spain player

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