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our headlines today: what went wrong with the national grid after a huge power blackout in england and wales? millions were left without elelctricity, and hundreds of travellers were stuck on trains into the early hours. the mother of a teenager who went missing on holiday in malaysia has thanked the emergency services and has made a fresh appeal for information. liverpool kick off the premier league season in style, as last year's runners—up thrash newly promoted norwich 4—1 at anfield. a number of outdoor events have already been cancelled because of bad weather — we'll be on the isle of wight where the annual sailing regatta has been suspended. strong winds will be the main weather story today, particularly gci’oss weather story today, particularly across england and wales, thus of 60 mph causing disruption, thundery downpours elsewhere, join me for the full forecast here on breakfast. it's saturday the 10th of august. our top story: the energy watchdog has demanded an urgent report from the national grid, after yesterday's massive power cut which affected nearly a million
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people in england and wales. 0fgem has warned it could take enforcement action following the blackouts, which caused huge disruption to the rail network and cut electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes. some rail passengers were stuck on trains until the early hours of the morning, as andy moore reports. darkness at clapham station. as andy moore reports. the lights went out, the display boards died, even the ticket machines were completely dead. after four hours on a train outside saint pancras, this passenger was glad to see help arrived. the people on board were offloaded and escorted to a nearby station where water bottles were waiting. 0thers weren't so lucky. this was the message for travellers stuck on a train that finally got into king's cross just before two o'clock in the morning. they tried to provide taxis, but the wait was about a0 minutes. which meant i wouldn't have got home until even later, so i would have had to pay out of pocket again for an uber,
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which cost me £40. national grid has given little details about what caused the power cuts, but industry experts say that out for liz58pm the gas—fired plant at little barford failed. two minutes later, the hornsey offshore wind farm also disconnected from the grid. there were still problems on the trains hours after power was restored to the million or so homes that lost their electricity. it was about a 5% loss of power over about 90 minutes. that's what happened. so why that led to the heart of the national transport infrastructure being closed down is a big question that the grid have to address. the regulator, 0fgem, has asked for an urgent report about what went wrong, and enforcement action, including fines, could follow. 0ur reporter greg mckenzie is outside king's cross station, which saw some of the worst disruption for passengers yesterday. greg, how are things now?
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slight calm, although through those doors into king's cross station the concoui’ses doors into king's cross station the concourses starting to get busier. already there is a number of cancellations this morning, a knock—on effect from yesterday, so the 832 edinburgh council, the 836 to leeds cancelled. many passengers have said theyjust want to leeds cancelled. many passengers have said they just want to to leeds cancelled. many passengers have said theyjust want to get to leeds cancelled. many passengers have said they just want to get to their destination. surely these power cuts were yesterday, what is happening today? ultimately this knock—on effect is having a problem with different train services because trains are stacked up and down the track, up and down the country, drivers stranded elsewhere are trying to get back to king's cross to then turn the trains back around. ultimately there will be some delays right through until the afternoon, and many passengers have
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said that is simply not good enough. the director of operations for the national grid has spoken to the bbc the last a0 minutes and he has said this was an incredibly rare event. he goes on to say that he personally has been in touch with 0fgem, the energy regulator, and he says lessons must be learned to avoid anything like this happening again. the mother of the missing 15—year—old girl nora quoirin, has thanked the malaysian search teams who are looking for her daughter. nora went missing nearly a week ago while on a family holiday. her mother maeve spoke to rescue workers early this morning. we want to say thank you to each and every one of you. we know you are searching night and day for nora. we see you are working
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so hard, and also praying with us, being with us. we know you have given up your time, especially at a special festival time. it means the world to us, and we are so grateful for everything you are doing for us. 0ur south east asia correspondent howard johnson is in the town of seremban, near to the resort where nora went missing. such a distressing time for the family, and you can really see the anguish on their faces. yes, nora's mother very emotional during that speech, you could see her husband sebastian was dropping her arm as she delivered it. she said, we really hope you find nora, they are still working hard today, the seventh day of search and rescue operations. wejoined them seventh day of search and rescue operations. we joined them as they
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went into the thick undergrowth, lots of mud and advised that would trip your pursuer tried to pass through it. using a loud—hailer with a recording of nora's mother say, please, come to me, it is your mother. they are using that hoping that maybe if she is in the vicinity she will come to the team is looking for her. we cannot rule out they possibility she has been abducted, thatis possibility she has been abducted, that is what the family would like to explore. the police have not ruled that out but given the evidence they have continued to treat this as a missing persons case. it is mid-late afternoon where you are now, presumably the search teams have to work on some kind of timetable. there is about six teams working in six different areas, a six square kilometre search operation. this tropical rainforest behind eyes, nature reserve, is around 16 square kilometres. a huge
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expanse of jungle. from around 16 square kilometres. a huge expanse ofjungle. from above it is very ha rd to expanse ofjungle. from above it is very hard to see through it. we flew a drone over it and you could barely see anything through it. they are working in shift patterns, starter get 7:30am, lunch and then go back out again, another team will work through the night. a lot of heavy rain and a thunderstorm last night which hampered operations, but they are containing to work and we have seen them this morning trying to find nora if she is in this area. michael gove, the cabinet minister in charge of preparing for a possible no—deal brexit, says a support fund for british businesses will help firms to deal with any "bumps in the road". he spoke openly for the first time about what's known as 0peration kingfisher, while on a visit to northern ireland. let's get more from our political correspondent, tony bonsignore. tony, what do we know about this? what we are being told is this a peanut that planning for a while, even before borisjohnson became prime minister, but now we will have more detail discussed at a brexit
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committee coming up this week. the idea, the government says, is to help firms that it says are fundamentally viable but which might have temporary problems because of a no—deal brexit, cash flow crisis for example. there will be issues, we might see export tariffs introduced, import costs go up, more red tape. lots of things we don't know, how much money is on offer, what practical measures will be offered. we don't know how the government will assess what a fundamentally viable company is. what they shows us viable company is. what they shows us is that the government is further ramping up its preparations for a no—deal brexit as we had was at toba 3lst. no—deal brexit as we had was at toba 31st. perhaps a bit of nervousness within government about what might happen to the economy. we heard these numbers yesterday showing that these numbers yesterday showing that the economy had shrunk for the first time in seven years. homes and businesses in whaley bridge will be able to access emergency government funding, to cover any losses
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following the evacuation of the town. £100,000 is being made available to help with any costs not covered by insurance. people were moved from the area last week, amid fears the nearby dam could collapse. the fund is part of a bigger £5 million pot for flood—hit communities. we were looking at king's cross, on moment ago, some of the aftermath of the power shortages yesterday. still ongoing today. we are try to find out more about what caused the original problems. nearly a million people affected, to issues with two power generators, and are the energy watchdog, 0fgem, said urgent report. as we've been hearing, the national grid says yesterday's major power cut, which affected nearly a million people, was caused by issues with two power generators. let's talk to duncan burt, who's director of operations at national grid, he's in our 0xford studio.
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what happened ? what happened? we saw an incredibly event yesterday, the near simultaneous loss of two power stations. the normal protection systems responded normally to try and manage that, but the loss was so large that we went into our secondary systems, and they disconnect small amount of electrical demand around the country and to to protect the rest of national demand. the power cuts we saw last night, very significant impact on people because my evenings, were related to those protection systems. how much of a shock was it to national grid that two power generators failed? shock was it to national grid that two power generators failed ?m shock was it to national grid that two power generators failed? it is rare, but we are ready for it. the last time we saw a similar event was in 2008, and the progression of that event was very similar. we saw the system is working again and a number of points of electrical demand disconnected around the country. it has a huge impact on people, but our job is to operate the network 2a/7
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as reliably as we can make sure that people have the power they need. but when we have a very rare event like this, that systems operate safely. you a jarjob is to operate a system as reliably as you can, it was the idea of two power generators failing in succession is one we are ready for. —— you say yourjob. that does not balance up with the chaos caused. read recognise a significant amount of disruption was caused around the country. people were stuck on trains for hours. it does not sound like you are ready to hold up not sound like you are ready to hold up yourend of not sound like you are ready to hold up your end of the bargain. following the loss of the generators, the systems worked to protect supply to the majority of the country. the supply was made available again within 15 minutes of the distribution network to operate that process confirmed that power was restored to the supply by 630.
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there are softly a huge amount of disruption on from that through the evening, that is something we both wa nt to evening, that is something we both want to sit down with colleagues across the electricity industry and key partners such as network rail to understand what happened and how we can avoid that happening in future. have you not had conversations like that before? yes, it is a regular pa rt that before? yes, it is a regular part of our review of these contingency arrangements. we would not want to see the kind of effects we did, we need to do a detailed technical examination of the event, we will be sending that report through to 0fgem and build that analysis over the coming days and weeks as we review it. of that, i am sure we will learn lessons and want to review how this worked to avoid some of those significant impacts in future. yesterday a quote from the national grid said the events were outside of their control. that could worry quite a lot of people. are you
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in control? we are absolutely in control, and what we mean by that is that the simultaneous loss of those two power stations is very rare and sits outside the normal standards that we would work to to make sure that we would work to to make sure that people have all the power they need 2a/7. that level of extreme event made we would into secondary protection systems which cause the destruction that we saw yesterday. referring back to something you were explaining to as earlier, you chose to deliver low—cut power to certain services, talking about signals, trains and hospitals. how is that logical? that is something we want to look at, those are automatic protection systems that sit on the local networks around the country, at those protection systems, this event happens very quickly, so those signalsjust fire event happens very quickly, so those signals just fire at the electricity demand is removed. that has had a
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big impact on transport and railways and hospitals in newcastle airport. that is something people want to look at closely. we would always wa nt to look at closely. we would always want to minimise the disruption that is seen, even a dead these unusual events and also what we saw last night, the real challenge it put on people at the disruption it may to people's life. if you are a relative of someone sick in hospital and you think they could be vulnerable if there is another power cut, that is not acceptable. we operate a system as reliably as we can, we absolutely appreciate people's concerns, we have in the uk one of the most reliable networks in the world. there is a good interview earlier with the head of ipswich hospital talking about contingency arrangements to manage that. these are challenging issues to deal with. we appreciate everyone's effort and patience to get even sorted out. it just shows the importance of
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electricity supplies in the uk, so something we are working for all the time. 0fgem wants to look into what has happened and added detailed urgent report. any idea when it will get that? we have given them an initial summary and will build the report over the coming days. working over the weekend analysing that. the level of impact tm is we will be working to the lessons from this for a number of weeks and months. to make sure that we minimise disruption in future. 0fgem could also take enforcement action if necessary and a financial penalty. what is your turnover at the moment and pot with that 10% penalty, what with the impact be? we will be sitting down with 0fgem to look at all the scenarios that they have, but what i can say is that we have a whole industry that is working 2a/7 to make sure that supply is as reliable as possible. 0fgem are
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quite rightly asking us some challenging questions about what happened, at what has happened across the industry to lead to the events we saw last night. we will be walking them through that next week. given the results of our analysis of the weekend, did you because we will sit with them and they will have to draw conclusions about any remedial actions across the industry to improve resilience or any actions they wish to take. more than 1 million people were without electricity for some period yesterday, can you guarantee that this is not going to happen again, national grid will not fail again? we appreciate the huge disruption that caused, but what i can say is across the industry thousands of people are working every day to ensure that electricity supply in the uk is as possible. we play our pa rt the uk is as possible. we play our part of that. what we saw yesterday was an exceptionally rare event, when we have not seen since the nature, but we will of course be looking very hard at what happened to make sure that we minimise
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disruption in future. so no guarantee? these events are rare, they do happen from time to time, but i can guarantee we are all working as hard as we can to minimise the impact. the weather is causing quite a few problems. a lot of events organised over the weekend. here's matt with a look at this morning's weather. some of already fallen foul of the weather. window the last hour so getting close to 80 mph in the extreme close off the isle of wight, those wins will remain strong. england and wales bearing the brunt, the area of low pressure bringing torrential rain in the last 2a—hour is, a wet night in cumbria and northumberland. 0n the southern edge we have the strongest wind pushing eastwards, england and wales seeing
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glass of wind 15—60 mild power. bbc local radio if you are on the move for the latest travel information. we still have heavy rain around, showers across the counties of england, more persistent rain in wales at this darker area of blue in the far south of scotland, producing flooding issues in parts of cumbria, northumberland, dumfries and galloway. it will be here for a few hours before departing. sky is biting further south, showers cropping up in scotland and northern ireland through the day. whilst the wind will increase in the hebrides, to scotland, northern ireland for the lighter window, way from the showers at the brighter moments it will feel reasonably pleasant. i did the showers that could be a length of time, further issues, thunder and lightning. also see some more persistent rain pushing back across northern england. the wind picking up
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northern england. the wind picking up later, touching gill force. further south, went remaining, excessive gale force, tickling gusty around the hills and coast. fewer showers this afternoon, more sunshine. temperatures down on yesterday, 28 in parts of east anglia, 23 the high today, 15 in the north of scotland. with the day for scotla nd north of scotland. with the day for scotland and northern ireland tomorrow, bringing further showers tonight, ardbeg is are vegan in parts of northern eglin and north wales. the south and east clearer skies, temp is around 15 celsius. when the following lighter, some thunderstorms across northern and western parts of england and wales, heaviest and more persistent rain in southern scotland and north—east of england, a cooler day for all. sticking with the weather now, and as matt said, heavy rain and strong winds are set to cause more disruption this weekend. a number of outdoor events have been already been cancelled. 0ur reporter peter ruddick is in cowes on the isle of wight,
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where the annual sailing regatta has been suspended. sometimes our picture gives a slightly distorted impression of what the conditions are like. yes, anyone who lives on the isle of wight will tell you that is quite common. you live on an island, the weather conditions can change, and that has been like that for us this morning. earlier it was beautiful, if you minutes before it had been an incredible rayleigh picture. the big problem for the sailors here is the wind. the picture is for gas of up to a0 knots, over 50 mph inland. that is a big problem for sailors, it means the racing for today has had to be cancelled, and eight david carter down to seven. the directors said they cannot make it up because they have over 800 boats sailing across the course of the week.
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100,000 people coming down to watch, a logistical nightmare. 0ne 100,000 people coming down to watch, a logistical nightmare. one day you cannot factor all of that into the other seven. you join me on board this boat which is a beautiful high performance yacht. i am told it is the second fastest of the boat racing this week. we can speak to a member of the crew any moment, but i am joined by member of the crew any moment, but i amjoined bya member of the crew any moment, but i am joined by a familiar face first. here comes the wind. former bbc chairman, michael, lord grade of yarmouth, your official title, when we are talking about yarmouth... near the needles. we have a little cottage they are on the water. we have been watching this wind, like sea breeze, i don't think. we had been speaking to people this morning ata been speaking to people this morning at a lot of our viewers might think wind is perfect for sailors.
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at a lot of our viewers might think wind is perfect for sailorslj at a lot of our viewers might think wind is perfect for sailors. i would go out but i wouldn't want to race invest. you do not want to risk your crew. anything can go horribly wrong. the load on the line is huge, add one mistake and it could be critical. i think the organisers we re critical. i think the organisers were absolutely right to cancel this racing today. the forecast, unlike ollie racing today. the forecast, unlike 0llie brexit forecasts, has been correct. i think disgusting 60. —— unlike all the brexit forecastss.m is relatively new, sailing for you, you are not sailing says you are a boy. i did not start to sail until my 305, and i feel completely love with that. it has kept me 5ane to managing all the different media organisations that i have been involved with, including the bbc. organisations that i have been involved with, including the bbci
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am in my 30s and i am nota involved with, including the bbci am in my 30s and i am not a sailor, so perhaps this is a moment for me to start. i go to talk to kerstin who is the skipper. tell me, we have some of the crew members here, an all—female crew. some of the crew members here, an all-female crew. yes, i find it at 25 years ago and it has been slowly growing up to a big boat. 0n 25 years ago and it has been slowly growing up to a big boat. on this boat we are sailing with ia girl5 5ince boat we are sailing with 1a girl5 5ince ten years, which is sponsored since ten years, which is sponsored by twitter ma, a german watch producer, and it is always the same, the same girls, sailing with friends at that is how the team actually works. the character fits together and the sailing skills as well. that is what makes our team quite unique. all—female teams, we are the only one right now. i do are racing later in the week. yes, but not in these kind of conditions. at that is the
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message from everyone here, the winter is very important for sailors, without it no sailing, but at these kind of conditions, racing is not possible. it still looks glorious. everyone is still very enthusiastic. it is an achievementjust to be on a boat as achievementjust to be on a boat as a reporter and not be massively in the way, they are busy out there, everybody is doing things on boats. it is very easy to be in the way.|j have been and the docks around liverpool with the late great patrick moore, remember him? doing a film with him, i don't know what, the exact reason we were there. i was visually swept out to sea. let's take a look at this morning's papers. broadcaster and former football executive david davies is here to tell us what's
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caught his eye. lam also i am also in my strange career once had education correspondence, and this is a level results week coming up. this week they have already had big results in scotland. these are difficult times for universities. 1% fewer applications this year to go to university. uncertainty over whole question of fees in the future, are they going to come down? many more places, good news for students, in clearing this week. but on the front of the telegraph, dozens on the front of the telegraph, d oze ns of on the front of the telegraph, dozens of maths a—level grades are being withheld after an online leak, one of the boards are suspecting that 78 pupils had advanced knowledge of the exam papers, and this is the third consecutive year
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that questions from their maths a—level papers have surfaced online ahead of the exam. this whole question of fairness in a—levels, when you have so many exam boards, was being talked about in my time, and you still argue, why do we have to have so many exam boards if our number one priority is fairness for the pupil? social media and whatever, the issue of leaks, if something is out there, it is very ha rd something is out there, it is very hard to... people have been arrested and released only not so distant past in this connection, and no one has been arrested, has been charged with anything in this connection. they have remade dad's army. yes, a good time to remake that. if in that the language of brexit, you have
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heard people say, you stupid boy! about brexit. you have heard people say, we are doing, we are all doomed! i don't like it up them. those of that sort of expressions that live on. another stupid boy evidently wiped three episodes of the programme from the second serious all those years ago, added... they have the scripts? so they have re—enacted it in the absence of it being made, the versions of it being kept. and the good news is that ian hyland, the mirror's critic, says having watched all three episodes back—to—back i am happy to declare them a try on. there you are. not a word from the scripts being changed. we have time for one other story. extraordinary how many camps for young people there seem to be, highlighted by
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giles corrigan in the times, both the ball he says, i want to stop taking my children to camp, today i took them to swimming camp, not much ofa camp took them to swimming camp, not much of a camp because hours later i have to go back and pick pleb up debt is only 11 o'clock. from there i go to cricket cap, dance camp, and he is suggesting that some good cans for the future might be no—deal brexit survival camp and fat camp, not where you sane fat kids to get thin, it where you send them to learn that the fat is ok, that it is great, it is not theirfault, it is the fat is ok, that it is great, it is not their fault, it is the food companies' fault. speed awareness camp. he has a whole list. for pa rents camp. he has a whole list. for parents and grandparents, camps, good or bad, they go on forever. could be quite pricey if you are paying for them and... tell me about it. i would like to go to a food
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camp. really good food. could it go wrong. you could go wrong. what would you choose as a dish right now? smoked salmon and scrabble legs. cheesy crumpets, that is what lam in legs. cheesy crumpets, that is what i am in the mood for. —— smoked salmon and scrambled eggs. cheese crumpets on display, is that my link? i cheese crumpets on display, is that my link? lam cheese crumpets on display, is that my link? i am very well. 0ur our special guest today is tom allen, this will be entertaining. our special guest today is tom allen, this will be entertaininglj allen, this will be entertaining.” heard they were talking about camp,
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i thought i should comment, and i get called cheesy crumpets online. sometimes a term of affection. what is your idea of food having? simple, chicken, none of the messing around with fish. chicken, thank you. tinned tuna. such a waste of a tuner is my hell. something so lovely and people go, it would be nice if we shoved it in a can and eat it in six months, in some meagre sandwich, very depressing, what is the point of living? two great chefs. ruby chocolate and hazelnut. the glorious
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12th, venison and prune.” chocolate and hazelnut. the glorious 12th, venison and prune. i have delicious things, sweet and strong is the theme. a short, no. it is actually mine. i wondered where it had gone. you guys are in charge of what tom gets to eat later. see you at ten. headlines after the break.
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hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. coming up before ten, matt will have all the weekend weather but first at a summary of this morning's main news. the energy watchdog has demanded an urgent report from the national grid, after yesterday's massive power cut which affected nearly a million people in england and wales. 0fgem has warned it could take enforcement action following the blackouts, which caused huge disruption to the rail network and cut electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes. some rail passengers were stuck on trains until the early hours of the morning.
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of 0f gem are asking what happened. we will walk them through that next week. give them the results and then sit down with them and they will draw conclusions about remedial actions. the mother of the missing 15—year—old girl nora quoirin has thanked the malaysian search teams who are looking for her daughter. nora went missing nearly a week ago while on a family holiday. her mother maeve spoke to rescue workers early this morning. we want to say thank you to each and every one of you. we know you are searching night and day for nora. we see you are working so hard, and also praying with us, being with us. michael gove, the cabinet minister in charge of preparing for a possible no—deal brexit,
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says a support fund for british businesses will help firms to deal with any "bumps in the road". he spoke openly for the first time about what's known as 0peration kingfisher, while on a visit to northern ireland. borisjohnson's cabinet is expected to discuss the plans next week. homes and businesses in whaley bridge will be able to access emergency government funding, to cover any losses following the evacuation of the town. £100,000 is being made available to help with any costs not covered by insurance. people were moved from the area last week, amid fears the nearby dam could collapse. the fund is part of a bigger £5 million pot for flood—hit communities. pay rates for the uk's lower and middle income earners have fallen over the past decade according to a report from the trades union congress. the report said austerity, and a lack of bargaining rights, had held down pay in working and middle class jobs. a treasury spokesperson said it had given the lowest earners a pay rise, and had cut income tax
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for 32 million people. what we are seeing is people seeing real cuts in their pay packets, people in middle earning jobs actually seeing them pay for. that might bejobs in things like construction, may be in local government, if you are doing a more kind of administrative job there, you are likely to have seen your pay go down over this period. and of course that has a real impact on your ability to live, your cost of living, your ability to pay your bills as well. 9.36. a pair of male king penguins at berlin zoo — who zoo keepers say are in a same—sex relationship — could just be friends. could be about to become parents, after adopting an egg abandoned by its mother. "skipper" and "ping" had previously displayed their urge to breed, by trying to hatch stones and even fish. when this egg was abandoned the keepers put it in front
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of the couple, and it's said they immediately knew what to do. if the egg has been fertilized, it should hatch by early september. all the practice has paid off, now the real mccoy. the baby could be called skipping, i have been working on that for three hours. after liverpool winning the champions league last season, being pipped byjust one point to the title. it is a big ask to go again. but they write down every marker in
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their first but they write down every marker in theirfirst premier but they write down every marker in their first premier league match. 4-1 their first premier league match. a—1 against norwich, a bit of a goal fest. great atmosphere after the achievements last season. at anfield. a flying start byjurgen klopp's side who will feel they should have won by more. andy swiss was at anfield. excited? just a little. the start of a new season left some liverpool fans literally jumping forioy- and who can blame them? they are the european champions, after all, but becoming english champions is what they crave. after being pipped to the title last season, they began this one against newly promoted norwich. a big night for the visitors, but their premier league dream soon became a nightmare. an own goalfrom their captain, grant hanley, set the tone, as any early liverpool nerves quickly vanished. mo salah scoring a typically ruthless second, before norwich's defensive frailties were once again
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exposed by virgil van dijk. it was liverpool at their irresistible best, and by the time divock 0rigi added a fourth just after the break, even the most —— just before the break, even the most culinary norwich fan surely found it hard to stomach. to their credit they didn't crumble. as the home side faded, the visitors flourished, finnish striker teemu pukki giving norwich some second—half consolation. still a comfortable a—1 victory for the hosts, their latest title challenge off to a winning start. yes, liverpool's season is up and running. remember, they're looking for their first league title since 1990 — could this finally be their year? it would be only positive, what has happened tonight, because it's the first game of the season, 60 minutes of super football, everything like you wanted. respect norwich a lot.
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we showed that with our workrate. it was all brilliant. four wonderful goals, could have scored more, it's all good. the last half—hour, of course, that is not normal. injury for alisson. champions manchester city open their campaign against west ham at lunchtime. without forward leroy sane who's set to be out for six or seven months. the winger tore his anterior cruciate ligament and went off after 13 minutes of last sunday's community shield win over liverpool. normally, this kind of injury heals, i don't know, six months. hopefully. in february, march he can be back with us. unfortunately it's incredibly bad news. in three seasons we have had three acls. all the people here will try to help him to be comfortable in the time.
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motherwell take on champions celtic in the early kick off in the scottish premiership — in the championship dundee united made it two wins from two they beat partick 2—1, and how about this for an impact, five minutes after coming on, peter pawlitt grabbed the winner. we've seen him back playing doubles this summer, now it's official — andy murray will return andy murray will return to singles action. something he thought might never happen. it'll happen at the cincinnati masters next week and judging by his post on social media, he's pretty pumped. and why not, remember he thought he might have to retire after wimbledon following that tearful press conference at the australian open back injanuary. but after a succesful hip operation, he feels ready to go it alone. serena williams who teamed up with murray in the mixed doubles at wimbledon, beat naomi 0saka in the quarter—finals of the rogers cup. despite losing 0saka still returns to world number one, knocking ash barty off the top.
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jofra archer's in line to make his test debut in the ashes after being named in the 12 man squad to face australia in the second match of the series. he missed the first test with a side strain, but comes in to replace the injured james anderson. and england need something after that captulation on the final day at edgabston. play begins at lords on wednesday. in super league, wigan are third, while leeds recorded back to back wins beat catalan dragons by a8—8. luke briscoe making it look easy with the last of their seven tries at headingley. build up to the rugby world cup well under way with wales, england and ireland all play world cup warm up matches this weekeend ireland take on six nations strugglers italy in dublin first up, before england face wales at twickenham tomorrow. first of two against each other in the coming days. for ireland it's a chance
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for players to stake their claim for inclusion before the squad is trimmed before the tournament begins injapan next month. it's not quite rumble in thejungle but it's a new venue for heavyweight boxing. anthonyjoshua's rematch with andy ruinr will take place in saudi arabia. it'll be held just outside the capital city, riyadh. joshua remarkably lost his three heavyweight belts in new york injune to the unfancied american. lots of debate about where. the contest will take place on the seventh of december. why is he wearing his headphones like that? probably sponsorship. does that help you, give you the motivation you need to try and put ina big motivation you need to try and put in a big performance orders the extra pressure wear you a bit? never know. you will talk about the difficulties of full club surviving
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in the lower leagues in a few minutes. computer games are increasingly big business these days — played by more than a50 million people around the world. just a couple of weeks ago, the fortnite world cup saw winning teenagers become millionaires! now one school for pupils with special educational needs in north london, is introducing gaming lessons. steffan powell from radio 1's newsbeat has been to see the class in action. this is jack and emanuel, pupils are to be richard cloudesley school at the richard cloudesley school for special educational needs. along with saffy and luca, they're in gaming class. using specially adapted and positioned switches and buttons, they're playing together, something they will be doing a lot more of in future. soon, gaming will be an official
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part of the school's curriculum, and taught alongside more traditional subjects. more interesting and more fun. i have learned a lot. what does that feel like, when you get to play with your friends? i feel happy. jack has cerebral palsy and severe learning difficulties. he struggles to maintain relationships in school, unless it's in this class. it's nice to talk to people. so how do you feel when you're playing games in class? good. saffy uses a special computer to communicate. i feel good because it's nice. using gaming as a tool for learning is not new, but this is gaming being taught for gaming's sake, something that experts tell us has never happened before. this could be something we see in classrooms up and down the uk one day — certainly if the teachers here have their way. using gaming in the classroom,
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they say, has boosted their pupils' confidence, teamwork and communication skills in ways they've never seen before. that's it! we're nearly there. but shouldn't school be all about learning, not playing? that's a question we asked the man behind the idea. this is very much about learning, it's about learning the things that give you access to the curriculum, learning the social skills, the resilience, you know, losing and winning at all of those things that actually have a huge impact on the rest of your life. 0nly last year the first off—the—shelf controller designed especially for disabled players went on sale, making setting up these classes much easier. future technology must include people with disabilities. you know, no matter what kind of technology world we live in, we've got to recognise that people with disabilities need access to our products and services. it's the same for gaming. teachers here are now hoping that these students will not be the only ones to benefit from the learning possibilities of gaming class.
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do you prefer playing games in class to your other types of classes? uh, yeah! that was steffan powell reporting. interesting to see gaming moving into the classroom. 9a7 am. here's matt with a look at this morning's weather. i wish it was a pretty picture. the view across the river thames. there will be centring today, not wet and windy everywhere. any plans for the outdoors... blustery night across england and wales. further consisting in the last half hour or so, a0 or50. consisting in the last half hour or so, a0 or 50. we'll continue to be so. the low pressure, the cloud still wrapped around, starting to
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bring in strong wind. england and wales the focus, even inland gusts of a0-50 wales the focus, even inland gusts of a0—50 mph. not unusual at other times of the year but august commentary is in full leaf, there could be the tree down, some damage, bridge restrictions, ferries cancelled. keep abreast on bbc local radio throughout the day. notjust the wind, some rain, wet conditions. wettest the borders of and england. two inches, 50 millimetres across parts of cumbria. lots of surface water, minorflooding parts of cumbria. lots of surface water, minor flooding through the day. some might ease off. we will see heavier showers developed across parts of scotland into the afternoon. the breeze. to pick up in the hebrides, scotland and northern ireland ina
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the hebrides, scotland and northern ireland in a light wind today. in the sunshine, pleasant, you might stay dry to stop but get caught in the thundery showers that will develop, could be torrential, causing further problems. they went will pick up in northern england, staying busy throughout the midlands, wales and southern england. for the around here but a greater chance of staying dry with some centring. temperatures in the south and across the country down on the past few days by a few degrees. mid teens across the far north of scotland, 20 in the south. windy to begin with through england and wales. wind easing slowly into tomorrow morning. driest towards the south east corner and temperatures in the teens for some as we start tomorrow morning. for the second half of the week in, southern areas not as windy, northern areas more windy than it has been. cloud across
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scotla nd windy than it has been. cloud across scotland and northern ireland to begin with, brightening up through the day. torrential thunderstorm developing other areas of england and wales. with more sunshine, particularly the south east corner, still 20 the high —— 23 behind. still rain at home for the week ahead but still some sunshine to enjoy, too. my tie has a tropical flavour on a disappointing saturday otherwise. are you being difficult about it, naga? it draws the eye. matt is sending you one in the post. you would look great, charlie.
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whilst the first match of the new premier league season attracted a crowd of more than 50,000 last night, in the lower leagues it's a very different story. bury in league one has seen its games suspended because of financial problems, and there are just two weeks to save the club. the team's been handed a 12—point deduction, as punishment for being in debt. they were stopped from playing last week's game against mk dons, as well as today's fixture against accrington stanley. it's after owner steve dale failed to show the club can pay off its debts — although the club said yesterday it's confident it can get through this period. but after 125 years, bury now risks being kicked out of the football league. we're joined now by three fans, dave triggs, rob leach and jamie hoyle. how close to the edge are you right now? pretty close. as close as it is going to get. the clock is ticking.
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a matter of days, a week next friday and we will cease to exist unless something dramatic happened. someone coming in with some money? ideally. the majority of the fan base don't have faith in the current owners so we are hoping a new buyer will come in and be willing to sell the club to survive. the problem is finding someone who loves the club. to survive. the problem is finding someone who loves the clubm to survive. the problem is finding someone who loves the club. it has been a community club for some time. icame to been a community club for some time. i came to games with my dad when i was three, i have been hooked ever since. there are so many stories for thousands of people. we need someone who cares about the community, recognises this historic club mean so much to so many people. they haven't turned up so far. it has been difficult. livelihoods at stake here? that is the key point. we don't know who is left. there is no communication from the chairman. just a case of, we know the players have gone, have gone to plymouth or
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elsewhere because they were not getting paid. we don't know who is love, no communication from steve dale. —— who is left. a statement every week but it is meaningless. you are also porters, fans, very passionate about your football team and that is understandable but day—to—day, the way it is today, football is a business. if this is not a viable business, this is the question, steve, not communicating is your opinion, but if there is no buyer and that is not a viable business, it has to go under. the way football is currently funded is com pletely way football is currently funded is completely broken, bury last year, solidarity payment from the premier league £a70,000. that is one week is wages for sanchez. week in, week
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out, so we understand, 12,000 you can have in the stadium? just under. how many turn out for a match? we average around 3000 home fans. obviously the crowd has been an issue. has been throughout our history, really. that comes right down to it. emotions employee, some of you seem angry as well. is that directed at the way the club is been run, financial mismanagement? other clubs are doing it well, rochdale, accrington. we know what crowd we get, we never really deviate beyond the 3000, you might get a few hundred more if you go up a division. we have to find a way to live within that, not just division. we have to find a way to live within that, notjust hand—outs but making sure the model works. live within that, notjust hand—outs but making sure the model worksm is really interesting talking to
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you, coming from a personal point of view. we should say that bury football clu b view. we should say that bury football club says it is confident it can save the football league status despite the deadline. we shall see. it is 9:55am. at the age of 15, nabila tejpar got her first rally car. motor sport is in her blood — she's following in her grandfather and father's footsteps. she's now aiming for european and world titles, and mike's been to meet her. the crowds have flocked here to the goodwood festival of speed in west sussex to see some of the world's top rally drivers in action. among them now is a woman from britain who's blazing a trail for more women into the sport. nabila tejpar is the reigning british ladies champion.
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now aiming for european and world rally glory, driving on the edge with the world flashing past at 80 miles an hour. lots of people assume rally drivers are crazy. maybe you do, you know, have to have a screw loose in your head. nothing beats the adrenaline coming off the stage, feeling you've done your absolute best. it would be great to see more women involved. it doesn't matter about your gender. i think motorsport is one of those places where you can be in the same level playing field and the same cars as men. nabila is keeping the sport in her family. her dad and grandad were both rally drivers. i'm actually really scared to sit with her because i think she drives too fast for me, because she's still my baby girl, you know? in respect of diversity as well, i think that is really awesome. it is few and far between that you will see an asian woman. every time i talk to my friends, "what does your daughter do? " "my daughter drives a rally car." "excuse me?"
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5a, left long... i'm learning the language of rallying because it's a team sport and every driver needs a co—driver who reads the so—called pace notes, because you're going at such speed, and nabila needs instructions. that's exactly it. are you really going to listen to me? ithink so! well, the co—driver is very important and what we do with the pace notes on the recce before the rally is probably one of the most important things. we need to make sure we have these right so that when we are attacking these stages, which we have really only seen twice. the final bit of kit on. a balaclava. i'll make sure i haven't had a big lunch or breakfast because i do get carsick as a passenger. trying to read notes at the same time to help nabila takes it to another level. with my stomach left at the start, i could hardly see over the dashboard. 50 left! into 30 open short right. go long, left! lots of trees, lots of trees — hay bale! and at such speed, any pace note instructions to nabila were a little sketchy. by the time i was telling her
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about a right or left turn, we were already through it, in a blur of trees and hay bales. the fact that her instincts and driving prowess got us around regardless is why she's causing such a stir. it is refreshing for the sport to have the females there as well. they are good drivers, there's no reason why they can't beat the guys. short, right down! and anyone who finds that reading while on a winding carjourney makes them queasy will surely empathise with how i was soon feeling. these pace notes are scrunched up, i was so tense, shouting gibberish at you. just a tribute to your amazing driving skills. no wonder you're taking the world by storm. wow, you're just so calm! it's my happy place. yeah, no. but that in particular that stage is very steep.
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this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 10am: the energy watchdog demands an urgent report from the national grid into a huge power blackout that caused almost a million people to be without electricity and hundreds to be stuck on trains until the early hours of the morning. they try to provide taxes, but the wait was about a0 minutes. which meant i wouldn't have gone home until later, so i had to pay out on my own pocket again. an incredibly rare event, the simultaneous loss of two large power stations. the normal protection systems we have responded normally, but the loss was so large that we we nt but the loss was so large that we went into our secondary systems. lam iamat i am at king's cross station, one of the worst affected by yesterday's
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