cheering. but the person who appreciated winning the most was becky hill, who picked up best dance artist. i was always somebody that nobody really knew who i was and there will still be to this day people who sit on their sofa and go becky who? and this, for me, is proper recognition that i'm doing the right thing and i'm not necessarily wasting my life. in the first year without male and female categories, women prizewinners outnumbered men by three to one, and adele had something to say about it. i understand why the name of this award has changed, but i really love being a woman and being a female artist. i do. mark savage, bbc news. i'm really proud of us. time for a look at the weather. here's susan powell. any awards for the weather?

it is sparkling out there and looks a bit like a brit award but it's feeling much colder across the uk now. this satellite picture could probably win an award, i think it's beautiful but that's because i'm a weather nerd. you have a curl to the north—west, an area of low pressure coming our way later. a band sliding south, a weather front, coming our way later. a band sliding south, a weatherfront, and coming our way later. a band sliding south, a weather front, and that is the marker between the milder air stilljust the marker between the milder air still just about clinging the marker between the milder air stilljust about clinging on across the south of the uk and the cold arctic air flooding in for many now. this afternoon the front will push more cloud into southern england, drizzle and rain in the evening here as well. elsewhere, a lot of sunshine but it will feel cold and it is breezy already and we will get further snow showers carried into northern and western scotland with quite a few making their way through the central belt. remember that curl on the satellite picture to the north—west? that comes into play overnight and for scotland it will get quite stormy. it also get quite cold, a widespread frost across the

northern half of the uk with temperatures close to freezing, perhaps just above further south. with the cold air and this low pressure slamming into it in the first hours of thursday and into the morning rush hour we have a three pronged attack. the risk of ice first thing, the risk of snow and with gale force winds there could be blizzard conditions particularly across higher roots and the wind itself could be damaging, gusting at 50, 60 mph. a messy morning across scotland. the low pressure heads off towards the north sea in the afternoon. still breezy across the board. the winner carrying

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team gb�*s best hope of a medal on day 5 was the reigning world champion charlotte bankes, she was the favourite that saw him promoted to the final, a first for him at his second 0lympics. he was way off the pace and drop to the back of the field, eventually finishing ninth out of ten. the 26—year—old tracy he was received no lottery funding to get to the games and failed to get out of the heat in the 1000 metres a few days ago. reaching the 1500 metre finalfor him with days ago. reaching the 1500 metre final for him with a real bonus. we will hearfrom him in the next hour. team gb�*s best hope of a medal on day 5 was the reigning world champion charlotte bankes, she was the favourite

she finished 3rd with the top 2 going through. every four years i am on the big scene. everybody that has been supporting this year, thank you. it hasn't been easy. covid has made it a bit more difficult and last month was toughjust getting a bit more difficult and last month was tough just getting here. i thought that was the biggest battle, and ijust wanted to give it my best today, but it didn't go my way. yeah, it is tough. in the women's slalom great britain's charlie guest finished in 21st place. she was in 15th after her first run but a small mistake near the end of her second cost her time and despite recovering well she was never going to get close to the podium the games aren't going well for double 0lympic champion

mikaela shiffrin either. two days after falling near the top of the giant slalom course, the american aborted her first run in the slalom. she's due to compete in three more alpine skiing events, but on this form, she says she's considering whether she should continue. slovakia's petra vlhova took gold in the slalom the west ham manager david moyes has defended his decision to play kurt zouma in their victory over watford last night despite the club condemning their french defender for hitting and kicking his pet cat. zouma apologised for what he called an isolated incident that was videoed by his brother and ended up on social media. essex police and the rspca are investigating. he was booed and jeered by both sets of fans throughout the game. west ham boss david moyes said he is "human being and an animal lover" but "responsible for getting results". he should be prosecuted, sacked. i

am absolutely amazed that west ham paid him last night. it is basically condoning what he is done and saying, we will let you off, that is fine. if he assaulted someone in the street, he would not have played, so why is he playing just because it is an an animal? i am amazed at west ham, ithought an an animal? i am amazed at west ham, i thought they had a chance to make a stand and it is irrelevant that he is a footballer, this is about a human being and for him to play at last night in front of people, it is shocking. formula one driver lando norris has signed a new deal that will see him stay at mclaren until the end of 2025. the 22 year old brit finished sixth in last seasons standings with four podium finishes and he also claimed his first pole position as the team finished fourth in the constructors championship. norris said that his new contract was "a very strong message" about his faith in mclaren, despite approaches from other teams. that's all the sport for now.

you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. six gold have been one to date but no medals yet by team gb. itrailien six gold have been one to date but no medals yet by team gb. when will the come, no medals yet by team gb. when will they come, ollie? _ no medals yet by team gb. when will they come, ollie? it _ no medals yet by team gb. when will they come, ollie? it took _ no medals yet by team gb. when will they come, ollie? it took seven - no medals yet by team gb. when will they come, ollie? it took seven days | they come, ollie? it took seven days at the last olympics _ they come, ollie? it took seven days at the last olympics before _ they come, ollie? it took seven days at the last olympics before team - they come, ollie? it took seven days at the last olympics before team gb | at the last 0lympics before team gb registered their first medal and they went to get on a record haul of five. 50 they went to get on a record haul of five. , .,, , they went to get on a record haul of five. , , , ., five. so there is hope yet. good to hean the charity, �*carers trust�* is calling for greater support and recognition from the government for the millions of unpaid carers in the uk, who provide vital help for loved ones in need. the carers trust says there are around seven million unpaid carers in the uk, and anyone can become a carer at any time. it's believed three in five people will be in this position at some point in their lifetime and a large number of people are spending

an average of 50 hours or more per week caring for a relative. a recent survey of almost 1,500 carers by the charity found that more than half of them had to either reduce their hours or stop working altogether so they could care for someone. zoe conway has been to meet two families dealing with caring responsibilities. mito is showing me a photo of her husband taken soon after they were married in 1973. you look very elegant. very elegant. weren't you? they grew up together. mito remembers meeting her husband when she was just six years old. they moved to birmingham from india 45 years ago and have four sons. these days, married life is about a strict routine. you are very organised. yes, see that board, it tells you the timing, the medication and regularity.

mito cannot walk. she has had parkinson's disease for more than ten years. she also has lung cancer, brain cancer and diabetes. i heard you say you think that he does too much for you, that it is too much for him. yes. he does. why do you say that? i just say it. because he works hard? yes. her husband was once an interpreterfor the nhs. his life now can be gruelling. whilst there are paid carers to help during the day, he is up every night at 2am and again at 6am to tend to mito. i am feeling under pressure. i get angry for myself as well. it is too much. he is not in perfect health himself and would like to be able to take some time off. he thinks the government needs to do more to ensure carers can get some respite. even though i feel happy

she is recovering, she is stable and we are actually getting what we are doing, but, physically and even mentally, i get tired, as well. so, for that, you need some sort of respite. katie stiles knows all about that overwhelming need to have some time. she has been caring for her husband mark for more eight years. mark has kennedy's disease, a type of motor neurone disease, and it causes a progressive weakening and wasting of the muscles. in all the time that she has been looking after mark, katie has not been able to get away. i have not gone off and had a weekend with friends or anything like that. it doesn't happen. you know, not even half an afternoon or something like that. so it would be lovely to have some support and actually be able to go

and visit some friends that i haven't seen for a long time. i would really appreciate that. and knowing that he was safe somewhere so i didn't have to worry. katie was a geography teacher before giving up work to care for mark. she calculated she was on roughly £150 a day. now she gets a weekly carer's allowance of £67. £67 is nothing. we are doing a job, we should be treated as if we are doing a job. i am doing over 100 hours of caring a week. i mean, it is not enough money. and when you are hit by disability before retirement age, you haven't built up the reserves that you might expect. my pension — my work pension is shot to bits. mark used to be a civil servant. he explains what it can be like just trying to drink a cup of coffee. a double espresso, although it is decaf, in a cup like this is quite...

..acceptable. the harder i focus on keeping still, the more the tremor gets worse. it is called an intention tremor. my muscles just don't do what they are supposed to do. the feedback loop to my muscles from my brain is broken. he says he cannot be left alone and realises how difficult life can be for katie. do you think it is hard for her? yes, because i am incredibly difficult to live with. genuinely. i mean, i was pretty — what's the word? — fussy before. but, you know, life closes in on you and so little things suddenly have an awful amount of importance. whether the floor is clean, whether this, that, or the other. i'm not very easy to live with at all. but i do my best. katie is an advocate for unpaid

carers and is hopeful they can get more recognition and support. you have just been so incredibly positive all morning. how do you do it? it is perhaps a sad story in that the person that i married 30 years ago, who was physically fit, is now no longer as fit and active as he was. but i don't see it like that. i've still got the person that i love. i am very lucky like that. and we live a life that we have made together, and it might not be everybody�*s idea of a life, but it is ours and it is special and i love him to bits. zoe conway, bbc news. a bbc investigation has found evidence that the british government's decision to deport or cancel the visas of thousands of people may be seriously flawed.

they were accused of cheating in the english language exams needed for their visas to study or work in the uk. the immigration enforcement action followed an undercover investigation by the bbc�*s panorama programme which revealed organised fraud in the uk's visa system in 2014. the chair of parliament's public accounts committee says the bbc�*s new evidence points towards a serious miscarriage of justice. richard watson reports. eight years ago, secret filming for panorama revealed mass cheating in exams called toeics, test of english for international communication. at an exam centre in east london, the real candidates stood aside while paid cheats took the speaking test. should i stand here? all right, guys, keep it quiet, 20 seconds. then home secretary theresa may was appalled. what panorama has uncovered is extremely important, it's very shocking and i want to do

something about it. the home office launched a criminal investigation. 25 people were later convicted of fraud. but the department also began working with the american organisation ets, that set and marked toeics, to identify students who cheated. the toeic programme presents, | principles of quality assessment. ets used voice recognition to analyse its database's speaking tests. it concluded that 33,000 people had invalid tests, because someone else, a proxy, had taken the exam. rigorous test security guidelines ensure that no test... ets said it shared its methodology and findings with the home office, but had not been involved in determining how that information was used. the home office accepted this data without independent verification. more than 2,500 people were deported on the basis of this data. but our new investigation has found

serious flaws in this evidence. it could point to a huge miscarriage ofjustice. richard shury, who used to work for ets in the uk, has become our whistle—blower. he says his manager saw tests being faked by proxies in a secret room at a test centre in london. we received a tip—off to come to this location where we saw people hunched in, shoulder to shoulder, and controlling the tests with what looked like remote testing software. lawyers suspect the test entries of genuine candidates were mixed up or even replaced by those from cheats. if remote access software in testing is going on, it means in principle that some kind of technological manipulation of the testing process has taken place. it is an explanation for why the numbers of so—called fraudulent tests were as high as they were found to be.

given what you've found, - i think the home office can no longer rely on this ets data. i think it is time for— the home office to draw up stumps, stop fighting and decide to draw a line and take _ a different approach. the home office says it has made significant improvements to ensure large—scale abuse cannot happen again and it has been consistently found to have had sufficient evidence to take immigration enforcement action. but it has not accepted the ets data is flawed. if it did, the implications would be huge. richard watson, bbc news. and you can see more on newsnight tonight at 10.30pm on bbc two. cardiff university has apologised to the family of a student who took her own life hours after being told she had failed an exam.

pharmacy student mared foulkes from anglesey received the results email injuly 2020 but it didn't take account of her re—sit which she'd already passed. the university says it'll simplify its exams process to leave "no room for confusion" in future. bethan lewis reports. mared was in a second year at cardiff university, and she was 21. she received an e—mail with results for her course and later that day she took her own life. there were lessons for the university. the e—mail mared received indicated she had failed an assessment and couldn't move on to the third year. she had already passed a reset, but under the university's procedures, the recent results wouldn't be ratified until later. cardiff university's vice chancellor says they have listened to the coroners concerns who said the system was

complex and confusing. we accept that there was _ complex and confusing. we accept that there was room _ complex and confusing. we accept that there was room for _ complex and confusing. we accept| that there was room for confusion, as a coroner said, in the way that exam results were communicated. we have been doing that for a number of years but we do recognise that there is an issue there and we have already corrected that, it will no longer happen and exam results will be communicated in a way that there will be no room for confusion in the future. , , , ., future. the university is also reviewing — future. the university is also reviewing the _ future. the university is also reviewing the language - future. the university is also reviewing the language and i future. the university is also - reviewing the language and tone used in result transcripts to make them as clear as possible.— as clear as possible. have you apologised — as clear as possible. have you apologised to _ as clear as possible. have you apologised to the _ as clear as possible. have you apologised to the family? - as clear as possible. have you apologised to the family? i i as clear as possible. have you | apologised to the family? i am deeply sorry for this sequence of events. it is a devastating set of circumstances and i absolutely understand the family's need to have answers, and i am happy to speak to mared's parents if that is what they would like.

changes to the results process in cardiff will be in place for students this summer. mared's parents still have unanswered questions and say they hope the university can make improvements because of mared. working families in rural herefordshire are facing a hidden struggle to pay for food and heating amid the �*cost of living crisis�*. that's the warning from a community trust, who say parents who hold down steadyjobs, are now coming forward in big numbers to seek help. areas of the county are considered among the top 25 per cent most deprived areas of england. ben godfrey has been to see how families are coping. once again, our smart metre is now

showing crosses on both days. we overspend every single day on gas and electricity. nicola is a part—time teaching assistant. she is also studying at university, and she is mum to her children, george, lily and ben. her husband, rob, works six days a week. they are paying out £800 a month to rent in hereford, yet despite both of them bringing in a wage, the pressures of rising energy and food bills are limiting other parts of their lives. every single thing is budgeted. food shopping is budgeted weekly, because otherwise we can't live. 0ur rent is astronomical. we don't get any help with that. 0ur council tax is high. we don't get any help with that. so it is those bills that then you are having to pay more out, and you are not getting any support or help. official data suggests herefordshire residents have less than a third of the disposable income of many areas of the uk. while an estimated one in ten children are living in poverty. the kindle centre in hereford

is supporting hundreds of families. we just put it out there and said we are going to be doing these food hampers and these picnic boxes. most of our customers were working people that i think are suffering. it could be the working poor, really. you know, they have come to us. i think it is really serious. i think people are very, very worried about it, and i do worry that people are going to end up not putting their heating on to make choices. in rural areas, access to public transport, to services, tojobs are placing increasing strain on people's lives. take bromyard as an example. it is widely considered to be a prosperous town, yet here there are some of the lowest income levels in the whole country. the government has promised a package of support for many households, including energy bill discount and council tax rebate. i think it is only going to get worse. budgeting, you are going to have to learn more. the government need to reap

the money back from somewhere, that coronavirus has cost, and i think this is the way they are doing it and i think it is going to continue. the daredevil street sport known as parkour is being introduced in schools in gloucestershire, in the hope it gets children fitter after lockdown. the latest nhs figures show one in four pupils in year six is overweight or obese — the highest rate it's ever been. scott ellis has been finding how parkour could help. parkour featured in bbc idents 20 years ago, and since then the urban sport has come on leaps and bounds. and now it has landed in primary schools. i actually thought the children might be seen walking on buildings, jumping from one place to another and this could be a health and safety issue. but no, it seems i'm quite wrong!

it is of course a milder form of parkour, and these children love it. i like that we are having tojump, like it isjumping off buildings. it is really cool. i like it a lot. it is very entertaining. these trainee teachers at the university of gloucestershire will use parkour to change how pe is taught in schools. there is no right answer. there is always a different way of looking at a movement problem, getting over an obstacle, so that can work for lots of types of children with lots of different abilities and body shapes. the university says change is needed because in england among pupils aged 10 and 11, more than a quarter are now overweight or obese, and that is up 4.5% on the previous year. they say the pandemic and a cut in school sport i was are to blame. children who rely on the school for pe for their exercise have had their opportunity is reduced. so they have

had less time to exercise. so they have had less time to exercise. even with schools going back, the curriculum is being squeezed, and there is pressure more on the academic subjects, and pe is not being given what i think should be the priority. parkour has just been introduced at this primary school, and it is part of a new once a week 15 minute high intensity lesson. it helps get their physical fitness up and also helps with those coordination skills that maybe they would be missing whilst they are sat at home. the government wants to have childhood obesity by 2030. a ban on adverts forjunk food after 9pm and a ban onjunk food promotion are promised, but are facing some criticism from mps now that household budgets are being squeezed. now it's time for a look at the weather with susan powell

hello. lots of sunshine across the uk this wednesday afternoon, but quite a cold feel to proceedings, as the majority of the uk is now sitting in arctic air. this line of cloud you see here on the satellite picture is a boundary between the arctic air and the milder air still clinging on across southernmost counties of the uk. that front will continue to drift southwards overnight. this area of low pressure, we will be watching it closely in the hours ahead, as it is going to glance a blow into scotland. strong winds, widespread gales and some heavier snow for a time. ice also likely to be an issue first thing on thursday, as we see a frost developing across scotland. also, for northern ireland and northern england. a little patchy at further south, but quite a chilly night nonetheless. this low still in place for thursday morning's rush hour. some typical conditions early on across scotland. perhaps the heaviest of the snow, as you expect, confined to the high ground, but at lower levels a difficult wintry mix, some ice

and the strength of the winds gusting up to 60 mph, perhaps even more. the low dose pull out into the north sea in the afternoon, so things will become a little quieter. it is a blustery day to come right the way across the uk. early cloud clears to the south. a lot of sunshine through the afternoon. so showers coming in to the north—west. these are the temperatures that you would read on a thermometer. you have to factor in the strength of the wind through thursday, and for somewhere like aberdeen, it will feel close at 2—4. 0vernight thursday into friday at the wind will actually fall light, because a ridge of high pressure built at that low finally pulled away towards scandinavia. light winds, still conditions setting up for a hard frost to take us into friday, perhaps temperatures down as low as —10 in parts of rural scotland, especially where we have a lying snow. a risk of some freezing fog as well in a few places early on friday. a lot of early sunshine turning hazier as the day goes on,

as this area of low pressure closes in from the west. a little milder on friday. temperatures don'tjump up, but with a lighter wind i think it certainly will be more noticeable. a little milder again for the weekend, but certainly not feeling warm. it is going to be quite stormy, if anything. a deep area of low pressure set to bring in some spells of very heavy rain, and we will have some strong winds to contend with yet again.

this is bbc news, i'm tim willcox. the headlines at 2. the last covid restrictions in england — including the legal rule to self—isolate — are set to end within weeks, and a month earlier than had been expected. provided the current encouraging trend in the data continue, it is my expectation that we will be able to end the last domestic restrictions, including the legal requirement to self—isolate, if you test positive, a full month early. the mayor of london tells the head of the met she has just days and weeks to show she can restore public trust in her police force. how's brexit going? the government's performance in delivering it is criticised by mps saying the only detectable impact so far for business are increased costs, paperwork and border delays. booed by his own supporters —

kurt zouma, the footballer