aggressive and i believe that this breed is one of them. the reason i say that is i assess them on a regular basis. i retired some years ago, but these dogs started in 1980 and there were no problems with the xl bully until 3.5 years ago. they changed the plotlines and started tinkering with dna. suddenly the attacks and the tragedy that we have seen with this case as well have unfolded. it doubled, then tripled, then quadrupled the amounts of debt that we get per year and these dogs were involved and round about 70% of all of those deaths. this is a serious situation and unfortunately the new law becomes then would not have impacted on this particular case. the reason i say that is these

dogs are supposed to be wearing muscles and be on a lead outside. clearly, the majority of all the attacks are normally in the home. the daughter of the woman who died has told the bbc she was attacked by banned xl bully dogs. that's not been confirmed, but they aren't a specific breed, are they? they are not easy to identify as a breed. ., , �* ,, �* breed. no, it isn't, you're absolutely _ breed. no, it isn't, you're absolutely right. - breed. no, it isn't, you're absolutely right. the - breed. no, it isn't, you're absolutely right. the 1991 j breed. no, it isn't, you're _ absolutely right. the 1991 dangerous dogs act is called dsl, breed specific legislation. they have to be a pedigree, registered with the kennel club in america and the uk to be classed as a pedigree. then you have a list of all the other dogs that have come through, so you know where it has come from. with these

you have no chance. what you do know and what you should know is all the xl bullies have got one dog and every one of their crossbreeds and thatis every one of their crossbreeds and that is an american pit bull terrier. that is the base line that they use. they add mastiffs, bigger, broader and more muscular dogs, to make it larger, make it look more intimidating and of course more dangerous. intimidating and of course more dangerous-_ intimidating and of course more dancerous. . ~ ,, , . intimidating and of course more dancerous. . ~ , . ., dangerous. thank you very much for “oininu us dangerous. thank you very much for joining us on — dangerous. thank you very much for joining us on bbc— dangerous. thank you very much for joining us on bbc news. _ a former senior police officer has told the bbc that the man suspected of carrying out a chemical attack in south london last week could be being hidden by someone. the hunt for abdul ezedi has entered its fifth day. a woman remains in hospital with injuries thought to be life—changing after the attack on wednesday. for a perspective on how the search might look from a police point of view, we can speak now to former chief constable of northumbria police sue sim, who led the week—long search for the convicted murderer

raoul moat in north—east england in 2010. thank you very much forjoining us on bbc news. what will the police be doing right now, five days into this incident? ,., ., doing right now, five days into this incident? ., . doing right now, five days into this incident? ., ~ ., incident? good afternoon. well, what the will be incident? good afternoon. well, what they will be doing _ incident? good afternoon. well, what they will be doing is _ incident? good afternoon. well, what they will be doing is they _ incident? good afternoon. well, what they will be doing is they will - they will be doing is they will still be checking all of the cctv cameras between the various places that he has been seen, so from clapham common, or clap and what the actual incident happened, right the way through to where they know that he got off the tube at tower hill. they will be checking all the cctv. there will be significant numbers of cctv cameras and tapes for them to check. in relation to other aspects,

they will of course be having all of their intelligence and their investigative resources tasked to this operation to be looking for him. in northumbria, which is where he was living, they will be making sure that they have visited all his friends, any relatives he may have, any associates he has, because the main aim is to try and find out where he would go and then to track him down and to bring him to justice. i him down and to bring him to 'ustice. ., , , him down and to bring him to 'ustice. . , , w ., , justice. i assume the fact that they have offered _ justice. i assume the fact that they have offered a _ justice. i assume the fact that they have offered a £20,000 _ justice. i assume the fact that they have offered a £20,000 reward i justice. i assume the fact that they have offered a £20,000 reward is| justice. i assume the fact that they i have offered a £20,000 reward is to try and encourage members of the public to come forward if they do have that crucial piece of information.— have that crucial piece of information. , , , ., , information. yes, yes, that is exactly what _ information. yes, yes, that is exactly what it _ information. yes, yes, that is exactly what it is _ information. yes, yes, that is exactly what it is for. - information. yes, yes, that is exactly what it is for. there . information. yes, yes, that is i exactly what it is for. there are information. yes, yes, that is . exactly what it is for. there are a couple of things around this. one, london is a massive, massive city. it is very, very easy to become

anonymous in the city. it is much, much more difficult to get lost in the countryside. you stand out much more where there are fewer people. in this city people can more or less vanish into thin air. so what the police are trying to do is to think hard on the wednesday, did you see anything? if you did, reported to us. the other thing, of course is that somebody may well, for whatever intentions, be harbouring abdul ezedi, and a reward like that is to prompt people to provide information to the police because what needs to happen is if you are harbouring him, you are committing an offence. you need to report the fact that you

know where he is to the police immediately.— know where he is to the police immediatel . ., ~ , ., , . ., immediately. thank you very much for 'oinin: us immediately. thank you very much for joining us on — immediately. thank you very much for joining us on bbc— immediately. thank you very much for joining us on bbc news. _ as we heard earlier, power—sharing in northern ireland finally resumed on saturday for the first time in two years. public sector pay and nhs waiting lists could be top of the agenda for the executive in stormont. sara girvin has been talking to students in belfast to hear their thoughts on the new devolved government. it's almost like you're ashamed to be from here sometimes just because of the way that the government get on like children. people say to themselves, "0h, government won't last long, and probably in a year or two's time there'll be another problem for them to kick up a fuss about." personally, i don't want to have to leave here. i i want to actually work and try to make this . place work for everyone. this is northern ireland's first planned integrated school — set up in the 1980s specifically to educate catholics and protestants together. politics students there have been following the events of the past week closely.

the dup and other political parties are still getting paid for not doing theirjob properly. what's it like being a young person in northern ireland? as mad as it looks, people watching on the news, we all do lead normal enough lives here — or at least normal for us. these young people are part of northern ireland's future, but is northern ireland part of theirs? i would love to say that i'd love to live here for the rest of my life. if northern ireland became more open and the political system became better here, i would come back. apart from its quirks, i do love living here. but, realistically, looking at the political situation, i don't really see it getting any better. it's sometimes shameful to say, "oh, i'm from northern ireland," especially as a politics student. when you talk to others — like when you go to england, if you talk to people who study politics, they go, "oh, northern ireland, we hear you're a bit of a...bit of a loose cannon." do you find, as a teenager, those kind of old sectarian divides — catholic/protestant, unionist/nationalist — i mean, does that affect your life?

i'm ashamed to say i probably do think about that. i think that's sort of embedded in all of us here, sort of a wee tiny bit. but it's just sort of something automatically that seems to come with living here and we just do it so naturally, unfortunately, and, you know, it shouldn't be like that. and hopefully in generations to come, it won't be like that. in the next decade, where do you see northern ireland? is it inside the united kingdom or as part of a united ireland? i don't think there will be a united ireland, and i'm not too sure if there'll be a united ireland in my lifetime. i think that there, you know, will be motions to maybe move towards one, but i think that we should remain a part of the united kingdom. 100%, i do believe there will be |a united ireland in my lifetime. | because when you look at the current situation that we've had _ for the last two years, and over the last iooi years of partition — _ partition has failed everyone. the past week has seen massive political change in northern ireland — the return of devolved government, and the first nationalist first minister in the shape of sinn fein's michelle 0'neill. it's truly historic and,

as someone who would come from — who would be a republican themselves — it's truly amazing to see that we're really making progress. if you could give a message to politicians in northern ireland, what would it be? you're voted in to represent your constituents and to represent your country. do the job. the point that you're there is to solve problems, not create them. for me, it's aboutjust making sure that you're delivering for normal people and making sure that people can stay here and be able to live good lives. the message from these young people is clear, but are politicians in northern ireland listening? sara girvin, bbc news, in belfast. events have been taking place to mark the 20th anniversary today of the morecambe bay cockling disaster in which 23 people died. those killed were all chinese migrants. they got cut off by the tide whilst gathering cockles. they had been brought over here to work by a gangmaster who was laterjailed. mike stevens has the story.

a dark february night in 200a. lancashire police get a frantic phone call. hello. where are you? you get that sinking water. sinking water, the caller says. the caller says hello. a chinese migrant who'd been collecting cockles in morecambe bay. he and more than 30 others had suddenly found themselves cut off by the tide. it sparked a huge search and rescue effort. we have visual of one person only at this stage on a sandbank. 23 ended up drowning. 20 years on, the community here in morecambe has come together to remember and reflect. it was such a dark day

in the history of morecambe bay and one of the sad things was at the time we didn't even know who those people were. you know, i still think about what it must have felt like. it must have been awful. and, you know, we care. we don't want that to happen again. i feel very thankful for the people, you know. i couldn't believe they still remember this 23 lives. you know, they never met. you see, the support you saw here today is very, very good, you know? there's more than 100 people from all parts of the community who've come together here on the beach in morecambe to make sure that those tragic events of 20 years ago are never forgotten. there are nowjust 150 individuals who are licensed to commercially gather cockles in morecambe bay, something authorities say they're confident will prevent future tragedies. mike stevens, bbc north west today in morecambe. now it's time for a look at the weather. hello there. whilst we saw a bit of sunshine

here and there, on the whole it's been a cloudy start to the new week and particularly gray and gloomy across northern parts of scotland, with persistent thick, low cloud bringing a lot of rain, actually — there's been over 100 millimetres of rain in highland scotland on that slow moving weather front bringing that band of thicker cloud. the weather front will take rain southwards over the next few days, followed by colder air from the north. at the moment, that colder air is in the far north of scotland. away from here, we're still in very mild air and those temperatures won't change a great deal, actually, overnight. we've still got a brisk south—westerly wind bringing in all the cloud, a little drizzle. the main band of rain pushes a bit further south across scotland, allowing northern areas to see a few wintry showers, some clear spells, icy conditions as we see a touch of frost. quite a contrast here with those temperatures that we start tuesday with across england and wales. the main rain band sitting across southern scotland and northern ireland in the morning pushes southwards, takes some rain into northern england and wales, heavy over the hills. sunshine follows to the north

and we've got a few wintry showers coming in to northern parts of scotland. it will feel chillier across scotland and northern ireland and northernmost parts of england. but ahead of the rain in southern england, where it's still dry, cloudy and very mild, temperatures are 13 or 1a degrees. but even here we'll get some rain overnight as that weather front pushes its way southwards. it allows that colder air to move down across more of the country and there will be a frost in many places early on wednesday morning, but hopefully some sunshine, as well. the far south of england, through the english channel, still cloudy, a bit of rain at times. across northern scotland we're looking at some snow showers even to low levels. it's going to feel cold here. typical temperatures on wednesday will be six or seven degrees. there's a weather frontjust hanging around in the english channel by the end of wednesday. as we head into thursday, it's going to move northwards again as this big area of low pressure comes in from the atlantic. that wet weather moving northwards is moving into cold air, so we may well see rain across the far south of england and south wales, but a mixture of sleet and snow

as you move further north. there is a warning out for thursday and thursday night, we're widely looking at two to five centimetres of snow in this area. it is a yellow warning from the met office. it's still a long way ahead and the details could change, as well.

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