first he lectures college staff they all strike nurses to strike at children's hospitals ambulance crews vote to strike fact that's just drop by the way. all these strikes justified . one police station is closing every single week in england and wales and find out the shocking lengths migrants are going to get across the channel we start with strike armageddon. it's probably easier to who isn't striking at this point actually but royal mail workers university lecturers and sixth form college staff, they're all striking today a number of unions have come together in solidarity and the rmt general secretary mick lynch is also speaking , obviously wants a speaking, obviously wants a general strike, doesn't it .7 it general strike, doesn't it.7 it comes as crews at half of england's ambulance services have now voted to strike as well over pay but far the over pay but by far the controversial one for me at least is this at great ormond street and alder children's hospitals. they going to walk out on unions going too far. i

want to hear from you on that one. also this gb news has an exclusive when it comes to evidence of migrants taking extreme measures to make it to the uk, our home as security editor about why. well, talk us through footage of people on small boats using tire inner tubes as makeshift life jackets. and i will. how important are your local police stations? figures suggest ? at least one is figures suggest? at least one is closing in england and wales every week. over 650 since 2010. do you still have one gbviews@gbnews.uk uk the big one. i'm asking today. do you support walking out at children's very much to size up particular coin as indeed i am finding out to my peril twitter before the news . good afternoon. before the news. good afternoon. it's 3:03. i'm racing rights . it's 3:03. i'm racing rights. you up to date a member of the buckingham palace household has resigned and apologised after making unacceptable comments towards the guest of the queen

consort reception last night and josie fulani, founder of a domestic abuse charity, says she was asked where she really from, describing the conversation as a violation. she said the household member her claims that she was born in the uk and was british. buckingham palace says all members of the household are being reminded of diversity and inclusivity, policies . the inclusivity, policies. the government says , it's run out of government says, it's run out of prison places and asked the police for the use of force cells to make up for the shortfall . the prisons minister shortfall. the prisons minister damian hinds told npr there had been an acute and increase in the prison population in the recent months. he said operation safeguard. it's the government's continued plan, had been activated . mr. evans said it was activated. mr. evans said it was due in part to criminal bar association strike action over the which to a high number the which led to a high number of offenders on remand. the last time the plan was implemented was in two thousand and seven. hsbc will close 114 bank branches across the uk as remote banking soars in. popularity. the banking giant says some of

its stores have been serving less than 250 people a week. following a decline in footfall since the pandemic use of its mobile app, however, has almost tripled since 2017. the bank plans to invest tens of millions updating its remaining branches . they'll be 327 left after the closures . april there's been an closures. april there's been an explosion at the ukrainian embassy in madrid . spanish embassy in madrid. spanish police say the blast injured an employee who opened a letter from the staff member did not suffer serious injuries. detect they are investigating the incident a major trial an experimental alzheimer drug has shown for the first time the early stages of the disease can be slowed . scientists found be slowed. scientists found after 18 months, the drug stalled. the disease progression by 27% compared with patients taking the placebo. however warn as the medicine during the initial stages of the disease, most won't benefit unless there's a revolution in spotting it . the results, published in it. the results, published in the new journal of medicine, have been hailed as beginning of

the end. sean from the alzheimer's society , us, we need alzheimer's society, us, we need more research into treatments for more advanced types . the for more advanced types. the condition. one of the most exciting things we've heard from recently was the government recommitting to their national dementia . that investment is to dementia. that investment is to drive more research. help us understand what's going wrong in these disparate diseases? the brain caused dementia and will help us get better treatments and diagnosing them . and better of diagnosing them. labour leader sir keir starmer has accused the prime minister of being during . a heated of being weak during. a heated prime questions prime minister's questions this afternoon which fire afternoon, which came under fire from the opposition over private school funding. the alleged failure to housebuilding targets and the latest series of industrial action. both party leaders also questioned each other over their support from their backbench and peace . i've their backbench and peace. i've heard i've heard , i've heard. heard i've heard, i've heard. he's having a apparently it's called operation get tough . so

called operation get tough. so how tough is he going to get with his backbenchers who are blocking the new homes this country so badly needs ? i country so badly needs? i believe , mr. speaker , we're believe, mr. speaker, we're delivering record numbers of new homes under this government. that's why with the heat. he talks he talks about toughness. mr. speaker. he's too weak to stop dozens of his own employees joining the picket lines lines. well, strikes affecting postal and education services have continued as industrial action is taking place across multiple unions and 50 universities and colleges been impacted . and so colleges been impacted. and so have 77/6 form colleges. we'll staff starts on the two day strike today. they're all disputes over pay or conditions . meanwhile, members of the communication union are planning seven more strikes next month in what the unions calling the biggest strike this country's ever . on the 9th of ever seen. on the 9th of december, more 10,000 ambulance workers have voted to strike

across nine trusts in england and wales christmas. it's part of dispute over pay and staffing units and said thousands of nine on nine cool hand this i've been technicians paramedics will take part across north the north london and the southwest . well london and the southwest. well meanwhile i said those strikes affecting postal and services are continuing today. affecting postal and services are continuing today . we'll have are continuing today. we'll have more on that for you as the rest of the day. now, matt hancock has he was paid £45,000 to appear on the tv celebrity sas, who dares wins. in an update , who dares wins. in an update, the snp's register of interests. it's also revealed that the former health secretary spent 8 hours filming the show while parliament was in recess between september the 24th and october. the eighth. he's yet to declare how much he got paid to appear on series of i'm a on that series of i'm a celebrity, in which he finished third. you're up to date on, gb news. i'll bring you more as it happens. .

happens. back to. patrick well, we're in for a bumpy ride. so listen, gentlemen, workers are walking out all across the uk today with from the royal mail university lecturers and college staff, all staging demonstrations. the royal college of nursing has voted to stage its biggest ever walk out on the 15th on the 20th of december, around 100,000. and she's all set to strike over pay . it's also been announced today that eurostar security staff strike in the run up to christmas with the rmt saying the action will severely affect . there's loads to get stuck into when it comes to all of this and we are indeed going to do all of that. i want your views on this. we are nothing without you very choose sides andifs without you very choose sides and it's difficult for me to know really what's position myself because i am myself on this one because i am quite myself on this one because i am quhe and i quite conflicted and normally i have quite clear strong have a job quite clear strong and do have strong views on and i do have strong views on some of them as if this and then not so strong on others when it

comes to nursing example comes to nursing for example we're be talking about we're going to be talking about a that under any a lot. i think that under any circumstances strike action at a children's like is planned as. it stands anyway at great ormond street , an old hospital it stands anyway at great ormond street, an old hospital is just out of order. even if you can get cover work, as long as you are not providing same service to terminally ill kids as you would doing you would have been doing if you were i find that were in work. i find that morally however, morally unconscionable. however, at time, do think at the same time, i do think that do deserve a bit of a pay rise. so there you go. but there's loads here because. they are stretch of the are not by any stretch of the imagination just heard. are not by any stretch of the imagonlyion just heard. are not by any stretch of the imagonly ones just heard. are not by any stretch of the imagonly ones on just heard. are not by any stretch of the imagonly ones on strike heard. are not by any stretch of the imagonly ones on strike iseard. are not by any stretch of the imagonly ones on strike is the the only ones on strike is the right thing to do. where do you stand i'm going to hook stand on that? i'm going to hook you nurses initially. you on the nurses initially. vaiews@gbnews.uk do you think it's should it's right that nurses should walk children's walk out at children's hospitals? joining me now is rob williams, party williams, socialist party industrial trade industrial organiser, trade unions. you . i do unions. good to see you. i do always enjoy a little back and falls your face, pops up on falls in your face, pops up on the there. it's difficult the screen there. it's difficult to to start yesterday to know where to start yesterday on shall we start on this one. shall we start with. i mean what's happening today suppose when it comes to today i suppose when it comes to lecturers out sick lecturers walking out sick colleges walking out as well

posties and all this. i mean, look, should we just call it what it is at this point which is basically a general strike ? is basically a general strike? well, it's 11 years to the day when . we effectively did have when. we effectively did have a pubuc when. we effectively did have a public sector strike when 2 million workers took strike action against the tory led coalition with the lib lib—dems government attack on pensions. so it's a big step that direction. i think we need to go further and i think what workers are seeing on the picket is, is why shouldn't we strike together? i've been on the picket line this morning with postal workers. i've just come from king's cross , where there's from king's cross, where there's a huge rally in of all the workers talked about taking action. but the thing is, part of the issue is the same, isn't it? perhaps even the reason why someone like yourself is conflicted? because i think you appreciate the cost of living squeezed. cost of living squeeze . need to get the cost of a squeeze. i mean some of the

issues i have with it. nurses a bit of a separate issue for me. i think the nature of this because that is much more of a life death situation. ambulance workers as well the way have apparently just in the last few moments voted strike bring moments voted to strike bring you date that. but when you up to date on that. but when it to things like it comes to things like university lecturers, mean, university lecturers, i mean, it's somebody attended a it's from somebody attended a lectures at lectures whilst i was at university. i don't think i'll particularly miss them. certainly will really die certainly no one will really die if a university that if a university decides that they be in work they don't want to be in work that one is paid well . that day. one is a paid well. think of course not a postie , think of course not a postie, but i think the post is are paid . you'd be surprised little. the posties are paid here. but you do support the strike over pay what they paid . well, the issue what they paid. well, the issue the posties is not so much what paid. and whenever they've paid they've had to fight for. it's they've had to fight for. it's the fact that the pay rise they're being offered is well below , rpi inflation, which below, rpi inflation, which i remind you, is 14. but the strings are going to be attached

to it. the tax on their terms and conditions of pay the way you should do is to take on board the attack on the institution that is royal mail, which obviously was outrageously privatised be privatised should be renationalise that's the issue it's hard it's hard yeah it is hard for to know general members of the public to know whether or not they should support opposes walk out regardless of whether or not they're going to pay rise in line with inflation if they don't they're paid. don't know what they're paid. but begin with though, is it but to begin with though, is it not? no. look i would imagine that posties odd thousand that posties are 20 odd thousand . i don't think they're on a particularly great amount. i'm it is an average. it is an average about 20 for all because they them the secure jobs that's being taken we could just take it back to the issue of the nurses by the way. yes, please. because i think almost all those strikes are popular but none of them will be as popular as the nurses said they're, going to get massive support because , get massive support because, patrick, you couldn't patrick, i'm sure you couldn't do a nightshift hospital ward do a nightshift on hospital ward at the at the moment where

changed or no they are all seen by the way as well especially if you don't. i mean, let's be honest with you. is there a chance we do that? let me just make this point. your news story said the biggest said that this is the biggest strike drc have ever done. let me you in england and wales. this is the first. yeah, the only organisation the rcn traditionally asante can strike. gotcha. it's doing now is because they , the members have because they, the members have got no choice. no this is, this is where i am. i'm glad you've actually paid us towards the nurses actually because there so much for us to talk about this the different areas and the different areas striking and here's at right here's where i'm at right i think they do deserve a pay think that they do deserve a pay rise. i don't think the one that is 19. and by way, there is no political support for that whatsoever in terms of the party, all the tory party need political party, political political party, main political party that that's affordable. so it's not to happen under any circumstances. at the 19% pay rise, think they settled for rise, i think they settled for 4% earlier this year 3% the year before. maybe offer them something else. and i hope this

doesn't happen but i want i want your on this and is where your views on this and is where it bit fruity for me it all gets a bit fruity for me which is that found out late which is that i found out late last night the alder hey children's hospital in great ormond street hospital, which is well, a lot of well, it's got a lot of terminally it. terminally ill kids in it. right. let's honest. they are right. let's be honest. they are two where nurses going two hospitals where nurses going to be walking out and that for me is really the balance tips i want to . know how you can want to. know how you can justify that ? well, first of justify that? well, first of all, look, it's so great the nurses are being put in this position. and just on those rises, i don't think nurses fund the pay raises are previously acceptable , but inflation is acceptable, but inflation is over percent. nurses have lost a fifth of their income in the last 12 years. the issue about those in individual let me make is absolutely clear whether they're the nurses, midwives or any emergency in this situation , those acute services . i am , those acute services. i am absolutely confident will be covered. the nurses will make

sure of that. and that's why actually it's not just that should support the nurses taking action but the rest of the trade union movement come to their support. and by the way , when support. and by the way, when you said that no political party supports the demands of nurses, well , that tells you that the well, that tells you that the political parties have got more in common. working class people wanted . the moment that we need wanted. the moment that we need a political party that supports workers and it a pay that they need. and on this issue of the 19 bloc, let me just deal with this issue . the 19% nurses have this issue. the 19% nurses have put a pay claim in because they've lost a fifth of their income, 20% of their income inflation is over 14. but look , inflation is over 14. but look, but i'm sure everyone the thing is here, but by the way, his name, place yeah, okay, i get it. but i think people a lot of people think that this is just this is just money that the government is sitting that they all have. but it is everyone is going it. and let's going to pay for it. and let's say that eventually inflation does fingers crossed does go down and fingers crossed it down. pretty flipping

it does go down. pretty flipping quickly as well. not but quickly as well. not right, but but inflation down. what do but inflation goes down. what do you the idea maybe you tolerate the idea that maybe workers public sector, workers in the public sector, the wage went up bit in line the wage went up a bit in line with but then with inflation for now but then it's inflation. so when it's tied to inflation. so when inflation down they don't inflation comes down they don't don't a pay, etc, don't get as much of a pay, etc, because that's the concern for the public. inflation is at this level. now we all in taxes level. now we all in our taxes get walloped propping up the pubuc get walloped propping up the public then inflation get walloped propping up the publi down. then inflation get walloped propping up the publi down. you then inflation get walloped propping up the publi down. you th

a little i got you i get what you're saying but i get what you're saying but i get what you're saying but i get what you're saying about quasi quality budget but look can i just. do you think that some people are owed a job, even if not a job has become obviously this is an argument against some of the rail working strikes at the minute technology, etc. might mean that some of those jobs are unnecessary . are those jobs are unnecessary. are those people just owed a living at the taxpayers expense? because i don't think are i don't know i don't think are i don't know i don't think are i don't know i don't think those jobs are obsolete. i think if anyone goes on the rail network at the moment, it's a, it's a disaster. it's not that we less stuff at some point. it's a why do you think a lot of them deserve it increases the ownership the increases the ownership of the railways from the private railways away from the private owners into public owners and back into public ownership all right. okay ownership. so. all right. okay all right. thank you very much. goodbye. to kickstart the show. i'm obviously, i'm sure. obviously, to get soon, it's not going to, is it, as such, as far as the additional guys, adidas, additional guys, andre, adidas, rob, for a scrap at rob, always go for a scrap at the start show isn't see the start of a show isn't see that we go right well i want to move from striking lecturers

mail rail workers and towards he brought bit there but brought it up a bit there but we're dedicated section we're doing a dedicated section on because. think is on it now because. i think it is probably the emotive one probably the most emotive one for of you. i want for a lot of you. and i want your views on it. it kicked off when i tweeted something earlier on at patrick christys and it shows that there seriously shows that there is seriously a massive of views on this massive range of views on this two coin the two sides to this coin the strike controversial at the two sides to this coin the strtimes controversial at the two sides to this coin the strtimes but:roversial at the two sides to this coin the strtimes but it'sersial at the two sides to this coin the strtimes but it's gotl at the two sides to this coin the strtimes but it's got evenhe two sides to this coin the strtimes but it's got even more of times but it's got even more controversial the royal controversial because the royal college says that great college nursing says that great ormond street and hey, children's nurses children's hospitals will nurses walk at walk out during the strike at a quarter hospitals as well and quarter of hospitals as well and community england community services in england nearly all those in northern nearly all of those in northern ireland wales staff walk ireland and wales see staff walk out on the 15th and the 20th of december. i feel very strongly about this. it is possible to hold the view that nurses should have some form of pay rise whilst also thinking that they shouldn't at children's hospitals in the run up to christmas or at all really. you also factor in as well that. the nurses strike will encompass things like some routine operations, some 30,000 operations. believe have to operations. we believe have to be cancelled on these days. also

on top of that, people getting chemotherapy, dialysis anyway the around 19% pay the nurses want around 19% pay rise. they say that they're underpaid and a lack of recruitment and retention already puts patients at risk . already puts patients at risk. and other nurses will be drafted in cover them. but patient care will be impacted otherwise. what's the point of striking? so there will be an impact to patients. and is it a step too , patients. and is it a step too, to target hospitals of or at least with? so many way across a lot of terminally ill children? i've been asking outside a hospital in london this afternoon if they still support nurses at children's hospitals . nurses at children's hospitals. how can you let people down like, you know, some people , like, you know, some people, they need a sense of care and things like that. they're planning on two strikes to, children's hospitals. how do you feel about that that's even worst . that's even worst because worst. that's even worst because humanity is pretty sure . they humanity is pretty sure. they are so conscientious when it comes to helping out cover they will not leave the children with

no care . is there such no care. is there such specialist hospitals but if you're going to have a strike then i believe doesn't everyone then i believe doesn't everyone the problem strike you either all strike or you don't strike you don't cross picket lines. so any sense it needs to be there needs to be solidarity the whole of governance need to take this on seriously. it's just not okay to read, to almost emotionally blackmail people . you can't blackmail people. you can't leave this poor little children . no one will leave the children's. it's an incredibly difficult position. however you know, they have been pushed to the absolute limit . and i am the absolute limit. and i am sure that probably not receiving the standard of care that the nurses would be hoping to offer at moment, given the state, at the moment, given the state, the nhs and the infrastructure of this entire country are definite . really not. why not? definite. really not. why not? because i've got a child. i just left it in now. and how it left it in now. and how does it make you feel to think some nurse about very but they've been waiting already four and a half hours for a nurse to come and see her and they just happened a couple of second now

they're saying that a pay they're saying that need a pay rise working are unfair rise they're working are unfair . what about the other people the other worker they need to pay a the other worker they need to pay a rise. joel a range of views. what's on to you on gbviews@gbnews.uk uk? i can't help but feel though. it's a bit fashionable, isn't it? just to protect and not be able to criticise any side of their action whatsoever . i've got to action whatsoever. i've got to be honest here, i put my foot down when it comes strike at children's hospitals. gbp is gbnews.uk. the views are flying. i'll to them shortly. but you i'll go to them shortly. but you are patrick christys are with me. patrick christys on gb don't anywhere gb news. don't go anywhere because few minutes we because in a few minutes we bnng because in a few minutes we bring you a gb news exclusive. as we filmed evidence of migrants stream measures migrants taking stream measures to into the hi just to make it into the uk. hi just cunous to make it into the uk. hi just curious as to why it bring you back up to date when it comes to all of that and i will ask how important all your local police station not the last station is? not sure. the last time i bobby on the beat time i saw bobby on the beat don't know about you, but figures suggest at least one is closing england wales closing in england and wales every fact , one every single week. in fact, one of and i think just

of them, and i think it's just hilarious, by the way, was turning a cannabis farm. turning to a cannabis farm. police had some raves, own police had some raves, their own disused station. hate to say police had some raves, their own di more station. hate to say police had some raves, their own di more than on. hate to say police had some raves, their own di more than 650 hate to say police had some raves, their own di more than 650 have|te to say police had some raves, their own di more than 650 have closeday it more than 650 have closed since views gbnews.uk big since 2010. views gbnews.uk big ones tweeted if you care about the police stations closing and do you think right, that nurses strike at children's hospitals seen a tip .

welcome back , everybody. is a gb welcome back, everybody. is a gb news exclusive for you because channel migrants are taking risks with their lives by using toyah in a as makeshift lifejacket to cross the channel. a gb news crew filmed one abandoned boat full of these in tubes with a source say absolutely no substitute for proper life preserving equipment. the discovery comes as authorities confirm more than

thousand 300 people have crossed the english in 24 small boats in the english in 24 small boats in the past two days alone. it's now one of the shows. there are lifejackets and yesterday 184 people cross. that's according to official from the ministry of defence or as records editor mark white has this report adrift in the of the english channel adrift in the of the english channel, a small migrant boat its cargo picked up by a border force vessel a short time earlier. it's not unusual. force vessel a short time earlier. it's not unusual . see earlier. it's not unusual. see these boats left abandoned in these boats left abandoned in the middle of this busy lane. the priority authorities is to ensure safety of those on board far out. they'll often return for the later, but as approached this vessel , the deeply alarming this vessel, the deeply alarming sight of dozens of tyre inert tubes inside , they were clearly tubes inside, they were clearly being used as makeshift lifejackets . but authorities lifejackets. but authorities warned there absolutely no substitute for proper life

preservers . on the other side of preservers. on the other side of channel on a beach near song got more evidence that inner tubes are now being used they're clearly visible inside this boat , which was intercepted by police before . it could get into police before. it could get into the water walking away from the boat. the water walking away from the boat . this group of migrants not boat. this group of migrants not one of them wearing a life . one of them wearing a life. although there is the french authorities are more active along these beaches. the long suffering locals here are not optimist . suffering locals here are not optimist. this crisis will be over any time soon, but otherwise it feels like things been left as they were for years . it's been 30 years that sangatte has been living to the rhythm of the refugee crisis , rhythm of the refugee crisis, makeshift life preserver is were often used a year or two ago when the people smuggling operations were less sophisticated . but these days sophisticated. but these days the crime are much more organised and have well sourced

supply lines, life jackets, a normal standard issue on their illegal boat trips. the of inner tubes. once again could indicate a disruption . the supply chain a disruption. the supply chain perhaps due to law enforcement activity after fortnight of bad weather , the small boats are weather, the small boats are back a vengeance. 13 people have crossed in 24 inflatables in the past two days alone . other past two days alone. other sightings are being reported as the calm weather continues for at least another day . mark at least another day. mark white, gb news. yes, on tuesday, the arms squad said it's a white joins me now and we were have a little chat whilst vti was playing about it a shift in tactics but it return to what they did at the start before they did at the start before they became as organised these organised . yeah it's a return to organised. yeah it's a return to some of the tactics they used but an indication perhaps of an interruption in the supply

because the criminal gangs are much more sophisticated and organised in the way in which they are procuring thousands of life jackets. hundreds upon of these boats . but every now and these boats. but every now and again when got police activity that maybe dismantles one of these groups or supply chain , these groups or supply chain, then you find them having to resort to the old tactics of putting inner tubes on the boats if they do get into trouble. that's they use in the sea . and that's they use in the sea. and so actually it would indicate that there has been some disruption. now clearly it means that people crossing the channel are more risk. that is a are more risk. and that is a shame but it would indicate that maybe in a sense is good news because something is clearly, hasn't terms of that hasn't it, in terms of that production line as it were, if it's a law enforcement . yeah. it's a law enforcement. yeah. impose raid that interrupted the supply chain some way then. yes that would be a positive even though. there is a potential

negative effect. the other potential though this could a symptom of . yes well and we've symptom of. yes well and we've got hundred migrants across just in the last couple of well clearly it's not putting people off the idea they've not got the proper life jacket. one would imagine they're not paying a discount to rate for it either. but mark, know a lot of people but mark, i know a lot of people will looking tv sets now. will be looking at tv sets now. see on the radio they get where the heck they getting all this stuff i've always stuff from. anyway, i've always this how on earth come this you know how on earth come all these boats 100,000 of all of these boats 100,000 of boats to make from boats managed to make it from wherever calais wherever that made to calais without intercepted. without being intercepted. surely try surely that's an easy way. try and the migrant crisis. and stop the migrant crisis. well, have the national well, they have the national crime done some work crime agency have done some work in disrupt these lines in trying to disrupt these lines of supply of the boat, in trying to disrupt these lines of supply of the boat , the of supply of the boat, the engines, the life jackets. and every now and again hear about a big raid we haven't heard about one just in the last week or two, but yeah. what you are getting is organisations

companies that are making to order and they're coming from china. a lot of time so of big money in i talk set ups in as are the livestock it's a pretty flimsy lifejackets as well we're told they're being made to order they're being shipped we think many of them being shipped to turkey . and then from turkey turkey. and then from turkey they're transported via road up to germany and then they're distributed from germany out to north western france , hidden in north western france, hidden in the dunes. and then when they need them are yeah . down to the need them are yeah. down to the beach. i think a lot of people will find remarkable that this sheer volume of boat and paraphernalia, life jackets is actually can manage to get through the full might of europol etc. but anyway there we get mark thank you very much. we'll talk again about that. our homeland security editor bringing you that exclusive that extreme the even extreme lengths. now, the even more extreme lengths that people are cross channel to

are going to cross channel to get britain. you all get into britain. you all remember news figures remember on gb news new figures suggest that stations suggest that police stations across uk are shutting their across the uk are shutting their doors that's a rate of more than one a week. i was well let's be honest i spent my coffee out with laughter when i learned earlier on a disused police station was raided by station was indeed raided by police had been police because it had been turned a cannabis factory. turned into a cannabis factory. nothing breakdown turned into a cannabis factory. nclawg breakdown turned into a cannabis factory. nclaw and breakdown turned into a cannabis factory. nclaw and order breakdown turned into a cannabis factory. nclaw and order quite breakdown turned into a cannabis factory. nclaw and order quite that.kdown of law and order quite that. what though, will a lack what impact, though, will a lack of a police station have on your community area? that's next. but these latest headlines . get these latest headlines. get afternoon 333. i'm rosie right ? afternoon 333. i'm rosie right? let's get you up to date . let's get you up to date. buckingham palace says a staff member has resigned and apologised after making unacceptable towards a guest of the queen's reception last night . and josie forlani, founder of a domestic abuse charity says she was repeatedly asked where she was repeatedly asked where she really came from . describing she really came from. describing the conversation as a she said the conversation as a she said

the household challenged her claims that she was born in the uk and was british. buckingham palace says all of the household are being reminded diversity and inclusivity policies . more than inclusivity policies. more than 10,000 ambulance workers have voted to strike nine trusts in england and wales before christmas as part of a dispute over pay and staffing levels. unison said thousands of nine 999 call handler ambulance technicians and paramedics will strike across the north london, yorkshire and the southwest . yorkshire and the southwest. hey, just be able close 114 bank branches across the uk . remote branches across the uk. remote banking soars in popularity the banking soars in popularity the banking giant says some of its stores have been serving less than hundred and 50 people a week, following decline in footfall since the pandemic . the footfall since the pandemic. the bank plans to invest tens of millions of pounds in updating remaining branches. 327 left after the closures next april . a after the closures next april. a major trial of an experimental alzheimer's drug has shown for the first time the early stages of the disease can be slowed .

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shutting them have on crime around nation? me now to around the nation? me now to discuss these findings is former police chris hobbs and police officer chris hobbs and councillor john ball, police officer chris hobbs and councillor john ball , who police officer chris hobbs and councillor john ball, who has councillorjohn ball, who has been fighting to stop the closure of police station closure of ealing police station . and i will start with you from a police officer, chris hobbs. doesit a police officer, chris hobbs. does it make your blood boil that not only was one of these police stations closed, but the police stations closed, but the police to raid it police set out to raid it because as because it was being as a cannabis factory ? yes, it does . cannabis factory? yes, it does. i mean, if you talk to any police officer who's out there on the beat, they safer neighbourhood be it neighbourhood team, be it response . they really want to response. they really want to step out into their communities straight away and police staff and police officers in police stations are part of that community. and when you take the police stations away , you close police stations away, you close them, you lose that very important, vital link. so police are not best police and these closures have been going on for years, years and years. some other very crucial areas , areas other very crucial areas, areas where the gangs prevalent and you shut the police station , it you shut the police station, it makes no sense at all. no, it

doesn't. the police got a bit of a tricky ride. i'll try your. councillor john bull. i believe councillorjohn bull. i believe that you've been fighting to stop the closure of ealing police station . some people police station. some people would it's cost cutting would say it's a cost cutting measure. let's a more measure. let's have a more centralised of police, centralised hub of police, especially the london centralised hub of police, especperhaps the london centralised hub of police, espec perhaps then he london centralised hub of police, espec perhaps then theyyndon centralised hub of police, espec perhaps then theyynd0|just area. perhaps then they can just nip from there like like nip out from there like like wasps from a nest. why do you need to have it the end of need to have it to the end of your road. i think people need the reassurance that the police are all there in central ealing recently had a spate of muggings of young people mobile phones. and i think having the police visibly there in the high street makes an enormous difference to how safe people feel. so i mean clearly we need more bobbies on the beat but we also need the police stations so people can people can go in and report issues . i i know if you try and issues. i i know if you try and call in the non—emergency one line, people have to wait literally hours. so you know way you can actually go and talk to

a police officer if you . okay. a police officer if you. okay. all rise . chris hobbs , throw it all rise. chris hobbs, throw it back your way. is cost of living crisis. we're all living now. i mean how busy were actually police stations? because quite often they're in by nice buildings where, they must have cost a lot to run. and the taxpayer i mean, you know, there was a lot of talk about the police, wasn't there? i mean, i suppose we're actually doing it in that sense now. but how busy were police? why can't you were local police? why can't you just call up? well in actual fact, the footfall of police stations that's often used as an excuse for actually closing them because the footfall has been low. that isn't really the point . as was just pointed out. it's security thing provide . it's the security thing provide. it's the ability of those police officers . they step out of the police station into their own communities. they haven't got miles. if they saw if a team officers to get their neighbourhood that they're supposed to be policing. i mean all living ealing as well you know i know the problems of eaung know i know the problems of ealing and seeing a police

officer actually walking to be your are more likely to see a polar bear walking down a high street. and that isn't the fault of the officers themselves, not because of the large placed of them. too far away from them. they're too far away from communities some in many communities in some in many places, i suppose the police . places, i suppose the police. well, but both of you, to be fair , have made ealing sound as fair, have made ealing sound as a the west. will be a bit like the west. i will be sure lock the doors and sure to lock the doors and i next drive through there. but in the mid the west the west, mid in the west midlands, which apparently midlands, which is apparently really wild west really like the wild west midlands, an area the midlands, it covers an area the country's rates of knife country's highest rates of knife crime per capita, apparently in the west midlands, 80% of it station is with a public bouncer have closed. i mean that's that's astonishing, isn't it. really. and yeah. is it fair to say, john, you know it's looking like people just don't care knife crime anymore . well, i knife crime anymore. well, i mean , knife crime is a huge mean, knife crime is a huge issue in west london. i mean , as issue in west london. i mean, as you say, all all over the country and i think yeah, the reassurance that police stations

is really vital . i mean, in in is really vital. i mean, in in our i mean , police station as our i mean, police station as far as well. so it's ealing. yeah, ealing southall. so two out of the three stations in the borough being closed. so that's, you know , that's 66. okay. so you know, that's 66. okay. so that's it's just not good enough. we do need those police stations and we continue . one of stations and we continue. one of the things one of the things that i'm concerned about i'm going to be talking about this a little bit later in the show as well when we kind of revisit from slightly angle. from a slightly different angle. but it up now, chris. but i'll bring it up now, chris. and just when you have people constantly saying things like defund you have defund police and you have people things, people constantly saying things, the institutionally the police are institutionally racist or whatever racist or misogynist or whatever , and the police . is a bad is , and the police. is a bad is a bad thing and stop and search should not be a thing as well. they're saying, oh, stop and search inherently racist. is it any wonder that there's a bit of any wonder that there's a bit of a recruitment crisis taking place in the police? is it any wonder that people haven't really their more

really raised their heads more above parapet they see above the parapet when they see their station closing? their police station closing? i think good . well, yes, think it's a good. well, yes, police are having a hard time at the moment. and unfortunately, part the blame really is on the police . it's just the media police. it's not just the media and social media who crucify them whenever . something goes them whenever. something goes wrong. police comms, as wrong. but what police comms, as we call them , communications, we call them, communications, find . the radio when we were it. find. the radio when we were it. i'm sorry, chris. we've lost you. but we were rapping anyway. i'm sure. it would've been a salient point. i'd love to have you back on again shortly, but lots of calls. former met police chris hobbs and councillorjohn bull, have been out bull, both of whom have been out campaigning quite a lot, really trying stop closure of police trying to stop closure of police stations. if you are just joining is rather joining us. yes is rather shocking, your ears do shocking, actually. your ears do not deceive your eyes. do not deceive. apparently, police stations more of stations are closing at more of a than one a week, which is a rate than one a week, which is staggering. in the west staggering. and in the west midlands, is supposedly midlands, which is supposedly where highest where there's the highest rate of crime, percent of of knife crime, ac percent of their stations with their police stations with accounts up, half shut , hard to accounts up, half shut, hard to do, to tackle problem

do, much to tackle the problem of that. but responding to the figures which were brought, by the worth having the way it's worth having accredited lbc is accredited this to lbc is fantastic well in that fantastic work so well in that a home spokesperson said home office spokesperson said are is cutting crime are absolutely is cutting crime and making our streets safer and the government is on track to deliver its pledge to recruit 20,000 police officers by march 2023. we are investing record funds policing and giving funds into policing and giving the support, training and powers they need to down on they need to crack down on crime. is up to local elected crime. it is up to local elected police commissioner. police and crime commissioner. his make his chief constables to make decisions local resourcing on decisions on local resourcing on his days, including police stations. they're stations. right, because they're so by the office so shocked to see by the office anymore. love say it, but anymore. we love to say it, but yes. how do you feel about all of this, people? because i'm actually you actually seriously do you actually seriously do you actually you have actually care that you have got actually care that you have got a local station? and when a local police station? and when was last time you a was the last time you saw a bobby on the beat? the police are copping it from all angles at minute there's no problem at the minute there's no problem with force, with modernising a police force, maybe the one maybe a centralised hub. the one near i live, the thames near where i live, the thames valley just seems valley police. it just seems like hornet's nest and. like a big hornet's nest and. the old was out of that every single i didn't really single time. i didn't really recall any local ones recall seeing any local ones anywhere but. gb news and gb

news uk get them coming news don't uk get them coming in. we've loads of your in. we've got loads of your views already flooding views actually already flooding in nurses should in about whether nurses should strike hospitals strike at children's hospitals as poorer as well, but why poorer households why are households in the uk? why are they hit? the hardest is they being hit? the hardest is food record food prices rise to record levels, oh so happy levels, cost is oh so happy companies it people companies today isn't it people and could we be in for a turkey less christmas this year i'll speak farmer whose speak to a farmer whose livelihood thrown into speak to a farmer whose liv�*bird od thrown into speak to a farmer whose liv�*bird flu thrown into speak to a farmer whose liv�*bird flu hits thrown into speak to a farmer whose liv�*bird flu hits back1rown into speak to a farmer whose liv�*bird flu hits back inwn into speak to a farmer whose liv�*bird flu hits back in the nto speak to a farmer whose liv�*bird flu hits back in the uk. as bird flu hits back in the uk. there by the way, a little there is, by the way, a little bit good news coming your bit of good news coming your way, relating way, which is relating alzheimer's care and indeed a one that could help one to drug that could help people for alzheimer's. people sorry for alzheimer's. so, not all doom and so, yes, it is not all doom and gloom. we're back a moment.

yes, i love this part of the show where we go into the terrifying world. my inbox gbviews@gbnews.uk , loads of you gbviews@gbnews.uk, loads of you have been getting in touch. your thoughts on striking workers. lots emotive to this lots of emotive to this occasion. got your rail occasion. you've got your rail strikes, electric strikes

strikes, the electric strikes sector people going sector one college people going to post—disaster sinking. to strike post—disaster sinking. and big for me is and the big one for me is nurses. i'm going to work because, have because, by the way, have apparently voted to strike just before will get you before i came on. i will get you the that very, very the detail that very, very shortly. but yes, nurses, of course, will going on strike course, will be going on strike on 15th. on the of on the 15th. on the 20th of december. it's so december. and it's so controversial . but i found out controversial. but i found out last night , controversial. but i found out last night, as i'm sure many of you saw as well, which is that some the strikes will be some of the strikes will be taking place children's taking place at children's notably street and notably great ormond street and alder. . and alder. hey, children's. and i can't but i can't help but can't help but i can't help but that if you are striking at on paper over a 19% pay rise which both major political parties labour on. it's always think is unaffordable and is going to happen so in an unreal plastic pay happen so in an unreal plastic pay demand and you are then walking out potentially on terminally ill kids in the run up to christmas. i'm sorry i can't get not after when anyway gordon's on it says if all pubuc gordon's on it says if all public sector workers were given the pay rises that demand, it would absolutely inflation further in next year inflation

be at 20. and it will give us more inflation to come. yes. okay. paul says . i believe the okay. paul says. i believe the nurses are not bothered and don't always want to strike , but don't always want to strike, but it's the unions. while the cooper plant people are so fascinating because the royal college of nursing balancing workers balloted the nurses workers so balloted the nurses several hundred thousand of them, and it came back and said, okay, great, we voted to strike. but actually it's not quite as easy as that. people that is an outright majority. well, it wasn't quite like because they did hospital trust . did it by hospital trust. according to reports online, they trust so they did buy hospital trust so they did buy hospital trust so they go, okay, they could go, okay, well, there's plurality of hospital there's a plurality of hospital trusts. districts and trusts. those districts and therefore voting strike therefore we're voting to strike . so there vast swathes of . so there are vast swathes of the or england and wales as the uk or england and wales as well where nurses did not vote to strike. but now it's kind of being bracketed well. being bracketed as well. hundreds thousands hundreds of thousands is striking it all of them. so striking. it was all of them. so if you really it that the if you really break it that the royal of nursing royal college of nursing represents a percentage of nurses and that percentage, only a percentage voted to a percentage of them voted to strike, implies it is not strike, which implies it is not really as widespread concern. really as widespread a concern. a in terms of pay

a lot of nurses in terms of pay and conditions it is being and conditions as it is being made , andrew they don't made out, andrew says they don't care . workers mostly paid care. workers are mostly paid around wage to do many around minimum wage to do many tasks that make most tasks that would make most people vomit. very true, sanjay, if want to see a major if you want to see a major breakdown in society, we need to worry cash worry about the cash that's going strike. andrew is going on strike. and andrew is always in my head, which always you're in my head, which is place to be is a pretty bleak place to be to. fair. but andrew, i want to. be fair. but andrew, i want to. be fair. but andrew, i want to do stuff later on this week, in fact, talk to our in fact, to talk to our producers about it earlier about the sector because the care workers sector because i are people that i think there are people that the workers are the care workers i think are i don't to win sides anything but i will really work in i think if will really work in a strike part of the cast i think is the one that should be up in arms this and i think it's really really interesting that they're agree you they're not but yes i agree you on andrew. great on that one, andrew. great stuff. thank you very. everyone has been getting in touch. loads of been couple of big of have been a couple of big questions for you these questions today for you as these strikes how you feel about questions today for you as these striigeneral you feel about questions today for you as these striigeneral strikej feel about questions today for you as these striigeneral strike for el about questions today for you as these striigeneral strike for wantout questions today for you as these striigeneral strike for want of: the general strike for want of a better phrase, because approaching strike, approaching a general strike, but of nurses but specifically idea of nurses striking hospitals but specifically idea of nurses stritheir hospitals but specifically idea of nurses stritheir in hospitals but specifically idea of nurses stritheir in it hospitals but specifically idea of nurses stritheir in it for;pitals but specifically idea of nurses stritheir in it for the|ls for their part in it for the sake of balance. they are saying that they will be able to have

that they will be able to have that access cover. the patients are placed at risk are already placed at risk through lack of recruitment, through a lack of recruitment, a lack retention and poor lack of retention and poor conditions begin with. just conditions to begin with. i just can't the can't help but feel like the opfics can't help but feel like the optics and morale optics of this and the morale see of is not a particularly see of it is not a particularly good thing. it's all well good thing. it's all very well and good, striking over some form rise, but pay rise form of pay rise, but a pay rise that you're never going to get. and be unaffordable. and and frankly be unaffordable. and then on terminally then to walk out on terminally ill i'm sorry think is ill kids, i'm sorry think is wrong gbviews@gbnews.uk but moving now i pharma has moving away now i pharma has spoken of the effect that bird flu unleashed on his flock of turkey steve till the house was , forced to cull his entire flock of thousand turkeys ahead of the christmas season this yeah of the christmas season this year. bear in mind is the 1st of december. tomorrow isn't it? presumably lot of you will presumably a lot of you will have to your have been hoping to get your turkeys table in time turkeys on the table in time for. is the worst for. christmas is the worst outbreak avian ripping outbreak of avian ripping through comes as through his flock. it comes as the chief executive of the british told employees british poultry told employees that range turkeys that half free range turkeys raised christmas have been raised for christmas have been cold off due the cold or died off due the outbreak. the government has since ordered the all captive poultry birds must be kept

inside to help fight this disease . the farmer in question disease. the farmer in question , steve, killed a house during may. now stage on i believe it looks to me anyway that you're on your your farm in moments and this must have been utterly utterly devastating for you just talk us through exactly what happened so every single one of your flock get bird flu . yeah. your flock get bird flu. yeah. so in the end of september so back in the end of september , we unfortunately got diagnosed with avian flu . and, yeah, we with avian flu. and, yeah, we lost . and yet we lost every lost. and yet we lost every single one of our birds. and we have normally this time of year, we're really busy now. but as you can see behind , there's no you can see behind, there's no cause it there's nobody here . cause it there's nobody here. and it's just the silence . so and it's just the silence. so without wanting to , you know, without wanting to, you know, plunge you into any more a deep, dark depression thing, i'm you were already and given what's happened but what does this mean for your business now for you and your business now because presumably is your boom time you afford to time i mean can you afford to not have one for a year ? well, not have one for a year? well, absolutely. it's not actually

yeah absolutely. it's not actually year. we're actually now sidelined for 12 months. so we can't produce any more birds here for till next october. and unfortunately, we normally start june of next year. unfortunately, we normally start june of next year . so june of next year. so potentially at the moment we're going to next christmas as well. so as you can see it's got a massive impact on our farm here and we're only a small family farm here. so it's absolutely devastating for us . and when it devastating for us. and when it comes to bird flu, look, i, i get the gist of what is like but doesit get the gist of what is like but does it pose a massive threat to the public i mean forgive me if i'm what i'm about to say is very ignorant. i'm sure it is. but due to all of birds need to be killed for public health and safety and to the public, it doesn't pose a concern but obviously, from our point of view, once the bird flu gets into the building, i mean, it literally just sweeps through iv is absolutely devastating. and you know, it just literally rips through and they just die and there won't be any survivors in

there. no. okay and this presumably is not just at your pharmacy, must be quite so widespread issue. and does this mean for the people? i hope he's got a turkey for christmas. i mean, they're going to have to not do that. well, i mean, is the free and the type, the traditional farm, fresh turkey like what we do going to be in a very, very short supply and the same as a goose? i mean, you can be very lucky to get a goose this christmas as a british goose in, any case. but you know and yeah. and this area here in norfolk, i mean, it's absolutely devastating what happens here . i devastating what happens here. i mean, it's like dartboard. if you look at the with outbreaks oh, gosh. all right, look. so it's so it's mean i was very lucky as you earlier that i do wish you all the best and i hope that somehow some miracle and you know you can pull it out the bag for want of a better phrase when it comes to trying to survive a business, i suppose. but look, good luck to you. let's again soon. and yeah, all the best all the to the

the best all the best to the house. right. see if your house. all right. see if your house. all right. see if your house was a farmer. house that it was a farmer. i mean, obviously, be honest, mean, obviously, to be honest, it is really, really tricky. know what to say a is know what to say to a chap is essentially entire essentially lost his entire livelihood in the middle of the christmas. sam there are christmas. but sam there we are i did about how you're i did that about how you're finding your particular home finding your particular at home or listening on or whether you're listening on your you're your radio, whatever you're doing run to doing in the run up to christmas. like you won't christmas. looks like you won't be having turkey this year, far as can tell anyway. oh, look, as we can tell anyway. oh, look, we've absolutely load we've covered an absolutely load of so far we've of stuff that so far out. we've got huge amounts of strikes, drones place at the drones taking place at the minute. workers with minute. we postal workers with university lecturers and with sick colleges that on sick from colleges so that on the go, i understand this is just me. i'm just coming straight to me. i'm not he's got ambulance not to blame. he's got ambulance workers. to strike, workers. if voted to strike, we'll bring to date on that we'll bring up to date on that one. and figures we all one. so facts and figures we all know about the nurses and that is what i'm going to be talking and honing when it and focusing honing in when it comes discussion, coming comes to this discussion, coming because 4:00, because just after 4:00, i'm going nurse if it's fair going to be a nurse if it's fair that nurses are walking out on potential only potential terms only ill children go on strike. children when they go on strike. i want to get down into granular detail of of what it detail of all of this. what it actually be affecting care

actually be affecting the care will to coverage will manage to get the coverage and have much of an and will it have much of an impact. so how do nurses really feel about it. what pay rise as well willing to settle well they be willing to settle for? know that 19% is for? we know that 19% is unaffordable both political parties say that and it should not be a controversial view to that. whilst i support a nurses pay that. whilst i support a nurses pay rise of some description , pay rise of some description, the one that they want is an affordable and walking out on terminally ill kids i think is unconscionable. but then we've got college of nursing got the royal college of nursing says streets in alder says it goes streets in alder hey hospitals will hey children's hospitals will see nurses walk out during strike your views coming in strike get your views coming in i'm gbviews@gbnews.uk i feel very very strongly about this indeed as i'm you can also indeed as i'm sure you can also really like walking out on a ill children in the run up to christmas or indeed ever i think is pretty shocking. but i went out and asked people outside the hospital, just around the corner from some hardly at from around now, some hardly at all, would support all, whether they would support nurses striking as a kids hospital . how can you let people hospital. how can you let people down like you ? some people, they down like you? some people, they need a sense of care , things

need a sense of care, things like that. they're planning to on strike to children's hospital . how do you feel about that? that's worse. that's even because humanity's pretty sure they are so conscientious when it comes to helping out cover. they will not leave the children with no care especially is there such specialist hospitals but if you're going to have a strike i believe doesn't everyone in the problem strike you either all strike or you don't strike you don't cross picket lines. so any sense it to be there needs to be solidarity across the whole of a need to take this on seriously . need to take this on seriously. it's just not okay to read to almost emotionally blackmail . almost emotionally blackmail. oh, you can't leave this poor little children. no one will leave the children. it's an incredibly difficult position. however you know, they have been pushed to the absolute limit and am sure that probably receiving the standard of care that the would be hoping to offer anyway the moment given the state of the moment given the state of the nhs, the infrastructure of this entire definitely not. why

not? because i've got a child , not? because i've got a child, they just left it in now and at how does it make you feel to some nurses got very bad they've waiting already four and a half hours for a nurse come and see her on the just happened couple second now they're saying that they a pay rise their working condition is are unfair what about the other people they the other worker they need a pay rise do . yes well there we go rise do. yes well there we go that was the views at least some people outside of hospital, just around corner from where i am. now, get your views in on this topic. one for me. topic. it's a big one for me. this was not just the strikes from nurses that we're covering today we've got posted. today that we've got posted. you've lecturers we've got you've got lecturers we've got sick from college teachers, there's well. we there's rail workers as well. we all brink of a general all on the brink of a general strike. i think when it strike. and i think when it comes the nurses side, it for comes to the nurses side, it for me the most emotive me it's just the most emotive one go on strike on, one when people go on strike on, the railways people realistically they is realistically die do they is massively inconvenient and annoying however annoying what nurses however people do tend to get worse when

comes to their health and i think that's a massive one, especially the run up to christmas and the big tipping point for on this which i'm sure will get you will going has in the in both gbviews@gbnews.uk okay is it right that out okay is it right that nurses out on hospitals on children's hospitals picket of coming find of the hospital coming out find another doing it. i find another way of doing it. i find it morally unconscionable but that we've got loads more coming in including so in this hour including yes so we'll nurse got we'll be speaking to a nurse got the on all of the police the lowdown on all of the police stations are closing at a rate of one a week and find out the way the new way i suppose the shocking lengths that migrants are channel. are going to cross the channel. i've been about .

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pm. you are watching and listening to me patrick christys on gb news is covering the topics that you care most about no matter how controversial. coming up, more strike action today. royal mail workers, uni lecturers will only want know. it is, by the way, sitting college staff that were walking out. members a range of out. members from a range of unions the university unions including the university college shakira and the unions including the university collecome shakira and the unions including the university collecome together ira and the unions including the university collecome together .a and the unions including the university collecome together . solidarity rmt come together. solidarity and. all nurses now impacting on children's safety as well as they walk out next month specifically out of some children's hospitals. what do you feel about that? we'll try get the answers before 5:00. also this hour, though, it's not all strikes. all strike, strike strikes. channel crosses. we've got some exclusive which shows evidence of that of the drastic action that migrants taking . they cross migrants are taking. they cross the to the they of the channel to the uk. they of course, their lives at course, putting their lives at risk. were doing that risk. i they were doing that anyway. the latest our anyway. but the latest with our home editor mark and home security editor mark and i will ask, does a local station really make your community safer? if you think we do, then i'm about this. i've got bad news for you because suggest that at least one is closing in england and wales per week. so

make the most of your local bobby station. well, you can email me gbp on gbnews.uk. only your views are more welcome your views are more than welcome . how do you feel on your . how say do you feel on your streets? how you think that is right? that nurses strike at children's hospitals run children's hospitals in, the run up christmas, in touch . up to christmas, get in touch. thank you, patrick. good afternoon . it's 4:01. this is afternoon. it's 4:01. this is the latest from the gb newsroom. the of wales has said there is no for racism in society . his no for racism in society. his statement coming after a royal was forced to resign and over comments made at a reception hosted by queen consort and goes the forlani, who's the founder of a domestic abuse charity, says she repeatedly asked where she really came from, describing conversation as a violation . she conversation as a violation. she said the household member challenged her claims that she was born in the uk and was british. prince william says the comments unacceptable and it was

right she step aside with immediate effect more than 10,000 ambulance workers have voted to strike across nine trusts in england and wales before christmas as part of a dispute over pay and staffing levels , unison said thousands of levels, unison said thousands of 999 call handler ambulance technicians and paramedics will strike across north london, yorkshire , southwest. meanwhile yorkshire, southwest. meanwhile eurostar. eurostar staff also go on strike next month in a dispute over pay. union leaders joined over a thousand people outside kings cross station today as well for the largest rally of the university colleges union as lecturers to strike in the new year. if university aides do not listen to their demands for pay rise, secretary general mick lynch of the rmt says industrial action is the option. we cannot wait for policy makers . professional policy makers. professional politicians , the people here , politicians, the people here, the first place to come and save us what's going to work is a

wave industrial action all organised by the trade unions standing up for themselves themselves . the government says themselves. the government says it has run out of prison places and has asked the police for the use of 400 cells to make up the shortfall. prisons minister damian hinz told mps there'd been an acute and sudden increase in the prison population in recent . he increase in the prison population in recent. he said operation meant the government's contingency plan had been activated. mr. hinton said was due in part to criminal borisov and strike action over the summer , which led to a high summer, which led to a high number of offenders on remand. the last time the plan was implemented was in two thousand and seven hsbc will close 114 bank branches across the uk as remote banking in popularity. the banking giant says some of its stores been serving less than 250 people a week following a decline in footfall since . the a decline in footfall since. the covid pandemic. use of mobile

app' covid pandemic. use of mobile app, however, has almost tripled since 2017. the bank plans to invest tens of millions of poundsin invest tens of millions of pounds in updating its remaining branches . there will be 327 left branches. there will be 327 left after the closures next. a major trial of , an experimental trial of, an experimental alzheimer drug shown for the first time, the early stages of the disease can be slowed . the disease can be slowed. scientists found after 18 months, the drugs for the disease progression by 27, compared with patients taking placebo. however, experts warn as the medicine works during the initial stages of the disease , initial stages of the disease, most won't benefit unless a revolution in spotting it . the revolution in spotting it. the results, published in the england journal of medicine , england journal of medicine, have been hailed as the beginning of end . labour leader beginning of end. labour leader sir keir starmer has accused the prime minister of being weak dunng prime minister of being weak during a heated this afternoon. rishi sunak came under fire from opposition over private school funding, failure to maintain

housebuilding targets and the latest series of industrial action . both party leaders also action. both party leaders also each other over the support of their backbench employees . ipart their backbench employees. ipart i party. my party is having a relaunch. apparently it's called operation get tough . so so how operation get tough. so so how tough is he going to get with his backbenchers who are blocking the new homes country so badly needs prime minister. mr. speaker . we're delivering mr. speaker. we're delivering record numbers of new under this government that's already here , government that's already here, he jokes. he talks about toughness mr. speaker. he's too weak to stop dozens of his own mp joining the picket lines. weak to stop dozens of his own mp joining the picket lines . and mp joining the picket lines. and matt hancock has revealed was paid matt hancock has revealed was pai d £45,000 to appear on the tv paid £45,000 to appear on the tv shows farce who dares wins ? in

shows farce who dares wins? in an update to the mp register of interest, it's also been revealed the former health secretary spent 80 hours filming the show while was in recess between september fourth and october the eighth. he has yet to . how much he got paid to to. how much he got paid to appear on this year's i'm a celeb in which finished third this is gb news. we'll bring you more news as it happens. now it's back to . it's back to. patrick welcome back, everybody. i was just checking . nobody else had just checking. nobody else had decided to go on strike the last few minutes. oh, they have . few minutes. oh, they have. thousand workers have thousand ambulance workers have just to strike. that just voted to strike. so that would go the lights and would go bring the lights and all royal mail has all of that. but royal mail has does hour strike today. does a 40 hour strike today. it's part a long running it's part of a long running dispute over. jobs, pay and conditions post is drawing the picket end of week picket line at the end of week to coincide with block friday.

there's strikes had there's now more strikes had take several dates take place on several dates throughout christmas throughout december christmas eve list classic royal eve on the list classic royal mail claims trunks organised members of the communication workers . unio n £100 million. workers. union £100 million. well, all reports are ellie costello is live at king's cross where the rally for communication has been taking place this afternoon. ali going on. well good evening to you, patrick . it looks as though we patrick. it looks as though we are heading head first into a winter of discontent. already we've heard from royal mail who have announced a new set of strike dates from their postal workers . ambulance workers have workers. ambulance workers have also voted to strike today . but also voted to strike today. but today we saw the large just rally ever for the universities and college and the largest one in their history way. over and college and the largest one in their history way . over 1000 in their history way. over 1000 lecturers. but not just lecturers. but not just lecturers. also, i technicians, support staff , lecturers. also, i technicians, support staff, librarians, anyone that works in a higher

education setting. they hosted a rally here on the concourse outside king's cross station and they filled the concourse. it really was like a carnival kind atmosphere. patrick that was music. that was a stage people that brought their musical instruments , their bikes, their instruments, their bikes, their dogs to gather and rally at three things the better pay , the three things the better pay, the better conditions and better pensions . i spoke to lecturers pensions. i spoke to lecturers who had come from liverpool. there was another lecturer from cambridge they've come from all over the country , free coaches over the country, free coaches that were put on by the uk—eu to come here to london and make their voices heard . but it their voices heard. but it wasn't just lecturers and representatives of the university college that was also people from the rmt mic lynch got up on stage , gave a rallying got up on stage, gave a rallying cry to those that were here to support those in further education, said the industrial

action was . the only way to action was. the only way to achieve results. and he did say to us last week, didn't he, patrick gb news, that he was going to support other and other sectors were deciding to go on strike. well, today he really did put those words into getting up on stage here at you see use event as well. i also spoke to joe grady who is the general secretary of the uk u and i asked why they were rallying in king's cross today. i mean, the atmosphere electric, the sea of pink is beautiful. if the unions pull us . people have travelled pull us. people have travelled from literally every corner of the uk to be here today. from literally every corner of the uk to be here today . send the uk to be here today. send a massive message to employers in the centre of london and i think we can agree we've done it. students are facing short ten disruption accept that. disruption and we accept that. but industrial but there has been industrial every years and every year for four years and higher education now because every year for four years and highe terribleion now because every year for four years and highe terrible working because kay's terrible working conditions are awful and job insecurity is rampant . all of insecurity is rampant. all of those things are disruptive for students on a daily basis . stop students on a daily basis. stop not put down roots . stop aren't

not put down roots. stop aren't doing the best jobs that they could. so we accept that this is disruption but we need a better long term solution and that will be better for students in the long we have 90,000 long run, too. we have 90,000 people employed on fixed term contracts . these are the people contracts. these are the people that do the bulk of teaching due to the bulk student support. to the bulk of student support. they to be on proper they need to be on proper contracts. address that and we could talk about everything else . well, it the students that so many people are thinking about patrick the students that pay £9,250 a year for three days of strike action. so far by their lecturers and. joe grady did confirms to me that they'd be striking again in the new year if they do not get an increased pay if they do not get an increased pay offer they have already rejected the 3% offer on the table . she sat she told me she table. she sat she told me she was looking at something more in line with inflation . around 12. line with inflation. around 12. so we'll have to keep an eye on how those talks. but so far the universities said that any increase in pay is only going to put jobs at risk. and i've also

made the point that 30% of universities in the uk are already in debt. they say this is simply not affordable . but is simply not affordable. but patrick, as you can see, the rally behind, although it was the biggest in history, it has now wrapped up. but that message remains strong, ashleigh thank you very much, ellie costello . you very much, ellie costello. wonderful stuff that just reporting on the latest strike action. anyone else quite angry about university letter strike. i mean , it's not particularly i mean, it's not particularly value for money for the students, is it? you're already getting ripped off left, right and centre and saddled with a lifetime of student debt for going and doing a course like underwater basket weaving. i'm pretty really pretty that that's not really what want but anyway what they would want but anyway we've news about we've got some new news about the in the last the rail strikes in the last half hour members of the tsa half an hour members of the tsa as a union will strike. of course they will. everyone just just all on just assume they're all on strike, take other strike, right. and take other forms industrial. forms of industrial. in december, rail december, a network rail a number of train operators in the long running dispute over pay jobs conditions unions jobs conditions the unions and strike. joining me now is the

man himself the expert is travel editor at independent editor at the independent simon calder. simon, what's the latest now ? we just assume that we now? we just assume that we should just be driving everywhere. well, it's been difficult to argue with that conclusion, although actually , conclusion, although actually, of course, most of the trains are running of the time. however yeah.i are running of the time. however yeah. i mean, since i got off my to give you , we've we've had to give you, we've we've had another strike call from , as you another strike call from, as you say, transport salaried association. now these the white collar workers generally, they're industrial action doesn't have that much impact don't wish take away from their that they're obviously strong campaign for pointless copses. what you're alluding to though but they don't have so much of an impact it's the rmt union particular the 5000 or so signatures on network rail who we're going to have the most impact on your a my pre—christmas plans just to remind you that from the effectively 13th to the 17th that's tuesday to is saturday

december . it's effectively going december. it's effectively going to be very limited service on only part of the network. okay 48 hour strike one day off, 48 hour strike . but whole idea is hour strike. but whole idea is to disrupt the part of a week . to disrupt the part of a week. we've also heard and actually i went along ellie costello low there at king's cross. i went along to have a word with marc lynch. what's he saying? well, he see, so i was talking to him, first of all, about the eurostar security strike, which may possibly in the astonishing confetti of strikes that you've been hearing about himself and he may possibly have slipped past you. but eurostar staff who apparently as little as £10, 66 an hour for their work. i'm sorry, it's not as borderline illegal , sorry, it's not as borderline illegal, isn't it? sorry, it's not as borderline illegal , isn't it? well, quite. illegal, isn't it? well, quite. it's highly questionable because that's almost good as you get, i think. oh, absolutely . i think. oh, absolutely. i actually paid for the privilege of being here and the nation is grateful. oh they are? yeah. yeah, right. so whatever they

earn , not enough, they are going earn, not enough, they are going strike. they don't work directly for they work for it for an contractor. but the unions says eurostar rich enough and they need to pay these people properly and we can a strike the 16th that's a friday yeah 18th that's a sunday. okay and then the following day on friday just. hear me out on this. okay trains robot trains. they don't take any holiday . don't go for take any holiday. don't go for maternity leave. if all this health leave of women don't they don't they don't go on strike. they can't try they anyway they strike because if we them to we wouldn't a thing like would wouldn't do a thing like would we. robot trains are no need for people on on on the on the, people on on the on the on the, you know, the platforms because we could just have a high tech cctv firms and we just we render people like middle age null and void. no, that's not going to happen. okay. i'll tell you why i don't think. a lack of ambition. no, no, no. this so if you take the docklands, like,

right, the only so called driverless trains in the uk at the moment, shuttles around the eastern part of london generally fairly . every so sure. there's fairly. every so sure. there's one of my local zoo . okay every one of my local zoo. okay every single train has a driver on it . somebody who can drive the train if be yes you can do . train if be yes you can do. amazing things, particularly with a closed network like the london underground in order to make it pretty automatic still going to have to have a woman or a man in charge for when things go wrong. so it's not going to and if i, i can just sort of step back from this we've got unite who is striking at a west . we got g we've got the tsa say who are striking at train operators that work. right. we've got aslef who are still very unhappy about their pay on rmt , the rmt and basically it rmt, the rmt and basically it all boils down to we want some more money. thank you. we're in quite a strong position in terms of yes muscle and we like that cash now please and then talking

to the network rail and the train who say we can't so sorry, we can't give you any more money hasn't been signed off and. then you've got the department of transport saying not do that. i'll see how you are employed by those. we'll try and facilitate. thatis those. we'll try and facilitate. that is what's absolutely frustrating them. yesterday frustrating them. so yesterday had mick lynch writing a very angry letter to the transport secretary mark harper . today secretary mark harper. today it's a ten minute transcript salary staff association and we are running out of time because unless we what's going to happen going to strike the gold and hang put yourself in the hang on put yourself in the position a member of the rmt you've already lost quite lot of cash. well, this is the thing. i actually got another eight days of actually got an of strike, actually got an overtime getting overtime ban that is getting serious. thank you. got to take but i would say take out would make thank you very much make lynch thank you very much as trawling through as simon calder trawling through the independent let me see you in the studio an apple to a in the studio and an apple to a train station or staring into mick lynch's eyeballs quite stuck. let's move on to stuck. right let's move on to out a strike would you mind

out to a strike would you mind you? not in my you? well, it's not just in my in everybody's view, it is a matter of life, death. we've been talking this been talking about this throughout, the show today. but as set to strike next as nurses set to strike next month, the effect month, i am about the effect that this could have on patients treated hospitals as treated in hospitals such as great and alder , great ormond street and alder, hey, leading cancer centres . hey, leading cancer centres. well, and more misery is to come as it's been announced in the last hour by the gmb union that more than 10,000 ambulance workers voted to strike across nine trusts in england and wales. joining me now , wales. joining me now, psychiatric nurse julia taylor . psychiatric nurse julia taylor. thank you very much, julie. it looks great have you on the show oh ob under rather unfortunate now i tweeted something earlier which i appreciate it was slightly provocative which is the idea of nurses striking at children's hospitals so alder hey and great ormond street i say i think that's i think that's that's morally unconscionable . what is your unconscionable. what is your view about that? there are the hospitals. maybe they could strike or other ways of making

that that point heard when it comes to striking children's hospitals in the run up christmas, view ? well, to christmas, your view? well, to be honest , all non—urgent be honest, all non—urgent operations and outpatient appointments are going to postponed and chemotherapy and dialysis that's going to be postponed . but we working on postponed. but we working on a bank holiday level of staffing we've got a thing called the life care model and that is where certain areas of strike exempt from strike urgent therapeutic services and that would include children's an urgent diagnostic diag gnostic and assessment services . they'll and assessment services. they'll still be running as well it it does feel a bit wrong just to have strikes when you're a nurse but sadly i'm not strike now may i make that clear right now ? and i make that clear right now? and i make that clear right now? and i feel like a bit of a i don't know i feel like a bit spineless in a way , because i can't i just

in a way, because i can't i just can't bring myself to do it. i can't bring myself to do it. i can't go on strike. some of colleagues are and some of them are. that's fine. but i am to support the nurses strike , support the nurses strike, patrick, because at the moment, one worker not really low staffing levels. it's really difficult. i'm not personally , difficult. i'm not personally, but i know nurses that are doing 13 hour shifts , they're 13 hour shifts, they're absolutely shattered. they're getting agency staffed by the office . i think not just that office. i think not just that they might not experienced in lot a particular area. well this is don't train them up as well and it takes time. everybody burn out the hair is not attractive. we're not recruiting staff. there's a load reasons why we need go on strike because if we don't on strike, things are going to worse. i understand this and this herein lies dilemma, which is that well, if you are going to have your demands to let alone you need do something pretty serious in

order to create a situation where the office and i understand all of that i all of that and i also understand withdrawing your labour as a nurse even though you're not going to do it, does mean that, well, we're not a nurse. well, we're not to be a nurse. you're not going to be on the ward or you're doing. and i get the i've got to be honest here, where i really draw line is where i really draw the line is in to children's in relation to children's hospital and okay i'm that hospital stuff and okay i'm that there will be provisions made but as straightforward matter but as a straightforward matter of fact surely means that some children will not be getting the kind of care or treatment or at least are at risk of not getting the kind of carol treatment as they would. is that true . it's they would. is that true. it's like now without risk being on strike , there aren't enough strike, there aren't enough nurses to run the wards. i heard demand earlier on your programme the news but you you'd had wait for hours. it's there's not enough nurses that's the problem and that is just going to continue on until we do something about it.

continue on until we do something about it . and the only something about it. and the only way seems to the government are to our advice . and what who is to our advice. and what who is it. dame helen lamport. she brought the report a few weeks ago called fixing the nhs report and in that report she we must stop normally saying the unacceptable and that's what we're doing right now . can i get we're doing right now. can i get your opening. you will. no more much more about this than i am. but it's something i want to focus on in the coming days, which is about care work. because i get emails because actually i get emails every about anyone every single day about if anyone is go on strike. it is going to go on strike. it should be the care workers. apparently i paid last. apparently i paid last. apparently that they can understand what they understand maybe delay what they what well suppose what they do as well i. suppose there similarities in there are some similarities in some the some some differences in the nature the work cash care nature of the work cash care workers. are they the ones who may be, dare i more of a may be, dare i say, more of a right to strike? do you think ? i right to strike? do you think? i think just as much think they've got just as much of a right to strike, especially if the private if you're about the private sector workers because they sector care workers because they get minimum wage and they

get the minimum wage and they work so hard and the work loads of hours and, they're short staffed, which is why we've got 10,000 bed blockers in hospital. right because nobody's getting enough. he's going home with the pay enough. he's going home with the pay at the end of the week and thinking can't even pay the gas, can't even pay the electric. they're going to foodbanks . well they're going to foodbanks. well yeah. and just very quickly sorry. very quickly , very, very sorry. very quickly, very, very quickly you will will not be striking and that is simply because you couldn't bring yourself to do because. because of the patients. yeah i just can't do it. patrick oh, thank you very much . and look, it's you very much. and look, it's wonderful to talk to you. will be all the rather be under all the rather circumstances . look, you circumstances. look, thank you very, great to have very, very much. great to have you the show. the psychiatric you on the show. the psychiatric nurse, right. what nurse, julia taylor. right. what do of that? do you make of all of that? let's just strongly on all sides, which is what we love to say. up, the three lions say. coming up, the three lions were truly roaring last were well and truly roaring last night. they beat the welsh three nil through to the last 16 nil to go through to the last 16 at the qatar cup. rashford

at the qatar world cup. rashford you never know. going go you never know. we going to go then we'll pele. got then we'll call pele. we got pele. get reaction from pele. we'll get reaction from the england goalkeeper the legendary england goalkeeper shilton, who would have saved, no marcus rashford's no doubt are marcus rashford's goals. be back in a moment.

right, people . it's like in the right, people. it's like in the middle of the england squad preparing for the knockout football stages of the world cup after they wales three nil after they beat wales three nil last night, they'll go up against senegal on sunday. but there's ongoing controversy regarding . the gulf regarding. the gulf states hosting tournament with hosting of the tournament with labour keir starmer . labour leader sir keir starmer. oh, great state of this watching clash last night with lgbt q plus england fans in a protest against qatar's anti—homosexual clause . oh, yeah, massive clause. oh, yeah, massive protest. that's okay. well, a little bit of virtue . i'm sure little bit of virtue. i'm sure the qataris are quaking in base.

he also said that he won't go to qatar, even if he can make it to the final . oh, gosh, i might the final. oh, gosh, i might move to qatar. that right. i see. anyway, is see. anyway, with me now is former england goalkeeper peter shelter, the show. shelter, who is on the show. yes, peter stuff. well, firstly , we start talking about the football. i mean, what do you make of virtue signalling now from keir starmer? you know, he's going to go surround himself with the community to protest against qatar . well, you protest against qatar. well, you know, i think protest is great and, you know, quite rightly so. we've don't agree with a lot of their laws. let's leave it out of football. know this is a great football tournament and you know i think i think it's a bit too far. you know, let's concentrate on the football and not the politics. you know, a bit of a shift when it comes to qatar. i don't agree with that laws. i mean, i would hope this goes without saying i don't agree with that laws it agree with that laws when it comes to like gay rights comes to things like gay rights and rights most and women's rights and most stuff really in general, these are for sharia law, but at the

same time, brits complain same time, we brits complain about or immigrants about tourists or immigrants coming to this country that, you know, abided our laws. then we want to go over to country and change all of our legal system is selfish, but i'll drag is a bit selfish, but i'll drag you away from that worry. let's talk about the football. do talk about the football. what do you it? last night, the you make of it? last night, the three lions yeah, three lions roared. yeah, i think that's right. we played well so certainly , you know, well of so certainly, you know, that changed things the off time and it paid off. you know i think switching russia . and think switching russia. and folding over obviously the goals came from of them i agree a little bit with you with regards to rashford's goals i thought you know that that would a place my hometown club leicester but on that occasion i thought you know it moved the wrong way for the for the free kick started to go to his right and then saw it he was in the goal went in and obviously the ones went straight through his legs but take nothing away. it was a really

good by england i mean the hard work starts you know we've we've got out the group stage it wasn't a tough group on paper and now the world cup starts the last six days. well i want to know your views on this. i mean, i as a manchester united fan, i'm very glad marcus rashford has decided to focus fully on football, which of him football, which is lovely of him do in england shirt. it might do it in england shirt. it might be nice over the course the last couple of there but i'm couple of years there but i'm just know said but will just you know said but i will park that paul case are we park that will paul case are we game cover with england game to cover the with england i mean they were banging average against the us were good against the us they were good against the us they were good against you know it's iran against but you know it's iran and they beat welsh three and they beat the welsh three nil so wales nil which is so at me wales people. it's a little bit people. but it's a little bit like a large county in like playing a large county in england it. i mean how england isn't it. i mean how good away away. i think we're up there you know we with the, you know the top five or six teams in the competition, you know we've got a good squad know we've got a good squad know we've and you've we've got experience and you've and all we could do was to get out of the group like . we did. i out of the group like. we did. i agree with the usa performance left out sydney you know we

didn't really turn up mentally in that game . i thought we were in that game. i thought we were sluggish . we put it right sluggish. we put it right against wales , who as you say , i against wales, who as you say, i don't think they're a top team . don't think they're a top team. you know, bell and ramsey are getting a bit older now . but getting a bit older now. but yeah know well i think that , you yeah know well i think that, you know, we've got a chance . got a know, we've got a chance. got a chance but i, i think game after game is gareth southgate good enough to take us right to the very , very top. i know he's got very, very top. i know he's got a decent run we've been to a semi—final, a world cup to a final of the euros. but the serious question marks about is tactics and his substitutions lack of he got it spawned last night but he hasn't in the past is good enough to lead england to world cup glory . well see, he to world cup glory. well see, he certainly very close in the last world cup, although it was you know, i think we have to look to the draw in that and, you know, and in the euros you we did well we're playing at home now which is always a bit of an advantage so is the test now . you

so this is the test now. you know i think that you we do attack you know i think sometimes defensive play you know we look a bit suspect but yeah jordan pickford was only had one save tonight which was a deflection and probably in the last three games. so yeah we're looking okay think i think but let's wait and see but if it wins the world it'd be fantastic. it the world cup, there'll be a gold statue of him right here in the studio. he wins the cup. it was magnificent. look, i've got to ask you i've got to ask you this question because do want your views on it? and i'm sorry if it seems a bit controversial, but l, seems a bit controversial, but i, am. sick and tired of i, for1 am. sick and tired of seeing you, if he seeing this. would you, if he were playing, you were still playing, would you take before games ? i take knee before games? i personally want to . not that i'm personally want to. not that i'm racist in any way . personally want to. not that i'm racist in any way. i just think you on the football pitch, you know , think there's a lot done know, think there's a lot done off the pitch you know kick racism of football it's going on all the time and i think there's progress being made the only

reason the only way i would take it would be if the most latinos are to want to do it because it's a team and you only be part of the team. and if you had a and sort of eight players wanted to do it , you know, i would and sort of eight players wanted to do it, you know, i would just expect if you think that should put it to a potentially there's potentially that you put it to a vote as opposed to dare i say, just be insulted by their agents . um, well , i just be insulted by their agents . um, well, i mean, the players have got the right to do what they want. i mean, i have to take any but england lads feel that. so it a statement it's been going on for a while now. it's listen it's, it's not that they make a statement, it a few minutes and some people think that's great art the first preferred to keep it off the pitch you know outside the stadium before games fine but when the match starts was about to start, i'd just think we should. we should leave it it to time, you know? yeah 100% agree

with you. look, thank very, very much, peter. great to talk to you. and thank you very much for everything that you've done for engush everything that you've done for english football well. former english football as well. former england peter shelter england goalkeeper peter shelter there. are you with me ? patrick there. are you with me? patrick christys gb news new figures christys oh. gb news new figures suggest that police stations across are shutting. just across the uk are shutting. just because the rates of knots the are raised more than one a week won't impact. will this have on your but your community policing? but first, headlines . first, racialised headlines. good afternoon. it's 432. i'm tatiana sanchez in the gb newsroom. the prince of wales says. newsroom. the prince of wales says . there's no place for says. there's no place for racism . society. statement after racism. society. statement after a royal aide was forced to resign over comments made at a reception and cosy forlani, who's the founder of a domestic abuse charity, says she was repeatedly asked by prince godmother why she came from lady hussey then challenged her after she said she was born in the uk

and is british. kensington palace says the were unacceptable and it was right for her to step aside with immediate effect . more than immediate effect. more than 10,000 ambulance workers have voted strike across nine trusts in england and wales before as part of a dispute over pay and staffing levels . members of the staffing levels. members of the tsa have also announced they'll strike next month at national rail and. other train operators as , part of their long running as, part of their long running dispute over pay jobs and conditions . eurostar staff will conditions. eurostar staff will also go on strike over pay month and university colleges union leaders rally today as lecturers are also going strike in the in the new year if universities do not listen to their demands for a pay not listen to their demands for a pay rise rise. not listen to their demands for a pay rise rise . the government a pay rise rise. the government says it's run of prison places and is ask the police for the use of 400 cells to make up for the shortfall . prisons minister the shortfall. prisons minister damian told employees there had been an acute and sudden

increase in the prison population in recent due in part to criminal bar association strike action . the summer, which strike action. the summer, which led to a high number of offenders on remand remand . and offenders on remand remand. and matt hancock has revealed he pai d £45,000 to appear on the tv paid £45,000 to appear on the tv . celebrity face dares wins. in an update to the snp's register of interests has also been revealed. the former health spent 80 hours filming the show while parliament was in recess between september the 24th and october the eighth. tv online and dab+ radio . this is gb news. and dab+ radio. this is gb news. that was back to . that was back to. welcome back. so police forces may have lost their headquarters as abc figures show the police stations have been closing at

the rate of one per week across england wales. to give you an example, the uk's biggest force, the metropolitan , has seen the the metropolitan, has seen the closure of around 75% of their stations that were opened in 2010. i'm david get me started on the west metal as a wild west, which is basically the spiritual home knife crime these days, 80. they've got this establishment place. there was midlands there any police midlands and there any police stations stop . this comes as stations to stop. this comes as the government is asked to use 400 police cells to hold inmates after a surge in overcrowding in male prisons over the last few months . so important to months. so is it important to have a physical building to show a of officers? does it make a difference to local crime? joining me now is former police officer, director of the law and order foundation , norman order foundation, norman brennan, served in the brennan, who served in the police force for 31 years, is on the chair . police force for 31 years, is on the chair. the haringey independent and search monitoring group. ken can, i'll start with you is it good news for you that there fewer police stations now because down to no. do you do you think we shouldn't

have any police at all? do you think that it's a good thing it'll be fewer stopping and searching, going on now without a. feel should a. i honestly feel that should be more police station be know more police station being for the simple reason it's a reassuring place for people who may be in trouble. you you actually get some a place of safety in that regard and i'm not worried that people who've got any concern they like to have an interaction with a human a human face. so i think the police station provide that kind of security for members of the public. they might me a good stuff. i'll it over to you. norman norman brennan now do you think that members of the public have a right to be serious and concerned if they can't actually physically a police station with lights on and people it. yes yes i do but just like qualify some i'm an expert on the head of protect and protect and give a

voice for all of police in a but i would but in answer to your question you're you're right the pubucifs question you're you're right the public it's the elderly victim that are perhaps not used to use it the internet or report crimes onune it the internet or report crimes online when it comes to a visit. they want to see police right . they want to see police right. with that, i think we've got issues with your sorry and i'm very sorry about i think we've got your sound not my earpiece or your audience or produce as well as your audience . sorry, well as your audience. sorry, we'll get that sorted out and sorry . so, carol, you're going sorry. so, carol, you're going to see a lot of heavy lifting there. look, do you there. so look, where do you stand this? because suppose stand on this? because suppose it's a bit of fine line for it's a bit of a fine line for you. i've you before about you. we i've you before about stop and search and stuff like this neil you've have made points to that you're not points to me i that you're not particularly in favour you particularly in favour of it you think there be very think there might be very different connotations to different connotations as to stop urging people stop against urging people as well. but are actually well. so but you are actually one more police and more police stations. just, just to stations. just, just, just to square that for me, makes square that for me, please makes a for me. first of all,

a lot for me. first of all, i think you've got to misguided about my take on stop and search there a place to stop and search i said what we want really see is more intelligence led. someone says robert that racial profiling stops and says so i'm really i'm in favour of targeted stop and search that can be what you call it can be substantiate to you know too often we get a soundee to you know too often we get a soundbite how effective stop and search is . i find it doesn't search is. i find it doesn't stand up to data that i see so in that regard that's i say in regards and if you're if you look if you see a crime taking you know do you do you realistically walk into a police station do you call , realistically walk into a police station do you call, don't you? i mean, do we really need visible police stations ? by the visible police stations? by the way, make laugh that way, it did make me laugh that one the have to raid one of them, the have to raid their police station because their own police station because it down and they got

it shut it down and they got turned into a cannabis factory. that did make me chuckle. yeah. no, really what no, no, no, not really what we're going far you're we're going for as far as you're concerned, you really concerned, do people you really use police stations? yes. because i have used a police station the recent past to where they've got knife night things to put weapons in. and i that's an important place to get street in in a safe manner also is that if you want to report crime there's often a place where you can just go in and have that composite should with someone who you feel much more reassured that act took on what you are seeing or what you've got to report. so personally i really am. i'm not i'm not saying that i'm saying we do need more police stations in place because i'm talking to the people i work with and the residents there find that a reassuring . space

find that a reassuring. space trust in the police . we believe trust in the police. we believe what we keep or keep being told appears to be an all time low . appears to be an all time low. would more police stations do to solve that . no will do . raising solve that. no will do. raising trust because that's down to the actual of policing. now i'm heartened by the new met commission are who's taken a different from his predecessor and so and regards that he's about to retell those rogue policing . i think that both in policing. i think that both in how honest i in the police particularly in marginalised communities like my own who for a long time hire has felt that the police a police force are the police a police force are the police a police force are the police and the borough is god. given the police service that regard, look, can thank you very very much can hynes the who

is the chair of haringey independent stop and search monitoring group and albeit to unfortunately norman brennan joined him earlier on that right well we still got loads to come on this particular we may patrick christys i'm going to be discussing the impacts of them but also poorer households in the uk are being hit the hardest as food prices rise to record levels . today a spokesperson for levels. today a spokesperson for the prince of wales that racism has no place our society after the late lady in waiting is resigned and apologise for comments that she made buckingham palace reception all that coming your way. i'm much much more gbviews@gbnews.uk. i'll be back in a moment.

all right. welcome back, everybody. now food prices rose at record highs again last month with . the new office for with. the new office for national statistics data out today showing a spike in the price of meat, eggs, dairy and coffee . and it's driving up food coffee. and it's driving up food inflation. yet again, up to 12.4% from 11.6% in october, according to the british consortium. but some of our poorer households are being hit the hardest . but new research the hardest. but new research from the centre for social justice suggesting some 7 million brits are paying more than the rest of us for basic goods and services. here's a picture of all this noise. and i'm well explain exactly how skint we all are and maybe hungry we're going to go to be. it's gb news and business editor liam halligan with you on the money . we want on the money. money. we want on the money. liam i'm gonna love it. what's going on? we've said in the past, haven't we, patrick that people who are on lower income households, they pay disproportionately more of their income on fuel and food. fuel and food have gone up a lot more

than the standard rate of inflation. so for them, the increase in the cost of living. the cost of living squeeze is much, much greater. and the sense of social justice, which is a sense of right tank, is a sense of right think tank, has out research has brought out some research today. it surveyed a thousands of people across the country and it that poorer . if we can it showed that poorer. if we can look at some graphics here gb news radio listeners will have to bear with me. poor face, what they call a poverty premium higher charges on basics like food and fuel and credit . it's food and fuel and credit. it's an insurance vulnerable families around an insurance vulnerable families aroun d £500 a year more than the around £500 a year more than the rest of us and that's 500 quid that they can not afford . in that they can not afford. in particular, they pay 33% more on their energy when they use pre—payment metres 33 a third a third of vulnerable families are using pre—payment and you pay a lot more per unit when you use those 22% of households in this category , they can't afford

category, they can't afford their home contents to be insured and they often , insured and they often, unfortunately in areas where rates and so on, higher than the national average . and finally , national average. and finally, 35, patrick, over a third of these families are using high, high cost credit. payday loans pawn broking loans and so on. again costing a lot more because they can't , like you and me goes they can't, like you and me goes to the bank and borrow money. they pay much higher rates of interest and a fifth 20% are digitally excluded . the csj says digitally excluded. the csj says that means they haven't got access to the internet easily . access to the internet easily. so unlike you and me, they can't set their kitchen table to try buy goods and services online are often cheaper than trying to them in shops . so all in all, them in shops. so all in all, them in shops. so all in all, the sense of social justice has really shone a light at putting meat on the bones of the argument that you and i have talked about a lot that for poorer households the cost of living squeeze is a lot than ten 11% inflation would suggest . 11% inflation would suggest. yeah no, indeed. look, it's fascinating stuff. can i just

slightly put you on the spot with something else i know because remember vividly when because i remember vividly when rishi sunak became prime minister, you and i were talking and you said something kind of called before anyone else called it before anyone else really, about he's really, which is about he's going to face down these going to have to face down these strikes . he saying this strikes. he was saying this right start, right from strikes. he was saying this righ dot start, right from strikes. he was saying this righ dot and start, right from strikes. he was saying this righ dot and he ;tart, right from strikes. he was saying this righ dot and he now right from strikes. he was saying this righ dot and he now hasit from strikes. he was saying this righ dot and he now has itfrom strikes. he was saying this righ dot and he now has it when day dot and he now has it when it comes to the amount that it would us to the would cost us to give to the various different pay demands, but it would but also the amount it would cost not do you think rishi cost us, not do you think rishi sunak's better just sitting cost us, not do you think rishi sunak's betterjust sitting on sunak's better just sitting on his hands doing and, his hands and doing nothing and, hoping the people who hoping to outlast the people who are they of go are striking and they kind of go scheme country know scheme before the country know how it work? i think you're how will it work? i think you're exactly right. i think we are now in middle of winter of now in the middle of winter of discontent. but wouldn't discontent. but i wouldn't just contend wrong about the contend that was wrong about the start year. i start of this year. i was talking on gb news, talking about here on gb news, the of this year. if you the start of this year. if you look at the nurses, they want 19% those brilliant interview 19% of those brilliant interview earlier who doesn't earlier from a nurse who doesn't want strike . i think lot of want a strike. i think a lot of the public while they don't want the public while they don't want the be short changed. the nurses to be short changed. 19% is going to go up their nose . yeah. given that the 4/5 of the workforce .don'twork th e

the workforce .don't work in the pubuc the workforce .don't work in the public sector , they're not public sector, they're not getting they're lucky if getting 19. they're lucky if they're any pay at they're getting any pay rise at all in lots of cabinet talking about the fat cats in the city of i'm talking about of london. i'm talking about regular people for, regular working people for, fifths who work the fifths of us who work in the private sector don't get the private sector and don't get the benefits in the benefits that working in the pubuc benefits that working in the public sector. you in of public sector. you in terms of pension and holiday and sick leave and so on. so i would say that the public sector unions should be careful about thinking that the public as a whole will automatically be vocal from their side , because i don't their side, because i don't think they will, but they will be for bit and then they won't be for bit and then they won't be think the strikes we're going to face over the next or so. postal workers, drivers, they they're, of course, largely private sector. they're private people striking to the nurses, the doctors, the bma , the the doctors, the bma, the doctors union. they are all currently balancing their members from work for a 26% pay rise, 100th. yep, you got 100,000 civil servants who have voted to go on strike. border force passport, dvla . these are

force passport, dvla. these are all areas that the public rely on. i think there is going to be curated chaos in the run up christmas. patrick the first covid free christmas we've had three years and how much is it going to cost? how much is it going to cost? how much is it going to cost? so the public sector payable you put me on the spot.i sector payable you put me on the spot. i have public aspects of pay pin spot. i have public aspects of pay pin back year is 200 billion quid to hundred thousand really so million pounds , right 200 so million pounds, right 200 billion quid if you give the pubuc billion quid if you give the public sector a whole on average a 10% pay rise, which roughly where inflation is , that's 20 where inflation is, that's 20 billion quid for pay on the bafic billion quid for pay on the basic rate of income tax right there across the board . wow. there across the board. wow. what would you think if the suddenly raised the basic rate of tax from 20 to 24 pay? yeah. well well, i'll be precise. i can't scream. that is the of money we're talking about to a 10% pay rise across the board and the nurses is no point working . well and, that would be working. well and, that would be pay working. well and, that would be pay of course. people in the

pubuc pay of course. people in the public sector pay tax too. yeah, but the of that burden falls this proposal on private sector workers who i've often have much lower worse working conditions in terms of conditions than the sector. i'm not saying that i work hard. it's one of the thing because it's never or very rarely on average, and i've got numbers to prove it on average pubuc numbers to prove it on average public sector workers on average are paid more than private sector workers. it's not as if for the same job or just on for the same job orjust on average, on average , right. so average, on average, right. so it's not as if public workers are badly paid compared to private sector workers . fact in private sector workers. fact in many, many cases , the opposite many, many cases, the opposite is true. fantastic liam great. thank you very much . our thank you very much. our economics business and to bring you up to date with loads of stuff right away. from food to the strong it's taking place but we're just going to move on quickly now because the prince and princess of wales are visiting today their visiting boston today in their first the us as is 2014. first trip to the us as is 2014. the to promote the the visit is to promote the prince's earthshot initiative,

championing innovative solutions from the world to save from around the world to save the planet and is seen as the first big international trip is becoming but becoming heir apparent. but controversy hit the royal family earlier as buckingham palace forced to allegations forced to respond to allegations by and cosy following a charity worker that she was racially abused whilst at a royal function. a prominent member the royal household has resigned after reported incident with both a police sorry the palace i should say grounds for years that wasn't the palace on the prince of wales branding it unacceptable and gb news his royal reporter cameron walker is with me now live from boston . with me now live from boston. good stuff coming to you all stateside . can very much hear stateside. can very much hear that coming through. that's just today was was alleged have today what was was alleged have happened that . did he get off happened that. did he get off the patch . yes it's a very much the patch. yes it's a very much unwelcome for the royal household to protect clearly the prince and princess of wales who are due to arrive in boston imminently. really, this all happened yesterday after at buckingham palace where, the

queen consort was hosting a reception raising awareness , reception raising awareness, violence against women and, girls and one of the royal household members was speaking . household members was speaking. one of the advocates she happened to be and she asked this aren't the kids where she was he originally from now, of course. and the lady in question responded was from great britain. but she kept persisting on these arguments of where where did she come from originally . where did she come from originally. so this led to a pubuc originally. so this led to a public accusation on twitter from the from the advocates which forced buckingham palace to respond quickly. and they did respond very quickly to this instance . they said that they instance. they said that they take the allegations extremely seriously. a buckingham palace spokesperson and have investigated immediately , investigated immediately, establish the full details in this instance, unacceptable , this instance, unacceptable, deeply regrettable comments have been made. we have reached out and then. josie forlani, who is the abacus in question and they're inviting her to discuss all elements texts in person. if

she in the meantime the individual concerns would like to express a profound apology for the hurt caused and has stepped aside from her honorary role with immediate effect . now role with immediate effect. now this individual is widely reported to be lady susan hussey who happens be prince william's godmother to now i have been speaking to you the prince of his spokesperson then from my on the standing the prince of wales very much agrees that it was the right decision for lady susan hussey to step down from her honorary position . william honorary position. william agreed position and. kensington palace spokesperson has also come out with a statement in the last hour or so and he said i was really disappointed to hear about guest experience at buckingham palace last night. racism has no place in our society . the comments were society. the comments were unacceptable and right that the individual has stepped aside with immediate effect . now of with immediate effect. now of course this is bringing memories really of 2021 for prince harry

and meghan markle's oprah interview . meghan accused an interview. meghan accused an unnamed member of the royal family of racism a thing which , family of racism a thing which, then made the buckingham palace release a statement saying recollections vary, but this is very much an distraction for prince william's environmental earthshot prize. create, as you said, patrick, the beginning. they're trying to create a sense of optimism for climate that we can repair our planet. but prince william and princess catherine on the theme of preparing our planet are going to be arriving via a commercial plane rather private jets. and when they're travelling around in boston, it will be a range rover that is hybrid. so clearly lots of environmental mischief to hear about this week. patrick yes, indeed. and by the remarkably busy intersection behind you that currently looks as though maybe boston in general could do we're getting a little bit of a the eco warriors involved in might seem just dump avalon come on thank you very very much really fascinating report that's numerous different fronts live

fronts come to walk there live for our man in boston, for us. our man in boston, massachusetts write you what we mean. christys gb news. mean. patrick christys gb news. lots come in the next lots more to come in the next now will put concerns to an now i will put concerns to an nhs doctor the impact of nhs doctor over the impact of the trial will on the nurses trial will have on some country's children's some of the country's children's hospitals. a while hospitals. it's been a while since we deployed this since we deployed so into this ward to get the ward says i want to get the emails on the go as well. vaiews@gbnews.uk nurse is dry. okay. need some form of okay. do you need some form of rise? 90% bit rough but rise? 90% is a bit rough but actually on, minute actually hang on, minute is strong hospitals. strong at children's hospitals. outrageous, right now they outrageous, but right now they see whether . hello outrageous, but right now they see whether. hello again. i'm aidan mcgivern from the met office. a lot of low cloud across uk today but there across the uk today but there some sunshine places whether some sunshine in places whether . you've got the cloud or the sunshine it's to be sunshine. it's going to be a misty foggy night in many misty and foggy night in many places, high at the moment to the east of the is us largely the east of the uk is us largely settled. weather blocking weather coming weather fronts from coming in from although one of them is from the although one of them is trying to squeeze in and that's bringing some light outbreaks of rain to northern ireland that push into parts of western scotland and then overnight much of the rest of scotland and the far north england seeing

far north of england seeing those cloudy skies those those cloudy skies and those outbreaks of rain elsewhere across , western england, wales, across, western england, wales, southern counties spells at first tonight. but we're going to see some dense fog forming and some frost by dawn in the middle. a lot of low cloud mist and fog around. so some tricky driving conditions first thing thursday, i think with that fog in places and for scotland, the final for england, a damp start but milder here now scotland , but milder here now scotland, northern england, keep the rain for time. mostly it's light. it's on and off. by the end of the afternoon. it's starting to ease the way northern ireland up and for parts of wales and southern wales is the brighter skies. once the fog it won't clear everywhere where we do see the fog sticking around will stay low to mid single stay in the low to mid single figures where. the fog does clear 9 to 12 celsius into the evening and once again extensive low cloud. mr. fog forms across central and southern parts of the uk as well as a touch of frost in places scotland, the far north of england. cloudy

skies and some outbreaks of rain clearing. but northern ireland, clearer skies through the night. however, it's relatively mild towards the northwest because here we've got a southerly airflow and there'll be colder conditions across central and eastern parts of the uk because of the light winds. a lot of low clouds once again to start off friday. but change the way friday. but a change the way for the weekend. fog , brighter the weekend. less fog, brighter skies with an increased skies but with an increased easterly breeze. it's going to feel poplar .

yeah so welcome back, everybody. this is gb news with me, patrick christys. and coming up between now and 6:00 as we hurtle towards the business end of this show, all know at the mercy show, all we know at the mercy of militant yes. so one of the

of militant. yes. so one of the biggest rallies today is royal mail workers university lecturers in sixth form college staff all walked on dispute over pay- staff all walked on dispute over pay. that was at a rally at king's cross station, which also saw leaders from other unions piggyback on a show of piggyback on as a show of solidarity . not only but solidarity. not only that but there's news regarding strikes that are in my view a matter of life and. death crews at half of england's ambulance have voted to take strike action over pay and the royal college of nursing says some of the biggest children's hospitals the children's hospitals in the country be affected when country will be affected when nurses walk out month. nurses walk out next month. frankly, kind where frankly, this is kind where i draw the line. i'm sympathetic towards the job that nurses do. i do understand that they save lives for what it's lives and i do, for what it's worth deserve of a pay worth and deserve a bit of a pay rise. but asking is bang rise. but asking for 19% is bang out order and not tending to out of order and not tending to in cases potentially terminally ill children in the run up to christmas. i think it's sickening. be putting this sickening. i'll be putting this shocking nhs shocking revelation to an nhs doctor. bring you more our doctor. we'll bring you more our exclusive as well which exclusive footage as well which shows evidence of the drastic actions, shocking actions, this shocking action that margaret all taking as they

to across the english channel. they lives at they are putting their lives at risk more than they already risk even more than they already were it amazing were to else find it amazing that full minds europol that the full minds europol interpol unable to just interpol seems unable to just stop both speaking money sent to calais. but anyway moving an average of one local police station is closing single week in england and wales. do and mortar really make a difference ? it comes to fighting crime me on of the gbviews@gbnews.uk on all of the gbviews@gbnews.uk but before that latest headlines . th but before that latest headlines. th the latest . the gb newsroom, the the latest. the gb newsroom, the prince of wales says there's no for racism in society . the for racism in society. the statement coming after a royal aide was forced to resign over comments at a reception and. joseph forlani, who's the founder of a domestic abuse charity, says she was repeatedly asked by prince william's godmother , where she really came godmother, where she really came from . lady susan hussey then from. lady susan hussey then challenged her after she told

her she was born in the uk and is british. kensington palace says the comments were unacceptable and it right for her to step aside with immediate effect . more than 10,000 effect. more than 10,000 ambulance workers have voted to strike across nine trusts in england and wales next month. they're joining thousands of unison members at 999 call handler ambulance technicians and paramedics also to walk off the job. members of the tsa have also announced strike next month at national rail . other train at national rail. other train operators as part of that long running dispute over pay and conditions. more than 100 eurostar staff also go on strike next month over pay university colleges. union leaders rallied today as lecturers will go on strike in the new year if university do not listen to their demands for a pay rise. secretary of the rmt mick lynch . industrial action is the only option. we cannot wait for

policy makers , professional policy makers, professional politicians . the people here the politicians. the people here the first place to come save us. what's going work is a wave of action by the trade unions standing up for themselves themselves . the government says themselves. the government says it's run out of prison places has asked the police for the use of force cells to make up for the shortfall . prisons minister the shortfall. prisons minister damian hinds told employees that being acute and sudden had been an acute and sudden increase in prison population in recent months. said operation safeguard government's contingency plan had been activated. mr. hinds said it was due in part to criminal bar association action over the summer , which led to over the summer, which led to a high number of offenders on remand. the last time the plan was implemented was in two thousand and seven be stable. close 114 bank branches across the uk as remote banking soars

in popularity, the banking giant says some of its stores have been serving less than 250 people a week , following a people a week, following a decline in footfall since covid pandemic. use its mobile app, however, has almost tripled since 2017. the bank plans to invest tens of millions of poundsin invest tens of millions of pounds in updating its remaining . there will be 327 left after the closures next april . a major the closures next april. a major trial , an the closures next april. a major trial, an experimental alzheimer's drug has shown for the first time the earliest ages of the disease can be slowed. scientists found after 18 months, the drug the disease progression by 27% compared with patients taking placebo. however experts warn as the medicine dunng experts warn as the medicine during the initial stages of, the disease most won't benefit . the disease most won't benefit. there is a revolution in spotting . the results published spotting. the results published in the new england journal of medicine have been hailed as the beginning . the end . labour sir

beginning. the end. labour sir keir starmer has accused prime minister of being weak during . a minister of being weak during. a heated pmqs this afternoon . heated pmqs this afternoon. rishi sunak came under fire from the opposition over private school failure to maintain housebuilding targets and latest theories of industrial action . theories of industrial action. both party leaders also each other over the support their backbench mps . i heard other over the support their backbench mps. i heard i've heard he i've heard he's having a. apparently it's called operation get tough . so how operation get tough. so how tough is he going to get with his backbenchers who are blocking the new homes country so badly needs prime minister. mr. speaker . we're delivering mr. speaker. we're delivering record numbers of new homes under this government. that's what we're doing. he, he . he what we're doing. he, he. he talks about toughness , speaker. talks about toughness, speaker. he's too weak to . stop. dozens

he's too weak to. stop. dozens of his own mp he's joining picket lines . and matt hancock picket lines. and matt hancock has revealed he was paid £45,000 to appear on the tv show celebrity face who wins? in an update to the snp's register of interests also been revealed the former health secretary spent 80 hours filming the show while parliament was in recess between september the 24th and october the eighth . this is gb news the eighth. this is gb news we'll bring you more news as it happens. now it's back to . patrick okay, everybody, 5:07. that's live and things because the university and college union is holding a major rally at king's cross in central london as higher education workers out, postal workers at royal have also started a 48 hour strike

today. it's part of a long running dispute overjobs and conditions. royal mail claims strike is organised by members of the communications workers union cost . i t £100 million. union cost. it £100 million. this is just the initial round of strike action because. a little bit later on we're also going to be talking about the nhs strikes , nurses, ambulance nhs strikes, nurses, ambulance workers. take their all on strike. our reporter ellie costello is live at king's cross. whether see eu rally has been taking place this afternoon . ali, what's been taking place where you are that . well, hi, where you are that. well, hi, patrick . it does look as though patrick. it does look as though we're heading headfirst into a winter of doesn't it that the scenes were felt here outside king's cross has left oresund high university higher education staff gathered to rally for better pay, better conditions and better pensions . now, if you and better pensions. now, if you can imagine the scene behind about 2 pm. this afternoon, the concourse here at king's cross was packed full of people well

over a thousand people. so a lecture here, there were two technicians. there were live areas and they were all listening to speeches on a stage that had been set up behind me right . sleeping cries. and this right. sleeping cries. and this is part of a three day strike action taken place by the us. you the university and college union. they they were on strike for two days last week and today as well all calling for better. well earlier i spoke to joe grady who is general secretary of the us. and she told me why were striking today i mean the atmosphere is electric the sea of pink is beautiful. if unions pull as people have travelled from literally every corner of the uk to be today, send a massive message to employers in the centre of london and i think we can agree we've done it. students facing short term students are facing short term disruption and we accept that. but there industrial but there has been industrial action every year for four years

in higher education now because k terrible working are awful k is terrible working are awful and job insecurity is rampant. all of those things are disruptive for students on a daily basis . stop not put down daily basis. stop not put down roots. stop doing the best jobs that they could so . we accept that they could so. we accept that they could so. we accept that this is disruption , but we that this is disruption, but we need a better long term solution , and that will be better for students in the long run too. we have 90,000 people employed on fixed term contracts. these are the people that do the bulk of the people that do the bulk of the teaching to bulk of the teaching due to the bulk of student support. they to student support. they need to be on proper contracts. address that and we could talk about everything else . well, patrick, everything else. well, patrick, it is the students that many people are talking about today, the students that pay people are talking about today, the students that pa y £9,250 a the students that pay £9,250 a year to attend lectures, they haven't been able to do so for the past three days. and are aware of that. i spoke to several today who said that this is for the greater good that working environment is , the working environment is, the students learning environment ,

students learning environment, everybody wants it to be the that it possibly can be. they are hoping for change. but i spoke to joe grady , who is the spoke to joe grady, who is the general secretary of the use of you, who you just heard from there. and she said there will be more strike days in the new yearif be more strike days in the new year if they do not get a better pay year if they do not get a better pay offer on the table, they will reject it. 3% pay offer. they are looking more at something like 12. she said she it to be greater than inflation . we'll have to watch those talks carefully to see if they get an offer anywhere near that kind of number. we did just hear from joe grady, though, mclynn. she was also up on stage today. he was rallying the crowd saying that a wave of industrial action is what's for better pay and conditions across many sectors as this is what the universities saying in response say that any increase pay is putting jobs at. and they also made the point 30% of universities in the uk are

already in debt. they say it simply affordable. but patrick, as you can see behind me, that rally has now packed up. but their message is still sounding very . yes ali, thank you very very. yes ali, thank you very much. ellie costello reporting on the latest round of strike, at least when it comes to the education sector, which i mean i think now more so than ever appears be absolutely full of trots. now it's the strike, which is, in my view, a matter of life and death. we've been talking about this throughout the but nurses are the show today, but nurses are set strike next. i am set to strike next. i am concerned about the effect this could have on patients being treated in hospitals such great ormond street and alder. hey, why am i concerned specifically about them? well, the children's hospitals they. there is also leading cancer centres people unable to get chemotherapy, people unable to get dialysis . people unable to get dialysis. more to come as more misery is to come as there's announced there's been announced by the gmb union. more than 10,000 ambulance workers have voted to strike across nine trusts in england and those joining us now is doctor bob gill. dr. bob,

is nhs doctor bob gill. dr. bob, thank very much. how can it thank you very much. how can it be justified for nurses to walk out on terminally ill children in the run up to christmas ? in the run up to christmas? yeah. patrick we're in a situation where nhs is in crisis. it has a big problem of filling staff vacancies and retaining the staff that we do have and a big part of that problem the that when you haven't kept up with inflation since the 2008 financial crash , since the 2008 financial crash, there's been a shrinkage of real terms income for health care staff. so they're earning 20 to 30% less than they would done had wages carried growing just all the stavisky has caused a big funding problem and as a result of that can't employ qualified staff so you have a high turnover staff we can sell as an obvious patient safety view. you are you are aware on view. you are you are aware on average view. you are you are aware on average public sector workers are paid more than people who

are paid more than people who are not in the public sector average. so the argument that you've just made, that would be a reason for everyone going on strike. why are you so special and why should terminally ill kids as result? well, kids suffer as a result? well, one thing you're overlooking is people who are working in health care have have qualifications. you can't just walk off the street and start becoming a nurse or a paramedic , a doctor, nurse or a paramedic, a doctor, and that that level of higher education and qualification and experience is contributing that higher than average wage from the figures i've seen in terms of growth wages the public sector been lagging behind and you're also the historic contraction that's occurred over a decade so just i mean i am going to hammer this one because i think a lot of people would say, right, nurses . indeed, i say, right, nurses. indeed, i think nurses should have a bit of a pay a bit of a pay rise, but no political party, political party currently supports , the nurses strike on supports, the nurses strike on the conditions that the nurses

have outlined so far, which is roughly a 19% pay rise. and i am absolutely do not believe that there is mass public support for a 19% pay rise when it comes to nurses. and so if they walk out of a children's ward, a cancer hospital , as of a children's ward, a cancer hospital, as a result of a complete unreasonable pay demand . i'm sorry, but that's medical , isn't it ? well, . i'm sorry, but that's medical , isn't it? well, you're you're very you try very hard to frame it in a certain what they're going to be doing on strike action is not a emergency care , action is not a emergency care, not a bending , abandoning time, not a bending, abandoning time, critical activity will be postponing routine care that can be delayed so be like example working on a bank holiday something like that but the fundamental issue we're missing here is , it doesn't have to be here is, it doesn't have to be industrial action. if the government saw sense and actually restored their to what it would have been and they not squeezed pay through the

austerity program , banker austerity program, banker induced austerity program which has left them struggling to pay their bills and survive and cope with their recent hike in inflation what should a nurse be paid a should be paid a wage reflects her experience. her qualifications of what is that wage ? well the wage is 20% wage? well the wage is 20% higher than it it at the moment, which would make it extreme. well depends on the grade of the nurse, patrick. there's no easy answer to that. so you have junior nurses who are well paid less. and you have senior nurses are paid more depending on their experience and qualifications so is not one of those labour in terms of percentages they're looking around 20% to restore them to where they would been and they're not being the public sector pay freeze and real terms cut that they have suffered . cut that they have suffered. okay. how can you say there's been a public sector pay freeze when it comes to nurses when

they've had a pay rise this year of percent in a pay rise last year of 3. i mean, realistic claim the anger should directed should their for should it not their union for not negotiating enough . well you not negotiating enough. well you may have a point there so . not negotiating enough. well you may have a point there so. i'm not saying the unions have done good job otherwise. how have we ended where we are? well, this is a heavy criticism but experience is the thing. and if you i'm just keen to drill down on this on this potential ram of agreement. so i do appreciate you coming on the show because the looking at you the way i'm looking at it, you know, the union, i think, clearly feels as though no one predicted, the of living crisis to the extent that we've right now seeks to share extensive it of world factors have of several world factors have come in there but the fact is that they clearly felt as though they do good enough job they didn't do a good enough job but up stink but they're kicking up a stink and they're oh, blame and they're saying, oh, blame tories. the tories. well, tories. blame the tories. well, there's points, there's two key points, though. firstly back what firstly labour don't back what the nurses anyway, they the nurses want anyway, so they wouldn't getting there. wouldn't be getting it there. and the union and also. secondly, the union mean was was head over mean was was was head over heels. it to the pay heels. when it came to the pay rise admonishes to kill them

rise it admonishes to kill them earlier this year and more last. so i mean it's a bit much now is it. a bit rich isn't it. it. it's a bit rich isn't it. and i was going routine and if i was going routine operational chemotherapy or dialysis absolutely dialysis i'd be absolutely fizzing. there fizzing. i'm sorry, but there isn't public out of that isn't public support out of that for this. well i'm not sure i entirely with your assessment of the public support if the public understood that the nhs as a major problem experienced staff because of the way it's suppression they've experienced for over a decade , which has led for over a decade, which has led to a real terms pay cut of around 20. if the public understood that , they may understood that, they may understand, they may be short term delays in their treatment . term delays in their treatment. but longer term, whether you end with an nhs that is losing the very people that it needs most and without the staff you have no health but just compatible unions. in terms of the unions agree, the unions have been appalling. they've done very little and very late and now there's overwhelming pressure from from members to say, oh , from from members to say, oh, your fingers at this because how

much more of this you expect us to take just. i think i'm hoping that you might be able to understand certainly mine's when it comes to the quotes in diane nature in a state of affairs of the nursing profession in the medical profession because every single matter every single year no matter what every single year no matter what every single year no matter what every single year around this time is nhs in crisis. and then i have a look at the amounts of medical negligence claims that there are and the amount the nhs has to pay and the amount the nhs has to pay out billions it pays out fact remarkably to the nhs aside is a story you get lots of hear the union's talking about is a story you get lots of hear the union's talking about £13 billion to cover for covid related negligence related medical negligence claims. they're trying claims. now they're trying tested trope i'm not going tested trope which i'm not going to you away with on this to let you get away with on this one. you are indeed about to one. if you are indeed about to raise well we're all so raise is well we're all so overworked conditions overworked our conditions unworkable therefore we make unworkable and therefore we make mistakes . unworkable and therefore we make mistakes. public a mistakes. the public have a right i think to expect better from the nhs . yes. so the nhs at from the nhs. yes. so the nhs at the moment is , as i say we have the moment is, as i say we have a massive hole in the workforce

only in october we had a record of 40,000 plus patients waiting more than 12 hours for a bed . more than 12 hours for a bed. a&e after the decision has been made to admit them . and for made to admit them. and for every 18 people who are waiting in those circumstance and says there's one preventable death now that's not because the staff aren't working hard , it's aren't working hard, it's because there's not enough of them and there isn't enough capacity with the nhs, which is directly a result of government policy . so if you make the bad policy. so if you make the bad policies , you can't attract policies, you can't attract staff. we haemorrhage staff over brexit , lot of european staff. brexit, lot of european staff. i think the were we lost 4000. but then there was the lockdowns . then there was the lockdowns. well and we have to remember that. yes so that brexit maybe did have an impact that also the lockdowns as well because people home to various different countries. that's about countries. and that's what about the hgv drivers etc, the issue of hgv drivers etc, etc, etc. when this happen, because labour going to because labour are not going to give you want. so let's give you what you want. so let's just say labour win the next general election, which is looking relatively likely. so

let's we just have a labour let's say we just have a labour government a couple of years government in a couple of years time don't give time and they still don't give in. what you're saying, does in. so what you're saying, does our just permanently on? our nhs just permanently go on? because point, well, because at some point, well, you know , someone's going to buckle know, someone's going to buckle on realistically the on that and realistically the pubuc on that and realistically the public cannot make public purse cannot you make very good point in this? we have major parties that are both neoliberal in outlook ideology. they believe in privatisation. they believe in privatisation. they believe in privatisation. they believe deregulation. they believe in shrinking state and outsourcing to the private sector are part of the experience we're going through the problems we are discussing is because we've had 40 years of neoliberal and now the chickens are coming home to roost. and unfortunately staff and the patients are paying the price and the public to realise that the staff's better to improve the staff's better to improve the quality and provision and extent of the workforce is in their long term benefit and our politicians have done to the nhs is indefensible . okay, look,

is indefensible. okay, look, i've just got to press on very finally. i appreciate this dr. adults involved. it's been fascinating stuff and can't just say as well i want to make this this go on record publicly we often have trouble booking and getting medical professionals on because i think a lot of the time they end up on the bbc and they get a bit of a self ride in all of their stuff. so i do massively, massively appreciate you coming on and taking the time for us. i would just say, you, when it comes this of you, when it comes to this of alder children's hospital, alder hey children's hospital, for great ormond street for example, great ormond street , the way of , is this the best way of getting public to support getting the public to support their cause? could they not do it at other hospitals? does it have be these children's hospitals hospitals ? oh, well , hospitals hospitals? oh, well, suppose if you if you're going to play the patients , then that to play the patients, then that doesn't it's not a good look. but as i said earlier on, they're not they're not going to put emergency surgery. okay they will put off. that can be delayed . so as far as holiday.

delayed. so as far as holiday. oh for the queen's though we must you your child by noon very emotive examples or well he's emotive examples or well he's emotive examples or well he's emotive examples because if i had a child with terminal i would be pretty pretty to say the least. so you're to say on record that you think that no child with cancer in one of those hospitals will in any way have that health care impacted by nurses strike . what i'm by nurses strike. what i'm saying to you is the current situation is that people's care is being affected . and i do not is being affected. and i do not think what we significantly worsen doctor bob thank you very much talks about girl who is an nhs doctor fabulous you for coming out because we do a remarkable i have trouble getting some members of the nhs this particular show so fabulous dr. okay. right now quickly dr. okay. right now back quickly to heard within to news that we've heard within the or so that more the last hour or so that more rail workers are to strike next month the long running month in the long running dispute, conditions dispute, jobs in conditions following breakdown of talks following the breakdown of talks in staffs association in transport staffs association announces members will strike

take other forms of industrial action, rail and 12 train operators. joining me now is philip sherrod's the of modern railways . he's in philip sherrod's the of modern railways. he's in king's philip sherrod's the of modern railways . he's in king's cross railways. he's in king's cross station . you very much. so station. you very much. so what's the latest that. so what's the latest that. so what's place basically there's more strikes taking more strikes been announced right now . yeah been announced right now. yeah so it's i mean this is just adding on to the action already been announced for december by the rmt union the to say that there's been a breakdown in talks and they've closed out some strike as well so the chance to say strikes generally have as big an impact as high as by air rmt. but they will be there will be impact because the train operators , everybody will train operators, everybody will have through . okay all have to work through. okay all right. now, many members of the pubuc right. now, many members of the public might be saying the difference . one of the difference. one of the differences between the nurses , differences between the nurses, which i just talking about which i was just talking about at and, distraught when at length and, distraught when it things like the rmt at length and, distraught when it different things like the rmt at length and, distraught when it different others like the rmt at length and, distraught when it different other rail;e the rmt at length and, distraught when it different other rail groups, vit or different other rail groups, is a genuine is that there is a genuine recruitment crisis when it comes to nurses and retention . now, my to nurses and retention. now, my understanding that that's not

the case when comes to the the case when it comes to the railways, in fact, as far as i understand there aren't some positions in the railways oversubscribed . well well, oversubscribed. well well, actually, there there is a there is a difficulty at the moment on the railways with availability of . this is due for a number of. this is due for a number reasons. there's a training is a complicated thing on the railway hands and training during covid was massively impacted . you was massively impacted. you couldn't put two people in a cab operators know it's a low covid is largely been gone and the pandemic is effectively over. operators are still feeling effects of that and will continue to do so a lot of the railway on staff working overtime . a lot of those overtime. a lot of those agreements are now not in place . that's been a long standing thing . it's not a recent thing thing. it's not a recent thing that's been going on for years. but when that is withdrawn, it's affects ability of the affects the ability of the railway this to run services but on the other points is that many many staff have no retired early and expected because of the pandemic. people have reassessed

that mean they can and but they can fall it they can afford to retire early. that's amazing. just just quickly on because i appreciate you coming on, but we know what a huge amount of time which is. i whether or not mick lynch and co should be very worried what they wish for worried about what they wish for when they call a general when they call for a general strike because if there's a general then would general strike, then that would mean is mean that the government is confronted public sector confronted by mass public sector pay confronted by mass public sector pay then off pick pay rises and then off to pick and to go for and i would and go to go for and i would imagine that the rail sidings be quite low down the list if they're oversubscribed they they're oversubscribed or they got retiring early lynch got people retiring early lynch might himself might even be doing himself out of wedge . well i don't of a bit of wedge. well i don't think it's fair to say that the railways with staff at all operators are struggling recruit and to fill the vacancy so they can't find. and because it takes so long to train a new driver, for example, it takes over a year it's not a quick process. and once get on the back foot, it's like some of the operators accountancy west coast have done this to it it this didn't want to report it it takes a long while catch on and

ben but you're you're right in the that people have the sense that people have reassessed their lifestyles people reliant on the people as reliant on the railways that were pre—covid travel patterns have really changed more people more people are travelling for leisure time before far fewer before covid. but far fewer people travelling for commuting and business. so people less and business. so people are less reliant railway. and so reliant on the railway. and so that's that is very true. that's is that is very true. phillip, you very, very phillip, thank you very, very much. the editor of much. philip shah, the editor of modern . gosh, are modern railway. so gosh, we are this is strong to the top medical strong to the top. and then we railway strikes. then we had railway strikes. what's not people have what's to not people have of course the strikes patrick christys coming up a christys on gb news coming up a new drug is being developed which impacts alzheimer's which the impacts of alzheimer's disease. it's not disease. right. so it's not all bad here. treatment bad news here. the new treatment reverses pathological to the brain the latest on that and brain of the latest on that and as see on the bottom as you can see on the bottom blue screens that although it find bit too early with find a little bit too early with an one local police an average of one local police station every single in station closing every single in england and wales, brits are england and wales, do brits are more really make difference more to really make a difference when fighting crime. when it comes to fighting crime. it's wonder we've got it's no wonder we've got an unrelenting go, unrelenting stabbing on the go, is when police stations are is it? when police stations are shutting down left, right and centre own one of

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immediate effect effect . more immediate effect effect. more than 10,000 ambulance workers have voted to strike across nine trusts in england and wales next month . that joining thousands of month. that joining thousands of nine 999 call handler as ambulance technicians and paramedics who also set to walk off the job after strikes are set , hit off the job after strikes are set, hit national rail and other train operators. a more than 100 eurostar staff are also taking industrial action . the industrial action. the announcements follow today's action by university and college union members as well . postal union members as well. postal workers working higher education. the government says it's run out prison places and has asked police the 400 cells can be used to ease overcrowding. prisons minister damian hinds told m.p.s there'd been an acute and sudden increase in the prison population in recent due in part to criminal bar association strike action over the summer. matt hancock has revealed he

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five month high. on, 7573 points. yes, welcome . it's been yes, welcome. it's been unrelenting misery, so far on this show, but i'm going to try and give a little bit of a good news story. the drug, the kind of map has been heralded. a breakthrough i must embrace in the fight against alzheimer's by, attacking of by, attacking the build—up of protein of protein in, the brain of sufferers of disease that the drug was to reduce the drug was found to reduce the rate of cognitive decline by 27% in a study of 1795 volunteers that lasted 18 months. it's that the drug can provide some much needed hope to the half a million people in britain with the disease and really is an absolutely shocking, debilitating, horrendous look. we all know, don't we? one of the if not the worst of the worst, if not the worst of these, you possibly get. joining me now is johnson, health me now is lucy johnson, health and for and social affairs editor for the sunday friend of the channel. it's going give channel. now it's going to give us something than the us something other than the striking force or issues striking work force or issues with coronavirus or goodness with the coronavirus or goodness knows failing, knows what else. kids failing, mental health there's actually

is a news story is is conceivably a news story is it not left the spirits of the nafion it not left the spirits of the nation is on. if you look at it with your heart and you think well actually it's brilliant news, it's the first time we've decades of depressing failures in alzheimer's treatment and drugs, and we've never seen anything actually slows progression the disease and that's the first time this has happened so many experts that i've spoken to today say, yeah, it's the beginning of the end. it's a and, you know, it's very exciting . there is a sort of exciting. there is a sort of caveat to that. but you know. well it's not a cure . and also well it's not a cure. and also there concerns from the outside society that the nhs doesn't have the capacity really to treat all those eligible patients. probably only 1 to 2% of them could just just take just fill me in on this. so, so presumably someone who's got a

family history of alzheimer's could get it or someone is maybe showing early onset signs of it , conceivably. how does it and is it in pill form? what is it. it's an infusion. and it's taken every two weeks. so you need the infrastructure and the staff do that. it only has been shown to work in with early onset alzheimer's. and we know alzheimer's. and we know alzheimer's the biggest cause of dementia and one in three people born today will get a form of dementia. so a huge problem for the country and a huge drain. i think it costs the country and a huge drain. i think it cost s £5 billion in think it costs £5 billion in caring costs in the country. so it is one of our biggest. forgive me, but forgive me for potentially lowering the tide, as it were. but you just that one in three people born today will up with some form of dementia . here we have dementia. here we have potentially a drug that may well

whilst it's not cure could slow down that process somewhat and are hearing that the nhs might not have the capacity in order administer. one would have thought that this would become priority . well, to be fair , at priority. well, to be fair, at the moment it's not been approved. so that needs to it needs to be properly looked at. there are there have been sort of side effects noticed and you wouldn't necessarily pick up a sore side effects in a sample of 1800 over a larger there may be more people i know there was a couple of strokes on the trial not necessarily statistically significant but a bigger sample. so we're there yet. but the significance this is that it shows potential it's the first time we've seen the potential and yes you're absolutely right if there is a drug out there that can help improve the quality of lives , the lives of quality of lives, the lives of sufferers and their . we should sufferers and their. we should be ready for a new era of

medicines like this . yeah well medicines like this. yeah well indeed we'll fingers crossed and look anything that can help at all i think is a massive breakthrough. and i do suspect we also do not want to obviously talk on of anyone who has suffered or had ones who suffered or had ones who suffered as a result of alzheimer's dementia. one would have given choice have thought that given choice between potentially a couple nasty side effects or almost having the alzheimer's dementia, i suspect i know which way the people might head in that direction . just can i people might head in that direction .just can i get people might head in that direction . just can i get you direction. just can i get you very quickly on something that's been rounds we've been doing the rounds and we've got emails in about got loads of emails in about this. to get your views and this. i'm to get your views and it is about strikes that we've been seeing. comments been seeing. olga it's comments if also the potential if it's okay also the potential nurses absolutely nurses strikes i absolutely sickened when i learned that. alder children's hospital alder hey, children's hospital in great ormond street children's hospital might be well be part of the strikes well will be part of the strikes that it just in your view because i've been getting a lot of spin doctors here in your view will care of essentially ill children be affected in some way as a result of these of

these strikes or not i think people's lives are potentially at risk. i've to some who say they won't be able to perform vital operations there's doubt that these strikes will have an impact no one can say that they won't . and well, they're trying won't. and well, they're trying to. well well, how can one know? how can one actually say this is not going to impact these things have a knock on effect . they have a knock on effect. they have a knock on effect. they have a knock on effect from waiting lists. if your if you need a cataract operation and you're waiting and waiting. waiting to your waiting it may lead to your death. fall down the death. you may fall down the stairs. mean, of course, all stairs. i mean, of course, all it has impact. and you know it has an impact. and you know why problems in the nhs why we have problems in the nhs and ifs why we have problems in the nhs and it's got problems with and while it's got problems with its know that, you its function, we know that, you know, that can know, there are things that can be like we can working like be done like we can working like improvements the it system like lots of things we've talked about i'm amazed but i'm sympathy towards that sympathy towards the idea that nurses have a bit of nurses should have a bit of a pay nurses should have a bit of a pay rise. i've got nothing percent madness no policy supports that the moment and

supports that at the moment and rightly so because it would pave the sectors as the way for other sectors as well. will become completely well. it will become completely unaffordable. it will be like a forcing to be a bankrupted forcing it to be a bankrupted state by holding a gun to our hands. and no one really realistically , i think one i've realistically, i think one i've been amazed by the online. you know, it's capable of having know, it's i'm capable of having the view that i think nurses deserve a bit of a pay rise while also demand not striking a hospital full of terminally ill children in the run up to christmas and that apparently me a monster. but there we go thank you much for time as. you very much for your time as. always to have you the always great to have you on the show. front channel, lucy show. i front the channel, lucy jones in the health and social affairs editor for the sunday express. with me patrick express. you are with me patrick christys news. up christys on gb news. coming up with average of one local with an average of one local police station every police station closing every week england to week in england and wales to bnng week in england and wales to bring to make a bring some more to make a difference it comes difference when it comes to crime. you about number crime. do you care about number of on the beat? they of bobbies on the beat? they have people wanting to defund the they're happy that the police. they're happy that we're it in we're actually doing it in a way. but new data suggests that a of young people who a quarter of young people who grew covid grew up through the covid lockdowns a mental lockdowns now have a mental health disorder. so this out.

okay, so something that we were clamouring for. well, so now i'm so affected so lockdowns have affected everything frightens everything left frightens centres the jazz is centres effective the jazz is affected the economy it's affecting businesses it's affected all sorts of people from levels of different backgrounds and now yes it's been it it's actually been confirmed it it's actually really affecting children when it comes to that mental health. get a load of this a quarter of young people who grew up with covid lockdowns now have a mental health disorder. stay tuned . be back in mental health disorder. stay tuned. be back in a mental health disorder. stay tuned . be back in a tick mental health disorder. stay tuned. be back in a tick.

we losing our police . ladies and we losing our police. ladies and gentlemen, lbc figures show that police stations have been closing at the rate of one per week across england, wales, this 2010. now, some the stations

have remained empty since their closure others. i mean, i, we showed a laugh but this is hilarious a been exploited for criminal purposes get a load of this a cannabis farm was discovered one site which was previously a police station so they are actual police who used to work in this police station had a phone call one day to report that that police station was being used to cultivate and then sell . and they had some then sell. and they had some barrels that way into their own former place work where they discovered a cannabis factory. but won't impact will police stations shutting shop have on local communities and the level of crime. do you remember the last time you saw what we all knew be i mean, it's remarkable largely because the uk's kind of stop capital, the spiritual home of knife crime in west of uk knife crime in the west midlands seen 88 0% of its midlands has seen 88 0% of its local police stations close. london apparently the area anyway has apparently seen 75% so far off. but joining me now is police and crime commissioner as fast as i can be. so, yeah,

thank you very much. first, it's great to have you on the show and we've a burglary victim a liberal democrat paul cola as well who campaigns to keep local stations open . oh, we're stations open. oh, we're remarkable fantastic panel. i've got to talk about this now. first, as i will start with you , is it okay for police to have maybe one large regional hub and then two to come out of it like wasps from a nest as a minor crime takes place? or do they have to have these local booths . wel have to have these local booths. wel on the operational needs and demands of the local area and also the geography of the area matter. so it's not just a one size fits all in all cases. so if you were a place like devon and cornwall, that covers a massive geographical area, all devon and cornwall are all about lincolnshire, for example . it lincolnshire, for example. it will be different because of the size and geography of your. will be different because of the size and geography of your . your size and geography of your. your police force is different if you

are much more centrally area it is also i think it depends on the operational demands of the area and the geography of that area and the geography of that area as well . okay. no, i'll area as well. okay. no, i'll throw over to liberal democrat councillor paul cola and burglary victims as is . sorry, burglary victims as is. sorry, very sorry about that. all right. now is a bit of a one because cost of living crisis everyone's going to cut that cloth on some of the buildings that would typically as your that you would typically as your local station quite nice local police station quite nice buildings one would imagine it would take quite a lot of public money to heat all those money to heat all of those things. but the same time, do things. but at the same time, do the public is just more about the public is it just more about public? just want to see a public? i just want to see a police station. so i know it's exists is it is it exists or is it is it practically okay if we believe in community policing? we need police in the heart of the community and that's why police stations are important not particular buildings i can see why you might sell a whole buildings and invest in new ones with insulation but having police stations near the community is absolutely critical

in my life was saved because i the police station came and rescued me from a beating . well rescued me from a beating. well let's just let's just dwell that if you don't mind for a second actually paul, because i mean, this is this is relevant, isn't it? because i think a lot of people are thinking is. well, how often does anyone walk into a police station? maybe. i mean my instinct would to just my instinct would be to just just i mean, i honestly just call. i mean, i honestly don't local don't even know about local station mean that's station is i mean that's probably the problem see probably half the problem i see i don't even know where it is compared where i live, but compared to where i live, but pull actually saved by pull life was actually saved by virtue fact you virtue of the fact that you a local police so you would not be talking to me if like 80% of the onesin talking to me if like 80% of the ones in the west midlands, for example, it shuts presumably . example, it shuts presumably. that's right. you know , my, my, that's right. you know, my, my, my daughter upstairs , the place my daughter upstairs, the place they came within 8 minutes, as i say, saved me . save me from say, saved me. save me from from. absolutely the door was about to be brought down on my head as the police rushed in. i wouldn't have happened if they

being if they be close by the police station as they tried to do so. och well i'll to ask you first just when it comes to what was blame for this because yeah, people do bang about, you know, years and years and years of tory cuts and when it to policing that's is one area where i've got to be honest i'm inclined to agree with them. it's always the making big deal out of the fact that we've got 20,000 new officers. it's 20,000 this last, isn't it? well i mean, what one thing that i see happening now is, thankfully, we are seeing more investment going back into policing. admittedly, there the costs that started dropping around 2008, nine or so or thereabouts . well, look, many or thereabouts. well, look, many chiefs and many police and crime , including myself, would rather, be where we are now than where things were ten years ago. but bedfordshire, for example, i've just opened a brand spanking new, £20 million police

building was our first major capital project in decades . many capital project in decades. many other police crime commissioners are opening smaller police hubs in. they are working smarter by making use of shared space with local authorities , statutory local authorities, statutory partners . but local authorities, statutory partners. but one thing i think is most important to bear in mind is this while i very much regret what's on the other member panel. this i've just mentioned . i think it was worth mentioned. i think it was worth while in mind that, look, we need police officers to catch criminals a police building in and of itself does not do that . and of itself does not do that. yes, we need the police . but if yes, we need the police. but if i had yes, we need the police. but if i ha d £20 million, i would i had £20 million, i would rather spend more of that money on recruiting and retaining our officers in buildings. yeah i think a lot of people will be thinking good grief outside.

there are absolutely massive building or a very expensive one or both, to be fair. and maybe that money that could be spent on it's a big one here is about the hopes of 20 million. could it look wembley . but but it look like wembley. but but but i'll throw it obviously but paul i'll throw it obviously i mean the recruitment crisis is what i suppose isn't it we what is i suppose isn't it we need more bobbies on the beat i suppose the winners in all of this, if only if happened to be a violent thug and i wanted to go out and, stab someone in some kind of drug infused turf war. i would feel pretty confident doing that now . more confident doing that now. more confident than i did ten years ago. and thatis than i did ten years ago. and that is a massive concern. paul, is it not? of course it is it not? yeah, of course it is, because don't have enough police within community police within the community because so few police because we have so few police stations yes. must be stations. yes. we must be imaginative. obviously perhaps using on industrialists using sites on industrialists sites. but what we need to have is a of police stations is a lots of police stations around communities that's so crucial they're a place of safety to go to. it was a huge reassurance to people seeing a police station , seeing the police station, seeing the bncks police station, seeing the bricks and mortar. the idea that

that that the police can do all their work from inside cars, the lights, you know, one of the suggestions was they could do everything on a tablet sitting in car that's the in their car that's not the reality and so we need reality of it. and so we need police stations . the police in police stations. the police in the in the locality say first is shake your head very fond words you first. what? you're shaking. yeah that was good. mean when yeah that was good. i mean when you you have a building you when you have a building that half million that cost you about half million pounds andit that cost you about half million pounds and it sees about pounds to run and it sees about to three people coming in to it a day and one of them is the postman it's that's the best use taxpayers money we are seeing more more of police demands coming through whilst control rooms now and online and i'm not sure more and more money in police buildings alone is the solution here. look blow, both of you. thank you very much. i know i we could we could talk about this all day because obviously, i'm afraid we're going to have to call tom next. i've got another topic to squeeze in before the end, but thank very, very much. we do have paul calder, who is a have paul calder, who a is a liberal democrat councillor also

of good of course, burglary victim. good to the moorland on to see you on the moorland on the as i can say who is the on first as i can say who is as i police and crime as well i police and crime commissioner in the bedford area good chaps done. right. good stuff chaps done. right. okay. well moving moving okay. well moving on moving on. we're keep the tempo we're going to keep the tempo up. and gentlemen because up. ladies and gentlemen because new suggest, it's new data suggest, it's very passionate new data passionate about this new data suggest quarter of young suggest that a quarter of young people through the people who grew up through the covid pandemic. may covid pandemic. lockdowns may now health now have a mental health disorder would disorder horror. who would have thought children thought that making children don't socialise don't go to school and socialise were virus? the absolutely were a virus? the absolutely next to no impact on them whatsoever them wear whatsoever are making them wear masks. to look at masks. not having to look at people communicate with people who communicate with people who communicate with people thought people who would have thought that catastrophic that would lead a catastrophic mental crisis mental health crisis. the findings number of findings show the number of teenagers classed as having a probable mental disorder has risen from 25.7, up to 17.4. a year ago . now, i do want to year ago. now, i do want to counter this, but the fact that, yes, i think lockdowns funded in part i can't help but wonder on top of that whether or not it's almost become a bit hear me out on this a bit for kids to have a mental health disorder days as well. but investigators also reported increased rates of eating self—harm

eating disorders, self—harm feelings amongst feelings of depression. amongst those large chunks those who i spent large chunks of adolescence during of their adolescence during lockdowns tonia lockdowns. me now is tonia buxton broadcaster and author tonia dong give very much look. the of lockdown. people like you and i could see this coming a mile off can it surprise you've got a generation of kids with catastrophic mental health situations i'll it, situations because i'll say it, the likes whitty did it the likes of chris whitty did it them. did . absolutely did them. they did. absolutely did it to them. i've got four children and could see the children and i could see the decline all of them from , you decline in all of them from, you know, kind of early teens to young adults. i could see what was happening to them? i did everything to every everything could to break every rule. didn't believe it. it rule. i didn't believe it. it was clearly a of rubbish . was clearly a load of rubbish. i'm not a scientist, but i can understand the basics an understand the basics of an airborne virus. and especially once the data started coming out that average age for that the average age of for someone 80 82 years old, someone of 80 to 82 years old, i understand they doing understand what they were doing to children. they were getting them stay in their rooms. them to stay in their rooms. bafic them to stay in their rooms. basic up moves. you don't get basic up moves. so you don't get any of that would any of the that you would normally get young need to run they to play school they need to play school children need that outlet they need to socialise . and so this

need to socialise. and so this was done to them our governments and the government around the world both sweden did this to our children . they should pay our children. they should pay for this. they should you know, it shouldn't be something we let them get away with because it could happen again and it's never happened again . and i had never happened again. and i had a situation like this too, but especially because it's not going to go into great distance. but my son came on a saturday, as say , he was really upset. as i say, he was really upset. one of his friends from one of the sports groups that he was in committed suicide and this think is going to be happening a lot. so never mind about the young, the of suicides that happened dunng the of suicides that happened during the lockdown the stress and the way young people are feeling now. they feel they feel hopeless . and we have to make hopeless. and we have to make sure that young people get as much help they can because, yes, eating , self—harm , loneliness, eating, self—harm, loneliness, loathing of themselves, all of this is on. and the worst thing that can happen, they can then think that it's so hopeless that

they do something and we have to help them. it's just terrible tony and thank you for sharing that side of it all. as bleak as was, i think it's really important for the people here, these real life stories i can just about understand when people go, i will let them off a bit when it comes to the vaccine stuff, i will them off a little bit. to the bit. when it comes to the widespread lockdown just because go didn't know we go well we didn't know what we were dealing with. i'm sorry. we always knew what we dealing with when kids. we always when it came to kids. we always knew their knew that wrestling their education them, that education away from them, that locking lead. locking inside would lead. sometimes often we only social media if a company which catastrophic with would catastrophic to begin with would to and we also to huge issues. and we also always knew that this was never always knew that this was never a big killer or indeed particularly harmful towards children , and we still did it to children, and we still did it to them. and i believe is what you think is unforgivable. that right completely legally unforgivable. everything that we've done to our children when we've done to our children when we knew what this virus was about, it wasn't like when swine flu around. swine flu was flu was around. swine flu was something that actually affected

the and was really the young. and i was really about actually when that about that actually when that was virus round was the virus going round because the young because the lungs of the young but it was when it came to this particular virus we knew that would it really affects you if you are obese so all the young all right so tony thank you very very much is obviously a pleasure to you. i must say, tony, both in that broadcast and also great to see you because you look so as well. somebody i was you always looks well is michelle dewberry with james kerr what you got up. kerr what do you got coming up. i segway and you've i like segway there and you've earned brownie . that earned yourself brownie. that doesn't good doesn't just happen. this good man. my show man. coming up on my show tonight of, course, we're going tonight of, course, we're going to taking a look at the to be taking a look at the strikes ambulance drivers, nurses mentioned nurses and as you've mentioned as children's. nurses and as you've mentioned as children's . you as well, the children's. you know, makes patrick, are know, it makes me patrick, are ever going to return to the days where. things kind of fell. all right and they all gone too far . also want to talk about the ulez is driving ulez charges. is driving going to preserve of the rich to become a preserve of the rich at some point ? i want to talk as

at some point? i want to talk as well about full day and weeks. and don't if you've seen and i don't know if you've seen this live talking about sanctions for the jobless. they want to slash sanctions want to slash the sanctions so they jobless they reckon that the jobless have made feel like have been made feel like criminals. oh well to reconcile that great well, tell you what, you've got me. great. thank you very michelle very much michelle michelle dewberry a go dewberry that which gives a go now coming way just now is coming your way in just a matter seconds. i have been matter of seconds. i have been patrick christys. i will be back with you from pm tomorrow. thank you everyone. has been you very much everyone. has been watching, getting you very much everyone. has been watchingpays getting you very much everyone. has been watchingpays out. getting you very much everyone. has been watchingpays out. hello jetting you very much everyone. has been watchingpays out. hello again. in touch pays out. hello again. i'm mcgivern from the met i'm aidan mcgivern from the met office. a lot of low cloud across the today but there across the uk today but there some in places whether some sunshine in places whether got cloud or the sunshine , got the cloud or the sunshine, it's going to be a misty and foggy night in many places. high pressure the moment to the pressure at the moment to the east is us largely east of the uk is us largely settled weather. fronts settled weather. weather fronts from from the from coming in from the atlantic, although one them atlantic, although one of them is trying to in and that's bringing light outbreaks of rain to northern that push into parts of western and then overnight much of the rest of scotland and far north of england seeing those skies and those outbreaks

of rain elsewhere across england, wales, southern counties clear spells at first tonight. but we're going to see some dense fog forming and some frost by dawn in the middle. a lot . low cloud frost by dawn in the middle. a lot. low cloud mist, fog around. so some tricky driving conditions thing thursday i think with that fog in places and scotland the final for england a damp start but mild here now scotland and northern england keep the rain for some time mostly it's light it's on and off by the end of the afternoon, starting to ease away. northern ireland brightens up and for parts of wales and southern wales as the brightest skies once the fog clears, it won't clear everywhere where we do the sticking around do see the fog sticking around temperatures the temperatures will stay in the low to mid single figures where the fog does clear 9 to 12 celsius into the evening and once again extensive low mr. fog forms across central and southern parts of the uk as well as a touch of frost in places scotland, the far north of england. cloudy skies and some

outbreaks of rain clearing. but northern ireland, clearer skies through the night. however, it's relatively mild towards the because here we've got a southerly airflow and there'll be colder conditions across central and eastern parts of the uk because of the light winds. a lot of low cloud once again to start off friday. but change on the way for the weekend. less fog, brighter skies but with an increased easterly breeze , it's increased easterly breeze, it's going to feel poplar.

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today. did you watch the football. you have fun? did football. did you have fun? did enjoy england's victory. are you welsh wishing it on the other way. tell me your thoughts have you the last you watched the football last night? coming up tonight , night? well, coming up tonight, more strikes. one of these days. everyone, i'm going to