action next term taking strike action next term as ministers refuse to commit to the findings of the independent pay the findings of the independent pay review body. we'll be speaking live to the head of the national education union . national education union. plus lewis hamilton backs peaceful just stop oil protests at silverstone this weekend. >> he might just get his wish. organisers of the british grand prix have said they've planned the event expecting disruption even before that. let's zoom over to rhiannon for your latest headunes. headlines. >> thank you. good afternoon. it's just gone midday. your top stories from the newsroom. a woman continues to be questioned today over a car crash at a school in london which killed an eight year old girl. 16 people needed treatment after a land rover crashed into the study prep school in wimbledon. 12

people were taken to hospital . people were taken to hospital. the met police hasn't given an update on the condition of those injured . the woman in her 40s injured. the woman in her 40s remains in custody. she was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving . death by dangerous driving. teachers across england are walking out in the latest wave of strike action over pay. members of the national . all members of the national. all right. that is why we had to fight . members of the national fight. members of the national education union are taking part in industrial action and warned there could be more strikes in there could be more strikes in the autumn term. the government offered a one off £1,000 payment for this year as well as a 4.5% pay for this year as well as a 4.5% pay rise for next all for education. unions rejected the offer. the nus deputy general secretary neil sweeney, says the government needs to start negotiating . gillian keegan negotiating. gillian keegan hasn't negotiated with us since easter. >> she said she would leave it to the independent review body because she sunak. >> the prime minister said that the door was always open . the door was always open. >> now they've had the independ

review body report for the last month. they haven't published it and they haven't got back round the table negotiate us. the table to negotiate with us. so let's do that. let's see what the report said. they said that they that if it is they would honour that if it is they would honour that if it is the 6.5% that they we believe that it the 6.5% that they we believe thatitis the 6.5% that they we believe that it is radiographers who carry out scans on patients will stage a 48 hour strike later this month over pay. >> the walkout will take place from 8 am. on the 25th of july. the society of radiographers says its members at 43 nhs trusts will take part in the strike action. the announcement comes after union members voted to reject the government's pay offer of 5% plus a non—consolidated lump sum . non—consolidated lump sum. travellers arriving in dover for cross—channel ferries face long queues and delays in processing passenger hours are being blamed on french border officials carrying out extra checks as the wait time for cars is currently 1.5 hours. and for coaches , it's

1.5 hours. and for coaches, it's two. passengers were stuck in traffic for more than ten hours at the start of the easter houday at the start of the easter holiday period . house prices holiday period. house prices fell at the fastest annual rate in 12 years last month , halifax in 12 years last month, halifax reports. the average uk property price was down 2.6% in june compared to the same month last yeah compared to the same month last year. that's more than double the drop in may, marking the largest fall since 2011. the mortgage provider says the average house price forjune mortgage provider says the average house price for june was around £286,000. energy giant shell says its gas profits are significantly lower in the second quarter of the year. the oil and gas firm says trading has been impacted by seasonal shifts in the market eight in the first three months. it also expects an adjusted loss of between six and $800 million for the quarter . between six and $800 million for the quarter. the police are failing the public too often. that's according to a new

report. his majesty's inspector of constabulary and fire and rescue services says there are still six significant shortcomings in key areas. that's despite the progress being made in recording crime. the report says some of the issues include skills shortages and long call delays . inquests and long call delays. inquests are open shortly into the deaths of two university students and a school caretaker killed in an attack in nottingham . grace attack in nottingham. grace o'malley, kumar and barnaby webber, both 19, along with 65 year old ian coates , died in a year old ian coates, died in a knife attack in the early hours of june the 13th. 31 year old waldo kalakani is charged with their murder as well as attempted murder for an alleged van attack on pedestrians , cars van attack on pedestrians, cars and an inquest into the deaths of four boys who died after falling through ice on a frozen lake.is falling through ice on a frozen lake. is due to end today. brothers six year old samuel and eight year old finlay butler died along with their 11 year old cousin, thomas stewart and

ten year old jack johnson. they were pulled from babbs mill lake in kingshurst in december last yean in kingshurst in december last year, but later died in hospital . an initial inquest was told three of the boys were rescued after 22 minutes in the icy water, while the fourth was rescued after half an hour . water, while the fourth was rescued after half an hour. mps have criticised the government's handung have criticised the government's handling of the hs2, euston station project in london. in a report by the public accounts committee, the government's accused of lacking clarity in its objectives. despite eight years of planning the project has experienced delays and hs2 trains are now not expected to run into euston until 2041. the government says it remains committed to delivering the project and twitter is threatening to sue mark zuckerberg after claims metas new app threads is a copycat of twitter. twitter's lawyers alleged meta has unlawfully misappropriated its trade secrets and intellectual

property . it also accuses meta property. it also accuses meta of hiring former twitter employees with access to confidential information. meta denies the claims and says that no threads team members are former twitter employees . this former twitter employees. this is gb news. we'll bring you more as it happens. now, though, it's back over to mark and . back over to mark and. pip rhiannon . rhiannon. >> thank you and welcome back to the live desk. you will always be our shining star. so reads the simple note left with a growing collection of flowers left outside the wimbledon prep school, where an eight year old pupil, an eight year old girl, was killed yesterday . was killed yesterday. >> 16 others were hurt, some of them seriously as the education minister today urged everyone to pray for the school and their families . families. >> well, the study prep school says it's been profoundly shocked the accident and the shocked by the accident and the welfare their pupils and welfare of their pupils and

families remains their top priority . priority. >> a woman in her 40s is still being questioned on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after a land rover defender collided with a school building where an end of term party was being held . party was being held. >> well, a london reporter, lisa hartle, has the latest for us now outside the school. all morning, people from the local community have been coming here to lay flowers, to light candles in tribute to the little girl, the eight year old girl that lost her life here yesterday when a car drove into the school grounds, injuring 16 people, 16 of those were treated at the scene. >> ten of them were taken to hospital. it's really obviously rocked the community. dodi there's been many people coming here looking in a distressed state, leaving flowers and we spoke to one of the ladies just a moment ago called dora, her daughter actually attended the school many years ago. and this is what she had to say. >> it was very sweet moment, but yesterday. so on the last day,

it's very shocking . i'm so sorry it's very shocking. i'm so sorry . it's unbelievable . and my . it's unbelievable. and my daughter was so upset last night. she couldn't go. she couldn't go to sleep. she said, mommy , what happened? i said , i mommy, what happened? i said, i don't know. everybody's shocked. in the community. we all are. we trying to understand to make sense. and hopefully and the investing in we all and then from there, probably we will come out with ideas how to prevent it, that it happens again, you know. well not only here, it can be other places, too. yes. other schools . too. yes. other schools. >> it was just before 10 am. yesterday morning when a car, a land rover, drove onto through the fence, onto the school grounds, injuring 16 people. they were treated at the scene, ten of them were taken to hospital . and the eight year and hospital. and the eight year and eight year old girl lost her life. she police say that she died at the scene . it was the died at the scene. it was the last day of school before they broke up for the summer

holidays. and it's believed that the children were enjoying an event the lawn celebrating event on the lawn celebrating before they broke up from school. when the incident happened, a woman in her 40s has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. yesterday say around 6:00, we saw what we believe to be the car involved in the incident being taken away by police recovery . a police police recovery. a police recovery vehicle covered in green tarpaulin and police have asked people not to speculate as to what happened here, but they've checked cctv, their next phase of the investigation will be to contact witnesses . and be to contact witnesses. and they're asking anyone with information to contact them . on information to contact them. on 101, it's lisa updating us there at the scene. >> and let's just bring you some of the pictures of the flowers that have been laid there outside the wilberforce building there at the school where this incident happened. you can see there the flowers. we're told it includes sunflowers and roses and also some lilies.

includes sunflowers and roses and also some lilies . and of and also some lilies. and of course, those messages from , course, those messages from, well, classmates as well as parents, obviously , the shock parents, obviously, the shock profoundly felt there in this well , small profoundly felt there in this well, small community, a village community effectively in wimbledon, despite it being part of south—west london. >> yeah, a number of youngsters have been seen hugging each other at the scene as they put their flowers down. there's plenty, as you would imagine, plenty, as you would imagine, plenty of handwritten notes. one said, i'm sorry you are so unlucky. i wish you luck in heaven. unlucky. i wish you luck in heaven . another note read, dear heaven. another note read, dear all staff that work here, i hope you are all okay. i am so, so sorry. thank you for all that you are doing to help up many people consoling each other at the scene. because let's not forget this. this accident , this forget this. this accident, this crash happened on the last day of the school term just before 10:00 yesterday morning. the pupils cars at that time would normally be in lessons. but on

the last day of term, they were outside having what was thought to be a tea party. looking forward to the start of the summer holidays . summer holidays. >> now the chair of the governors of the school indicating that none the indicating that none of the children are now children who were hurt are now in critical condition. so in a critical condition. so that is positive news. we'll, of is some positive news. we'll, of course, update as we get any course, update you as we get any more on the condition more details on the condition from the hospital, but also to update you that the woman in her 40s remains in custody. we're being told, still being questioned on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. but police indicating, of course they have 24 hours to of course, they have 24 hours to either release or charge her. we'll update you as we get more on that . on that. >> the government doubled down on its refusal to commit to accepting teachers pay review body proposals despite what a union boss promising an end to teaching strikes if a salary bump recommendation is offered. >> now, the education minister, robert halfon, said it was impossible to say what decision would be taken after being pressed for his response to the

industrial action being taken at schools today. let's get more from westminster and our political reporter anna olivia utley and olivia , an indication utley and olivia, an indication from the unions now that they're going to join forces effectively for next terms. industrial action, if they ballot on that , action, if they ballot on that, because, of course, it's the whole question about the independent body independent pay review body coming into now well, absolutely. >> the government is in a very, very awkward position now. it offered teachers a pay rise of 4.5% in the years from 2024 onwards, and a £1,000 one off bonus for 2022, 23. that was rejected out of hand. and then the decision was handed over or the decision was handed over or the request to make a decision was handed over to the independent pay review body. now independent pay review body. now in may, the independent pay review body came back with its recommendation , then gave that recommendation, then gave that recommendation, then gave that recommendation to the education secretary, gillian keegan . secretary, gillian keegan. gillian keegan still hasn't yet revealed what that recommendation is , but it's

recommendation is, but it's thought that it's 6.5% to whole percentage points higher than the government offered back in the government offered back in the spring. the government is basically trying to bide its time here. robert halfon, an education minister, was saying he doesn't yet know what that recommendation is, which seems a little bit odd given that his boss, gillian keegan was made aware of it back in the spring and what it's thought the government is going to do is actually refuse to accept that recommendation. an the government is under no obugafion government is under no obligation to accept recommendations for from the recommendations for the from the independent pay review body. it is that a it's a is just that it's a it's a recommendation . but in the recommendation. but in the history of this government, it has always accepted the recommendations from these independent pay review bodies. so it would be an unpressed dented step for the government to take. the government's argument, of course, is that 6.5, that's higher than any other independent pay review body has recommended for any other sector worker would other public sector worker would be inflation free. but of

course, that argument gets a lot harder to hold on to when you've got the head of teaching union, very influential teaching union, mary bousted, coming forward and saying, well, we would be to prepared end the strikes now if you just that you just accept that recommendation , which we think recommendation, which we think is 6.5, it does leave the government in a really, really tncky government in a really, really tricky situation with children out of school all day again today. >> and what doesn't help matters , olivia, is that the national education union is saying that the education secretary gillian keegan, she hasn't actually negotiated with them since easter. she could have sat round the table with them again. surely >> well, yeah. gillian keegan is under quite a lot of fire here. not just because she apparently hasn't had any formal conversation with union leaders for months on end. she is also under for fire seemingly sitting on the recommendations from the pay on the recommendations from the pay review body if she really received them three months ago, then why are they not yet in the

pubuc then why are they not yet in the public domain? that's the question that mary bousted has been asking this morning. and i think we can expect to hear something similar from other leaders, leaders in the leaders, union leaders in the coming days. >> yeah, and that's an interesting point, isn't it? the other mean, today's other unions, i mean, today's i think seventh national think the seventh national strike, eight days of disruption, with the disruption, though, with the regional as well, regional walkouts as well, because next term they're talking about this coordinated action, including the national association of head teachers. now, obviously, if a head teacher is not there, the school physically is not allowed to open. >> yes . for the last few months, >> yes. for the last few months, teachers have been doing their best. schools have been doing their best to remain at least partially open where possible. so we've had gcse pupils and a—level pupils on some of those seven days have been able to go into school. obviously, if teachers do choose to strike in the autumn and we are expecting a ballot for that, then we would expect to see most schools closing completely early. now the only thing that makes us a little easier for the little bit easier for the government is that actually

labour said that they labour haven't said that they would commit to a 6.5% pay rise for teachers if they were in government. now usually of course an opposition party would be the very first to say yes, yes, we would sort this out with more money, but labour knows that really now that it is really now a government in waiting and it has to be realistic too. so that makes things a little bit easier for the government, but it will be very difficult for them be very, very difficult for them to line come the to hold their line if come the new term, children are out of school for days on end again . school for days on end again. >> and the institute of fiscal studies, i mean, they say that teachers salaries in england fell 11% after inflation. that's between 2010 and 2022. so it is this same issue, just like it is with doctors, isn't it ? with doctors, isn't it? >> well, yes, the argument that the independent pay review bodies seem to be making for offering, for recommending such a big increase, 6.5, that is higher than we've seen across any other public sector body. is

that retention and recruitment in teaching is really, really struggling at the moment. we saw thousands of teachers leaving the profession in at the end of last academic year, more than we'd seen for about ten years. that said , there are some new that said, there are some new teachers coming in. so actually the number of teachers on the overall roll is up 2000. that will be the government's argument that retention, recruitment , retention may be recruitment, retention may be getting a tricky , but they getting a bit tricky, but they are still managing to recruit teachers. and if job is what teachers. and if a job is what noted, then is there any need for a sort of inflation busting inflationary pay rise? but as i say, sticking to that line is going to get harder and harder. >> yeah, i mean, the government is making the point that it's 4.3% offer would mean starting salaries at around £30,000 and that indeed the department of education putting an extra 2.3 billion over the next two years, because obviously one of the concerns for the head teachers is whatever pay award is made, they don't want that to have to come from existing budgets and actually back elsewhere in

actually cut back elsewhere in the sort of funding of things as well . well. >> exactly. and this is something that which i think we're going to hear a lot more of in the coming weeks. mary bousted said this morning that she be willing to accept she would be willing to accept a 6.5% pay for teachers in 6.5% pay rise for teachers in her union, but made the point that it would have to be in new funding. it could not be coming out existing funding out of existing funding for schools. what we've seen schools. and what we've seen previously is when the government some government does relent on some of these sector pay of these public sector pay rises, saw it with nurses. rises, we saw it with nurses. the government. steve barclay, the secretary agreed to the health secretary agreed to a pay the health secretary agreed to a pay rise nurses, but said it pay rise for nurses, but said it would have to be out of would have to be costed out of the current budget . megxit the nhs. current budget. megxit so we could see a more of a disagreement going forward. so we're not even yet at this stage . but even if we get to a stage where the government is beginning show a in beginning to show a little in the armour, then we're still not yet if government is yet there. if the government is expecting to for it to come out of schools budgets. olivia thank you much indeed for you very much indeed for updating on that situation. updating us on that situation. >> we'll speaking >> and we'll be speaking hopefully to the national

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radio. >> i'm welcome back to the live desk now, you'll remember in december last year, four young boys lost their lives when they fell through the ice on a frozen lake in solihull today. >> an inquest has heard the boys went on to the lake after feeding ducks and skimming stones . we have just heard in stones. we have just heard in the last few moments that the coroner has concluded that they drowned in a terrible accident. well, our west midlands reporter jack carson can bring us the latest on this tragedy , a latest on this tragedy, a tragedy that shook a community on the 11th of december last yeah >> brothers, six year old samuel and eight year old finlay butler and eight year old finlay butler and their 11 year old cousin, thomas stewart were playing on a

frozen lake in solihull when they fell through the ice and got stuck. ten year old jack johnson, who had seen the three struggling water, heroic struggling in the water, heroic . he jumped to help emergency . he jumped in to help emergency services were first called to the scene where members of the pubuc the scene where members of the public and officers public and police officers initially went the to water initially went into the to water try and get the youngsters out. one police officer so desperate to boys was seen to help the boys was seen punching through the ice. the children were rescued by specialist water rescue trained firefighters where they were given immediate life support and rushed to hospital in a critical condition. the next day. west midlands police and west midlands police and west midlands fire service revealed the news the community had been dreading. we are deeply saddened by the death of three boys who were rescued by our firefighters yesterday here at the lake in solihull . solihull. >> the boys deaths are a tragedy beyond words and the thoughts and heartfelt sympathies of everyone here at west midlands fire service are with their families, friends and the wider communities at this distressing time. lakes , ponds,

time. frozen lakes, ponds, canals and reservoirs can look picturesque , but they can be picturesque, but they can be lethal. and there are no greater warnings of this than yesterday's tragic events. >> two days later, six year old samuel had died in hospital and all four children involved had now, sadly passed away. as the news was confirmed, kingshurst mourned the babbs mill boys with flowers and teddy bears and tributes . tributes. >> i'm not surprised to see this , and i'm saddened to see it because , you know, i wish it because, you know, i wish it never , ever happened. and we'd never, ever happened. and we'd still got the kids with us. but you know, it doesn't matter. i don't know the children, but they're kings. hurst children. that's what makes the difference. you can feel the sadnessin difference. you can feel the sadness in the air as soon as you walk anywhere in kingshurst , people are just sad in bits . , people are just sad in bits. >> everyone that's got kids can really relate to what we feel broken as a community, and it's just a feeling that we all want to help and just show that we

care really . care really. >> senior coroner for birmingham and solihull louise hunt described the circumstances as a devastating tragedy and allowed all four to be buried without a post—mortem to preserve the dignity and respect of each little boy. jack carson gb news well, the coroner recording that the boys drowned in a terrible accident, that happening at solihull coroner's court in the last few minutes. >> jack carson, of course, had followed the story for us when the past few minutes police have been holding a news conference outside the court . outside the court. >> the local police and superintendent for the borough of solihull . i've got a short of solihull. i've got a short statement i'd like to read to you this afternoon, and then i'm going to hand you over to my colleagues from the ambulance service and from the fire service and from the fire service today , we remember jack service today, we remember jack thomas finley and samuel, service today, we remember jack thomas finley and samuel , four thomas finley and samuel, four young boys who so tragically lost their lives last december. the boys fell through the ice on babbs mill lake in solihull on

the afternoon of sunday, the 11th of december. our deepest sympathies remain with the families and friends of those involved in this tragedy. we cannot comprehend the enormity dodi of the pain they must feel and our hearts go out to them. we stand together with the local communities in solihull and those across the west midlands and further afield that we know were deeply affected by this terrible tragedy . i would also terrible tragedy. i would also like to take this opportunity to pay like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to all of those who tried to save the boys members of the public, colleagues from the emergency services and the doctors and nurses from the children's hospital and heartlands hospital. children's hospital and heartlands hospital . all my own heartlands hospital. all my own local officers were the first to arrive on the scene within minutes of the initial call and tried so desperately to rescue the boys that afternoon . with the boys that afternoon. with many wading into subzero water

up to their necks to form a human chain , they had no special human chain, they had no special equipment but bravely smashed their way through the ice with their way through the ice with their batons and fists in a bid to find the boys . sadly, it to find the boys. sadly, it wasn't long before they had to make a difficult decision on to leave the freezing water, but their efforts didn't end there . their efforts didn't end there. they continued to help family members and worried members of the public. i am incredibly proud of those officers who show such bravery and put their own safety to one side to try and save the lives of jack, tom, finn and sam. i would like to now hand you over to assistant chief ambulance officer james williams from the west midlands ambulance service . ambulance service. >> thank you, superintendent harris. good afternoon. as you've heard, there was an incredible effort to save jack

thomas finn and sam from members of the public, two police officers that were first on the scene, firefighters and many ambulance service staff and our colleagues from the midlands air ambulance and the air ambulance service and the west midlands care team . everybody responded care team. everybody responded on the afternoon, had one clear focus and that was how they were to save those boys. here's a tragedy that all those efforts were made in vain. i would like to pay tribute to all of the ambulance and hospital staff who responded on that day and the best wished, best outcome . for best wished, best outcome. for those are our 999 call handlers , our dispatch control room staff, everybody that respond to the incident . and of course, our the incident. and of course, our colleagues from heartlands and birmingham children's hospital. i know that many of our staff were deeply affected by this

incident . and all wished for incident. and all wished for a better outcome . we continue to better outcome. we continue to support our staff on a daily bafis support our staff on a daily basis as they carry on coming to work to save lives . on behalf of work to save lives. on behalf of everybody in the ambulance service . again, wish to express service. again, wish to express our deepest condolences is to the families of jack sam finn and thomas . now like to hand you and thomas. now like to hand you over to area commander alex shapland from west midlands fire service. thank you. thank you. >> good afternoon . to the most . >> good afternoon. to the most. as we said in the days following the deaths of tom sam, jack and finn , this was a tragedy beyond finn, this was a tragedy beyond words. it was every parent, carer and family's worst nightmare. our hearts go out to

everyone still trying to come to terms with the events that took place on that day. i'd like to acknowledge the courageous efforts of everybody at the west midlands fire service who were involved in the response from our team in fire control to our firefighters , us and our firefighters, us and our emergency service colleagues who did everything they possibly could for the boys. i'm immensely proud of the bravery and determination shown on that day . we wish the outcome could day. we wish the outcome could have been different with in days of the boys deaths, we and colleagues across the country were dismayed to see people still risking their lives on frozen water if the boys loss was not warning enough of the dangers of open water. it's difficult to know what is that dark , freezing day in december dark, freezing day in december seemed is worlds away. we're now only a few weeks away from the

summer months, but even in the summer months, but even in the summer as tempting as it may be, open water can kill . please know open water can kill. please know the danger is tell your children . in if you see someone in difficulty in the water, know what to do . we can't let what to do. we can't let something like this happen again. the boys remain in our thoughts and prayers as do their families . everyone who knew and families. everyone who knew and loved them and the wider community. we hope they continue to find the strength to live with their terrible loss . thank with their terrible loss. thank you . well an indication here you. well an indication here from this news conference about how deeply those emergency services were affected by this incident. >> and you heard there from alex chapun >> and you heard there from alex chaplin saying tell your children what to do. we can't let something like this happen again. and james williams from the ambulance service indicating how deeply his staff had been affected by the four boys death.

and of course, the efforts that all those emergency workers made to try and get to the boys in theicy to try and get to the boys in the icy lake. >> yeah, in the last few minutes, a coroner has concluded that the four boys drowned in what was a terrible accident . what was a terrible accident. they'd gone on to a frozen lake near solihull, near solihull , near solihull, near solihull, where they'd gone to feed ducks and skim stones. they then fell into the water and we were just heanng into the water and we were just hearing in that press conference how rescuers, how police officers use their batons and their bare fists to smash their way through the ice. well, west midlands reporterjack way through the ice. well, west midlands reporter jack carlson has been at the coroner's court sitting through this inquest. jack that press conference just then incredibly moving and came with a very sombre warning . with a very sombre warning. >> it did. of course, there were lots of reports at the time, wasn't there? lots of warnings at the time after this, this tragedy, tragic incident. but as you can imagine, sitting in that inquest, emotions were very ,

inquest, emotions were very, very members of the very high. members of the families there all in families were there all in attendance in the inquest. a few also did ask questions when members the emergency members of the emergency services did get to read services did get up to read their evidence , to give their, their evidence, to give their, of course, conclusions on their own investigations . family thank own investigations. family thank them mainly for their incredible devotion to try and help those boys in the lake . a repeated boys in the lake. a repeated message to all the emergency services that families are services that the families are well aware that these emergency services everything they services did everything they could and save the boys could to try and save the boys at of the incident. of at the time of the incident. of course did in the course, we did hear in the summing and the conclusions summing up and the conclusions from the coroner, senior coroner for birmingham and solihull coroner's louise hunt, coroner's court, louise hunt, who said that all of these boys deaths a devastating tragedy deaths are a devastating tragedy for all. she said that i for you all. she said that i hope today, as it helps you hope here today, as it helps you might have a better understanding of what has happened. understand that happened. and i understand that i can't make your pain go away. we hear from the police who we did hear from the police who detailed quite extensively more of the circumstances and the surroundings of how, of course, those boys came to falling in

the lake . of course, you the lake. of course, you mentioned there that these two groups, there were two groups of people, jack, jack and two groups of people, jack and two others as well, of course, as siblings , brothers sam and siblings, brothers sam and finley, butler and their cousin thomas. there were two separate groups of people they didn't know each other. jack and his group were the first group of friends were the first to to the lake to skim to go to the lake to skim stones. jack, sam, sam, sorry. finley and tom had all gone to feed the ducks some stale bread. the court hear, heard. jack was the first to go out onto the lake. it's estimated that he travelled as far as 12m into the lake. finn seeing a boy of similar age, went out to try and make friends with jack meet and greet each other. finn was the first to fall into the ice . it's first to fall into the ice. it's been heard here today. at that point , his been heard here today. at that point, his cousin tom ran onto theice point, his cousin tom ran onto the ice to try and help him. also falling in, jack, as we heard at the time, not knowing these boys tried to help them . these boys tried to help them. and it's unclear that with witnesses not seeing sam

specifically falling, but it's understood that he rushed towards the danger and then ended up falling in the ice as well. we heard how because, of course , those freezing cold course, those freezing cold temperatures with the boys that it wasn't it wasn't long after that they went fell into the ice after not being able to get themselves out, that they did unfortunately, start to fall in the water. we heard that when emergency rescue rescue crews of those firemen managed to reach the boys at around 1456 when they were retrieved. three of they were retrieved. three of the boys, as they were found quite near the bottom of the lake. the court heard and finn was the last to be recovered from the lake shortly after after 3:00, we heard evidence of the emergency response, of course, immediate cpr and course, that immediate cpr and life treatment on the bank of the before they were then the lake before they were then all separate hospitals all taken to separate hospitals to children , jack and tom, to the children, jack and tom, to the children, jack and tom, to heartlands hospital and sam and finn to birmingham children's hospital, all there where they received the expert care and all of the care they could do, including sustained

life support in cpr. could do, including sustained life support in cpr . we heard life support in cpr. we heard about with european and national guidelines that the procedure is to continue cpr for hours. so these boys were still receiving that life important life life lifesaving care up to 2 to 3 hours after woods. now, finn of course. sam, of course, was the last of the children to have been confirmed, to have passed away. he the on the 14th away. he died on the on the 14th of december. he they had been able sustain and warm him up able to sustain and warm him up as the as the court heard. but unfortunately, because that unfortunately, because of that time in the water and the effects of drowning , i.e, lack effects of drowning, i.e, lack of oxygen and blood to the brain , that he sadly then was later confirmed brain dead. so a tragedy and tragic circumstances . and we heard in that press conference, of course, from the from the fire service about the real dangers of water. >> and jack, of course, you were there at the time at bobby seagull for seagull reporting for us, witnessing lot of this witnessing a lot of this unfolding. its interesting that the inquest heard there could have been other deaths as well in terms of the police who got

into one policeman up into the water. one policeman up to his neck and paramedic to his neck and the paramedic had to shout at him get out had to shout at him to get out to actually him as well. to actually save him as well. and were on scene, and they were on the scene, i think within 11 minutes . think within 11 minutes. >> yes. so the court heard today that after that call had come in at around nine around 1434, that the initial call from from 999, from witnesses that were there at the lake to the police , that at the lake to the police, that the police arrived within nine minutes, 1443 is the time that was heard in court that the police arrived on scene. as soon as they did, we heard that there was a there was an immediate judge of risk assessment. there at the side of the lake. but the police officers stripped down their armour and their body and their armour and their body and their body kits and formed a human chain going into the lake. as you mentioned, the furthest officer the lake was up to officer into the lake was up to their chin . by the time they their chin. by the time they reached a ledge in the lake. thatis reached a ledge in the lake. that is the reason why those police could not go any further to try and get to where the police concluded the impact zone was . there ledge, which is

was. there was a ledge, which is why just shortly, very minutes later, when the service later, when the fire service arrived, they were the ones that 1456 able to rescue . the 1456 were able to rescue. the 3—3 of the four boys we heard from the fire service here today that it was within 90s of the fire engines arriving on scene, that they entered that water to try and save them. so you can you can imagine the family's very, very happy and thankful to the to the fire service after heanng the to the fire service after hearing that evidence that it was clear that they did everything could in as everything they could in as the as the coroner louise hunt as the coroner here, louise hunt concluded a timely and concluded in a timely and appropriate manner. jack thank you very much indeed for updating us there outside the coroner's court in solihull. >> and of course, that warning from chapman fire from alex chapman of the fire service. can't something service. we can't let something like happen again. like this happen again. >> stay with us here on gb >> do stay with us here on gb news, where we will be joined by joint general secretary of the national education union as industrial action continues to disrupt right across the country. see you very shortly

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>> you're watching gb news, the 23 year old killer found guilty of the murder of beautician ellie edwards, who was shot dead outside a pub in merseyside on christmas eve , will be sentenced christmas eve, will be sentenced at 2:00 this afternoon. >> well, the jury at liverpool crown court convicted connor chapman, who had fired 12 live bullets from a skorpion submachine gun outside the lighthouse in wallasey just ten minutes before christmas day last year. let's get more now from the court and speak to our north—west of england. reporter sophie and sophie, we sophie reaper and sophie, we heard about the emotional impact it's had on the family, particularly today particularly her father. today of course, it is the judge who will hand down the sentence. have we got any indication what sort of parameters he's looking . at well , he did mention . at well, he did mention throughout the trial that he was potentially looking at imposing a whole life order. >> of course, now that we have

that verdict, that does look increasingly more likely. but it's impossible to say ahead of a sentencing, of course, yesterday that jury of seven women and five men returned with their verdict, finding connor chapman guilty on all charges, including the murder of 26 year old beautician ellie edwards. now, many of our viewers will, of course, remember this tragic case.it of course, remember this tragic case. it made the headlines on christmas day of last year after we woke up to the news that a gunman had opened fire with a submachine gun on the lighthouse inn pub in wallasey just minutes before christmas day. actually came around. now we saw cctv footage as part of this trial of the gunman firing those shots on the gunman firing those shots on the pub itself. and the judge told the jury it was their responsibility to determine whether or not that gunman was, in fact , connor chapman, the in fact, connor chapman, the defendant in this trial. yesterday, they returned finding him on a unanimous verdict that it was indeed connor chapman,

that gunman . so today we'll see that gunman. so today we'll see him sentenced alongside his co defendant, thomas waring . he was defendant, thomas waring. he was found guilty by the jury yesterday of possession of a prohibited firearm. and as well of assisting an offender. so as you say there, we're expecting the sentencing here at liverpool crown court today around 2 pm. so we'll be bringing you all the latest on that as we get it. >> and sophie elle edwards father, tim, he is now on a mission to stop gun violence on merseyside side, isn't he, because ellie's killing related to this violence between two rival gangs on either side of the m53 . the m53. >> absolutely. of course. gun crime is a well known issue in merseyside. just in august of last year, we saw the tragic killing of olivia pratt—korbel . killing of olivia pratt—korbel. earlier this year, thomas cashman went to prison, found guilty of her murder after shooting her through their front d00h shooting her through their front door. now now, just just months after that incident , we saw

after that incident, we saw ellie edwards shot and killed outside a pub. there's been many , many well—publicised shooting incidents in the merseyside region just in the last 12 months alone. so this is a real issue that the region is facing. we know merseyside police are really trying to crack down on this issue that's become so prevalent on the streets of merseyside . you mentioned there merseyside. you mentioned there ellie edwards dad . he responded ellie edwards dad. he responded to the verdict yesterday. he called connor chapman a coward. he said he'll never utter his name again. and he says he hopes that connor chapman and his co—defendant, thomas waring, never see another christmas ever again . again. >> sophie reaper outside liverpool crown court. we will speak to you again very shortly after that sentencing takes place . place. >> yeah, 2:00. that's expected . >> yeah, 2:00. that's expected. i'll have that for you here on gb news. now, the government has or doubled down as the unions say, on its refusal to commit to accepting the teachers pay independence review body proposals , despite the union proposals, despite the union actually promising to end the

strikes if the salary recommendation was offered by education minister robert halfon said it was impossible to say what decision would be taken as he was pressed for a response to industrial action, which has caused so much disruption to schools today. >> teachers are on strike again, but all the unions are warning now that they could join forces for mass walkouts next term unless the government starts to negotiate on a pay deal. >> let's speak now to kevin courtney, joint general secretary at the national education union . i thank you education union. i thank you very much indeed for your time, kevin, because i know you're trying get all the trying to get round all the various picket lines and so on in today. let's just talk in force today. let's just talk about issue first of this about the issue first of this independent body , independent pay review body, because seem to be because it does seem to be concentrate a lot of minds with the other unions as well to the other unions as well as to what next term with a what you do next term with a suggestion. there's been an offer of 6.5% from the independent pay body . yeah, independent pay body. yeah, that's what we believe is that

school teacher review body is so concerned and by the evidence we've presented about teacher recruitment and retention difficulties and so concerned about the level of the strike action that we believe they've recommended a 6.5% pay rise. >> the government , first of all, >> the government, first of all, offered us 3.5. then they went to 4.5. the sgb has recommended 6.5 and despite the government saying it was going to go to the independent review body, despite it, rishi sunak saying they've always accepted the independent review bodies . there are strong review bodies. there are strong rumours that rishi sunak intends to ignore this report and cap the pay rise, not go with the sgb . that will really enrage our sgb. that will really enrage our members. if that's true , and members. if that's true, and would 6.5% be enough to actually end your particular action? >> i think that our members would probably very probably take 6.5 with this caveat that it would have to be funded.

>> well enough in our schools . >> well enough in our schools. that would be the question. the 6.5 and the funding are members constantly tell us it's not just the pay, it's also the funding of the pay rise. so it would be both of those elements. but there is a solution possible on that basis and the government should be sitting down to be publishing the sgb report so we can all see whether it says 6.5 or not. they should be publishing that and then they should sit down and talk with us about it. and there is a way of bringing this dispute to a close . alternatively, we are . or alternatively, we are reballoting you have to do that every six months. and three other that organise other unions that organise teachers and head teachers in our schools also balloting. our schools are also balloting. and could be and so there could be coordinated industrial action across all those unions in the autumn term and that action would close almost every school in the country whenever there was a strike day, nobody wants to do that. we want to find a solution that starts to solve the problem of teacher recruitment retention , which recruitment and retention, which is leading to real impact on

children every they children every day when they don't have qualified teacher, don't have a qualified teacher, when got a temporary when they've got a temporary teacher, a succession of temporary teachers it's temporary teachers. so it's impacting children every day. impacting on children every day. we find a solution that we want to find a solution that starts to put that right. >> but what would you say to a to thousands of parents? kevin who, you know, might be so severely affected by this joint industrial action in the autumn? there's already been, what, 7 or 8 strikes already? this year it's going to cause absolute chaos and pandemonium , isn't it, chaos and pandemonium, isn't it, for families ? well you're right. for families? well you're right. >> there have been eight days of strike action and on each one, i have sincerely apologised to parents for the disruption of their children's education and for the disruption of their home lives. we don't want to take action in the autumn . we want action in the autumn. we want the government to find a solution . but the point that we solution. but the point that we make to parents and actually we're getting a strong hearing from that their from parents is that their children's education is being disrupted every day by the teacher shortages and by the lack of funding , by the fact

lack of funding, by the fact that special needs support, assistance are leaving jobs in schools to go and work in supermarkets, supporting supermarkets, not supporting children with special needs. the fact chemistry fact that chemistry classes don't chemistry teachers , don't have chemistry teachers, all is disruption. every all of that is disruption. every day. and parents are actually very supportive of those demands. they want the government to invest in their generation. in this generation of children. they want to invest in kids, their kids in their kids, their kids schools and the people who work in them. >> kevin courtney, joint general, of the general, secretary of the national union, thank national education union, thank you indeed joining you very much indeed for joining us updating us on the us and updating us on the situation. thank you for your time. >> uk house prices fell at the fastest annual pace since june 2011. last month , year on year, 2011. last month, year on year, the average price of a home sold in june fell by 2.6, while those figures come from the halifax and britain's suffering some of the worst house price falls compared to other major european economies as well. >> joining us to run through the figures is our business editor , figures is our business editor, liam halligan with on the money

. so house prices down, mortgage rates up. no surprise, maybe . rates up. no surprise, maybe. >> no surprise. and we should take these numbers seriously. often we have house price figures from the estate agents kyrees the likes of rightmove zoopla property websites. they tend to be house price figures based on asking prices and a lot of sellers aren't getting their asking prices these days. the likes of halifax , the likes of likes of halifax, the likes of the nationwide and indeed the ons. when the official figures come out, numbers are come out, these numbers are based deals actually based on deals actually completed. obviously the mortgage companies have they can look through and they can see what's actually happening in terms completed . if terms of deals completed. so if we a quick at the we have a quick look at the numbers, you say, pip, house numbers, as you say, pip, house pnces numbers, as you say, pip, house prices were down 2.6% in june compared to june 2022. that is the biggest fall since 2011. it's also the third successive month where we've had a drop in that annual number. the typical uk home now costs.

that annual number. the typical uk home now costs . £285,932, and uk home now costs. £285,932, and the average two year fix, as you say, mark, it's rising fast . the say, mark, it's rising fast. the average two year fixed rate mortgage is now 6.54. it was just to 2% or less. just a matter of months ago. that's what's happening on financial markets now. in terms of money markets, just today, i mean, we've barely mentioned it . the we've barely mentioned it. the two year gilt yield, the price the government must pay to borrow money for two years. it's just hit a 15 year high. it's now way higher than it was dunng now way higher than it was during liz truss's mini—budget. >> yeah. and we've heard noises off as well. jp morgan, one of the big banks saying it can see rates going up to 7% i guess is the thing people the sentiment thing that people are not going are thinking, i'm not going to go buy house at the moment go and buy a house at the moment when my mortgage rate could be higher house buy higher and the house i buy could actually be worth less. >> pretty much the only people selling now are people selling houses now are people that need sell, that desperately need to sell, and buyers are and that's why cash buyers are coming in and getting bargains because can exploit the because they can exploit the fact that they don't need to borrow. you're an ordinary borrow. if you're an ordinary family trying to buy a family

home a mortgage, things are home with a mortgage, things are really, really tough. and because interestingly sorry, liam, just interestingly, we just me why in just explain this to me why in june then that the volume of mortgage applications actually held up okay, particularly for first time buyers, because people still their lives need to go on. right. and also remember at the beginning of june, interest rates were two full percentage points on financial markets lower than where they are now changed so quickly. there's been see, most people just look at what the bank of england is doing. and of course, the bank of england has been incrementally putting up interest rates. been up interest rates. they've been up 13 sort of the last 18 13 times in sort of the last 18 months so. but it's not months or so. but it's not really the bank of england that said rates. sets said interest rates. it sets the base rate. the people who set the interest are the interest rates are the financial if have financial markets. if they have to decide based the outlook to decide based on the outlook for inflation growth of government all the government borrowing, all the rest what they're rest of it, what they're prepared to lend you money, at what rate they're prepared to lend money. that rate is lend you money. and that rate is going up because the sense is that we have not got our arms

around inflation. there's still around inflation. there's still a big problem. and if there's going to be inflation, if i'm going to be inflation, if i'm going you £100, you're going to lend you £100, you're going to lend you £100, you're going pay me back two going to pay me back in two years. think there's going years. if i think there's going to lots of inflation, i'm to be lots of inflation, i'm going you a much going to charge you a much higher rate of interest. >> you can lend £100 anytime >> you can lend us £100 anytime you though. we liam, you want, though. we are. liam, thank taking us through thank you for taking us through the figures. stay with here the figures. stay with us here on the live we'll be back on the live desk. we'll be back to wimbledon as the flowers are laid school. and the laid outside the school. and the simple the simple note left outside the school you will be a school fence. say you will be a shining star. always

us you will always be our shining star. the simple note left, remembering the eight year old girl killed in the wimbledon primary school crash . a woman in primary school crash. a woman in her 40s still being held this lunchtime on suspicion of death by dangerous driving . by dangerous driving. >> the killer of elle edwards is due to be sentenced in the next houh due to be sentenced in the next hour. the 26 year old beautician

was shot outside a pub in merseyside on christmas eve. her father , tim, says his mission father, tim, says his mission now is to end gun violence in the area . we're outside the area. we're outside liverpool crown court eight and a hard lesson for the government all the teaching unions warning they'll unite in taking strike action next term as ministers refuse to commit to the findings of the independent pay review body. and lewis hamilton backs peaceful just stop oil protests at silverstone this weekend. he might just get his wish. organisers of the british grand prix have said they they've planned the event expecting disruption before all that , disruption before all that, let's whizz over to rhiannon for your latest headlines . your latest headlines. >> thank you pip. good afternoon

. it's 1:01. >> thank you pip. good afternoon . it's1:01. your >> thank you pip. good afternoon . it's 1:01. your top story is from the gb newsroom as we've been hearing, a coroner has concluded the deaths of four boys who drowned after falling into a frozen lake near solihull was a terrible accident. brother was a terrible accident. brother was six year old samuel and eight year old finley butler died along with their 11 year old cousin, thomas stewart and ten year old jack johnson . the ten year old jack johnson. the court heard the children went to babbs mill lake in kingshurst in december last year to skim stones and feed the ducks. police formed a human chain to punch through the ice and pull the children out of the lake , the children out of the lake, but all four later died. superint attendant richard harris says his officers did everything they could to save them. my own local officers were them. my own local officers were the first to arrive on the scene within minutes of the initial call and tried so desperately to rescue the boys. >> that afternoon . with many >> that afternoon. with many wading into subzero water up to

their necks to form a human chain , they had no specialist chain, they had no specialist equipment, but bravely smashed their way through the ice with their way through the ice with their batons and fists in a bid to find the boys , the government to find the boys, the government has doubled down on its refusal to commit to accepting teachers pay to commit to accepting teachers pay review proposals . pay review proposals. >> education is a right. >> education is a right. >> that is why we have to fight members of the national education union are taking part in industrial action for a second day and warned there could be more strikes in the autumn term . autumn term. >> the government offered a one off £1,000 payment for this yeah off £1,000 payment for this year, as well as a 4.5% pay rise for next. all for education. unions rejected the offer. the nus deputy general secretary neil sweeney, says the government needs to start negotiating . gillian keegan negotiating. gillian keegan hasn't negotiated with us since easter. >> she said she would leave it to the independent review body because she sunak. >> the prime minister said that the door was always open. >> now they've had the

independent review body report for the last month. they haven't published it and they haven't got back round the table to negotiate us. so let's do negotiate with us. so let's do that. let's see what the report said . said they would said. they said that they would honour if it is the 6.5% honour that if it is the 6.5% that they we believe that it is radiographers who carry out scans on patients will stage a 48 hour strike later this month over pay. >> the walkout will take place from 8 am. on the 25th of july. the society of radiology says its members at 43 nhs trusts will take part in the strike action. the announcement comes after union members voted to reject the government's pay offer of 5% plus a non—console lump sum . house prices fell at lump sum. house prices fell at the fastest annual rate in 12 years last month , halifax years last month, halifax reports. the average uk property price was down 2.6% in june, compared with the same month last year . that's more than last year. that's more than double the drop in may, marking

the largest fall since 2011. the mortgage provider says the average house price forjune mortgage provider says the average house price for june was around £286,000. energy giant shell says its gas profit base are significantly lower in the second quarter of this year. the oil and gas firm says trading has been impacted by seasonal shifts in the market. in the first three months. it also expects an adjusted loss . of expects an adjusted loss. of between 6 and $800 million for the quarter . between 6 and $800 million for the quarter. the police are failing the public too often. that's according to a new report, his majesty's inspectorate of constabulary and fire and rescue services says there are still significant shortcomings in key areas. that's despite progress being made in recording crime. the report says some of the issues include skills shortages and long call delays , as travellers long call delays, as travellers are arriving in dover for cross—channel ferries face long

queues today. delays in process owing. passengers are being blamed on french border officials carrying out extra checks. the wait time for cars is currently 1.5 hours and for coaches, it's two. a passengers were stuck in traffic for over ten hours at the start of the easter holiday period , and mps easter holiday period, and mps have criticised the government's handung have criticised the government's handling of the hs2. euston station project in london. in a report by the public accounts committee, the government's accused of lacking clarity in its objectives, despite eight years worth of planning the project has experienced delays and hs2 trains are now not expected to run into euston until 2041. the government says it remains committed to delivering the project . this is delivering the project. this is gb news. we'll bring you more as it happens. now, though, it's back over to mark and .

back over to mark and. pip rhiannon . rhiannon. >> thank you very much indeed. you will always be our shining star. so reads the simple note that's been left with a growing collection of flowers outside the wimbledon prep school, where an eight year old pupil was killed yesterday. >> 16 others were hurt. some of them seriously, as the education minister today urged everyone to pray for the school and the families as well. >> the study prep school says it's shocked by it's been profoundly shocked by the and the welfare of the accident and the welfare of their pupils families their pupils and families remains top priority. remains their top priority. >> woman in her 40s is still >> a woman in her 40s is still being questioned this lunchtime on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after a land rover defender collided with a school building where an end of term party was being held. >> our london reporter lisa hartle has the latest from outside the school. all morning, people from the local community have been coming here to lay flowers, to light candles in tribute to the little girl, the

eight year old girl that lost her life here yesterday when a car drove into the school grounds, injuring 16 people, 16 of those were treated at the scene. >> ten of them were taken to hospital. it's really obviously rocked the community. dodi there's been many people coming here looking in a distressed state, leaving flowers and we spoke to one of the ladies just a moment ago called dora. her daughter actually attended the school many years ago. and this is she had to say. is what she had to say. >> it very sweet moment >> it was very sweet moment yesterday. so . on the last day , yesterday. so. on the last day, it's very shocking . it's very shocking. >> i'm so sorry. it's unbelievable . and my daughter unbelievable. and my daughter was so upset last night, she couldn't go . she couldn't go to couldn't go. she couldn't go to sleep. she said , mommy, what sleep. she said, mommy, what happened ? i said, i don't know. happened? i said, i don't know. everybody shocked in the community. we all are . we're community. we all are. we're trying to understand to make sense . and hopefully and the sense. and hopefully and the investigation we all. and then

from there, probably we will come up with ideas, to how prevent that. it happens again. no well, not only here. it can be other places, too. yes, other schools , as it was just before schools, as it was just before 10 am. yesterday morning when a car, a land rover, drove onto through the fence, onto the school grounds, injuring 16 people. >> they were treated at the scene, ten of them were taken to hospital . and the eight year and hospital. and the eight year and eight year old girl lost her life. she police say that she died at the scene . it was the died at the scene. it was the last day of school before they broke up for the summer holidays. and it's believed that the children were enjoying an event on the lawn celebrating before they broke up from school. when the incident happened, a woman in her 40s has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. yesterday say around 6:00, we saw what we believe to be the car involved in the incident being taken away by police recovery . a police police recovery. a police recovery vehicle covered in green tarpaulin and police have

asked people not to speculate as to what happened here, but they've checked cctv, their next phase of the investigation will be to contact witnesses . and be to contact witnesses. and they're asking anyone with information to contact them on 101. so that investigation continues , as does the number of continues, as does the number of tributes, of course, being left outside the school by other parents. >> and other children. but just to remind you that this woman who is in her 40s remains in custody, according to police , custody, according to police, having been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. and just to remind you that the police have 24 hours to either release or charge her, but certainly the education minister earlier today urging people to pray for the school and the families. we'll have the latest, of course, as we get it . we get it. >> it is one year today. can you believe since boris johnson announced that he would stand down as prime minister? but he is still causing problems for the government as the cabinet office will have to hand over

his unridden acted whatsapp messages, notebooks and diaries by monday afternoon after it lost a high court challenge against the chairwoman of the uk covid 19 inquiry. >> yes, you may remember that the cabinet office brought legal action over the baroness hallett order to release all the documents, arguing it should not have to hand over material that was unamba vigorously irrelevant. but in the judgement. yesterday the judges dismissed that finding that the order for material would produce some irrelevant documents, not invalidating, some irrelevant documents, not invalidating , saying that it invalidating, saying that it could not be lawfully exercised, i.e. it's up to baroness hallett to decide what is actually important . let's get more with important. let's get more with former private secretary at 10 downing street, caroline slocock. and joining us once more and i suspect obviously the baroness is now going to have a mountain of paperwork that she's going to have to wade through all these sort of various messages from one person to another . another. >> well, that is the downside of

the ruling . but it's obviously the ruling. but it's obviously a risk that she's been prepared to take. and i think that it's actually quite surprising that the government took this case, because when you look at the statute, it's very clear cut. you know, she has the right to decide what's relevant and what's not. and i'm sure she'll have a team of people beside her who can quite swiftly make the decisions, just as the government was seeking to do about what is relevant and what is not. yes >> and is it not just that the messages themselves, but the way that they've been delivered or outlined that might give the baroness an indication about the sort of the temperature , if you sort of the temperature, if you like, of what was going on inside the government at that time? >> yeah, i think she's got a very legitimate interest in the whatsapp messages, which is only one of the things that she's looking at because her remit includes covid, how decisions were taken and how they were recorded . and clearly whatsapp recorded. and clearly whatsapp has become , um, you know, has become, um, you know, rightly or wrongly, a very significant way for ministers to communicate. so she needs to be

able see what's decided able to see what's being decided there and what we saw with the whatsapp messages that we've already seen . i don't if already seen. i don't know if you remember, matt hancock's you remember, but matt hancock's was across the front you remember, but matt hancock's was of across the front you remember, but matt hancock's was of the across the front you remember, but matt hancock's was of the dailyyss the front you remember, but matt hancock's was of the daily telegraph.t you remember, but matt hancock's was of the daily telegraph. is page of the daily telegraph. is that some of those things can be very revealing. sort very revealing. those sort of, you know, the cuff remarks you know, off the cuff remarks like his one where he said that the out to help out scheme the eat out to help out scheme was an eat out to help the virus get about scheme is there anything you sympathise anything you you sympathise though do you sympathise at all with the government with its position saying that well this could set a precedent and these sorts of messages , as you know, sorts of messages, as you know, should be able to remain private? >> whatsapp messages should retain some privacy . retain some privacy. >> i mean, i've got real sympathy with the fact that when you're undertaking government you're undertaking government you do need to be able to have frank discussions with each other and there will be conflicts and things which perhaps you don't want to get out into the public domain . but out into the public domain. but what the government decided to do when it set up this inquiry was to release that information

and the issue is not whether to give whatsapps because they were always going to do that. it's that it's who decides what is relevant or not it. and you know, in the sort of undercover of the you know, the background to this baroness hallett discovered that they were trying to keep things from her, which she thought was relevant. and i think it's really sort of to critical the trust of this process . after all, covid is the process. after all, covid is the most significant thing to happen to most of us in our lifetimes, and we've got to get it right for next time. we need to have trust in that inquiry. and the other thing which is going on in the background here is a, you know, a lack of a public trust in the accountability of government . and here is rishi government. and here is rishi sunak was trying to step back from his predecessor , boris from his predecessor, boris johnson, and say that he cared about accountability. you know , about accountability. you know, actually, when he gets the first test of accountability, he starts taking taking , you know, starts taking taking, you know, the inquiry to court. but it's

not a good look . not a good look. >> and indeed, talking about accountability, i'm looking at what the official response was when they failed in this legal challenge . the officials saying challenge. the officials saying we welcome the judgement. it provides important clarity for this and future inquiry. liz, but also an admittance that they knew that this was going to be the outcome. and one wonders, you know, number one, how much pubuc you know, number one, how much public money has been spent on this challenge and it this legal challenge and why it went ahead they probably went ahead when they probably knew to fail . knew it was going to fail. >> i you know, anyone who >> i think, you know, anyone who looks at the terms of the statute can see that it was going fail the sort of going to fail and the sort of compromise in inverted commas that's arrived at, which is that's been arrived at, which is that's been arrived at, which is that baroness hallett that you know, baroness hallett won't was won't publish everything was always to be the case, you always going to be the case, you know. why did it take it? know. so why did it take it? i don't know. it's a bit of a mystery, i think perhaps because it's got something to hide. and i think that's how it looks. um, but yes, think wasted but yes, i think it has wasted time. also eaten away at time. it's also eaten away at the political capital of governments, rishi sunak in particular, you know, because actually this was always going

to be the outcome. so why not just get on with it and there's a lot of people out there who are, you know, who suffered greatly different greatly in covid in different ways, and lots ways, losing loved ones and lots of other things as well. you know, want see you know, know, who want to see you know, this this progressing this this this progressing swiftly . so, it's been swiftly. so, yes, it's been a damaging episode for the government. and i just don't think that any of the grounds that they put forward were really convincing . really very convincing. >> just briefly , >> and caroline, just briefly, it is the first anniversary of bons it is the first anniversary of boris johnson resigning . did you boris johnson resigning. did you think a year on that, the ghost of boris johnson would still be lingering over downing street? >> yes . you know, first first of >> yes. you know, first first of all, because the damage done is very considerable. you know, there's been a loss of trust in government. you know, and secondly, because of the man that he is, you know, he's so whatever you think of him, he's so charismatic. think he's so charismatic. and i think he's sort know , playing sort of, you know, playing around a bit politically on the covid inquiry, saying that he would stuff, you know, would give the stuff, you know, over whereas over to the inquiry, whereas actually is not to be

actually his record is not to be very straightforward or straight actually his record is not to be very theightforward or straight actually his record is not to be very the public. rard or straight actually his record is not to be very the public. rard yes,raight with the public. but yes, i think is a deep shadow and think it is a deep shadow and it's, you know, if you just look at the polls, you know, the ones which sort of delve more thoughtfully into public opinion, you know, really they want be want their politicians to be honest. want to be honest. they want them to be straight. and that's the real legacy of boris johnson. and i'm not sure that rishi sunak is living up to that challenge. >> caroline, an former private secretary at number 10 downing street. joining us street. thank you for joining us to exorcise the ghost boris to exorcise the ghost of boris johnson. thank you very much indeed your time . indeed for your time. >> december last year, you >> in december last year, you might well remember how four young boys tragically lost their lives when they fell through ice on a frozen lake in solihull. >> well , an on a frozen lake in solihull. >> well, an inquest has now heard that the boys tragically died trying to save each other after skimming stones and trying to feed the ducks on the lake. our west midlands reporter jack carson was there. reporter on this story , a tragedy this tragic story, a tragedy that shook a community on the 11th of december last year.

>> brothers, six year old samuel and eight year old finley butler and eight year old finley butler and their 11 year old cousin, thomas stewart were playing on a frozen lake in solihull when they through the ice and they fell through the ice and got stuck. ten year old jack johnson, who had seen the three struggling in the water heroically jumped in help heroically jumped in to help emergency services, were first called to the scene where members of the public and police officers initially went into the water to try and get the youngsters one police youngsters out. one police officer desperate help the officer so desperate to help the boys seen punching through boys was seen punching through the ice. children were the ice. the children were rescued by specialist water rescue, trained firefighters where they were given immediate life support and rushed to hospital in a critical condition. the next day. west midlands police and west midlands police and west midlands fire service revealed the news. the community had been dreading. >> we are deeply saddened by the death of three boys who were rescued by our firefighters yesterday here at the lake in solihull . the boys deaths are solihull. the boys deaths are a tragedy beyond words and the thoughts coyte and heartfelt sympathies of everyone here at

west midlands fire service are with their families, friends and the wider communities at this distressing time. frozen lakes , distressing time. frozen lakes, ponds, canals and reservoirs can look picturesque , but they can look picturesque, but they can be lethal and there are no greater warnings of this than yesterday's tragic events . yesterday's tragic events. >> two days later, six year old samuel had died in hospital and all four children involved had now, sadly passed away. as the news was confirmed, kingshurst mourned the babbs mill boys with flowers , teddy bears and flowers, teddy bears and tributes . tributes. >> i'm not surprised to see this . i'm saddened to see it because , you know, i wish it never, ever happened. and we'd still got the kids with us. but you know, it doesn't matter. i don't know, it doesn't matter. i don't know the children, but they're kings . hurst children. that's kings. hurst children. that's what makes the difference. you can feel the sadness in the air as soon as you walk anywhere in kingshurst people are just sad in bits . in bits. >> everyone that's got kids can really relate to what we feel

broken as a community and it's just the feeling that we all want to help and just show that we care. really. >> senior coroner for birmingham and solihull louise hunt described the circumstances as a devastating tragedy and allowed all four to be buried without a post—mortem to preserve the dignity and respect of each little boy. jack carson gb news. >> well, a little earlier, emergency services held a press conference following the inquest , where senior coroner louise hunt ruled that all four boys died as a result of an awful tragic accident. >> yes, she said she was satisfied emergency services did their utmost and indeed should be commended for their actions. well, that the news conference police superintendent richard harris said his officers had done everything they could to save the boys . save the boys. >> my own local officers were the first to arrive on the scene within minutes of the initial call and tried so desperately to rescue the boys. that afternoon

. with many wading into subzero water up to their necks to form a human chain , they had no a human chain, they had no specialist equipment, but bravely smashed their way through the ice with their batons and fists in a bid to find the boys . sadly, it wasn't find the boys. sadly, it wasn't long before they had to make a difficult decision to leave the freezing water. >> terrible as well, actually. that that that press conference rescue . others were also saying rescue. others were also saying how dismayed they are to see that even after this tragedy, people were still risking their lives afterwards and they gave a very strong warning that open water can kill. and we all should know the dangers. >> yeah. alex shapland from the fire service saying tell your children we can't let something like this ever happen again. well, coming up here on the live desk will be live to liverpool crown court where conor chapman is to be sentenced at 2:00 is going to be sentenced at 2:00 for the murder of ellie edwards outside in merseyside on

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>> now let's update you on what we're expecting at liverpool crown court in the next half houh crown court in the next half hour. the 23 year old man found guilty of the murder of beautician ellie edwards, shot dead outside a pub in merseyside on christmas eve due to be sentenced. >> a jury at liverpool, liverpool crown court convict conor chapman, who fired 12 bullets from a scorpio submachine gun outside the lighthouse inn in wallasey just ten minutes before christmas day last year. well, we can cross now to liverpool crown court and speak with gb news, north—west of england. reporter sophie reaper sophie, i suspect the courtroom will be packed for this sentencing, which will be delivered by mrjustice goose and he has intimated that he will consider imposing a whole life . order well, i imagine the life. order well, i imagine the courtroom will be absolutely full to the brim, as you say. >> there you can see a small

group just behind me here that's elle edwards family and friends. you can see he's just in the blue shirt. her father there, tim, who has been such an advocate since the death of his daughter end of gun daughter for the end of gun crime. it's become such an issue in merseyside. obviously in merseyside. he obviously yesterday following guilty yesterday following the guilty verdict of conor chapman, said , verdict of conor chapman, said, and called him a coward as he was taken away, saying he'd never utter his name and that he hopes that conor chapman and his co—defendant, thomas waring, will never see the light of another christmas again . now, of another christmas again. now, of course, yesterday that verdict did come back to the jury of seven women and five men after just around 3.5 hours of deliberations as they returned with their unanimous guilty verdicts , finding conor chapman verdicts, finding conor chapman guilty across all charges, including elle edwards murder. we i'm sure, as i mentioned before , for our viewers will before, for our viewers will remember this tragedy me from december last year on christmas eve, when we now know conor chapman obe and fire with a

submachine gun on the lighthouse inn in wallasey making putting wallasey on the map , but inn in wallasey making putting wallasey on the map, but for all the wrong reasons . as we now the wrong reasons. as we now know, he was aiming for two of the people who were also injured in the attack , and that was in the attack, and that was because of a rivalry between two estates on the wirral. there were several other people caught up in the attack, including , of up in the attack, including, of course, ellie edwards. she was killed in that attack on christmas eve. that news broke on christmas day, which really did shock the nation. and then we found out yesterday after a three and a half week trial that conor chapman has indeed been found guilty for ellie edwards murder . murder. >> and of course, the fact that tim now her father, has started this campaign to try and tackle gun crime across merseyside, because one of the features, of course, is as you say, this is wallasey. and or the wirral and an indication that perhaps that's across the water from liverpool itself .

liverpool itself. >> well, the geography of the merseyside region is , of course merseyside region is, of course very complex. there are several regions which really do suffer with gun crime being a real rife issue on the streets. of course , we remember olivia pratt—korbel being shot and killed in dovecot. there was also a shooting of sam rimmer, ashley dale. they were in various areas of liverpool and now we of course know the verdicts on the killer of ellie edwards, who, as you say, was killed in wallasey. so this is an issue that isn't just in one region that can be pinpointed down. it's spanning across the entirety of merseyside and merseyside. police have said that they're absolutely cracking down on this issue. they're going to do whatever it takes to make sure that every single gun is removed from the streets of merseyside . oh, yeah. merseyside. oh, yeah. >> and there's a lot of discussion now about how to do that you suggestions that that, you know, suggestions that we need more police on the streets. they need to be more stop and searches. sophie of

course. >> but i mean, the real crux of the issue is where does the money come from? and that's, you know, that's where it really stems from. how do the police afford budget wise to be able to put more officers on the street? i think question, i think the real question, though, that's been , you know, though, that's been, you know, circulated merseyside is circulated around merseyside is where these guns coming from where are these guns coming from 7 where are these guns coming from ? this is issue that police ? this is the issue that police are having to tackle on a regular basis that people the access to guns, it's just become so much easier in recent years. and that's where the issue really lies. >> sophie, for the moment, thank you for that. back to you. of course, as we get that sentencing beginning at 2:00, also coming up, uk house prices falling at their fastest rate in 12 years. what does it mean for first time buyers and mortgage holders? but let's get an update now on the latest headlines with rhiannon . rhiannon. >> mark, thank you. good afternoon. it's 131 on your

>> mark, thank you. good afternoon. it's131 on your top story is from the newsroom . story is from the newsroom. a coroner has concluded the deaths of four boys who drowned after falling into a frozen lake near solihull was a terrible accident . brothers six year old samuel and eight year old finley butler died along with their 11 year old cousin, thomas stewart and ten year old jack johnson . the ten year old jack johnson. the court heard the children went to babbs mill lake in kingshurst in december last year to skim stones and feed the ducks . stones and feed the ducks. police formed a human chain to punch through the ice and pull the children out of the lake. but all four later died. superintendent richard harris says his officers did everything they could to save them . they could to save them. >> my own local officers were the first to arrive on the scene within minutes of the initial call and tried so desperately to rescue the boys that afternoon, with many wading into subzero water up to their necks to form

a human chain, they had no specialist equipment, but bravely smashed their way through the ice with their batons and fists in a bid to find the boys , a woman continues find the boys, a woman continues to be questioned over a car crash at a school in london, which killed an eight year old girl. >> 16 people needed treatment after a land rover crashed into the study prep school in wimbledon yesterday. 12 people were taken to hospital . the met were taken to hospital. the met police hasn't given an update on the condition of those injured . the condition of those injured. the woman in her 40s remains in custody. she was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving . and the dangerous driving. and the government has doubled down on its refusal to commit to accepting teachers pay review proposals . members of the proposals. members of the national education union are taking part in a second day of industrial action. this week. they've warned of further strikes in the autumn term. all four education unions rejected the government's offer of a one off payment and a 4.5% pay rise

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>> well, welcome back to the live desk. now coroner's concluded that the deaths of four boys who drowned after falling into a freezing lake near solihull last december was a terrible accident. louise hunt going on to say that the emergency service is had done all that they could and should be commended for their actions. >> yeah, the inquest heard that police officers used their batons and bare fists to try and break through the ice. they arrived within minutes and desperately were trying to help, even making a human chain to try and reach the boys. >> well, we've got jack carson joining us now from birmingham coroner's court. having not just sat through the inquest, of course, jack, you were reporting from the lake itself off on this awful occasion back in december. and you can remember those conditions, of course, i think just five degrees in the air temperature , much colder the temperature, much colder in the water itself . water itself. >> yeah, that's right. of course , it was a very, very cold penod , it was a very, very cold period of weather, wasn't it , period of weather, wasn't it, when back in back in december

when, of course, this tragic incident happened. i remember myself on some of the mornings there reporting, of course, on there reporting, of course, on the incident. it was minus seven degrees on the day in question. of course, the court heard here at the inquest that it was five degrees of temperature. and of course, water much colder course, the water much colder when, course, some of those when, of course, some of those rescue came about . rescue efforts came came about. we did hear in full with evidence from the now concluded police investigate section from the west midlands police . the the west midlands police. the circumstances around how all four boys ended up to come and fall into the lake . we heard fall into the lake. we heard that jack was with friends as part of a separate group to tom, sam and findlay. of course, sam and findlay were brothers. thomas stewart was there , 11 thomas stewart was there, 11 year old cousin. they were in separate groups. jack and his friends had gone to skim stones on the on the lake, on the ice. and tom, sam and findlay had gone to feed the ducks some bread . they saw each other and bread. they saw each other and like many kids do, when they know they're similar ages, they wanted to go and say hello, try

and make friends. heard and make friends. we heard portraits from read out from the senior coroner , louise hunt, senior coroner, louise hunt, today from each of the family , today from each of the family, and we all heard from each of them how all of them loved making friends, loved one of them, loved playing with pokemon cards. sam butler in particular loved fire engines. and we heard how the how the family used to call him their very own fire man, sam. and so we heard that jack johnson was the first to go onto the lake. finn wanting to go and say hello, went over to him to see on the lake. we heard that it was around 12m into the water from the edge, from the bank, that it was. then when finn was the first to fall in, seeing that incident, thomas stewart ran on to try to help also. then fell in. jack johnson we heard, of course, at the time, didn't we, that he was somebody that didn't know the that didn't know the boys. he tried help them, also fell tried to help them, also fell in. and then while there were no he heard in court, there were no witnesses to sam butler falling

into lake . the police into the lake. the police concluded that it would have beenin concluded that it would have been in that mad rush when the incident happened, that he rushed towards the impact point of the ice and also fell in as well. we heard of the emergency response here and how quickly and as as the coroner put it, timely and appropriate, it was police were called around 1433 to the incident from from multiple witnesses. they arrived on scene at 1443. of course , on scene at 1443. of course, when they got there, these police officers without any protective equipment for water of those kind of cold temperatures. we heard how they took off their jackets and their belt and their kind of belts with all their equipment on and formed a human chain going in to theice formed a human chain going in to the ice , breaking it with their the ice, breaking it with their fists, breaking it with their batons, the furthest officer into the lake at that point, while the initial rescue efforts were gone away, had the water all the way up to their chin. but because we heard in the

court, because of a of a of a ledge in in the lake, it meant that those police couldn't go any further because, of course, that police would end up that police officer would end up going water themselves going under the water themselves . it was when the fire . it was then when the fire service up minutes service turned up just minutes later, heard from alex later, we heard from alex shapland. of course , in in that shapland. of course, in in that press conference afterwards as well as i was speaking him well as i was speaking to him just ago after, of just a few moments ago after, of course, inquest is course, this inquest is concluded, saying took concluded, he was saying it took like fire engines like 90s from the fire engines arriving on site to their initial entrance into the water from the bank. there are multiple levels of water training and safety training that these fire service crews have all all different types of training were there at the scene with all different types of equipment. and of course, we heard in the inquest today that around 1456 was was when around 1456 was when was when tom, jack and sam were retrieved from the water. it wasn't till just after 3:00 that findlay was the last to be rescued. sam and findlay went and were taken to birmingham children's hospital, and tom and jack were taken to birmingham heartlands, where we

heard about repeated efforts of cpr over multiple hours that the court heard from the doctors involved. is the procedure that both nationally and internationally that when you are of colder are in water of colder temperatures, rescue temperatures, that these rescue efforts life support efforts mean that life support and life sustaining treatment like cpr is continued for multiple hours after. and that was one of the questions that the granddad of jack johnson did, did question the doctors of why it was that these the cpr was was undergoing for so many hours. and that was, of course then then cleared up in answer by the doctors. but from the family, of course, very, very family, of course, a very, very emotional time today. we did take a break as well, halfway through the morning for the family to be able to collect themselves together after hearing, some pretty themselves together after hearirpretty some pretty themselves together after hearirpretty graphicome pretty themselves together after hearirpretty graphic evidence ty themselves together after hearirpretty graphic evidence and some pretty graphic evidence and the conclusions from some of the reports from the emergency services . but reports from the emergency services. but one thing they were thankful to for every were thankful to for to every single service , when single emergency service, when the asked if there was the coroner asked if there was anything to say at the end, they said how thankful they were for the the emergency the response of the emergency services they happy

services and that they are happy and content nothing and they're content that nothing more done to more could have been done to save boys. save their boys. >> and indeed, the commendation to from coroner hearing of to from the coroner hearing of those efforts to try and those heroic efforts to try and save the boys. jack, thank you very much for updating us very much indeed for updating us from solihull coroner's from outside solihull coroner's court. thank you. uk >> house prices are falling at their fastest rate in 12 years, with a reported annual fall of 2.6. that's equivalent to around 7500 pounds. it's come from new data from the high street lender halifax . halifax. >> and of course, mortgages, well, they are not following suit rates continuing to rise, fears perhaps that it could head up towards 7, some suggesting . up towards 7, some suggesting. let's get the latest now with our economics and business editor liam halligan with on the money . money. >> hi liam. tell us how persistent this is going to be then and we're going to see the same next month with with fall. >> it certainly looks that way, pip. you know, one person's

house price fall is another person's increased chances of actually managing to buy a home. so many youngsters finding it so difficult to get on the housing laddeh difficult to get on the housing ladder. so this is a double edged just have edged sword. let's just have another quick look at the numbers. so house prices did fall 2.6% in june compared to june 20th, 22. that is the biggest fall since 2011. and it's the third successive fall monthly fall. to your question pips, monthly fall. to your question pips, there's certainly a downward momentum in the typical uk home now costs. downward momentum in the typical uk home now costs . 280 £285,932 uk home now costs. 280 £285,932 and the average two year fixed rate mortgage is soaring. it's now 6.54. and almost weekly. the mortgage lenders are giving rates to brokers that they can sell to punters and then they're having to withdraw those rates because on the money markets , because on the money markets, there's a growing sense we're not getting our arms around inflation. government's inflation. the government's having to more to borrow . having to pay more to borrow. the government borrowed £4 the government just borrowed £4 billion at the highest rate

since 1998. so we are now getting a sense that financial markets are turning the screw pushing up borrowing costs, which will continue to push house prices down. so you say it's good news for buyers, but those buyers won't necessarily be able to get a mortgage. it yeah , it's great news for cash yeah, it's great news for cash buyers. that's it. certainly good news for cash buyers . but good news for cash buyers. but you're right, as prices come down, if they're coming down because people can't borrow, because people can't borrow, because rates are high, because interest rates are high, it makes it harder of course, to buy those houses. if you can't borrow the money. it's kind a borrow the money. it's kind of a doom loop . doom loop. >> and looking at the equity markets , they've certainly taken markets, they've certainly taken fright these last couple of days about the biggest situation the fed, the american central bank, indicating it might start pushing rates up again. so i guess anyone who's trying to remortgage or even looking to try and buy a house is trying to think this to go? think where's this going to go? when actually jump? and when do we actually jump? and take the plunge? >> now seeing some pretty >> we're now seeing some pretty chunky or stock chunky falls on equity or stock markets. stocks and shares. so you talk about, you know, us

stocks and shares, the biggest stocks and shares, the biggest stock market in the world. they're now getting frightened because the federal reserve , because the federal reserve, which didn't raise interest rates last month , may now have rates last month, may now have to increase interest rates some more, though us inflation more, even though us inflation is down at 4, it's much , much is down at 4, it's much, much lower. it's 8.7% here. so there is a growing sense and i absolutely don't want to be, you know, unduly pessimistic here, but just reporting the facts. mark financial markets are now starting to signal all this. inflation is not over. we need to look at this and borrowing costs are going to go up quite a bit more than we thought just a month ago. what do you think of this estimate? >> i think jp morgan came out with this figure of 7. i mean, do you think they're going to get towards that? >> reality is for some >> the reality is for some people, if you've got a very high loan to value, if you've got freelance income got maybe freelance income rather sort of solid 9 to rather than a sort of solid 9 to 5 job with a with a big company as it were, you're already paying as it were, you're already paying six and a half or 7.54 if you're the back of a

you're coming off the back of a the is about 6.5. so, the average is about 6.5. so, you know , some people are paying you know, some people are paying 7% and more and then you've got people on kind of specialised mortgages. if they've got a bad credit history and they're often locked into even higher rates. so there is a problem here. i do think that inflation actually trying to be a bit more upbeat. i do think inflation will fall quite quickly in the coming months. i'm will it be halved by the end of the year like the minister? well, to be it needs to be halved from just over 10% because that was in january when he said it. so it needs to be you know, needs to definitely you know, it needs to definitely start with a five for him to claim. i think he i think he could get but there's no could get there. but there's no point you know, point inflation being, you know, 5% that's really, 5% forever. that's still really, really course, if really high. and of course, if borrowing costs are high, a lot of are going to find it of people are going to find it really difficult to service their mortgages. >> yeah. let's let's look at >> yeah. now let's let's look at the of the history. mean, the sort of the history. i mean, we're talking about we're not talking about a housing by any means, but housing crash by any means, but of course, a lot of people will remember days negative

remember the days of negative equny remember the days of negative equity where the equity or bad loans where the property actually worth less property is actually worth less than that you've taken out. >> i think we could get to that point. and again, it gives no point. and again, it gives me no pleasure to say it for some people, not so much negative equny cant equity that they just can't afford the loan. afford to service the loan. right. just haven't the right. they just haven't got the income service loan. so income to service the loan. so they're going to have to, you know, the in a hurry know, sell the house in a hurry , call in finance , what we call in finance circles . they'd have to become circles. they'd have to become a distressed seller. and once you're a distressed seller, then buyers going to of know buyers are going to sort of know that going to suss that they're going to suss it out going to start out and they're going to start offering you much offering you, you know, much lower prices might be lower prices and you might be forced them. this is forced to take them. this is a really worrying time. and it strikes me that we need to really understand hand that these interest rate movements and things i go on about in the newsroom like the two year gilt yield, these actually completely dominate people's lives and thus dominate people's lives and thus dominate politics. they're far more important than procedural stuff about who's getting censured by harriet harman's committee or the next by—election. >> just explain this does the two year gilt yield mean for,

you know , naomi living in you know, naomi living in halifax? >> so the two year the two year gilt yield is the price that the government must pay to borrow money over two years. right. and i just said the government just borrowed £4 billion of two year money. you've got to pay it back in two years. and it had to pay more than it's paid any time since 1998. so the highest borrowing costs for this government this century . right government this century. right now, the government is by definition, the most credible lender borrower in the economy because it can, you know, tax us and it can create money. so the government borrowing cost is always the lowest. borrowing cost in the economy by definition. so if the government borrowing cost is going on, going up and, you know , fancy going up and, you know, fancy pants, can call that pants, economists can call that the year gilt yield. but it the two year gilt yield. but it is accurate because a gilt, is accurate because it's a gilt, because debt, because it's government debt, not it's two not corporate debt. it's two years because it's five not years because it's five not years or ten years. it's two years. that cost is going up, years. if that cost is going up, pip, then the borrowing costs for everyone , for everything for everyone, for everything else, they're on variable else, if they're on variable rates or if they're fixed is

coming to an end, will go up. whether borrowing from coming to an end, will go up. whepayday borrowing from coming to an end, will go up. whepayday lender, rowing from coming to an end, will go up. whepayday lender, young from coming to an end, will go up. whepayday lender, you knowm coming to an end, will go up. whepayday lender, you know ,i coming to an end, will go up. whepayday lender, you know , on the payday lender, you know, on the payday lender, you know, on the in the twilight the doorstep in the twilight economy, whether you're borrowing a reputable borrowing from a reputable mortgage whether mortgage company, whether you're getting car or getting finance to buy a car or a washing machine or something. all those yields will go up. all those borrowing costs will go up. so if the government two year gilt yield has gone up by two whole percentage points as it has over the last six weeks, that's the biggest story in town. yeah >> and obviously, you know , >> and obviously, you know, we're awaiting to see what happensin we're awaiting to see what happens in terms of the bank, bank of england, in terms of its next monetary policy. >> sure. they've got another >> sure. so they've got another meeting and we'll meeting in august and we'll have to what do. to see what they do. i personally think that they should rates now because as should hold rates now because as you been, they've already gone up let that take up 13 times. let that take effect how works effect and see how it works through the system. >> for >> indeed. liam, thanks for taking us through all that. yeah depressing more . depressing news once more. anyway, talk about anyway, let's talk about teachers. they're out on strike today. teachers. they're out on strike today . the government says the today. the government says the unions has doubled down on its refusal to commit accepting refusal to commit to accepting the independent pay review body

proposals . but the union itself proposals. but the union itself promising to end the strikes if the salary increase recommendation is actually accepted. >> education minister robert halfon said it was impossible to say what decision would be taken after being pressed for a response to industrial action at schools today. earlier we spoke with joint general secretary of the national education union about this schoolteacher review bodyis about this schoolteacher review body is so concerned by the evidence we've presented about teacher recruitment and retention difficulties and so concerned about the level of the strike action that we believe they've recommended a 6.5% pay rise. >> the government, first of all, offered us 3.5, then they went to 4.5. the sgb has recommended 6.5 and despite the government saying it was going to go to the independent review body, despite rishi sunak saying they've always accepted the independent review bodies, there are strong rumours that rishi sunak intends

to ignore this report and cap the pay rise, not go with the sgb. that will really enrage our members. if that's true , and members. if that's true, and would 6.5% be enough to actually end your particular action? >> i think that our members would probably very probably take 6.5 with this caveat that that it would have to be funded well enough in our schools . well enough in our schools. >> that would be the question . >> that would be the question. the 6.5 and the funding are members constantly tell us it's not just the pay, it's also the funding of the pay rise. so it would be both of those elements. government should be sitting down, should be publishing the sgb report so we can all see whether it says or they whether it says 6.5 or not. they should be publishing that and then they should sit down and talk about and there talk with us about it. and there is a way of bringing this dispute to a close. or alternatively, we are reballoting you have to that reballoting you have to do that every six months. and three other unions that organise teachers teachers in teachers and head teachers in our also balloting.

our schools are also balloting. and so there could be coordinated industrial action across all those unions in the autumn term and that action would close almost every school in the country whenever there was strike day, nobody wants was a strike day, nobody wants to that. we want to find to do that. we want to find a solution that starts to solve the problem of teacher recruitment and retention, which is to real impact on is leading to real impact on children every they children every day when they don't have qualified teacher, don't have a qualified teacher, when got a temporary when they've got a temporary teacher, a succession of temporary teachers. it's temporary teachers. so it's impacting on children every day. we find solution that we want to find a solution that starts that right . starts to put that right. >> but what would you say to thousands of parents? kevin or who might be so severely affected by this joint industrial action in the autumn? there's already been, what, 7 or 8 strikes already? this year it's going to cause absolute chaos and pandemonium , isn't it, chaos and pandemonium, isn't it, for families ? well you're right. for families? well you're right. >> there have been eight days of strike action and on each one i have sincerely apologised to parents for the disruption of their children's education and

for the disruption of their home lives. we don't want to take action in the autumn . we want action in the autumn. we want the government to find a solution . but the point that we solution. but the point that we make to parents and actually we're getting hearing we're getting a strong hearing from parents is that their children education is being disrupted every day by the teacher shortage and by the lack of funding, by the fact that special needs support assistants are leaving jobs in schools to go and work in supermarkets, not supporting children with special needs. that chemistry needs. the fact that chemistry classes have chemistry classes don't have chemistry teachers , all of is teachers, all of that is disruption. every day, and parents actually very parents are actually very supportive of those demands. they want the government to invest in their generation. in this generation of children. they want to invest their they want to invest in their kids, their schools and the kids, their kids schools and the people in them. people who work in them. >> kevin courtney the national education union coming up. stay with to liverpool crown with us live to liverpool crown court for the sentencing of conor chapman murder of conor chapman for the murder of ellie . ellie edwards. >> a brighter outlook with boxed suella proud sponsors of weather on . gb news.

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pub in merseyside on christmas eve. >> we'll bring you that sentencing live . sentencing live. >> you will always be our shining star. the tribute for the eight year old girl killed at the wimbledon primary school crash. police continuing to question a woman in her 40s arrested on suspicion of death by dangerous driving . by dangerous driving. >> a terrible accident. that's the conclusion of the coroner following an inquest into the deaths of four boys who drowned after falling into a frozen lake in solihull near birmingham . the in solihull near birmingham. the inquest also heard police formed a human chain and punched through the ice to pull the children out . children out. >> also coming up, we'll have the thoughts of a teaching union leader with a warning that all those unions could walk out of our schools next term over a pay award they say has already been recommended by the independent pay recommended by the independent pay all the pay review body. first, all the latest headlines coming up with

rhiannon . rhiannon. >> mark, thank you. good afternoon. it's one minute past to your top stories from the newsroom . a coroner has newsroom. a coroner has concluded the deaths of four boys who drowned after falling into a frozen lake near solihull was a terrible accident . was a terrible accident. brothers six year old samuel and eight year old finley butler died along with their 11 year old cousin, thomas stewart and ten year old jack johnson . the ten year old jack johnson. the court heard the children went to babbs mill lake in kingshurst in december last year to skim stone and feed the ducks. police formed a human chain to punch through the ice and pull the children out of the lake, but all later died . superintendent all later died. superintendent richard harris says his officers did everything they could to save them . save them. >> my local officers were >> my own local officers were the first to arrive on the scene within minutes of the initial call and tried so desperately to rescue the boys that afternoon . rescue the boys that afternoon. with many wading into subzero

water up to their necks to form a human chain , they had no a human chain, they had no specialist equipment, but bravely smashed their way through the ice with their batons and fists in a bid to find the boys, a woman continues to be questioned over a car crash at a school in london which killed an eight year old girl. >> 16 people needed treatment after a land rover crashed into the study prep school in wimbledon yesterday. 12 people were taken to hospital. the met police hasn't given an update on the condition of those injured. the woman in her 40s remains in custody. she was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving . the dangerous driving. the government has doubled down on its refusal to commit to accepting teachers pay review proposals . education is a right i >> -- >> that is 5mm em >> that is why we have to fight members of the national education union are taking part in a second day of industrial action. >> this week. they warned they

could there could be more strikes in the autumn term. all four education unions reject the government's offer of a one off payment and a 4.5% pay rise next year. payment and a 4.5% pay rise next year . a science teacher on the year. a science teacher on the picket line told us he'd like a pay picket line told us he'd like a pay rise in line with inflation. >> we feel that our pay has been cut significantly as a result of stagnating wages for education in and rising inflation and we feel that this government hasn't been willing to do enough to support education. and we know that so many, so many new teachers are leaving the profession so early. it's unsustainable . the wages are not unsustainable. the wages are not meeting the work that they're being asked to put in, and it's driving people out of the system. and that's really bad for students . for students. >> radiographers who carry out scans on patients ants will stage a 48 hour strike later this month over pay. the walkout will take place from 8 am. on the 25th of july. the society of

radiography radiography says its members at 43 nhs trusts will take part in the strike action. the announcement comes after union members voted to reject the government's pay offer of 5% plus a non—consolidated lump sum . scottish ministers are calling on the uk government to decriminalise all drugs for personal supply, while downing street says rishi sunak has no plans to alter his tough stance on drugs. the move would allow people found in possession of drugs to be treated and supported rather than criminalised and excluded. the scottish government says it would mean without a criminal record people in recovery would have a better chance of employment . energy giant shell employment. energy giant shell says its gas profits are significantly lower in the second quarter of the year. the oil and gas firm says trading has been impacted by seasonal shifts in the market. in the

first three months of 2023. it also expects an adjusted loss of between 6 and $800 million for the quarter . between 6 and $800 million for the quarter. mps have criticised the quarter. mps have criticised the government's handling of the hs2, euston station project in london in a report by the public accounts committee . the accounts committee. the government is accused of lacking clarity in its objectives, despite coyte eight years worth of planning , the project has of planning, the project has experienced delays and hs2 trains are now not expected to run into euston until 2041. the government says it remains committed to delivering the project and archaeological excavations for a new hotel in dubun excavations for a new hotel in dublin city centre. have uncovered burial sites dating back over a thousand years. as around 100 skeletal remains from the middle ages were discovered in the area where saint mary's abbey once stood. two of the remains are believed to date back to the early 11th century.

the findings will be carefully analysed and the hotel plans to incorporate the historic structures into its design . this structures into its design. this is gb news will bring you more as it happens. now, though, it's back over to mark and . back over to mark and. pip rhiannon . rhiannon. >> thank you very much indeed. you will always be our shining star. so reads the simple note that's been left with a growing collection of flowers outside the wimbledon prep school, where an eight year old girl pupil was killed yesterday. >> 16 others were hurt, some of them seriously, as the education minister earlier urged everyone to pray for the school and the families . families. >> while the study prep school says it's been profoundly shocked by the accident and the welfare of their pupils and families top families remains their top priority . priority. >> a woman in her 40s is still being held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after land rover

driving after a land rover defender collided with a school building where an end of term party was being held. >> our london reporter lisa hartle has the latest for us from outside the school. >> all morning, people from the local community have been coming here to lay flowers to light candles in tribute to the little girl, the eight year old girl that lost her life here yesterday. when a car drove into the school grounds, injuring 16 people, 16 of those were treated at the scene . ten of them were at the scene. ten of them were taken to hospital . it's really taken to hospital. it's really obviously rocked the community. there's been many people coming here looking in a distressed state, leaving flowers and we spoke to one of the ladies just a moment ago called dora, her daughter actually attended the school many years ago. and this is what she had to say. >> was very sweet moment, but >> it was very sweet moment, but yesterday, you saw on the last day , it's very shocking . day, it's very shocking. >> i'm so sorry. it's

unbelievable . and my daughter unbelievable. and my daughter was so upset last night. she couldn't go. she couldn't go to sleep. she said, mommy , what sleep. she said, mommy, what happened? i said , i don't know. happened? i said, i don't know. everybody is shocked in a community. we all are. we trying to understand to make sense and hopefully and the investigation we all and then from there, probably we will come up with ideas how to prevent it, that it happens again, you know? well not only here, it can be other places, too. yes. other schools i >> -- >> it was lam >> it was just before 10 am. yesterday morning when a car, a land rover, drove onto through the fence, onto the school grounds, injuring 16 people. they were treated at the scene, ten of them were taken to hospital . and the eight year and hospital. and the eight year and eight year old girl lost her life. police say that she died at the scene . it was the last at the scene. it was the last day of school before they broke up for the summer holidays. and it's believed that the children were enjoying an event on the lawn celebrating before they broke up from school. when the

incident happened. a woman in her 40s has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. yesterday around 6:00, we saw what we believe to be the car involved in the incident being taken away by by police recovery. police recovery vehicle covered in green tarp in. and police have asked people not to speculate as to what happened here, but they've checked cctv. their next phase of the investigation will to be contact witnesses. and they're asking anyone with information to contact them on 101. >> and that 40 year old woman still being questioned by police will update you, of course, as we get any more from that. now, the government refusing to commit the commit to accepting the recommendation of teachers recommendation of the teachers independent review body independent pay review body despite union saying it would despite a union saying it would end its strikes if that 6.5% recommendation was accepted , recommendation was accepted, added education minister robert harford said it was impossible to say what decision would be taken after being pressed for a response to industrial action at schools today. let's get more

from westminster and our political reporter olivia utley . and olivia, just to explain to people there's a huge gap between the 4.3. i think that the unions say they've been offered official money and the 6.5% that they believe the pay review body has recommended . review body has recommended. well yes, absolutely. >> the government is in a pretty awkward situation . earlier this awkward situation. earlier this yeah awkward situation. earlier this year, it offered teachers a one off payment of £1,000 for the year 22, 23, and then a 4.3% pay rise going forwards from 2024 onwards. that was rejected out of hand by all of the teaching unions involved. and the question was referred over to the independent pay body commission. now that's an organisation , an independent organisation, an independent organisation, an independent organisation which is instructed by the government to give recommendations on pay. the independent pay commission came back to the government about 2 or 3 months ago with its recommendation on now. gillian keegan. the education secretary, hasn't yet published what that recommendation was , but it's

recommendation was, but it's been widely reported that that recommendation was 6.5% to whole percentage points higher than what the government had offered to teachers already . it's also to teachers already. it's also higher than any recommendation that any pay body has suggested for any sort of public pay. workers all of the others are hovering around the sort of 6% mark. now, it seems at the moment the government is trying to bide its time. it isn't yet ready to say no, we will not accept that recommendation . accept that pay recommendation. but that it has refused but the fact that it has refused to publish that to publish what that recommendation was suggests it's pretty reluctant to go go ahead with this 6.5% pay rise. now, of course, we've heard from the government time and time again that the problem with public sector workers getting these that the problem with public sectyof workers getting these that the problem with public sectyof inflationietting these that the problem with public sectyof inflation busting1ese that the problem with public sectyof inflation busting pay sort of inflation busting pay rises, as they're called, is that it ends up being inflationary. we see a we see a higher wage spiral leading to higher wage spiral leading to higher prices in shops . so higher prices in the shops. so the government has been holding that and quite that line so far and quite helpfully for them . labour have helpfully for them. labour have actually said that they wouldn't necessarily commit to the 6.5% pay necessarily commit to the 6.5% pay rise but of course

pay rise either, but of course it's going to get harder and harder government to harder for the government to commit not raising that, not commit to not raising that, not going any higher than 4.5% when of course we're seeing schools shuttered and empty. not just now, but threats for the same thing happening in the autumn term . term. >> and olivia just coyte explain to us the authority or the standing , if you like, of the standing, if you like, of the independent pay review body, because clearly the other aspect of this is that all the unions say that as a result of this, they may take combined action, if you like, in the autumn term i >> -- >> well , exactly. the unions are >> well, exactly. the unions are saying that if they are well, a couple of union leaders, at least mary bousted among them, very influential union leader , very influential union leader, has said that if the government agreed to the 6.5% pay rise, recommended by the independent pay recommended by the independent pay body review, then she would call off the strikes. but if they don't, they would be prepared to take joint action in the autumn, which would be very damaging indeed. and there is also the prospect in autumn also the prospect in the autumn of teachers striking, which of head teachers striking, which

would whole schools would mean that whole schools would mean that whole schools would to close. the would be forced to close. at the moment, tends to happen is moment, what tends to happen is large of school have large parts of the school have to but for example, to close down, but for example, provision and provision is made for gcse and a—level pupils . if unions took a—level pupils. if unions took control concerted action together next autumn , that could together next autumn, that could mean whole schools closing down for days on end. now you talked about the standing of the independent pay body commission. well, of course they only give recommendations. it is up to ministers to decide whether to heed those recommendations. but but historically, this government has always taken on board the recommended actions that pay bodies have recommended . so it would be unprecedented if they broke with that tradition. now >> indeed. well, thank you for updating us with that. and we'll see, course , what continues see, of course, what continues in of any negotiations, in terms of any negotiations, not that they've been taking place, of course, for the moment i >> -- >> well, earlier today, we spoke with joint general secretary of the national union national education union about this schoolteacher review body is so concerned by the evidence we've

presented about teacher recruitment and retention difficulties and so concerned about the level of the strike action that we believe they've recommended a 6.5% pay rise. >> the government, first of all, offered us 3.5. then they went to 4.5. the sgb has recommended 6.5 and despite the government saying it was going to go to the independent review body, despite rishi sunak saying they've always accepted the independent review bodies, there are strong rumours that rishi sunak intends to ignore this report and cap the pay rise, not go with the sgb. that will really enrage our members if that's true. >> and would 6.5% being enough to actually end your particular action? i think that our members would probably very probably take 6.5 with this caveat that it would have to be funded. >> well enough in our schools . >> well enough in our schools. that would be the question. the

6.5 and the funding are members constant . tell us it's not just constant. tell us it's not just the pay , it's also the funding the pay, it's also the funding of the pay rise. so it would be both of those elements. government should be sitting down, should be publishing the sgb so we can all see sgb report so we can all see whether it says 6.5 or not. they should be publishing that and then should sit down and then they should sit down and talk with us about it. and there is a way bringing this is a way of bringing this dispute a close or dispute to a close or alternatively, are alternatively, we are reballoting. you have do reballoting. you have to do that every six months. and three other that organise other unions that organise teachers head teachers in teachers and head teachers in our schools are also balloting. teachers and head teachers in our �*so ools are also balloting. teachers and head teachers in our �*so there|re also balloting. teachers and head teachers in our �*so there couldo balloting. teachers and head teachers in our �*so there could be alloting. and so there could be coordinated industrial action across all those unions in the autumn term and that action would close almost every school in the country whenever there was a strike day, nobody wants to do that. we want to find a solution that starts to solve the problem of teacher recruitment and retention, which is leading to real impact on children when they children every day when they don't qualified don't have a qualified teacher, when they've got a temporary teacher, succession of teacher, a succession of temporary teachers. so it's impacting on children every day. we find a solution that

we want to find a solution that starts to put that right. >> would you say to the >> but what would you say to the to thousands of parents, kevin , to thousands of parents, kevin, who, you know, might be so severely affected by this joint industrial action in the autumn? there's already been what 7 or 8 strikes already this year it's going to cause absolute chaos and pandemonium, isn't it, for families ? families? >> well, you're right. there have been eight days of strike action and i on each one, i have sincerely apologised to parents for the disruption of their children's education and for the disruption of their home lives. we don't want to take action in the autumn. we want the government to find a solution. but the point that we make to parents and actually we're getting a hearing from getting a strong hearing from parents that their children's parents is that their children's education is being disrupted every day by the teacher shortages and by the lack of funding, by the fact that special needs support assistants are leaving jobs in schools to go and work in supermarkets, not supporting children with special needs fact chemistry needs. the fact that chemistry classes have chemistry

classes don't have chemistry teachers, that is teachers, all of that is disruption every day. and parents are actually very supportive of those demands. they want the government to invest their generation , in invest in their generation, in this generation of children. they want to invest in their kids, their kids schools and the people work in them that was people who work in them that was kevin courtney, joint general, secretary national secretary of the national education union, talking to us a little earlier . little earlier. >> us here on gb news. >> stay with us here on gb news. in the next few minutes, we will be going live to liverpool for the sentencing of 23 year old conor chapman for the murder of beautician ellie edwards last christmas eve . christmas eve. >> that warm feeling inside from boxed boilers , proud sponsors of boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hi there. it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office with the gb news forecast. it's a fine afternoon for many of us, dry and bright, plenty of sunshine for england wales sunshine for england and wales and feeling well. and it's feeling warmer as well. but thunderstorms are but some thunderstorms are likely to form in places most especially western parts of

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after falling into a frozen lake near solihull was a terrible accident . brothers samuel butler accident. brothers samuel butler and findlay butler dying alongside their 11 year old cousin and another boy , jack cousin and another boy, jack johnson, on the 11th of december last year. absolutely heartbreaking, this story. >> police arrived within minutes and desperately tried to save the boys, ignoring safety advice, entering the water and using their bare fists and batons to break through the ice. they even made a human chain to try and reach them. >> well, jack carson can join us from birmingham coroner's court. and jack, as well as going through the inquest, of course, and jack, as well as going thro were he inquest, of course, and jack, as well as going thro were reportingt, of course, and jack, as well as going thro were reporting from :ourse, and jack, as well as going thro were reporting from these, and jack, as well as going throwere reporting from the lake you were reporting from the lake itself, babbs mill, at the time . um, obviously you . um, and obviously you encountered those conditions. i think just five degrees in terms of the air temperature. the water temperature even lower than that . yeah that's something than that. yeah that's something that was that was very much picked on and explained by the witnesses and the evidence that was given by the emergency services today at the inquest here at birmingham coroner's court that you say that air

temperature of five degrees, but that of course that colder water temperature because we know that the surface of the lake was frozen over. >> i remember being there and it was minus seven degrees at time. it was a real cold spell in the winter, which is why that ice had formed on the lake. and of course, and invited not just, of course, and invited not just, of course, those but people, course, those boys, but people, as we heard reports across as we heard from reports across the reports of people the country of reports of people playing ice as well. of playing on the ice as well. of course, the coroner and senior coroner for birmingham crown court louise hunt did of court louise hunt did rule, of course , that all these deaths course, that all these deaths were accidental , that each of were accidental, that each of the had died because the four boys had died because of the of drowning . of the effects of drowning. there were some specific incidents, of course, particularly with with sam, where she did mention that it was, course, brain damage, was, of course, brain damage, but that brain damage caused but that was brain damage caused by effect of drowning. sam. by the effect of drowning. sam. sam of course, was the last of the four children to be confirmed to have died a few days later . confirmed to have died a few days later. he was at birmingham children's hospital, where he was with his brother . he children's hospital, where he was with his brother. he was with his brother, finley. now, louise say that all of

louise hunt did say that all of these deaths these boys deaths are a devastating tragedy and she said to the families that she hoped today made a better they today had made a better they could have a better understanding of what had happened. and that that she couldn't make their pain go away . now, today, of course, as the police gave evidence, particularly, we did hear of the circum stances how those boys circum stances of how those boys all came to be on the lake. jack johnson, of course, ten years old. he was with a group of friends. they'd gone to the lake to skim some stones on the surface. sam and his brother finley butler and their cousin, thomas stewart. they'd gone to the lake to feed some feed some stale bread to the salts. and afterwards, after the inquest, when we heard, of course , from when we heard, of course, from the police, ambulance service and the fire service as well, area commander for alex shapland from the west midlands fire service gave a warning about the dangers of water as well as reaction to the result. >> the deaths of jack, tom, sam and finn is an absolute tragedy

. i think it's every parent carers , family members, worst carers, family members, worst nightmare . as a parent myself, nightmare. as a parent myself, father to two young boys, i can't even imagine the pain that the family , friends and the family, friends and communities are going through following that tragic events on the 11th of december of last yeah the 11th of december of last year. whether it's in the winter or it's in the summer, open water can kill. we lose 270 people on average each year to open water. and people need to know the dangers . know the dangers. >> well, you heard there, of course, a particularly warning at the end of the dangers of open water in winter and in the summer as well. and the family is at the end of this inquest. thanks all of the emergency services and they said in court at the hearing that they believe in content, the in their content, that the emergency did emergency services did everything to try and everything they could to try and save boys. jack thanks save their boys. jack thanks very much indeed for updating us there outside the coroner's court. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> joining us is saqib >> joining us now is saqib bhatti, the mp for meriden ,

bhatti, the mp for meriden, which is the constituency where this tragedy happened. thanks for talking to us on gb news. such dreadful, heartbreaking details coming out about this tragedy. how has it impacted on the whole community? you know, we're seven months on, but still they must be so deeply affected . we hear that emergency services, you know, they are still having treatment for the trauma they endured . trauma they endured. >> it's an absolutely devastating inaya . and actually, devastating inaya. and actually, the community at the time came to an absolute standstill. they all came out in droves to support each other and support the family. but you're absolutely right. this really does stay with you. i was speaking to someone yesterday as the story of the school in wimbledon came out and parents who were affected by what happenedin who were affected by what happened in kings started talking about the babbs mill lake tragedy because, of course, these were just, you know, for very , very young children. you very, very young children. you

know, their whole lives ahead of them. two weeks before christmas at all they were doing was wanting to skim stones and feed the ducks. such a such an innocent act tivity and it ended innocent act tivity and it ended in such tragedy and it you know, even talking about it to you, i get goosebumps just thinking about it. >> yeah. and louise hunt, the coroner paying tribute to the emergency services and their attempts. but let's reflect to the boys themselves, try to save each other. and that was part of the evidence inquest the evidence that the inquest heard . heard. >> absolutely . in that moment >> absolutely. in that moment when every thing happened so suddenly, what what the details that have emerged is the boys went to help each other out with no thought to their own safety . no thought to their own safety. they were just trying to help each other out. and i think i think findlay was the first one that fell through the ice . and, that fell through the ice. and, you know , tragedy, tragedy you know, tragedy, tragedy ensued. and of course , what we ensued. and of course, what we know is when water is that cold, the body effectively goes into shock almost immediately . and shock almost immediately. and you know, the clock is on and

the emergency services , as has the emergency services, as has been, you know, obviously, i knew from anecdotal stories at the time , but they turned up the time, but they turned up within really, really good time. they did everything they could. and the coroner today reported that they they effectively formed a human chain and used their batons and their fists to break through the ice. and with no regard to their own personal safety, there really heroic. >> yeah. within nine minutes. i think the response . but also think the response. but also let's reflect on what alex chapun let's reflect on what alex chaplin said that from the fire service after the inquest saying tell your children, don't let something like this happen again. and i guess that's the other thing we ought to take from this, that you know, we need to aware of water need to be aware now of water safety warnings . safety warnings. >> mean , >> absolutely. i mean, interestingly, a few days after that, because you'll remember it was really, really cold around that, because you'll remember it wathatnlly, really cold around that, because you'll remember it wathat time.yally cold around that, because you'll remember it wathat time. and cold around that, because you'll remember it wathat time. and it ld around that, because you'll remember it wathat time. and it was'ound that, because you'll remember it wathat time. and it was really at that time. and it was really icy and there were reports of in other parts in of the country where people were going on to lakes still despite this tragedy happening. and i think there was

an educational piece i met with nick gibb, the education minister, just a few weeks ago , minister, just a few weeks ago, actually to talk about this and what we can do around water safety . and actually water safety. and actually water safety. and actually water safety is part of the curriculum. what what needs curriculum. but what what needs to be emphasised and the point i made was made to the minister was actually we need to talk about what happens in open waters in the in the winter and the summer and in the winter and how safety around that. how to do safety around that. and is a consultation and there is a consultation happening around the syllabus which i'll be making contributions to, to sure contributions to, to make sure that push this up the that we can push this up the agenda because i the agenda because i think the national water safety forum talks year talks about 400 deaths a year and they are you know, i don't want to say they're all avoidable, but certainly you can do something to make an impact on that. >> saqib bhatti, mp for meriden, thank you very much for bringing us reaction and joining us us your reaction and joining us on news. thank you. on gb news. thank you. >> few moments, we >> in the next few moments, we will be going live liverpool will be going live to liverpool crown the sentencing crown court for the sentencing of old conor chapman. of 23 year old conor chapman. found murder of found guilty of the murder of beautician ellie edwards on christmas eve . that's very christmas eve. that's very shortly. first, though, your headunes shortly. first, though, your

headlines rhiannon . headlines with rhiannon. >> thank you, pip. good afternoon . it's 232. your top afternoon. it's 232. your top stories from the gb newsroom . a stories from the gb newsroom. a coroner has concluded the deaths of four boys who drowned after falling into a frozen lake near solihull was a terrible accident . brothers six year old samuel and eight year old finley butler died along with their 11 year old cousin, thomas stewart and ten year old jack johnson . the ten year old jack johnson. the court heard the children went to babbs mill lake in kingshurst in december last year to skim stones and feed the ducks . stones and feed the ducks. police formed a human chain to punch through the ice and pull the children out of the lake. but all four later died . a woman but all four later died. a woman continues to be questioned over a car crash at a school in london which killed an eight year old girl. 16 people needed treatment after a land rover crashed into the study prep school in wimbledon yesterday. 12 people were taken to hospital

. the met police hasn't given an update on the condition of those injured. the woman in her 40s remains in custody . she was remains in custody. she was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving . the death by dangerous driving. the government has doubled down on its refuse to commit to accepting teachers pay review proposals as members of the national education union are taking part in a second day of industrial action this week. they've warned of further strikes in the autumn term all for education. unions rejected the government's offer of a one off payment and a 4.5% pay rise for next year. more than 300 people have been intercepted in small boats in the english channelin small boats in the english channel in the early hours of this morning. it's channel in the early hours of this morning . it's the first this morning. it's the first crossing in seven days following poor weather conditions. ins gb news understands today's crossings pushed off from a 60 mile stretch of the french coastline from dunkirk to boulogne. it brings the total number of crossings so far this

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radio. >> well, let's update you here on the live desk with a 23 year old man found guilty of the murder of the beautician. ellie edwards shot dead outside that pub in merseyside in christmas eve due to be sentenced imminently . imminently. >> he jury at liverpool crown >> he a jury at liverpool crown court convicted connor chapman, who fired 12 bullets from a scorpion sub machine gun outside the lighthouse inn in wallasey, just ten minutes before christmas day last year. well, let's cross to liverpool crown court and speak with gb news nonh court and speak with gb news north west of england. reporter sophie reaper sophie, we understand in court at the

moment victim impact statements are being read out those statements. the court hearing words from ellie edwards brother, her father tim, and also her mother who wasn't actually able to come to court today who says her health has deteriorated. but that sentencing from the judge will be taking place very , very . soon be taking place very, very. soon >> it will indeed. we are a little bit delayed here. but as you say, those impact statements being read out as we speak and then we'll move on to judge goose, giving that sense , goose, giving that sense, saying, of course, we now know connor chapman found connor chapman has been found guilty by that jury on all charges, eight charges in total , including the murder of 26 year old beautician ellie edwards. but also the possession of a submachine gun. the possession of ammunition with intent to endanger life, as well as several other counts. we now know that the reason for the attack was to, in an attempt to

target and kill two other men who were injured in the attack. but did both survive. that's as a result of rival gang activity between the two estates on the wirral . gun activity in itself wirral. gun activity in itself has become a rife issue in merseyside that police say they are trying to crack down on. but there's multiple incidents in there's multiple incidents in the last year that have made national news because it has become so, so prevalent in the in the region. but of course, we now know that connor chapman alongside him, his co—defendant , thomas waring, they'll both be sentenced for their crimes a little bit later on this afternoon here at liverpool crown court. >> now, tim edwards had died, i think, in his statement, has told the court, we've been given a life sentence, having committed no crime. i mean, ellie, clearly was just an innocent bystander at this pub. but mrjustice goose, the innocent bystander at this pub. but mr justice goose, the judge already has told the court he is considering a whole life order for this because of her murder.

and as you said, five others injured when, what, 12 bullets were sprayed from this submachine gun . of course. submachine gun. of course. >> and you mentioned the whole life sentence that the edwards family is now facing. we've seen footage from the pub that night, just ten minutes before christmas eve, the before christmas eve, the before christmas day, excuse me, that the attack actually happened . the attack actually happened. but throughout that night, we've seen footage of ellie just having a good time, just just hours before christmas day. it is truly so tragic. and that's something that her family are now going to have to deal with for the rest of their lives . you for the rest of their lives. you mentioned her mother there has been to come court been unable to come to court because of deteriorating because of her deteriorating health. this of thing health. this kind of thing really the biggest really does leave the biggest and most horrendous kind of impact families. rips them impact on families. it rips them apart and really does stay with them . you say there that justice them. you say there that justice goose has said has considered goose has said he has considered giving the whole life sentence. we will, of course, find out as the sentence comes out whether or not that is the case. but

just to say this is obviously a huge tragedy. that's been felt not only here in merseyside , but not only here in merseyside, but across the entire uk. >> yeah, and we are we are hearing, sophie, that ellie's relatives, they are sitting in the public gallery, many of them are in tears. her father tim, sitting there with his head in his hands and he has been very clear and i suppose this is a way of helping him through his grief. he's very clear that grief. he's been very clear that he now wants to help tackle gun violence. he has made it his mission . mission. >> he has indeed. mission. >> he has indeed . we heard from >> he has indeed. we heard from tim yesterday outside the court calling connor chapman a coward, saying that they've they've had to endure this three and a half weeks because of his cowardice and that he hopes that chapman and that he hopes that chapman and thomas waring never see another christmas day . he's now another christmas day. he's now become a huge advocate against gun violence. we see this kind of thing all the time. of course, the family of olivia pratt—korbel, another case that i'm many our viewers i'm sure many of our viewers will they are now will remember, they are now obviously huge advocates against

gun crime. and it's when a family is affected by gun crime, it does often become the case that they then completely go the opposite way and do become advocates against gun crime. and the impacts that it can have on the impacts that it can have on the family once they themselves have experienced that . have experienced that. >> and just to underline the task facing the police , i think task facing the police, i think the assistant chief constable was saying the estimate is there are some 120 separate gangs across merseyside. but of course, in this particular shooting, it went effectively across the water from liverpool itself to the wirral, which is , itself to the wirral, which is, you know, a rather more up—market area, shall we say, of merseyside . merseyside. >> well, of course liverpool is a very large city and merseyside in itself is a very large region. so you say there the number of gangs that sheer volume of this issue. it really does seem that merseyside police have got their work cut out for them, but they say that they are going to do absolutely whatever

it takes to stamp down on this issue. there's been huge numbers of arrests over the past few months since we've seen this huge spike in in incidents. months since we've seen this huge spike in in incidents . so huge spike in in incidents. so but the task is now in their hands and they say they're going to do what it takes. so we'll have to just leave it with them and see if they're able to manage that. >> sophie, for the moment, thank you for that. back to you. of course, at the crown court as that sentencing begins. thank you. >> now we are going to just lighten mood little by lighten the mood a little by talking about news new talking about gb news new campaign. cash, which campaign. don't kill cash, which you've probably heard about, because we've talking about because we've been talking about it week . it all week. >> days in indeed . and the >> five days in indeed. and the number of signatures is over. these five days now reaching 168,000 following our launch on monday . just to remind you, monday. just to remind you, 100,000 plus signatures enables parliament debate, perhaps to be called for to help save the poundin called for to help save the pound in your pocket. >> well , if pound in your pocket. >> well, if you want to pound in your pocket. >> well , if you want to get >> well, if you want to get involved, you can grab your phone to scan and sign or sign

the petition at gb news. acas com forward slash cash dash. joining us now is gb news economics and business editor liam halligan to tell us all about how the campaign is going with on the money . so why did we with on the money. so why did we launch this campaign here at gb news? >> we've had campaigns in the past. we had campaigns to scrap the vat on fuel bills , which liz the vat on fuel bills, which liz truss then introduced , and then truss then introduced, and then jeremy hunt unintroduced it. anyway, we launched this campaign because we've had endless emails and letters from gb news viewers and listeners. they don't like the fact that in many places now bars, restaurants, clubs . you can't restaurants, clubs. you can't use cash, you can only use cards. and of course there are over a million people in this country without bank accounts. and there are many, many more without smartphone phones and apps and so on. and you all know yourself, pip, if you want to try and park somewhere in a town, you have to download an

app town, you have to download an app onto your phone. the app might be different the week might be different from the week before the parking before because the parking companies it might be companies changed. it might be different from the car park around the where you around the corner where you usually around the corner where you usuit's a pain in the you know what? >> you then got to be on with fi, whatever that means for a lot people. and then you've lot of people. and then you've got and it's got to download the and it's just nightmare. all, all you just a nightmare. all, all you want to do is put a couple of quid in a slot in a box on the streets. then you can go and meet friend for coffee, do meet your friend for coffee, do your shopping get on with your shopping and get on with your shopping and get on with your day. and of course there are powerful vested interests who away from who want to shift us away from cash. be quite cash. well, let's let's be quite clear this. clear about this. >> not government policy >> this is not government policy to go for a cashless society. it is commercial decision by is a commercial decision by businesses because actually is a commercial decision by businthem because actually is a commercial decision by businthem less use actually is a commercial decision by businthem less for actually is a commercial decision by businthem less for us actually is a commercial decision by businthem less for us to ually is a commercial decision by businthem less for us to usey costs them less for us to use our cards. and it does for them. >> if you're a big >> if you're if you're a big retailer, you spend lot of retailer, you spend a lot of money, lot of banking charges money, a lot of banking charges on cash handling. you know, the quy's on cash handling. you know, the guy's to the core people guy's sick to the core people with know, with the with the, you know, protective and the protective headgear and the cashiers the rest of it. cashiers and all the rest of it. it costs lot of money to it costs a lot of money to handle and cash around. it handle and move cash around. it costs lot of money to account

costs a lot of money to account for cash. so if you can get away with going using with people just going using their debit card, that's a technical term, way. then technical term, by the way. then then you will. but you know, the thing is, you've also got the big tech companies, mark, because they want to monitor all spending . if they monitor all spending. if they monitor all spending, where we spend, what we spend on on how much we spend, at what time of day, they can then sell that information. it's called surveillance capitalism to other third party party marketing companies who can then track us and then put in our social media feeds, stuff that they think we want to buy. >> there's another very important aspect to this, which we touched on in terms of the train ticketing machines and the move being suggested move that's being suggested by the rail delivery group not to go for ticket offices and go indeed for ticket offices and handing a cash over, but it's all be done with the all going to be done with the machine impaired machine visually impaired people, sorts people, people with those sorts of problems say, look, you know, we basically where we don't know basically where you put the card in, what you press because of obviously the technology is so limited, but we can feel coins in our pocket or

know what's in that move away from having ticket offices. >> you know, hundreds and hundreds ticket offices . the hundreds of ticket offices. the rail delivery group are now saying not going to have saying they're not going to have any staff there at all, which of course, more course, makes it much more difficult visually impaired difficult for visually impaired people make more people as it does make it more difficult can't use difficult when they can't use cash, of course. >> there's the issue of >> but also there's the issue of budgeting. so much easier budgeting. it's so much easier to budget when you've got cash. you know, remember days you know, we remember the days of up the of pocket money filling up the piggy - of pocket money filling up the piggy . half of them are piggy bank. half of them are really missing out. >> and if you've got a £20 note in your christmas card, if you're lucky enough, £20, you wouldn't ten shillings. wouldn't break ten shillings. you you wouldn't break wouldn't break ten shillings. you that you wouldn't break wouldn't break ten shillings. you that 20. you wouldn't break wouldn't break ten shillings. you that 20. you'dnouldn't break wouldn't break ten shillings. you that 20. you'd reallyl't break wouldn't break ten shillings. you that 20. you'd really think ak into that 20. you'd really think hard. now going to break hard. i'm now going to break into that £20 and that means, you know, that's quite a big thing. whereas course if thing. whereas of course if you're with a debit you're just going with a debit card you remember card, then you don't remember these as well. look, these things as well. look, for me , this is about recognising me, this is about recognising that the march of technology, which is inevitable, right? we don't want to leave people behind here. and there are an awful lot of old people and

indeed young people who haven't got smartphone phones for economic reasons. there are still 5 million of us in this country on cash daily. country who rely on cash daily. okay. a lot of us at the bottom end of the income spectrum, more vulnerable households with huge respect, we're using respect, and we're still using cash in the uk alone for 6 billion, that's 60 million transactions a year. we can't just let it just completely disappear or as it rapidly now is, let's also reflect on a legal aspect to this, and that is that cash is still legal tender for. >> so is there a question as to whether someone can refuse to accept cash when it's handed over ? over? >> this is what we want. clarify the law in this area is a bit grey, you know, of course it says on the front of any banknote, i promise to pay the bearer , yada yada. exactly. that bearer, yada yada. exactly. that means this has to be accepted as legal tender anywhere in the country at any time of the night or day or day. but is it acceptable to not accept cash ? acceptable to not accept cash? well, we don't know because the law hasn't caught up with what's actually happening . and that's

actually happening. and that's why we're launching this campaign. this responsible campaign. this is responsible journalism , in my view. we are journalism, in my view. we are trying to say to lawmakers, there's a problem here because there's a problem here because there are people who are getting left behind. they can't participate society. it's not participate in society. it's not just aspects of just the cultural aspects of cash, know, the tenner cash, you know, like the tenner and card, you know, and a birthday card, you know, slipping grand son quid slipping your grand son a quid or whatever when his mum and dad aren't looking. it's not just those things. it's also the fact that a lot of people in this country, for all the smartphones and ritzy bank and all the ritzy ditzy bank accounts of us have, accounts that lots of us have, over people, over a million people, about a million and half people in million and a half people in this don't have a bank this country don't have a bank account more don't have account and many more don't have a smartphone. >> the response the campaign >> the response to the campaign so far has been brilliant. >> you much and >> so thank you very much and let's it going, because we let's keep it going, because we at news we don't just at gb news know we don't just launch these campaigns. willy nilly. we've done of nilly. we've done a lot of political research. there are senior politicians across the commons parties commons from all parties who back this campaign. >> okay, liam, thank you very much indeed for that. and the figure had on the on the just figure we had on the on the just under 170,000, so thousand and climbing news .com forward

climbing gb news .com forward slash cash. climbing gb news .com forward slazgetash. climbing gb news .com forward slazget on. climbing gb news .com forward slazget on that website and it's >> get on that website and it's just one click. >> liam thank you very much indeed. let's return to liverpool crown court now. we're awaiting sentencing of that awaiting the sentencing of that 23 year old man found guilty of murdering elle edwards, of course, outside that course, shot dead outside that pub on christmas pub in merseyside on christmas eve. and sophie is still there for us. and sophie, you were indicating earlier when you joined us that the family were waiting to go in. they're making their their witness or impact statements. how did they come across to you? because, of course, they had to go through all the details in terms of the verdict in court. verdict yesterday in court. >> i think if i had to use one word to describe them, it would be calm. actually there was a lot of love between them . there lot of love between them. there was a lot of hugging and talking and kisses on cheeks and that kind of thing. but other than that, there didn't really seem to be too much heavy emotion . it to be too much heavy emotion. it was a calm atmosphere as they all kind of gathered together in all kind of gathered together in a group. they met up just

outside the court and then went in as one collective unit . i in as one collective unit. i think this kind of thing really obviously does take a toll on families when they suffer such a tragic loss under such horrendous circumstances. and then to have to endure three and a half weeks in court, facing connor chapman, who they knew potentially could have been their daughter or their sister or their or their friend's killer . and then ultimately to killer. and then ultimately to find out that the jury actually came back in a relatively short amount of time. so they must have been fairly certain with their verdict. they came back after around 3.5 hours with that unanimous guilty verdict. so i think for them , this has been a think for them, this has been a really trying time. obviously this happened back in december. we're now six, seven months on from that point . so it's been from that point. so it's been something they've had to live with and wait and wonder with up until this point. so i think there must be almost a sense of relief that the person who has killed ellie is now going to go

to prison for whatever amount of time the judge will sentence him for. but that relief must be there to know that he will be behind bars. and tim, her father yesterday did comment and say that one plus side almost is that one plus side almost is that he's going to be behind bars and he can't do this to any other family now. so although they're suffering, he was still able to see the silver lining , able to see the silver lining, if you like, and recognise that no other families will suffer at the hands of connor chapman. >> sophie, mrjustice goose has already intimated that he will consider imposing a whole life order in the last few moments we've had these victim impact statements. read out. i mean, so moving . hearing what ellie's moving. hearing what ellie's grandmother said she was in tears in court and being hugged by her relatives . and she said by her relatives. and she said she was so very, very special to me and my best friend. if i were to die tomorrow, the coroner would write on the death certificate that she died of a broken heart. i mean, how

terrible . terrible. >> you can't even begin to imagine what that family is going through. and of course, i say they must feel a sense of relief. but i don't think that sense of heartbreak that we hear about there will ever fade. and i think we spoke earlier, of course, when i was speaking to you earlier about tim's advocacy against gun violence. i think what he will now do, and i'm sure the rest of the friends and family will do, is take that pain and that heartbreak and channel it into something positive to try and make sure that that no other family in merseyside or the wider region will have to endure what they now and will continue to now endure and will continue to endure for the rest of their lives . lives. >> thank you very much indeed, mark. and casey is actually giving his mitts station to the court at the moment. mitigation. he's only 23. the defence barrister saying people do not fully develop until the age of

25 and then they may not see the full consequence of their actions. full life terms are usually given to people much older , said lawyer. older, said the lawyer. >> must just bring you >> we must also just bring you some breaking news from wimbledon. that terrible crash that happened. yes where that happened. yes today, where an old girl died, an eight year old girl died, a 40 year old woman was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving. a car went into the school building, injuring a number of people. that eight year old little girl died at the scene the last day of the school term. we are now hearing from the met police that a 40 year old woman has been bailed pending further inquiries. that is the latest we are getting from the metropolitan police on that awful tragedy that's it from the live desk. >> we'll be back on monday. stay with us. >> the temperatures rising, boxed solar. proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hi there. it's aidan mcgivern here from the met office with

the gb news forecast. it's a fine afternoon for many of us. dry and bright, plenty of sunshine for england and wales and feeling warmer as well. and it's feeling warmer as well. but thunderstorms are but some thunderstorms are likely form in places most likely to form in places most especially western parts of northern that's where northern ireland. that's where we're area low we're closest to an area of low pressure. it's that low that's going further storms going to bring further storms in this for now, it is this weekend. but for now, it is drawing warmer air from the drawing up warmer air from the south. thunderstorm do south. any thunderstorm do disappear the evening disappear through the evening across scotland and northern ireland. dry conditions for most. bit of a breeze most. a bit of a breeze overnight, but that breeze as i say, is bringing up warm air from so it's a muggy from the south. so it's a muggy night for many of us with temperatures in some spots staying at or 19 celsius, mid staying at 18 or 19 celsius, mid teens widely as start teens widely as we start saturday. and for many it's a sunny start. temperatures soon shooting up. but for northern ireland, for wales in the south—west, we've got some cloud and some showers moving through as those showers interact with the hot further the warm or hot air further east. thunder storms are likely not for everyone , but where they not for everyone, but where they do occur, the risk of 50mm in a few hours. thunder lightning and large hail now ahead of the

thunderstorms. east anglia could reach 30 celsius, perhaps more if we get enough sunshine and the fresher conditions arrive from the west through the afternoon. and those fresher conditions prevail across the country on sunday. but the risk of further showers, especially for northern ireland, wales and the south—west and some longer spells of rain in places as well. we start next week with further showers and thunderstorms as . the thunderstorms as. the temperature is rising. >> boxed solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. let's cross weather on. gb news. let's cross straight away now to liverpool crown court and where we're going to get the sentencing of conor chapman in the murder of ellie elle edwards. >> kieran salkeld but you didn't care who else would be killed . care who else would be killed. >> that's why you fired all of the bullets at the group . i'm the bullets at the group. i'm satisfied that you are a highly dangerous man .

satisfied that you are a highly dangerous man. in this satisfied that you are a highly dangerous man . in this trial. we dangerous man. in this trial. we have all watched the cctv and sound recording of that shooting . it's utterly shocking . you . it's utterly shocking. you carefully plan the revenge attack in gang rivalry. you had no thought at all for anyone else , least of all two innocent else, least of all two innocent people . the risk of all six people. the risk of all six being murdered by you was as substantial as it was obvious . substantial as it was obvious. yes. but you didn't care after the shooting, you drove straight to the home of your friend thomas waring, where you believed you could safely hide the stolen mercedes car. you had used to drive to the shooting . used to drive to the shooting. also, the submachine gun, which you'd asked waring to look after for, and at least one of the gloves you wore in the shooting, which later produced gunshot residue. evidence you spent the days afterwards removing or destroying evidence that would identify you as the gunman . you identify you as the gunman. you wash the clothes you wore , your

wash the clothes you wore, your other clothing and shoes were removed from your home before the police searched it and you destroyed your mobile phone . six destroyed your mobile phone. six days later, on new year's eve , days later, on new year's eve, together with waring, you returned to where the stolen mercedes had been hidden. it was near to where he lived in barnston . then the both of you barnston. then the both of you drove the mercedes to a remote place and set fire to it to destroy any evidence that the car might have to identify you. chapman as the murderer , the chapman as the murderer, the background to these offences , as background to these offences, as we've heard, lies in violent criminal gang rivalry between we've heard, lies in violent criminal gang rivalry between those connected to the those connected to the woodchurch estate and others woodchurch estate and others connected to the ford estate on connected to the ford estate on the wirral. you, chapman , were the wirral. you, chapman , were the wirral. you, chapman, were very actively involved in the the wirral. you, chapman, were very actively involved in the woodchurch gang whilst you woodchurch gang whilst you waring were associated with it . waring were associated with it . waring were associated with it. the violence included shootings waring were associated with it. the violence included shootings dunng the violence included shootings during 2021 and 2022 and created dunng the violence included shootings during 2021 and 2022 and created very substantial concern to the very substantial concern to the people of merseyside on the 23rd people of merseyside on the 23rd

of december last year. one of of december last year. one of your associates was attacked by your associates was attacked by jake duffy and kieran salkeld in jake duffy and kieran salkeld in the street. they were part of the street. they were part of the street. they were part of the ford estate gang . and when the street. they were part of the ford estate gang . and when the ford estate gang. and when you learned of that , you decided the ford estate gang. and when you learned of that , you decided you learned of that, you decided on revenge in a premeditated and you learned of that, you decided on revenge in a premeditated and carefully planned murder of jake carefully planned murder of jake duffy and kieran salkeld . you duffy and kieran salkeld duffy and kieran salkeld. you used a stolen mercedes a—class car with false registration plates, which you often use for your drug dealing . you disguised your drug dealing. you disguised yourself with dark clothing, a mask, a hood and gloves . you mask, a hood and gloves. you obtained a submachine gun and a loaded magazine with 12 bullets. when you left your home on the woodchurch estate to carry out the shooting, you took care to avoid security cameras on neighbouring properties . once neighbouring properties. once you reached wallasey village where you knew jake duffy and kieran salkeld were to be. you waited almost three hours carrying out reconnaissance as

you drove to six different