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more council tax. we're asking if higher earners should actually pay more to their local community. >> good morning. it was a gallant defeat, but a defeat nonetheless for england, who suffered a loss against ireland in dublin in their six nations openerin in dublin in their six nations opener in the premier league. meanwhile, nottingham forest hit seven against brighton and marcus rashford is on the verge of a loan move to aston villa. >> good morning. well, there's plenty of sunshine in the forecast for the south—east of england today. cloudier in the west. i'll have all of the details coming up shortly. >> it'sjust details coming up shortly. >> it's just gone. 6:00. i'm stephen dixon. >> and i'm anne diamond and this is gb news breakfast. now the king. yes. launching a new initiative particularly aimed at young people, but really anybody to try and promote more learning of and the continuation of traditional

crafts and skills, the sort of countryside things. >> yes, i think that's a good idea. >> i think it's a great idea because he's worried that they will, in the end, die out. and he's probably right there, don't you think? i just wonder what sort. >> of things are we talking about? >> well, i'm thinking of what i've always wanted to be able to do. nigel. i've got a very small house now without the sort of right garden. but you know, those willow hedges, you see, and there's a craft. i don't know what it's called, where they they take the top of the willow and they they weave it into the next bit and the next bit, and you see these wonderful hedgerows of these woven willows. i think they are. and it's such a skill. and that would be it's a bit like dry stone walling. it would be such a shame if that particular craft or skill died out. >> well it would. >> well it would. >> what would you do? >> what would you do? >> pottery. >> pottery. >> oh, really? have you ever tried? >> no. i've always felt, you know, the potter's, potter's wheel and all that. i know it's a real skill, but. and the people who can do it well make it look so easy. my mum would love to have a go. >> my mum did it for about a

yeah >> my mum did it for about a year. pottery about 3030 odd years ago and she. i never knew she was any good at it, but she'd come back every week with this, with this new, new model of something. and we still got the boot. no, it was a boot. she made a boot. it's still in our back garden. >> a boot? >> a boot? >> yeah, a boot. it was a big boot like that. it was a really, really skilled. yeah. really good. and she'd come in and teach patchwork at school every wednesday. >> very good old fashioned craft. that would be a shame to lose. >> i mean, we did sewing at school. >> yeah, we see, that is almost an old fashioned craft. >> i did, yeah, i did sewing definitely. >> yeah, yeah. and knitting and crocheting. >> yeah. we didn't do crochet. we did knitting. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i mean i could knit was scarf. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> that's all most people knit. but doctor who made them very very. >> well he did iconic. >> well he did iconic. >> so that's allowed. if all you can knit is a scarf. are you into any sort of craft or would. >> you want to model making? i've made a few models of football stadiums in the past. yeah, i have quite a good level. ihave yeah, i have quite a good level. i have to give you some. i've got some pictures on my phone. i'll show you in a bit.

>> if you want. i'm into model railways. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> and. but i've begun to realise that what i'm really into is making the little villages. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and the duck ponds. >> and the duck ponds. >> i did a bit of that as well. you can buy all the stuff from the, from the individual. >> shops if you make it from. >> shops if you make it from. >> well the rubber, the rubber, rubber, rubber foliage. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> just like the smell of it. >> just like the smell of it. >> i go round when. >> i go round when. >> i go round when. >> i did. >> i did. >> when i'm walking the dog, you see little, you see little bits of thing that if you took it home and dried it. yeah. grasses and things like that, they would look like proper. yeah, yeah. trees and stuff. so i love that. >> it's just the issue with it is not whether we like it or not, particularly whether we're any good at it. it's the fact they are skills which we are losing. >> yes, exactly. >> yes, exactly. >> and that's no good. that's no good. we can't afford to lose all. those skills because once they're. >> gone. >> gone. >> they are gone. >> they are gone. >> yeah, well, it's like thatching, for instance. >> thatching. >> thatching. >> aren't we? we don't have many thatchers left. >> no, my uncle's a thatcher, actually. well, early on by marriage. yeah. he's a he's thatcher. >> no. hang on. by marriage, you mean he's called thatcher? he's married. >> to a thatcher. >> to a thatcher. >> no, no, no. my uncle by marriage. >> oh, i see your uncle by

marriage. no he's not. thatcher by marriage. >> no, he's not called thatcher. he is a thatcher. >> but that is a skill that's dying out. yeah, they are very much in demand. >> they are especially down south where they live. it's there's loads of it and it's expensive to get done because there aren't many. >> of them. no. exactly. >> of them. no. exactly. >> it's good money. >> it's good money. >> and. >> and. >> hard work though. >> hard work though. >> oh very hard work. but that's why they're worth. worth a fortune, really. the one i'd like to have a go at. but you'd need a proper workshop in the garden, and all sorts of tools and things. is stained glass window making. oh, yeah, i love that. you know, when you when you see houses that have got those front doors with a glass window panel. i love that. >> well, you should, because what's that website called. >> you've got some quite modern onesin >> you've got some quite modern ones in new churches actually. windows.com glass windows.com. >> the one you do, all the little bits of shopping and etsy. >> etsy. yeah. >> etsy. yeah. >> you get loads of people on there doing little stained glass ornaments and things and lovely. i'm always buying them. >> oh, do get in touch and tell us what sort of craft or skill maybe you already do, or you would love to do, and you're worried that maybe it is dying out. but i think that

initiative, which is the king's foundation 35th anniversary, apparently. so it's obviously something he set up a while ago, is particularly interested in getting certain crafts back up and running and being taught again. >> yeah, that's a great idea. right. believe it or not, it's 6:07. friday, as you will remember, marked five years since brexit. but by this time tomorrow, could we be sliding back to brussels as a rule taker? >> well, that's the warning from the former brexit minister david jones, ahead of sir keir starmer jetting off as part of his big relations reset. >> well, this is what he said in november when he was asked about the possibility of pursuing a renewed deal on post—brexit relations. >> it's been very clear that i don't think the deal that we've got with the eu is good enough, and that's why we are resetting that and looking for a better deal that and looking for a better deal, whether that's on security

and defence, hugely important, but also on trade. >> so i think a lot of people are a bit worried that maybe we're cosying up to the wrong people because of post—brexit, also china. but more on that in also china. but more on that in a moment. let's get the thoughts of political commentator duncan barkes, who's with us in the studio. a very good morning to you. do you feel that keir starmer is doing his utmost to sort of reverse things? >> i think i do. so, you know, 17.4 million people voted leave back in 2016. we won't rehearse the arguments. i think we all still bear the scars. the optics of this don't still bear the scars. the optics of thi