it's a big night in barnsley — the pride of barnsley awards.he winner is... ian pratt. applause ian's won. it's time to get his award. it is motor neurone disease. it is terminal. i'm going to die. please go and look, find out for yourself, i want to dedicate this award to my gorgeous wife and my gorgeous daughter. i think it is very difficult, emotionally. for ian, life's an emotional rollercoaster and christmas feels more special than ever. georgiana is the virgin mary in her school's nativity play. i'm very proud. it was fabulous. when i was diagnosed, i didn't think i'd get to see it. it was really special. ian's mum is over from australia. it's a chance to catch up on news about family and friends. when ian was born we travelled backwards and forwards and had cattle around the place. kids used to help us do whatever we had to. he was a good boy. i'm very proud of him for what he's done. and he'll keep that going for as long as he possibly can. doctors try to control ian's symptoms, but there's no cure. he's back at the hospital for tests.

it‘s a big night in barnsley, the pride of barnsley awards.ner is ian pratt! ian has won. it is time to get his award. please, go and have a look for yourself. i just want to dedicate this to my beautiful wife catherine and my beautiful daughters. thank you. for ian, life‘s an emotional rollercoaster, and christmas feels more special than ever. georgiana is the virgin mary in her school‘s nativity play. i‘m very proud. it was fabulous. it‘s amazing to see. it‘s one of the things, when i was diagnosed, that i didn‘t think i‘d get to see, so it‘s very special. ian‘s mum is over from australia. it‘s a chance to catch up on news about family and friends. when ian was born, we travelled backwards and forwards. we had cattle around the place. kids used to come and help us do whatever they had to do. yeah, he was a good boy. i‘m really, really proud of him what he‘s done and what he‘s doing. and he‘ll keep that going as long as he possibly can. doctors try to control ian‘s symptoms, but there‘s no cure. he is back at the hospital for tests. right, i‘

barnsley striker tom bradshaw has been called up.ome time, but he had a scan yesterday and in dialogue with real madrid, bale was pulled out this morning. it leaves chris coleman. he has called up tom bradshaw from barnsley. but how do you replace gareth bale for crunch games? he has not set the world alight for wales in the past few games and you could argue their best performance was a draw in serbia when he wasn't there. but any team in the world would miss a star player like gareth bale. it is not hurdle for chris coleman to joer come. over on the bbc sport website you can find all the latest on england, scotland and northern ireland's preparations for their world cup qualifiers, as well as more reaction to that bale injury. one other football line, one of bale‘s former team—mates, chelsea striker alvaro morata could be out for more than a month with a hamstring injury. he's scored seven goals since joining the champions from real madrid in the summer, but he was injured during saturday's defeat by manchester city. morata will mi

does the home secretary disagree with officers like those in barnsley that additional cuts will havepact on neighbourhood policing? i can reassure the honourable lady that there are no plans for further cuts, that the police budget has been protected between 2015 and 2020. can i say to the home secretary that there is a worrying increase in crime in west yorkshire and in the shipley constituency and it is a fact that the police officers, who are doing a fantastic job, are overstretched. the first duty of the government should be to protect the public and keep them safe. can i urge her to make sure that more resources go into west yorkshire to support the police, tackling this worrying rise in crime? well, i agree with the honourable gentleman that the first role of government is indeed to protect people and as the conservative party in government we will make sure that we do that at every step. we know the pressures on police resources and the rise in violent crime, the huge increase in 999 and 101 calls, unprecedented terrorist threats and a surge in non—crime demand from mental hea

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and now the events in barnsley this afternoon.'s going down great, lad. it‘s bound to. i don‘t know how you prepare, simon, for your broadcasts in the afternoon, but i listen to opera. it gets me in the right mood and gets me psyched up the right mood and gets me psyched up to do all that we should do when we have the guest in the studio, lad. go on, what do you do? ijust sing, i‘m well known for it. i have a little ditty here to give you later. what‘s smashing about this particular opera, it‘s written by the great ian mcmillan. a barnsley lad through and through. it‘s a south yorkshire opera and i think it will take off big. it‘s something we are rather proud of. this is my ditty, forgive the singing, but i will do my best. #eyup will do my best. # ey up welcome to look north # ey up welcome to look north # we‘ve got news and sport # we‘ve got news and sport # throw in some weather to, # throw in some weather to, # that‘s the cheapest we can do # that‘s the cheapest we can do # news 2a have that good old boy # news 2a have that g

a spectator who was clearly overjoyed after 0'sullivan made three consecutive century breaks in barnsleyin the pink. ronnie allowed his new partner to have a go at the black. which she duly.. ..missed. you can get all the latest sports news at our website. that's bbc.com/sport. but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello there. it was pretty grey for many on thursday. wet weather as well. heavy showers and rain lasting through the evening and through the night. not great for driving. there is a squeeze in the isobars around low pressure bringing heavy rain through thursday and overnight. some gales with this. this is storm brian, which was named during the day on thursday. that looks like the next set of autumnal gales. but for friday, it starts grey and gloomy. fog in northern ireland and york and further north. low cloud and hill fog with remnants of low pressure further south. but it is an improving as the day wears on. increasing amounts of dry and bright weather and even sunshine until late on. that is until this next area of low pressure comes in bringing rain

raced into an early leave thanks to a mats hummels header on ten minutes robert love and doubled barnsley just after half time but the defending champions failed to close out the game or lose scored twice within five minutes through. and selman kolo to snatch a comeback or two and draw. here's a look at the rest of the results from this weekend's bonus league imagines in sunday's late match life stage defeated struggling cologne earlier in the day freiburg beat hoffenheim three two as we saw in berlin came back to draw with byron on saturday dortmund one and. also want to get a ten over frankfurt left to late against dick dark to win their first home game and mind sharing points in a draw and then there was that school a struggle between him and we're going to blame and in the nor darby ronnie knight there was no other draw between shell and labor cruzan. well don't forget you can always get all your data on the news only go where ever you are just download our app from google play or the apple store that will give you access to the latest news from around the world and do be sure to sign

raced into an early lead think straw mats hummels header won ten minutes robert lewandowski doubled barnsley just after half time but the defending champions failed to close out the game berlin scored twice within five minutes andre due to an selman kolo to snatch a comeback to all the final score. here's a quick look at the rest of the results from this weekend. and sunday's late match leipzig defeat of a struggling cologne earlier in the day freiburg beat hoffenheim we just told you berlin came back with a draw against bahrain on center a dortmund one in august for glod back want to get ten over right for left it late against it dark to mark their first home win the sport and mine shared the points in a one all draw and there was a scoreless draw between hamburg and braman in the north darby on friday night another draw between shell and labor christian. gay and lesbian couples in germany are tying the knot today as a new marriage equality law comes into effect today reporter rebecca waiters brings us this on the country's first same sex idea. finally the day they have waited nearly forty

is the defending champion, did it against tom ford in his second round match at the tournament in barnsleyt could be worth 42 thousand pounds to him. that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are steve hawkes, deputy political editor at the sun and pippa crerar, political correspondent at the london evening standard. let's start with tomorrow's front pages... the financial times — which leads with a warning that half of adults in the uk are financially vulnerable, with a growing wealth gap between young and old. while the i says that up to 15 million british adults aren't paying into a pension pot the metro claims the prime minister has promised the three million eu nationals that they can remain living in britain whether or not a brexit deal is reached. the telegraph leads with an open letterfrom pro—leave mps —including former cabinet ministers — urging theresa may to walk away from the eu if leaders do not agree to trade talks at a crucial summit tomorrow evening. 0n the

spectator of the polished off the match in the english open in ba rnsley match in the english open in barnsleyis new partner have a go at the black which he duly, twice, managed to miss before being shepherded away. at least he got the cue back. notjust ronnie away. at least he got the cue back. not just ronnie o'sullivan away. at least he got the cue back. notjust ronnie o'sullivan wearing trainers that the english open this week, it is his new friend as well. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. thanks for your company. goodbye for now. you're watching bbc news. well as we've been hearing, theresa may is in brussels tonight at an eu summit to assess the progress so far towards brexit, and crucially, whether talks can start on a trade deal. the german chancellor angela merkel says there are "encouraging" signs of progress, but she and other eu leaders are still insisting the uk make further moves before any discussion on trade. the prime minister answered journalists questions about what she hoped the uk would get out of the summit before going inside. hoped the

sheffield wednesday were held by yorkshire neighbours barnsley.olves suffered a surprise 2—1 loss at qpr while there were also wins for middlesbrough and bristol city. the other matches finished as draws. graeme murty‘s second spell as rangers caretaker manager got off to an excellent start with a 3—1 win at hearts. it was the edinburgh side who took the lead, a free—kick from the former rangers striker kyle lafferty, who made a point of not celebrating. but kenny miller had a point to prove after being dropped by sacked rangers boss pedro caixinha — he scored two and set up their third — that puts them 3rd in the table. in the three o'clock kick—offs in the scottish premiership aberdeen beat ross county 2—1. leaders celtic were surprisingly held at home to kilmarnock. there were also wins for hamilton, partick thistle and and hibernian. anthonyjoshua says anthony joshua says carlos anthonyjoshua says carlos takam shouldn't be written off ahead of their bout tonight. anthonyjoshua will be looking to extend his record in front of a crowd of over 70

barnsley were beaten 1—0 at home by hull.d sunderland. leeds united's 3—0 win at bristol city takes them up to fourth. derby beat sheffield wednesday 2—0. cardiff are second —they won 1—0 at middlesbrough. forest moved to the top half with a 2—0 win over burton. sheffield united consolidated third place with a 2—1 win over reading. and it's wolves who stay top of the table, hanging on for a 3—2 win over preston. it's semi finals weekend in the scottish league cup, and holders celtic have made it to next month's showpiece, thanks to a a—2 win over hibernian. it was watched at hampden park by chris mclaughlin. celtic were held to a draw by hibs a few weeks ago, so the easter road side came here with hope. celtic always managed to find a way. mikael lustig got the first after some questionable defending. even at that stage the writing was on the wall. then the swede made it two. ross laidlaw was culpable. into the second half, a lifeline for hibs and a penalty that probably shouldn't have been a penalty. boyata on boyle. anthony

a spectator who was clearly overjoyed after o'sullivan made three consecutive century breaks in barnsleynk, ronnie allowed his new partner to have a go at the black, which she duly missed. in california, an annual drill to prepare for a massive earthquake has been taking place. the great shakeout is designed to prepare the state for the potential damage a major quake would cause. and scientists say such an earthquake is already long overdue. tim allman reports. california's worst nightmare. the big one. but not quite. this, a simulation of the impact of the massive earthquake that everybody in the golden state is dreading. we survived! today, we're simulating a 7.7 magnitude earthquake, which is a very significant quake. a quake like that would be very damaging to our infrastructure. we would lose power, we would lose water, and people are gonna be on their own for a period of three days, seven days, or longer. klaxon sounds. every year, the great shakeout takes place — an earthquake drill designed to prepare the people of california for a potentially catastrophic event. schools, college

five—time world champion ronnie o'sullivan has threatened to pull out of the english open snooker in barnsley footwear. he turned up to his second round match in trainers becaus of a sprained ankle, and said afterwards that as a result of the strapping, he couldn't get his leather shoes on. despite his unusual attire, o'sullivan won the match against china's zhang anda — four frames to one. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. america's federal courts have again stopped president trump's plans to introduce a travel ban. the state of hawaii slapped a temporary restraining order on the open—ended ban, before it came into force on wednesday. the court said the measure didn't show that citizens from six mainly muslim countries posed a threat to the united states. the white house didn't hide its frustration — it called the ruling dangerously flawed. lu kwesa burak reports. a federaljudge in hawaii blocked the president's bid to impose restrictions on citizens from a number of countries coming into the us. us. us districtjudge derek watson a

could you do this — verdi's la donna e mobile — in a barnsley style?asses are brussen things, shift like the seasons...# i think we're onto a winner. we just need that top note now. he hits top note applause david sillito, bbc news, salford. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. hello, over the next few days the winds are going to be picking up once again and this area of cloud is oui’ once again and this area of cloud is our next storm. it's just been named by the irish match service as storm bryan, wet and windy weather in time for the weekend. things are calm at the moment, we have a lot of wrist and fork which is continuing to lift and fork which is continuing to lift and we could get some brighter skies —— the mist fog which is continuing to lift. earlier in staffordshire, very grey and gloomy. now we have some rain, the wettest weather moving up some rain, the wettest weather moving up across some rain, the wettest weather moving up across east wales, up into the midlands and northern england and we have this rain in northern irelan

could you do this — verdi‘s la donna e mobile — in a barnsley style?ito, bbc news, salford. time for a look at the weather. here‘s darren bett.

is the defending champion, did it against tom ford in his second round match at the tournament in barnsleythose stories on the bbc sport website. i will have more in the next hour. more on the main story — the government is to stop charging people to phone a help—line about universal credit payments after strong criticism from mps and campaigners. the calls currently cost up to 55 pence a minute. that will be phased out over the next month. the announcement was made ahead of a commons debate about the implementation of universal credit across the uk. labour says it should be paused because of the problems. ed boyd is a former special advisor at the department for work and pensions with a focus on reforming welfare. he's now managing director at the centre for socialjustice. hejoins me from our westminster studio. this is not a debate today about the principle of universal credit, it's a debate about how it is being implemented. what for you have been the main problems that could have been avoided? the first thing to say, it is great the principles are not being debated because a quarter of

it leaves chris coleman, he called up tom bradshaw from barnsley, but really the question is how do youest performance was the draw in serbia when he wasn‘t there, but that said, any tea m wasn‘t there, but that said, any team in the world would miss a star player like gareth bale. it is another hurdle for chris coleman to overcome. you can find all the latest on england, scotland and northern ireland‘s preparations for their world cup qualifiers on the bbc sport website. one other football line, one of bale‘s former team—mates, chelsea striker alvaro morata could be out for more than a month with a hamstring injury. he‘s scored seven goals since joining the champions from real madrid in the summer, but he was injured during saturday‘s defeat by manchester city. that means that he‘ll miss spain‘s world cup qualifiers against albania and israel. avon and somerset police say they aren‘t expecting any significant developments in the ben stokes case for another two to three weeks. the england all—rounder was arrested last week on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm in a brawl outside a

is the defending champion, did it against tom ford in his second round match at the tournament in barnsley for now. back to you. it's already the world's fastest growing humanitarian crisis, and this evening thousands of rohingya refugees are spending a fourth night stranded close to the bangladesh border, in conditions described by aid agencies as dire. hundreds of thousands have left their homes in the rakhine state in myanmar, after an offensive from the burmese army, who say rohingya militants had attacked police checkpoints. more than 582,000 rohingya muslims have now fled across the border into bangladesh. these pictures show some of the nearly 15,000 refugees stranded there for the last three days, prevented from moving further into bangladesh and with limited food and water. clive myrie has been to see conditions there and sent us this update from cox's bazar, a few miles away on the bangaldesh/myanmar border. we have spent several days here now crisscrossing the coast, trying to get a sense of the scale of the humanitarian crisis affecting the rohingya muslims, and frankly affecti

it leaves chris coleman, he called up tom bradshaw from barnsley, but really the question is how do yout has to be said and you could argue their best performance was a draw in serbia when he wasn't there, but that said, any team in there, but that said, any team in the world would miss a star player like gareth bale. it is yet another hurdle for chris coleman to overcome. 0ne overcome. one other football line. one of bale's former team—mates could be out for more than a month with a hamstring injury. he scored seven goals sincejoining the hamstring injury. he scored seven goals since joining the champions from real madrid in the summer, but he was injured on saturday. he will miss spain's world cup qualifiers against albania and israel. avon & somerset police say they weren't expecting any significant developments in the ben stokes case for another two to three weeks. the england all—rounder was arrested last week on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm in a brawl outside a bristol nightclub, but he hasn't been charged. form england captain michael vaughan said the situation might h

could you do this — verdi's la donna e mobile — in a barnsley style?. time for a look at the weather. darren is back. good evening, we have a second named storm of the season on its way in time the weekend. this, of is storm brian, named by the irish metropolitan —— meteorological service that is where we will find the greatest impact today. we have had a lot of rain, not particular windy, apart from the far south—west. you can see the rain we have had to play working its way into northern england and scotland and this band of rain here, and we see stronger winds as well. a lot of water on the roads, and that was one of the weather watcher pictures sent in from shropshire and we still have gale force winds in the south running through the english channel for a while and then the winds will ease down later. further north, lighter winds, more mist and fog and low cloud forming. there will be some rain around from time to time. it won't be cold. a dull start for many of us, and rain around. it tends to peak around through the day, so some slow improvement

but what about one sung with a barnsley twang?hire. applause oh, dear me! so good! that's brilliant! have you got it? i think they have, certainly have. is it south yorkshire, that? i think it is, the south yorkshire thing is the flatness of the vowels, that‘s what we‘re after, the real flat vowel and that was the genesis of this idea, can using an opera with a flat vowel? it doesn't matter if it's kind of rough. rough? yeah. that's what this is all about, does opera work when you can‘t sing with vowels that are long and southern like bath and grass, but short and flat. bath, grass, but short and flat. bath, grass, love. love in rp, quite fine, but in yorkshire, love is very short. it becomes a bit more constricted. rp, received pronunciation, the southern, dare i say it, bbc english that i was taught at my elocution lessons is also the accent of english opera. tv and theatre would a lwa ys english opera. tv and theatre would always portray people with the right accent, but... that doesn't happen at all in opera and i think it cou

he was joined by a spectator after he'd polished off his third round match in the english open in barnsley to see. sometimes you see pictures of... was she supposed to be there? just showing her how to do it! what about the security? i think there will obviously make sure it doesn't happen again. we will talk more about those problems on the pitch maybe later. and later we have the former liverpool hard tackling midfielder on the show as well. and i know he has a love for gardening as well. thanks and see you later. plaid cymru's autumn conference is being described as "crunch time" for its leader leanne wood. she insists she'll be staying on as leader, despite the party losing votes at the general election. today she'll call for a brexit preparedness fund to protect the welsh economy. leanne wood joins us now from carna rvon. thank you very much for talking to us on thank you very much for talking to us on bbc breakfast. can we talk about this fund. who is going to fund it, who is going to make sure that the money already fund is doled out appropriately? we are set to lose out big—time fr

wen bo, the defending champion produced this against tom ford in barnsley.ve been talking about the performance of hospitals slumping across the uk. the findings from the bbc online nhs tracker shows that two nhs trusts in kent have missed the three key targets over the last twelve months. rob smith from bbc south east today is here and will tell us more in a minute. and i'm alsojoined by geraldine peers from bbc south today in oxford, who has news about a story of a royal visit in the city today to open a new student centre. to rob in tunbridge wells first — a worrying set of results for two of your region's hospitals? yes, it's easy to look at the tracker, put in the postcode and it brings up the statistics. it turns out that east kent nhs trust which is one of the biggest nhs trusts in the country is second from bottom in the country is second from bottom in the whole country for seeing people within target time for a&e. it's supposed to be 95% of people who go into a&e are seen within four hours. they're only reaching 70.5%. in fa ct, they're only reachi

he beat fellow englishman kyren wilson 9—2 and win the english open in barnsley.d he had a few drinks and gone back to his house in spain to celebrate. it looks like a tidy house as well and celebrated by face planting into the swimming pool as you do. and sergio garcia was hosting that tournament and won it as well. and sergio garcia was hosting that tournament and won it as weltm seems like a new thing that players get to host a tournament. didn't lee westwood host the british masters? and justin rose is doing that next year. i quite like it. it and justin rose is doing that next year. iquite like it. it gives it and rory mcilroy hosts the irish open. yes. it's nice that it's a home tournament for a player. thanks, kat. during the past 16 years, almost 4,000 women in the uk chose to freeze their eggs. and leading clinicians say they've seen a significant rise in the number of people taking such steps in the hope of preserving their fertility. so what's behind the trend and how successful and safe is the method? we'll discuss this in more depth in a moment, but f