adequate funding it needs to deliver a high quality education for every child. 0ur education editor branwen jeffrey'sow classrooms are trying to raise standards and balance the books. you have chosen one number... adding up you have chosen one number... adding up is not always easy. for schools, cash in, wages out do not always match. last year this school went £200,000 over budget so everything is aggression, from blue to printing. every now and then i would do something really special in colour but everything else is in black and white. how do you manage when you're making this place?|j black and white. how do you manage when you're making this place? i am spending a lot on coloured things i need around from home. the school is trying to raise standards while cutting costs. the cash has been going up but the bills have been rising even faster so the first bit of any money promised will have to go towards reversing those cards. so the spending per child mightjust get back to where it was almost a decade ago. one third of the kids here get free school lunches. some families are given foodbank voucher

branwen jeffrey, bbc news, southampton.dson, the bbc‘s political reporter for hampshire & isle of wight. let's look at the background here. all of the party leaders will look particularly at this seat and say, we can get this, it's 31 votes at the moment. it's very close, it's only been conservative since 2015, they won it from john denham who had labour. the city council is run by the labour party, the neighbouring seat is a labour seat. the voters here are volatile, they will pick and choose depending on the issue of the day, it is not a conservative heartland like the hampshire villages north of here all the cities that you might expect in the north that are very labour. it is certainly winnable for them. southampton has changed dramatically in the 18 years i have worked, its a very vibrant city, more and more students, growing student population, they can make a difference to the vote. there has been a lot of development as well but we have seen things like the loss of the shipyard, the loss of the ford transit factory.

branwen jeffrey, bbc news, southampton.line and find out who you can vote for on december the 12th — check out the candidates who are standing in your area at bbc. co. uk/news or on the bbc news app. sir david attenborough has said the world is starting to tackle the threat of plastic waste — because people have become much more aware of the dangers it poses to marine life. he was speaking as the bbc‘s natural history unit won an international prize for highlighting the issue. here's our science editor david shukman. depressing images of plastic waste drifting in the water. sights captured by blue planet ii, the bbc documentary series. filming that revealed the damage being done to marine life by our throwaway culture. other forms of pollution are only too familiar. presented by sir david attenborough, the programmes were shown around the world, catching the public imagination and forcing governments and companies to take action. this london supermarket, for example, is turning its back on plastic packaging, part of a movem

branwen jeffrey, bbc news, southampton.ver the coming days the other parties will publish their plans. but what exactly are manifestos — and what part do they play in the election? chi chi izundu reports. the manifesto, the document which sets out which each political party would do if it got into government. daniel craig, a taxi driver who lives in hampshire, has a question about them. why can't we make election manifestos legally binding? to answer dan's question is peter. his job is to analyse politics, including elections. it would be really hard to make manifestos legally binding. so the prime minister and the cabinet obviously lead the government, but if they want to make any changes, they have to get mps and members of the house of lords to agree, and that's not always possible even when a party has a majority. this is anna, she is a criminal lawyer. here is what she thinks about getting courts mixed up in politics. the problem is that...it‘s a bad idea. if the election manifesto becomes legally binding, then, firstl