i spoke to the owner of sark electricity after the meeting, david gordon brown, the man at the centreis you'll going off on friday. he doesn't believe he will be given a fair price to sell his company out. but there are two days of negotiation, tomorrow and friday, where the chief and david gordon brown meeting, but there still every chance that the island could lose all of its electricity on friday. and a final word about the context of this, because i mentioned how high the prices are, and presumably they have been high for quite a long time, soi they have been high for quite a long time, so i suppose people might be wondering why it has come to this 110w. wondering why it has come to this now. well, it has kind of hit a bit ofa now. well, it has kind of hit a bit of a breaking point. 66p per kilowatt hour, i mean, there are some places in the uk you can pay 14p per kilowatt hour, so it is extremely high. obviously the infrastructure costs and the economies of scale in an island like sark, with between 300 and 400 people, are just not there. it kind of hit rating point. the governme

he remembered pieces like this being done about david brown, —— gordon brown, david cameron?e people in the same kind of way. interestingly, bob of the papers to trot that out, he would have thought it would have been the daily mail? here in the telegraph, very different. not unsympathetic or boorish. and interestingly, you can see the telegraph has a little spread about how tory backbenchers a lwa ys spread about how tory backbenchers always undermine their leaders, from john major through to iain duncan smith. it is quite an interesting contextual peace. but much more different, really. it is all about the gang of five, michael gove's gang of five, and they are the heroes of this. the backbench euro is driving through a harder brexit, ably negotiated brexit. and the telegraph, famously the employer of borisjohnson for so telegraph, famously the employer of boris johnson for so long, telegraph, famously the employer of borisjohnson for so long, they have now emerged as the kind of mr hyde brexit. and so this story in the guardian. yes, the austerity story. in any othertime,

sirjeremy have paid tribute — including the current imcubent theresa may — who said: david cameron said: gordon brownaid... and with me now is the permanent under secretary at the foreign and commonwealth office sir simon fraser. thank you for being with us. amazing tributes from a whole string, the current prime minister and lots of former prime minister. i suppose so jeremy is a man many viewers have never heard of but he was a pivotal figure at the heart of the british civil service. if i may figure at the heart of the british civil service. ifi may pay figure at the heart of the british civil service. if i may pay my own tribute to him first. it is a very sad day. we knew you is very ill but this is sooner than we expected and we hoped. condolences to suzanne and the family. he was an exceptional person, head and shoulders the best of this in whitehall in many ways he combined three particular things. a laser—like policy mind that an extraordinary capacity for hard work and an uncanny knack of the —— manipulating the government machine. not someone everyone would have heard of but a very influent

no, at the moment, david gordon brown is keeping his cards close to his chest, as you can probably understandg to major christopher beaumont, the head of state in sark, there was an agreement signed up by lawyers at one o'clock this morning. that may have been the agreement they were alluding to and why he may have been asleep at the time this happened. we are moving closer to a resolution. asi are moving closer to a resolution. as i have mentioned many times people are still very worried about potential for electricity going out. i was with people last night who we re i was with people last night who were buying candles, bottled water, to make sure they had enough to stay safe tomorrow. some people were being quite flippant about it. next week, if their power is off, we will do activities with a torch instead. sounds a bit dangerous. local residents are sounds a bit dangerous. local residents a re really sounds a bit dangerous. local residents are really concerned about the possibility they could lose a power supply. we can now talk to paul armogie, who runs the stocks hotel on the island. t

tony blair, gordon brown, david cameron, theresa may, very different personalities.to all of them because of who he was. it's striking, as you say, that there have been tributes paid right across the political spectrum. what was it about his character that enabled him to a p pa re ntly character that enabled him to apparently work so comfortably with all of these different politicians? the best of the civil servants, that's what they do. you do have something very special. i heard him earlier described as a modern—day sir humphrey. i think anybody less like sir humphrey thenjeremy heywood. he was absolutely straight, prepared to speak truth to power. he was not offer himself in any shape oi’ was not offer himself in any shape orform. 0f was not offer himself in any shape orform. of course, he was ambitious, the same as anybody who likes to make most of their potential but he was never someone climbing the ladder for his own sake. i would say he was a good friend of mine but to this day, i don't know how he voted. i always felt that when he was —— we were in power, he

david gordon brown from sark electricity says there is good footing to begin negotiations and there is generated this side —— generator this side powering. it has been a huge issue for these people but the small shed is what it is about. there is the infrastructure that takes it to the houses in sark but it is part of the operation and this is sark electricity. thank you for your update. becky barr, this is sark electricity. thank you foryour update. becky barr, plenty more tonight from north—west tonight. thank you to both, that is nationwide. if you would like to see more on any of those stories, access them via the bbc iplayer and a reminder we go nationwide every afternoon at 4:30pm here on pramac afternoon —— here on afternoon live. ukraine is banning russian men aged between 16 and 60 from entering the country. it‘s comes amid rising tension between the two countries — after russia seized three ukrainian naval vessels off the coast of crimea. ukraine has already declared martial law, and it‘s now banning russian men of fighting age to prevent what it calls the formation of ‘priva

theresa may — who said: david cameron said: gordon brown said: tony blairsaid...poke to sir simon fraser — former permanent under secretary at the foreign and commonwealth office — who paid his tribute. it is a very sad day. we knew he was very ill but this is sooner than we expected and we hoped. condolences to suzanne and the family. he was an exceptional person, head and shoulders the best of this in whitehall in many ways he combined three particular things. a laser—like policy mind — an extraordinary capacity for hard work and an uncanny knack of manipulating the government machine to make things happen. not someone everyone would have heard of but a very influential and powerful person in the government of the country. it is a very difficultjob because you are powerful. you are also being pushed around by the buffeting winds of politics and yet you have to be impartial, you have to be not political. the tributes thatjeremy has had from prime ministers of different parties demonstrate how good he was at that. he was private secretary to three chancellors and

john major and tony blair are there and gordon brown and david cameron.emony here at whitehall come to an end and we wait for the start of the great march past of the vetera ns, start of the great march past of the veterans, let us just rejoin start of the great march past of the veterans, let usjust rejoin dan snow. jeff watkins, happy birthday for yesterday, 97. thank you very much indeed. every year you spend your birthday weekend here in london. i do that because i love the royal air force and ijoined at 16 yea rs of royal air force and ijoined at 16 years of age, many years ago. i joined as an aircraft apprentice. it was a programme for young mechanics to train. and i was 16 when ijoined in 1938 to train. and i was 16 when ijoined in1938 andi to train. and i was 16 when ijoined in 1938 and i loved the programme andi in 1938 and i loved the programme and i come every year to march with the former apprentices and boy entrance as they were called. you come all the way from san diego every year. this must be incredibly important to you. it is important,

a prime minister tell you the chancellor what to do i mean gordon brown wouldn't put up with this for tony blair george also would've had david cameron telling him but he's announced. about austerity he has to go along in unfold ok well maybe maybe because breaks it is on his mind it's going to financial times and the great success the government is having over these complex yes ideas yes the irony of that for those of you with a view was we were sort of the pre-show are in a has ruled over only fourteen of two hundred thirty six e.u. international treaties well this is mean this is calamitous this is this is everything not this is not thoughts of loudly in my spare croft it's it's about nuclear arrangements this is terrible but i wasn't doing it they want to scrap the two hundred thirty six little treaties or delay they've been lazy or does it mean they were going to really push actually got to you got to really go see everything will be a choice a conscious decision not to have been written negotiate i don't know quite know they've got to renegotiate these treaties with other countries what's happening in other countries br

david cameron said: he was an amazing man, brilliant civil servant and dedicated to our country. it was a privilege to work with him. gordon brown lost a leader of exceptional ability and unquestioned integrity.‘ tony blair called him, ‘quite an outstanding public servant and someone i came to have enormous respect for.‘ speaking on sky news‘s ridge on sunday, the former labour cabinet minister, yvette cooper, paid this tribute. jeremy, i think was a wonderful public servant and i think he did a huge amount to hold governments together at very difficult times. i obviously knew him very well personally. and i think, you know, all thoughts with his family. i think it‘s... umm, people will not be aware of quite how many remarkable things that he did to solve crises, to deal with some of the most difficult problems and, as a very honourable public servant, to hold people together and to make sure that the government, frankly, did not do stupid things on many occasions, and make sure there were solutions. so i think his contribution to public life, for all governments, whatever your politics, his contribution to public life was immen

gordon brown. he also worked in the treasury department. lord ricketts — who was a national security adviser when david cameron was prime minister., ministers take a hit and responsibility. too often in the last few years ministers have avoided that and left officials to ta ke avoided that and left officials to take it. they can‘t defend themselves in public. i admire amber rudd for being honourable and i think she emerges from this with real credit. i think it does pose big problems, issues for the home office to answer about how this was handled, whether or not it was misconduct. but they have got to learn lessons from this. they have a massive job to learn lessons from this. they have a massivejob to do learn lessons from this. they have a massive job to do over the coming months with brexit and this tells worrying story about the level of professionalism within the home office. level of professionalism in what sense? deliberately so, orjust inept? not deliberately so, but i'm afraid it was all in the detail of the report. but it sounds like there isa the report. but it sounds like there is a whole litany of things that went w