the port of sunderland are still very busy.k to regenerate the area. part of it is the national glass centre. we will take you inside where they are doing glass—blowing demonstrations. these kilns are 1130 degrees. i think they've been making christmas baubles here this morning. if you've ever seen glass being worked on it really is quite mesmerising. twist it round, they call that the gather and it needs a good set of lungs to keep it going. perhaps it's not as hot as it should be but that's a christmas bauble being made. a great tourist attraction for this part of the world. we've also gathered together some students to talk from the university of sunderland. this isa the university of sunderland. this is a part of the uk that voted to leave the eu 61%. it was one of the highest rates of leavers across the uk. this is the place where they return the results of any vote very quickly. yes, you have ambitions to bea quickly. yes, you have ambitions to be a barrister. what do you make of the nature of the discourse we been experi

that was the view from sunderland.been in the town of wem in north shropshire, getting reaction from its residents. we are in the tiny town of wem, the constituency of the north shropshire mp and former environment secretary owen paterson. he of course was among the first yesterday to call for theresa may to go, so how are people feeling here a day later? poor woman, theresa may, nobody has ever backed her up and now they are all complaining, but they didn't put any input in from the start to help her get over all the obstacles she had to climb. i think they are all being quite harsh on her. i think she has had a big task to do considering it was not something she believed in. ithink she is a hero, you know, i don't know how she has put up with it all the while. i would have thought by now she would have said i'm off, i've had enough of it all, but, no, she is still there fighting. i think theresa may needs to be backed by everyone at the moment and given support. she is stuck between a rock and a hard place whatever s

from shipbuilding and mining, the people of sunderland only have the football clu b of sunderland only one. kylie, who is your money on?” i hope it gets to number one. kylie, who is your money on? i love the ladbaby song who is your money on? i love the ladba by song but who is your money on? i love the ladbaby song but unfortunately i think that they max will take the numberone think that they max will take the number one spot. unfortunately. no, don't tell me that, come on come! does it matter what the christmas number one spot is as it did when i was a teenager? i think it does, it isa was a teenager? i think it does, it is a british tradition, it's been going for over 65 years. i think it's nice. this time of year, to have that thing to look forward to where we all get together and we just root for something that means something to us. how many downloads do you need to get to number one? do you know? i don't know, ladbaby, do you know? i don't know, ladbaby, do you know? i don't know, ladbaby, do you know? to your previous question, does it still means something, i know that it did

walsall are into the 3rd round of the fa cup after a 1—0 win at fellow league 1 side sunderland.he secondhalf proved to be the difference. they'll travel to bolton next month. elsewhere newport will host leicester after beating wrexham 4—0, while peterborough defeated bradford on penalties after the two sides shared a a—all draw. they'll go away to middlesbrough in the 3rd round. manchester city boss pep guardiola says "racism is everywhere," notjust in football, after raheem sterling spoke out about the alleged abuse he received at the weekend. sterling was back in training today ahead of city's champions league match against hoffenheim tomorrow. chelsea have suspended four supporters from attending matches while investigations continue into what happened at stamford bridge on saturday. raheem is an incredible human being. so... it is tough to understand today, you know, what happened years ago about the position, or the whole history for the black people. so you have to protect them, you have to protect how equal we are altogether. it is tough to understand in the 21st century,

this is a pa rt university of sunderland.eave the european union, 61%, so bit was one of the highest rates of levers across the uk. this is the place where they return results of any referendum or general election very quickly. good morning to you all, stu d e nts quickly. good morning to you all, students past and present. yes, you have ambitions to be a barrister. what do you make of the nature of the discourse we have been talking about over the last couple of years? last night especially and the last couple of years it has been quite a healthy debate over the last couple of years and it has been nice to see a healthy debate in the sense that, yes, there has been bad discourse and people have had bad arguments and people have had bad arguments and there has been bad press, but there has been a healthy debate that has helped shape what the country once and it has changed a lot of people's opinions. you think opinions have changed? yes, even personally having spoken with people, sunderland voted quite strongly to leave and i

sunderland has a great tradition of returning vote first.st night? disappointed. i think the conservatives ought to have grabbed hold of the issue that is before us. we have got a brexit deal negotiated by our prime minister which we know will not work. remainers and levers all say it will not work. —— leavers. we know that if she tries to get changes they will be cosmetic and not substantive. we now know that we have a prime minister who has lost her authority. we know we have got a prime minister, as matthew parris put it, has broken wings. we now we “ we now put it, has broken wings. we now we —— we now know we have a prime minister where over a third of her party will not support her. when you add the dup in we are talking about 40% of the population. might frankly, she should resign and go and we need some body else get into position and take over the country and give us a vision because we voted as a nation to get out of europe. whether we like it or not, thatis europe. whether we like it or not, that is what we voted. if she wants to

this is sunderland.the leaves fell in 1918, many relatives must have thought their loved ones had made it through the worst. private robert reveley is wounded in france in mid—october, and is invalided back to a hospital in the midlands where he dies on the 10th of november. it is all but certain that his wife kate, in roker, would have received a telegram on armistice day, perhaps as the church bells were ringing and people were in the streets celebrating. 0n the 12th, she writes to his regiment, asking for the return of his personal belongings. she says: "i shall be very grateful if you will oblige me in this matter. it may seem a small thing to ask for, but it means a lot to me." andrew neil had been blinded in the war. he died six months after the armistice and should have had a military headstone. for nearly a century he lay in an unmarked grave. the problem was that his death certificate said jacksonian epilepsy, but it was not attributing that to war injuries. we knew that he died as a result of t

westminster tinkered with brexit, engineering stu d e nts tinkered with brexit, engineering students in sunderlandds to be resolved, it cannot be put off forever. it has dragged on for too long and i think they're just dragging it out because they don't wa nt dragging it out because they don't want to leave. i'm worried about getting a job so brexit might make it harder for me because i would have to apply for a visa and my employer would have to sponsor that. the cad industry employs thousands around here and some future workers say the current eu trading rules are ideal. frictionless trade purports for components from europe —— at the ports is crucial to get into the production line on time. a few miles away, this wine bottling plant is running flat out in the run—up to christmas. what is the pro—brexit boss here make of the delayed vote? i think she's going to lose it a nyway i think she's going to lose it anyway but i think they've got to renegotiate the deal back in brussels. they need to take people with them who have some idea how to negotiate. in washington, this woman asa negotiate. in wa

we will talk to him at 10:30am alongside a sunderland supporter who is also in the running.y? happened in your life, your work on your home, yourfamily? send me an e—mail. see you at 10am. now it‘s time for a look at the weather with simon king good morning. an unpleasant start to the day for england and wales. misty and murky conditions, some outbreaks of rain in northern areas through this morning. it will stay showery across northern ireland, through much of northern england and southern scotland. to the north of scotland, dry and bright and eventually there will be some sunny spells developing across southern parts. quite mild today. temperature is about 12—14d. meanwhile, we have that rain and in the north of scotland, temperature is more like 7-8. scotland, temperature is more like 7—8. quite blustery conditions as well. the chicken across southern areas. through this evening, this line of showers move eastwards. many of these showers will start to fizzle away as we go through the early hours of saturday morning. saturday itself looking quite dry. there will be some su

dry bread with lots of sunderland. it chilly across northern areas of britons who.michael gove says theresa may's brexit deal isn't perfect but is the only choice. labour say they'll call for a vote of no confidence if mps reject the deal — and say the government must publish its legal advice tomorrow. teachers must not be expected to act as substitute parents, according to the chief inspector of schools. there are boos from the public as president macron visits the scene of riots in paris — he warns a state of emergency could be reimposed in france. now on bbc news it's time for a look back on the week in parliament. hello and welcome to the week in parliament, our look back at the last few days here at westminster. coming up, with debate about to begin on theresa may's brexit agreement, mps ask if she's really ready for no deal if the commons rejects her plans. ijust don't believe that if your deal goes down, you are the kind of person who would contemplate taking this country into a no—deal situation. a labour mp reveals he's living with hiv, and urges others to

suspended its search for a missing british cruise ship entertainer. 20—year—old arron hough from sunderlandast seen on deck during the early hours of christmas day, but the alarm wasn't raised until nearly 10 hours later when he failed to turn up for work. media reports in iceland say that a bridge where three british tourists — including a child — died yesterday does not meet current safety standards. the crash happened in a popular tourist area in the south east of the island. four other british people in the vehicle were critically injured, as ben ando reports. the two families were in a toyota land cruiser, which crashed through railings and fell around 20 feet onto a dry riverbed below. first on the scene were the police and a local tour guide, who did all he could to help. i tried to talk a bit to the driver to calm him down. he was trapped inside the car. i was trying to tell him to save his energy and try to be patient, we will try to get him out of there. it was a very difficult situation. two adults and a child died at the scene. four others, including two children aged seven and

suspended its search for a missing british cruise ship entertainer. 20—year—old arron hough from sunderlandthe early hours of christmas day, but the alarm wasn't raised until nearly 10 hours later when he failed to turn up for work. media reports in iceland say that a bridge where three british tourists died in a car accident yesterday, does not meet current safety standards. the car ca reered through a barrier on a single track steel bridge and fell on to a dry river bed below. four other british people in the vehicle were airlifted to hospital in the capital, reykjavik, with serious injuries. a fisherman who fell overboard off the cornish coast clung onto his nets forfive miles before being rescued. the alarm was raised when the fishing boat crashed into the south pier in newlyn yesterday afternoon. the solo skipper was rescued by lifeboat and taken to hospital with severe hypothermia. coastguards say he had fallen overboard whilst repositioning nets some five miles offshore but was able to hang on to netting over the side as his boat steamed along on automatic pilot. the man is now recov

suspended its search for a missing british cruise ship entertainer. 20—year—old arron hough from sunderlandibbean vessel harmony of the seas. he was last seen on deck during the early hours of christmas day, but the alarm wasn't raised until nearly 10 hours later when he failed to turn up for work. media reports in iceland say that a bridge where three british tourists — including a child — died yesterday does not meet current safety standards. the crash happened in a popular tourist area in the south—east of the island. four other british people in the vehicle were critically injured, as ben ando reports. the two families were in a toyota land cruiser, which crashed through railings and fell around 20 feet onto a dry riverbed below. first on the scene were the police and a local tour guide, who did all he could to help. i tried to talk a little bit to the driver to calm him down. he was trapped inside the car. i was trying to tell him to save his energy and try to be patient, we will try to get him out of there. it was a very difficult situation. two adults and the child died at the scene,

speaker, the right honorable member for sunderland and the right honorable leader from red card, the highest voting leave areas are a second referendum question what people are entitled to change their minds and young people are entitled to have a say about their future because of the end of the day, they will bear the burden -- i would suggest to the prime minister, we have found an impasse in this house. it is time to take it back to the people and have a vote. prime minister may: the united kingdom does not have a tradition of holding referendums. the scottish referendum. there was a referendum in 1975 on joining the european economic community. there was a referendum in 2016 on whether or not to leave the european union. in all of those votes, the government has taken a very clear view that the result of those referendums should be respected and i believe this referendum should be respected as well. >> hear, hear. >> the people outside these walls see a shambles of a necessary,it prove revoke article 50? prime minister may: the result of the european court of justice a determinat

suspended its search for a missing british cruise ship entertainer. 20—year—old arron hough from sunderlandhours of christmas day, but the alarm wasn't raised until nearly 10 hours later, when he failed to turn up for work. more than half a million potholes were reported by members of the public to local authorities in the uk last year, according to new research. the rac says the figure proves road conditions are worsening. in 0ctober‘s budget, the government pledged more than £400 million to tackling the problem. 0ur transport correspondent tom burridge reports. they're a hazard, sometimes huge, almost impossible to count. so, this is a typically damaged wheel. we see no less than six a day. sometimes as many as ten cars a day, which are only here because of pothole damage. just one garage, in one area. for the last two or three years it has been getting worse and worse. the scale of the problem nationwide, it must run into millions and millions in terms of the cost of damage to the road user at the moment. it is really, really scary. and today we have new figures confirming a big rise in

that is right, i started in sunderland at one of the centerpoint‘s offices, the national trail is 84,here a bright red, and it was utterly exhausting. how long did it take? four days i was walking for, just under a marathon a day? 100 hours awake, on the go? it was purposely chosen, i wa nt to the go? it was purposely chosen, i want to do 100 miles, because last year 100,000 young people as their local council for help, so year 100,000 young people as their local councilfor help, so i year 100,000 young people as their local council for help, so i thought every mile could represent 1000 young people that, you know, would be ending of it that way, kind of shopping. it is shocking, and the numbers of people, you know, sleeping rough, has risen hugely. just tell us about what charities like centerpoint do, how do they help? the reason i chose the centerpoint is because they notjust housing young people, they help young people who are 16—25, they tried to stop them becoming long—term homeless adults, they teach them life skills, they also give them education, show them how to cook, how to

that is why, mr speaker, the honourable member first sunderland, and the honourable memberfor the metoould urge the burden of brexit. i would urge the prime minister, we have found an impasse in this house. it is time now to take this back to the people and have a people's vote. the united kingdom does not have a long tradition of holding referendums. we have had the scottish referendum, there was a referendum onjoining there was a referendum onjoining the european community in 1975, there was a referendum in 2016 on whether or not to leave the european union. in all of those votes, the government has taken a very clear view, that the result of those referenda should be respected. and i believe this referendum should be respected, as well. people outside these walls see a shambles of a government, and with this in mind, we will support the leader of the opposition should he as he showed table a motion of no—confidence. as of this morning, the european court of this morning, the european court ofjustice's ruling, it is within the prime minister's gift to take no deal of the table. will s

elsewhere in the fa cup, walsall won 1—0 at sunderland.wport will host leicester after beating wrexham 4—0. manchester city boss pep guardiola says racism is everywhere, and notjust in football, after raheem sterling spoke out about the alleged abuse he received at the weekend. sterling was back in training today ahead of city's champions league match against hoffenheim tomorrow. chelsea have suspended four supporters from attending matches while investigations continue into what happened at stamford bridge on saturday. you have to protect how equal we are, all together. so it's tough to understand, in the 21st century, still to be in that position, and to accept diversity, to be in a power position, and help us to be better. and everyone — we have to fight, strictly, for human rights, for everything, to make a better society for the future, for everyone. today is the third day of former 0lympic cyclist jessica varnish's employment tribunal against british cycling and uk sport. she is suing for wrongful dismissal and sexual discrimination