Well be speaking to parents of premature babies. And bad news for music fans ticket prices for big name arena gigs have doubled since the late 1990s. While a ticket to see the spice girls was £23 twenty years ago, going to see taylor swift costs upwards of £60 now. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11 this morning. So have high ticket prices stopped you seeing your favourite artist . Have you noticed how much more expensive it is now . Get in touch with us. Share your experiences. And concert prices arent the only thing going up. Council taxes are on the increase as well. Theyre going up by an average of £100, as local authorities struggle to balance their books. Whats happening in your area . Can you afford to pay more . And have you or your family got personal experiences of cuts to services . Do get in touch on this and all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today nearly a fifth of people working in parliament have experienced Sexual Harassment, thats according to a report thats been released in the past hour. A Cross Party Group of mps, chaired by the leader of the commons, Andrea Leadsom, recommends a new code of conduct to stamp out Sexual Harassment and compulsory training to help mps understand and prevent harassment. The review was set up last year after several harassment claims against mps and staff. Norman smith can tell us more. Just take us through these recommendations. Theres a huge range of them, much of them centred on trying to change the culture at westminster. They are talking about introducing a new code of conduct for mps introducing a new code of conduct formps and introducing a new code of conduct for mps and their staff. There will be compulsory training for mps. There will be a new Human Resources department, to provide advice and guidance to mps and there will be two hotlines set up, one for victims of bullying and intimidation, and one for victims of Sexual Harassment. But a lot of the really important changes centre on investigatory process. At the moment if you are a victim of Sexual Harassment, you very often have do complain to your employer, and very often is your mp, who may be the perpetrator. That, of course, is a massive disincentive for people to make complaints. Alternatively, you could complain to the Political Party. Again, massive disincentive because if you are a young staffer you dont really want to complain to the party, because you may be looking for a job, a career with a Political Party. Under these changes, the investigatory process will be in the hands of an independent investigator, whose job it will be to carry out enquiries into all claims of Sexual Harassment. Two areas of controversy. One is that the accused will be granted anonymity throughout the whole process , anonymity throughout the whole process, until they are found guilty of anything. That is controversial because, as we know in many high profile cases of Sexual Harassment, it is often only wants the persons name is put in the Public Domain that other victims come forward. The other contentious area is around sanctions. Still relatively light touch, were talking about mps may be having to make public apologies, undergo mandatory retraining, a written apology to the victim, maybe being suspended from the houses of parliament for a while. Can you sack the mp or will the mpb sacked . No, not easily. Norman, thank you for that. We will talk more about it in the programme. Annita mcveigh is in the bbc newsroom with a summary of the rest of the days news. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, chloe. 95 of councils in england are planning to raise council taxes in april, according to new research. A survey by the local Government Information Unit found 80 were concerned about financial stability. The biggest pressure on budgets was demand for childrens services, Adult Social Care and housing and homelessness. The government say the Current System strikes a balance between relieving financial pressure and making sure taxpayers do not face excessive bills. Adult social care in england is a cinderella service, which is undervalued and whose workers are poorly paid, according to the Public Finance watchdog. The National Audit office says the government is failing to deal with a shortage of care workers, at a time when demand is increasing. Heres more from our social affairs correspondent, alison holt. Its a busy lunchtime at northfields nursing home in sheffield, demanding work for the care staff who are looking after residents with a high level of need, and todays report outlines just how difficult it has become to find the people needed to provide this vital care. Joyce, good afternoon. Its only me. Sorry to bother you, darling. Tammy ardron is the nursing lead here. Finding care staff generally is a problem, but she says attracting nurses has become a real issue for them. I dont think it is as attractive as maybe the nhs where you have got your salary packages, enhanced rates of pay, unsociable hours. And i think its hard work. Its constant, you have got to be on the ball 2a hours a day. The National Audit office says whilst working in care can be rewarding, many staff feel undervalued. In 2016 17, more than half of the workforce was paid £7. 50 an hour or less. In the same year, staff turnover was nearly 28 and 6. 6 ofjobs were vacant. But it says there is no Government Strategy for tackling the problems. Only the department of health can produce a workforce strategy that would speak to the National Picture about the problems we find of low pay, low prestige and high turnover rates, which is reducing quality of service for people who are actually receiving care. In response the department for health and social care says extra money is being put into caring for Vulnerable People and that it will soon publish a strategy for the health and Care Workforce. Alison holt, bbc news, sheffield. School anti obesity programmes dont work, according to a report in the british medicaljournal. Initiatives like encouraging Healthy Eating and additional exercise are unlikely to have any impact on Childhood Obesity, say researchers. They looked at 600 Primary School pupils over the course of a year, all of whom were taking part in an anti obesity programme. But they found no improvement in diet or activity levels. Australias Prime Minister says he will issue a National Apology to survivors of child abuse. A Royal Commission into the treatment of thousands of children who were abused in the care of churches, schools and homes across australia described the crimes as a national tragedy. Malcolm turnbulls announcement increases pressure on state governments and religious institutions that have yet to sign up institutions that have yet to sign up to institutions that have yet to sign uptoa institutions that have yet to sign up to a scheme to compensate the victims. New Research Suggests that the nutrient asparagine, which is found in asparagus and other seemingly healthy foods, plays a key role in the spread of cancer. Scientists in the uk experimented on mice with breast cancer, and found that depriving them of asparagine made it harder for their tumours to spread. This means that altering the diet of a cancer patient could potentially improve their chances of survival. At least nine people have died after after an earthquake struck the city of hualien in taiwan. This is moment that the quake hit was captured on cctv in one hostel in the popular tourist city. Around 10 people are still missing, after tremors left buildings badly damaged. Rescue work is underway at one apartment block which has been left teetering at a 45 degree angle. More people than ever, are seeking help for money problems short term borrowing has risen four times faster than wages. Bbc news has analysed uk finance data which shows there was £37 billion of unsecured personal debt last year. David rhodes has the details. There are 9 Million People across britain that say their debts are a burden as the cost of living rises. For some the debts are mounting up. I was using credit cards to pay for food shopping. Two days before payday and i had £5 left and not much petrol in the car so it was a case of using £5 for petrol to get to work or use the £5 to make packed lunches for my boys for the next two days. Mel fed her children but her £28,000 debt forced her to seek help from a charity. January was our busiest month we have ever had. We have seen people in extreme cases of anxiety and depression. Figures from uk finance show households had outstanding personal bank loans of £37 billion last year. That does not include borrowing on credit cards and payday lending, but the value of outstanding personal loans has grown by 25 in the past three years, whilst wages for typical workers have grown byjust over 6 . Charities warn banks are beginning to lend irresponsibly, but the body that regulates lending has a clear message for bankers. They should not be lending when someone is in a difficult situation, where that borrowing would be unaffordable for them. We will always see isolated cases, where firms dont follow those rules and where we will take action. With Household Budgets likely to remain under pressure the temptation for people to borrow is not likely to disappear any time soon. David rhodes, bbc news. South koreas president president moonjae in is to meet members of north koreas olympics delegation at the president ial blue house on saturday. Among those attending will be kim yo jong, the sister of the north korean leader. It will be the first such visit to the blue house by any member of the kim family. Tonight sees the european premier of black panther marvels first black superhero film. The film which features michael b jordan, Lupita Nyongo and angela bassett, is on track to be one of the biggest superhero films ever based on pre ticket sales. The uks entry for this years Eurovision Song Contest has been chosen. Forever, remember we can hold our hands together through this storm. Singer surie was chosen after her uptempo ballad storm won over both a jury and tv viewers in a telephone vote. The artist, whose real name is susanna cork, has performed in the competiton twice before as a backing singer. The uk last won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1997. Thats a summary of the latest bbc news, more at 9 30am. Thank you very much. Do get in touch with us throughout the morning. Use the hashtag victoria live and, if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Lets get some sport now with hugh and its started the Winter Olympics are underway, even though we havent had the Opening Ceremony yet. Plenty to come and lots to look forward to. Freezing temperatures south korea over the coming weeks, but the focus already on one person keeping her cool defending skeleton champ Lizzie Yarnold. She says staying relaxed will be key for her if she has any chance of creating more british sporting history. But one slice of history she will definitely achieve in pyeonchang is at that Opening Ceremony. Yarnold has today been named as team gbs flagbearer, when the 23rd games open tomorrow. She says the ceremony will mark the beginning of the biggest two weeks of her life. Its an honour that i never really thought about, but actually means so much, because the flag represents the whole team and we as a team represent everyone in Great Britain who have watched us, who have supported us. You know, for parents to watch us on the tv screen, our grandparents watching at home, that is the moment when they say Great Britain. Your skin tingles. It will feel like for her at the Opening Ceremony. Theres no roof on the Olympic Stadium in pyeongchang. It could be as cold as minus 10. So, organisers are installing wind shields massive heaters while those who brave the elements will be given, blankets and heat pads amongst other things to help keep them warm. But some of the athletes already saying they wont be attending because it is just too cold. Lets talk about Katie Ormerod. British snowboarder, injured in training, quitea british snowboarder, injured in training, quite a bad injury but she is still competing . Yeah, well not a great start for Katie Ormerod. She will be competing in the slopestyle and big air events but came off a rail while training yesterday. She said oops on social media, as she announced she had a fracture to her left wrist. She has stayed upbeat. The wrist will be well protected. The slopestyle qualifier isnt until sunday not the greatest prep. But if shes to do well, shell need to stay on her feet on and her snowboard. So maybe that wrist wont be too crucial for her. If we look back to the last olympics, four years ago, all the medals for team gb, is there a similar expectation, uk sport s only one to go one better. That would be a new record medal haul at a winter games. 5 12 is the target. Where will those come . Aside form yarnold and ormerod,team gb have high hopes, there was huge disapoointment for Elise Christie speed skater. She crashed out four years ago in sochi. It would be great to see her do well. Devastated, she was. Lots of medal chances on skis freestylers james woods and izzy atkins, Andrew Musgrave in the cross country. Lots to look out for. Coverage of the Opening Ceremony starts from 10 30am tomorrow and live on bbc one. But of course, well keep you updated here on the programme. Thank you, really looking forward to the Winter Olympics no one can forget the devastating scenes from the grenfell fire on 14th june last summer. The fire left 71 people dead, hundreds homeless and the community shattered. One thing that united everyone in their grief was the admiration for the firefighters who risked their lives rescuing people from the tower. Jesus christ, mate christ, bleep me. How are we going to get into that . Jesus christ. Oh, my god. There are kids in there. Thats a real block. Bleep. Jesus. Its a towering inferno, isnt it . Its not possible. It hasjumped up all over the flats, look. How the bleep is that possible . North kensingtons to watch were some of the first on the scene. And many among them are running in the London Marathon. Im pleased to say were joined by firefighters mike dowden, chris secret, tom abell, Mike Kirkpatrick and justin obeirne. Was that difficult to hear . was that difficult to hear . It is. There are still lots of emotion from many of our colleagues. It is something we will have to deal with and move forward. As doing a marathon helps us deal and process events which we witnessed. We need to move forward in a positive direction and have something to work towards. Let me take you back to when you got that call, if i can. Did any of you have a sense of the scale of what you were going to be confronted with . When we turned up to that particular fire, at first it was something we deal with regularly. In a short amount of time it became something unbelievable. We just did ourjob which we normally do on the night. Unfortunately the world saw what happened. When you are confronted with that, clearly you go into professional mode. It is a human, instinctive reaction, isnt it . There is you are right. At the time you dont really consider what is going on around you. It is about getting on with yourjob and doing what needs to be done. On that night, it was something no one had faced before. How about you . I was not expecting to hear that clip. It brings it back. Quite difficult to cope with. I am still receiving counselling. Our chief came out and openly spoke about receiving counselling and stuff like that. I dont know what the children are going through in the community at the moment. For us running the marathon, for this organisation are just to support the children, they are getting counselling is wealth from this organisation. How important is that you . For me, personally, i have benefited from it a great deal. The fire brigade are supplying us with councillors. There isa supplying us with councillors. There is a charity run by the firefighters. We have been now for a week as a watchful stock that was very helpful as well. As a watch that was very helpful as well. No training could have prepared us for what happened that night. The work involved in the fire, and people in the community are all suffering. Us, as firefighters, we have had some kind of exposure to traumatic events in the past. I have been a firefighter for 15 years. The kids and children should not be exposed to those kinds of events. As firefighters we can process that but how does a foldable child process those events . By running the marathon it is about raising funds foran marathon it is about raising funds for an organisation providing therapy for these children. This is at the heart of what we are doing. For people who have not been to the site of Grenfell Tower, they may not realise it is notjust the community that was living within that tower. When i was standing there, there was a girl on the way to school, on her scooter. She was stopping and looking at all of the tributes talking about the tower and her dad was saying, come on, we need to go. It must be so hard when day in and day out you are confronted with that outside your home and outside your school will stop the shell of the tower is still there. It looms over north kensington, the parks and play areas. It is a constant reminder to eve ryo ne areas. It is a constant reminder to everyone in the area about what happened and it is a real trigger for post traumatic stress. The organisation we are running for our kids who were probably missing from the original aid efforts. They have been probably undiagnosed distress and post traumatic stress. It is the children in the entire area of north kensington. How were you affected . I was not there on the night was my first night off i ever took. My mum was calling me saying, you at this fire . I said, what is going on question what it is quite a big one. You should probably have a look. I checked my phone and went down to the tower shortly afterwards. Im not sure i was expecting but it was really good to see all the Community Pulling together. I tried to go to a few churches to offer help. So really people came to us. Is it difficult because you were not the that night . You were not there that night . You were not there that night . You were not there that night . I had not been in the fire brigade long, about six months. Coming into professional lots of new people and trying to find my feet, once we were together we alljailed. I felt included. That is why i am running the marathon as well. Gelled. Howdy you deal with being seen as gelled. Howdy you deal with being seen as heroes . There is no one who does not see you guys as heroes of the night . We have alljoined this organisation, the london fire brigade, kids who want to help people. Anyone with the training and put we have had over the years as firefighters would do exactly the same in these circumstances. We would continue to try to do our best in whatever is presented to us. The real heroes. We went home last night. The real heroes are the people within the community, the children in the community, who have had such a horrific time. They are the heroes. It is difficult to take praise in our position. When so many people have passed away, it is difficult to see it in a successful lightfoot of it is very difficult to hear that from our point of view. You have stayed so many lives . We are trying to turn that into something positive and bring in money for the kids in the green charity. Hopefully, if people feel that way towards asker they can find us and donate. Towards us, they can find us and donate. You can find us on facebook and twitter. Gelled at runligre nfell full you gelled at runligrenfell full you can find us there. At runligrenfell. You can find us there. We have an opportunity to do something further beyond our response for that night. It isa beyond our response for that night. It is a tough journey but a fantastic journey. It it is a tough journey but a fantasticjourney. It will help us to help the community. It will help us to help ourselves, moving in that positive direction. Are you finding it tough . Furthest i had run was five miles. I am just about up to ten now. For me, personally, it would be difficult. We will stick together. We will all stick together. We will all stick together. I will be setting the pace. We will come back to you the day after. Have any of you guys run a marathon before . Another member of the watch is also running as well. As running for kids in the green will make it ten times better. How has it helped you . Justin britt you talked about having had your counselling. Has the training really helped . Justin, you talked. I am still playing rugby and swimming. I have not done any proper training for the marathon. I heard it was quite easy to run. 26 and a bit miles . People do it with washing machine is on their backs. The next couple of weeks maybe i will do some ten mile runs and see how i get on. Here is hoping. He has a good level of fitness. We know we can push ourselves. We know we have mental strength. We are the focus. The motivation is to do good and pay back the community and ticket early help the children of Grenfell Tower. With the public support behind us, we will really, really plod on and achieve the funding and raise money for kids in the green. This is not just about counselling for kids and it is about giving them fun stuff, things you should do as a kid. We do not want that generation to be scarred by the tragic events of grenfell. We want children to be children again within that community. The tower is still there. It is such a prominent feature in the area. It gives something to focus on. Eight positive spin. Do you know how much money you are likely to raise . The target is 50,000. That is quite high but we are hoping to get that. I think we have about 10,000 at the moment but we still need a lot of help will stop we are plugging away. What is your strategy . Clearly you are going to run together. You must have a Training Plan in mind or not . You end up doing a lot of training on your own. How will it work . We will start to do some training runs together. We need to run at the same speed and not lose each other. We have done some training in the gym together. We need to put down some miles and see how we get on. You are working shifts in different times. Getting you together must be something of a challenge. Getting you together must be something of a challengelj getting you together must be something of a challenge. I live in portsmouth. Tom is in the midlands. Getting together is to us and we will try to do around our shifts. You travel that far as well . Yes, to do thejob. After that you travel that far as well . Yes, to do the job. After that experience, is there something you have found about yourself, all learned about yourself, through that horrendous experience you guys went through . think, none of us had been exposed to that environment. It was an unprecedented event, almost on an international scale. The resilience you can build up to certain things, it was notjust you can build up to certain things, it was not just about the response that night. There have been a fair few challengers in the past eight months we have had to deal with. Just building up a resilience to that and moving forward. A lot of ourjob entails past experiences. Everything we have experienced will hopefully move our son in a good direction, both in our personal and professional lives. Moves us on. I want to get you just to watch this. Just have a listen. On the night of the fire we were rescued by two firefighters after 3 30am. You came and you took us out and, of course, you couldnt save everyone, but you went into the building in the inferno, knowing that you could die any minute. I would like to say thank you and wish you good luck on your initiative to run the marathon to support survivors and bereaved families of the Grenfell Tower. What do you make of that . what do you make of that . I think we have met that lady before. Its nice to see some of the survivors talking. There were so many firefighters there on the night, eve ryo ne firefighters there on the night, everyone really stepped up to the plate. In the days afterwards, the community were fantastic as well, in pulling together. We have a lot of respect for our colleagues and also the Community Around grenfell. That is why we are doing it. Because there is so much emotion around the Community Still and within us. Sometimes if you dont do positive action, it can fester and show its face in other ways. We want to move on. We want to help the community, just helping people like in that treaty, thats what it is all about. Best of luck, best of luck. Thank you so much for coming in. It is incredible. Really grateful to you. Still to come. Paying an extra £100 for your council tax. Nearly all local authorities in england are putting prices up, because theyre worried about balancing the books. Well hear from one of them. And, would you be happy to have technology implanted into your body to boost what its capable of doing . Weve a special report. Time for the latest news. Heres Annita Mcveigh. The bbc News Headlines this morning. Nearly a fifth of people working in parliament have seen or experienced Sexual Harassment, according to a report due out this morning. A cross party report due out this morning. A Cross Party Group of mps cheered by the leader of the commons, Andrea Leadsom, is expected to recommend a new code of conduct, and independent complaints procedure and sanctions for inappropriate behaviour. The review was set up last year after several harassment claims against several harassment claims against several mps and staff. 95 of councils in england are planning to raise council taxes in april, according to new research. A survey by the local Government Information Unit found 80 were concerned about financial stability. The biggest pressure on budgets was demand for childrens services, Adult Social Care and housing and homelessness. The government say the Current System strikes a balance between relieving financial pressure and making sure taxpayers do not face excessive bills. Adult social care in england is a cinderella service, which is undervalued and whose workers are poorly paid, according to the Public Finance watchdog. The National Audit office says the government is failing to deal with a shortage of care workers at a time when demand is increasing. Low rates of pay and the pressures of thejob have been blamed. The government says its considering ways to overhaul the care sector. More people than ever, are seeking help for money problems. A new analysis by bbc news shows short term borrowing has risen four times faster than wages over the last three years. Data from uk finance, which covers 10 of the uks biggest banks and building societies, also revealed households had 37 billion pounds of unsecured personal loans last year. That is a summary of the latest bbc news. Thank you. Heres some sport now with hugh. Lizzy yarnold has named great honour after being named as the flag bearer for team after being named as the flag bearer forteam gb at after being named as the flag bearer for team gb at this years Opening Ceremony at the Winter Olympics. The defending skeleton champion will lead the team out tomorrow, ahead of the 23rd games in pyeongchang and says its the beginning of the biggest two weeks of her life. Moea nwhile, yarnolds teammate Katie Ormerod has gone on social media overnight to say she will still compete in the big air and slopestyle despite a wrist fracture suffered in a fall in training yesterday. Wembley was about half empty last night, but the majority of those who attended left happy, as spurs made it through to the fa cup fifth round with a 2 0 win over league twos Newport County. And england capatain eoin morgan has backed his batsmen, after defeat against australia in the twenty20 tri series opener. Morgan says they were right to take risks. But the execution wasnt up to scratch. We will have more sport for you after 10am. Thank you, more from you throughout the morning. Next, if you live in england, youre likely to see an increase in your council tax, as cash strapped local authorities, who look after services from schools to street cleaning, look to balance their books amid struggling times. According to a survey, around three quarters of councils are planning a rise of at least 2. 5 , which would mean more than £40 on the average bill. Charges for things like parking and burials or cremations are also due to go up, depending on where you live. Lets speak to councillor john fuller hes from the local Government Association, which represents councils in england and wales. Hes also the conservative leader of South Norfolk council. We can also speak to donna jones, the conservative leader of Portsmouth City council, which is putting its council tax up by 4. 9 . An increase of £41; for a band b property. Thank you both forjoining us this morning. Donna james, explain why you need that increase of 4. 9 on council tax. Explain why you need that increase of 4. 996 on council tax. The cost of employing people in the country, thanks to an increase in the minimum wage, has gone up significantly. Many of the people that work in Adult Social Care across the United Kingdom are paid on the lower pay thresholds in the uk. So we have had over£1. 5 thresholds in the uk. So we have had over £15 million added to our wage bill here at the council, particularly because of the increasing costs of Adult Social Care. That has led to us having to increase the council tax, the same as many other councils across the country. Does that mean there wont be any cuts to services . We are having to make £4 million worth of savings for my city council that i lead here in portsmouth this year. We have been able to mitigate that down tojust 4 we have been able to mitigate that down to just 4 of that £4 million is actually coming out in cuts to services. Instead, we have gone out and generated income as a way to mitigate the ongoing cuts from Central Government grants. John fuller, from your perspective, why are these rises necessary across the whole of england . Donna has put her finger on part of the problem. Councils are having inflation problems, just like anyone else, but ours are worse. Nationally, the increase in getting people to the minimum wage will increase our pay bills by 5. 5 alone over two years. The number of people needing Adult Social Care is rising and it is more and more and more complicated cases with People Living longer. That is a demographic change. In childrens services, where pressures are very services, where pressures are very high, we see people of working age and children who frankly have some very profound disabilities as a result of surviving thanks to medical interventions, which we celebrate, but the councils are having to look after those as well. We have 18,000 councillors nationally, 380 councils, in about every street in this country and we are all busting a gut to try and Keep Council Tax under control, innovating and doing all the right things. But ultimately, the cost pressures a re things. But ultimately, the cost pressures are such things. But ultimately, the cost pressures are such that in Adult Social Care and Children Services in particular, those cost drivers are almost overwhelming the rest of the things we do. What about people who are watching this who are struggling . We have seen in the news today levels of personal debt are going up. For people who are struggling to make ends meet, their wages arent going up but their costs are going up. This is the last thing they need to hear. Well, councils are in a difficult situation. Unlike other areas of government, defence, the Health Service and areas like that, we have do by law balance and books every single year. So there is nowhere to hide. Balance our books. There are Statutory Services the law says we must deliver. Whilst the government is giving us a little bit more money this year, and they say they have given us an extra £2 billion to help Adult Social Care pressures wealthier, for example, some of that money came from ourselves. Weve robbed peter to pay paul and weve kept it together. Weve done as best they can. Council tax was frozen for quite a few yea rs, tax was frozen for quite a few years, but there is a catch up perfect now. To keep the show on the road, our councils and councillors need to balance the books and the Statutory Services which councils have to do, im afraid people will have to do, im afraid people will have to do, im afraid people will have to pay a little bit more. I dont want people to get the impression we are just sitting back and doing nothing. With 20 30 reductions in funding, we have had to reinvent ourselves for the 21st century. We have innovated and done as much as the camps but to keep things going, im afraid the public will have do help us deliver those services. Otherwise, adult social ca re services. Otherwise, Adult Social Care and Children Services will overwhelm all the other things we do, and then who will collect the bins . Donna, you have been trying to reinvent things and do things in a different way in portsmouth. This is small comfort to a struggling family watching this thinking, how am i going to find that extra cash . Watching this thinking, how am i going to find that extra cash7m portsmouth i have really tried to keep our tax increases very low, but we are one of the lowest council tax collecting City Councils in the country. There are only four council is run by the conservatives in portsmouth is one of them. I have really driven through this income generation strategy. Last year, we had to take £9 million out of our budget because of cuts from Central Government grants. I only had to pass £900,000 of that to reducing front line services. Instead, we created a Property Investment portfolio which is bringing in a gross of £6. 5 million a year, setting up an Energy Company that will be trading byjuly and i have been able to give the public in portsmouth a commitment, a Firm Commitment that we will cut weekly bin collections collections as Many Councils across the country have done, we will not pose any libraries. In fact, we are just opening one of our main library is now on sunday, so it is open seven days a week. We undertook a £5 million Regeneration Project of one of our city and museums. I have done this by bringing an entrepreneurial approach to running the city council. Whilst i appreciate some councils will struggle to do that, particularly more rural councils, but in the cities we do have the potential to go out and generate income, to protect Public Services thatis income, to protect Public Services that is exactly im doing. You say you are a proud conservative council leader. Should this conservative government be helping out Councils Like yours, giving you money from Central Government . like yours, giving you money from Central Government . I also sit on the city region s board and the key city s board of the lga and on the National Executive of the lga. The local Government Association have had some success in lobbying the government, to make them aware of that pressure, particularly around the social care costs, both adults and children. Therefore, over 18 months ago we were then told by the government we could then preset, raise the council tax specifically for Adult Social Care. So there has been some movement from the government, in recognising the pressure councils are under. Of course, the Austerity Programme has not been easy for everybody. Now coming into oureighth not been easy for everybody. Now coming into our eighth year of the Austerity Programme. But for me, as Austerity Programme. But for me, as a fiscal conservative, the alternative of a government that didnt adopt a strong and comprehensive Austerity Programme would have meant the uk economy would have meant the uk economy would have meant the uk economy would have been in very poor shape by now. Look at economies like greece and spain, who failed to adopt Austerity Programmes, who are consistently spending more than the income every single year, eventually something has to give. There are economies have been substantially downgraded. Donna james, thank you for joining downgraded. Donna james, thank you forjoining us. And we also heard from john fuller. As we have been hearing, funding Adult Social Care is one of the biggest pressures that councils are facing. We will be talking about that in depth in the next hour. Lots of you getting in touch with us after that conversation with those firefighters, who tackled the g re nfell tower firefighters, who tackled the Grenfell Tower fire and are now going to run the London Marathon to raise money for the community. Julie e mailed to say these firemen are so inspiring and so very humble, i salute you all. Sophie got in touch, amazing grenfell firefighters running the London Marathon, he rose and stars everyone. Raising for the children of the community. And another, grenfell firefighters are heroes. And another says, outstanding to see firefighters doing even more for grenfell. Barry said, grenfell firefighters are running marathon to raise money for children, these parahi arose on all levels. You can get in touch with us on those stories and all the others using hashtag victoria live. The human body is pretty remarkable. But imagine if you could upgrade it in someway, add new bits or change what your limbs were capable of doing or looked like. Would you do it . And should we be allowed to do what we want with our bodies . We sent the bbcs north America Technology reporter, dave lee, to austin in texas to meet the body hackers people who are determined to push the human body and the law into new territory. We must warn you, you may feel a little squeamish watching parts of his report. Being a body hacking enthusiast means enhancing yourself with technology or other visual elements. Some discovered this due to disability, you that using that as a starting point to experiment. To outsiders this might seem very much like an event that is on the fringes of society, but the people who come here see themselves very much like pioneers, both artistically and scientifically. Body hack con is into its third year. People come from all over the world to show off their work. So they are subdermal implants, they are just under the skin over the muscle, so there is a little bit of tissue movement allowance, but there is no discomfort involved. Its myoelectric which means its muscle powered, so when i flex my muscles in my residual limb it allows me to move the hand. I kind of like the idea that i can also make my arm match my personality by adding lights and colours and matching to my outfit and things like that. As well as the social scene here, this event is used to Share Research with the body hacking community. The subject matter this year included the prospect of implanting a device to make a mans penis vibrate as well as more complex ideas such as gene therapy. Amongst the amateurs, the us government. Justin sanchez worked for a department within the military that experiments with new technology. Its inventions include self driving cars, gps and most famously the internet. Now it is turning its attention to body hacking. Part of coming to this meeting is sharing our knowledge on all of this with a community that is very much on the leading edge of all of this. One of the things that we showed here at this meeting is that there is a person who has difficulty recalling a list of 12 words and without the brain simulation they could not recall the 12 words and with direct brain simulation they were able to recall those words in almost a seamless fashion. All 12 words in rapid succession, so that was really the breakthrough moment for us. If something is on the verge of being impossible we will start to explore that area. It is permanent, they dont fade, they are going to be purple for ever, so it was definitely something i had to think about for quite some time. I really became interested in performance art, body art, body modification, when i discovered i was a bad painter in art school. The hacks being done in this scene are pushing interpretations of the law into new areas. This man, who calls himself meow, has had his travel card chip embedded into his hand. Authorities in australia want to force him to remove it. I think to be honest the reason they are taking me to court is not so much like out of malice, it is out ofjust like bureaucracy. It is easier for them to take me to court than it is for them to update the law. As is typical of this type of technology regulators and lawmakers dont really know how to handle some of the things we have heard discussed here. The question is, should human beings be allowed to do whatever they want with their own bodies . One person who firmly believes we should be allowed to experiment is dane lewis. Dana. She has type one diabetes and was so fed up with poor devices from pharmaceutical companies she set about making what is essentially a replacement pancreas. And what this is is a small computer with a radio that reads data from my insulin pump and my glucose monitor does the maths for me and sends the command back to the insulin pump to automatic insulin delivery if any changes i needed. It is not that we dont want to buy a commercial product that is great. We would love to buy a commercial product that works for us. But these products that come to market our one size fits all and we have the technology, off the shelf hardware, to do this ourselves. So why not . Dayna has consulted with the us drugs regulator the fda. Her low risk device isnt considered a treatment and crucially she is not allowed to sell it. The same basic stipulations would apply in the uk. But others here are apparently less worried about regulation and safety. This is aaron trawick. He runs a company that claims it can cure hiv, aids and herpes. Disturbingly he told us he plans to bring his drugs to aids patients in venezuela. All we can do is we can say to these people we know that you dont have access to these medications, we know that the people who are taking care of you also cant get access to these medications for you. You know these people are desperate, you know these people are poor, and so you say, ok, these are the ideal people for us to try our untested, unregulated, potentially unsafe drug . All i can say is they dont have any other options. Is that enough of a reason to give someone a drug that might not be saved . Be safe. There is no reason to believe it isnt safe. There is no reason to believe it is. This is my point here. People are not guinea pigs. Just because they are ill, just because they are dying, does not make them guinea pigs for your experiment. We are not talking about them as guinea pigs. You cant even test. There are not even reagents in that country to be able to test whether the treatment works. All we know is if it works, they dont die. The fda told the bbc Companies Like this are considered to be dangerous. A spokeswoman wouldnt say if that firm is being investigated. So it has been a very interesting couple of days and i think we have seen the good and bad of this industry. On the good we have seen people taking control of their health care in a way that is cheaper and often more innovative than the traditional channels would allow, but on the other side we have seen people i think with very questionable motives and not a lot of concern for the consequences of what they are doing. Coming up. Westminster needs to urgently reform how it deals with bulling and Sexual Harassment. Bullying. Thats the view of a Cross Party Group of mps. Well be hearing from one of them, and also from the journalist who accused theresa mays former Deputy Damian green of inappropriate behaviour. For parents of premature babies, being separated from their child when theyre first born is often the hardest thing. Now a new Study Suggests involving mums and dads in their hospital care improves the babies wellbeing. Six months ago, this programme went to leeds hospital, where they were trialling such a scheme. Born at 23 weeks, lola pozner chances of survival were slim. They painted a really bad picture that she could have all sorts of problems. In the intensive care unit it is terrifying it is something very few people get to see full she was tiny and had wires coming out of everywhere. She had a twin brother but he did not survive. She has given me something positive to focus on. As soon as she left intensive care, mum anna took over from the nurses. One job we have to do is to ta ke nurses. One job we have to do is to take her temperature may be every three, four hours. At the monitor on the wall and going in under her arm. St james park was the first in the uk to introduce family integrated care. uk to introduce family integrated care. Hospital. It is about getting the family at the centre of the team, caring for the baby. They are taught to feed their babies and taught temperature taking. Do you know what you are looking for . M has to be within a certain range. The idea is not new. Family integrated care was introduced in the former soviet union in the 19705. The former soviet union in the 1970s. Then it was a solution to the shortage of nurses. In leeds, they say it is not. Be honest, where you can send it was a cost cutting measure . Never. Were you concerned . It measure . Never. Were you concerned . It takes measure . Never. Were you concerned . It takes more time to get the parents competent. The problems of having a premature baby are well known. The bonding process is harder to establish. Breast feeding rates are lower and there is a Financial Impact with car parking, meals, and loss of earnings will stop an average day in a Neonatal Unit costs families £2000. s day. Parents of premature babies are twice as likely to suffer from postnatal depression. It is not rocket science. It is such a straightforward thing to do, to allow parents to look after their babies. The fact is that families are going home more confident and more able to care for their babies and that means a lot. For anna, it meant bringing her baby home weeks earlier than expected. meant bringing her baby home weeks earlier than expected. I love her full she is amazing, my little miracle. I full she is amazing, my little miracle. I love her. You are, arent you . Well, here to talk about this idea is victoria russell. Shes here with her daughter, nancy who was born at 26 weeks and spent four months in neonatal care. Richard hobden sadly lost his son noah, who was born prematurely setup a charity called noahs big charity inhis honou. In his honour. And dr chris gale is a neonatal consultant at chelsea and Westminster Hospital in london. Thank you all for carrying, especially you, nancy. Victoria, for people who have not been into a Neonatal Unit, an experienced that, just share with people what that was like and how difficult it can be for pa rents . Like and how difficult it can be for parents . It is so difficult. You have a baby way before you are expected to and then you are in this very sterile environment, surrounded by doctors and your baby is in a plastic box and you cannot touch your baby. It is very difficult to bond. It is terrifying. You do not know if youre going to take your baby home at the end of it. Other mums have skin to skin contact and are Breast Feeding and you do not have that time. My first hold after ten days, it was a military operation to get her out of the incubator with all the wires and hold her. Richard, iwant incubator with all the wires and hold her. Richard, i want to bring you in. Your son was in neonatalfor several months, wasnt he . Yes, 91 days. Unfortunately, due to the nature of his birth, my wife suffered a cardiac arrest at home, a heart attack, and as a result they needed to deliver no at 24 weeks and six days. He was rushed. He was taken to Basildon University hospital and rushed in. At that age he was one of the youngest will stop the lady on the programme had a child at 23 weeks but at 24 weeks and unplanned is a harrowing process. The teams were fantastic. A lot of it is a waiting game. Unfortunately, 91 days, certain tests were being undertaken because of his age. It was proved his brain did not develop. Unfortunate decisions had to be made and he subsequently passed away. That is not to say, the care we saw was exquisite. In all nhs areas there a re staff exquisite. In all nhs areas there are Staff Shortages but the staff are Staff Shortages but the staff are working there. It is notjust a 12 hour shift. It is now before and an hour after. We have become very good friends with nurses who are on the unit helping no. As result of his we felt we needed to give something back. Noah. We support basildon and royal london borough is to provide additional equipment to help others who have found themselves in a similar position to ourselves. I know that your experience was a little bit more hands on like this suggestion. Experience was a little bit more hands on like this suggestionm was very hands on like this suggestionm was very hands on. I was so thankful that we were encouraged when she was very young to take part in her care. Changing nappy, which sounds normal, but it is a really big deal when they are so small. To give medication. Had i not done that on the ward i would have been terrified to have done that at home. It was a really big difference. You had a less hands on experience. Really big difference. You had a less handson experience. My wife came out of hospital, i believe it was 18 day she was in hospital recovering from the actual heart attack. When she came to unit, being separated from noah for an extended period was very hard. Coming back in contact with him was not straightforward. It was not going to be. Very quickly they offered skin to skin care, kangaroo care, and it was a nominal. Reflecting back on it, the change in lydia, it was amazing. It is a military operation. We needed to macro nurses to orchestrate getting him out of the incubator. Orchestrate getting him out of the incubator. Two nurses. He was on ventilator support. We have some cherished photos of lydia holding him that mean the world. In terms of what i understand about the report and how it helps both parents and babies is great. As far as i am concerned, it is within reason. It depends on the baby, the parents can the time available. Certain parents travel in from a distance. Your report was talking to chris earlier about dedication of six hours a day. My employer was very good and i could have an extended period of work. Grandparents were phenomenal. We had an 18 month old daughter at the time. Other people are not that fortunate. Juggling it while trying to be there for a child in an intensive environment is hard. Lets bring in chris. I am interested to know, why is it important to dedicate six hours a day . It is not going to be practicalfor everyone, is it . The trial that was done is a remarkable achievement. It was a fabulous piece of Research Showing an innovative way of testing parents involvement. It is a huge achievement. That is why the six hour requirement was there, and that was to try to make it as experimental as possible so they could say any effect was due to having parents that and delivering the care as part of the Clinical Team for a good portion of the day. What is the difference between what is done now and what is recommended in the report . There are places doing this, like in leeds. Do you want to play with that . Sorry, carry on. Most of the other units in the uk have a lesser approach of family centred care, which involves parents as much as possible with skin to skin kangaroo care, changing nappies and things, but fall short of some of the clinical tasks which are part of family integrated care. Is there a risk if parents are administrative administering drugs . Risk if parents are administrative administering drugs . That is why people have waited for this research to say, is it safe, are there problems question at this research didnt find any adverse effects, no problems they identified. They had nearly 2000 babies in this study across 25 intensive care units in canada, new zealand and australia. This is a very big study. This is the kind of information and i nhs units have been waiting for. But i would like to echo what richard said. Ithink would like to echo what richard said. I think it is about the parents themselves, in many ways. Many parents will be able to provide nearly as much time is that, due to other children or other caring responsibilities. Some parents may not want to do this. My friend, it isa not want to do this. My friend, it is a difficult environment to be in. Im afraid we have to bring this to a close, but thank you for coming in. You have been very, very good now time for a weather update, incredibly cold at the moment and i guess it is staying that way. You are right in many ways, incredibly cold in the south east but as we had through the day, not as cold as yesterday, but gets cold again after that. The forecast today is less cold, we have rain pushing south eastwards, accompanied by a fair bit of cloud. In the south east itself, started off on a dry note with some sunshine. The weather from producing the cloud and rain and drizzle is slowly sinking south, so the cloud building and it nice and sunny start being eradicated. Behind it, Northern Ireland and scotland, a lot of bright weather, some sunshine. The north east. And a lot of showers, rain showers in the north and west. Snow showers as we push up into the hills. Through this evening and overnight, a weather front rejuvenates, bringing heavy rain in northern england, wales and south west england. As it pushes into the south east, behind it a cold air follows on a lot of showers, wintry showers in the north and west of the uk, but also we will see some of those in parts of wales, the midlands and the south east. Hello. Its thursday, its 10 oclock. Im chloe tilley. Changing the culture at westminster. One in five people working there has reported being sexually harassed over the last 12 months. Its also about putting the complainant at the heart of the process, giving them back control, because very often, particularly in the case of sexual crimes that have been committed, that individual feels that control has been taken away from them. Well hear from the writer, kate maltby, who accused the Prime Ministers former Deputy Damian green of making inappropriate advances to her a claim hes always denied. She says the proposals are a step in the right direction, but there is still work to do. The shortage of care workers in the uk has been criticised in a new report. So, is enough being done to look after Vulnerable People in our communities . Councils say care workers wages are pushing up costs. Weve had over £1. 5 million added to our wage bill here at the council, particularly because of the increase in costs of Adult Social Care. That has led to us having to increase the council tax. Well hear from the owner of a small care home, who says he struggles to recruit staff. And if you were a fan of the spice girls, youll have paid a lot less to see them live than people who managed to get to get tickets to see taylor swift, for example. The bbc has found average ticket prices for big arena gigs have doubled since the late 1990s. So, have the ticket prices put you off . Or do you think its worth the cost . Get in touch in the usual ways. Good morning. Its 9 05am. Heres Annita Mcveigh in the bbc newsroom, with a summary of todays news. Good morning. Nearly a fifth of people working in parliament have seen or experienced Sexual Harassment, according to a report due out this morning. A Cross Party Group of mps, chaired by the leader of the commons, Andrea Leadsom, is expected to recommend a new code of conduct, an independent complaints procedure and tougher sanctions for inappropriate behaviour. The review was set up last year after several harassment claims against mps and staff. 95 of councils in england are planning to raise council taxes in april, according to new research. A survey by the local Government Information Unit found 80 were concerned about financial stability. The biggest pressure on budgets was demand for childrens services, Adult Social Care and housing and homelessness. The lga says Council Leaders are doing all they can to limit the pressure on taxpayers. I dont want people to get the impression that we are just sitting back doing nothing. With 20 30 reductions in funding, we have had to reinvent ourselves for the 21st century fox we have innovated and done as much as we can but to keep things going, im afraid the public will have two help us deliver those services, because otherwise Adult Social Care, Children Services will overwhelm all the other things we do and then who will collect the bins . Adult social care in england is a cinderella service, which is undervalued and whose workers are poorly paid, according to the Public Finance watchdog. The National Audit office says the government is failing to deal with a shortage of care workers at a time when demand is increasing. Low rates of pay and the pressures of thejob have been blamed. The government says its considering ways to overhaul the care sector. School anti obesity programmes dont work, according to a report in the british medicaljournal. Initiatives like encouraging Healthy Eating and additional exercise are unlikely to have any impact on Childhood Obesity, say researchers. They looked at 600 Primary School pupils over the course of a year, all of whom were taking part in an anti obesity programme. But they found no improvement in diet or activity levels. Thats a summary of the latest bbc news. More at 10 30am. Thank you very much. Do get in touch with us throughout the morning use the victorialive. And, if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Heres some sport now with hugh. Hello again. The Winter Olympics are underway before weve even had the Opening Ceremony. The news from this morning is that Lizzie Yarnold will be the team gb flag bearer tomorrow, voted for by her team mates. The defending skeleton champion says shes really excited, despite the freezing temperatures in pyeongchang. You can watch the Opening Ceremony live on bbc one tomorrow. Coverage starts at 10 30am. A decision on whether 47 russian athletes and coaches can take part in the Winter Olympics will be made tomorrow morning. The russians believe they have been wrongfully excluded by the International Olympic committee. They include the 28 athletes who had their life bans lifted by the court of arbitration for sport last week. The World Anti Doping Agency says it will be frustrating if the 47 are allowed to compete. What is important is to be sure that those who are invited, there is no suspicion of doping on them. And that i am comfortable, because i know the work that has been done by the commission chair, to which we we re the commission chair, to which we were a party to. I know they have reviewed all the evidence that is existing, and only those on which there was no suspicion were invited. It isa there was no suspicion were invited. It is a different question for those 47. That is a completely different thing, because they do not fall into that category of athletes on which there is no suspicion, and it would be extremely frustrating to have them at the games, but my hope is cas will rule on that and it will not happen. Jonathanjoseph will be back in the england starting xv for saturdays six nations match with wales at twickenham. He comes in at outside centre, with ben teo dropping to the bench. Joseph made an impact when he came on in englands victory over italy at the weekend. The other change, sees danny care become englands most capped scrum half, in place of the injured ben youngs. Over 7,000 Newport County fans made the trip to wembley last night, but left disappointed as the league two minnows failed to make it through to the fa cup fifth round. Newport held out for nearly half an hour, against premier league side spurs, before falling behind to a dan butler own goal. Erik lamela doubled tottenhams lead with his first goal in almost a year and a half. Their reward is a trip to league ones rochdale. The fa cup is always completely different to the premier league or other competitions. Of course, you wa nt to other competitions. Of course, you want to win and you want to win playing well and you want to win scoring a lot of goals, but i think the most important thing now is to go to the next age. So many travelling on a wednesday night, its exceptional. I was deafening over to thank and show my appreciation, because they are huge for us andl appreciation, because they are huge for us and i cant thank them enough. I was definitely. Arsenal women boosted their hopes of a top two finish in the womens superleague, with a comfortable victory at liverpool ladies. That is all be sport for now, more later in the hour. Thank you. Ever since allegations of Sexual Harassment engulfed in westminster last year politicians from all sides have been trying to address the issue. A report released this morning says almost a fifth of people working in parliament have witnessed or experienced Sexual Harassment in the past year. The survey commissioned by a Cross Party Group of mps, chaired by the leader of the commons, Andrea Leadsom has also called for tougher sanctions for anyone found guilty of wrongdoing and a new code of behaviourfor mps, peers and staff, and even visitors to the palace of westminster. With me now is the former conservative Party Activist kate maltby, who accused the ex deputy Prime Minister damian green of inappropriate behaviour. He denied it, but a Cabinet Office inquiry found her allegations were plausible. In westminster, the green partys co leader caroline lucas, who is a member of the Cross Party Working Group brought together by the leader of the commons Andrea Leadsom. Thank you both forjoining us this morning. Caroline, iwant thank you both forjoining us this morning. Caroline, i want to speak to you first of all, about working at westminster and the sort of stories that you hear about this culture at westminster, just to enlighten our viewers. Westminster is a very toxic environment. We know it is an environment that reeks of privilege, and that is why, in a sense, this report is so important. That headline you gave, that shocking figure, one in five people having experienced Sexual Harassment or witnessed it, that ought to be a real wake up call. Parliament should bea real wake up call. Parliament should be a beacon of best practice when it comes to working practices. People should be able to have a right to expect a safe and dignified working environment, and the fact we are having to work so hard just to catch up having to work so hard just to catch up is having to work so hard just to catch upisa having to work so hard just to catch up is a pretty strong indictment of the processes we had to date. Kate, for you, does this report go foreigners . This report is a step in the right direction. I think all of us who raise complaints. Does this report go far enough . Those of us who raised complaints feel vindicated by the results of this survey and how seriously it is being taken survey and how seriously it is being ta ken by caroline survey and how seriously it is being taken by caroline and her peers. We we re taken by caroline and her peers. We were told that we were making a fuss about nothing, that there was a witchhunt, that this was all hysteria and actually a serious survey of people who work in Parliament Day in and day out has found one in five reporting Sexual Harassment, two in five reporting bullying, that tells me that we have highlighted a serious problem. It is great it is going to be addressed. Caroline, when we look at this report and pull it apart, there are some interesting things. For example, the power will be taken away from mps, effectively investigating on claims against the party, this will go to an independent person, which is a significant step forward . It is a major step forward. We know the fact it has been precisely the concern of having to report it to a Political Party that has put off many people from making claims, making reports. It has also meant people have been worried that their own political careers might be held into question. It has been a real break on people coming forward. Given that we know that the problem of underreporting is so huge, i think anything we can do to give people greater confidence that their reporting will be done to an entirely independent process is something that can only be a positive step forward. Some people may find it bizarre reading this this morning, compulsory training to help mps understand and prevent harassment. Really . Do mps need to go on training courses for that . You have just heard from kate and so many other cases that i think indicate yes indeed, mps need to go on training courses. I would like to have seen that to have been mandatory right from this parliament. What we have agreement for is it should be mandatory in the next parliament. Training doesnt imply that everybody is an inherent perpetrator, but people should know what best practices on what the law is. Any mp kicking up a fuss about going for some training is probably precisely the mp that should be first in the queue that needs it. absolutely agree. I would say there has been a response to this which goes along the lines of, well we elect mps so they must be great people who are highly responsible and if we have sent them to parliament they must know everything already. No mp enters parliament knowing exactly how to do theirjob perfectly. Just as no one starts a newjob already knowing how the office works. That doesnt mean that the people we have elected not responsible or to show great promise ca re responsible or to show great promise care about their constituents but anyone whojoins care about their constituents but anyone who joins parliament care about their constituents but anyone whojoins parliament has an induction in, for example, how to use the it services, how the Lobby Division works. And of course, you would know how to use an mit system but some people would say is it not just common sense of what is appropriate behaviour and what is not . I hoped it was common sense, but as caroline said, it has already been very clear there are serious cases throughout parliament, and there are mps who simply are not living in the 21st century. Parliament is a special case. A lot of people having this argument will Say Parliament doesnt need to be regulated like a modern work environment, it is not a corporate office, people dont have, dont need a chat in the same way. That view, frankly, comes from people who have an exceptional vision parliament, lucy being an mp has something mystical, something entitled. Part of a glorious legacy in which you are called to be amongst the elite by virtue of having become an mp. What we are saying, and i think what this report is really all about, is saying it is not a club, it is not a boarding school club any more for the chosen people. It is a working environment. The great majority of people who work there are not mps and it needs to live in the 21st century. What about the fact that complainants and alleged perpetrators details will be kept from the public . Is that the right move . Quite controversial, as norman smith was saying earlier. We want to protect the complainant and give them power in this process. So many times that when it comes to dealing with Sexual Harassment, their power is taken away. The problem of making the alleged perpetrators name public early on is that it does not ta ke public early on is that it does not take much public investigation to work out who the likely complainant is. Offices are very small. We have tried to keep the balance right. I hope we have. It is the beginning of a process was to what other people think. Our advice from experts was it should be a complainant led process. In order to protect their anonymity as much as possible up untilfinding is anonymity as much as possible up until finding is made. Back confidentiality must be met. Do you agree with the confidentiality . M is always the case that perpetrators of Sexual Harassment are serial offenders. Only when it is made known to others have courage to come forward. That is my concern. Thanks to you both. New figures just released show that january was the second worst month on record for hospital waiting times at accident and Emergency Departments in england. With more werejoined by our health editor, hugh pym. Thank you for coming to speak to us. Probably not surprising in light of what you have been reporting in recent months. It was a difficult january for the whole of the nhs was real stresses and strains early in the new year. It is often really difficult with people coming back from holiday and a real strain on social care and gps and a real strain on weights in hospitals. Hospitals are very full. Difficulties finding beds. Very well publicised. Ambulances stacking up in the car park and unable to discharge their patients. Long wait seen discharge their patients. Long wait seen around the uk for that these are figures for england forjanuary. They show a slight improvement on the previous january, just dead at 85 of patients being seen within four hours. Just short of 85 . Record numbers of people waiting 12 hours on trolleys that is another gauge of how well the nhs is performing. A serious situation still there. Across the whole month, maybe not as bad as people thought but certainly one of what patients will expect and watch the nhs is expected to deliver. And what the nhs. We ask if enough is being done to look after them Vulnerable People in our communities. Going to a big arena gig these days to see a superstar costs big money, far more money in fact than it used to. Average ticket prices have doubled in the last 20 years, and even when you take inflation into account theyre still up more than 25 . So whats going on . Is it down to greedy promoters, stars needing the cash, or fans demanding more from their concerts . Our entertainment reporter Chi Chi Izundu is here to explain. Thank you for coming down. Why is it saying it is more expensive . This report was done by bbc 5live who had spoken to the National Arena association. They found the cost price of a ticket at face value, what is set by the promoter, were not talking up looking fees or admin costs or postage and packaging. That has gone up faster than inflation. Lets ta ke has gone up faster than inflation. Lets take an example of a big gig. Lets take an example of a big gig. Lets have a look at the spice girls. Back in 1998 you would be expected to pay £23 50 to see those five lovely ladies. It sounds like a bargain . It does. I am sure most fa ns bargain . It does. I am sure most fans would be happy to pay that. Lets skip forward. We are not adding on all the added costs of admin, booking fees and postage and packaging. It is what is set by the promoter and artists. Skip to taylor swift and heard gig that is going on at Wembley Stadium the same venue as the spice girls, itll be upwards of £62. We must say that putting on a tour is not a cheap affair. Lets think about how much goes into it. Are talking equipment. For beyonce, hurt formation tour had to charter five 747 is just to get stuff over here. Then you get artists like adele, who stand on a stage and sings beautifully. I know people who had to pay £95just to see that. went to watch her. I was very lucky before she had to pull out over her boys. I paid £55. I hope that is not that bad then. Her voice. Boys. I paid £55. I hope that is not that bad then. Her voice. We are talking sound, we are talking dancers, people who do the lighting. That all cost money. That is why it costs so much was that this is the main way that artists make their money. They dont really make it from selling cds anymore for the play have to feed the people who work for them. Well, joining us now is kerri watt. She waited nearly 20 years to see Britney Spears, but when her chance came, she couldnt afford the tickets. And we have also have two uk promoters. Richard dyer, who is the director of skiddle, and paul hutton, co founder of crosstown concerts, which is also a record label. Hello. Thank you for coming in. How much this is down to streaming . That is what i want to know, richard and paul. That is what often blamed. There is less money available. Sidi sells do not exist any more really. Cd. Sells do not exist any more really. Cd. Paper streams around one or to macro sense, effectively. It is certainly a good excuse. Artists are demanding higher fees. The certainly a good excuse. Artists are demanding higherfees. The way certainly a good excuse. Artists are demanding higher fees. The way that the agencies and the artists model works is there is not a price list for these people for is that you have to guess how much it works as if they are guessing the same amount of money. So, you can push it . There isa dividing of money. So, you can push it . There is a dividing line between normal concerts and the high end pop superstars. Normal gigs, say you live in london, every venue has a pricing strategy. Once they get up to superstar level, it isjust the wild west. You have Major Companies bidding to buy shows. Who gets the show is who pays the most . How do you generate more income . You put up the ticket price that is the first thing that happens. The second thing with the price comparisons, is the nature to our concerts were. I remembergoing to nature to our concerts were. I remember going to Wembley Stadium in 1992. There were no screens. I was somewhere near the back. Now you turn up, there are massive video screens. The expectation level has gone up. Oasis at knebworth was £22. 50. Now it would be more than Britney Spears. Be more than anyone. They were the greatest band in the world at that time. It would not really reflect on how that ticket price would come. I know that you waited 20 years to wait to see Britney Spears. This is amazing. Why did it take so long for you to try to get your hands on tickets . Did you not have the cash . I did not have the opportunity to go. I had someone have the opportunity to go. I had someone writing to me saying, she is coming to london. Lets do it. The 15 year old inside of me was excited. I preregistered for the tickets. We thought maybe £80, £85. When they came on sale, we could not do anything for under 160. When they came on sale, we could not do anything for under 160m when they came on sale, we could not do anything for under 160. It was crazy. Is that a case of, i cannot justify this or you could not afford to do it . Technically we could have paid the price for the tickets. We thought it was extortionate. As much as we love it, it is a couple of hours of entertainment. Out of principle it seemed really wrong. Do you think, listening to what these quys you think, listening to what these guys are saying about audience expectations, do you accept it is not a concert you go to any more, it isa not a concert you go to any more, it is a whole live event . It is an experience. A few years ago, it was quite topical that these artist did need to be paid and the concerts we re need to be paid and the concerts were how they were going to do that. We a cce pted were how they were going to do that. We accepted that but it feels like they have taken it to another level and the price is through the roof. Richard, is that fair . Yes. You dont go and see a gig. I am not really a promoter of eight ticket sales website. We see everything from the fun and right through to the arena is. With the arena is, like paul said it is supply and demand. Lionel richie has gone on sale. I want to go and see him, as does my mum. People want to go and see lionel richie. They know they can sell those they can get away with charging 87 quid to stand in a foot ball with charging 87 quid to stand in a football stadium that the only way it will go down is if people do not want to go. Is it the fault of the fans . If they did not buy the tickets, prices would have to fall. In anyform tickets, prices would have to fall. In any form of entertainment and there is a price history. It is £80 to watch chelsea play. Bands are like football teams in that they trade on peoples loyalty. On sky tv, they pay millions of pounds a year that they do not really need gate revenue. Merchandising sales are plummeting but they need to sell tickets in concerts. It is generally quite structured. The industry is regulated. We know that people come to concerts and we need to keep them engaged. When is the last time you went to a concert, apart from Britney Spears . A proper big one, a couple of years ago. People who occasionally go. They think they canjustify pushing occasionally go. They think they can justify pushing up occasionally go. They think they canjustify pushing up the prices. Yes, it is a special occasion for a treat. The other fact coming into play treat. The other fact coming into play the other factor coming into play, a decent percentage of people looking to buy tickets for any of the major shows will be getting fleeced by the secondary ticket market. And that is a big issue. Often when you do a search online, thatis often when you do a search online, that is where you get sent to. The first three things that come up on shows i have on sale, like we have jack right on sale at the moment. On google at this very moment, it will be get me in, voagpgp or stubhub. Viagogo. Now, what they do, is they run the ticket sales consecutively are not concurrently. If you go on the site to buy a ticket for Britney Spears at ukip robey get £455 at the first ticket you would come to would be £55. £455, the ticket. Im gutted at the rita or tickets. Asa im gutted at the rita or tickets. As a mother, you do your best to get it. As a mother, you do your best to get it. Ora. One direction concerts cost £400 for my daughters to attend. Still to come programmes promoting Healthy Eating and exercise in schools is unlikely to have an impact on Childhood Obesity rates thats according to a new study. Well have the details. And from nigeria, we bring you the story of 13 year old fatama, who was abducted by militant Group Boko Haram, not once, but twice. Time for the latest news. Heres Annita Mcveigh. The headlines now on bbc news nearly a fifth of people working in parliament have seen or experienced Sexual Harassment, according to a report due out this morning. A Cross Party Group of mps chaired by the leader of the commons, Andrea Leadsom is expected to recommend a new code of conduct, an independent complaints procedure and tougher sanctions for inappropriate behaviour. The review was set up last year after several harassment claims against mps and staff. A e for last month show it was one of the most difficult on record. Targets missed the 30th month in a row. A total of 85. 3 of patients we re row. A total of 85. 3 of patients were seen row. A total of 85. 3 of patients were seen in four hours, that is marginally better than the 85. 1 recorded in december. The data from nhs england shows more than 2 million patients came to Robin Le Mesurier in the month, a rise of over 5 in the year. Particular problems were experienced with waiting on trolleys. 95 of councils in england are planning to raise council taxes in april, according to new research. A survey by the local Government Information Unit found 80 were concerned about financial stability. The biggest pressure on budgets was demand for childrens services, Adult Social Care and housing and homelessness. The lga says Council Leaders are doing all they can to limit the pressure on taxpayers. More people than ever, are seeking help for money problems. A new analysis by bbc news shows short term borrowing has risen four times faster than wages over the last three years. Data from uk finance, which covers ten of the uks biggest banks and building societies, also revealed households had £37 billion of unsecured personal loans last year. New pictures show the moments after a florida couple discovered a two and a half metre alligator in their swimming pool. The man and wife woke on tuesday to find a reptile bathing in their pool. They believe the animal came from a nearby canal. Police officers attended the residence shortly afterwards, and waited for wildlife officials to arrive and remove it. Im sure they were very relieved about that. Thats a summary of the latest bbc news. Thank you, that is not really what you want let me bring you to some comments about council tax. One is, where do people find the extra money from . Where do people find the extra money from . Councils where do people find the extra money from . Councils of cutback in the last three years to save money, services have already been cut and now it isjoe public to services have already been cut and now it is joe public to foot the bill. Another, what is the point of putting wages up if they take it back anyway through council tax . Council tax going up, the conservatives are the party of high taxes. And paul an e mail, iwish someone taxes. And paul an e mail, iwish someone would ask one the council is how much wages and expenses they have and how much their pay rises will be. Dont think they are on minimum wage. Dawn also got in touch, we need to balance our books so touch, we need to balance our books so the public will have to pay question that you go, the shirt off my back, its all ive got left. Sorry, it was bought from a charity shop. Keep your comments coming on that story and all the others we are discussing. Heres some sport now with hugh. Lizzie yarnold has been named as the flagbearer for team gb at this years Winter OlympicsOpening Ceremony. The defending skeleton champion will lead the team out tomorrow, ahead of the 23rd games in pyeongchang, and says it will mark the start of the biggest two weeks of her life. Meanwhile, yarnolds team mate Katie Ormerod has gone on social media overnight to say she will still compete in the big air and slopestyle, despite a wrist fracture suffered in a fall in training yesterday. After his impact as a substitute in englands win over italy last weekend, Jonathan Joseph will start at outside centre for the visit of wales on saturday. The other english change sees danny care start at scrum half. The fa cup dream ended for Newport County last night, but they did bow out at wembley. The League Two Side were beaten 2 0 by spurs. That is all be sport for now, more after 11. Thank you. Now as weve heard, council tax is set to rise by an average of £100 in nearly all local authorities in england. With 80 of councils fearing for their balance sheets. Thats according to the local Government Information Unit. It also found that social care was the greatest long term pressure on council budgets, as the conservative leader at Portsmouth CityCouncil Donna Jones told me earlier. Well, the cost of employing people in the country, thanks to an increase in the minimum wage, has gone up significantly. Many of the people that work in Adult Social Care across the United Kingdom are paid on the lower pay threshold in the uk, and so weve had over £1. 5 million added to our wage bill here at the council, particularly because of the increasing costs in Adult Social Care. That has led to us having to increase the council tax, the same as many other councils across the country. Todays report also outlines just how difficult it has become to find care staff generally, but also attracting nurses has become a real issue as tammy ardron a lead nurse at northfields nursing home in sheffield explains. I dont think it is as attractive as maybe the nhs where you have got your salary packages, enhanced rates of pay, unsociable hours. And i think its hard work. Its constant, you have got to be on the ball 24 hours a day. So what needs to be done to change things . Lets talk now to mike padgham who runs a small care home and day centre and says he struggles to recruit staff, and labour mp Barbara Keeley who is shadow minister for health and social care. We did ask the government to join us but they refused. I want to ask you first of all, mike, the challenges you face running a small care home, with retaining staff question at yes, good morning. In the 30 odd years ive been involved in social care, its the most challenging time i have ever known. I think there are less people wanting to work in social care. Attracting them into a sector that is hard work, underfunded makes it difficult and we are competing with lots of other interesting careers as well. That is why it is getting more and more difficult for us, particularly with nurses. What are we talking about pay wise, £7. 50 now . We pay above that, we pay for brakes, but we are competing with social services and health. And it is a strange thing, we are delivering health on their behalf and struggling to keep up. That is the challenge, it squeezes us in the middle foot we would like to pay more than the National Living wage but struggle. If you could pay more, do think it would be enough to retain staff or is it more than that . I think that is part of it but there has to be a big leap, we might be looking at a national. A minimum wage for social care staff. We need to mature we have enough people attracted into the sector, so people attracted into the sector, so people dont have to work such long shifts but that is another challenge. If the government could do one thing, there are many things it could do, but one thing is to say to people social care is a good career to go into. Most of what we see is bad news for people dont wa nt to see is bad news for people dont want to work in our sector. Would you make of mikes idea about the National Wage for social care staff . I think that is a really good idea may be what the government has to think about doing for them during the general election in 2000 is 2017, we pledge to pay £8 an hour and my local council pays more than the National Minimum wage to our ca re staff, the National Minimum wage to our care staff, as a way of rewarding them, so they do stay. That is great on paper and them, so they do stay. That is great on paperand im them, so they do stay. That is great on paper and im sure many people watching this with a fantastic, but where does the money come from . We have been reporting the council tax rises today on the comments read out from any of our viewers, saying we cant afford these rises. Where is it coming from . Indeed. What the government has not done this fund these pay rises but pushed it out onto social care levy, which Council Taxpayers have to pay. Really, if we have a National Living wage policy, the government should pay it, fund it. Let me read you this, a statement from the department of health and social care. Everyone is entitled to good quality care and we recognise there are challenges thats why we will shortly publish a health and Care Workforce strategy to address these issues. Weve provided an extra £2 billion funding to the sector and this week announced a further £150 million for next year in the summer we will outline plans to reform social care to ensure it is sustainable for the future. That is all in the future. The £2 million is only starting to come in this year. It is spread across councils in a particular way. It is less in the following years. The 150 million, Just Announced yesterday, is £14 per year, per person who received social careful what on earth could you do with £14 question that it would paper about an hours care. Silly amounts like that wont help. I think the other thing we we re help. I think the other thing we were debating in the house of commons yesterday if there is no stability in this funding, it is one. The government. If that is the case, if you wanted to have more sta ble the case, if you wanted to have more stable funding, that is tax rises, isnt it . It will be. Which people cant afford. There have been a numberof cant afford. There have been a number of surveys which said people would pay an extra penny on National Insurance or tax but they need to be sure they are getting good quality ca re sure they are getting good quality care and that is not what they are getting at the moment. You were shaking your head when i read that statement from the government. shaking your head when i read that statement from the government. I am very disappointed. As you said at the beginning, i have been in care three decades and each government, im not being political, have pushed social care onto someone else. I think a green paper, im not that optimistic anyone will tackle it. It is today we need to tackle it, not in the summer. We know things need to be done, lets get on with it. Too much to many reports. We have said social care is in crisis for a long time, the government needs to get into it. I wrote to the minister to say, look at social care on the front line and see it isnt working. What about your concerns as we head towards brexit, looking at people coming from the European Union to come in that sector, and many do. Presumably that is an additional worry for you . many do. Presumably that is an additional worry for you . I am not an expert on brexit. We have some nurses from overseas, some from portugal, and we find attracting nurses from overseas is tougher since we announced we will leave. We need workers not just since we announced we will leave. We need workers notjust from europe but overseas, otherwise we will come toa but overseas, otherwise we will come to a standstill. Remind people we provide a service to help free up the Health Service. If we not there, it is tougher for everybody. One thing to say to the Health Secretary jeremy hunt, what would you say question at get him to look at the front line but also, get on with it. We dont need any more reports or commissions. We have been saying social care is in crisis for nearly 30 years. It is about time we did something today. Thank you ever so much for speaking to us. Still to come. Is promoting Healthy Eating and exercise in schools are best way to tackle Childhood Obesity . Report says these programmes are unlikely to have an impact. More in the next unit. Last year in nigeria there were more female suicide bombers than have ever been seen in a country before. Most were forced to become bombers by the militant Group Boko Haram some were even children. The women went onto kill more 1000 people. We can now bring you the story of 13 year old fatama, who was abducted by boko haram, not once, but twice. If you really want to get to paradise, this, they say, is such an easy thing to do. It goes against everything in the society that we live in. Children as young as five are strapped with explosives and sent into mosques and into markets, into homes. Some are actually sent back into their own homes and the idea is to really strike out in any way that they can just to continue this carnage, this horror. They didnt even have guns, and at first i had no idea they were boko haram fighters. These young men were inspired by the ideology and the rhetoric of boko haram. We havent seen a single female suicide bomber that has offered herself up for a suicide mission. They give you a choice. Marry a fighter or go on a mission. I told them i dont want to marry because i am still too young. The older girls tell us, they dont care how old you are. If you marry one of them, they will go to you for private affairs day and night. Its an incentive for the young men to remain in the group if they can get wives so they form these family units within the movement. A lot of the girls who reject the offer of marriage are sent on missions. They were brainwashing them and telling them they were doing this for allah and they were going straight to heaven and all this stuff. They are also being told that if you dont do it, we are going to kill you. I just like the normal koran teaching. Ifind their teachings hard to follow. But even though i dont understand properly i dont think that killing someone could ever be a lawful act. A lot of people have not had much education of any kind, whether it is western or islamic. Learning about the koran doesnt mean that you are learning about islam because its teaching of the koran in isolation of everything else. The rest of the teaching is ideology. When your time comes they tell you to look for a place filled with nonbelievers like a church or a crowded marketplace. And when you detonate your bomb they say you will enter paradise. On my way into town i decided to ask the first people i met to untie the vest. But the first people i met were also members of boko haram. I spent a month with another group of fighters in a different camp and, just as before, i refused to marry. They tied their own bomb on me and sent me right back out. This time i ran. If i was caught again i felt that i would surely be killed. Iran and ran and when i stopped i found myself on a farm. I asked the farmers to help me take off the vest and to throw it back into the forest. But they were afraid. Of me. There is nobody in the north east that has not had some experience with boko haram, whether directly or indirectly. Almost nobody. Most people have lost somebody as a result of boko haram. I think they look at the act rather than the girl and they think, well, this is a young person who is willing to eliminate the whole community. How can we then take her back . These are kids first of all and these are victims. So, you are taken against your will, you have lived with these people in horrendous conditions away from your parents, guardians, everybody you know. Then you are strapped with explosives, you come back to the community and by the grace of god it doesnt go off and then the community rejects you. Its very, very sad. School programmes encouraging children to take more exercise and eat healthily are unlikely to have any real effect on Childhood Obesity, Research Published in the british medical journal suggests. More than 600 Primary School pupils in the West Midlands took part in a 12 month anti obesity programme, which found no improvements in the childrens diet or activity levels. The researchers said families, communities and the Food Industry probably had more of an influence than school initiatives. Public Health Officials said they were working with industry to make food healthier. Joining me now in the studio is tam fry from the National Obesity forum, and in birmingham, one of the co authors of the research, dr Miranda Pallan from the university of birmingham. I want to start with you, what happened in this study and why did it not work . We recruited over 50 Primary Schools to take part in the study in the West Midlands. In half of them, we asked the teachers and staff in schools to deliver a package of activities over a 12 month period that this included increasing childrens physical activity daily in schools, so trying to get the more active every day. We also asked them to deliver cooking workshops for children and their pa rents to workshops for children and their parents to attend. They also went on a course that was run by aston villa, whereby they learned about Healthy Eating and physical activity. That happened over 12 months. Was the idea that it worked effectively in school but when the judge went back home it all started to fall apart . The hope was, the activities in school, that were in school, would influence childrens lifestyles, so their diet and physical activity not just lifestyles, so their diet and physical activity notjust in school but actually throughout the week and throughout the 24 hour period. What we found was actually in terms of preventing weight gain, there was no difference between the children in the schools that had this package of activities compared with the children in the schools that did not. Do you think this is down to being almost too late in Primary Schools . Do we need to get in earlier . Absolutely. The government has put all of its emphasis on school upwards and not on school downwards. The critical point to influence childrens behaviour and life styles influence childrens behaviour and lifestyles is somewhere between the age of two and five when they are starting to get mobile and starting to take on their preferences in whatever. If you dont act there, you will be left with a quarter of the population who are overweight at five. When they are overweight will ta ke five. When they are overweight will take a lot to bring them down. The good thing about the search is it is prove n we good thing about the search is it is proven we have been looking in the wrong direction. The research has proven. We have to take a more comprehensive approach. A bunch of factors is involved. You have the whole day to worry about, including holidays for the where the concentration needs to be focused. We have known for many, many years you have to do lots of exercise and eat healthily. Is this about parents being lazy, the message not getting through, or is this about working pa rents a re through, or is this about working parents are struggling to keep all the balls in the air . It is definitely not about parents being lazy. If we think about children and the environment within which they live, obviously are at school but they are at home. There are wider influences in our society on children and parents as well. It is difficult for parents for a multitude of reasons to fit physical activity into their day. To cook from fresh ingredients and all the things we would associate with a healthy diet. That can be incredible difficult in our modern society. I agree totally that we need to be looking at the early years but we also need to be looking at our Wider Society influences on children and families and adults as well. Why is it difficult to cook from fresh . Families and adults as well. Why is it difficult to cook from fresh7m we look at the way families are these days, usually there are often two working parents who are short of time. With school age children, they are usually very busy. There is a lot of time. I know this from personal experience. There is a lot of time taken. Personal experience. There is a lot of time taken. It is tough being a working parents, particularly when there are two working parents for them it is about setting the bar from an early age with kids making choices about snacks. I used to convince my children that stories. G biggest treat in the World Weather biggest treat in the world because i wanted them to see that. Were the biggest treat. To see that, rather than chocolate and sweets. Is it not really the responsibility of the parents to grab hold of this . The parents have to be helped by parents at the moment are not helped. Speaking of cooking, we have a whole section in society that does not know how to cook because domestic science was taken out of the curriculum at the wrong time. Funnily enough, and it has been proven in research, children are starting to teach pa rents children are starting to teach parents how to cook. I think one of the comments made in the review was somebody who said, i learned to chop at aston villa. That is, if you will, a premier league club taking real, active interest and replacing in the Community Things that have disappeared. Until we really bring cooking back into schools, we will still have this continuing thing and parents will have to rely on processed foods, which is less than healthy. Our snacks and real issue as well . They are a huge issue. The latest information from that the department of health is you can have two snacks of 100 calories a day. That is nothing. My children looked at me in disgust. If children are used to having more food than that, it will not satisfy them. The problem is, they have over the yea rs, problem is, they have over the years, been allowed to have too much. What we now have is a draconian cutback on the number of calories that will not work in my view, so a happy medium will have to be struck. I think probably about 200, 250 calories is about right and then you have to worry about what else the the day and parents do not necessarily know what that is. During the day. Now, many couples want to book a spectacular venue for their wedding. But one couple in the us have really gone the extra mile marrying 400 feet in the air above a utah canyon ryan wenks and Kimberly Weglin said their wedding vows to each other on a colourful, suspended space net. Met her at a high line, which is a slack line up high, which is what we do. We both love slack lining, we both have made it our lives, so it was pretty easy to decide where to get married. Ryan, i must ask you once more, do you agree to love kimberly, joining with her today in matrimony . Hell, yeah lots of the having getting in touch with us throughout the morning about so with us throughout the morning about so many stories we have been talking about. Ticket prices is one topic, the fact they have gone up so much above inflation. Neal said, the fact they have gone up so much above inflation. Nealsaid, i the fact they have gone up so much above inflation. Neal said, isaw led zeppelin in 1979 for £7 50. Alice cooper, £50, two hours, massive show and the highest quality. Also about the Rising Council tax, paul says someone wants to ask the council is why they do not charge someone who owns Student Housing for council tax and then they would not be short of money. Also about firefighters running the London Marathon. How can we give support for the firefighters running the London Marathon. Details are on the London Marathon. Details are on the screen now. That is all we have time for you. Bbc newsroom live is coming up next. Thank you for your company today. Have a good day. Good morning. We have had a bit of a chilly start across the south east of england. Here there were the clearest skies. Elsewhere it is more cloudy with outbreaks of rain for the blues is the scene in swansea are short time ago with cloud and rain. At the moment it is quite patchyit rain. At the moment it is quite patchy it will turn heavier in the afternoon across much of wales into the north west of england will do some showers in the north and west of scotland. Some bright spells and we will hold on to the bright weather in the south east of england. Temperatures up to seven, 10 degrees will stop through this evening and tonight, the rain will intensify. Heavy bursts as it moves into the south east corner. You can see the green on the map but also wintry showers. A bit of snow in central and southern areas on friday morning. It continues the theme of a few wintry showers throughout the day. Sunshine on friday. In the sunshine not feeling too bad. Goodbye. This is bbc news, and these are the top stories developing at 11. A fifth of people working in parliament have seen or experienced Sexual Harassment, a new code of conduct is recommended. Council tax bills in england are set to rise as most authorities prepare a hike of £40 for the average household. Low wages and workload pressures are causing Staff Shortages in social care, according to a spending watchdog. The firefighters from grenfell fire disaster are running to raise money for the children affected by the disaster. The team from north kensingtons red watch were the first on the scene oon the night of the fire. And north korea flexes its military muscle with a parade ahead of the opening of the Winter Olympics in south korea