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The latest weather picture. Good morning. Its a bright start for most of us out there, but rain is on the way. Find out more a little bit later. Top story this morning. Beats all the newspapers. This is news that emerged in the early hours of this morning while you were sleeping. The chief executive of Natwest Group has resigned with immediate effect after admitting a serious error of judgement in discussing and discussing confidential details of Nigel Farages bank account. Yes, Dame Alison Rose stepped down early this morning following an emergency meeting of the Company Board , triggered of the Company Board, triggered by heavy criticism and pressure from the government. So the bank, which is taxpayer backed, has been under intense scrutiny since it was revealed that mr farages accounts were closed due to his legally held political views. Lets go to the man himself. Lets go to the man himself. Nigel farage, who joins us. And good miss me. This is this is seismic. But but its what its what you wanted , nigel. What you wanted, nigel. Well, its what had to happen. I mean, the first rule of banking is you have to respect the privacy of the customer. You also have to respect the gdpr regulations. Respect the gdpr regulations. They were both broken very clearly by the boss of natwest at that dinner that took place on the 3rd of july when she sat next to the bbcs business edhon next to the bbcs Business Editor, simon jacques. And frankly , when she was caught frankly, when she was caught having breached confidentiality, she tried yesterday, supported by her board, to frankly lie her way out and i thought the statement that came out at 6 00 last night that the board retained full confidence in alison rose rather reminiscent, isnt it, of the premier League Football club thats in crisis that says we have every confidence in our manager. I didnt think she could last beyond the end of the week. We have on friday the half yearly figures coming. There is an investor letter meeting at 930 that morning, so shes gone and thats a start. That morning, so shes gone and thats a start. But i have to say that Peter Flavell , who is say that Peter Flavell, who is the ceo of coutts , has over the the ceo of coutts, has over the course of the last few months failed to even acknowledge three letters that ive written to him. Howard davies , who of him. Howard davies, who of course describes himself as the chairperson of the Natwest Group. It was he that alison rose in place. It was the board rose in place. It was the board that sanctioned this culture, a culture that talks about diversity and inclusion and actually is very divisive. And in my case, as you could clearly see, pretty poisonous stuff. I think any board member that endorsed that Statement Last night where they said we breached confidentiality , but breached confidentiality, but she can stay in her post, frankly , i think the whole board frankly, i think the whole board needs to go. Interesting. Nigel, so many things there. I mean, basically she shes saying , look, im in charge of saying, look, im in charge of natwest. I didnt know the natwest. I didnt know the decision was from the boss of coutts. Nothing to do with me type thing. Im looking at her resignation statement and quite honestly its sorry but not sorry. Thats the way i look at this. Is that how you see it. 7 yeah, right from the start. I mean, the first apology she gave was last thursday, which was a sort of a not me guv type statement. You know, i dont statement. You know, i dont endorse the horrible things that were said about you, mr farage. Well actually. Alison rose it was you that introduced this culture. It was you that decided that Natwest Group would become not just a bank, but a moral arbiter virtually a political organisation. And the funny organisation. And the funny thing, of course, about talking about inclusion is inclusion is wonderful, only if you agree with the prevailing view. If you with the prevailing view. If you dont agree, you are to be exclude added. And that was the decision they took about me and thats the decision that actually theyve taken about many, many other people. The difference is i had the power to fight back and im doing this and this this campaign , by the and this this campaign, by the way, will not stop here. Im not just doing this for me. Im doing it for thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people all over this country whove had their accounts closed over their Bank Accounts closed over their Bank Accounts closed over the course of last two the course of the last two years. And that is that is the thing thats thats what people have to realise. Its you today, but it could be tomorrow. And be them tomorrow. And the interesting thing her interesting thing about her resignation is that it resignation on note is that it doesnt even get to you forever. It starts off i remain immensely proud of the progress the bank has made in supporting people, families and business across the uk. And it goes on. A lot of old guff that you read and you say, whats that got to do with the price of eggs . Its nothing to do about your track record at the bank. Its to do that. You spilt the beans, put simply, you spoke to journalist with spoke to a journalist with confidential information about a client and she badmouthed you. Client and she badmouthed you. And if she wasnt that , she and if she wasnt that, she hadnt and if she wasnt that, she hadnt got access to the full details and the knowledge she shouldnt have been talking. She either knew about your account in the situation or she didnt. Yes. I mean, none of this adds up. None of it makes any sense. But it was interesting, wasnt it, last night when she said, look, i did reveal he was a customer , but i didnt discuss a customer, but i didnt discuss the details of his account. Well, contrast that with what deborah turness, the ceo of bbc news, said. She said not only did we get the original story from a trusted and Senior Source , but we went back the next day and double checked it. So it was pretty obvious last night that either the bbc werent telling the truth or she wasnt telling the truth or she wasnt telling the truth, and the board of natwest endorsed her position. Thats why i say they simply all have to go. Have to go. Nigel, youve got the name , nigel, youve got the name, youve got the voice. You can blow the whistle on this, which youve done so incredibly well over the past few weeks. But as over the past few weeks. But as you say, going ahead , there will you say, going ahead, there will be many, many people who have been banked. Where do we go from been banked. Where do we go from here . Do you think there needs to be regulation in order to stop this . Surely thats what stop this . Surely thats what needs to happen now. Needs to happen now. Yeah, i mean, weve got a whole series of anti Money Laundering directives and we all must take seriously the International Drugs trade and that money thats laundered. But frankly, what natwest have done is theyve taken people from window cleaners to pawnbrokers. Window cleaners to pawnbrokers. Anybody involved in a cash business, natwest no longer want their business. And lets bear in mind , you know, we put £45 in mind, you know, we put £45 billion of taxpayers money into this bank to save it after its greed and stupidity was revealed in 2008. And in return for that, theyve closed down most of the branches around the country. Branches around the country. They dont want to take cash from small businesses. They have closed the accounts of. And i closed the accounts of. And i think were running into tens of thousands and you cant live or survive in the modern World Without a bank account. You become a non person. Open banking is now an essential service, just like water. And for her to say, you know, in this statement that shes proud of the help theyve given to families and to businesses, its quite the reverse. Its the whole Banking Industry. Culture whole Banking Industry. Culture has gone rotten. We need big has gone rotten. We need big changes in the law. And changes in the law. And ultimately what i want to get to with this campaign and im not going to rest, i want to get to the point that we used to have where everybody in the country has a right to a bank account. It used to exist here until the post office was privatised. It exists in our neighbouring countries of france and germany , and that is my long term aim. Okay, so immediately as to what should happen next. Thats your long term aim. What do you want to happen next . The government being a 38. 6 shareholder in this bank along with other major investors, needs to appoint a new temporary board to take control of this bank. Board to take control of this bank. And then what we need to bank. And then what we need to do , you know, starting very do, you know, starting very early in the autumn, is to start to put in place legislation that says banks cannot and must not discriminate against individual customers because they support brexit, or they dont think that putting rainbow flags on the front of the bank is right. Thats the first step. And then we need to address the Money Laundering regulations that effectively have become a sledgehammer to miss the nut. Its the innocent that are getting hurt whilst the big time crooks still get away with it. Crooks still get away with it. Are you frustrated by how long this whole process has taken . Firstly, to acknowledge the truth that this was about your political views, not about meeting a financial threat hold, and then how long it took to get and then how long it took to get an apology . And then finally, how long it took for alison rose to actually step down. Yes of course i am. And i was also to be honest, pretty frustrated that it took simon jack of the bbc days simon jack of the bbc six days to after id published to apologise after id published all the information , disproved all the information, disproved the original story that he was given. But i the original story that he was given. But i think the original story that he was given. But i think the truth of given. But i think the truth of it is they must have thought, look, were natwest, were big, were strong, were powerful. Think they underestimated think they rather underestimated my determination on this and what do you make of the bbc as well . I mean, they actually held inaccurate information as you say, it took six days to get an apology from them. Apology from them. Yeah, i mean, ellie, you know, if you were spoken to by a very Senior Source and a big business with a huge story and you double check that story, you would run that story as any journalist would. Theres nothing wrong with simon jack originally, that originally, having put that story out, the painful part for me was i had to publish that 36 page vile dossier that had been compiled on me. I had to publish that, put it into the Public Domain to prove that actually this decision to get rid of me was political and not economic. Was political and not economic. Um, and ultimately, you know , um, and ultimately, you know, again, you could say the bbc was slow to respond to the truth, but actually i think you know, the statement that deborah turness, the ceo of bbc news, put out, i thought it was accurate, it was fair, and lets be honest, how many people have ever had an apology from the bbc . So i dont think the bbc now come out of this badly. I think. Alison rose and the natwest board come out of it terribly. Me what about the bank in industry . Nigel there watching the consequences of what, what has happened here. It affects them all now , doesnt it . Them all now, doesnt it . Very much so. And i would address my comments , eamonn, to address my comments, eamonn, to the ten banks that have thus far refused to have me as a customer. Think again. This has happened to natwest. Unless you change your culture, change your views , get rid of your prejudice over brexit and other issues, then it could happen to you too. Did you ever get your bank account sorted out . I mean, did you get looked after by by somebody else . No no, no, no. Somebody else . No no, no, no. I am not accept sorted by the uk Banking Industry with its current culture, it is a quite extraordinary state of affairs. Extraordinary state of affairs. Thats amazing. Thats amazing. So but, but i presume amazing. So but, but i presume you feel you will be now after whats happened today . Well i dont know. Perhaps theyll all be scared of me. Im really not sure. But, of me. Im really not sure. But, you know, as i say, it isnt just me. I have had the biggest inbox eamonn ive ever had in my pubuc inbox eamonn ive ever had in my public career at and, you know, the fear , the horror that is the fear, the horror that is coming through on these emails, peoples businesses being destroyed because theyve been closed down by a bank and its taken months and months to open a new business account. This scandal has been going on for far too long and im pleased to be the person thats blown the lid off it. And if we can get a fundamental change and reform and a fairer system, then i really will have achieved something. How does that make you feel . How does that make you feel . Im very proud to stand up and to be the voice for tens of thousands of people who have been wronged by these banks. Been wronged by these banks. This record needs to be set straight , this record needs to be set straight, and im utterly determined to do so. Nigel farage, thank you for talking to us today. Thank you for giving us your Immediate Reaction to that news of the resignation of natwest chief executive Dame Alison Rose at 2 am. This morning. Executive Dame Alison Rose at 2 am. This morning. We appreciate am. This morning. We appreciate it, nigel. Thank you very much indeed. Listening to everything nigel had to say, alice denby alice is the Deputy Editor of capex and shes here with her, her take on that and seismic sytch situation today. Sytch situation today. Yeah. Nigel farage clearly rightly feeling vindicated there , i think in his comfortable position as the underdog, the champion of the little guy taking on these big institutions. But i think hes absolutely right. Dame alison rose had to right. Dame alison rose had to go to cabinet ministers were calling for her to go , and its calling for her to go, and its clear that hes not satisfied. Hes not going to stop here. He wants the whole board go and wants the whole board to go and he to see change the he wants to see change in the whole Banking Industry. Interesting and its really interesting the all of this. I the timing of all of this. I mean , just yesterday, the bank , mean, just yesterday, the bank, the group, was standing the Natwest Group, was standing by alison they said they by alison rose. They said they had full confidence her. And had full confidence in her. And then at this morning, the then at 145 this morning, the board announced that she was stepping down. It does look as though its pressure from the government that made them reverse this decision. Reverse this decision. Yeah, it does look that way. Yeah, it does look that way. And mustnt forget that and you mustnt forget that natwest is 40 owned by the taxpayer. And i natwest is 40 owned by the taxpayer. And i thought it was interesting that in her apology she doesnt apologise really, for what happened to mr farage. She just apologises for speaking to a journalist, and i think to a bbc journalist, and i think it reveals, you know, slightly it reveals, you know, a slightly cosy relationship you can see between big business sitting down at dinner with bbc journalists, whole kind of journalists, the whole kind of cosy way this thing operates. And i think farage has really and i think mr farage has really shone an interesting light on this. Shone an interesting light on thiswhere do we go from here, where do we go from here, alice . I mean, you heard there nigel explaining that ten banks have refused and for him to bank with them. He says he currently with them. He says he currently cant the uk banking cant bank with the uk Banking Industry. I mean, thats an astonish punishing state of affairs, it . Affairs, isnt it . Yeah, its really terrible yeah, its a really terrible position to be in. I position for him to be in. I cant imagine how anybody operates in a fairly Cashless Society a bank account. Society without a bank account. I mean, the that i would i mean, the change that i would like see, this whole like to see, i find this whole idea that companies and businesses need to be some kind of moral arbiters are just frankly baffling. I think a company should be about making profits and serving its customers. The idea that it should be any kind of judge of peoples morality, least of all, given the way that the banks behaved during the financial crisis, baffling. I crisis, are just baffling. I think need to get back to the think we need to get back to the core purpose of business, which is business. Yes. Is to be a business. Yes. Yeah. We leave you with yeah. Okay. We leave you with those alice. You those words, alice. Thank you very indeed for your take very much indeed for your take on. And we want your on things. And we want your views, of course, on this gb news at gb views dot com or you can tweet at gb news. Now the government has updated its travel advice for rhodes telling people to check they had the correct insurance as tourists continue to flee the island. Now this is very important and it comes as firefighters continue to tackle blazes across the whole mediterranean, sicily , turkey, mediterranean, sicily, turkey, croatia, algeria , badly affected. I dont know if you saw that footage yesterday of the plane which was doused in flames, crashing absolutely terrible with the loss of life there. And lets find out more from meteorologist jim dale on this. Meteorologist jim dale on this. So we literally have jim , a ring so we literally have jim, a ring of fire around the mediterranean i yeah, and inevitable one. Um, kind of saw this coming with all the all the heat that was around for the last month or two record temperatures yesterday record cold sea temperatures in the mediterranean , 28. 4. So all time mediterranean, 28. 4. So all time record there , um, i should say record there, um, i should say it doesnt get anywhere near what the sea temperature across florida is at the moment 38. 4 101. In old money, 101 fahrenheit. So thats a world record if its verified. So you record if its verified. So you can see the world is hotting up and it does include the mediterranean and this this kind of thing, this is kind of thing that youre seeing in the photographs, in the in the video. This is going to continue. Is, um, slightly. You there is, um, slightly cooler i say cooler, less cooler air. I say cooler, less hot air moving through the middle of the mediterranean. So italy, sicily, spain, these sort of places a little bit of a relief, but but not for turkey, not for greece. I think it will continue in the oven. When have we seen anything like this before . I mean, we know of wildfires. We know they happen when we have these high temperatures. But a ring of fire around the mediterranean, it does pretty unprecedented. Does seem pretty unprecedented. Yeah it seems very unusual that were getting this. Its not that we havent had wildfires and. Yeah, and wildfires and. Yeah, and wildfires can be started in various ways. Arson, natural or various ways. Arson, natural or or or just just by by fluke. If you like, by accident. They can sometimes happen. But once they do happen and the winds sometimes in these parts of the world, they do pick up. And this world, they do pick up. And this is what drives these wildfires is, uh, you know , and sometimes is, uh, you know, and sometimes they can they can actually be as fast as you can run. So youre not necessarily going to going to beat them if youre if youre caughtin to beat them if youre if youre caught in them. Thats why the emergency situation in terms of checking whats going on, checking whats going on, checking whats going on, checking what the country is doing, what theyre saying in terms of whether you should be there, your own location and even what to do in a wildfire if you get caught, which which is something i look at sometimes to see how how how you approach hazards, whether hazards. And this is obviously a big one. The meteorology local conditions that might have led to a lot of these fires. As i understand it, jim, there talking about a dome , is that talking about a dome, is that right . A sort of dome over the area which keeps the temperatures high . Yeah, its called a heat dome. And what happens, its essentially high pressure. It doesnt necessarily have to be very high pressure. But the its feeding on itself, its subsiding air, which hits the ground, which is being warmed up, hotted up by the by the sun over many, many weeks. So its almost , over many, many weeks. So its almost, almost over many, many weeks. So its almost , almost self perpetuating almost, almost self perpetuating. Its almost self perpetuating. And in terms of whats going on, so in other words, it just continues and that will continue. Were in continues and that will continue. Were in august. This is going nowhere fast, to be frank with you. Eamonn okay. You. Eamonn okay. Jim sorry, situation, sorry. State of affairs. And so it continues. Thank you. Jim dale continues. Thank you. Jim dale is a meteorologist speaking to us today from his home in high wycombe. Thank you very much indeed. Thank wycombe. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you. Now lets bring you up to date with the rest of todays top stories. The chief executive of natwest has resigned after admitting to discussing Nigel Farages Bank Account Closure with a bbc journalist. Dame alison rose stepped down with immediate effect following an emergency Board Meeting in the early hours of this morning. Early hours of this morning. British billionaire and Tottenham Hotspur owner joe lewis has been indicted in new york for Insider Trading. The us york for Insider Trading. The us attorney for the Southern District of new york alleged that mr lewis was orchestrating a brazen scheme and the worlds longest running comic, which is the beano , is 85 years old. The beano, is 85 years old. Guest appearances from top stars like stormzy and harry styles are in a special issue on sale from today. It also sale from today. It also features the king and queen alongside other celebrities like lewis hamilton, adele and sir david attenborough. That is some collection. And really lovely graphics there in cartoon of all of those people. So there you are. Happy birthday, beano. It are. Happy birthday, beano. It just amazes me that who is buying the beano . I was going to say kids, but you know, i would know of no youngster that would buy a traditional comic. I mean, it was a part of my growing up, but nowadays i cant imagine that the stories and the characters are relevant to youngsters today. So i wonder, is it people my age who are buying the beanie . Buying the beanie . Yeah, like a bit of nostalgia. Yes or collectors, maybe. Or theyre all just big kids. Or theyre all just big kids. Or theyre all just big kids. Or maybe theyre just big kids. Whos your favourite character . Well, i just remember the. The comic. I mean, it was it was a number of it wouldnt. I wouldnt say thered be no , it wouldnt say thered be no, it was my favourite comic, but there was the beano and the beezer and then you got the victor and the hotspur. So you got a whole gathering of comics, you action you used usually come out in different days. One of them i cant remember, i think them i cant remember, i think the was on it was the beano was on a it was obviously a wednesday. Its like today. There was today. But yeah, there was i think the beezer was on a monday, else was on a monday, Something Else was on a tuesday. Beano on a wet tuesday. Beano was on a wet wednesday. Then on thursday, every day there was a different comic. On friday was a great day. There used to be so many comics released on a friday. But you know, youre looking at this is wasnt is a whole industry i wasnt aware of. Yeah, you cant imagine idea that people imagine the idea that people would pocket would save up their pocket money, the money, run down to the newsagents the day that their newsagents on the day that their comic released. Comic was released. Quite nice. Oh, its quite nice. Oh, its quite nice. So do it like , you so i do find it like, you know, lord, lord snooty. Was it , you know, and, and people like that. Oh yeah. Lord snooty. Yeah. Hes a character. Ive had to google it. Im not that familiar. Gnasher i know gnasher he must have cut through. Hes all part of dennis the menace, isnt he . The menace as minnie the minx in minnie the minx is on in that minnie the minx is on the list. Roger the dodger. Roger go, biffo, these might all biffo, the bear. These might all ring a bell with you. Names are funny. Even the names are funny. Even the names are funny. Are funny. So pansy they are funny. So pansy potter, the names here. Potter, the great names here. And why did all but anyway. And why did all those other comics fall by the wayside . The victor. The hotspur, all those sort of comics . Maybe. Maybe the comics . Anyway, maybe. Maybe the part your childhood. Let us part of your childhood. Let us know. Maybe theres still part of your life. Let us know. Yeah. Gb views at gb news dot com. Were also talking about regional delicacies. Whats your favourite regional delicacy . What do you mean . Like it has to be Something Like from say, like a yorkshire pudding or a Cornish Pasty or a Cornish Pasty. So would yeah. So i would say a crumble fry ulster fry. I love an ulster fry. Crumble fry ulster fry. I love an ulster fry. I had that for the first time when i went to belfast. And it was a yummiest thing ever, huh . I think had thing ever, huh . I think i had an amended version, though. I dont was meant be dont think that was meant to be that many. Thats why we all die of heart attacks. Everything fried, super everything was fried, super fried. So though. Fried. Whatever hough. Fried. Whatever yourh. What whatever your area is, what is food, the snack , is what is the food, the snack, the dish that is associated with your area. And were going to tell you the results of a poll as to what are the most popular or each region. Now were going to talk about Ticket Offices now , this is another scandal and a disgrace. The fact that everything will become automated. Let me tell you something. So there was me going something. So there was me going up the m5, m6 and the m40, and then the m6 at the weekend and i got to the toll road right. And got to the toll road right. And the toll road that brings you on to the m6, right . Yeah credit card only. Why was it credit card only. Why was it credit card only . Because on the tan booths at the toll road , not one person. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Not one person. They dont want people. This is all this is want people. This is all this is replacing jobs. I dont know why people let this happen. Because this you are just losing jobs all around the country. So you stick your credit card in. They dont need people to do anything. But you do need people because when you get through there, you want to talk to someone and say, nice day. Hows traffic . Nice day. Hows the traffic . Or how today . Its just how has it been today . Its just nice some of human nice to have some sort of human contact unless you were my wife, who the last time we went through it went to the only place would go to the cash. Place that would go to the cash. One or whatever. She went to the wrong queue. But anyway, so the guy wrong queue. But anyway, so the guy wouldnt let her through and she couldnt reverse out because there were cars behind her. So she messed that up. I do. So she messed that up. I do. Why you need people. Thats why you need people. You whats that you need people. Whats that song . Need song . People. People who need people are the luckiest people in the world. Oh, i dont know that one. Oh, i dont know that one. Barbra streisand. Barbra streisand. Barbra streisand. Yeah, i know that much. Okay, well, a consultant and the closure of almost all train Ticket Offices could now be extended into september. Okay. Theyve had to delay this because the initial consultation penod because the initial consultation period was too short and the criticism is the plan is discriminatory. Yes. Well, rail bosses are attempting to modernise the railway and cut costs across the industry. Well, our reporter anna riley has more on this story. Plans for the closure of hundreds of Ticket Offices across train stations in england have been opposed by the rmt union as part of their save our Ticket Offices campaign. Theres Ticket Offices campaign. Theres fears for job losses Ticket Offices campaign. Theres fears forjob losses and the fears for job losses and the impact on vulnerable and disabled passengers and rmt members have been encouraging the public to share their views on the measures. As part of on the measures. As part of a three week consultation that ends today , weve had over ends today, weve had over 100,000 signatures across the country with people supporting us on the Online Campaign. Weve also got a postcard ing campaign. Weve got a National Campaign. Weve got a National Campaign to try and get the word out and try and get people writing to their mps. And what were seeing is a mass return of people saying to us, we dont want this to happen. Its not just selling tickets. They just about selling tickets. They know about assisting people know its about assisting people that need help, you know, that need the help, you know, the vulnerable people, the disabled we this disabled people. We want this railway accessible and railway to be accessible and affordable everybody. And affordable for everybody. And without fully staffed station, without a fully staffed station, its going to be in hull. Its not going to be in hull. Trades council also the trades council also support the campaign , the support the rmt campaign, the closure of the Ticket Offices is not just an attack on the union, its an attack on the public as a whole. And the number of people that are going to struggle because of the closures of Ticket Offices i think will be immense. Rail Delivery Group the rail Delivery Group believe the facilities are no longer necessary as only 12 of train tickets are bought from Ticket Offices. They said most customers opt to purchase their ticket online or at ticket vending machines. We want to bnng vending machines. We want to bring Ticket Office staff into other parts of the station to give face to face help with a much wider range of support. Give face to face help with a much wider range of support. The much wider range of support. The industry will continue to work with accessibility and passenger groups to ensure that no one is left behind and last year, on average , a ticket was sold from average, a ticket was sold from hull paragon interchange Ticket Office. Every 1. 6 minutes. Heres what passengers at the station think of plans to close it. Disgusting well, its taking peoples jobs. People like myself that cannot use technology. I wanted to ask a person to do my railcard and plus up my tickets out for september. Theres no one there to do it. And i cant use a machine because i cant do it on card. It on card. My wife has to use a wheelchair. She has huntingtons disease and without Ticket Offices travel on offices we cant travel on trains. Yeah, she cant even see the screens. And then, you know , i think they should stay open i well, really bother me because you can do it online anywhere. But its not that difficult. I dont really use the Ticket Offices. I normally use it on my phone, but i suppose in the sense of people losing their jobs, that would be a problem. Ive had to put my glasses on to do it so im getting that way and i think we need to be thinking about inclusivity. Passenger watchdogs will now review Public Consultation , review the Public Consultation, and the government may ultimately decide on whether or not press ahead with the not to press ahead with the proposal. Anna riley gb news proposal. Anna riley gb news hull thank you for that, anna. Very, very interesting. Very very, very interesting. Very interesting talking to people there, because not only do people need people, we just we knew the word i hate is this word productivity. You know, word productivity. You know, its like were card or squeeze you even more streamlined earning everything. Yeah but at the end of the day what are we doing when were having a Robotic Society . Absolutely no people involved in anything. People do need human contact and to be able to say this is not working or actually i dont want to go just from, you know , to go just from, you know, huddersfield to london. I want to go via manchester. Can i do that . Can i do that . You know, that . Can i do that . You know, just lets speak to somebody about just some assistance. Its nice, isnt it, to speak to a real human and also all it takes is one tech issue, like your at your toll like my and nobody can get through. Yeah. All you need is one technician down. Nobody in them. Absolutely nobody in them. So say say your nobody in them. So say say your credit card said each your credit card said each your credit card said each your credit card. Credit card. What do you do then. What do you do then. What do you do then. What do you do then and everybody behind you, what do they do . Heres craig snell with your forecast. Your forecast. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on gb news good morning. Welcome to your good morning. Welcome to your gb news weather forecast. Well, gb news weather forecast. Well, looking ahead to today, its a bright start for most of us, but we will see some rain moving in from the west as the day goes on and accompanied by some strengthening so you can strengthening winds. So you can see sunshine see lots of sunshine around. First still some first thing, still got some cloud though, for cloud and showers, though, for southern northern southern scotland and Northern England may well linger there for a lot of day. Northern for a lot of the day. Northern ireland thicker and ireland seeing thicker cloud and outbreaks arriving outbreaks of rain arriving dunng outbreaks of rain arriving during morning will during the morning and that will spread into wales and spread its way into wales and southwest england into the afternoon. Elsewhere , afternoon. But elsewhere, especially northern especially for northern scotland, towards east scotland, down towards east anglia and the south east. A pleasant afternoon with temperatures around average, but feeling very disappointed under the. Further west, the rain the rain. Further west, the rain will then sweep its way across the country as we go into the night, some heavy pulses around, especially across the southern half of the country. As i mentioned, some strengthening winds, too. A pretty wet and winds, too. So a pretty wet and windy night for some of us. But quite a humid one, especially compared to recent nights. Temperatures for of us, not temperatures for most of us, not falling than around falling much lower than around 15 or 16 degrees. So we do start thursday off on a rather cloudy and damp note. Still some heavy rain around, especially across the southern half of the country. Scotland also seeing rather and damp weather rather cloudy and damp weather for most of day. But in for most of the day. But in between, will see some between, we will see some brighter spells come the afternoon, but may trigger afternoon, but that may trigger some and some showers, too. And temperatures for most us temperatures for most of us generally but generally around average. But in the , it probably the sunshine, it probably feeling humid. That rain feeling fairly humid. That rain will then continue into the evening , giving a bit of a damp evening, giving a bit of a damp commute as we end thursday. Thats all for me. See you soon. Thats all for me. See you soon. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Thank you, craig. The man who thank you, craig. The man who owns Tottenham Hotspur is in hot water and Bayern Munich feel confident that as a result he will want to flog harry kane. Will want to flog harry kane. Aidan magee will have your latest sport. Thats. Next welcome back. Its 635. Still lots to come on todays program at a quarter to seven after the head of natwest bank resigns over the leaking of Nigel Farages details. Well ask the government what they are going to do to stop this happening to other people. This happening to other people. And 720 as barbie becomes the biggest Opening Weekend ever for a female director, well ask if the film is anti man. Why are we mentioning its a female director . Director . Why does that make a difference . You see, because in difference . You see, because in this life today, to be a man is to be lower than a snakes belly. Really . Dont know about that. But its true. Its all hit men kick man aidan magee snorting. I can feel aidan magee snorting. I can feel him nodding here beside. Well, him nodding here beside. Well, no, you were. Do, you were. No, you were. I was. You were neutral. Neutral. So were. No, no. Oh, im outnumbered. Oh, im outnumbered. Its not a good time to be a man, is it . I dont know. I feel quite comfortable being a man. Im quite happy. You . I you . I feel like youve had a good time. Youre a traitor to the cause. You are. You are. Youve had a good run of things. And now its barbie time. No, its barbie time. No, its barbie time. Yeah. Oh, barbie world 1997. Yeah. Oh, barbie world 1997. Thats all. Thats why im wearing pink. Ive seen the film and cant wear anything but and i cant wear anything but pink amazing. Pink now. Its amazing. Were going talking a going to be talking about that a little bit later. But is it anti man . Let us know. Yes, vaiews gbnews. Uk yes, let us let let us know let us know and let us know about Everything Else weve been talking about so far. This morning. Aidan magee back pages morning. Aidan magee back pages is coming up. Now. Lets see the back pages wages war. This is the daily mail. This is the daily mail. Premier league clubs fear for mbappe offer from saudi arabia will spark huge pay demands. The express leads with harry potters as Bayern Munich send their chief executive and technical director on a mission to secure harry kane. Why is that tickling you . Harry potters really, really easily amused, arent you . Very easily amused. Very easily amused. And the guardian previews the final ashes test. This weekend, saying england have proven themselves this summer. Whatever ever happens , do you whatever ever happens, do you think do you think . Do you think they have hidden englands cricketers . Yeah. Yeah, i do, actually. Yeah. Yeah. I think after very yeah. Yeah. I think after a very slow start, i mean, i think they could easily have won those first tests. It was only first 2 2 tests. It was only profligate batting, it was shoddy well. Shoddy fielding as well. Once they those, problems they got those, those problems ironed as ironed out, they got stronger as they along. Bazball wasnt they went along. Bazball wasnt they went along. Bazball wasnt the problem. In fact, it was expanse of batting that enabled england foothold. England to regain a foothold. And if had it and my goodness me, if had it not for the weather and the not been for the weather and the reigning champions of course of australia, would australia, i think they would have this have gone through, say, this final test doesnt matter. Matter. It does matter. It does matter. Matter because you it does matter because you dont to lose tests dont want to lose three tests to just dont know to australia. I just dont know what psychological position they will be really, because i will be in really, because i think will have think that they will have seen victory their sights. Mean, victory in their sights. I mean, to 2 0 down to win to go go from 2 0 down to win 3 2 against australia would have been achievement been extraordinary achievement against side in against the best test side in the think it would the world. And i think it would have a vindication of have been a vindication of everything Brendon Mccullum has done the done alongside ben stokes in the last 18 months since that calamitous tour of the of australia ashes australia and the ashes 18 months it would months ago. I think it would have been a brilliant comeback story, took story, even though it took probably 18 months in cricket terms. Thats, thats not long. Me whats going thats tell me whats going on at tottenham joe lewis, on at tottenham here. Joe lewis, the owns tottenham. So the guy that owns tottenham. So hes Insider Trading. Yeah, it happened over night. A us attorney, williams, a us attorney, Damian Williams, in Southern District of new in the Southern District of new york the video york recorded the video yesterday was yesterday and this was completely out of the out of the blue saying the tottenham blue saying that the Tottenham Hotspurs we almost hotspurs owner and we almost assume that always assume that daniel levy is the man at the front and centre back of tottenham, the kingmaker at that club since takeover of enoch tottenham, the kingmaker at that club in|ce takeover of enoch tottenham, the kingmaker at that club in march takeover of enoch tottenham, the kingmaker at that club in march 2001,ver of enoch tottenham, the kingmaker at that club in march 2001, has f enoch tottenham, the kingmaker at that club in march 2001, has beench tottenham, the kingmaker at that club in march 2001, has been joe back in march 2001, has been joe lewis. Now hes very private. Hes based in bahamas most of the time but the money the time, but hes the money man. So he has been accused by Damian Williams , the us attorney Damian Williams, the us attorney of orchestrating a brazen Insider Trading scheme. Now it doesnt relate tottenham doesnt relate to tottenham necessarily. Most of this activity would have happened in overin activity would have happened in over in the states where he tends to operate. But hes used that information to make millions of dollars in stock millions of dollars in the stock market. Say at this market. We should say at this stage, tottenham stage, though, that Tottenham Hotspur joe have been hotspur and joe lewis have been contacted. Theyve not been making comments so far. We making any comments so far. We dont know theyre going to dont know if theyre going to make a comment later this week. Dont know if theyre going to nmean, comment later this week. Dont know if theyre going to nmean, tottenham ater this week. Dont know if theyre going to nmean, Tottenham Hotspur,week. Dont know if theyre going to nmean, Tottenham Hotspur, fork. I mean, Tottenham Hotspur, for example, decide, you example, might decide, well, you know, joe lewiss know, this is joe lewiss problem, external of tottenham, tottenham, one tottenham, tottenhams, one of his a his businesses. Its one of a whole portfolio of companies that maybe its down that he owns. So maybe its down to comment. Dont know to him to comment. We dont know if going to hear him, if were going to hear from him, but i dont necessarily think its an impact on its going to have an impact on what harry kane. What happens with harry kane. I think that might harry kanes sale 70 to £80 million sale for 60 to 70 to £80 million is a in the ocean for a man is a drop in the ocean for a man whos worth an estimated £4. 7 billion. Thats what i dont understand about harry understand about the harry kane sale. 70 were talking about 60 and 70 were talking about in terms those offers have in terms of those offers have been already and turned been made already and turned down in terms of buying. But yet been made already and turned dche in terms of buying. But yet been made already and turned dche waserms of buying. But yet been made already and turned dche was beingyf buying. But yet been made already and turned dche was being soldying. But yet been made already and turned dche was being soldyinganyut yet if he was being sold to an engush if he was being sold to an english premier club, English Premier League club, its plus. Yeah its 100 million plus. Yeah its100 million plus. Yeah yeah, fair enough. I mean, if you dont want to sell to you dont want to to somebody. Dont want to sell to somebody. If, got house, i dont if, if ive got a house, i dont want sell it to person x, but want to sell it to person x, but i want to sell them to person y, then fine. If if you sell then thats fine. If if you sell them to Manchester United, youre rival youre strengthening a rival and its cause its going to cause embarrassment you. If harry embarrassment for you. If harry kane then comes back as a united player to White Hart Lane nets a hat trick. Thats the way used be. Hat trick. Tiiats the way used be. Hat trick. Tiiats th itway used be. Hat trick. Tiiats th it is. used be. Yeah i know it is. Its a Global Market but its a Global Market now. Bayern have Bayern Munich have been encouraged and theyve been given no bayern given their no mugs by Bayern Munich. If theyre on munich. If theyre in on a transfer, because they transfer, its because they believe get the player transfer, its because they beliytwo get the player transfer, its because they beliytwo of get the player transfer, its because they beliytwo of their get the player transfer, its because they beliytwo of their chief he player transfer, its because they beliytwo of their chief transferr and two of their chief transfer negotiators have been to negotiators have been come to england to try and seal the deal for manchester for harry kane and Manchester Citys walker. Citys kyle walker. Final, final point, who is writing script wrexham. Final, final point, who is writhere script wrexham. Final, final point, who is writhere sc are wrexham. Final, final point, who is writhere scare in wrexham. Final, final point, who is writhere sc are in the exham. Final, final point, who is writhere scare in the usam. Final, final point, who is writhere scare in the us of. Final, final point, who is writhere sc are in the us of a so there they are in the us of a on their owners home turf and theyre playing the mighty man. On their owners home turf and theywhat aying the mighty man. On their owners home turf and theywhat happens . Mighty man. On their owners home turf and the well, happens . Mighty man. On their owners home turf and the well, hapfwin . Mighty man. On their owners home turf and the well, hapfwin by ighty man. On their owners home turf and the well, hapfwin by three man. On their owners home turf and the well, hapfwin by three goals well, they win by three goals to mean, you know, to one. But i mean, you know, youve to remember when i youve got to remember when i was a kid, wrexham playing was a kid, wrexham were playing european was a kid, wrexham were playing europ manchester won the when Manchester United won the 1991 winners cup. 1991 european cup winners cup. They wrexham second 1991 european cup winners cup. They so wrexham second 1991 european cup winners cup. They so this xham second 1991 european cup winners cup. They so this xh. A1 second 1991 european cup winners cup. They so thisxh. A side second 1991 european cup winners cup. They so thisxh. A side thats ond round. So this is a side thats used to kind of a european profile, a global profile now because theyre playing in the United States and knows how United States and who knows how far they could go. I could easily them being the easily see them being the championship, at least within within 2 or because within 2 or 3 years because theyve when youre theyve got momentum when youre when club those when youre a big club in those leagues. Saying leagues. And im not saying theyre but they theyre a big club, but they have money, theyve got have got money, theyve got momentum as momentum behind them. As i say, i could them up to the i could see them going up to the champions championship, i could see them going up to the chathe ons championship, i could see them going up to the chathe champions championship, i could see them going up to the chathe Champions League nship, not the Champions League quite quickly, school team quickly, like their school team for nobody, quickly, like their school team for no nobody, quickly, like their school team for no collectionydy, quickly, like their school team for no collection of, quickly, like their school team for no collection of 11 nobody. No collection of 11 players. Should to players. United should lose to wrexham put well okay wrexham they put out well okay its back. You should be charge you should be in charge eamonn out. Eamonn youll sort them out. Thanks stay thanks again. Cheers okay. Stay with the closure of with us. Could the closure of all Ticket Offices be reversed . Were discussing that as we go through the papers. Thats. Next the beano at 85. Jennifer mona jennifer says, i got a beano annual every christmas since a young age and i loved it. Tried to get my own kids to read it. No avail. Youre right. Its definitely a generational thing. So were going to be talking about the comics and people with memories or the dandy, the come dandy, of course, the dandy come out remember out in the monday. Remember that . , the beezer, the that . The dandy, the beezer, the topper bunty as well, which was the girls comic. Oh, i would like that. Then i had bunty, the bunty. Then i had bunty, the bunty. Yeah. Yeah. Joe bunty, i had bunty, but i also had the beano and whizzer and whizzer and chips. And chips or whizzer and chips. Yeah. Love, whizzer and chips was a combination two comics. Was a combination of two comics. Was , but by the time i had it was, but by the time i had it, it was one comic. Yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. So it was the whizzer yeah. So it was the whizzer and the chips. As you can see, weve well, as you can see, weve got lovely emma burnell with got the lovely emma burnell with us now. Candice us right now. And Candice Holdsworth very pleased us right now. And candice hohave rth very pleased us right now. And candice hohave rth withary pleased us right now. And candice hohave rth with us pleased us right now. And candice hohave rth with us today. D to have you both with us today. Emma, should we with you emma, should we start with you as through the papers, as we go through the papers, well the front of well look at the front page of the mail, shall we . And bucha under the headline. Tell under fire is the headline. Tell us well, i think bars us more. Well, i think the bars under fire the mail. Under the fire from the mail. Im not sure. The bars under fire from anyone. Its particularly concerned. But essentially mail had a story essentially the mail had a story whereby by some some lawyers were being seen to concoct or embellish the stories of people seeking asylum, give people the right answers. Thats what they were doing in undercover. Yeah. And its there are bad apples, but theyve kind of expanded this into all immigration. Expanded this into all immigration. Lawyers are doing immigration. Lawyers are doing this and rishi sunak has made it all immigration lawyers and the labour party and the system thats set up. And its like, well, dude, youve been in charge of the system for 13 years. You really that years. If you really have that big with it, you big a problem with it, you should have done something. But actually think its one of actually i think its one of those things where you find those things where you can find a the same way that a bad apple in the same way that we with politicians we do find this with politicians and really difficult and its really difficult because what then happens is everyone thinks, oh, theyre all doing. All doing these things. All policemen are are weighing cousins, all lawyers are telling their clients to lie to the immigration service. All politicians are on the take and its actually not the case. So i think while i absolutely see where the mail is coming from and why theyre making a great deal from what was a good scoop for them, i think some of the way that this is come into the political arena is really key. And this idea that the bar should not be saying actually lawyers are not like that for the most part is a bit overegging the pudding. Overegging the pudding. Okay. In the mirror from page of the mirror, candice and station Ticket Offices, which we just ran a report on ten minutes ago. What have you got to say . Yes. So this is in the mirror. So the department for transport and the Train Services companies and now companies had a meeting and now theyre going to extend the consultation for getting rid of Ticket Offices because theres been such a backlash from people campaigning for the disabled and the elderly. They say its going to make it really hard for them to make it really hard for them to operate the at these train stations because not everyone can use technology in the can use the technology in the same so its sort same way. So its sort of a really good cost saving measure. But youre sort of forgetting people who find it difficult to use technology. Use digital technology. Nicer to and isnt it just nicer to talk just generally talk to a person just generally . That a nicer thing . Isnt that just a nicer thing to do . Yes, and especially at train stations, theres some of the yes, and especially at train statiohelpfules some of the yes, and especially at train statio helpful people. E of the yes, and especially at train statio helpful people. I f the most helpful people. I mean, i had a terrible incident once where dog fell between the where my dog fell between the gap between the platform and the train. My gosh. And one train. Oh, my gosh. And the one of working on the of the guys working on the concourse, in concourse, he leapt in immediately out. Immediately and pulled her out. And thats just such a and i mean, thats just such a common are common experience that they are just helpful people. Just the most helpful people. Yeah. What would you do without that without them . Yeah. And that situation, this is in situation, recycling this is in the the Prime Minister delays the i the Prime Minister delays a plan. A recycle plan. Yeah. This is part of the ongoing thing. Overreaction to the uxbridge and South Ruislip result whereby sunak believes that he can win the next election by going back on all his green plans. But it is worth pointing out that in some of the seats where the tories were competing, somerton and frome , competing, somerton and frome, for example, the lib dems got 10 sorry, not the lib dems, the greens got 10 of the vote. There so i think theres been a real overreaction from both labour and the tories in terms of suddenly wanting to junk all of suddenly wanting to junk all of their green policies and thats going to be electorally successful for either party. I think its a mistake. Its people are a lot more subtle and in the middle and nuanced on this than a lot of the dialogue at the moment. So yeah, i think its really important that we have good recycling. I think there are a lot of issues with some of the pipeline, some of the ways that were able to recycle what actually happens with what we into our with what we put into our recycling all of these recycling bins. All of these things need to looked but things need to be looked at, but im worried that theres im a bit worried that theres this reaction junk this Immediate Reaction to junk everything green whilst at the same time most of europe is on fire and it would be its quite confusing as well because, you know, rishi has that know, rishi sunak has said that hes net but hes committed to net zero, but now rowing back slightly. So you sort of wonder where he is on it now. I mean, theres been a backlash to things like ulez, ltns, those of ulez, the ltns, those sorts of things. But of political, things. But a lot of political, political consensus around stuff like water. Yeah. So its like clean water. Yeah. So its sort of trying to find those points, think. Points, i think. Absolutely. Points, i think. Absol|got 1. Points, i think. Absol|got . Interrupt points, i think. Absol|got 1. Interrupt you. Guys got to interrupt you. Weve got the minister of state for crime, policing and fire. Hes chris philp, who joins us now at this morning. Chris, good morning. Good to see you and good morning. Good morning. Just good morning. Good morning. Just just want to get chris a reaction from you because overnight, while people have been sleeping, Dame Alison Rose , head of natwest, has resigned over the nigel farage scandal. Anything to say on that . Anything to say on that . Well, i think she was right to resign because clearly client confidentiality is very , very confidentiality is very, very important for any bank. Confidentiality is very, very important for any bank. And it important for any bank. And it sounds like inaccurate information was provided to the bbc. But of course, this all stems from the fact that nigel farage had his bank account closed down in the first place based on his political views and were the government are very clear people should clear that people should not have critical Banking Services withdrawn because of their political point of view. And the city minister, andrew griffith, i think is meeting a number of banks today to forcefully reiterate that point. In this reiterate that point. In this country, we believe in free speech. We believe in Political Freedom. And that means that people should be able to have their Banking Services provided regardless of their political views. But yeah, to answer your question directly, yes, she was right to resign. Right to resign. I mean, mr phelps, something needs now, doesnt needs to be done now, doesnt it . I mean, speaking to it . I mean, we were speaking to nigel 50 minutes ago, and he explained are now ten explained there are now ten banks who have refused, used him to with them. That is an to bank with them. That is an astonishing situation that he cannot actually be served by the uk Banking Industry. And as he said , hes got the name, hes said, hes got the name, hes got the voice, hes able to blow the whistle on this, but there will be many people who have been de man something been de man and something needs to change and i think it does. So i think its unacceptable that mr farage has been refused banking facilities by ten different banks. As i said , we different banks. As i said, we believe in free speech and we believe in free speech and we believe in free speech and we believe in Political Freedom and that means people , regardless of that means people, regardless of their political views , should be their political views, should be able to access Banking Services, including mr farage. Of course, theres a whole load of rules about Money Laundering which are separate. We dont want to offer Banking Services people who Banking Services to people who have, money or have, you know, stolen money or have, you know, stolen money or have in other have purloined it in other countries. Different countries. Thats a different issue. This is about issue. This is this is about Political Freedom. And thats why minister is meeting why the city minister is meeting banks today to forcefully reiterate the point by the way, many mps, its not just mr farage, many mps actually, and their families can find it difficult to get banking and Financial Services because banks have been overzealous interpreting these so called pep rules, politically exposed persons , which is designed to persons, which is designed to prevent, you know, originally politicians from Foreign Countries that may have obtained their money dishonestly from getting Banking Services in the uk. But there are overzealous applying it to mps. If you talk to almost any mp, theyll have a story about how either themselves or their spouse or their children or something have had issues with Financial Services. So its quite a services. So its quite a widespread issue and thats why, as i say, the city minister is raising it forcefully with banks today. Thank you for that. Chris. In thank you for that. Chris. In your policing role , youre your policing role, youre working on a new agreement which will free up, you hope, a lot of police time , which which is police time, which which is obviously very, very valuable. How are you going to do this . How are you going to do this . Well, police spend a lot of their time attending Mental Health incidents where there is no threat to safety, either the individual or the general public safety. And where there is no criminality. And in those cases, the appropriate response obviously, is a Health Response , because the person suffering a Mental Health crisis needs medical assistance and so i came across some work that was done in humberside over the last 2 or 3 years called right care right person, where the Humberside Police got together with the local nhs and made sure that local nhs and made sure that local nhs and humberside responded to all of these cases, which meant that the people having a Mental Health crisis got treatment having a Mental Health crisis got they treatment having a Mental Health crisis got they needeatment having a Mental Health crisis got they need medical because they need medical treatment, not a Police Officer. And also saved the equivalent and it also saved the equivalent of about 17,000 hours a year of police time in humberside. So i thought this seems to have worked very effectively. So i convened some meetings just before christmas with the nhs , before christmas with the nhs, the department of health, National Policing , to see if we National Policing, to see if we could essentially replicate this across the whole country. And todays is the todays announcement is the publication of a National Partnership agreement between policing and the home office. On the and department the one side and the department of nhs on the of health and the nhs on the other essentially roll out of health and the nhs on the othehumberside lly roll out of health and the nhs on the othehumberside approach |t of health and the nhs on the othehumberside approach on this humberside approach on a national basis. Itll mean that when someone suffering a Mental Health crisis, theres no but theres no criminality and theres no criminality and theres safety. Theres no threat to safety. They medical response they will get a medical response rather a Police Response rather than a Police Response that will help the individual concerned. Estimate concerned. We also estimate across the whole country it will save 1,000,000 hours a year of police time that can be spent patrolling our streets, protecting the and protecting the public and catching which catching criminals, which i think is what the public expect to police doing. Think is what the public expect to yes. Olice doing. Think is what the public expect to yes. Whichioing. Think is what the public expect to yes. Which im]. Think is what the public expect to yes. Which im sure many yes. Which im sure many people will support. Whilst weve mr philp, i did weve got you, mr philp, i did want to ask you about the situation in roads and the mediterranean. Government mediterranean. The government has its travel has now updated its travel advice roads, describing it advice for roads, describing it as dangerous as highly dangerous and unpredictable Alicia Kearns though safe that theyve acted for days too late. And as we speak, there is this ring of fire around the mediterranean in with sicily, turkey, algeria and croatia now burning. Are we croatia now burning. Are we going to see Rapid Response teams being sent to those other countries in the med . Will you act quicker in these set of circumstances than you did in roads . Roads . Yeah, well, look, im sure the cho will be monitoring those examples you mentioned in turkey and croatia and elsewhere and responding fast. There is, as you say, a an ch0, a and responding fast. There is, as you say, a an cho, a foreign and Commonwealth Office Rapid Reaction team in rhodes providing assistance to british citizens who are out there and wherever that kind of response is required , i would expect it is required, i would expect it to be provided. Chris, chris, weve got so much to talk to you about, but were were out of time and just whilst whilst you were talking to us, all i could hear was exhausts from, from , from exhausts from, from, from motorbikes, motorcycles. And in motorbikes, motorcycles. And in your position as a crime minister there, i want you to make that they should all be arrested and thrown in prison. That noise from motorbikes. Im that noise from motorbikes. Im just saying, chris, its. Its its just. Its one of my pet irritate ones. But you go off and think of some legislation to have them all arrested. Thank you. Thank you very much indeed. You. Thank you very much indeed. Appreciate it. Give it some thought. All right. Thank you. Im sure you have a few things in your in tray which may be important. But anyway, be more important. But anyway, chris philp is minister chris philp is the minister of state for crime, policing and fire, his his new approach fire, and his his new approach to freeing police time right to freeing up police time right care right person. Is the strategy there talking about now do you stay with us heres craig snell with your forecast at it looks like things are heating up boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your gb news weather forecast. Well, looking ahead to today, its a bright start for most of us, but we will see some rain moving in from the west as the day goes on and by some and accompanied by some strengthening you can strengthening winds. So you can see sunshine around. See lots of sunshine around. First some first thing, still got some cloud showers, for cloud and showers, though, for southern northern southern scotland and Northern England well there england may well linger there for lot of the day. Northern for a lot of the day. Northern ireland seeing thicker cloud and outbreaks arriving outbreaks of rain arriving dunng outbreaks of rain arriving during morning will during the morning and that will spread into wales and spread its way into wales and southwest into the southwest england into the afternoon. Elsewhere, afternoon. But elsewhere, especially northern scotland especially for northern scotland down towards east anglia the down towards east anglia and the south east afternoon south east a pleasant afternoon with around with temperatures around average, feeling average, but feeling very disappointed under the rain further west. The rain will then further west. The rain will then sweep its way across the country as we go into the night, some heavy pulses around , especially heavy pulses around, especially across southern half the across the southern half of the country. As mentioned, country. As i mentioned, some strengthening , too. So a strengthening winds, too. So a pretty wet and windy night for some of us, but quite a humid one, especially compared to recent temperatures recent nights. Temperatures for most falling most of us not falling much lower around 15 or 16 lower than around 15 or 16 degrees. So we do start thursday off on a rather cloudy and damp note. Still some heavy rain around, especially across the southern half of the country. Scotland also seeing rather cloudy and weather for most cloudy and damp weather for most of day. But in between, we of the day. But in between, we will brighter spells will see some brighter spells come , but that come the afternoon, but that may trigger showers , too. And trigger some showers, too. And temperatures most of us temperatures for most of us generally average. But in generally around average. But in the , it probably the sunshine, it probably feeling humid and that feeling fairly humid and that rain will then continue through into the evening, giving a bit of a damp commute as we end thursday. Thats all for see thursday. Thats all for me. See you soon. You 500. You soon. Looks like things are heating up. Boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news sponsors of weather on. Gb news dont want to see that motorbike thing with no baffles in their exhaust does not irritate you. See, i can only hear the birdsong and i thought it sounded quite nice down in westminster. So i hear motorbike exhaust you hear birdsong, exhaust and you hear birdsong, birdsong. Birdsong. But its like youre weird, but its like youre going down the road and your minding your own business and youre along at youre tootling along at 40 miles or whatever. Miles an hour or whatever. Something you i yeah, no, that is annoying, to be fair. Now, youve pointed out its not something thats that strikes me, though. It strikes me it strikes you in the morning. Makes me. Well not so much on strike, but given the boot or stepping away or whatever you want to call it. Dame alison want to call it. Dame alison rose shes resigned as the natwest boss. That happened overnight and its all over nigel. Farage n atwe st Farage Natwest boss alison rose resigns over the leaking of Nigel Farages banking details. That is the big sensation. Overnight it happened whilst you were sleeping at the time. Now 7 01, its wednesday, 26th of july. This is breakfast on gb news with Eamonn Holmes and Ellie Costello. Heres whats leading the news this morning. The chief executive of natwest, alison rose, has resigned after admitting to discussing nigel farage Bank Account Closure with the bbc journalist nigel has told us hes fighting for other people across the country who face a similar situation. Similar situation. Im not just doing this for me, im doing it for thousands. Maybe tens of thousands of people. All over this country whove had their Bank Accounts closed over the course of the last two years. The government has updated its travel advice for road as tourists continue to flee the island. It comes as firefighters tackle blazes across the whole of the mediterranean with sicily , turkey, croatia and algeria badly affected. Badly affected. Controversial plans to close almost every Railway Ticket office in england are now in chaos following crisis talks between the department of transport and the train operators. The consultation was originally supposed to end tonight, but could be delayed due to legal challenges. Due to legal challenges. And well have your latest weather picture. Weather picture. Good morning. Its a bright start for most of us out there, but rain is on the way. Find out more a little bit later. This is our top story on this wednesday morning and that is that nigel farage has called the resignation of Dame Alison Rose as the boss of the Natwest Group as the boss of the Natwest Group a good start , but hes demanding a good start, but hes demanding that the whole natwest board board should go as well. Board should go as well. Yes, nigels comments came after ms rose stepped down early this morning following an emergency meeting of the Company Board trigger by heavy criticism and pressure from the government. So he told us that there needs to be fundamental reform in the Banking Sector. This is what he had. You have to respect the privacy of the customer. You also have respect gdpr also have to respect the gdpr regulations. They were both regulations. They were both broken very clearly by the boss of natwest at that dinner that took place on the 3rd of july when she sat next to the bbc. S Business Editor, simon jacques. And frankly , when she was caught and frankly, when she was caught having breached confidential ality, she tried yesterday , ality, she tried yesterday, supported by her board , to supported by her board, to frankly lie her way out. And i thought the statement that came out at 6 00 last night that the board retained full confidence in alison rose, rather reminiscent, isnt it, of the premier League Football club thats in crisis that says we have every confidence in our manager and i didnt think she could last beyond the end of the week. We have on friday the half yearly figures coming. There is an investor meeting at 930 that morning. So shes gone and thats a start actually. Alison rose it was you that introduced this culture. It was you that decided that Natwest Group would become not just a bank but a moral arbiter virtually a political organisation. And the political organisation. And the funny thing, of course, about talking about inclusion is the inclusion is wonderful, only if you agree with the prevailing view. If you dont agree, you view. If you dont agree, you are to be excluded. And that was are to be excluded. And that was the decision they took about me. Im not just doing this for me. Im not just doing this for me. Im doing it for thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people all over this country whove had their Bank Accounts closed over the course of the last you know, the last two years. You know, the fear , the horror that is coming fear, the horror that is coming through on these emails, peoples businesses being destroyed because theyve been closed down by a and its closed down by a bank and its taken months and months to open a new business account. This scandal has been going on for far too long, and im pleased to be the person thats blown the lid it. If we can get lid off it. And if we can get fundamental and reform fundamental change and reform and a fairer system, then i really will have achieved something. Well, thats nigel farage speaking to us first thing this morning. Weve also spoken to morning. Weve also spoken to crime and Police Minister chris philp the past few moments philp in the past few moments who have the right who said people have the right to Banking Services regardless of their political views. Of their political views. She was right to resign because clearly client confidentiality is very , very confidentiality is very, very important for any bank. Confidentiality is very, very important for any bank. And it important for any bank. And it sounds like inaccurate information was provided to the bbc. But of course, this all stems from the fact that nigel farage had his bank account closed down in the first place based on his political views and the government are very clear that people should not have critical Banking Services withdrawn because of their political point of view. And the city minister, andrew griffiths, i think is meeting a number of banks today to forcefully reiterate that point. In this reiterate that point. In this country we believe in free speech, we believe in Political Freedom and that means that people should be able to have their Banking Services provided regardless of their political views from the minister. Lets now go live to the former brexit mep ben habib with his comments and views on this and obviously, ben, you and i were sitting in this very studio yesterday and we were talking about this. And did you expect about this. And did you expect things to move so quickly . Things to move so quickly . I didnt expect them to move as quickly as they have. Ive as quickly as they have. Ive i think we discussed that alison rose was, you know , was clearly rose was, you know, was clearly in the crosshairs of blame on this, particularly on the breach of gdpr legislation , on, you of gdpr legislation, on, you know, the breach of nigels privacy. But theres a whole privacy. But theres a whole host of things now that come out of this , eamonn, which we didnt of this, eamonn, which we didnt discuss yesterday. Today, first discuss yesterday. Today, first and foremost, as nigel mentioned, the whole board of natwest has to be questioned. Their integrity and their capability. Their integrity and their capability. This is their integrity and their capability. This is a their integrity and their capability. This is a board of directors that allowed the bank to interpret its environmental, social and governance policies in a manner which motivated the bank to cancel a legitimate fee paying bank to cancel a legitimate fee paying customer for the bank. How could that be possible . Secondly its a bank that presided over alison rose, mis briefing the bbc over why nigels bank account had been closed. They had a chief executive in whom they professed complete confidence who was actually lying to the public, to the bbc and presumably to her colleagues. But there are a couple of other things i think that nigel didnt touch on, which are a really important to mention. The first is that alison rose actually she isnt even a director of coutts. Now that might seem like a small point , but coutts that might seem like a small point, but coutts is an independent banking organisation. It has its own board of directors. As how is it that the directors. As how is it that the chief executive of natwest got proprietorial private information about coutts customers when she wasnt even on the board . Legally . Shes not entitled to have had that , to entitled to have had that, to have had that. So theres a complete breakdown in Corporate Governance both at coutts and at its Parent Company , natwest. So its Parent Company, natwest. So the board of natwest is in question , but also the board of question, but also the board of directors of coutts needs to answer questions and a knock on consequence of that where you you cant you you inescapably end up questioning is the role of the Financial Conduct Authority in all of this. The fca is the regulator for coutts andifs fca is the regulator for coutts and its also the regulator for natwest. How is it that the fca still stood by while while coutts and natwest indulged in this false virtue signalling wrapping themselves in a blanket of virtual moral character tude and allowing themselves to use that as an excuse to cancel as nigels bank account . How is it that the fca stood back and allowed private information to flow from one banking regulated entity being coutts to the Parent Company natwest, which is a separate, regulated entity . A separate, regulated entity . They were asleep on the job. So the other question therefore is for the regulator , what were for the regulator, what were they up to and then the third question of course, eamonn, is for the bbc, the bbc and simon jack would have known that gdpr legislation was being breached when that information was being provided to them. And the bbc took the information and they published it without question. So this , im afraid, alisons so this, im afraid, alisons rose. Alison roses resignation. Rose. Alison roses resignation. If people think thats the end of it, im afraid they are, sadly mistaken. As nigel said , sadly mistaken. As nigel said, this is only just beginning. Yeah and ben, i dont know if you. If youve been able to see her resignation statement or whatever, but for me, reading it, its a lot of. Sorry but not really sorry. Theres a lot of comfort being given from the natwest board, who you think and nigel farage thinks should all resign in any way over this. But it is all so intertwined. The it is all so intertwined. The regulator cuts natwest as the Parent Company here as well. But the it all begins about alison rose and her her record with natwest which is really whats that got to do with the price of eggs really because this is about nigel farage and its not the end of it. I think what youre trying to say is that this is only the beginning. Other heads will roll and there will be changes whether the regulatory changes or not. I absolutely and eamonn, this is not a problem thats limited to natwest and coutts this infects the entire regulator and part of the entire regulator and part of the uks economy. Any entity which is regulated and is required to comply with environmental and social governance provisions will be virtue signalling, wrapping themselves up in this false blanket of moral rectitude. Just allowing people like nigel farage purely based on his political views, cancelling them. It doesnt just infect banks, it infects pension funds. Insurers companies and listed companies and all people who do business with them. Its right business with them. Its right across the british economy and it needs to it needs to have a very bright light shone on it and heads need to roll right across the economic landscape. Across the economic landscape. Ben habib, thank you very much indeed. Appreciate your your commentary , your take on your commentary, your take on that. Weve got to leave it there. Thank you. There. Thank you. Lindas been in touch this morning. Good morning to you, linda. Alison rose linda. And says alison rose should bank account should have her bank account shut see far gets, shut down. See how far she gets, which is a really important point, isnt it . Yeah. Get her in Society Without a bank. Yeah. Get her in society witiyeah. Bank. Yeah. Get her in society witiyeah. How yeah. Get her in society witiyeah. How you can survive. Yeah. How you can survive. Yeah. How you can survive. Do. Being a bank what you can do. Being a bank person or debunked , as you person or debunked, as you called it, debunked. Yeah. Is that called it, debunked. Yeah. Is that an called it, debunked. Yeah. Is that an actual word . Yeah. Is that an actual word . Is that an actual. An actual word. And nigel farage has been debunked by. Well hes not able to be a customer for ten banks in this country. Think thats remarkable. Well, i think things will change. Says surely banks should phil says surely banks should only close kinds clients only close the kinds of clients are to broken the are proven to have broken the law , stolen being law, stolen money, being involved dealing , involved in drug dealing, etcetera. Donald says maybe we should about what should be thinking about what other are other institutions are discriminating against, against anyone that is not completely woke. And that is the question. Donald this idea lets stop this in the tracks that that Institute Solutions that corporations can be are moral guardians on certain things. Its none of their business, nothing to do with them. Shut up. Take our money. Let us bank with you or not as the case may be. And i mean it got me looking at all the adverts, the adverts , they all running on television now and know these banks werent necessarily involved in this, but you know all that here by your side. Yeah let us make your money work for you. All this money work for you. All this sort of nonsense. There cuddly, friendly, very cuddly. They would knife you in the back knife you in the front. Actually, as soon as theyd look at you. So whats it got to do with them . Shut up. Take the money. Thats all youve got to do. Well, let us know what you think of that. Jeff. This a nice one from jeff who says, congratulations to robust stance to nigel for his robust stance on issue. I hope this will on this issue. I hope this will be the start of getting our culture of free speech back in our for that, our society. Thanks for that, jeff, everyone jeff, and thanks for everyone getting keep them getting in touch. Do keep them coming gbviews gbnews. Com coming in gbviews gbnews. Com farage still has nowhere to put his yeah, thats what you his money. Yeah, thats what you said. His money. Yeah, thats what you saiiwhat do . Keep it what does he do . Keep it under mattress. Under the mattress. Dont i dont know. I dont know. A bit worried about i was a bit worried about that when you said that earlier. I are you keeping i said where are you keeping your money . Well, you dont know. Might have found prime know. You might have found Prime Minister appear minister set to appear in front of blood inquiry of the infected blood inquiry later of of the infected blood inquiry later affected of of the infected blood inquiry later affected urging of of the infected blood inquiry later affected urging himyf of the infected blood inquiry later affected urging him to those affected urging him to announce implementation of a announce the implementation of a compensation scheme. Well, compensation scheme. Well, Richard Warwick is the victim of an infected blood scandal. Richard, really good to see you this morning. Now of course, the Prime Minister giving evidence today that will be a significant moment for you. Youre a victim of the infected blood scandal. Tell us a bit more about your story. Story. Okay. Well, ive im a haemophiliac. And at the age of 11, with the treatment i was given to treat that haemophilia , i contracted hiv , hepatitis b , i contracted hiv, hepatitis b and hepatitis c through intravenous blood products imported from america. So ive had , if you like, the full monty had, if you like, the full monty of viruses , richard. Of viruses, richard. Awful, awful, awful. But awful, awful, awful. But lets go back in time. What are we talking about . Is this the 80s, the mid 80s, late 80s . Were talking about here . Yes. Yes yes. Yes um, early 80s. Late 70s. Early 80s. Yes. Okay the question im asking you and you would have been in that Hospital Board and there would have been people around you getting similar treatment and all with different consequences. And i mean, some of them not very, very good consequences as a result of that. But all im going to ask you, richard, is how was anyone to know , how did how was anyone to know, how did the technology exist then with this . Blood could have been screened . And was there a screened . And was there a responsibility that wasnt upheld . What would you like to upheld . What would you like to say about who was to blame . If you think anyones to blame. You think anyones to blame. Well, the in the uk were not self sufficient in producing blood products themselves, so they imported products from the states and other countries to meet that demand. Um there were there was screening in place for non a non b , hepatitis and non a non b, hepatitis and hepatitis b, but not hiv. So yes, they did know that viruses were present in pooled concentrates. And in fact, one concentrates. And in fact, one of the ceos of one of the pharmacies Companies Made it very clear that all of his employees knew that they were being exposed to hepatitis b, so it was very much known about and there were so many boys in your school year who were also infected, werent they . Yes infected, werent they . Yes there were about 120 boys at the school and were were just actually lost one couple of weeks ago. Now to 73 deaths. So weve lost a lot of a lot of good school friends. So that is shocking. Thats pretty tragic, really. Its pretty tragic, really. Its pretty tragic, really. Its pretty tragic. But sorry, what i pretty tragic. But sorry, what i dont understand is how come all of these boys were from the same school . I dont. I can understand you going to the same treatment centre, the same ward or something. Why or something. But why necessarily the same school affected by all of this. Affected by all of this. Well, it was a Specialist School for physically disabled boys and girls. And there was a there was a separate haemophilia, haemophilia unit actually set up there. And it was the ideal in our opinion. And what the inquiry has found out, it was the ideal research ground. It was a closed captive community of haemophilia boys and they could run tests and trials on the boys at school. So they tried all sorts of different products , both different products, both commercial and local, different products, both commercial and local , locally commercial and local, locally manufactured products. And the boys to see what the effects were. Were. Do you do you know when you look back at that, i mean, thats nearly 50 of people who are being treated around the same time as you gone. And you same time as you gone. And you obviously must feel very lucky to be here. And how come you are still here . Look , look, its got nothing look, look, its got nothing to do with it. I i and the survivors that are still around have a great deal and share a great deal of survivors guilt because we did. We have lost so many friends that should still be around now. Now look. Had nothing to do with it. I mean the fact that im here and the people that are still here is down to the fact that i dont know, is it genetics . We dont know, is it genetics . We dont know. But, um, the fact that we know. But, um, the fact that we lost so many people, especially those that died in the early, late teens, early 20s, it brought it home to us of how widespread these infections were, particularly amongst the haemophilia community. It wiped out a whole, whole generation of young lads , young teenagers with young lads, young teenagers with haemophilia during the late 80s and early 90s. Its really decimated our our community. Richard you must be so angry. I mean, you talk there about your friends , children, your friends, children, teenagers who have died because of infected blood. I mean, were talking today about the compensation offer, a potential compensation offer, a potential compensation offer, a potential compensation offer. Would that compensation offer. Would that even go far enough for how youre feeling. Youre feeling. Well, as someone that was infected, i received £100,000 a £100,000 interim payment in august of last year. But when you consider that ive been infected with multiple viruses for over 40 years, i think we worked it out amongst ourselves last night. It works out at Something Like £51 a week being infected with multiple viruses dunng infected with multiple viruses during the time that weve. Yeah well, richard, thanks for putting. Thanks. Thanks for humanising what were about to see today and giving us the whole background to it. Continue to stay. Well richard, thank you very much indeed for talking to us this morning. Thank you. Thank you very much, damon. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Gosh , 120 boys and 73 have gosh, 120 boys and 73 have passed away. Thats really passed away. Thats really shocking, isnt it . Shocking, isnt it . The time coming up to 7 20, the government has updated its travel advice for roads, telling people to check that they have the correct insurance. As tourists continue to flee the island. Island. Well, it comes as firefighters tackle blazes across the whole of the mediterranean with sicily, turkey, and algeria turkey, croatia and algeria badly affected. Badly affected. And now lets go to our reporter paul hawkins, whos there on the island of rhodes for us this morning to tell us what hes seeing and what his whole experience is like there. Paul whole experience is like there. Paul, good morning. Paul, good morning. Yeah, morning to you. Weve yeah, morning to you. Weve been trying to gauge exactly what the situation is. This what the situation is. This morning. We went to one Evacuation Centre , a school in Evacuation Centre, a school in the north of the island near rhodes town. Thats where a lot of people have been evacuated from because, of course, the fires are in the south of the island. Cover 10 of island. They only cover 10 of the but we know that 19 the island. But we know that 19 to 20,000 people were evacuated over the weekend. So we went to visited one school this morning. A lot, a lot less people there. You can see that the repatriation flights that have been off, that been been taking off, that have been coming the and taking coming from the uk and taking people an people back, are having an effect. Ferrying effect. Theyre ferrying people away. People leaving rhodes away. 2000 people leaving rhodes on this is the sports or on monday. This is the sports or whether were around 1000 people on night quickly bust on saturday night quickly bust out of the areas in the south of the island. Weve popped in there still set up there now. Theyre still set up to take evacuees, but there is virtually no one in there. Theres just a couple of families, volunteer families that in the hotels that that stay in the hotels that have been hit by the fires. But theres no brits in there anymore. So theyre to going remain open. I did ask them, how long are you going to remain open dont open for . They said, we dont know, honest, because the know, to be honest, because the fires been burning fires have been burning for ten days. Takes is a change days. All it takes is a change in direction. The in the wind direction. Yes the temperature to fall by temperature is going to fall by about 5 to 6 degrees over the next days. But the fires are next few days. But the fires are still burning. The wind still burning. And if the wind picks again, then picks up again, then then the evacuations may continue. Theres still a lot of uncertainty amongst tourism uncertainty amongst the Tourism Industry the country industry in south of the country. Still battling fires. They are still battling fires down between the villages. They are still battling fires do gandia between the villages. They are still battling fires do gandia andtween the villages. They are still battling fires do gandia and vathi. The villages. They are still battling fires do gandia and vathi. Theyillages. They are still battling fires do gandia and vathi. They were� s of gandia and vathi. They were particularly badly hit yesterday. Were be travelling. Were going to be travelling down just moment down there in just a moment and well you we find well tell you what we find later on. Look forward to that. Paul. Thank much indeed. Thank you very much indeed. Stay safe. It. Safe. Appreciate it. Thats paul hawkins well, thats paul hawkins with the weather in rhodes. With the weather in rhodes. Obviously a highly dangerous situation there. Lets stick with the weather, shall we . And lets have a look with craig snell at the forecast here. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your gb news weather forecast. Well, looking ahead to today, its a bright start for most of us, but we some rain moving in we will see some rain moving in from west as the day goes from the west as the day goes on. And from the west as the day goes on. And accompanied by some strengthening you can strengthening winds. So you can see lots of sunshine around first thing, still got some cloud and showers, for cloud and showers, though, for southern and northern southern scotland and Northern England well linger there england may well linger there for the day. Northern for a lot of the day. Northern ireland seeing thicker cloud and that of rain arriving that breaks of rain arriving dunng that breaks of rain arriving during the morning and that will spread wales and spread its way into wales and southwest into the southwest england into the afternoon. Elsewhere, afternoon. But elsewhere, especially scotland especially for northern scotland down and the down towards east anglia and the south east. A pleasant afternoon with temperatures around average, very average, but feeling very disappointed the rain disappointed under the rain further west , the rain will then further west, the rain will then sweep its way across the country as we go into the night, some heavy pulses around , especially heavy pulses around, especially across the southern half of the country. As i mentioned, some strengthening too. A strengthening winds, too. So a pretty wet and windy night for some quite a humid some of us, but quite a humid one, especially compared to recent nights. Temperatures for most not falling much most of us, not falling much lower than around 15 or 16 degrees. So we do start thursday off on a rather cloudy and damp note. Still some heavy rain around, especially across the southern half of country. Southern half of the country. Scotland also seeing rather cloudy damp weather for most cloudy and damp weather for most of but in between, of the day. But in between, we will brighter spells will see some brighter spells come but that may come the afternoon. But that may trigger showers , too. And trigger some showers, too. And temperatures for most of us generally average. But in generally around average. But in the and it probably the sunshine and it probably feeling humid, that rain feeling fairly humid, that rain will then continue into the evening , giving a bit of a damp evening, giving a bit of a damp commute as we end thursday. Thats all for me. See you soon. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Thanks, craig. Now as barbie becomes the biggest Opening Weekend ever for a female director , well ask if the film director, well ask if the film is anti man. Thats. Next hello. Welcome back. The time is 728. Still lots to come on todays program at 8 10 as the plan to close all of the countrys Ticket Office is thrown into chaos. Thrown into chaos. Well hear from the guide dogs charity about why theyre so desperately needed, why you need people there to help the visually impaired. I laugh at all this that the train operators plans its not the train operators plans. They were told by the government to save money and they say, well, well get rid of people with Ticket Offices. Now everybodys but offices. Now everybodys oh, but what should we be getting rid of . Manning Ticket Offices. I havent thought it through. I havent thought it through. Obvious answer we shouldnt. No. But let us know what you think of and the worlds think of that. And the worlds longest comic, longest running comic, the beano, marks its 85th birthday this week with a special commemorative issue featuring the likes of stormzy and harry styles and adele at 845, well look back at its storeyed history. History. Now, thats all very nice and the beanos 85. I dont know. I dont think the dandy exists anymore or the beezer exists anymore. Whatever. Whatever. Whatever. Know whos buying the beano . Know whos buying the beano . I dont know any young person thats buying the beano. Is it thats buying the beano. Is it all men and women . My age . Yeah. Let us know if youre still buying the beano. Somebody must be. Somebody must be there in business. Yes. Youre not. Yeah yes. Youre not. Yeah yeah. Cant work out. Yeah. Cant work out. Who is it . If youre buying them, let let us know. Seems to be a very good what makes it. But i cant imagine people want to know the exploits of dennis the menace in 2020. What are we, 22 or 23 . What year is this . 2023, maybe. Its a good 2023, maybe. Its a good escape from things like tide bank king and the world that we live in, like a crime. Well , it is live in, like a crime. Well, it is a crime. She could be. It should be a crime. Perhaps thats the way were going. Thats why people read the beano. Gb views gbnews. Com. Or you can. Gb news. Were can tweet at. Gb news. Were going to debate this film now. Barbie with connor tomlinson, whos a writer and host of lotus eaters,. Com, and Ellie Phillips , our showbiz journalist whos here in the studio. And youve been to see it and its the thats why im wearing pink. Ive worn nothing but pink since this film. It is the best film. Its actually the biggest film. Its actually the biggest film of the year. Taken the box office by storm. I think its been the successful film been the most successful film for director ever. For a female director ever. Ellie, what do you keep saying . Ellie, what do you keep saying . Theme. Ellie, what do you keep saying . Whyne. Ellie, what do you keep saying . Why do you keep its why do you keep saying its a female and why is that so . Because theres not many of them. And shes not only done it, done so well. It, but shes done it so well. Its the most its not its been the most its not always to a always guaranteed to be a success because of. Well, theres not many of them. You heres my point. Them. You know, heres my point. Heres yeah, cares for me . Like the beano . Whos going to watch that . Whos. Im not going to millions of people. Eamonn. Eamonn. But its auntie man. But its auntie man. No , its not. No, its not. No, its not. I can see the proper panda coming at me. Youre a man. I can see the proper panda coming at me. Youre a man. You coming at me. Youre a man. You shouldnt exist. You should hurt. Should guilty hurt. You should feel guilty about if you about everything. Anyway if you havent seen it yet, heres a clip. In the havent seen it yet, heres a clip. In the real havent seen it yet, heres a clip. In the real world, thats impossible. If this got out , this could if this got out, this could be an extremely weird things for our world. This would be catastrophic. Catastrophic. We havent played with barbie since we were , like, five years old. Oh , i see. Oh, i see. Oh, i see. No one rests until this doll is back in a box. Oh, its amazing. Its the best. Do like margot, robbie. Oh, i bet you do see that for her. Yeah. Yeah. You should go see it. Okay. Connor and ellie. So here we go. Ellie. Now shes just. Shes licking her lips. Just. Shes licking her lips. Ready . Ready . So good. It was. So good. It was. So good. It was. But you loved it. I did love it. Why . Well, i think it was just. Its fun. Its so bright and its so fun. Its so bright and beautiful. And it also as well as the comedy and the humour, its really good messaging its got really good messaging throughout and you throughout it. And i know you think, well , no, throughout it. And i know you think, well, no, i think to say that misandrist is quite that its misandrist is quite a light take on it. I think there are a lot of deeper cultural meanings going on there. And i actually what it does it actually what it does is it deconstructs the world as we know it turns its head to know it turns it on its head to critique kind of our social structures. Not to say that a patriarch is glazing over. Patriarch is bad glazing over. You saying you went to are you saying you went to see barbie, movie, talk see barbie, the movie, to talk about different about the worlds different structures and overturning . Whole point. No, thats the whole point. I went it because i was went to see it because i was like, its barbie. Want to see like, its barbie. I want to see whats on. Theres been a whats going on. Theres been a lot of hype about it. I loved barbie kid. See barbie as a kid. Lets see whats actually i whats going on. And actually i left god, that was whats going on. And actually i lefclever. God, that was whats going on. And actually i lefclever. I god, that was whats going on. And actually i lefclever. I laughed that was whats going on. And actually i lefclever. I laughed throughout so clever. I laughed throughout it. At same time it. And then at the same time left thinking, wow, i really hope people leave feeling a little bit enlighten and women feeling little bit enlighten and women feelirmen struggle with and vice what men struggle with and vice versa. I think its about versa. I dont think its about hating patriarchy. Its hating the patriarchy. Its about having any about saying that having any hierarchy of any kind thats based your is bad. You based on your sex is bad. You know, its not this utopia barbie land. Youve got barbie land. Youve got a Supreme Court justices who are all women, which is so ridiculous. But then in the real world, have boardroom, which world, you have boardroom, which is all men. And it shows is just all men. And it shows how ridiculous both and how ridiculous both are. And actually, youre chromosomes being x, x or x , y should not being x, x or x, y should not matter one bit. Yeah. I think it matter one bit. Yeah. I think it attempted to be very anti men and it failed spectacularly. I think accidentally. The films writers dont understand the film. Theyve written and it has backfired and this is this is why people care about barbie. Eamonn right. What theyve done is theyve made accidentally one of the most conservative films in the last ten years and theyve given us the female equivalent of superman. And its because they positioned the kens the old joke of ken superfluous to barbie. Hes just an accessory. The kens all they exist as is as on demand validation for the barbies and the matriarchal utopia. They staff every branch of government. Theyre astronauts. Government. Theyre astronauts. Even the barbies in the low run jobs bin men, valuable jobs like bin men, very valuable role. They a higher from role. They get a higher from from barbies the highest from the barbies and the highest level the level of society whereas the kens theyre actually homeless level of society whereas the ken barbiese actually homeless level of society whereas the ken barbies dontially homeless level of society whereas the ken barbies dont think omeless level of society whereas the ken barbies dont think about ss the barbies dont think about them and they demand to have their attention day and night, but and but never reciprocate. And then when the real world but never reciprocate. And then whe he the real world but never reciprocate. And then whe he sees the real world but never reciprocate. And then whe he sees the the real world but never reciprocate. And then whe he sees the patriarchyil world but never reciprocate. And then whe he sees the patriarchy , world but never reciprocate. And then whe he sees the patriarchy , he rld and he sees the patriarchy, he what does he see . Well, he doesnt men running doesnt see men running everything. Actually gets everything. He actually gets rebuked he tries to a rebuked when he tries to get a job from female doctor cause job from a female doctor cause he got any credentials. He hasnt got any credentials. But a woman walks to him and but a woman walks up to him and asks for the time and he asks him for the time and he feels he goes feels useful. So he goes back to barbie within five barbie land and within five minutes the minutes he doesnt take over the government. He doesnt launch a fascist talks fascist takeover. He just talks to convinces to the barbies and convinces them to give up some of their jobs to monogamous jobs and to monogamous relationships and let the kens have jobs and the kens have jobs and all of the kens stop each stop going to war with each other, put their arms and other, put down their arms and become so patriarchy become friendly. So patriarchy is men is actually represented as men being friends and monogamously committing. And that gets committing. And then that gets overthrown. Overthrown at the end. Ellie, we can hear you groaning there. Groaning over there. Because theres yeah, no, because theres quite a issues with all of quite a few issues with all of that, one being that that, but one being that actually of the film actually at the end of the film youve robbie, youve got margot robbie, a stereotypical barbie, apologising ken for making apologising to ken for making him feel undervalued and, you know, and saying to him , go and know, and saying to him, go and be yourself. Live in my shadow. Dont live in my shadow. Thats the whole it is thats the whole point of it is saying that men shouldnt have to you men can be to be you know, men can be vulnerable. They dont have to vulnerable. They dont have to live these norms that live to these these norms that are of them. These are expected of them. And these extremes. And it is presented in an way. And thats the an extreme way. And thats the whole and why whole point. And thats why its a satire. But when you say he goes he doesnt try to goes back and he doesnt try to overthrow government, they overthrow the government, they actually vote to vote. Sorry, hang on a vote. Vote. They, hang on a vote. Vote. They doang on a vote. Vote. They do try on a vote. Vote. They do try an a vote. Vote. They do try a vote. Yte. Vote. They do try a vote. They dont they dont vote to it dont they dont vote to make it ken world than hang on. Ken world rather than hang on. They dont dont in they dont they dont go in and violently it violently overthrow. But it doesnt doesnt work. Doesnt it doesnt work. Dont in, invite the they dont go in, invite the overthrow what happens overthrow it. And what happens to government is they to the ken government is they get the weirdo barbie in the hills who the writer. Kate hills who is the writer. Kate mckinnon, is very left wing. Mckinnon, who is very left wing. She Hillary Clinton on she played Hillary Clinton on snl. In snl. She writes herself in as the comes the wise barbie that comes in and everything overthrow and fix everything to overthrow the patriarchy. They pack the ken patriarchy. They pack barbies the van barbies into the back of the van and hold struggle sessions with them of them for the issues of femininity real world for femininity in the real world for women between having jobs women caught between having jobs and family, barbie and family, which the barbie should of should have no frame of reference by the way, which should have no frame of rewhy ce by the way, which should have no frame of rewhy the by the way, which should have no frame of rewhy the film the way, which should have no frame of rewhy the film isie way, which should have no frame of rewhy the film isie w. Veryhich should have no frame of rewhy the film isie w. Very well is why the film is not very well written. And so by breaking the barbies how written. And so by breaking the barb overthrow how written. And so by breaking the barb overthrow patriarchyrv they overthrow the patriarchy is they overthrow the patriarchy is they kens hooked on they get the kens hooked on a relationship them. Lie relationship with them. They lie to them, and then they go and cheat them. And they turn the cheat on them. And they turn the kens and kens against each other and make go from friends kens against each other and make a go from friends kens against each other and make a war. Go from friends kens against each other and make a war. So from friends kens against each other and make a war. So theyreands kens against each other and make a war. So theyre sois to having a war. So theyre so distracted cant vote. Distracted they cant vote. Actually a play on so its actually a play on what men do to women in the real world. Thats the whole point of it. Thats thats how second wave feminism live feminism and how women live and women understand how men live. So. Clever. Thats why its so. Clever. Thats why its so. Clever. Did see it when you were did you see it when you were watching it . What you is this what you saw . Is this what you saw . I, i think i did see i, i think i disagree with both of you. Oh, here we go. Here we go. Oh, here we go. Here we go. I saw it. More of an emotional awake reckoning really is a celebration of womanhood. I saw mum and the way that my saw my mum and the way that my mum looked after me, i saw my relationship with dolls growing up. My ideas of, like, beauty and how i should look based on my barbie me feel my barbie doll made me feel really, really sad actually. Really, really sad, actually. And think celebration and i dont think a celebration of women to be an attack on of women has to be an attack on men. Dont think that at all. Men. I dont think that at all. I agree. I do agree. Did you not today when we did you not say today when we were in makeup, did you not say you cried . Cried twice. Yeah, i cried twice. Yeah, i cried twice. So so people cry so many, so many people cry in it. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What in it. You a, whoa, whoa, whoa. What in it. You crying a, whoa, whoa. What in it. You crying about . , whoa. What are you crying about . It . Maybe its like you isnt it . Maybe its like you with a doll. With your beano. Shes a doll. Shes a doll. Shes not real. Shes childhood. Shes my childhood. Think. I shes my childhood. Think. I think made i think. I think its made a lot of cry because its. Lot of people cry because its. Its. Its what we grew up with. And also, i do think the interesting thing it interesting thing about it is a lot are saying, oh, lot of people are saying, oh, you its anti men and its you know, its anti men and its actually criticising uss feminism kind revenge feminism as a kind of revenge ideology end of ideology because at the end of it they say basically points it they say it basically points out having women rule the out that having women rule the world actually that great. World actually isnt that great. Having men rule the world is equally and at the end equally as bad. And at the end when you know, when they say, oh, you know, ken, live in my shadow, ken, dont live in my shadow, you be you, be i. And then you be you, i be i. And then when they reform the government, its oh , can men be in on its like, oh, can men be in on its like, oh, can men be in on it and theyre like, oh it as well . And theyre like, oh yeah, should yeah, actually we should consider the consider that. And so its the moving forward of actually times changing. So its interesting. Changing. So its interesting. These two crying by the these two were crying by the end of it. What were you doing . I was pointing at ken and going, literally me. Going, hes literally me. Like, and this hes our guy. Like, and this is i think loads of the is why i think loads of the memes, this is very unexpected. Did of the did loads of the memes of the manosphere or the online right or conservatives or whatever you want theyve want to call it. Theyve identified because identified with ken because i think in think generally speaking, in todays culture, do feel todays culture, men do feel its very highly feminised. Men feel that male competence is demonised as them being agents of patriarchy. Weve got of the patriarchy. Weve got under 45. Suicide is the leading killer of men. And so men do feel like theyre living in some sort shadow of feminism. And sort of shadow of feminism. And sort of shadow of feminism. And so they see a guy rise up so when they see a guy rise up and friends with their and make friends with their bros unapologetically bros and unapologetically celebrate commit to celebrate manhood and commit to their barbie and basically write love songs for her and not be embarrassed about it, theyre like, yeah, identify with that embarrassed about it, theyre like, soah, identify with that embarrassed about it, theyre like, so i|, identify with that embarrassed about it, theyre like, so i thinkentify with that embarrassed about it, theyre like, so i think thatsnith that embarrassed about it, theyre like, so i think thats the that guy. So i think thats the unintended the film. Goodness goodness me. Who goodness me, goodness me. Who would well, there would have thought, well, there it is. Its deep Patriarchy Society , matriarchal society, society, matriarchal society, good. Who do you get all of that from . Barbie im more a Mission Impossible man, i think. I think were to best stick to that. Barbie. Barbie cinema near you. I hope you enjoy it. Ellie connon i hope you enjoy it. Ellie connor. Thank you both very much indeed. Thank you. Thank you. Very interesting. Stay with us. Us. Next up is the United Nations is calling for bones to bones phones to be banned in schools. Isnt it funny how things happen like that . Our phones be banned in schools. Do you agree with that . Were going to be debating it holdsworth it with Candice Holdsworth and emma thats next. On good to see you again. The time is 80 minutes before 8 00 on this wednesday morning. And were going through the papers this morning with journalist Candice Holdsworth and political consultant emma burnell. Really good to see you both this morning. And, candice, lets start with you, shall we . The front page of the guardian in is calling for a ban in the un is calling for a ban on phones in schools. On phones in schools. Well, i dont know what its got to do with the un, first of all. But do you know what . All. But. But do you know what . I think the most the i think this is the most the biggest piece of common sense even biggest piece of common sense ever. I was a school teacher, ever. If i was a school teacher, i would have a basket at the front of the class, a laundry basket, say, oh , in the in basket, and say, oh, in the in the through your phone the basket through your phone there. Wouldnt allow my there. I wouldnt allow my pupils to have a phone in the class. No. And many, many schools say they do that. They have a policy of no phones. You have to hand your phone and at the end of can get it back. Of the day, you can get it back. At day, if you at the end of the day, if you need some message your parents to get picked whatever, or to get picked up or whatever, or if class just, you know, if their class just, you know, every whatever. Every 40 minutes or whatever. Yes. Needs to be yes. No, it needs to be regulated because theres obviously problem obviously the problem of distraction, which is a huge one, bullying. One, but also cyber bullying. Thats a problem. But thats also a problem. But apparently they thats also a problem. But app. Just ly they thats also a problem. But app. Just sit they thats also a problem. But app. Just sit absorbed they thats also a problem. But app. Just sit absorbed in they thats also a problem. But app. Just sit absorbed in theiry can just sit absorbed in their phones not phones and theyre not socialising other. And socialising with each other. And some teachers really dont like that. To have that. They want them to have that. They want them to have that social time together at lunch break or whatever. Lunch or break time or whatever. I a new i think this is such a new technology and were not quite sure effect having on sure the effect its having on Young Children and teenagers. And as theyre developing. So i think cautious think we should be cautious about them to about how much we expose them to it. Yeah. Have read that about how much we expose them to it. The]. Have read that about how much we expose them to it. The people have read that about how much we expose them to it. The people whoe read that about how much we expose them to it. The people who create hat about how much we expose them to it. The people who create this all the people who create this technology in places like silicon valley, regulate silicon valley, they regulate their childrens screen time because know how addictive because they know how addictive it be. It can be. See what i mean . I would hate that, emma. See what i mean . I would hate tha you nma. See what i mean . I would hate tha you know, i mean, dont you know, i mean, i dont know you did your break you know, i mean, i dont know but you did your break you know, i mean, i dont know but the u did your break you know, i mean, i dont know but the firsti your break you know, i mean, i dont know but the first thingyur break you know, i mean, i dont know but the first thing we 3reak you know, i mean, i dont know but the first thing we did k time, but the first thing we did was would get a ball, was somebody would get a ball, a tennis football or tennis ball, a football or whatever. Ball , and there whatever. A ball, and there would be a ball involved in it or there would be a bit of bullying you know, bullying going on. You know, something , sought something you had to do, sought somebody out. Well, interesting, well, its interesting, candice about candice and i were talking about this earlier. A when youre in theres a when youre in primary school, you play games and you play with toys and then you go up to secondary school and you hang out and you dont play and you hang out and you dont play games anymore because for thats the younger children. But i do think that that social time is absolutely right. You know, is absolutely right. You know, its not just dont have them in the classroom for all the very good reasons that youve set out, but also, if we can just get kids to talk to each other in the break, those socialisation skills are so important. You know, ive got friends that i made when i was seven, eight years old. Ive got friends from every part of my schooling. And i worry that if kids are just burying their headsin kids are just burying their heads in their phones rather than to talking each other, they wont create those bonds. And those necessary for those bonds are necessary for our lives. Its quite sad that it takes this to the United Nations this to go to the United Nations , us and not all schools see this as an absolute and say this shouldnt be happening because if youre on your phone, youre not listening to the teacher or doing all these things that we talked about right. And emma exercise. Right. I did this exercise. Right. I did this yesterday. I exercise. Right. I did this yesterday. I did a plank yesterday. I did a plank yesterday. Right. So a yesterday. I did a plank yesterday. Right. So a plank is good for me. Apparently a plank is apparently still exercise. Weve been so obsessed for so long with aerobic exercise, with raising your heartbeat. Right. But actually, in terms of Blood Pressure , apparently that kind pressure, apparently that kind of high, intense city still exercise that a plank demonstrates for those who dont know a plank is when you are flat on your hands and your tiptoes. And its very , very tiptoes. And its very, very hard to stay that way. It works very hard on your core. Its a huge part of pilates or yoga. And its i mean, it raises my Blood Pressure even thinking about it. I agree. And im looking here and im saying youre saying being still so squats is an awful thing to do , especially if youre heavy. Do, especially if youre heavy. Well, i really struggle with scots, know , ive been scots, as you know, ive been much than i am now. Not much heavier than i am now. Not that im a skinny mini. And as a result , my knees are quite result, my knees are quite damaged and so i find any exercise where where the bending at the knees is part of it, really very difficult. Now i find some easier than others , find some easier than others, but squats are. Its not just out of my comfort zone. Its out of my possibility zone a lot of the time. But it it would have been great if i had not been in the state. I was in and had done these things younger. So maybe its a great idea for people to start inculcating different types of exercise. So there are everyone should find the exercise that works for them because if you try to do an exercise you dont like, no one does that. No one does. Yes so for me, i love to walk. I walk for me, i love to walk. I walk five miles a day at least. Five miles a day at least. Absolutely love it. Build it into my lifestyle, make sure that its im its a possible city for me. And thats how i make sure that im getting that exercise in. I also do a bit of yoga. Exercise in. I also do a bit of yoga. I tried to do running. Oh yoga. I tried to do running. Oh my god, ive never hated anything so much in my life. And it just didnt work. So its a really is about making sure that were doing good exercise that works for us and this is if youve got high Blood Pressure , youve got high Blood Pressure, this is what were saying here. This is the advice. Now youve to up the plank youve got to crank up the plank basically , pigs. Basically, pigs. Candace yes. So this is a rescue pig. Yes its a rescue pig its a story in the star. And theres a pig who was rescued from slaughter and he was taken on board by a woman who runs a sanctuary for pigs. Her name is sanctuary for pigs. Her name is joanne lofaso. And it turns out he has a talent for painting. So the pig gets a paintbrush in its mouth. Yes. And then goes to a piece of paper or canvas . Yes. Yes. Yes. And apparently theyve sold for of money about £20,000 for a lot of money about £20,000 a piece. And hes raised about £1 million for her sanctuary. Get out of it. Get out of it. One of these pigs. People love it. They love these pig portraits painting these stupid. Do they know that theyre buying pigs ear or do they buying a pigs ear or do they what do they think theyre getting here . It must be animal lovers and people, especially, who love rescuing animals from slaughter i its got to be a part of it. Its got to be a part of it. Then the pig could have intelligence. But thats the thing. But thats the thing. You think the pig knows but thats the thing. Y y well, lot of people, well, a lot of people, especially people who rescue pigs especially people who rescue pigs slaughter are very pigs from slaughter and are very opposed say that opposed to eating pork, say that pigs opposed to eating pork, say that pigs incredibly intelligent pigs are incredibly intelligent animals. And animals. Theyre like dogs. And so really be eating so we shouldnt really be eating them. He just sort of them. So he could just sort of cohort could just be creative he could just be a creative genius. Pink he could just be a creative genius. Pink pig caso. I am interested know how they interested to know how they found out this pig had this found out that this pig had this talent. P p was it to suddenly whose idea was it to suddenly hand this pig a paintbrush and some paint have at it . Yeah. Yeah. Its a smiley pig as well. Any pictures of it . Its got a big smile on its face. It looks really happy doing what its doing. Yes yeah. Yeah. Bringing home the bacon, taking on a whole new meaning, hasnt it . Yes. That one. Emma, lets have a look at the gulf stream, shall we . Apparently it could collapse. The gulf stream. Yeah. The gulf stream. Yeah. The gulf stream. 520. 520. 25 is the early end of the estimate, so its somewhere between 2025 and 2095. But the. So the median is about 2050. But if the gulf stream collapses , if the gulf stream collapses, what were seeing now in terms of environmental disasters with wildfires, droughts , extreme wildfires, droughts, extreme weather conditions will be as to nothing. It will have a very, nothing. It will have a very, very serious deleterious effect. The gulf stream regulates the climate of our oceans and as such, and that makes the difference of all the tides are run through that we will see vastly increased water levels on the east coast of america. We the east coast of america. We will see huge droughts. It basically helps the rainfalls that feed huge parts of africa and asia. So if the if the gulf stream collapses , we are in stream collapses, we are in serious trouble. Are we responsible for the gulf stream collapsing . Do we know why its collapsed . Its global warming. Its because of the polar ice caps and the norwegian ice caps are melting at a much faster rate. And the freshwater from that coming into the gulf stream is changing the temperature of it, which is whats slowing everything down. Okay. Another cheery environment climate story and twitter. So, climate story and twitter. So, so, so, so as twitter changed already the logo of it, or is this a proposal . This a proposal . No, hes done it. He just did it overnight. Everyone woke up and suddenly the twitter logo was x, but now everyones saying, well, what are we going to call tweets . Yeah. I mean, its like not very well thought through at all. Theres a with x in theres a logo with an x in the but still says the corner, but it still says tweet when you want to press your anything. Your button to send anything. Incoherent. Your button to send anything. Its incoherent. Your button to send anything. Itsjust incoherent. Your button to send anything. Its just so incoherent. Your button to send anything. Its just so badly|coherent. Your button to send anything. Its just so badly talking|t. Its just so badly talking about im putting it on here and it all says twitter. I dont see any have you got when you log in it just shows a quick x just before look at my twitter page thats gone to a big grey x in the corner now. But right. Mean, if but youre right. I mean, if you actually want to tweet, it says. Says tweet. So badly planned says tweet. There so badly planned says tweet. There is so badly planned says tweet. There is it badly planned says tweet. There is it itadly planned says tweet. There is it it just planned says tweet. There is it it just feels|ed right there is it it just feels like yet its not like yet again, its not something that gone. Something that hes gone. A Strategic Plan for i have a Strategic Plan for this organisation thats going to into profitability to bring us into profitability and this a great user and making this a great user experience. Itsjust and making this a great user experience. Its just a and making this a great user experience. Itsjust a ive and making this a great user experience. Its just a ive had anidea. Experience. Its just a ive had an idea. Im going to do it. No. An idea. Im going to do it. No. One, im not going to listen to anybody. Im just going to do it tonight. And it just seems genius. Well, so they tell me, but im not seeing a great amount of evidence of that right now. I cant see an x anywhere. I cant see an x anywhere. Youve still got twitter. Youve got i dont know i youve got i dont know how i think app suddenly the app think the app suddenly the app is still a burden. Been no update the app. Maybe. Maybe you have to log out to again. Out to log in again. Yeah, well, is still on yeah, well, aim is still on twitter, so if youre using the app app twitter, so if youre using the app , app still twitter, so if youre using the app, app still a bird, but app, my app is still a bird, but its on the on the desktop site at the moment. So again, its a very poorly rolled out that but its interesting, this new thing thats called threads thats come out called threads yeah. Which was to rival twitter. Yeah im not im not twitter. Yeah im not im not really convinced about that ehhen yeah well it took off didnt it. For about a day. For about a day. Yeah. Its lost momentum since then and theyre saying its dont know, its because its i dont know, twitter sort of has a lot more spice going on whereas threads doesnt and its just difficult to people together to like bring people together and wanting to look at and get them wanting to look at it. You mean threads is nice . Yes. Yes. And its meant be. They and its meant to be. They want avoid those that sort want to avoid those that sort of political controversy. But actually, makes actually, thats what makes twitter. Everyone twitter. Thats why everyone sort of looks at it. Youre on the unless youre on the receiving well, receiving end of it. Well, thats receiving end of it. Well, tha absolutely. Youre the absolutely. Unless youre the one mobbed. Thats true. Absolutely. Unless youre the oneyeah. Mobbed. Thats true. Absolutely. Unless youre the oneyeah. Ifnobbed. Thats true. Absolutely. Unless youre the oneyeah. If yourei. Thats true. Absolutely. Unless youre the oneyeah. If youre the ats true. Absolutely. Unless youre the oneyeah. If youre the storyrue. Absolutely. Unless youre the oneyeah. If youre the story of. Yeah. If youre the story of the day on twitter. Yeah never be the main character. Yeah exactly. Ladies, were talking about regional delicacies. A little bit later on in the program. And emma , you described the most emma, you described the most amazing delicacy earlier. So i used to spend quite a lot of time in a very specific part of the north east teesside and very, very local to teesside. So its not across the north east there is a delicacy you can get in every chip shop called a parmo parmo or as i refer to it , a called a parmo parmo or as i refer to it, a heart called a parmo parmo or as i refer to it , a heart attack in called a parmo parmo or as i refer to it, a heart attack in a box. But worth it. Its a large piece of breaded, deep Fried Chicken about the size of a pizza. Its served in a pizza box covered in bechamel sauce, and you can get it with a mushrooms or chillies on top and then served with chips. And its then served with chips. And its to die for , but you will die. To die for, but you will die. It sounds amazing, but thats when you were bad, was it . That was, yeah. Yeah. Parmos. Ihave that was, yeah. Yeah. Parmos. I have not had a parmo since ive been losing the weight. And theres these things are not unconnected. Im sure well have to change that with meet with you. Absolutely. Absolutely. Well take a trip to the east. You to scar on a road trip. You to scar on a road trip. Candice, thank you both very much indeed. The guys are going to be back in 40 minutes time. Heres snell your heres craig snell with your weather forecast. Weather forecast. That feeling inside from that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your gb news weather forecast. Well, looking ahead to today, its a bright start for most of us, but we will see some rain moving in from the west as the day goes on and by some and accompanied by some strengthening can strengthening winds. So you can see of sunshine around see lots of sunshine around first thing, still got some cloud and showers, for cloud and showers, though, for southern scotland and Northern England southern scotland and northern englelot of the day. Northern for a lot of the day. Northern ireland seeing thicker cloud and outbreaks arriving outbreaks of rain arriving dunng outbreaks of rain arriving during morning that will during the morning and that will spread into wales and spread its way into wales and southwest the southwest england and into the afternoon. Elsewhere , afternoon. But elsewhere, especially northern afternoon. But elsewhere, especially down orthern afternoon. But elsewhere, especially down towards east scotland, down towards east anglia and the south east. A pleasant afternoon with temperatures but temperatures around average, but feeling very disappointed under the. Further west, the rain the rain. Further west, the rain will then sweep its way across the country as we go into the night, some heavy pulses around, especially across the southern half of the country. I half of the country. As i mentioned, some strengthening winds, too. A pretty wet and winds, too. So a pretty wet and windy night for some of us. But quite one, especially quite a humid one, especially compared nights. Compared to recent nights. Temperatures of us not temperatures for most of us not falling much lower than around 15 or 16 degrees. So we do start thursday off on a rather cloudy and damp note. Still some heavy rain around, especially across the southern half of the country. Seeing country. Scotland also seeing rather cloudy and damp weather for most of day. But in for most of the day. But in between, we will some between, we will see some brighter the brighter spells come the afternoon. May trigger afternoon. But that may trigger some showers, too. And temperatures most of us temperatures for most of us generally average. But in generally around average. But in the sunshine, probably the sunshine, it probably feeling fairly humid that rain will then continue into the evening , giving a bit of a damp evening, giving a bit of a damp commute as we end thursday. Thats for all me. See you soon. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. And the big news while youve been sleeping. The head of been sleeping. The head of natwest bank has resigned , all natwest bank has resigned, all because of nigel farage. The latest on that after this. N atwe st natwest boss alison rose resigns over the leaking of Nigel Farages banking details. Farages banking details. Good morning. Its 8 00 on wednesday, the 26th of july. This is breakfast on gb news with Eamonn Holmes and Ellie Costello leading the news on this wednesday morning. This wednesday morning. The chief executive of natwest, alison rose, has resigned. While you have been resigned. While you have been sleeping after admitting to discussing Nigel Farages bank account with a bbc journalist. Nigel told us hes fighting for other people across the country who are or may be facing similar circumstance. Circumstance. Im not just doing this for me. Im doing it for thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people all over this country who have had their Bank Accounts closed over the course of the last two years. The government has updated its travel advice for rhodes as tourists continue to flee the island. It comes as firefighters tackle blazes across the whole of the mediterranean with sicily, turkey, croatia and algeria badly affected and controversial plans to close almost every Railway Ticket office in england are in chaos following crisis talks between the department of transport and train operators. Train operators. The consultation was originally supposed to end tonight, but could be delayed due to legal challenges. Due to legal challenges. Tottenhams owner, joe lewis is charged over alleged Insider Trading and Bayern Munich are increasingly confident they can sign harry kane aidan magee will have all the latest sport. Have all the latest sport. Yes indeed in the sport. Bayern munich top two transfer negotiators are in england to get deals done for Tottenhams Harry Kane and Manchester Citys england defender kyle walker. England defender kyle walker. Meanwhile, joe lewis, the tottenham owner, his lawyer has responded to those charges of Insider Trading. And well have Insider Trading. And well have your latest weather picture. Good morning. Its a bright start for most of us out there, but rain is on the way. Find out more a little bit later. Okay. Heres the news. Youre waking up to the ceo of the Natwest Group has resigned overnight after admitting a serious error of judgement in discussing what were confidential details of Nigel Farages bank account with a senior bbc journalist. Well, nigel told us earlier that there needs to be fundamental reform in the Banking Sector. Respect the privacy of the customer. You also have to respect the gdpr regulations. Respect the gdpr regulations. They were both broken very clearly by the boss of natwest at that dinner that took place on the 3rd of july when she sat next to the bbcs business edhon next to the bbcs Business Editor, simon jack. Next to the bbcs Business Editor, simon jack. And frankly, editor, simon jack. And frankly, when she was caught having breached confidential duty, she tried yesterday , supported by tried yesterday, supported by her board , to frankly lie her her board, to frankly lie her way out. And i thought the statement that came out at 6 00 last night that the board retained full confidence in alison rose, rather reminiscent , isnt it, of the premier League Football club thats in crisis that says we have every confidence in our manager and i didnt think she could last beyond the end of the week. We have on friday the half yearly figures coming. There is an investor meeting at 9. 30 that morning, so shes gone and thats a start actually. Alison rose it was you that introduced this culture. It was you that decided that Natwest Group would become not just a bank but a moral arbiter , virtually a moral arbiter, virtually a political organisation. And the funny thing, of course, about talking about inclusion in is inclusion is wonderful. Only if you agree with the prevailing view. If you dont agree , you view. If you dont agree, you are to be excluded and that was the decision they took about me. Im not just doing this for me. Im not just doing this for me. Im doing it for thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people all over this country who have had their Bank Accounts closed over the course of the last two years. You know, the fear, the horror that is coming through on these emails, peoples businesses being destroyed because theyve been closed down by a bank. And its taken months and months to open a account. This a new business account. This scandal has been going on for far too long, and im pleased to be the person thats blown the lid off it. And if we can get that fundamental change and reform fairer system, then reform and a fairer system, then i really would have achieved something. Has any of this scandal affected you because nigel farage says he is representing you and hes doing a lot of this for you . If it has, yeah. For you . If it has, yeah. Phil says, surely banks should only close accounts if clients have proved to have broken the law. For example, broken the law. For example, stolen money or drug dealing. Stolen money or drug dealing. Donald says maybe we should thinking about what other institutions are discriminating against anyone who doesnt go along with their views and do keep them coming in and let us know if youve been affected. Well, also on this reaction from the crime and Police Minister, hes chris philp. He told us have the right to told us people have the right to Banking Service regardless of whatever political view they hold. Hold. She was right to resign because clearly client confidentiality is very, very important for any bank. Confidentiality is very, very important for any bank. And it important for any bank. And it sounds like inaccurate information was provided to the bbc. But of course, this all stems from the fact that nigel farage had his bank account closed down in the first place based on his political views and the government are very clear that people should not have critical Banking Services withdrawn because of their political point of view. And the city minister, andrew griffith, i think is meeting a number of banks today to forcefully reiterate that point. In this country. We believe in free speech. We believe in Political Freedom and that means that people should be able to have their Banking Services provided regard , heedless of their regard, heedless of their political views. Political views. Reaction now from financial commentator david buick. David good morning to you. Good morning to you. Good morning to you , eamonn. Good morning to you, eamonn. Good morning, ellie. Well , how good morning, ellie. Well, how serious is all of this and were you expecting Dame Alison Rose to go . Alison rose to go . I think its a tragedy that its taken so long for what should have been a very obvious decision. I mean, as chris philp decision. I mean, as chris philp said and others have said, the Data Protection act has been absolutely holac about client confidentiality has been abused. Theres no question that integrity has been hammered. And integrity has been hammered. And also security is under the cosh and a collection of these things should have made the decision for alison rose Dame Alison Rose to resign rather than being pushed, which i think probably even though she has resigned , even though she has resigned, id imagine that sir Howard Davies , the chairman of natwest davies, the chairman of natwest and the rest of the board, shouldnt have been put in this invidious position because as the damage that will do to the reputation of this bank, we need to eamonn, that to remember, eamonn, that natwest still owned by natwest is still 39 owned by the taxpayer previously. To that it was royal bank of scotland, predominantly it cost the country the best part of £26 billion. What is tragic is Dame Alison Rose has spent 30 years at the Bank Building up a very, very good reputation , restoring very good reputation, restoring confidence in the Natwest Group by also changing its name. And for an indiscretion of this nature , i can only describe as a nature, i can only describe as a total tragedy. But look at how business has changed. David and here we have bankers getting involved in politics, getting involved in the way you think, the way i think, the way anybody who banks with them think. Its a power. They dont need to have, isnt it . I couldnt agree with you more. Its nothing to do with them. As long as you keep your account in good order. To the degree that what overdrafts youve been given and that you havent abused yourself or youre not a criminal, youre a drug criminal, youre not a drug runner, youre not a money launderer. No bank manager has any best way describing it any best way of describing it has any authority to decide who is going to have an account or who isnt going to have an account regardless or based on their political beliefs. I mean , its just disgraceful. I mean, i cant think of anything worse. I cant think of anything worse. I mean, free speech, freedom of action, providing its within the law must be observed. The law must be observed. Well, this is backfired spectacularly, hasnt it . For natwest bank. I mean, speaking to nigel this morning, he had a series of demands. Im really interested to get your thoughts on. He said that not only Dame Alison Rose should go. He says the whole board at natwest should go now. The government should go now. The government should appoint a temporary board, he suggested also to introduce legislation that banks cannot not and must not discriminate , discriminate discriminate, discriminate against individual customers, and also to address Money Laundering, regulate actions that have become a sledge hammer to miss a nut. That have become a sledge hammer to miss a nut. He says its hurting the most innocent. What do you make of those demands . Do you make of those demands . Well, first and foremost, that i know, nigel quite well. And i think hes been terribly badly wronged. I mean, terribly badly wronged. I mean, i think its absolutely disgraceful. But i think its absolutely disgraceful. But nigel has worked in the city before. He became a political leader, and he knows perfectly well that 3 or 4 things stand. My word is my bond. And he knew and he does know that the idea that the entire Natwest Group board should be dismissed for this terrible indiscretion is simply not going to happen because because the contingency plans wouldnt be in place. It would be a sign of panic. The share price would go down right through the draw, right through the floor. It would create ripples right across the city of london. It frankly isnt necessary, but a lot of the other things that he does say about having greater control to make sure that this sort of thing doesnt happen is 100. And we mustnt forget that even though dame alison decided she was going to stay yesterday and got the backing of sir Howard Davies and the board, the great cumulonimbus crowd cloud in the background, i. E. The Financial Conduct Authority. They would have had a hell of a lot to say about this if she hadnt gone. I mean, the minimum that would have happened to natwest would be a substantial they be a very substantial fine. They are absolutely bent on are absolutely hell bent on making sure that client confidence , reality and the data confidence, reality and the Data Protection act absolutely stand. And im sure nigel is right in saying that many people across the country have been abused in a similar manner. But the country have been abused in a similar manner. But we the country have been abused in a similar manner. But we mustnt get to a degree of hysteria when thinking the whole system is going to fall down because it isnt. And on the whole, the fca , which struggled 20 years ago when they had nine authorities to look after with inadequate people, have really put their house in order pretty much. And therefore they would be right on top of this like a tonne of bricks. So i think hes been terribly badly wrong. Nigel, im so very sorry that its happened to him that hes been abused. But on the other side of the coin, weve got to put the whole thing in perspective. In the entire of london. Entire city of london. Well, just quick well, well, just a quick thing. Think i might thing. I mean, i think i might be quite hysterical. Nigel farage is saying that hes been detained, banks. Been detained, banks. Hes been turned banks and turned down by ten banks and basically ellie and i were just sort working out he sort of working out well, he must his under the must have his money under the bed whatever. Become bed or whatever. Hes become a known person that cant be allowed to exist. David allowed to exist. David certainly not absolute not. And i think one of the things that i would like to happen, i mean, nigel should go and see the fca and say , look, i have the fca and say, look, i have appued the fca and say, look, i have applied for account at x , y, z, applied for account at x, y, z, a, b, c bank and i have been refused. Its you have an obugafion refused. Its you have an obligation to find out why ive been refused because it cannot been refused because it cannot be on on banking track record over the years because ive behaved myself and the one way of getting this is that its right that he should expose the wrong to the media and hes done a cracking good job. And i know of no man who can play an audience better than nigel. And well done. And hes done it very well done. And hes done it very well hes done it with well and hes done it with dignity. But to something dignity. But to get something done, best route is from the done, the best route is from the Financial Conduct Authority to get sort it out and get in there, sort it out and have these banks up together with saying, what with the government saying, what on you doing . You have on earth are you doing . You have no right do this. No right to do this. David buick, financial commentator , you much commentator, thank you very much indeed for your take on our lead story on this wednesday morning. Thank you. Thank you. Now, the government has updated its travel advice for rhodes, telling people to check they have the correct insurance as tourists continue to flee the island. Island. My firefighters continue to tackle those blazes. Theyre frightening blazes. We saw an frightening blazes. We saw an aircraft crashing yesterday and one of the greek islands is which is trying to douse the flames. But these fires across flames. But these fires across the whole mediterranean there in sicily, there in turkey, they are in croatia and algeria. So are in croatia and algeria. So it is this literally ring of fire. And inside it, our reporter paul hawkins comes to his live from rhodes this morning. Paul good morning. Morning. Paul good morning. Yeah, morning to you. Were just overlooking the village of mylonas. Weve moved further down the coast towards that 10 of the island where the fires have been burning. But these fires that were that were yesterday coming over the hill, the village of mylonas , just to the village of mylonas, just to the village of mylonas, just to the left there, through the trees. I think you can see it just in the distance there. Were told theres theres were told theres a theres a theres a significant number of british nationals that have retired some um, some of retired there. Some um, some of those down had to be those down there had to be evacuated yesterday because you those down there had to be eva see3d yesterday because you those down there had to be eva see the esterday because you those down there had to be eva see the scorchy because you those down there had to be eva see the scorch marksuse you those down there had to be eva see the scorch marks andyou those down there had to be eva see the scorch marks and the can see the scorch marks and the burn marks on the hill where the fire coming the top. Fire was coming over the top. And starting to its and it was starting to make its way towards the village. Way down towards the village. Now very distance. And now in the very distance. And were going the camera were going to push the camera on can see planes have on this. You can see planes have just come swooping in, dropping water. Theyre not resting on water. So theyre not resting on their fire may their laurels here. The fire may look its gone, but its look like its gone, but its more like its smouldering to be honest. Operation honest. And the operation continues to try extinguish continues to try and extinguish them that kind of gives you them so that kind of gives you anidea them so that kind of gives you an idea the operation an idea about the operation thats and thats ongoing here. And of course we know that two greek course, we know that two greek pilots lost their life very tragically yesterday on the island lost their lives island of evia, lost their lives , and the armed forces of are observing three days of mourning. Were on day two of that at the moment. The greek that at the moment. The greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis , yesterday said that mitsotakis, yesterday said that he spent most of his Cabinet Meeting talking about these fires, not just in rhodes , but fires, not just in rhodes, but on all the greek islands. And he said that there was no magic defence for how to beat them and that the mediterrane an was a hot spot climate change. But hot spot for climate change. But in terms of the effect its having here, know that 20,000 having here, we know that 20,000 people evacuated the people were evacuated over the weekend , 2000 yesterday, weekend, 2000 yesterday, hundreds of british nationals have been flown back. Were going to continue making our Journey Towards where the journey south towards where the fires were burning in the village of gennady yesterday to see the effort is going to see how the effort is going to fight and the effect fight them there and the effect that having on the local that its having on the local Tourism Industry. Appreciate thank paul, appreciate it. Thank you very much indeed. If you know anyone affected anyone who lives on rhodes or maybe youve just returned from rhodes as a holidaymaker, get touch with holidaymaker, get in touch with us gb views gbnews. Com. Now a consultation on the closure of almost all train Ticket Offices could now be extended to september , with extended to september, with critics saying it was too short and that the plan is discriminatory. Rail bosses are attempting to modernise the railway and cut costs. Our reporter anna riley costs. Our reporter anna riley has a big report on this. Plans for the closure of hundreds of Ticket Offices across train stations in england have been opposed by the rmt union as part of their save our Ticket Offices campaign. Theres fears for job losses Ticket Offices campaign. Theres fears forjob losses and the fears for job losses and the impact on vulnerable and disabled passenger lines and rmt members have been encouraging the public to share their views on the measures as part of a three week consultation that ends today , weve had over ends today, weve had over 100,000 signatures across the country with people supporting us on the Online Campaign , and us on the Online Campaign, and weve also got a postcard ing campaign. Campaign. Weve got a National Campaign to try and get the word out and try get people writing to try and get people writing to their mps and what were seeing is return of people is a mass return of people saying to us, we dont want this to happen, but its not just about selling tickets. They know its people that its about assisting people that need know, the need the help, you know, the vulnerable disabled vulnerable people, the disabled people. This railway to people. We want this railway to be accessible and affordable for everybody. Without fully everybody. And without a fully staffed station, not to staffed station, its not to going hull. Going be in hull. Trades council also the trades council also support the rmt campaign. The closure of the Ticket Offices is not just an attack on the union. Its an attack on the pubuc the union. Its an attack on the public as a whole. And the number of people that are going to struggle because of the closures of Ticket Offices. I think will be immense. The rail Delivery Group believe the facilities are no longer necessary as only 12 of train tickets are bought from Ticket Offices. They said most customers opt to purchase their ticket online or at ticket vending machines. We want to bnng vending machines. We want to bring Ticket Office staff into other parts of the station to give face to face help with a much wider range of support. Give face to face help with a much wider range of support. The much wider range of support. The industry will continue to work with accessibility and passenger groups to ensure that no one is left behind. Last year, on left behind. Last year, on average , a ticket was sold from average, a ticket was sold from hull paragon interchange Ticket Office every 1. 6 minutes. Heres what passengers at the station think of plans to close it. Disgusting well, its taking peoples jobs. Well, its taking peoples jobs. People like myself that jobs. People like myself that cannot use technology. I wanted to ask a person to do my railcard and plus up my tickets out for september. Theres no one there to do it. And i cant use a machine because i cant do it on card. My wife has to use a wheelchair. She has huntingtons disease and without Ticket Offices, travel on offices, we cant travel on trains. Yeah she cant even see the screens. And then, you know the screens. And then, you know , i think they should stay open i well, really bother me because you can do it online anywhere. But its not that difficult. Well, i dont really use the Ticket Offices. I normally use shut on my phone, but i suppose in the sense of people losing their jobs, that would be a problem. Ive had to put my glasses on to do it. So im getting that way and i think we need to be thinking about inclusivity. Passenger watchdogs will now review consultation. Review the Public Consultation. Ann government may ann and the government may ultimately decide on whether or not press ahead with the not to press ahead with the proposal. Anna riley gb news hull well, thats annas report. What do you have to say on this Ticket Offices will you miss them when theyre gone . Miss them when theyre gone . Joining us now, chris theobald, whos a Public Affairs and Campaign Manager of the Charity Guide dogs. And chris, youre guide dogs. And chris, youre particular objection is why do you fear these Ticket Offices closing . Closing . Good morning. Thank you for having me on. Yeah people with sight loss really are reliant on support at train stations and Ticket Offices are a Central Location where they can get the assistance they need. Whether thats buying a ticket or getting assistance around the station and boarding their train. And we were really concerned with the length of this consultation. So were interested to hear about the potential there. Yeah potential delay there. Yeah i think everybody can identify with you and your fear towards this. Do you think anybodys listening, chris well, with the news today that there may be a delay, were hoping that they are. There has certainly been a lot of voices on this, but i mean, for people with sight loss, its easy to focus on the mechanics of how you use it. Use a train and get on and get the assistance that you need. But the thing is that you the main thing is that you people with sight loss rely on pubuc people with sight loss rely on public transport to socialise, to work, and without to work, to live, and without easy access. And the department for transport saying statistics say that the main reason why people dont use trains is because a lack of confidence and its the proposals that weve seen essentially 1000 separate consultation plans indicated that lots of stations would be unstaffed. So whilst we welcome unstaffed. So whilst we welcome the idea of getting more staff to be more active in helping people, lots of individual stations reporting actually losing levels of staffing and the alternatives such as touch screen ticket machines, arent necessarily accessible for many people with sight loss. So the proposal is were seemingly rushed and were hopeful that there will be further consideration on this. And what would an unstaffed station mean for a passenger with sight loss . With sight loss . Well, firstly, i mean , ive well, firstly, i mean, ive been getting reports of people saying because there are some unstaffed stations at the moment that some people find very inaccessible they cant inaccessible, so they cant necessarily get their ticket because not have because you might not have access to online smart technology. You might actually technology. You might actually be able to buy your ticket online, but you might not be able to get it from the machine if thats required. And then theres around the theres just getting around the station some people concerned that staff mean that that a lack of staff mean that therell be closures of toilets as well, which is a big problem for people. Just for many people. But just getting on the train safely, knowing where go , weve got knowing where to go, weve got quite infrastructure quite a victorian infrastructure in some parts of the country, so theyre not always most theyre not always the most physically accessible terms theyre not always the most phgetting accessible terms theyre not always the most phgetting acc a lot of people will identify with that. Chris is the with that. Chris is the campaigns manager at guide dogs. Yeah and it seems as though theyre trying to cut the fat and save money and they havent thought one through and thought this one through and thought this one through and thought about about who it affects. They price of affects. They know the price of everything the value of everything and the value of nothing. Yeah. Craig snell, nothing. Yeah. Craig snell, though, everything about though, knows everything about the here he goes. The weather. Here he goes. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your gb news weather forecast. Well, looking ahead to today, its a bright start for most of us, but we will see some rain moving in from the west as the day goes on and accompanied by some strengthening can strengthening winds. So you can see sunshine around see lots of sunshine around first still got some first thing, still got some cloud showers, for cloud and showers, though, for southern scotland and Northern England there england may well linger there for of the day. Northern for a lot of the day. Northern ireland seeing thicker cloud and outbreaks arriving outbreaks of rain arriving dunng outbreaks of rain arriving during and will during the morning and that will spread wales and spread its way into wales and southwest and into the southwest england and into the afternoon. Elsewhere, afternoon. But elsewhere, especially down towards east scotland, down towards east anglia the south east, anglia and the south east, a pleasant afternoon with temperatures around average but feeling under feeling very disappointed under the rain further west. The rain the rain further west. The rain will then sweep its way across the country as we go into the night, some heavy pulses around , especially across the southern half country. As half of the country. As i mentioned, some strengthening winds a pretty wet and winds, too. So a pretty wet and windy night for some of us, but quite a humid one, especially compared to recent nights. Temperatures most us temperatures for most of us not falling much lower than around 15 or 16 degrees. So we do start thursday off on a rather cloudy and damp note. Still some heavy rain around, especially across the southern the the southern half of the country. Scotland also seeing rather cloudy and weather rather cloudy and damp weather for the day. But in for most of the day. But in between, see some between, we will see some brighter spells the brighter spells come the afternoon, may trigger afternoon, but that may trigger some , too. And some showers, too. And temperatures most of us temperatures for most of us generally around average. But in the it probably the sunshine, it probably feeling fairly that rain feeling fairly humid that rain will then continue into the evening , giving a bit of a damp evening, giving a bit of a damp commute as we end thursday. Thats for all me. See you soon. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers. Proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. The Tottenham Hotspurs owner is in hot water and Bayern Munich feel confident about harry kane. Aidan magee will be harry kane. Aidan magee will be here with all your latest sport and still to come on the breakfast show, this morning, the worlds longest running comic is its the beano and its 85 years of age this week. So this is the special commemorative issue , which is commemorative issue, which is just out today. Unwrapped from the local newsagent for us this morning. And im seeing on the front cover here, this is harry styles. Harry styles on the front of it, adele there as well. Whos there . That is know Lewis Capaldi took me a while to nofice Lewis Capaldi took me a while to notice that one. Actually. Theres loads of styles on the on the front of this one. Right, right. Yes. How much for beano these days . Yeah. £3. Quid. Yeah 299 to 90. £3. Quid. Yeah 299 to 90. Believe it. Could we. What would that have been. Oh the king and queen are there on it as well. The covers, whatever. But there we go. So theyre all there. Quarter to nine well be to talking someone about its whole history and its future. Future. Yes. Now the Cornish Pasty, the scotch egg, the bakewell tart, or the yorkshire pudding, were talking about regional delicacy is at 915 and were going to be telling you which dish has been crowned the uks favourite. Do you know what a panda cult is . No. No. Whats that panda cult is a teesside delicacy. And this is from paul in hartlepool. Yeah it says, its basically a corned beef hash with potatoes, beans and onions. My beef hash with potatoes, beans and onions. My mam makes it beef hash with potatoes, beans and onions. My mam makes it with and onions. My mam makes it with cnspy and onions. My mam makes it with crispy dumplings and it is delicious. So thats the sort of thing were looking at. What is the, the, the favourite local delicacy. Okay, so its cornish delicacy. Okay, so its cornish pastie yorkshire pudding ulster fry , whatever or whatever it fry, whatever or whatever it happens to be. Let us know gb views gb views dot com. And look views gb views dot com. And look at the back pages on this wednesday morning the mail first of all wages war as the premier league fears that mbappes offer from saudi arabia will spark huge pay demands. What mean huger pay demands . They mean the express leads with how plotters as Bayern Munich send their chief executive and technical director on a mission to england to get harry kane, the guardian previews the final ashes test, saying england have proven themselves already this summer. Whatever happens , happens. Aidan whatever happens, happens. Aidan magee going through those for us this morning. Lets go with a transfer news. First of all, aiden and the harry kane situation in. I think itll be a travesty if harry kane ends up at Bayern Munich. At Bayern Munich. Why do you why do you think that . Because i dont think he wants to be there. I dont think. Why does anybody want to play think. Why does anybody want to play in the bundesliga when they can in the premier league . Can play in the premier league . A super Bayern Munich are a super club. Win the champions club. They win the Champions League every few years. They constantly latter constantly get to the latter stages. Youre going to win a trophy there they trophy there because they tend to won league to have won 1111 League Bundesliga a row. Bundesliga titles in a row. Thats than hes done at thats more than hes done at tottenham. He hasnt won a single trophy there. He hasnt even an egg cup at even won an egg cup at tottenham. Theyre tottenham. So theyre not theyre liverpool, theyre theyre not liverpool, theyre not theyre not city. Theyre not city. Theyre not city. Thats the way see it thats the way we see it globally. Thats not how thats not harry kane not how if i was harry kane i wouldnt want to play in. Thing thing is hes the thing is thing is hes i dont know what his options are at the moment because i mean, hes i think will want hes i think tottenham will want him because theyll a him out because theyll want a return their their say return on their on their say their investment. For free. But theyve got in for free. But i think theyll want to recover some value on him because if they keep him until next summer, theyre get theyre not going to get anything. And does it say anything. And what does it say to or to the manager when hes 30 or 29, older . What he is, to the manager when hes 30 or 29, how older . What he is, to the manager when hes 30 or 29, how can older . What he is, to the manager when hes 30 or 29, how can youer . What he is, to the manager when hes 30 or 29, how can you plan 1at he is, to the manager when hes 30 or 29, how can you plan for he is, to the manager when hes 30 or 29, how can you plan for the s, but how can you plan for the future when know that your future when you know that your star is only there for star player is only there for one more season for the manager . Star player is only there for one |mean,3ason for the manager . Star player is only there for one |mean, he n for the manager . Star player is only there for one mean, he hasnt he manager . Star player is only there for one mean, he hasnt he ranyiger . I mean, he hasnt got any cash to go and buy another striker. He doesnt know if kane is to be there not. Is going to be there or not. So its difficult start is going to be there or not. So its him. Difficult start for him. Yeah, it is exactly. And i think know, you think again, you know, you want to to long term, to you want to plan long term, you whos going to you want to know whos going to be with you on the battles ahead. Know, want ahead. And, you know, you want harry kane in the team. Of course you do. He scored 30 goals season. Theres no goals last season. Theres no sign letting but sign of his form letting up. But bayern superclub Bayern Munich, i was superclub within with barcelona. Well, compete with barcelona. Well, they regularly beat barcelona, real the clubs they regularly beat barcelona, rein the clubs they regularly beat barcelona, rein this the clubs they regularly beat barcelona, rein this country the clubs they regularly beat barcelona, rein this country and. The clubs they regularly beat barcelona, rein this country and. All clubs in in this country and. All right. We think that it would be a league, of course, a different league, of course, but might. Might but for him it might. It might suit got their suit him. And theyve got their transfer negotiators try transfer negotiators here to try and not just for and do the deal, not just for him, kyle walker. And do the deal, not just for hinits kyle walker. And do the deal, not just for hinits a kyle walker. And do the deal, not just for hinits a pity kyle walker. And do the deal, not just for hinits a pity that [yle walker. And do the deal, not just for hinits a pity that manchester its a pity that Manchester United are financially restrained got restrained and they havent got the who knows . The money, but but who knows . I think £100 million guaranteed, 30 yeah, i think mean, some yeah, i think i mean, some people would thats a good people would say thats a good thats a good deal. As i say, theres no i mean, as i say, theres no theres is theres no sign. Harry kane is not whos reliant. Not somebody whos pace reliant. Hes who even hes not somebody who even despite his injuries. Its not its not like michael despite his injuries. Its not its who not like michael despite his injuries. Its not its who was like michael despite his injuries. Its not its who was constantly,|ael despite his injuries. Its not its who was constantly, you owen who was constantly, you know, injuries and know, bedraggled by injuries and the hamstring problems prevented know, bedraggled by injuries and the ifromtring problems prevented know, bedraggled by injuries and the ifrom from,yroblems prevented know, bedraggled by injuries and the ifrom from, you ems prevented know, bedraggled by injuries and the ifrom from, you know, � evented him from from, you know, operating at the level he did with with kane. I dont see the with with kane. I dont see the way he plays being much different over next three different over the next three years. You could get years. I think you could get real value out it. Meanwhile, years. I think you could get rea haveie out it. Meanwhile, years. I think you could get rea haveie out it. Headlines e, we have one of the headlines showed there was the premier league worrying about about wages skewed because of wages being skewed because of the mbappe saudi arabia approach. 259 million to go to saudi arabia. Yeah, look, i think thats a bit of a silly season story. If im perfectly honest with you. I mean, you know, the last week of july, it often happens. And so this this has always been a problem for the premier league. Theres been problem problem for the premier league. Theone been problem problem for the premier league. Theone i been problem problem for the premier league. Theone imean, problem problem for the premier league. Theone i mean, ifroblem problem for the premier league. Theone i mean, ifroblyask for one club. I mean, if you ask the of Crystal Palace from the owner of Crystal Palace from 20 made simon 20 years ago what made him simon jordan, to keep the jordan, struggled to keep the club afloat is because chelsea came in from nowhere in 2003. And the trickle down effect meant that everyones wage demands up. Yes, okay, it demands went up. Yes, okay, it might be different this time because go higher. Because they can go even higher. Were about astronomical were talking about astronomical sums but , you sums of money here, but, you know, i mean, i im not convinced that mbappe will end up there anyway, if im perfectly honest with you. I think young at the age think hes too young at the age of 24 to go and in saudi of 24 to go and play in saudi arabia. He wants arabia. I think he wants a loyalty where loyalty bonus if he stays where he is. does. I mean, look, yeah, he does. I mean, look, psg are exceptionally rich club anyway. T til theyre owned by the qatari royal i just think royal family but i just think it would at the would damage his career at the age if its age of 24. Saudi arabia, if its still going strongly as we still going as strongly as we suspect will in the next suspect it will in the next couple of years, go there suspect it will in the next couplyhesyears, go there suspect it will in the next couplyhes when go there suspect it will in the next couplyhes when hes go there suspect it will in the next couplyhes when hes when there suspect it will in the next couplyhes when hes when hes; 32. Well, whats happening at spurs overall . Theyre owned by a man called joe louis. Yeah. And hes got himself in some financial trouble. Yeah. So hes the guy in the background who owns the club effectively lock, stock and barrel. Effectively lock, stock and barrel. Daniel levy is the guy we know. Hes the barrel. Daniel levy is the guy we know. Hes the guy whos front centre over here. Joe front and centre over here. Joe louis is based in bahamas, has been ever he purchased been ever since he purchased even before purchased even before he purchased the club 2001. Now club back in march 2001. Now overnight , a club back in march 2001. Now overnight, a us club back in march 2001. Now overnight , a us attorney in club back in march 2001. Now overnight, a us attorney in in the Southern District of new york, Damian Williams , and im york, Damian Williams, and im sorry Damian Williams took to video and said joe louis video and said that joe louis has announced that joe video and said that joe louis has has announced that joe video and said that joe louis has has been nounced that joe video and said that joe louis has has been charged that joe video and said that joe louis has has been charged fort joe louis has been charged for Insider Trading. Now, he said hes that information to hes used that information to make dollars make millions of dollars in the stock market. I said earlier on, i didnt tottenham would i didnt think tottenham would respond. Right about that, i didnt think tottenham would respo wasnt right about that, i didnt think tottenham would respo wasnt surejht about that, i didnt think tottenham would respo wasnt sure that bout that, i didnt think tottenham would respo wasnt sure that there hat, i didnt think tottenham would respo wasnt sure that there was but i wasnt sure that there was going at all. Going to be a response at all. We had a reply from his we have had a reply from his from lawyer. Lawyers we have had a reply from his from heslawyer. Lawyers we have had a reply from his from hes got er. Lawyers we have had a reply from his from hes got er. Government said hes got the government have error in have made an egregious error in judgement mr louis judgement in charging mr louis and old man of and 86 year old man of impeccable integrity and prodigious. Mr prodigious accomplishment. Mr louis come to the us louis has come to the us voluntarily to answer these ill conceived charges and we will defend vigorously in court. Defend him vigorously in court. So a bullish response so thats a bullish response from joe louis camp. Whether this affects harry kane , i doubt this affects harry kane, i doubt it. This is a man worth £4. 7 billion. Im not sure that harry kanes transfer of £70 million. Im not sure im not saying he wont be involved in it, but i dont think it will be pivotal to financial interests. Dont think it will be pivotal to okay. Ancial interests. Okay. Okay. Good man. Aiden, appreciate that. To you. Thank you. Now, coming up, is the so called of dad so called bank of mum and dad fair . Discussing that fair . Well be discussing that as we through the papers. As we go through the papers. Thats. Next and the paper review emma burnell. Candice hallsworth, we welcome them back. Very good to welcome them back. Very good to see you both. And were going to start, candice, with you. The bank of mum and dad, it features in the daily mail. Tell us more i yes. So 51mm yes. So this story just struck me because so many people i know are trying to get on the housing ladder and are struggling of struggling. And the bank of england study and they england did a study and they found who help found that those who get help with their deposit for their house now can afford to buy a house now can afford to buy a house earlier at age 26 house much earlier at age 26 versus those who cant. And the average about age if average is about age 37 if theyre saving themselves and theyre saving up themselves and those who get help from those who can get help from their parents can afford bigger houses, houses , houses, more expensive houses, and they make more and they can then make more money sell them. Money when they sell them. So it sort cements this inequality sort of cements this inequality very early on and people just arent able to meet that milestone that they used to because house prices are so expensive. This feels like the most obvious headline does it not . If your parents give you 50 k, youve got a head start on that, right . That, right . Yeah. But its also i mean , yeah. But its also i mean, its not just that you get that head start, its that a mortgage is generally even today costs less than rent. So you is generally even today costs less than rent. So you are is generally even today costs less than rent. So you are every less than rent. So you are every single month of that life after youve bought that house pay out less than your peers who are renting. Yes. So that gap is widening and widening and widening and widening and widening and widening every single every single month. And that just means that the inequality in our society and the ability for those renters kids to then get help will be lessened. So its just generation after generation after generation and that gap is widening. Yeah, my life was in reverse that me and my brothers were the bank for my mum and dad because we were able to buy their Council House for them and that was the sort of sort of in reverse. Reverse. But when i look back at that and i thought this was the most amazing thing to be able to have amazing thing to be able to have a proper be because you just assumed the house was going to be andit assumed the house was going to be and it wasnt be replaced and it wasnt replaced. It wasnt. Replaced. Of course it wasnt. No housing stock. No social housing stock. Absolutely. Thats it. Absolutely. I mean, could not more, mean, you could not be more, right . For one generation, right . Yes for one generation, the selling off of the Council Housing was a real game changer, a real life changer for people like your parents would have made an enormous difference. But made an enormous difference. But because the way it was because of the way it was designed, it absolutely wrecked our ability to have any social housing stock. So for first of all, we dont have social Housing Available for cheap rent for people who need it. And second of all, it was only that generation who ever really got to buy it in that way because it just took away all the stock. So theres not a replenishing of stock thats cheap to buy. Its terrible. London i mean, you can wait for years to get social housing. I remember seeing a channel 4 documentary on it and i found it shocking. I mean, people shocking. Yeah, i mean, people were try to get were told, dont even try to get Council Housing in london, move outside youre not outside of london. Youre not going anything going to get anything like something 5000 on the list Something Like 5000 on the list or saying million. Or something saying 5 million. I mean, the social housing lists are a high and they were high when i was working in housing ten years ago. We were talking about at least we are finally talking about the housing crisis. We are because it has been so under discussed for long and were not for so long and were not meeting the targets. Got meet our house, weve got to meet our house, not some of not even targets. But some of the housing thats built the housing thats being built is very poor quality. Is very, very poor quality. Its just good. Just not good. It have to be upgraded it will have to be upgraded in five years small and not good quality well. Quality as well. Yes. And developers squeezing yes. And developers squeezing everybody every last penny. Absolutely. And its not being. Yeah, were going to have to brand new to retrofit these brand new houses to make them up to code for things like environmental standards. So its absolutely standards. So its absolutely crazy. And it should be completely changed. Listen , theres now, listen, theres something i want about something i want to talk about here because not sure it here because im not sure it came to light to me today. I only heard this on the radio. I dont live in scotland, so i dont live in scotland, so i dont know this if dont know this story. If you live scotland, know live in scotland, youll know this scotland this story. So Police Scotland had said that if you had basically said that if you are copper in scotland , you are a copper in scotland, you cant beard and some of cant have a beard and some of the force have rebelled against all of this. And now police all of this. And now Police Scotland have postponed. And the scotland have postponed. And the idea of the enforcement of Police Officers being clean shaven. Police officers being clean shaven. But it. So whats this shaven. But it. So whats this all about . All about . So i was quite baffled by this. I was like, why have they brought in this . Apparently, if there is a reasonable expectation version of you having to wear a certain type of mask within the police force, they dont work as well with a beard. This is this is like a robbers mask. Beard. This is this is like a robbers mask. Yeah. Yeah, robbers mask. Yeah. Yeah, basically. Yeah and so, so, so, so why is the Police Officer what . I need to wear a mask. I need to wear a mask. Im guessing that you might have to go into, for example , if have to go into, for example, if youre going into a home, that there may be a body hazardous there may be a body hazardous there may be hazards there. So there may be hazards there. So there are going to be times when Police Officers will need to be masked. But this does feel like a sledgehammer to crack a nut and there are was no and there are there was no consultation. So it was just consultation. So it was just kind of handed down and then theres a lot of theres been quite a lot of pushback both from the Scottish Police there. Consultation. Often its no consultation. Often its like youre nicked , theres no consultation. There is a difference when the Police Consulting criminals and the Police Consulting Police Officers and we know there is a blending of the two occasionally, but not not throughout the force. Theres been quite lot so theres been quite a lot of pushback from the Scottish Police and from Police Federation and from obviously people who may be religious only more likely to have a beard. Muslims and sikhs. So there is a lot of so they want to keep their beards and theyre saying they want to keep their beards. So the consultation now been consultation there is now been a consultation there is now been a consultation period put in. So and thats been extended so that they can properly listen to the views of the force. Okay okay. Okay. Candace, in the sun, 1 in 3 of us couldnt speak to a doctor or a nurse for more than one houn or a nurse for more than one hour. This is in the sun. Yeah, this is in the sun. So the Care Quality Commission did a study and they said that up from 2020, theres about 30 people are 30 2 more likely to have to wait more than one hour. And i thought two things when i saw that, i thought one 2020 was surely an anomaly. Hardly anyone was going to a e. I mean, it was absolutely empty. Anyone i know who went in during the lockdown said almost instantly. Said you were almost instantly. Yeah. And then also one hour, i mean, where i lived, that would be being seen quickly. Most people i know sit in a e for hours and hours and hours waiting to be seen. So, i mean, one hour sounds brilliant, but i dont if very london dont know if im very london centric, huge centric, but this Huge Population and fewer staff to deal with the population pressure, outside of pressure, maybe outside of london, its more norm that london, its more the norm that you wait maybe an hour. Thats a lot. Also if were talking i think also if were talking average ages, there will be times the times that you expect a e to be busy saturday nights spnng a e to be busy saturday nights spring to mind and then they will be much, much higher. So it may be the case that where theyve done were thinking about averages and the times that were most likely to see a e. I mean, i know youve got children, so theyre going to be in out the time. In and out all the time. Thats i know so much thats why i know so much about a e. Wait times. For most people who but for most people who arent taking kids in, its going to be the busier times. Going to be the busier times. But other times you would be expected to go straight into triage. You wouldnt necessary be expecting to get treated within an hour, but to be seen to have that first initial assessment, youre an immediate case. Youre not. Youre yeah, no, you talked about kids there. Which brings us to this story times is and this story in the times is and only people today plan only half of people today plan to start a family. They have no plans for children at all. I think this is a very interesting debate because part of the country sitting saying , oh, country sitting saying, oh, were being swamped with migrants coming into the country and then you get the whole business side of government saying, we need people to be able to be to here work. Then youve got industry saying we dont want you to work. Were going stick a machine going to stick a machine ticket in Ticket Offices and do in the Ticket Offices and do away with people. What a state of is it a good idea of confusion is it a good idea or a bad idea to have kids . Emma . Well , i emma . Well, i dont have children and thats very much my choice. And thats very much my choice. Ihave and thats very much my choice. I have a niece and nephew i adore, so i get to spend time with kids. Well, not kids anymore. Theyre 14 and 18, bless them, but i think the pressures there are dual pressures there are dual pressures on young people that theyre talking about in this story. And first of all, theyre looking at this world and theyre thinking, why on earth would bring a child into this would i bring a child into this world . You know, this is the generation who most generation who are most concerned about environmental disaster. Theyre battered by disaster. Theyre battered by the financial crisis. Theyre battered by the cost of living crisis. And theyre just like, i cant afford it. Its not cant afford it. Its not a world i want to bring a child into. But they are also 70 of them are saying theyre still under quite a lot of pressure to have children. However much they individually dont want to. So individually dont want to. So 70 of them feel pressure from their family to have children to sell, set down, as it were. Did you ever feel pressure . You you ever feel pressure . You know, i mean, my parents were great about it. I i kept saying for years and years and years, i kept saying, in a few years, in a few years, in a few years, i was married for a while. We kept saying and saying in a few years and eventually i realised that i kept saying that because actually i didnt want to get to the in a few years and, and you know, its not a 100 choice. Its not one of those things where i definitely knew immediately i was never going to have children. I have friends who that. It was who very much like that. It was on balance , this isnt the right on balance, this isnt the right thing for me. Thing for me. But you can understand, cant you . Mean, we had that story you . I mean, we had that story about buying a house. If you cannot a home of your cannot afford a home of your own, then you can certainly couldnt afford a child go in it. Exactly. And this is what demographers who study this say. Say millennials. They say with millennials often they do want children, but they just dont feel can they just dont feel they can have of housing have children because of housing costs. Worry the future. I costs. Worry about the future. I mean, we in a time of crisis mean, we are in a time of crisis. When you look. And i think when you look historically , during any sort historically, during any sort of crisis period in history, people do have fewer children. I mean, do have fewer children. I mean, i my grandparents i look at my grandparents generation , silent generation, the silent generation, the silent generation, born generation, the generation born dunng generation, the generation born during war, were very during the war, they were very tiny generation. People just werent kids then. Werent having kids then. Candice, how old are your two sons . Four and two. Four and two. Very cute. Very cute. It wouldnt be in the market for entertainment goes do they buy comics or do you buy comics for them . Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. At some point, because my husband loves comics and graphic novels, get them into it. Novels, hell get them into it. See, this is my theory that older people like the comics as opposed to youngsters. But opposed to the youngsters. But whatever. Here is exciting whatever. Here is some exciting news. If you like comics. News. If you like comics. Yes, the worlds longest running comic is 85. Today. Its the beano. And this is the the beano. And this is the special commemorates issue thats on sale today. And as you thats on sale today. And as you spotted eamonn, ive got the king and queen on the back there. You might be able to spot them. Dell on there. Them. Theres a dell on there. Thats styles, the stormzy i lots of celebs. Theyre all fighting get in there. And fighting to get in there. And lets go now to the uks leading toy thats toy expert. Thats Peter Jenkinson peter, very good jenkinson. Peter, a very good morning to you, peter. Just one. Hiya i have to say , i am hiya i have to say, i am surprised that the beano is going at 85 years of age and i simply say in an age when kids everything is electronic for them or whatever , and im them or whatever, and im wondering how the beano survives and who is buying it. Is it younger people or older people in search of nostalgia . In search of nostalgia . I think its a little bit of both. Definitely we do love a little bit of analogue. Analogue little bit of analogue. Analogue play little bit of analogue. Analogue play has definitely come into the back into the for the last few years. For example, board games have seen a massive resurgence. We know that the resurgence. We know that the danish brick toy is enjoying an increasing popularity. Again, increasing popularity. Again, kids are really loving getting hands on. And i think the beano is just an extension of that. Is just an extension of that. And you know what its a right good read. I picked up my copy good read. I picked up my copy yesterday and flicking through and despite some of the changes that there, theres so that are in there, theres so much nostalgia to be had for my point of view and my teenage daughter, shes not really interested in it, but at least she flicked through and she mentioned few the mentioned a few of the characters and questioned their names. But some of them have names. But some of them have been ages. You know, been around for ages. You know, billy whizz and roger dodger billy whizz and roger the dodger , those kind of , the numbskulls, those kind of people. But what the beano have done to keep it going for, you know, 85 years is quite a feat and still managing to some decent abc circulation figures as well for a comic is just keep itself relevant. Itself relevant. Ill tell you how relevant the numbskulls are to me, if any of you dont know, do you know who the numbskulls are . No. Do you know the numbskulls are, emma knows, that are, as emma knows, that numbskulls . At some point . Numbskulls . At some point . Oh, its amazing. So in our head or in our body, your eyes move because there are Little People in your head who shovel coal into a furnace there and your eyes move and they operate your eyes move and they operate your tongue and they throw things down your throat into your belly. Hope im your belly. I hope im describing this right . Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely yeah, absolutely. Absolutely having a little its like having a little factory gnomes your head. Factory of gnomes in your head. Of people, a factory of people, numbskulls head there. Numbskulls in your head there. And its a great concept, right . Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I must admit, when i picked it up today , i did start reading it up today, i did start reading. And youre right there, peter, that its the story. The the what . I trying to say the illustrations are superb , but illustrations are superb, but im just im surprised theres still a market for it. And the writing is very good in it. Yeah the writing is great. The theres a theres a pretty extensive team behind it. I mean, the, the publishers have a team that work on other publications, so they kind of, they, they , they cross pollinate they, they, they cross pollinate their content , but theyre their content, but theyre always keeping it relevant. And always keeping it relevant. And i think its thats what keeps it at the absolute for it is its a right good read. But they also stick i mean adele is on the front cover. Theyre hiding behind the mountain. Yeah. Harry behind the mountain. Yeah. Harry styles is on the front. And you styles is on the front. And you said theyve got the and said theyve got the king and the lewis the queen on the back. Lewis hamiltons so he makes hamiltons in there. So he makes an appearance. Stormzy makes an appearance. That that isnt appearance. And that that isnt just because its the 85th issue. Know, there issue. Theres you know, there are there are cameo appearances all the time. So why wouldnt you pick it up . If youre a fan of stormzy or lewis of stormzy or f1 . Lewis hamiltons in this comic, im going to buy it. It has evolved because often when you look at it, you think these 1930s, 40s, 50s these are 1930s, 40s, 50s characters in here, like take the bash street kids as well, and some of their names have been changed, made out of kindness. So things have things have progressed except plug is still called plug. Still called plug. It is somebody said that they should call him bo instead of plug should call him bo instead of plug because it was a little bit derogatory. But kind of i think his name suits him. But yeah, his name suits him. But yeah, they i think, fatty and they called, i think, fatty and spotty have been renamed freddie and scottie, which in my i think thats fair enough. Thats not thats fair enough. Thats not overwork at all. But the bash street kids the classroom has expanded as well. Theres 15 people in the class. And i think people in the class. And i think back in the our day there were only about 8 or 10 people per classroom. So thats also a its moving with the times as well, isnt it . And you think it will survive . You think itll go on for a while yet . Theres absolutely no reason why not. A cracking read. Why not. Its a cracking read. Read. A cracking read. A cracking read. Share peter its lovely to share your about these your enthusiasm about these things. And its a real things. And its a its a real trip back in time. Peter jenkinson is the uks leading toy expert. Thank you very much indeed. Thank toy expert. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you. That was a nice little trip down memory lane. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Nostalgia. Nostalgia. What was your was your what was your what was your girls comic . You have girl . Did you have a girl . Did you have. Did you have. I read read the well, i read i read the beano. I loved the beano, but i also read bunty. Beano. I loved the beano, but i also read bunty. Bunty . Also read bunty. Bunty . Did you ever have yeah. Did you ever have a comic . Yeah. Did you ever have a conwell, was in archie because yeah. Did you ever have a conmoved was in archie because yeah. Did you ever have a conmoved tons in archie because yeah. Did you ever have a conmoved to south rchie because yeah. Did you ever have a con moved to south africa ecause yeah. Did you ever have a con moved to south africa when; yeah. Did you ever have a con moved to south africa when i we moved to south africa when i was about seven. So got into archie and so i got into archie and jughead veronica and betty. Jughead and veronica and betty. I it. Yeah and a red i loved it. Yeah and a red haired male icons like dc comics. They had as well. Batman, superman, all that sort of thing. What did you have . Thing. What did you have . I didnt read comics. I wont lie, but i can appreciate this commemorative issue. This is very nice. Okay will you be buying beano . Do get in touch with us. Vaiews gbnews. Com craig snell would be a good cartoon character comic, cartoon character for a comic, wouldnt but the weather wouldnt he . But the weather forecaster, he is. Forecaster, here he is. Is that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers. Proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your gb news weather forecast. Well, looking ahead to today, its a bright start for most of us, but we will see some rain moving in from the day goes on from the west as the day goes on and accompanied some and accompanied by some strengthening so can strengthening winds. So you can see sunshine around strengthening winds. So you can see thing, sunshine around strengthening winds. So you can see thing, still. Hine around strengthening winds. So you can see thing, still got; around strengthening winds. So you can see thing, still got some1d first thing, still got some cloud showers, though, for cloud and showers, though, for southern scotland northern cloud and showers, though, for southern may land northern cloud and showers, though, for southern may well northern cloud and showers, though, for southern may well lingeryrthern cloud and showers, though, for southern may well linger there] england may well linger there for of the day. Northern for a lot of the day. Northern ireland seeing thicker cloud and outbreaks rain arriving outbreaks of rain arriving dunng outbreaks of rain arriving during that will during the morning and that will spread into wales and spread its way into wales and southwest and the southwest england and into the afternoon. Elsewhere , afternoon. But elsewhere, especially for northern scotland, towards east scotland, down towards east anglia south east. Anglia and the south east. A pleasant with pleasant afternoon with temperatures average, but temperatures around average, but feeling very disappointed under the. Further west, the rain the rain. Further west, the rain will then sweep its way across the country as we go into the night, some heavy pulses around, especially across southern especially across the southern half of the country. As i mentioned, some strengthening winds, a pretty wet and winds, too. So a pretty wet and windy night for some of us. But quite especially quite a humid one, especially compared recent nights. Compared to recent nights. Temperatures of us not temperatures for most of us not falling much lower than around 15 or 16 degrees. So we do start thursday off on a rather cloudy and damp note. Still some heavy rain around, especially across the southern half of the country. Also seeing country. Scotland also seeing rather cloudy and damp weather for most of the day. But in between, will some between, we will see some brighter spells come the afternoon. Trigger afternoon. But that may trigger some , too. And some showers, too. And temperatures for most of us generally around average. But in the sunshine, probably the sunshine, it probably feeling fairly humid that rain will then continue into the evening , giving a bit of a damp evening, giving a bit of a damp commute as we end thursday. Thats for all me. See you soon. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers. Proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. They gave out information and they told lies about Nigel Farages bank account. Now, the boss of natwest, dame alice rose, has had to resign. That rose, has had to resign. That has happened overnight. Weve got the very latest after this. Natwest boss Dame Alison Rose resigns over the leaking of Nigel Farages banking details. Nigel farages banking details. Hello again. The time one minute after 9 00 on this wednesday, 26th of july breakfast in gb news with eamonn and ellie. Heres whats leading the news this morning. The chief news this morning. The chief executive of natwest, Dame Alison Rose, has resigned this morning after admitting to discussing Nigel Farages Bank Account Closure with a bbc journalist. Nigel told us hes fighting for other people across the country who face having their accounts closed. Their accounts closed. Im not just doing this for me. Im doing it for thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people all over this country whove had their Bank Accounts closed over the course of the last two years. The government has updated its travel advice for rhodes as tourists continue to flee the island. It comes as firefighters tackle blazes right across the whole mediterranean, sicily , whole mediterranean, sicily, turkey, croatia and algeria are all badly affected. All badly affected. Controversial plans to close almost every Railway Ticket office in england are in chaos following crisis talks between the department of transport and train operators. A consultation train operators. A consultation was originally supposed to end tonight but could be delayed due tonight but could be delayed due to legal challenges. To legal challenges. As well as that , the latest as well as that, the latest weather picture coming your way i good morning. Its a bright good morning. Its a bright start for most of us out there, but rain is on the way. Find out more a little bit later. To our top story now. Nigel to our top story now. Nigel farage has called the resignation of Dame Alison Rose as the ceo of the Natwest Banking Group a good start, but says the whole board needs to go. His comments come after ms rose stepped down earlier this morning following an emergency meeting of the Company Board triggered by heavy criticism and pressure from the government. Well, nigel farage told us there needs to be fundamental reform in the Banking Sector to respect the privacy of the customer. You also have to respect the gdpr regulations. They were both gdpr regulations. They were both broken very clearly by the boss of natwest at that dinner that took place on the 3rd of july when she sat next to the bbcs Business Editor, simon jacques. And frankly , when she was caught and frankly, when she was caught having breached confidentiality, she tried yesterday day supported by her board , to supported by her board, to frankly lie her way out. And i thought the statement that came out at 6 00 last night that the board retained full confidence in alison rose, rather reminiscent, isnt it, of the premier League Football club thats in crisis that says we have every confidence in our manager and i didnt think she could last beyond the end of the week. We have on friday the half yearly figures coming. There is yearly figures coming. There is an investor meeting at 930 that morning. So shes gone and thats a start actually. Alison rose it was you that introduced this culture. It was you that decided that Natwest Group would become not just a bank but a moral arbiter, virtually a political organisation. And the political organisation. And the funny thing, of course, about talking about inclusion is , is talking about inclusion is, is inclusion is wonderful only if you agree with the prevailing view. If you dont agree, you are to be excluded. And that was the decision they took about me. Im not just doing this for me. Im not just doing this for me. Im doing it for thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people. All over this country whove had their Bank Accounts closed over the course of the last two years. You know, the fear , the horror that is coming fear, the horror that is coming through on these emails, peoples businesses being destroyed because theyve been closed down by a bank. And its taken months to open taken months and months to open a new business account. This scandal has been going on for far too long, and im pleased to be the person thats blown the lid it. If can get lid off it. And if we can get a fundamental change and reform and a fairer system, then i really would have achieved something. Lets go live to the city of london. Catherine foster there for us this morning. London. Catherine foster there for us this morning. Catherine. For us this morning. Catherine. Natwest seem reluctant to let dame alison go, but nigel farage feels that was the right thing. Feels that was the right thing. Yes yes. And not just nigel, who feels that that was the right decision. It was made very clear , decision. It was made very clear i , decision. It was made very clear , i think, to the board of natwest last night that there were concerns about Dame Alison Rose remaining at the highest level of government coming from number 10, coming from the chancellor. And so it was that they had another emergency Board Meeting and it was agreed mutually that she would step down at about quarter to two in the morning. So an abrupt change the morning. So an abrupt change from saying they had full confidence in her last night. Now, natwest shares have opened this morning about 3 down. The same is the case, i should say, for lloyds. Barclays down about 1 to two because, of course , 1 to two because, of course, this is not just a story about one man, nigel farage, and one bank. Coutts because its now emerging that there are thousands of people and many mps who have been refused Bank Accounts. Now, of course , dame accounts. Now, of course, Dame Alison Rose admitted yesterday what had been suspected for some time that she had been at a dinner with the Business Editor of the bbc, simon jack and had given him the impression then that the reason nigel farage had had his coutts account removed was that he simply didnt have enough money. Nigel farage then got 40 pages of documents proving that it had more to do with his political beliefs. So sure, Dame Alison Rose is gone, but i think this story in many ways is only just beginning. Yes, i think youre right there. Catherine thank you so much for giving us that update there. Former chief secretary to the treasury and government minister david mellor, a friend of the show, joins us now. Youve been so while you were sleeping , so while you were sleeping, david, all of this was going on. And at 2 00 this morning, she went on, indeed , im sitting went on, indeed, im sitting here in the garden. Im not missing you lot at all. Do you know the right, the right decision . She she went but she should have gone days ago. I mean, look , this woman is i mean, look, this woman is paid £5 million a year. Thats quite a lot of money. Even you dont get that , eamonn. Its dont get that, eamonn. Its quite a lot of money. And when she is put to the test that she completely fails every test. First of all, by, by a lot of woke nonsense where she treats a customer with the grotesque disres act and it doesnt matter. I happen to like nigel farage. It doesnt matter if you dont like nigel farage, it doesnt matter really what Nigel Farages opinions are. Its not for the bank to decide whether to have him as a customer. If his opinions dont suit. And in particular that this this bank is 38 owned by you and me. So is 38 owned by you and me. So the whole thing is a nightmare. But, you know, the indictment , but, you know, the indictment, im sorry to say, goes wider than this. I mean, im very fond of Howard Davies. Ive had some of Howard Davies. Ive had some good times in the past, although hes a Manchester City fan. But for Howard Davies, as the chairman of natwest , not to tell chairman of natwest, not to tell her go to, you know, for all the good youve done in this place as cromwell said to the long parliament, in the name of god, go. And thats what she should have done. But he tried to say, he and his board that she could stay on howard , im sorry to say stay on howard, im sorry to say that shows minimal judgement and i dont see why other members of the board, including howard, should not go well. And we should not go as well. And we have clean start. As for have a clean start. As for coutts , i mean the coutts themselves, i mean the chief executive of coutts , peter chief executive of coutts, Peter Flavell , he never saw nigel. I flavell, he never saw nigel. I mean who the hell does he think he is . Nigel is good enough to he is . Nigel is good enough to meet with people like you and me, and yet flavell , his bank me, and yet mr flavell, his bank manager, prepared to see manager, wasnt prepared to see him. This is a scandalous story actually, because these banks get privileges and they get their privileges on the basis of their privileges on the basis of the service they offer. If they dont offer that Service Without fear or favour , whats the point fear or favour, whats the point of them . Of them . Nigel sorry , not touched. Nigel sorry, not touched. David thank you. Thank you very much indeed. You enjoy the rays in the in your back garden there. Appreciate it. Weve got to speak now to the secretary of the shadow secretary of state for international trade, and thatis for international trade, and that is nick Thomas Symonds. He joins now. Really good he joins us now. Really good to this morning. I mean, to see you this morning. I mean, were on the of nigel were on the topic of nigel farage there. Seismic news overnight that the ceo, natwest boss, she has resigned as a result of this banking row. First of all, do you agree with the fact that shes stepped down . Should that have happened . And secondly, you agree that and secondly, do you agree that people shouldnt be banked because of their political views as well . As well . Well, firstly, youve got to get the balance right right here on the we call it the politically exposed persons or the Due Diligence regime. The Due Diligence regime. Youve got to get the balance right between that and people accessing wider bank basic Banking Services and seeing what the Financial Conduct Authority has said about its concerns about natwest, reviewing this issue and then about the Financial Conduct Authority being involved if necessary. So of course, its important to learn the wider lessons with regard to Dame Alison Rose, i think it was a matter for her and for the board of natwest to make this decision on the basis of the Information Available to them. But i thought it was remarkable last night to see how quickly the Prime Minister and the chancellor weighed in on her future. If only theyd wade in as quickly on the future of, say, Gavin Williamson or Nadine Zahawi or dominic raab when they were putting their own house in order. I think this government might be in a much better position, but of course we need to look at this particular case. Weve obviously seen a lot of coverage of it in recent days , coverage of it in recent days, but we then need to look at it carefully and then look at obviously the wider lessons going forward. Certainly nick, nick and who is going to wade in and this is a big subject that you , the labour party, want to you, the labour party, want to highlight today. Hey, whos going to wade in on behalf of those families . Five families made five families a day made homeless by the very real cost of living crisis. Of living crisis. Yes. And this is a very serious issue. Weve seen these statistics, which youve set out their aim, and that in the First Quarter of this year, more than five families a day becoming homeless. Now, there is homeless. Now, there is something the government could do very, very quickly, and that is end what we call the regime of no fault evictions. This is a situation where tenants have a perfect theyre perfect tenants. They have every right to be there , their tenants doing what there, their tenants doing what is required. And yet the landlord landlord has the power for them to leave the property. Now i thought there was a Cross Party Consensus on this. The government had promised to end these no fault evictions four years ago. Still hasnt done it. That is what they need to do, because looking at this same set of statistics , the use same set of statistics, the use of those type of no fault evictions is up 23 on the previous quarter. The government needs to act very, very quickly i so the homelessness statistics, they look bad , nick, statistics, they look bad, nick, and theres every chance , and theres every chance, judging by the research that you have done on that theyre going to get worse. To get worse. Yes. And thats why there is such an urgency on the government to act. Theres been this failure to act over the past four years taking action now will unquestionably make a difference. We would actually be difference. We would actually be introducing if we were in government, a renters charter order to give that, you know , order to give that, you know, longer notice period to people when they get into difficulty and to give people rights in terms of making reasonable adjustments to their home. But above all, the government has to act urgently on these no fault evictions. As we know their use evictions. As we know their use is increasing. It would be is increasing. It would be something im sure , that command something im sure, that command wide support across the house. The government should just act. The government should just act. Okay, nick, weve got to leave it there. Thank you very much indeed. Nick Thomas Symonds is shadow secretary of state is the shadow secretary of state for international thank for international trade. Thank you for your time. You very much for your time. Let know you yeah, let us know what you thought of had to say thought of what he had to say there. Views at gb dot there. Gb views at gb news dot com. Now britains newsroom is coming up at 930. Andrew pierce and Carole Malone are here to tell us all about it. Shes still here. Still here. Ill get rid her. Rid of her. Get rid of it. Get rid of it. Its last day today. Ive its my last day today. Ive had fabulous three its had a fabulous three days. Its been ive been really, really good. Ive thoroughly enjoyed it. I dont know youve it, but have. And its so lovely because youre in youre now matching everyone in the has got pink on the newsroom has got pink on today. You today. you today. You it. Youre letting you have it. Youre letting us down. Weve got lovely tie, weve got a lovely tie, though, havent you . Very nice weve got a lovely tie, th0|lovely vent you . Very nice weve got a lovely tie, th0|lovely tie. T you . Very nice weve got a lovely tie, tho andely tie. T you . Very nice weve got a lovely tie, tho and were t you . Very nice weve got a lovely tie, tho and were talking, ery nice weve got a lovely tie, tho and were talking, obviously, and were talking, obviously, the huge story, massive story, total vindication for our own nigel nigel farage. My word, what that what was astonishing was that last night natwest bank was saying they had full confidence in her. What happened in the following three hours, the chancellor of the exchequer said , so. , i dont think so. Prime minister at number the Prime Minister at number 10 dont think so. 10 said, i dont think so. Emergency meeting plus emergency Board Meeting up plus one morning. Goodbye. Emergency Board Meeting up plus oneon morning. Goodbye. Emergency Board Meeting up plus oneon whatrorning. Goodbye. Emergency Board Meeting up plus oneon what planet. Goodbye. Emergency Board Meeting up plus oneon what planet didodbye. Emergency Board Meeting up plus oneon what planet did anyone on what planet did anyone ever think she could stay on . It was also was astonishing. Weve also got were going to be looking were also going to be looking at a story really at a story today, a really interesting story about the infected scandal the infected blood scandal from the 80s which is dont 80s and 90s, which is i dont know taken to know why its taken 40 years to get but theres get this sorted out, but theres an now. And get this sorted out, but theres an a now. And get this sorted out, but theres an a widow now. And get this sorted out, but theres an a widow sleuthiow. And get this sorted out, but theres an a widow sleuth recallnd get this sorted out, but theres an a widow sleuth recall on we have a widow sleuth recall on today whose husband, bob, died in 1991. And going to be in 1991. And shes going to be telling what happened. You telling us what happened. You know, lady has not know, this lady has not had justice yet the justice yet and the Prime Minister evidence minister is giving evidence to the and also the inquiry today. And then also then do him and then were going to do him and i are test, are going to be doing a test, a cambridge entry test from 1913. Youll do it. Youll do it. No, i doubt ive seen the questions. Questions. Diversity of life from 1948. Diversity of life from 1948. No, 1913. In fact, pierces age after she was born. So youre both getting flying colours . No soap opera quest, no hope, nothing like that. Nothing like that. Yeah, therell be no eastenders questions. Malone lots look forward to. You so from 9 30, the thank you so from 9 30, the Cornish Pasty, the scotch egg or the bakewell tart, yorkshire pudding. Stay with us as we reveal which one of those have been crowned. The uks favourite regional delicacy. Elliott was just telling me shes going out to lunch with her mum today. Shes going out to lunch with her mum today. And we were her mum today. And we were talking about where shes going with her because were getting hungry, were talking hungry, because were talking now your favourite now about what your favourite delicacy is. But it has to be regional , delicacy is. But it has to be regional, has to regional and regional, has to be regional and theres many great ones. Theres so many great ones. Eamonns tucking into theres so many great ones. Bakewell eamonns tucking into theres so many great ones. Bakewell eamonnsthats1g into theres so many great ones. Bakewell eamonnsthats from o a bakewell tart here thats from this Scientific Research part this is Scientific Research part of job. Of the job. But theres two types. Ive been to bakewell and indeed on saturday, coincidentally in the hotel i was staying in on saturday to people from australia were going to bakewell to visit bakewell to find out about the tarts. And did you get a tart in bakewell . Yeah, but theres something im confused about. Theres in we theres something in what we call is not what they call a tart is not what they call a tart is not what they call a tart is not what they call a tart. Theres something different. Its true. But anyway, bakewell is a very nice place. Yeah, but yorkshire pudding has been voted britains most loved regional delicacy , so it loved regional delicacy, so it beats lots of other things, like jellied eels and mulberry pork pie and all sorts of things like that. Anyway, here to tell us why yorkshire pudding is so popular , the managing director of York Roast Company way and chadwick. And when youre based in york and i must say a see you on the television every now and again and ive never been to york, but when i go im going to your shop mate because the things you do with yorkshire puddings tell people what you do with your yorkshire puddings. Well the yorkshire puddings. Well the thing is, is we make something called the yorkshire pudding. We became quite well known back in 2017, 18 for creating something called the yorkshire pudding wrap, which is a giant yorkshire pudding wrapped around a sunday dinner. Yeah, no, its absolutely amazing. Im just not sure how you it. It needs knife you hold it. It needs a knife and doesnt no no. And fork, doesnt it . No no. No. You see, if you well, no. You see, if you want to aim and thats absolutely fine. But what we do is we wrap the yorkshire pudding around sunday and we around the sunday lunch and we seal it, and then it goes into a package thing. I mean, ive made one for you and isabel, but i dont know whether im going to be able to get it down to you in time. Thats the only problem you what im saying . Time. Thats the only problem youjust what im saying . Time. Thats the only problem youjust postiat im saying . Time. Thats the only problem youjust post it. Im saying . Time. Thats the only problem youjust post it. Postaying . Time. Thats the only problem youjust post it. Postainell just post it. Post it. Well heatit just post it. Post it. Well heat it up in the microwave. Just post it. Post it. Well haneah. in the microwave. Just post it. Post it. Well haneah. Yeah1e microwave. Just post it. Post it. Well haneah. Yeah yeah. Rowave. Yeah. Yeah yeah. Yeah. Yeah yeah. Wayne, whats your best seller . Is that your best seller . Is that your best seller . Is that your best seller . The. The beef and the turkey. Yeah, the beef and the turkey. There the best sellers of all of them, to be honest with you. Yeah. I them, to be honest with you. Yeah. I could see that. My friend. What about your custom . I mean, is it a are you a Tourist Destination , asian or a Tourist Destination, asian or do the locals know where you are . And they avail of what you do . Do . So we are a we are do . So we are a we are a do . So we are a we are a Tourist Destination and well known locally as well. We have a locally as well. We have a couple of shops in york and actually we have one in chester as well. And when we went viral as well. And when we went viral as well. And when we went viral a few years ago , it turned our a few years ago, it turned our business around because we essentially were a Sandwich Shop selling yorkshire pudding meals us but then we created this yorkshire pudding wrap and that just completely changed our business overnight. It really did. It was amazing what is it did. It was amazing what is it about the yorkshire pudding as an envelope that works so well . An envelope that works so well . What are you laughing at . What are you laughing at . Thats an envelope. Its a good of describing it. Yeah. Good way of describing it. Yeah. Yeah. What so is it that works so so what is it that works so well . Well . I think its just. Its just so easy to eat. I mean, yes, the yeah so easy to eat. I mean, yes, the year. Well, even now , people year. Well, even now, people have it as a starter. Even people, even with onion gravy , people, even with onion gravy, perhaps. Yes. And then the main meal have it as a sweet. Yes oh. Meal have it as a sweet. Yes oh. With some fresh fruit in it or some composite or some kind. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. I could see that like like a whats that called clotted cream. Cream. Clotted cream and scone and jam. Jam. See it like that . See it like that . I could see it like that. A lot of it. Wayne is british creative, isnt it . I mean, youve taken classic here and youve taken a classic here and just spun it on its head. Thats absolutely well, thats absolutely right. And what it did is it widened demographic base widened our demographic base as well, students , well, because the students, particularly in york and chester , were able to turn around to their parents, particularly mum and say, ive had my sunday lunch, but theyd be Walking Around york chester with it around york or chester with it in trot. In their hand on the trot. I look forward to coming to york and going to see you win. Really appreciate it and congratulations and know the yorkshire isnt just yorkshire pudding isnt just you, youre a big purveyor you, but youre a big purveyor of it, which is good. Of it, which is good. Thank you. One quick thing i dont want to see you and isabel flogging them out the back of a van in chiswick. Flogging them out the back of a van in chiswick. Oh, theres van in chiswick. Oh, theres been a rumour going round. Theres been a rumour. Okay lets put pen to that. When chadwick , he is the boss man at chadwick, he is the boss man at the York Roast Company in york. And youve got to get their wrapper on. So they put. They put your sunday dinner into yorkshire pudding and it all becomes a big wrap. And very messy after that kebab or something. Well, were going to tuck into bakewell and our into our bakewell and our scottish biscuits scottish shortbread biscuits here. Well be back from 6 am. Tomorrow morning. But up next, britains newsroom with andrew and carole have one of those . Have you had one of those . Have you had one of those . I had those . Oh, have i had one of those . Oh, absolutely. And i do pick them up, but the gravy all the up, but the gravy comes all the way so good. Way through. Its so good. Were talking huge talking about obviously huge story farage. Story nigel farage. Got david leading weve got david davis leading tory been one of the tory mp whos been one of the persecutors natwest bank, and persecutors of natwest bank, and weve one of the widows of weve got one of the widows of the infected blood scandal, sue threshold, bob threshold, whose husband bob died threshold, whose husband bob dieyand were going to do that and were going to do that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your gb news weather forecast. Well, looking ahead to today, its a bright start for most of us, but we will see some rain moving in from as the day goes on from the west as the day goes on and by and accompanied by some strengthening winds. So you can see sunshine around. See lots of sunshine around. First got some first thing, still got some cloud showers , though, cloud and showers, though, for southern northern southern scotland and Northern England well there england may well linger there for of the day. Northern for a lot of the day. Northern ireland seeing thicker cloud and outbreaks rain arriving outbreaks of rain arriving dunng outbreaks of rain arriving during morning will during the morning and that will spread wales and spread its way into wales and southwest england into the afternoon. Elsewhere, afternoon. But elsewhere, especially northern scotland especially for northern scotland down towards anglia the down towards east anglia and the south east afternoon down towards east anglia and the soutitemperatures afternoon down towards east anglia and the soutitemperatures around ernoon with temperatures around average, but feeling very disappointed under the rain further west. The rain will then further west. The rain will then sweep its way across the country as we go into the night, some heavy pulses around , especially heavy pulses around, especially across the southern half the across the southern half of the country. Mentioned, country. As i mentioned, some strengthening , too. So a strengthening winds, too. So a pretty wet and windy night for some of us, but quite a humid one, especially compared to recent temperatures for recent nights. Temperatures for most falling much most of us not falling much lower around 15 or 16 lower than around 15 or 16 degrees. So we do start thursday off on a rather cloudy and damp note. Still some heavy rain around, especially across the southern half of the country. Scotland also seeing rather cloudy weather for most cloudy and damp weather for most of the day. But in between, we will spells will see some brighter spells come afternoon but may come the afternoon, but that may trigger showers , too. And trigger some showers, too. And temperatures most of us temperatures for most of us generally around average. But in the , it probably the sunshine, it probably feeling humid and that feeling fairly humid and that rain will then continue through into the evening, giving a bit of a damp as we end of a damp commute as we end thursday. Thats all for me. See thursday. Thats all for me. See you soon. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello. Its 930 on wednesday, hello. Its 930 on wednesday, the 26th of july. This is britains newsroom on gb news. Thats andrew pierce. And im karen malone. Karen malone. Shes still here. Shes still here. Last day today, guess what . Last day today, guess what . Shes gone. The chief shes gone. The chief executive of natwest bank day , executive of natwest bank day, alison rose, has resigned in the early hours after admitting she was the source of the Incorrect Information about why Nigel Farage Bank account with coutts was closed. 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