my dad and the club go together. they are one thing, really. this is the glasses, eh? if my dad s not at home or he s not at the club, we panic. right, is everyone ready to go? if the club was to close, i think i d be dead in about a year. i know a lot of people feel that when they walk through the doors, this club is where they belong. get out, you old witch! i am responsible for the club. financially, the buck stops with me. do you want me to do it all green, orjust half.? just leave it. think it looks like shrek. we don t know what s round the corner. we ve currently not got a signed lease, so our landlords could serve us six month notice, and that s it. we ll be gone. has the club been busier? it has. but i will admit, we are very, very down today. | very down. i know by the money! i have a real moral responsibility to ensure that the club continues for as long as it possibly can. welcome to clacton railway social club. this through here is our office. this is where all t
every time i shut my eyes. ..i try and tell myself. that s not the last image that i ve got of him. right, i think it s in here. yeah, here we are. hope rescue. hello. hi. i m sam from the bbc. i m here for vanessa. this rescue centre in wales is at the sharp end of the dog trade, caring for abused and abandoned dogs. dogs like keanu, an american bully. oh, my goodness! ..one of the new extreme mixed breed bulldogs becoming more and more popular. it s as though his legs are on back to front. who thinks, i know let s breed a dog whose legs are round the wrong way ? who does that? there are no surgical options for him. the vets have said, there s nothing we can do about that. how old is he? he s eight months old. he s only eight months? butjust look how big he is. look how thickset he is. this is torture. you know what these dogs are going to look like, but you re still breeding them, trying to get more and more exaggerated features. i mean, it looks painful when he s ben
celebrations to mark the start of 2023 are being held around the world with rio the latest city to welcome the new year in the past hour. earlier, crowds thronged the streets of capitals from warsaw and stockholm in the east, to brussels, paris, madrid and london where the countdown was projected within the london eye as midnight approached. a spectacular firework display lit up the skies for around 12 minutes, in what was thought to be the largest display in europe, with over 12,000 fireworks. there were tributes to the late queen elizabeth, to ukraine s resistance against russian invasion, and 50 years of pride celebrations. 0ur correspondent greg mckenzie was soaking up the atmosphere amongst the many thousands of revellers on the banks of the river thames. i am absolutely speechless. that was a 12 minute spectacular. the biggest firework display in the entire europe having taken place just a few minutes ago, and in an incredible way to start the new year. big ben, the
More of those pictures to come from around the planet, of course. Those are the headlines. Now on bbc news, addiction a Mental Health crisis . A warning, this Programme Deals with upsetting themes. Hello. Hi. Tony. Jeremy. It is april 2021 and i am in north west england meeting tony. Covid rules apply. We still have our masks on. With a bit of luck were getting the end of it. Thankfully we hit it off and that is good news because for the next year or so i will see a lot of him. When we finish with this what would you like people to understand about you and people like you that we do not understand at the moment . We feel love and hate like everybody else, we are people just like everybody else. We are human beings. Most drug addicts have a reason that they are addicted. For tony, birkenhead is home. Just across the river from liverpool. There are Drug Problems here, yes, but also an understanding of this inextricable link between addiction and Mental Health problems. This is a communit
hemisphere ripped through madagascar twice and now heads to mozambique for a second time. it to mozambique for a second time. , ., , ., ~ time. it may have broken the record as time. it may have broken the record as the time. it may have broken the record as the longest - time. it may have broken the record as the longest lasting| record as the longest lasting cyclone in history on record. it has been named tropical cyclone now for 33 days. a named tropical cyclone. hello and welcome to bbc news. we start in the us, where regulators have shut down silicon valley bank one of the major lenders to tech companies and start ups in what s the largest banking failure in the us since the 2008 financial crisis. our north america tech correspondent james clayton has been explaining how it happened. well, this is one of those days that will go down in silicon valley history and it s certainly one of the most stressful days for silicon valley founders in modern times. we ve spok