because there s light at the end of the tunnel, and by that, i mean not in a negative way, it s sort of. ..getting control of my life again. and then very, very sad emotions because it s the end of an era and it s. i also feel sad and emotional for all my team here, some of which, in fact, most of which i deem as family. and some of them, we ve grown up together, basically. so very, very mixed emotions. and the last the last week, i know i am going to be a wreck. why? why are you shutting down? because you could fill every table here for the foreseeable future. everybody wants to come and eat here if they can afford it. so why shut it? yeah, i mean, the business is successful and it s. ..it is going well. reservations are very good especially since i announced that we re closing, it s gone crazy. but there are many reasons. i mean, first of all, i m getting on a bit. i m 63 and i m thinking, what next? do i want to sign up to another lease? the lease is coming to an en
i think in my acting days, i did a tiny bit of bbc radio. oh, you did? it might have been in this very studio some 60 odd years ago. really, here? fantastic. well, we ve got to dig those performances from the vault. i can t think what it was. it was something. ken loach, welcome to this cultural life. it s a great pleasure to come. and good to see you. you too. you were born in 1936. you grew up in the midlands. tell me about your family. what did your parents do? my father was an electrical engineer. took his apprenticeship in the mines. the whole family, my father s family were miners from the warwickshire coalfields, and he worked at alfred herbert s machine tool factory all his life ao odd years. skilled worker, then? yes, a skilled worker. electrician. and he had a work ethic that was formidable. he worked seven days a week. and my mother had been a hairdresser, but like women of that time, it was a matter of pride for my father that she should not have to work. but.lo
richard was at a standstill with his wife and daughter for over six hours, trying to get home to bristol after christmas. so, when we set off from loch laggan, it wasjust raining and the snow was actually melting away, it seemed to be all right. and then as soon as we got to dalwhinnie, itjust was a complete white out. the skies opened and, within minutes, it wasjust complete white out. the traffic had come to an absolute halt and we were going nowhere. away from the white out, and it was the rain that was causing problems in cupar in fife. some residents had to be rescued from their homes, after severe flooding in the town. specialist boats were brought in to help. woke up and i could hear some rustling noises and i looked out and there was two to three feet of water, up to my bed. i m thinking most things in the lounge will be gone. so obviously, not what you want to wake up to just after christmas. in aberdeenshire and angus, there were major power outages. winds reached o
the significant outcomes of this meeting between antony blinken and the homeland security secretary and the mexican president? well, i think these were very much crisis talks, weren t they? they are organised pretty hastily between christmas and new year, that is unusual in and of itself. we do not know the specifics of exactly what elements of this crisis they spoke about because we are not allowed to speak to the delegation afterwards. there was no media conference, no press conference. we don t know that there was any major policy decisions reached because they have not announced any. we find it unlikely that there would have been. but, clearly, there is value in sitting down face to face between the two sides when there is all this going on at the us border with mexico, some 10,000 people a day being detained and, of course, a caravan of somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000 migrants from central america and other nations making its way through mexican territory at this mome
correspondent, will grant. he isjoining us live from mexico city. can you tell us what are the significant outcomes of this meeting between antony blinken and the homeland security secretary and the mexican president? i homeland security secretary and the mexican president? the mexican president? i think these are very the mexican president? i think these are very much the mexican president? i think these are very much crisis - these are very much crisis talks. they are organised hastily between christmas and new year, that is unusual in and of itself. we do not know the specifics of exactly what elements of this crisis they spoke about because we are not allowed to speak to the delegation afterwards. there was no media conference or press conference. we don t know if there was any major policy decisions reached because they have not announced any. we find it unlikely they would have been very clearly there is value in sitting down face to face between the two sides when