network presenter of the year is clive myrie. our very own clive myrie was named network presenter of the year. he was praised byjudges for his coverage of the war in ukraine arm his ability to bring ema parliament thy as well as authority to his broadcasting while under the most intense pressure. —— empathy. many congratulations to him schulte time for a look at the weather. here's chris fawkes. him. the driest february for some 30 years, today it has been a similar day, a lot of cloud traps under the area of high pressure. looking at the cloud sheet there are clearer skies set to work in across parts of east anglia, southern england as well. so there will be some areas

that are brighter tomorrow, but this big lump of cloud in the north sea, thatis big lump of cloud in the north sea, that is heading into northern england, southern eastern scotland and it is bringing fairly widespread outbreaks of rain, most of the rain will be light but it a damp night nevertheless, where you keep the cloud 3—6 degrees it is frost—free but there will be frosts for part of southern england and north—west scotland where the skies clear, temperatures could get down as low as mine four in the coldest spots, tomorrow, we still have this cloudy damp zone in northern england, southern, eastern areas of scotland. the rain extensive but not heavy. the rain extensive but not heavy. the best of the sunshine in the south and north—west. temperatures should reach a high of between eight and ten, but like recent days will have a chilly north—easterly wind coming in off the north sea, i think fairly quiet day coming up on friday, variable cloud. most of us should have radio bright weather to come with sunny spells at times. temperatures not changing very much. eight or nine, now we are going to

see changes in the weather as with he into this weekend. saturday is probably a bright and dry day with a bit of sunshine, sunday, thicker cloud, a few patches of light rank but after that, next week we get these cold polar winds diving down from the north and that will bring a return of frost and for some of you there is a bit of snow in the tore cast. —— forecast. thanks, chris. and that's bbc news at ten on wednesday 1st march. there's more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight with victoria derbyshire which is just getting under way on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it's time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are.

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they began their match by lifting the cup. this finish looked like it might take west ham to the quarterfinals. there were just 14 minutes left when the equaliser when in. extra time alejandra produced a finish good enough to win the game. fleetwood fans marked their towns heritage. it was burnley who scored here. joe wilson, bbc news. heritage. it was burnley who scored here. joe wilson, bbc news. staying with football. _ arsenal have extended their lead at the top of the premier league to five points after beating everton 4—0. the gunners got off to a slow start with the visitors frustrating them until the 40th minute when bukayo saka finally broke the deadlock at emirates stadium. gabriel martinelli struck twice

along with captain martin 0degaard. everton remain in the relegation place. in the night's other match liverpool beat wolves 2—0 to move up to sixth. in the scottish women's premier league — glasgow city stay three points clear at the top of the table after a 3—0 win against motherwell. davidson with the pick of the goals. former cricketer azeem rafiq spoke today in central london at a disciplinary hearing two and a half years after he first made claims of racism at yorkshire, later calling english cricket institutionally racist. today evidence was given surrounding members of staff allegedly using racist slurs. matt graveling has more. it's been a damning day after hearing racist abuse aimed at the former spinner. the panel heard

evidence including from former player who admitted to his charge, and also admitting asking, tim brosnan is accused of referring to asian players as brothers. he denies any racist intentions. and finally today, the panel heard how the former player john blain denies using racial slurs in 2010 and 2011. it's important to know that all this evidence was heard in the absence of the four men. six of the seven men charge have withdrawn from the disciplinary proceedings, saying that they don't trust the process. one man who has been charged is the former england and michael vaughan. he categorically denies any allegations of racism. england's cricketers have beaten bangladesh by three wickets

in the first of their three match 0di series. they made hard work of that modest trace, losing captain butlerfor just nine leaving them at 65—4. dawid malan scoring a brilliant century on the way to helping england reach their target with two overs to spare. the second 80 hours on friday. and that's all for sports for now. from me and the rest of the team, bye. for guide dogs. for thousands of people to the difference between independence and isolation. he’s people to the difference between independence and isolation. he's my best friend. — independence and isolation. he's my best friend. my _ independence and isolation. he's my best friend, my constant _ independence and isolation. he's myj best friend, my constant companion. i couldn't imagine my life without leo. ,, . ., ., ::::::

leo. since 1931, around 36,000 guide dos have leo. since 1931, around 36,000 guide dogs have been _ leo. since 1931, around 36,000 guide dogs have been matched _ leo. since 1931, around 36,000 guide dogs have been matched with visuallyj dogs have been matched with visually impaired people. but during the pandemic, the breeding programme shut down overnight. the charity lost a third if they are volunteers and the guard dog service was paused. leaving more than a thousand people waiting to be matched. it is really, really difficult, not having the dog practically every step. you think this is impossible, i don't know how i'm dealing with us. but with around 1100 puppies now in early training, there is recovery around the corner. we are hopeful for the future but we do meet a little bit of patience for a little bit longer as dogs make their way through the system. we visit puppies at the national breeding centre, ask what needs to be done to fix britain's guide dog shortage.

hers is one of more than 2000 and help giving their time for free to help giving their time for free to help raise guide dog puppies for around a year. i've met lots of new friends and part of i feel part of a community that i wasn't before. not only that, you'd obviously you're doing something very good at the end of the day. it sounds exciting, but it's a big commitment. puppies like archie live at home and often need attention around the clock. as much as it's your instant reaction. puppy: puppy: puppy- you know, let's go for it. a cute little puppy. you've got to remember that that — it's a lot of work.

it's — being a puppy raiser is hard work, especially at the beginning. volunteers take their puppies with them to everyday places, from restaurants to supermarkets and on buses and trains to help get them ready for their future working lives. at the end of the day, ijust remember i'm doing this to enable somebody who's not as fortunate as me that can't see to actually get some independence. archie! touch. volunteers like lisa are supported by the charity guide dogs, which works across the uk. lovely to keep doing exactly what you're doing and rewarding on the left there. so he always knows where to come. that's absolutely fantastic. good boy. today, puppy development adviser beth has come to see how lisa and archie are getting on. so, the reason that we use hand touch is so when archie is placed with a visually impaired person, obviously they can't see when he's running back, when he's come in. so they can pop out this hand as a target. and these routine visits are as much about supporting lisa as they are for training archie. but these are the building blocks he'll need if he's to earn a working harness.

good boy. perfect boy. learning through play is encouraged, but there are some things archie will need to quit before he finishes his training. have to learn what this is for. he's just got such wonderful nature, a heart of gold. and he just loves people. really loves people. happy times, but every puppy raising volunteer knows that if all goes to plan, the day will come when they have to give them back to guide dogs. later, we'll follow lisa and herfirst pup, fergal, as she hands him in for the next phase of his training. what are the emotions that are going through your head today? if i'm honest, i'd say proud. i think that's my biggest one. so proud of what i've done. really proud of him. lisa hopes that both of her dogs will go on to give someone their independence.

just proud. forward ! i can imagine my life without rio. she's so important. she's my best friend, my constant companion, my means of independence, of getting about wherever i want to go, whenever i want to go, and living the life i want to lead. go forward. ella caulfield is a first time guide dog user. she was matched with rio in 2018. good girl. she's very open aboutjust how much she benefits from having a guide dog in her life. she gives me that independence that i do need, and i crave that i need to live the life i want. i want to lead. she's good for a cuddle at the end of an evening. if i've had a bad day. and she's an excellent guide. she's very rarely led me astray. it's not a one way street, though. ella looks after rio's needs and wants. today, she's grooming

and cleaning her coats. it's one of the responsibilities ella has as a guide dog user to make sure that rio is loved, happy and well cared for. if they didn't have each other, ella says, she'd never have been able to study maths at oxford university. ella started to lose her sight at four years old. i think because it happened gradually, it wasn't like an immediate shock of you're not going to see again. i was told i had a rattle attachment and i definitely broke down. then i was with my dad. i can remember him hugging me, and the nurse is kind of bringing me a cup of water, just kind of comforting me. and then i got booked in for surgery the next day. doctors operated to see if they could save any site they could, but those attempts failed. nothing came of it. so i've been left with just minimal light reception in my right eye.

it's not useful. i can only see light if i look directly into the sun or into a light bulb. for ella, a new reality. she learnt new life skills and how to read braille. she applied for a guide dog in may 2017, and then around a year later an exciting call came. it was actually my mum picked up the call so i hadn't got home from school yet. my mum picked up the call. it was some guide dog handler saying, "we've got a match for ella." i think ijust got very giggly and very kind of yeah, very excited. like, yes, this is happening. ella and rio spent around five weeks training with guide dog mobility specialists. can you tell me what it felt like the first time you were guided by rio? i felt lighter. i felt like i was definitely kind of more smiley, more confident. i could i could move freely and independently without relying on somebody else being there.

like many guide dog users, ella would never want to be without a four—legged friend again. ijust feeling so much more confident and independent and happy that like i had this friend with me who was going to be there permanently with me. ria provides such a kind of a welfare support to me. eder and rio are one of 3,695 partnerships currently working in the uk. that's down from around 5000 before the pandemic. more than one in five people who had a guide dog before then now do not. and i honestly think they are doing their absolute best. kelly nasir is waiting to be matched with a new guide dog. we are among more than 100 people on the ready to train list. kelly's last dog river, retired eight months ago. her mobility has been seriously impacted. walking with a cane is like walking with one hand tied behind your back. it makes everything harder. not having the dog, that's

what makes you feel disabled. because when you have the dog, you just... you get on with things. kelly keeps a busy social and work diary. she's a barrister, but also a mum. not having a dog doesn't only affect her, but her very young daughter. i'm the one who can't take her out when i want to, i have to say, well, let's wait for daddy or let's wait til we go see nanna and granddad, and i can do everything else she needs and i'm her mummy and i love her and i'm the one that's there when she has a nightmares and i play with her, and it doesn't impact on our relationship, but i think it impacts on how ifeel about thejob i'm doing as, as a mum. watch the tree. so why do guide dog users like me and kelly find ourselves between dogs? the answer lies here at the charity's national breeding centre in warwickshire. bill has been explaining to me that the waiting lists are currently a bit longer than guidebooks would like them to be for life changing guide dogs purely

for research purposes. you understand, i like to stroke puppies like bill and many, many other puppies. is this the bestjob in the world or what? this is where a guide dog puppy'sjourney begins_ before the pandemic, as many as 1500 dogs were bred here in a year. in 2020, the breeding programme shut down overnight when social distancing was introduced. it was the first time in the charity's 92 year history that the guide dog service was suspended. guide dogs show their paces along one of the centre's obstacle courses. although training techniques have changed over the years, the aim to match visually impaired people with guide dogs has not changed. and thousands of blind people who have benefited from it will agree with that. nowadays, the charity trains more assistance dogs than anyone else around the globe.

little ones like paige spend the first weeks of their life here. for them, they're just having fun. she's currently nibbling the camera. but staff are watching closely to see how suited they are to guide work. she's got the brains for sure. hi, pup. are you a good puppy? yes, you are. look how cute you are. look at those big - eyes and floppy ears. you're such a good pup. sniff it. 0k. becky and anna are paying close attention to see how paige reacts to human interaction. right. they're looking to see how she deals with problem solving. yes. that's a good sign because a guide dogs ability to find their way around

a problem is, well just part of the job. that's also interesting for us that she's kindl of she's been to that one. she smelled that one. she's like, it's not there. and she's actually worked out to go to the other one. - so in itself, that's interesting. during the pandemic, all training and breeding here stopped. guide dogs say they needed to protect their staff and volunteers. so that is our puppy reception. it is really unfortunate. 0ur breeding programme is fantastic. i it's world class and it's always i been able to produce the number of puppies that we've required i to meet our service users needs. and unfortunately, that pause - in our breeding programme has really affected us and there's been other combinations as well. _ so bearing in mind that obviously our puppies, | when they were out with our amazing puppy raising volunteers, _ | they weren't able to experiencel the environment that they would experience with a guide dog owner yourself. - so unfortunately, it's been- a combination of things that have meant that we haven't reduced - the number of guide dog partnerships that we really want to see. breeding numbers are getting back to normal. in the past year, around 1000

puppies have passed through here. we are in recovery mode - and we are hopeful for the future, but we do need a little bit of patience for a little biti longer as these dogs _ make their way through the system. as you saw today, these little i puppies here that we saw today, it will take about two years . for them to make partnership. around 1100 puppies are currently in early training. guide dog says what it needs now is volunteer fosters who can look after dogs in advanced training, dropping them off and picking them up from the charity's offices on weekdays. 0ur volunteers are our lifeblood. guide dogs could not do what we do without our volunteers across the board, across all of our services. and unfortunately, after the pandemic, we did lose a lot of volunteers as people wanted to have a break. being the situation, we also kind of reduced the numbers that were reapplying. so we are at the moment looking very heavily to recruit lots of volunteers, and we've been very lucky that a lot of people have been so generous with their time. hit. good boy.

after more than eight years of working with sean. - guide dog sammy is set to retire and shawn may have to wait two| years for his next dog. that was six months ago. when sammy leaves me, it will leave a huge hole in my heart. a few hours later, sammy left me to retire with family. much of my confidence and mobility left me too that day. sammy is more important to me. and you always will be. you'll always be my boy. but a month later, and it's clear i was still in trauma. you are actually quite moved today, aren't you? sharing my story is by far the hardest thing i've ever done in my career. the impact, though, has been huge. i would like to say to bbc breakfast viewers, thank you so much to everyone who's already applied to volunteer at guide dogs —— since coverage, we've seen a peak in applications. so injanuary alone, we received almost 3000 volunteer applications.

2500 of those were to raise puppies compared with 2000 for the whole of 2019, the last pre—pandemic year. for lisa's first pup, fergal, it's the end of one journey, but the start of another. all this unpacking the three ties up from home is —— biscuits that i always give him half a biscuit at bedtimes. they've been together forjust over a year. i have had it made and had his name put on it and his id number. she's packing up things that she hopes will remind him of their time together and his christmas present. i can't tell you what it is. the day has come for fergal to start his advanced training. that means lisa must say a painful goodbye. i want him as upset

as little as possible. so there are his toys — he's got his biscuits.. that he has half one at night. i mean, she's generous. she might like to give him one at first because it deserves it. any time he's not with shelley working and learning, learning what he's got to do, he'll be in there having a good rest. and then we've got some fab free run and some bits out the back as well. so we'll show you them where he can have his downtime and have some good sniffs. yeah, nice doggy hotel and playground for a girl. this may be a sad time for lisa, but for fergal, a new adventure awaits. go get a big boy lead now. many guide dog users stay in touch with their puppy raisers. but many do not. thanks a lot. i'll ring you tomorrow.

lisa knows this could be the last time she sees fergal. the one question that i get asked all the time or people say to me, all my friends, family, people i meet in the street, i'd love to do what you're doing, but i couldn't do it because i couldn't give the dog back. if i can do it, anybody can do it. as a guide dog user of more than 23 years, i know the theory of what volunteers like lisa go through, but being there for the moment of handover was as beautiful as it was poignant. it's hard, but you've got to remember, why are you doing it? you know, people have to help people. there's not enough of it in this world. we are needed — people like us and needed so much to help people like you. the tears are worth it.

hello there. we're starting off with the weather news that february was a very dry month across the whole of the uk, but particularly so in england. the driest in england for 30 years, and parts of essex only had 3.5 millimetres of rain for the whole month. now, this is the satellite picture from wednesday. you can see the extent of the cloud across the uk, but look closely, we've got some clearer skies set to head into north west scotland and some clearer skies over the continent that are set to break the cloud across east anglia, the south midlands and southern counties of england as well. whereas this thick cloud out in the north sea, that's going to continue to bring outbreaks of rain over the next few hours. light and patchy stuff across the south and east of scotland and northern england. so, certainly some pretty damp weather here, albeit the rain not particularly heavy.

now where the skies do clear, we're looking at a widespread frost towards the southeast east. lowest temperatures about —2 and down to about —4 in the highlands of scotland in the coldest spots. now, we'll take a look at the charts then for thursday. remember, we've got that much thicker cloud across northern england, southern eastern scotland. still some patches of light rain to come through the morning, so quite a damp start to the day. best of the sunshine across southern england, the south midlands, southern wales and also north west scotland, and maybe some breaks in the cloud getting into northern ireland at times. temperatures not really changing much, in what we've seen over recent days, eight to ten degrees, but feeling cooler than that in the chilly northeasterly wind that we've still got. i think on friday, by and large, it should be a dry and bright day for most of us, with some sunny spells breaking through at times. temperatures not really changing a great deal, we're looking at highs again around eight or nine degrees celsius or so. now, there will be some changes in the weather pattern as we head into this weekend. what we're looking at on saturday is probably a bit more cloud coming back in from the north sea and sunday, the cloud thickens further to bring us some patchy outbreaks of light rain. and, so, probably a dry day on saturday, bright conditions

sunday, the chance of a few patches of rain from time to time, but nothing particularly heavy. beyond that, the weather gets a bit more interesting into next week. what happens is we get northerly winds bringing polar air southwards across the uk, and with that there'll be a significant drop in temperatures, we'll see a return of widespread night—time frost. will be a bit of sunshine around, but, also, for some of us, we're looking at a return of wintry weather with snow in the forecast for some of you. that's the latest.

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