on aggregate to secure their place in the stockholm showpiece, later this month. we are live at manchester's beautiful, glorious, historic victoria baths. the pool has been refilled, ready for the first public swim in 2a years. we will have more on the plight of britain's glorious historic pools and the fight to save them ina historic pools and the fight to save them in a little while. and matt has them in a little while. and matt has the weather. good morning. another dry day., but for the rest of you there will be the smell of fresh rain in the air and maybe eight thunderstorms later. —— dry day for scotland. good morning. first, our main story. thousands of weapons have been seized in schools across england and wales. they include swords, axes and airguns. some of the cases involved children as young as five . police chiefs said there had been a "worrying" increase in young people carrying knives. andy moore reports. some schools have taken to using metal arches to make sure no weapons are brought on to their premises. but figures obtained by the press association show that the number of seizures in the last year is up about 20% on the previous year. 32 out of 43 police forces in england and wales responded to freedom of information request about weapons found in schools. the figures showed that 2579 weapons were found in the two years to march this year. among them were samurai swords, axa ‘s and airguns. —— axes. them were samurai swords, axa ‘s and air guns. —— axes. many of the children were below the age of ten, and won five—year—old was caught with a knife. just ones dab wound that went straight in his heart. -- sta b that went straight in his heart. -- stab wound. the national police council said the increase in young people carrying weapons was worrying. it said it wanted to educate people that carrying a weapon illegally is never acceptable. after 6:30 we'll be discussing this with anti—violence campaigner barry mizen, whose teenage sonjimmy was killed in 2008. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, will this morning give a speech on foreign affairs and insist he isn't a pacifist and he's prepared to use military force as a last resort. the prime minister will make her own pitch to traditional labour voters in the north—east of england. she'll accuse mr corbyn of deserting "patriotic working class people." 0ur political correspondent, eleanor garnier, is in westminster for us. eleanor, both leaders are addressing perceived weaknesses in theircampaigns? i thinkjeremy corbyn is trying to cast off that image as a pacifist and somebody who is unwilling to ta ke and somebody who is unwilling to take military action. remember, he isa take military action. remember, he is a former chairman of the stop the war coalition, a long—standing critic of military intervention in afghanistan, iraqi and syria. but today he is putting forward his case asa today he is putting forward his case as a potential world leader, saying he is not a pacifist and he is capable of ordering military action asa capable of ordering military action as a very last resort and only under international law. he is also going to ta ke international law. he is also going to take a dig at theresa may, saying that she is pandering to donald trump, and that under him foreign policy would not involve holding the hand of the us president. i think theresa may will also get personal today. in her speech in the north—east of england today, she is trying to win over voters who might have voted labour for generations, saying that they might feel that down by the party, and accusing jeremy corbyn of turning his back on people who are patriotic and proud working—class people, putting herself forward as the only candidate able to take the country through the brexit negotiations. so they are getting personal, while the lib dems are getting parental today? yes, the lib dems are saying today that under them, they would offer fathers and extra month of a paternal leave. they are calling it daddy month. a former libdem minister told us this is all part of showing that parenting can be much more equal and also showing how important the role of fathers is in bringing up children. the evidence shows that when men are more involved in fatherhood there are huge benefits. it is better for child development. children do better at school. and the health and well— being of the whole family better at school. and the health and well—being of the whole family is improved. so what we want to do with this extra leave is to make it easier to new fathers to spend time with their children from those alias weeks and months. the lib dems say this is not just weeks and months. the lib dems say this is notjust about helping families, it could also benefit the uk economy. they say if the workforce is more flexible and more motivated, that will help uk businesses as well. and if you are wondering, at this time in four weeks, we will all be waking up to the general election result. alan, thank you. —— eleanor. president trump says he wants a quick investigation into allegations of russian interference in the us elections. ina in a television interview last night he called fbi directorjames comey a showboat and grandstand. in his first extensive television interview since he sacked the fbi's directorjames comey, he told the american network nbc news that he wasn't under investigation himself. 0ur washington correspondent laura bicker reports. he has become more famous than me! famous, or infamous? when did donald trump decide to sack the towering figure from the fbi? this presidential handshake not an act of friendship, it seems, but the beginning of the end forjames comey. he is a showboater, he is a grandstander. it wasn't until a device from the deputy attorney—general, as the white house stated, it came directly from the president. i was going to fire him. it was my decision. you had already made the decision? i was going to fire him. and another apparent contradiction. the white house claims that james comey contradiction. the white house claims thatjames comey had contradiction. the white house claims that james comey had little oi’ claims that james comey had little or no support within the fbi. the rank and file of the el have lost confidence in their director. not so, said the acting fbi director, who was sitting in for his sacked boss before the senate intelligence committee. director comey enjoyed broad support within the fbi. and still does. at the heart of this row, is the alleged collusion between the trump campaign and moscow. the president admits that russia was on his mind when he decided to fire james comey. there was no good time to do it. and in fa ct, was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided tojust do it, isaid to fact, when i decided tojust do it, i said to myself, you know, this russia thing, with trump and russia, it isa russia thing, with trump and russia, it is a made up story, it is an excuse by the democrats for having lost a n excuse by the democrats for having lost an election. donald trump denies any collusion with russia and insists that despite sacking the head of the el, he wants any enquiry done properly and quickly. —— the fbi. detectives investigating the death of a businessman who was shot dead during a suspected burglary at his home in dorset have made another arrest. police say a 45—year—old man from poole is being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary. three men have been charged with murdering guy hedger during the may day bank holiday weekend. a london—based virtual reality firm has secured one of the largest investments in a british technology company in recent years. japan‘s softbank is investing nearly £400 million in improbable, a company that was only set up five years ago. the deal is seen as evidence the uk's technology sector can compete with the best around the world. i think it is a big vote of confidence in the talent pool we have here, and the potentialfor this country to produce world leading technology firms. if we were able to enter that category that would be great for us. if you didn't know already, john is very much aware of this, it is the finals of eurovision tomorrow night. last night, ireland crashed out of the semi—finals but the uk will be represented by the former x factor contestant lucie jones in kiev. but there's speculation that brexit could affect the uk's chances of winning. 0ur moscow correspondent steve rosenberg reports. loveit love it or hate it, here is one european institution the uk is remaining info now. —— infor european institution the uk is remaining info now. —— in for now. it is the final of the eurovision song contest this saturday in keo. luciejones is song contest this saturday in keo. lucie jones is flying the song contest this saturday in keo. luciejones is flying the uk's song contest this saturday in keo. lucie jones is flying the uk's flag, but will brexit mean that it meets its waterloo? let's face it. in recent yea rs its waterloo? let's face it. in recent years it has been hard enough for the united kingdom to get i's from our european neighbours when we have been on speaking terms with them. —— get points. but now that we are leaving the eu in an atmosphere of acute disharmony, will that condemn the uk to eternal runner—up in eurovision? they may be excited about eurovision in kiev, but britain's prime minister theresa may has warned that brexit could scupper the uk's eurovision party. welcome is the prime minister a eurovision fan? ican‘t is the prime minister a eurovision fan? i can't imagine her sat with herflag at home. fan? i can't imagine her sat with her flag at home. honestly, whatever happens happens. brexit is so far out of my hands and my control. the signs are that europe has not fallen out of love with britain. we have discovered that even the french love having the uk in eurovision. well, so that france would come last. france is very bad, but england is worse. and being happy is what eurovision is all about. it is not the winning that counts. just as well. the uk hasn't won the contest for 20 years. would you say we are being a little defeatist? 20 get our excusesin being a little defeatist? 20 get our excuses in already? i didn't mind that chap who said he was pleased the uk was in because they are so rubbish they will be even worse than france. we are happy to help. and we'll be talking to steve live from kiev after 8:00. imagine enjoying a swim in the ocean just off the coast of california when you hear this announcement. attention, in the water. this is the 0range attention, in the water. this is the orange county sheriff's department. the device, state parks is asking us to make an announcement to let you know you are at boarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks. they are advising that you brexit the water. in a calm manner. right, 0k! that's easy, then. because there are only 15 of them. that's the orange county sheriff's department warning a group of paddle—boarders they're swimming next to 15 great white sharks. a police helicopter spotted the sharks near dana point, about an hour away from los angeles. a woman was bitten in the area at the end of april. so they are obviously very aware and everybody is very concerned. 15! i can't believe nobody noticed them. can you imagine just calmly paddle boarding a long? i suppose they need to give that much detailing information to tell people they are serious. you could just say, shark! that would do it for me. big shark, big fish. good morning. here is our big fish. good morning. here is our big fish. good morning. here is our big fish. i wish. big fish. good morning. here is our big fish. iwish. in big fish. good morning. here is our big fish. i wish. in a small pond. no, that's wrong. imagine if you we re no, that's wrong. imagine if you were trying to escape from a shark, the worst thing you can do is paddle furiously, because you create more motion and more disturbance. and you would have to stay on the board. it's as if you make yourself look like a turtle, put your arms and feet in... have you had nightmares about this? i have thought about it about this? i have thought about it a lot! let's go to calmer waters. manchester united are through, they have a chance if they can beat ajax. they made it a bit more difficult for themselves than they needed to. manchester united survived a late scare but beat celta vigo on aggregate to book their place in the europa league final. marouane fellaini scored as united drew 1—1 at old trafford but won 2—1 overall. they'll now face ajax in the final in stockholm on may 24. chelsea can win the premier league title tonight. victory at west brom would give them an unbeatable io—point lead over second—placed tottenham. victory would make antonio contey only the fourth manager to lift the premier league trophy in his first season in england. everton manager ronald koeman, is prepared to lose ross barkley if he doesn't sign a new contract. the england midfielder hasjust a year left on his current deal, and koeman says the club, want an answer by the end of the season. and andy murray's poor run of form continues. he's out of the madrid 0pen, the world number one knocked out by a man 58 places in the rankings. borna coric beat murray in straight sets to ensure he has failed to reach the quarterfinals in two of his last three tournaments. the world number one says he is concerned by his recent form. durham beat nottinghamshire, by 4 wickets in their one day cup match, but one astonishing six from alex hales stole the headlines. he managed a total of three, in his innings of 104. but with this one, he found the only open window in a radio commentary box and the ball was picked up by one of the two gentlemen from the bbc covering the match. here's how it went for bbc radio nottingham's dave bracegirdle. commentator: the first ball he bowled round the wicket, hales hits this towards me — it's coming towards me, it's coming! it's coming to our commentary position! i've got it! wow, wow, wow! hang on, hang on. that is amazing! it is coming towards me, it is coming towards me! at least they didn't break the glass. that is the voice you want if there are sharks in the water.m glass. that is the voice you want if there are sharks in the water. it is coming towards me! that's it for fiow. coming towards me! that's it for now. we will be going through the papers ina now. we will be going through the papers in a moment. here's matt with a look at this morning's weather. we have been on the back of a long dry spell full, looking at some of the records this morning and in parts of western scotland they have gone 18 days without rain. that is about to change. some have seen rain already in the west of scotland will stay dry again but elsewhere they may find a downpour at some point. sunshine as well and once the sun is out there will feel more humid than it has recently. the wind direction has changed from scandinavia and now they are moving from south to north. there have been thunderstorms yesterday across the west of the uk and rain in southern counties of england and wales. across parts of wales and east anglia occasional whale ta kes wales and east anglia occasional whale takes us through the morning rush—hour before that moves into northern england and starts to fizzle. northern ireland sees showers on through day but into scotland, a dry story once again. a few showers in the west that much of area is dry and bright. some rain later in the east and into the midlands and east anglia which could see heavy showers breaking out. sunshine in between. temperatures around 20 degrees but the showers could be nasty in a couple of spots. the southern counties will see morning clouds break with sunshine in the afternoon if a little bit humid although formal will hold on to rain and some more rain will return to south—western wales later. the rest of wales brightens up to sunshine. in northern ireland it is predominantly cloudy through the afternoon with spots of rain to finish the day. into tonight we will see the rain across parts of scotla nd see the rain across parts of scotland and northern ireland, even northern england, continue for a while. in the south it will be a bit dry. a little bit of mist in some places tonight and the temperatures should hold into double figures for most. into the weekend across the north is a cloudy note. it occasional rain through the morning easing into the afternoon. much of england and wales will have a bright day with sunny spells. 0nly england and wales will have a bright day with sunny spells. only a couple of passing showers and some people will stay completely dry. certainly feeling pleasant with temperatures into the high teens possibly low 20s. finishing the day with rain on northern ireland and that rain will push east to west overnight into sunday clearing off into the north sea which leaves us with sunshine and showers on sunday. showers will be heaviest across scotland, northern ireland and england with hailand northern ireland and england with hail and thunder. the further south and east may not see any showers. with the sun out it will feel pleasa nt with the sun out it will feel pleasant again. with rain in the four custom sure there will be gardeners and farmers very happy indeed. quite pleased to have a little rain. it will be good for the garden. look now at the papers this friday morning. many are leading with the election and the fallout from the leaking and the rubberstamping of the manifesto for labour. the sun are quite damning. they call it a day of disasters. their headline refers to the fact that their union leader fell down the stairs and bbc cameraman had his fort run over by a labour vehicle. not all of the newspapers are as damning, are they? no, not all of them. the guardian says thatjeremy corbyn... them. the guardian says thatjeremy corbyn. .. you can them. the guardian says thatjeremy corbyn... you can see the picture of him they're coming out after the meeting yesterday to confirm the ma nifesto meeting yesterday to confirm the manifesto with just a couple of twea ks. manifesto with just a couple of tweaks. he is addressing the press and said he will be holding an enquiry into how the document was lea ked enquiry into how the document was leaked in the first place but we will not hear the results until after the election. he also said he is not a part of. and that was the thing we're expecting to hear him say officially today. it is clear how various newspapers are lining up for this election. and this is another one that describes the ma nifesto another one that describes the manifesto as a fan fantasy and the daily mirror puts the attention on the national health service. it has an exclusive letter sent to the prime ministerfrom a group of nurses asking fred to a 1% pay rise cap, saying that the nhs is in a desperate state. but the break from politics. do you have anything for us, ben? no politics here. three big names on the front of the financial tea, times. beating italian investors that they will cut thousands ofjobs investors that they will cut thousands of jobs but investors that they will cut thousands ofjobs but they have also cut the pay of the ceo by £4 million. the job cuts are mostly in the uk as part of an overhaul of how business works. underneath that, the story is emirates with profits falling for the first time in five years. an 82% fall in profits for the airlines because of a combination of election uncertainty, brexit uncertainty but also the ban on laptops for travellers coming from middle eastern countries to the united states. beneath that, lloyds says it will generate a populate a £500 million. we had to bail that bank out at one point, we owed about 43% at the height of the financial crisis. now we are just a quarter of 196 crisis. now we are just a quarter of 1% in the rest will be sold in the coming days. they say overall we will have made a profit of 500 million quid. not that an investment but then again, with how much we ploughed into it... the spanish grand prix and if lewis hamilton had been around in 1896 he may have been driving one of these. amazingly, this is a at an exhibition in london. the first car to ever get a speeding ticket for doing eight mph. surely a carriage could go faster? read the story. the policeman chased him ona read the story. the policeman chased him on a bike to give him a speeding ticket. and then one of the hazards of golf in america. no bunkers but an alligator. this player he has two chip to the green over an alligator. it is quite common in america these days. i don't know if you boys have ever had this happen to you. you turn up at something and everybody else is wearing the same thing? turn up at something and everybody else is wearing the same thing7m isa else is wearing the same thing7m is a next time thing. we always discuss our neckties. —— neckties. look at the pictures. i love this. this lady here turned up... i think she went to the badminton, the horse trials, with that yellow puff at jacket on and quickly realised that it was a popular piece of clothing and managed to take a picture of herself with everybody else she could find wearing exactly the same code. were they selling them outside ata code. were they selling them outside at a stall, like a football scarf?|j think at a stall, like a football scarf?” think that is the only option. you have to make a joke if you see somebody else in the same outfit. you cannot run away. you must face up. if this has ever happened to you, and the picture into us this morning we would love to see them. it is 23 minutes past six. thank you very much and we will see you both later. did you know you're more likely to be a victim of cybercrime than any other offence? it's one of the fastest growing areas of criminal activity. in the fightback, police forces are now offering detectives specialist training to help them catch cybercriminals — and the bbc‘s technology correspondent rory cellan—jones has been given access to one course. ina in a hotel room, a man who may be pa rt in a hotel room, a man who may be part ofan in a hotel room, a man who may be part of an international crime gang is preparing a cyber attack. his lair has all the tools of his trade and the police are on their way. but this is not a traditionalforensic operation where you look for fingerprints... these police officers are being trained to catch cyber criminals and the hacker in the hotel is the exercise today, based on a real case. they have been given the skills to tackle the fastest—growing area of crime. some estimates say that up to half of all offences a re estimates say that up to half of all offences are now cyber. the hacker in this room has popped out for a while and the trainee officers are about to arrive. let's see what evidence they can find. stay where you are! we have a warrant! they are taking it seriously. ring clear! it's not a smart tv, so you should be ok to unplug that. the first priority is to make sure that all the computers stay powered up and do not lock after a certain time. that way they can get access to data far more easily. what did you just discover? i'm still seeing laptop and one phone. examining the router they have discovered there is another device they have yet to spot. hidden under a tray, a tablet with more evidence. the techniques they are learning should make hunting hacker is far more efficient. back in the day, on a scene like this for example the offices would time up and literally just pull the electric supply out of the back of the computer, back in taggart and then fended away from forensic investigation which could ta ke forensic investigation which could take months before they had any meaningful information back from the system. it's a case of learning skills, practical skills that we can utilise, no different to finding a gun ata utilise, no different to finding a gun at a scene that we can make assay for the public and then tribute to a criminal. we are doing the same with it equipment and computers. although people do not see this as the here and now i think it most certainly will be. these detectives are among thousands going through this type of training. as a try to keep our with a cyber crime wave that is getting bigger by the day. —— as the police try to keep up with. still to come on breakfast. we're talking about the gadgets that were the height of technology in their day but probably did things you can now do with just a swipe of your smartphone. vodafone have just announced they won't be making any more pagers — remember those? later in the programme we're taking a look back at some of the best retro gadgets, and asking which you've still got at home. most of them. i still have most of them. in a draw that you cannot open? you keep them there when you look for a charger or something. did you used to be glued to your portable cassette player? have you still got a mobile phone in a drawer somewhere that looks a bit like a brick? you can e—mail us at bbcbrea kfast@bbc. co. uk or get in touch on social media, and send us your pictures too if you've got any good old gadgets that you still use. i would love to see a photograph of the oldest mobile phone that some of you may have. 0ne we need to pull out of the area. or a car phone. —— pull out the aerial. good morning from bbc london news, i'm sonja jessup. six months after a road started to collapse into a series of sinkholes in reading — residents still don't know when it will be repaired. it's thought a burst water main caused the holes to open up in december. people who live nearby are unable to park outside their homes. you need to press about 45 times to come up with a timescale. the reason they told us each time that they could not is because there is a contractor on board. there is a lot of frustration because people do not see anything happening. they've been in north london for more than a century — but tottenham hotspur will play their final game at white hart lane this weekend, before the ground is redeveloped. a farewell ceremony will follow their match against manchester united. former players willjoin the current squad to mark the occasion. now if you're eating a banana for your breakfast you might want to look away now. this 5cm camouflaged spider popped out of a bunch in brent. it had travelled 5,000 miles from colombia with the bananas, all the way to north london. let's have a look at the travel situation now. we have a normal service on all of the tube lines this however, there are problems with electrical supplies on south west trains towards epsom— services are disrupted between raynes park and motspur park. let's take a look at the roads. this is the a13— there are queues heading into town from the goresbrook interchange to barking. there's been an accident in wood green— westbury avenue is closed between crawley road and willingdon road. and the a2 is slow at the moment heading into town from eltham to kidbrooke rain overnight at last. but it is still rather wet start to this morning. it is damp, misty and murky and quite muggy as well with a lot of mild airoraround and quite muggy as well with a lot of mild air or around that will eventually brighten up and we will see more heavy showers or going into the afternoon. a great start to the day but gradually we will get some sunny spells coming through and it will feel warm with temperatures reaching 21 degrees but watch out for heavy showers are breaking out later on through the day. you could see torrential rain and a rumble or two of thunder. as we head into the evening and the overnight period than the showers will die off and it will feel fresher this afternoon will feel fresher this afternoon will not not quite as muggy and assume that as it is this morning. a pleasa nt assume that as it is this morning. a pleasant day tomorrow. i would not rule out showers and should be mostly dry. but sunshine with temperatures and 20 degrees. the weather front will come through early but should be gone by the time we wa ke early but should be gone by the time we wake up. on sunday will be fresh the possibility of heavy showers still good sunshine and very warm again next week. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. hello, this is breakfast, with sally nugent and jon kay. it's 6:30. we'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment, but also on breakfast this morning, we're live at one of britain's oldest public baths as it prepares to welcome swimmers for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century. it was only created five years ago, but a british virtual reality firm has received nearly 400 million pounds of investment from a japanese backer. we'll find out what's behind this huge boost — and what it means for the uk tech industry. love it or hate it, eurovision is back! but will brexit affect the uk's chances in the competition? we'll be live from kiev with all the build up to the big final tomorrow evening. all that still to come. those are not written‘s entries and to be clear. no, but they look great. thousands of weapons have been seized in schools across england and wales. figures provided by 32 police forces to the press association shows that in the last 2 years, more than 2,500 weapons had been found in schools including swords, axes and air guns. police chiefs say there's been a "worrying increase" in young people carrying knives. in a few minutes we'll be discussing this with anti—violence campaigner barry mizen, whose teenage son jimmy was killed in 2008. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, will this morning give a speech on foreign affairs in which he'll insist he isn't a pacifist. mr corbyn will say that he is prepared to use military force as a last resort. today the prime minister will also make her own pitch to traditional labour voters in the north—east of england. she'll accuse mr corbyn of deserting "patriotic working class people." president trump says he wants a quick investigation into allegations of russian interference in the us elections. in his first extensive television interview since he abruptly sacked the fbi's directorjames comey he told the american network nbc news that he wasn't under investigation himself. i was going to fire james comey. my decision. you had made the decision? i was going to fire him. there is no good time to do it, by the way. you later said you accepted their recommendations. but you had already made the decision? i was going to fire regardless of recommendations. detectives investigating the death of a businessman, who was shot dead during a suspected burglary at his home in dorset, have made another arrest. police say a 45—year—old man from poole is being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary. three men have been charged with murdering guy hedger during the may day bank holiday weekend. it's the finals of the eurovision song contest tomorrow. last night ireland crashed out of the semi finals but the uk will be represented by the former x factor contestant lucie jones in kiev. ten acts from each semifinal have gone through to saturday's grand final and join the so—called "big five" — france, germany, italy, spain and united kingdom — and host country ukraine. later we'll be chatting about what effect brexit could have, if any, on britain's chances this year. iam not i am not sure who that is.” i am not sure who that is. i think thatis i am not sure who that is. i think that is the portuguese entry. well, you know more than me. a man who dances with a gorilla, i heard about it on the radio. could man's best friend be a bear‘s worst enemy? here is a bear that has been making a nuisance of itself in san gabriel valley in southern califronia. its been going into gardens, chasing other wildlife, walking on walls, rooting through bins and generally scaring residents. but the tables were turned when it came up against one brave dog, who as you can see stared the bear down, and chased it away and back to its usual stomping ground. get off my land! it is like a disney movie, isn't it? yes! coming soon to a big screen near you. the brave dog that chased away the scary bare. well, that is the morning's their news. victory to the dog, very good. asa news. victory to the dog, very good. as a child i always did that with friends, trying to work out which animal would eat which other animal, polar bear versus gorilla. it was like animal top trumps. dog wins against there, very good. —— against bear. i'm trying to think of a general election equivalent. well, manchester united. they almost made their match against celta vigo last night. they are through to the europa league final. it is the one trophy they have never won, even when it was the uefa cup. why did jose mourinho call it the most important game in their history? just building it up, i guess. it is not, not at all. not compare to a champions league final. but it is a big one. manchester united beat celta vigo 2—1 on aggregate to reach the europa league final. they went into the second leg at old trafford with a single goal lead and marouane fellaini doubled their advantage after quarter of an hour with a fantastic header. the spanish side had numerous chances to pull a goal back and facundo roncaglia did just that 5 minutes from time. the celta goalscorer was then sent off along with united's eric bailly after a mass brawl. it means bailly will miss the final. it was a nervy end for the home fans but united survived to reach the final on may the 24th in stockholm. they'll face dutch side ajax who, says mourinho, will have an advantage in their preparations. ajax plays about the final, thinks about the final. their league is finished on sunday and they will have 12 days to prepare for the final. we have three premier league matches to play. hopefully... crystal palace doesn't need that last game. because in the last game iam going last game. because in the last game i am going to make a lot of changes. chelsea will be crowned premier league champions for the second time in three seasons if they win at west brom tonight. they lead tottenham by seven points, and need just one win from three games to be certain of the title. 0ur players are totally focused on the moment. they are feeling this moment, this important moment, for us, for the club, for the fans. we are ina us, for the club, for the fans. we are in a good position, a good position. but we mustn't forget that we must take two points to reach this target. andy murray's difficulties since returning from injury have continued. he's been knocked out of the madrid open at the third round stage. the world number one was beaten in straight sets by the croatian borna corich, who is the world number 59, and only qualified for the tournament as a "lucky loser." murray has now failed to reach the quarterfinals, in two of his last three tournaments. rory mcilroy has had a difficult first round at the players championship, the american tournament regarded by many as the fifth major. but he is now six strokes behind the leader. 0ne but he is now six strokes behind the leader. one of par, after a round of 73. at the masters champion, sergio garcia, also entered the day on one over. he had a slightly more memorable day, hitting a hole on the 17th. he hadn't had the greatest ground before now. he was three over parfor ground before now. he was three over par for now. ground before now. he was three over parfor now. he ground before now. he was three over par for now. he loves it, ground before now. he was three over parfor now. he loves it, and ground before now. he was three over par for now. he loves it, and the crowd loves it too. drinks on sergio. british riders geraint thomas and adam yates will start stage 7 of the giro d'italia in second and third place overall, ten seconds behind bob jungels of luxembourg. having started in sardinia and sicily, the race reached the bottom, of the italian mainland, and is moving north. stage 6 out of 21 yesterday was won by swiss rider silvan diliali, his first stage victory at a grand tour. jonny brownlee says he is hungry to put the hurt of last year's world series behind him. he missed out on the world title in the heat of mexico, in the the last race of the season, as brother alistair famously had to help an exhaused jonny over the line. he's back in action in yokohama tomorrow and if it's going to be hot there, brownlee will be prepared for it, after working with the royal navy. i have spent more time in the hot and humid conditions. at home i have converted my conservatory into a kind of heat chamber. so i can get my conservatory going, most people sit around on a nice city, but mine gets up to about 37 degrees in the heat sometimes. i can switch away in there. i have had a few sessions in there. i have had a few sessions in there to try to get used to your karma. he will have a whopping heating bill. he can grow some plans at the same time. the men's and women's races will be on the red button at two o'clock in the morning. if that is too early, extended highlights on both races at one o'clock in the afternoon on sunday, hosted by our very own louise. looking forward to that. children as young as 5 have been found with weapons at schools across england and wales. figures provided by 32 police forces to the press association shows that in the last 2 years, more than 2,500 weapons have been found in schools. at least one in five of those weapons were knives. 0thers include samurai swords, axes and air guns. to discuss this we're nowjoined by barry mizen whose16—year—old son jimmy was killed in an attack by another teenager. he now runs a charity in his memory aimed at stopping young people turning to violence. the figures we are talking about this morning are really very shocking indeed. iwould this morning are really very shocking indeed. i would like to start with you by saying, could you tell us a bit aboutjimmy, and what happened to him? jimmy was my second youngest son. he was killed nine years ago this week, actually. we had the ninth anniversary a couple of days ago. jimmy was a great young lad, he went into a bakery shop on a saturday morning and was attacked by a local teenager. he had a glass ditch smashed in his face and a piece of glass severed arteries in his neck. we hear the headlines, we hear terrible stories like what happened to jimmy, and hear terrible stories like what happened tojimmy, and yet still kids are going into schools with all kinds of things. some obvious weapons, some less obvious weapons. when you see those figures and you hear these headlines today, what do you think, given your experiences? disappointed, to be honest. because we are focusing on the wrong area, i think. yes, getting the weapons off the street, absolutely, but is that all we are going to do? a weapons count every year? we are focusing far too much on the end, rather than the beginning. people don'tjust get like this, it is a gradual process. so what is the beginning?” like this, it is a gradual process. so what is the beginning? i think it isa so what is the beginning? i think it is a progress. myself and my wife is at lots of schools and we are being asked to speak more and more now to eight —year—olds and nine —year—olds. as children are growing up —year—olds. as children are growing up they are just going down a particular path. for me, it is about prevention, rather than trying to treat something at the end of it. we do that with the nhs, we see it as preventative health issues rather than trying to treat them at the end. we seem to be focusing on the idea that ever harsher punishment will solve these things for us, and i don't believe it does. people have to face consequences for their actions, absolutely. but if that is all we are going to do, increase punishment all the time, in our frustration at what is going on, i don't believe that is the answer. we need to get in there earlier. some people have a long history and then eventually they kill somebody. a lot could have been done in the years preceding that. i know that when you go into schools you talk to classrooms aboutjimmy. you feel very strongly that if it can happen to him where you were, it can happen everywhere. this isn't something that just happens everywhere. this isn't something thatjust happens somewhere else to other people's kids. unfortunately, we seem to think it is. we think of it being somebody else, not us. we are a very ordinary family. these things always happen to america is. —— to ordinary families. we speak in prisons is welcome and the amount of times that we get people who have committed murder scene, i didn't mean to do it. they never intended to do it. if we just want to hype up the consequences in the belief that that will solve this issue, i think we are seriously misled. you said that you spoke to eight and nine —year—olds. when you speak to those very young children, do you see a change in them when you tell your story? there is a lot of empathy from them, and a lot of questions from them, and a lot of questions from them. it was heartbreaking, i was at a school a couple of years ago, and afterwards a young girl came up and she had 50p in her hand and she said, for your charity. there is such empathy in our young people. there is such a determination. they want to work something better and something different. we must come away from this idea that ever harsher punishment will solve these issues. barry, thank you very much. i know you are coming back to talk to us again later in the programme, so thank you. we'll be talking to the police later as well, about what can be done from the policing side. here is met with all the weather details. the weather has been on the turn and it has been dry for some time. across some parts of northern ireland it has been 17 days since we saw rain. in the west of scotland it has been a full 18 days. but all of us will see rain over the next few days. some have seen some this morning. there will be scattered showers around today, some quite thundery later across central parts. it will feel humid as well and that is because the air comes up from the south. the cloud moves from south to north so that as the wind flow from iberia and france. it would rain across some parts of wales and england which is now reaching to north—west england this afternoon. a few showers in northern ireland but in scotland another largely dry day. the showers in the far west, eastern areas cloudy and cool but much of the central highlands is 20 degrees possible later. rain clearing out from north—west england through the latter stage of the afternoon before some thunderstorms deadened for the eating a lot of dry weather here during the second half of the day. the midlands and east anglia, this is where the focus for some slogan moving thunderstorms with hail mixed in could be around this afternoon. a lot of rain and a short space of time. it will feel warm and the sunshine, far more such runaround southern counties after a cloudy morning. as we had to words cornwall and southern parts of wales there will be some further rain developing through the day particularly across the western half of cornwall. a predominantly cloudy story elsewhere. later tonight we will see the thunderstorms across parts of northern england fade away quite quickly. it could stay down across parts of northern ireland and some rain returning to northern england and parts of scotland overnight. temperatures stay up further south you are the dry, the weekend to those of you in scotland and northern ireland in northern england in particular starts cloudy and damp. misty as well across scotland thirsting that muggy to go with it. brightening up in the afternoon with some showers around that much of england and miles has a predominantly dry day. england we will see a couple showers. nice when the sun is out, not quite as muggy as today with temperatures around 17- 20 as today with temperatures around 17— 20 degrees. after a spill of overnight rain, and a lot of rain sweeping in. widespread showers, the heaviest in parts of scotland in north—west england with rumbles of thunder. the further south and east you are avoid showers altogether. it gets warmer into next week. certainly some rain in the forecast that we had not seen for a while and, of course, without rain on dry ground we get a lovely delicious scent and it does have a name, it is cold petrichor. it it sounds like an oil company. it is a more natural than that. the governor of the bank of england has been speaking, giving some analysis of the last summer for the general election and we will start feeling the pinch. the cost of living is set to rise faster than wages this year — that's what the governor of the bank of england said in his last big assessment of the economy before the election. four times a year the bank publishes an updated report on the state of the economy — but this one is being watched more closely given that it comes just before the general election. so what is their assessment? well, they say the economy will grow more slowly this year, by 1.9% rather than the 2% they first thought. and the economy relies on consumers spending cash — that does not seem like a lot but we will discuss it in more detail. and we're all cutting back a bit. but the economy relies on consumers spending cash. we've got less money in our pockets because the cost of living is rising faster than wages. the bank of england governor blamed that on a weak pound. good morning, hannah. as sally said there is a lot to get through yesterday we heard a lot from the bank of england. what was the standout moment? the really came ta keaway standout moment? the really came takeaway is that there will be extra pressure on household income that your wages will not purchase so much over the next year. it pays to look after your own money and make sure you are not spending anything on stuff you do not need. we look at wage growth on average it does not impact everybody in the same way that you can take positive action to make sure you are maximising your income and not paying anyone anything you shouldn't be. none of this was unexpected. the bank had been warning us of inflation and that the cost of living would carry on going up and our wages would not keep pace. it is not a huge surprise but we have narrowed it now, haven't we? the average wage growth is matching inflation at the moment and inflation is expected to go up, the speed at which prices is rising, and wage growth is expected to slow but the good news is that after this year it is anticipated to get better. that said, with the election and with brexit, the bank of england simply do not know and, of course, they are warning us, they are cautious, they were very measured. they simply do not know what to expect. hopefully will not be terrible and hopefully it will be positive after this. certainly they said there is a lot of investment in business which gives them good confidence in the british economy from next year forward so the thing is, you know, we spent a lot last year, the bank of england warned that were borrowing too much. so now we have taken notice and are spending less and that is why people are starting to become concerned. the key is to spend what you can afford, and know what you can afford and estate that. how do you mitigate against this? that is the thing. you touched on what we can be doing that is their light at the end of the tunnel? will things get better? the bank of england are positive. the revised growth down but only slightly. they set from next year it should increase again and that next year inflation should taper off and wage growth should continue upwards to match it. the feeling that is preventing weight or is increasing at the moment is because employers simply do not know what will happen with the election and with brexit so they are being cautious. please remember, unemployment is at an all—time low so that is not the big issue. the figures are positive, we just... we need to be protective and how we are looking after our finances going forward and making a few simple switches. looking at the money you have coming in, watching where it is going. a little bit of self budgeting, that is the advice. thank you very much. more from me after seven o'clock. many of britain's historic swimming pools have been closed over the years — but now community groups are helping restore and re—open them for a new generation to enjoy. this weekend, one of the oldest pools in the uk will welcome swimmers for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century. jayne mccubbin is there. thinking of an early dip, jayne? it does look beautiful. good morning. it is these beautiful tiles, isn't it? that makes you think it is historic pools and how fantastic they are. but have a look through here. this is the glorious victoria baths in manchester. a hive of activity. good morning to you all. there is something wrong with these curtains. they are a little short. ladies out there. good morning. they are an bunting duty because this is the big weekend for a big swing to raise money to reopen this place. there are fights like this place. there are fights like this happening right across the country. this is a special moment in the new history of this old pool. how excited are you for this moment? 0h, really excited because it has been 24 years says the public has had access to the pool so i think it will be really good fun. this weekend, manchester's victoria baths will be filled with the sounds of swimming once again. another historic pools saved from closure by a dedicated team of local heroes, exactly what happened in leads. —— leeds. we were afraid of losing it. here, in leeds, in 2013 the future of the pool was threatened. we were inspired by the people who did not wa nt inspired by the people who did not want it to close and become a museum. it was a team effort. the public step that is a bit and now support us. a rallying cry went out for volunteers to turn it around. today, it is run by the community as a social enterprise. how old are you? can i ask? i am 86. and you have been coming here since you were... ? have been coming here since you were...? since i was five. it have been coming here since you were. . . ? since i was five. it was beautiful back then. it has always been like this. will you be coming here for quite sometime?” been like this. will you be coming here for quite sometime? i do hope so. i hope to hit 100 if i am lucky. in newcastle the community came together when the threat of closure turned into reality. when we heard that the turkish baths were going to close, i can't tell you the reaction. the site has been used by generations before me and i thought that future generations would not have use of it and that thought was so have use of it and that thought was so sad. this pool in the turkish bath which lie beneath closed in 2013. a victim of council cuts. at another dedicated local campaign means that they will soon reopen. another dedicated local campaign means that they will soon reopenm is coming up towards its 100th year. it will have every chance now of moving into its second century. that does not hop on and off in this day and age. the pool is magnificent but this... this is the real gem, isn't it? when you came down those stairs with the towel you are going down into a place of rest and relaxation. the jewel in the crown of the pool. so, early next year after a £5 million redevelopment by a charity this place will reopen. britain has lost just this place will reopen. britain has lostjust under half of its historic pools. campaigns like this are race against time. it really is a race against time. half of the pools of gone, half of them as lost the fight to be bought back to life. we will have more for you later. we lost the sound a little bit there but we got the gist. it looks unbelievably beautiful. it made me want to go for a swim. how gorgeous. i might do it ina a swim. how gorgeous. i might do it in a couple of hours. but first, news travel and weather from where you are this morning. good morning from bbc london news, i'm sonja jessup. six months after a road started to collapse into a series detectives have charged two men over as fatal stabbing in west london as we can. a 23—year—old man was attacked during a fight involving up to six in 0xbridge on friday night. six months after a road started to collapse into a series residents still don't know when it will be repaired. it's thought a burst water main caused the holes to open up in december. people who live nearby are unable to park outside their homes. you need to press about 4or 5 times to come up with a timescale. the reason they told us each time that they could not is because there is a contractor on board. there is a lot of frustration because people do not see anything happening. they've been in north london for more than a century — but tottenham hotspur will play their final game at white hart lane this weekend, before the ground is redeveloped. a farewell ceremony will follow their match against manchester united. now if you're eating a banana for your breakfast you might want to look away now. this 5cm camouflaged spider popped out of a bunch in brent. it had travelled 5,000 miles from colombia with the bananas, all the way to north london. let's have a look at the travel situation now. we have a normal service on all of the tube lines this morning — so far so good there. however, there are problems with electrical supplies on south west trains towards epsom — services are disrupted between raynes park and motspur park. let's take a look at the roads. there's been an accident in wood green — westbury avenue is closed between crawley road and willingdon road. m25 and willingdon road. traffic is heavy as well. rain overnight at last. but it is still rather wet start to this morning. it is damp, misty and murky and quite muggy as well with a lot of mild air around that will eventually brighten up and we will see more heavy showers get going into the afternoon. a grey start to the day but gradually we will get some sunny spells coming through and it will feel warm with temperatures reaching 21 degrees but watch out for heavy showers are breaking out later on through the day. you could see torrential rain and a rumble or two of thunder. as we head into the evening and the overnight period then the showers will die off and it will feel fresher this afternoon the air not quite as muggy and assume that as it is this morning. a pleasant day tomorrow. i would not rule out showers and should be mostly dry. but sunshine with temperatures at 20 degrees. the weather front will come through early but should be gone by the time we wake up. on sunday it will be fresher the possibility of heavy showers still good sunshine and very warm again next week. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. hello, this is breakfast, with sally nugent and jon kay. thousands of weapons have been seized from schools. they include samurai swords, axes and air guns and involve children as young as five. good morning, it is friday may 12. also this morning, jeremy corbyn insists he's not a pacifist and he'll be strong on defence as theresa may targets traditional labour voters. no phone signal is a problem affecting more than two thirds of businesses — this morning i'm looking at why they're pushing companies to give them better coverage. in sport, joy forjose — his manchester united side are through to the europa league final. they beat celta vigo 2—1 on aggregate to secure their place in the stockholm showpiece, later this month. good morning from all of us here at manchester's historic pool. how inviting does it look? it has been refilled for the first public 24 yea rs. refilled for the first public 24 years. more on the fight to bring these beautiful places back to life later on. there you to jump in. matt has the weather for us. actually, he doesn't, right now. he will be back later on. it is changeable, a bit misty in the south. you would be glad of an indoor swimming pool. first, our main story. thousands of weapons have been seized in schools across england and wales. they include swords, axes and airguns. some of the cases involved children as young as five. police chiefs said there had been a "worrying increase" in young people carrying knives. andy moore reports. some schools have taken to using metal arches to make sure no weapons are brought on to their premises. but figures obtained by the press association show that the number of seizures in the last year is up about 20% on the previous year. 32 out of 43 police forces in england and wales responded to freedom of information requests about weapons found in schools. the figures showed that 2,579 weapons were found in the two years to march this year. among them were samurai swords, axes and airguns. many of the children were below the age of ten, and one 5—year—old was caught with a knife. just one stab wound, that went straight in his heart. the national police chiefs council said the increase in young people carrying weapons was worrying. it said it wanted to educate people that carrying a weapon illegally is never acceptable. and we will be speaking about that much more throughout the programme this morning. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, will this morning give a speech on foreign affairs and insist he isn't a pacifist and he's prepared to use military force as a last resort. the prime minister will make her own pitch to traditional labour voters in the north—east of england. she'll accuse mr corbyn of deserting "patriotic working class people." 0ur political correspondent eleanor garnier is in westminster for us. eleanor, both leaders are addressing perceived weaknesses in theircampaigns? that is right. jeremy corbyn, remember, is a former chairman of the stop the war coalition, a long—standing critic of military intervention in iraq, syria and the denistone. today he is putting forward his case full being a potential world leader, saying that he is not a pacifist and is capable of ordering military action as a genuine last resort and only under international law. he will also have a p0p international law. he will also have a pop at theresa may, saying that she is pandering to donald trump, and saying that under him, labour's foreign policy would not involve holding the hands of the us president. theresa may is getting pretty personal today as well. her speech in the north—east of england is designed to win over people who have voted for labour generation after generation. she will accuse jeremy corbyn of turning his back on proud patriot it working class people. putting herself forward is the only candidate who can take the country through brexit negotiations. the lib dems are focusing on parenting today. they say that under them, dads would get an extra month of paid eternity leave. they are calling its daddy month. a former lib dem minister told us that it was all about putting forward equal parenting and putting a value on the amount of input that fathers can have in children's lives. , thank you. —— eleanor, thank you. donald trump has been defending his decision to sack the director of the fbi. in a tv interview last night he called him a showboat and a grandstander. in his first extensive television interview since he sacked the fbi's directorjames comey, he told the american network nbc news that he wasn't under investigation himself. 0ur washington correspondent laura bicker reports. he's become more famous than me! famous, or infamous? when did donald trump decide to sack the towering figure from the fbi? this presidential handshake not an act of friendship, it seems, but the beginning of the end forjames comey. he's a showboater, he's a grandstander. it wasn't on advice from the deputy attorney—general, as the white house stated, it came directly from the president. i was going to fire him. it was my decision. you had already made the decision? i was going to fire him. and another apparent contradiction. the white house claims that james comey had little or no support within the fbi. the rank and file of the fbi have lost confidence in their director. not so, said the acting fbi director, who was sitting in for his sacked boss before the senate intelligence committee. director comey enjoyed broad support within the fbi, and still does. at the heart of this row is the alleged collusion between the trump campaign and moscow. the president admits that russia was on his mind when he decided to fire comey. there was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, you know, this russia thing, with trump and russia, it's a made—up story, it's an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election. donald trump denies any collusion with russia and insists that despite sacking the head of the fbi, he wants any enquiry done properly and quickly. detectives investigating the death of a businessman, who was shot dead during a suspected burglary at his home in dorset, have made another arrest. police say a 45—year—old man from poole is being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary. three men have been charged with murdering guy hedger during the may day bank holiday weekend. it's the finals of the eurovision song contest tomorrow. last night ireland crashed out of the semifinals but the uk will be represented by the former x—factor contestant lucie jones in kiev. but there's speculation that brexit could affect the uk's chances of winning. steve rosenberg reports from the ukraine. love it or hate it, here's one european institution the uk is remaining in for now. it's the final of the eurovision song contest this saturday in kiev. lucie jones is flying the uk's flag, but will brexit mean that it meets its waterloo? let's face it. in recent years it has been hard enough for the united kingdom to get points from our european neighbours when we have been on speaking terms with them. but now that we are leaving the eu in an atmosphere of acute disharmony, will that condemn the uk to eternal loser in eurovision? they may be excited about eurovision in kiev, but britain's prime minister theresa may has warned that brexit could scupper the uk's eurovision party. well, is the prime minister a eurovision fan? i can't imagine her sat with her flag at home. honestly, whatever happens, happens. brexit is so far out of my hands and my control. the signs are that europe has not fallen out of love with britain. we have discovered that even the french love having the uk in eurovision. well — so that france wouldn't come last. france is very bad, but england is worse, it makes me happy. and being happy is what eurovision is all about. it is not the winning that counts. just as well. the uk hasn't won the contest for 20 years. eurovision is tomorrow night. we will beat the king lives to steve in kievjust after eight will beat the king lives to steve in kiev just after eight o'clock. will beat the king lives to steve in kievjust after eight o'clock. —— we will ease speaking. —— be speaking. imagine enjoying a swim in the ocean just off the coast of california when you hear this announcement... attention, in the water. this is the orange county sheriff's department. be advised, state parks is asking us to make an announcement to let you know you are paddle—boarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks. they are advising that you exit the water in a calm manner. ina calm in a calm manner. yeah, right. that's the orange county sheriff's department warning a group of paddle—boarders they're swimming next to 15 great white sharks. just to let you know. just 15. just thought you might want to be away ui next to a predator. you might want to calmly leave the water. a woman was bitten there last month, you would think people would be very, very much away. i couldn't get out of that water soon enough. that brings you up to date. matt will have the weather in around 10 minutes. it looks like the weather will be breaking over the next few days. not so much sunshine, but he will be talking about who will be hit by the rains soon. we're about half way through the general election campaign now with just over four weeks to go until polling day. the deadline's now passed for the political parties to officially field candidates. we'll be getting the official list of who is standing where on monday but let's chat about what we know so far with political analyst professorjohn curtice. good morning, john. thank you for joining us. good morning. what are you looking for, when you go through these potential lists on monday, of who is work, in terms of numbers and parties and who is fielding how many candidates, what are the biggest changes since the last election?” think undoubtedly the biggest changes will be that we will have fewer ukip candidates. last time around, ukip fought all the seats in england and wales. we already know that that will not be the case this time. we will also be interested to see how much the greens will be fighting this time. i believe that will also be less. lots of interest and speculation is already going on, because we can see the lists in many individual councils, as to what extent this standing down by ukip and the greens is simply an accident solve, you know, we simply cannot find a candidate or we do not have enough money to fight the election, and to what extent it is deliberate, ie trying to help out another party. we know that the greens will not be fighting in at least half of the constituencies that the liberal democrats are trying to defend, and in some cases that looks to be deliberate. there is not one constituency the lib dems are not going to fight, and that is brighton billion, whether greens want to hang onto their one and only seat equally, there is a lot of speculation that ukip are standing down in some places to help out the conservatives. that is some discussion with the brexiteer mps, they seem to be holding onto that promise. there are some places were ukip of standing against the lib dems, not to help the lib dems but to help the conservatives. and there are quite a few constituencies labour are trying to defend, where again, ukip are not putting up a candidate. how much of that is deliberate and how much is accidental is difficult to tell. but it will inevitably cause speculation as to whether it will make it more difficult for labour candidates to win their constituents, if people who would otherwise vote for ukip will switch the conservatives. so lots of speculation about consequences of this fact that there will be fewer green and ukip candidates. there seems to be considerably more obvious this time round. is that right? more parties deciding to field here, but not bad, that sort of thing. it might be more out of necessity rather than politics, as you said, but it is not trained in politics. yes and no is the answer to your question. at the end of the day there was lots of speculation about whether or not they would be co—ordination between they would be co—ordination between the greens, the liberal democrats and the labour party in terms of not standing down. labour are standing everywhere, apart from against the speaker in buckingham, which is tradition. the liberal democrats are mr dhanin won the seat. it has basically been the greens, who at basically been the greens, who at basically in favour of a soft brexit, unhappy about the uk leaving. ukip, of course, other party of brexit. it is those fringe parties who have to decide to make a decision about whether, in certain circumstances, they would prefer try to help somebody else when rather than stand a candidate themselves. relatively unusual, it has always been the case of smaller parties to not necessarily fight everywhere, and they were set to make a choice. we have also had the same kind of debate in northern ireland, as to what extent there would be, on the one hand, a pact between the parties who are opposed to northern ireland leaving the european union, that has not happened. sinn fein, as dlp, they are standing everywhere. with they are standing everywhere. with the unions, we are again seeing that the unions, we are again seeing that the ulster unionists are being given a free run by the democratic unionists. meanwhile, that is being reciprocated in north belfast. beyond that, again, we'll see unionist candidates fighting each other in the north. i think in the end we will find that there was a lot more speculation about pacts then we see in practice from get the full list of nominations. 0k, john, thank you. we are halfway through to the big night. humid. here we have the details from the roof of the bbc. good morning to you all. something else in the air, the lovely scent of wet ground. it is called. we have rain in the forecast. many gardeners and farmers will be rejoicing. yesterday we had showers with heavy thunder later. let's look at the details then because we have the air coming up from iberia and france. bands of cloud are sweeping the rain northwards. that band you can see stretching into wales and midlands is where we have rain. raining on and off at through the next few hours. brightening up towards the south after overnight rain but the rain will continue to edge northwards into north—west england in south—west scotland later. northern ireland sunshine and showers on. scotland should be largely die except a few showers in the west and with central scotland seeing the best of the sunshine again, highs of around 20 celsius. after a cloudy spell in northern england, the sunshine comes out with heavy thunder showers moving in. through the afternoon though showers in the midlands and east anglia will be pretty nasty with how mixed in. southernmost counties, very few showers in the forecast and many dry after the wet night. wash sunshine this afternoon, and quite humid but parts of cornwall and into the south—west wales will see further or rain at times. wales brightens up again with a few heavy showers that cannot be ruled out that the northern ireland there will be showers not through the day. predominantly cloudy with a little bit of sunshine. tonight it will be reining in scotland for once. rain on and off through the night and into the start of saturday. rain is wharf in northern ireland and parts of north—west england. elsewhere it should be largely dry, especially the further south and east you are. a cold start to the weekend and 11 degrees the general minimum. the northern half of the country, citing the week cloudy, misty and muggy across scotland with outbreaks of rain. it eases off to sunshine and a few clouds. warm enough in the sunshine as well. in sunday, overnight rain from east to west across the uk. the thunder has showers wide across the country will. most of the showers will be in the north—west of the country. you've been sending in photos of your retro gadgets. you know, the gadgets you do not use any more, they are little clunky. you think you may need them one day. vodafone have decided to stop making a pager. i used to have one as a reporter. it would buzz on your belt. and many nurses and doctors had them as well. you have been sending in photos from years gone boy. some of the mars still in use. —— some of them are still in use. barrie caney sent in a photo of his mario games from the 1980s. this is karl formstone's first mobile from the late ‘80s. jason crick sent us a photo of his minidisc player. graham richardson said he still uses this 14—year—old phone every day. dawda sanneh sent in this photo of her old game boy console. look, there is a picture of as behind it to prove that it is today. dawda sanneh sent in this photo of her old game boy console. lots of people signing here saying that they remember this. and look at this collection of retro phone from peter sappleton. i wonder what he does with all of those phones. he even has a frankie goes to hollywood t—shirt. those phones. he even has a frankie goes to hollywood t-shirt. hello? hello? i feel like we are in a bad 1987 movie. this is not actually a phone. children, this is what used to be called a cassette player. this was a cassette and you would put this in. you would take the top 40 highly illegally off radio one.” rememberdoing highly illegally off radio one.” remember doing that. you had to stop before the dj started. this is a television. and now we have a 52 inch hdtv. how about this? a pager. i thought i was so cool when i had a pager. i had won a university, can you believe it? ithought pager. i had won a university, can you believe it? i thought i was so cool. why would i need one? yes, why? i got it second hand. this is really humiliating... everybody referred to you is the guy with the pager? i think there could be some retro chic with pages. they have beenin retro chic with pages. they have been in the news this week because vodafone was the only network that still run a pager network and the point is that they want to get rid of it. the competition authority said no. it is still very valuable for people in the emergency services. good morning. i will bring you up—to—date with some other technology stories. a london firm which makes virtual reality games has had a massive boost — a £400m investment from a japanese bank. it's one of the largest ever investments in a british technology company. the business called ‘improbable' was only set up five years ago. the deal is seen as evidence the uk's technology sector can compete with the best around the world. and finally housing charity shelter say that half a million people are having to borrow money to pay the rent — that's one in three tenants. this includes credit cards, taking out loans or borrowing from family and friends. their research comes after the bank of england lowered growth forecasts and predicted a tighter squeeze on incomes this year. more than two thirds of businesses experience either ‘not—spots' or partial "not—spots" in their local area — that's where there is coverage from some but not from all networks. the british chamber of commerce — who conducted the survey — is calling on mobile firms to improve reception cani can ijust can i just say that you should have seen what is going on. this is perfect. i called be working in the city in the 19805 working with this. i think you could speak to the planet mars with this.” i think you could speak to the planet mars with this. i used to have a phone that you would pull the aerial out of. does anybody have four hp11 aerial out of. does anybody have four hp 11 batteries. they have a tape in, i want to know what is in it. i was trying to read my script and alli it. i was trying to read my script and all i could hear was used to linger around with that. one problem that you did not have with a ca55ette that you did not have with a cassette player like that or a phone like that was cyber crime, did you? it did not happen. such a modern technological i55ue. did you know you're more likely to be a victim of cybercrime than any other offence? it's one of the fastest growing areas of criminal activity. in the fightback, police forces are now offering detectives specialist training to help them catch cybercriminals — and the bbc‘s technology correspondent rory cellan—jones has been given access to one course. in a hotel room, a man who may be part of an international crime gang is preparing a cyber attack. his lair has all the tools of his trade and the police are on their way. but this is not a traditional forensic operation where you look forfingerprints... these police officers are being trained to catch cyber criminals and the hacker in the hotel is the exercise today, based on a real case. they have been given the skills to tackle the fastest—growing area of crime. some estimates say that up to half of all offences are now cyber. locate the router, find the router. the hacker in this room has popped out for a while and the trainee officers are about to arrive. let's see what evidence they can find. stay where you are! we have a warrant! they are taking it seriously. we're clear! it's not a smart tv, so you should be ok to unplug that. the first priority is to make sure that all the computers stay powered up and do not lock after a certain time. that way they can get access to data far more easily. what did you just discover? i'm still seeing one laptop and one phone. examining the router, they have discovered there is another device they have yet to spot. hidden under a tray, a tablet with more evidence. the techniques they are learning should make hunting hackers far more efficient. back in the day, on a scene like this for example the officers would turn up and literallyjust pull the electric supply out of the back of the computer, bag and tag it and then send it away from forensic investigation which could take months before they had any meaningful information back from the system. it's a case of learning skills, practical skills that we can utilise, no different to finding a gun at a scene that we can make safe for the public and then attribute to a criminal. we are doing the same with it equipment and computers. although people do not see this as the here and now i think it most certainly will be. these detectives are among thousands going through this type of training. as they try to keep up with a cyber crime wave that is getting bigger by the day. you do need to be very aware of that now, more than we used to be. time for the news, travel and weather where you are now. good morning from bbc london news, i'm sonja jessup. detectives have charged two men over as fatal stabbing in west london last weekend. a 23—year—old man was attacked during a fight involving up to six men in uxbridge on friday night. six months after a road started to collapse into a series of sinkholes in reading, residents still don't know when it will be repaired. it's thought a burst water main caused the holes to open up in december. people who live nearby are unable to park outside their homes. they've been in north london for more than a century — but tottenham hotspur will play their final game at white hart lane this weekend, before the ground is redeveloped. a farewell ceremony will follow their match against manchester united. some fans have been telling bbc london what the stadium means to them. there is a connectivity between the players and the crowd that you do not get at many clubs. i don't think you have added any other stadium in the country and that's what has made this place so special. it means the world to me. i have seen most of the greats here from the late 1950s and it is home to me. i love it. whenever i can get a ticket i am here. severe delays on the tube. disruption on southwest trains on the southbound line towards absent. taking a look out the north circular because we have westbound cues from sta ples because we have westbound cues from staples corner to the interchange. the m11 has cues as well heading into town from junction 5. and it is slow as well on the m4 into town. rain overnight at last. but it is still rather wet start to this morning. it is damp, misty and murky and quite muggy as well with a lot of mild air around that will eventually brighten up and we will see more heavy showers get going into the afternoon. a grey start to the day but gradually we will get some sunny spells coming through and it will feel warm with temperatures reaching 21 degrees but watch out for heavy showers are breaking out later on through the day. you could see torrential rain and a rumble or two of thunder. as we head into the evening and the overnight period then the showers will die off and it will feel fresher tonight. the air not quite as muggy and humid as as it is this morning. a pleasant day tomorrow. i would not rule out showers and should be mostly dry. but sunshine with temperatures at 20 degrees. the weather front will come through early but should be gone by the time we wake up. on sunday it will be fresher the possibility of heavy showers still good sunshine and very warm again next week. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. hello this is breakfast, with sally nugent and jon kay. thousands of weapons have been seized in schools across england and wales. figures provided by 32 police forces to the press association shows that in the last 2 years, more than 2,500 weapons had been found in schools including swords, axes and air guns. police chiefs say there's been a "worrying" increase in young people carrying knives. just after 8:00 we'll be discussing this with anti—violence campaigner barry mizen, whose teenage son jimmy was killed in 2008. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, will this morning give a speech on foreign affairs and insist he isn't a pacifistt. mr corbyn will say that he is prepared to use military force as a last resort. today the prime minister will also make her own pitch to traditional labour voters in the northeast of england. while the liberal democrats are announcing that they'd bring in an additional month of paid parental leave for fathers. the evidence shows that when men are more involved in fatherhood, there are huge benefits. it is betterfor child development. children do better at school. the health and well—being of the whole family is improved. what we want to do with this extra leave is make it easier for new fathers to spend time with their children from those very earliest weeks and months. detectives investigating the death of a businessman who was shot dead during a suspected burglary at his home in dorset have made another arrest. police say a 45—year—old man from poole is being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary. three men have been charged with murdering guy hedger during the may day bank holiday weekend. president trump says he wants a quick investigation into allegations of russian interference in the us elections. in his first extensive television interview since he abruptly sacked the fbi's directorjames comey, he told the american network nbc news that he wasn't under investigation himself. could man's best friend be a bear‘s worst enemy? here is a bear that has been making a nuisance of itself in san gabriel valley in southern califronia. its been going into gardens, chasing other wildlife, walking on walls, rooting through bins and generally scaring residents. just being a general will leave. going through the bins, scaring people, basically. yeah, look at that. but hang on a minute! it was not ready for that brave dog. he chased the bear down and he ran away. that is what you should do to all bullies, stare them down. brave dog. i don't think he had read the text books. they, it's not all about size. in fact, there are whole websites dedicated to this debate of which animal would beat which animal in the ring. and apparently the top trumps animal is the elephant. because it can just sit down on anything? well, it has got its tasks, it has got its weight. top trunks. yes, exactly. well, manchester united are into the europa league final. that is a trophy they have never won. it gets them into the champions league if they can beat ajax. manchester united beat celta vigo 2—1 on aggregate to reach the europa league final. they went into the second leg at old trafford with a single goal lead. and marouane fellaini doubled their advantage after quarter of an hour with a fantastic header. the spanish side had numerous chances to pull a goal back and facundo roncaglia did just that 5 minutes from time. the celta goalscorer was then sent off along with united's eric baie after a mass brawl. it means baie will miss the final. it was a nervy end for the home fans — look how close the spanish team came to winning it here, but united survived to reach the final in stockholm. they'll face dutch side ajax who, says mourinho, will have an advantage in their preparations. ajax plays the final, thinks about the final. their league finishes sunday and they will have 12 days to prepare. we still have three premier league matches to play. hopefully crystal palace doesn't need our last game. because in the last game i am going to make a lot of changes. chelsea will be crowned premier league champions for the second time in three seasons if they win at west brom tonight. they lead tottenham by seven points, and need just one win from three games to be certain of the title. the players are totally focused on the moment. they are feeling that this is an important moment for us, for the club, for the fans. we are ina good for the club, for the fans. we are in a good position, in a good position. but we mustn't forget that it will take two points to reach this target. everton manager ronald koeman is prepared to lose one of his star players if he doesn't sign a new contract soon. england midfielder ross barkley still has a year left on his current deal but koeman wants an answer from the player about his future by the end of the season in nine days' time. andy murray's difficulties since returning from injury have continued. he's been knocked out of the madrid open at the third round stage. the world number one was beaten in straight sets by the croatian, borna corich, who is the world number 59 — and only qualified for the tournament as a "lucky loser." murray has now failed to reach the quarter finals, in two of his last three tournaments. rory mcilroy is six shots behind the leader at the players championship in america, after a difficult first round. he finished one over par after a round of 73. masters champion sergio garcia, also ended the day on one over, but had a slightly more memorable round. mainly because he hit a hole—in—one on the 17th. he hadn't had the greatest round until then, he was 3 over par until this point, but he likes it, the crowd loves it. durham beat nottinghamshire, by 4 wickets in their one day cup match, but one astonishing six from alex hales stole the headlines. he managed a total of three, in his innings of 104. but with this one, he found the only open window in a radio commentary box. and the ball was picked up by one of the two gentlemen from the bbc covering the match. here's how it went for bbc radio nottingham's dave bracegirdle. commentator: hales hits this towards me — it's coming towards me, it's coming! it's coming to our commentary position! i've got it! wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow! that is his catchphrase from now on. actually, he is not as unlucky as edward bevan, who has been hitting the common terry box. he has been hit three times! it has come through the window, smashed the window, and hit him in the head. occupational hazard! yes, they should have to have an extra player on watch for the ball coming for him. i love it. i think the ball coming for him. i love it. ithink mike the ball coming for him. i love it. i think mike might also remember some of the next little gadgets we are going to be talking about. vhs players, fax machines and portable cassette players — the gadgets of years gone by, once cutting edge but now taken over by things like smartphones and tablet computers. the pager is a device most would put in that category but they're still used by some groups, such as workers in the emergency services, who value the beeper‘s reliability and wide coverage. there are only two providers left in the uk and now one of them, vodafone, has announced they're shutting the service down. i don't even really know what this is. we are going to find out. and thatis is. we are going to find out. and that is a pager. there are only two providers left in the uk and now one of them, vodafone, has announced they're shutting the service down. so does that mean the pager willjoin the other gadgets gathering dust? nigel linge, professor of telecommunications, is here to tell us more. that is a great title. good morning. good morning. so, have pages had it? pagers as a pager, yes. at i would say the function is not obsolete. i carry a smartphone with me every day which has all these functions integrated. what happens is that technology evolves and changes its shape and function. the pager divided an important function. that messaging function, as you said, lots of people still needed. it is a small group of people. the emergency services. we all remember pictures of doctors wearing the white coat with the pocket, a couple of pens and a pager. that was there to alert them that somewhere in the hospital they needed to be contacted. and in lots of hospitals you cannot use phones. no, you can't. but the pager and the mobile phone are different technologies. they work in a different frequency, on a different network. and in fact, the pager, in many ways, has better coverage. the pager itself basically changed the way we lived and worked, didn't it? it meant you could always be contacted. it was ok if you are near a phone, but the pager came with you. it is the early stages of the mobile technology, the wearable technology that you carry with you. with most users, the pager user was the business and professional user rather than us, the general public. but also, the design was quite innovative. this is like a phone, you are chatting away, but is it just a phone? you are chatting away, but is it justa phone? no! 0pen you are chatting away, but is it justa phone? no! open it you are chatting away, but is it just a phone? no! open it out and there is a whole keyboard inside it. that is a nokia communicator, one of the later versions. i feel like star trek. yes, indeed. it is also personal organiser, it has applications on there. that is really where you start to see the integration of technology. nokia we re integration of technology. nokia were not the first to do that. i brought along the ericsson. the ericsson r380, not the first company to integrate technology in this way, but the first to use that important word on the box to describe what this thing has become, the smartphone. just incredible. looking at your phone that you have brought m, at your phone that you have brought in, and this phone, from 30 years ago. yes, that is the brick, from 1987. what you could do on that, was make phone calls. what you can do on this tiny thing now, i mean, it controls your entire life. yes, but the thing in your left hand, the big one, is truly a mobile phone. that is all that did. there is no text capability. it is an analogue phone, it made phone calls. the thing in your right hand, the smartphone, that makes everything. the fact that it makes a phone call is incidental. it is my camera, diary, email, my television. we talked about the fact that making phone calls was way down the table of things that we use our mobile phones for. yes, in fact, mobile phones for. yes, in fact, mobile phones for. yes, in fact, mobile phone call minutes are declining every year. when we had that mobile phone i bet we never imagined that we would end up with a smartphone that runs your life. well, that was also £2500 when it first came out. that was another little problem. it is going to be about more integration. we see things like the smart watch. early days, starting to develop. we have got a bit more wearable technology. what is also changing is our interfaces. so now, things are more voice—activated. i bought a new smart television before christmas andl smart television before christmas and i can speak to it gentler to change the channel. voice activation... i have a wife to do that. careful! mrs kay, don't worry, i will clip around the year. anyway, all that sort of technology is going to continue to evolve and become more and more integrated. yes, it is unbelievable. we are not talking about phone technology alone, this is an old cassette player, some people say that they still listen to them and love them. well, vinyl records are selling again, surprisingly. maybe these things will never go away entirely.” surprisingly. maybe these things will never go away entirely. i think we need to bring ourselves back into the modern era right now. let's go to matt, who has the first of everything. matt? yeah, i'm with the technology here. we were scouring the bbc office and we found this. what a beauty. at least this one has a rewind button. can't you remember those days of rewinding a tape with a pencil? ask your parents. anyway, one bit of technology which has stood the test of time is the design of the umbrella. some of you may actually need that today. rain is backin actually need that today. rain is back in the forecast for the next few days. it has been a while, well over two weeks as we had any recorded. there will be heavy showers today, especially for england and wales. some of those will be foundry. rayudu get a sunshine, it will feel warm and humid. —— where you do. the change is because of where it is coming from. the air is coming up from spain, france and portugal, so it is inherently a little bit warmer. lots of cloud at the morning, and rain at the moment across the midlands and east anglia. fairly sporadic, pushing into north—west england around lunchtime. southern areas will brighten up a little bit. northern ireland, a bit of sunshine breaking through the cloud amid occasional rain. the best of the driest weather will be in scotland. this area is fairly cloudy and cool. west has a morning showers brightening up. it is in the central highlands where we could hit 20 degrees. after a spell of patchy rain through lunchtime in northern england, things bright and appear before heavy showers mid—on later. those thundery showers through england, wales and east anglia in the afternoon, some with hail as well. the southernmost counties of england, with the exception of cornwall, much of the day will be dry. temperatures up to 20. for wales, as well as rain returning to the south was later, after a brief bright spell, the rest of wales will see thunderstorms developing later on. we shouldn't get any thunder in northern ireland, but predominantly cloudy and the organs of sunshine. some occasional bursts of rain too. into tonight, rain affecting parts of northern ireland, northern england and scotland as well. turning misty across scotland. a fairly muggy night here compare to what we have been used to. further south it should stay dry. around 11 degrees on saturday. the start of the weekend, scotland, northern ireland and northern england cloudy to begin with, outbreaks of rain, slowly brightening through the still some showers around. the further south you are, you are publish they drive. 0nly south you are, you are publish they drive. only one of two light showers in the forecast. warmun the sunshine with high as in the midteens to the low 205. sunday, after a spell of overnight rain, showers fairly widespread. south—eastern area is probably the driest throughout. across scotland, northern ireland and northern england, the showers could be heavy and thundery. is it enough and sunshine comes out. into next week we could see temperatures climb up that little bit further across southern and eastern areas. mid- 205 across southern and eastern areas. mid— 205 possible, but only for a short while. that is your weekend forecast. as i said, a bit of welcome rain in the forecast for many of you over the next few days. that's a part of the country where your phone doesn't work — and research out this morning suggests a majority of small businesses have a not—spot in their local area. ben's here to explain how it can be bad for business. yes — this drives me mad — not being able to get phone signal. but as well as being annoying, it's affecting business. more than two thirds of firms say not being able to stay in touch is affecting trade including this firm in north wales. it isa it is a huge problem. we have installation teams we cannot reach, we do not know where they are and we cannot let clients know when they will be there. we use three g wherever we can on side so they send through pictures and checklists to make sure everything has been installed. the fact that we can not get those signals creates a huge problem. we pride ourselves on custom customer service and no phones in nor makes it difficult for us “— phones in nor makes it difficult for us —— and no phone signal makes that difficult for us. dan howdle is a telecoms expert with cable.co.uk and joins me now. there are three different ways that we understand mobiles and the uk. first, the coverage from providers. the coverage maps are calculated using a map. you have a mask and a cove rs a using a map. you have a mask and a covers a certain area and measures the topography because that plays a pa rt if the topography because that plays a part if there are hills in the wake and it gives you a rough idea of of where the signal hits. the problem is that as soon as you go inside a building with thick walls or a metal lift or something like that where things diminish. the second way of measuring youths... a report last week based on open signal data and thatis week based on open signal data and that is an app that people have on their phone takes a silent measure of this phone signal level. the problem is that people do not stand in the middle of a field to take a measurement. we have holes in that sort of data as well. and then the third way we understand it is through people '5 own experience which is different from all the rest. from day today we find there are times when you cannot get signal and it is quite annoying for us and for business if they cannot do their job and that is a worry. depending on the type of business, absolutely. this world is increasingly connected and it is increasingly difficult to do many types of business online. i can think of examples of people who are graphic designers all work in an industry where they are able to go and work at home so they think oh, what an ideal lifestyle. i will live in the country and do my work and then i can upload... no, that does not happen. so we see people calling on these phone phone companies to improve coverage. the reality can be sometimes different. we solve this problem. is putting up more of these masts? in wide open areas of countryside where there are very few hills, the problem is easy to solve. in inner cities where there are many buildings and man—made structures in the way they create these little pockets where there is no signal at all. the solution is simply to shrink down the technology and rather than having a master it have a small cell, a smaller version of the items that are attached to mobile masts that send and receive a signal and to dock them in places in the urban environment, on the side of buildings and, you know, on posts as street furniture, essentially. that gets us into a whole other argument which is that nobody wants them on their doorstep, do they? thank you for coming to talk to us. more from me after eight o'clock. many of britain's historic swimming pools have been closed over the years but now community groups are helping restore and re—open them for a new generation to enjoy. this weekend, one of the oldest pools in the uk will welcome swimmers for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century. jayne mccubbin is there — thinking of an early dip, jayne? it does look a glorious. good morning. isn't it beautiful? good enough to dive in although i won't. and, look at the gang up here. good morning. that is some of the 700 friends of victoria baths were fought to try and keep this place open. they are still fighting to get it open fully further public in the future. chris, it is still chilly down here, 19 degrees i am told although it will get hotter for the big swing this weekend. certainly it well. it will reach at least 27 degrees. listen, there are pools like this stoutly across the country that have not been reopened that are lying empty right now but the public, as you say, really is trying to fight back and save them. this is a special moment in the new history of this old pool. how excited are you for this moment? oh, really excited because it has been 24 years sinc the public has had access to the pool so i think it will be really good fun. this weekend, manchester's victoria baths will be filled with the sounds of swimming once again. another historic pools saved from closure by a dedicated team of local heroes. exactly what happened in leeds. we were afraid of losing it. here, in leeds, in 2013 the future of the pool was threatened. we were inspired by the people who did not want it to close and become a museum. it was a team effort. the public stepped up a bit and now support us. a rallying cry went out for volunteers to turn it around. today, it is run by the community as a social enterprise. how old are you? can i ask? iam 86. and you have been coming here since you were... ? since i was five. it was beautiful back then. it has always been like this. will you be coming here for quite sometime? i do hope so. i hope to hit 100 if i am lucky. in newcastle the community came together when the threat of closure turned into reality. when we heard that the turkish baths were going to close, i can't tell you the reaction. the site has been used by generations before me and i thought that future generations would not have use of it and that thought was so sad. this pool and the turkish baths which lie beneath closed in 2013. a victim of council cuts. another dedicated local campaign means that they will soon reopen. it is coming up towards its 100th year. it will have every chance now of moving into its second century. that does not happen often in this day and age. the pool is magnificent but this... this is the real gem, isn't it? when you came down those stairs with the towel you are going down into a place of rest and relaxation. the jewel in the crown of the pool. so, early next year after a £5 million redevelopment by a charity this place will reopen. britain has lostjust under half of its historic pools. campaigns like this are a race against time. it is sad, isn't it? i mean, look at the detail. all over the country there are places like this. historic pools registry records says that there was once about 370. today, only are about 200. i am hearing from social media that you are disappointed that these beautiful pools are closed. so many have not been as lucky as this place and they have not been able to reopen. let me bring gill in now and who is part of the historic pools organisation. why are so many lying empty when people love them? the buildings can be challengers. we had to spend £30 million on this and many people would just give up. but we are determined that this building shall not be lost. it is so important to manchester and the country. the finest swimming pool in the country. beautiful architecturally and history historically. this is not all bad news story. many pools are reopening. look at this. croissants and coffee for the workers this morning. neil, this is part of your history, this place. you learn to swim here. it wasjust history, this place. you learn to swim here. it was just fantastic. history, this place. you learn to swim here. it wasjust fantastic. we used to have our galas in this pool and the children were shouting and screaming, you know... that they we re screaming, you know... that they were bouncing off these tiles. 0h, yes. how about in 1993 when it closed? that was quite sad. people we re closed? that was quite sad. people were campaigning in trying to get it reopened. we succeeded in 2003 with the restoration to start doing part of the building. but it is a work in progress, isn't it? they still have a long way to go. doesn't it look gorgeous? we need to see jane having ajump in there gorgeous? we need to see jane having a jump in there by the end of the programme. i don't think she well. we will have the headlines for you ina we will have the headlines for you in a moment but first let's get the news, travel and weather from your local area. good morning from bbc london news, i'm sonja jessup. detectives have charged two men over as fatal stabbing in west london last weekend. a 23—year—old man was attacked during a fight involving up to six men in uxbridge on friday night. six months after a road started to collapse into a series of sinkholes in reading, residents still don't know when it will be repaired. it's thought a burst water main caused the holes to open up in december. people who live nearby are unable to park outside their homes. you need to press about 4 or 5 times to come up with a timescale. the reason they told us each time that they could not is because there is a contractor on board. there is a lot of frustration because people do not see anything happening. they've been in north london for more than a century — but tottenham hotspur will play their final game at white hart lane this weekend, before the ground is redeveloped. a farewell ceremony will follow their match against manchester united. now if you're eating a banana for your breakfast you might want to look away now. this 5cm camouflaged spider popped out of a bunch in brent. it had travelled 5,000 miles from colombia with the bananas, all the way to north london. let's have a look at the travel situation now. severe delays on the tube. disruption on southwest trains on the southbound line towards epsom. taking a look out the north circular because we have westbound queues from staples corner to the interchange. rain overnight at last. but it is still rather wet start to this morning. it is damp, misty and murky and quite muggy as well with a lot of mild air around that will eventually brighten up and we will see more heavy showers get going into the afternoon. a grey start to the day but gradually we will get some sunny spells coming through and it will feel warm with temperatures reaching 21 degrees but watch out for heavy showers are breaking out later on through the day. you could see torrential rain and a rumble or two of thunder. as we head into the evening and the overnight period then the showers will die off and it will feel fresher tonight. the air not quite as muggy and humid as as it is this morning. a pleasant day tomorrow. i would not rule out showers and should be mostly dry. but sunshine with temperatures at 20 degrees. the weather front will come through early but should be gone by the time we wake up. on sunday it will be fresher the possibility of heavy showers still good sunshine and very warm again next week. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. hello, this is breakfast with sally nugent and jon kay. thousands of weapons have been seized from schools. they include samurai swords, axes and air guns, and involve children as young as five. good morning, it's friday may 12th. also this morning: jeremy corbyn insists he's not a pacifist and he'll be strong on defence, as theresa may targets traditional labour voters. a big boost for british tech. japan invests £400 million in a british startup, one of the biggest investments of its kind. i'll speak to the boss to find out how they'll use the money. i will report from key overhead of the eurovision song contest grand final tomorrow. will brexit scupper our chances or will our entry strike a chord with european neighbours? in sport: joy forjose. his manchester united side are through to the europa league final. they beat celta vigo 2—1 on aggregate, to secure their place in the stockholm showpiece later this month. we will be live at manchester's beautiful historic victoria bus. good morning, everybody. they reopen for the first public swim in the record of the century. they will have more on that in a little while. eurovision maybe tomorrow but today the forecast comes with thunderstorms and maybe just a little bit humid and if you're making your mind up what to do this weekend i will have the full forecast in 15 minutes. nil points! good morning. first, our main story. thousands of weapons have been seized in schools across england and wales. they include swords, axes and air—guns. some of the cases involved children as young as five. police chiefs said there had been a "worrying" increase in young people carrying knives. andy moore reports. some schools have taken to using metal arches to make sure no weapons are brought on to their premises. but figures obtained by the press association show that the number of seizures in the last year is up about 20% on the previous year. 32 out of 43 police forces in england and wales responded to freedom of information requests about weapons found in schools. the figures showed that 2,579 weapons were found in the two years to march this year. among them were samurai swords, axes and air guns. at least 47 children were below the age of ten, and one five—year—old was caught with a knife. just one stab wound, that went straight in his heart. the national police chiefs council said the increase in young people carrying weapons was worrying. it said it wanted to educate people that carrying a weapon illegally is never acceptable. we'll be discussing this in just a moment with anti—violence campaigner barry mizen, whose teenage son jimmy was killed in 2008. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, will this morning give a speech on foreign affairs and insist he isn't a pacifist and he's prepared to use military force as a last resort. the prime minister will make her own pitch to traditional labour voters in the northeast of england. she'll accuse mr corbyn of deserting "patriotic working class people". 0ur political correspondent is in westminsterfor us. what are their tactics? we are going to see some pretty personal attacks today. jeremy corbyn, a long—standing critic of military intervention in iraq, afghanistan and syria and the former chair of the stop the war coalition, is putting forward a case for himself as being a future world leader saying he is not a pacifist and he is capable of ordering military action as long as it is a genuine last resort and under international law. he is going to have a pop at theresa may by saying she has been pandering to donald trump and any labourforeign pandering to donald trump and any labour foreign policy under him would not involve holding the hand of the us president. may—mac is getting personal as well. her speech in the rockies of england is designed to win over people who have voted labour for generations. she will sayjeremy corbyn has turned his back on the working class people and put herself forward as the only candidate that can take the country through the brexit negotiations. the liberal democrats say that under them fathers would get an extra month of paid paternal leave saying this would highlight the importance of shared parental responsibilities and the value that dads can have in children's lives. halfway through the election campaign apparently. another have to go. detectives investigating the death of a businessman, who was shot dead during a suspected burglary at his home in dorset, have made another arrest. police say a 45—year—old man from poole is being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary. three men have been charged with murdering guy hedger during the may day bank holiday weekend. donald trump has been defending his decision to sack the director of the fbi. in a tv interview last night he called him a showboat and a grandstander. in his first extensive television interview since he sacked the fbi's directorjames comey, he told the american network nbc news that he wasn't under investigation himself. 0ur washington correspondent laura bicker reports. he's become more famous than me! famous, or infamous? when did donald trump decide to sack the towering figure from the fbi? this presidential handshake not an act of friendship, it seems, but the beginning of the end forjames comey. he's a showboater, he's a grandstander. it wasn't on advice from the deputy attorney—general, as the white house stated, it came directly from the president. i was going to fire him. it was my decision. you had already made the decision? i was going to fire him. and another apparent contradiction. the white house claims that james comey had little or no support within the fbi. the rank and file of the fbi had lost confidence in their director. not so, said the acting fbi director, who was sitting in for his sacked boss before the senate intelligence committee. director comey enjoyed broad support within the fbi, and still does. at the heart of this row is the alleged collusion between the trump campaign and moscow. the president admits that russia was on his mind when he decided to fire comey. there was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided tojust do it, i said to myself, you know, this russia thing, with trump and russia, it's a made—up story, it's an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election. donald trump denies any collusion with russia and insists that despite sacking the head of the fbi, he wants any enquiry done properly and quickly. a london firm which makes virtual reality games has had a massive boost, a £400 million investment from a japanese firm. it's one of the largest ever investments in a british technology company. the business, called improbable, was only set up five years ago. the deal is seen as evidence the uk's technology sector can compete with the best around the world. we will be talking to the boss in about ten minutes. imagine enjoying a swim in the ocean just off the coast of california when you hear this announcement. attention, in the water. this is the orange county sheriff's department. be advised, state parks is asking us to make an announcement to let you know you are paddle—boarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks. they are advising that you exit the water in a calm manner. like you are going to be after that! that's the orange county sheriffs department warning a group of paddle—boarders they're swimming next to 15 great white sharks. i like that. they are advising that you exit the water. get out! 15. you would wonder how they did not spot them. a woman was bitten in the area at the end of april. she's arrived. i would not be getting back in the water. it's the finals of the eurovision song contest tomorrow. last night ireland crashed out of the semi finals. the fourth year running that ireland have failed to meet, make the finals. the uk will be represented by the former x—factor contestant lucie jones in kiev. but there's speculation that brexit could affect the uk's chances of winning. 0ur moscow correspondent steve rosenberg is live for us in kiev this morning. are we heading for nil points?” hope not. we have a great song and a great singer. you need the whole package. everything. ithink great singer. you need the whole package. everything. i think lucy johns is a very strong contender. she's edgy was a little bit nervous and she wants to do our country proud and i think that is going to happen. good brexit put people off about? that is what theresa may said about? that is what theresa may said a couple of days ago. she said current circumstances could affect the amount of points the uk could get but remember it is not the eu contest or begin a paean contest, it is the eurovision and there are countries taking part like israel and australia. i have been speaking to fa ns and australia. i have been speaking to fans from across europe and to journalists from across europe and there is still of love out there for britain and the united kingdom and people appreciate that our country is famous for pop music and popular culture and a lot of people across europe wants the uk to take eurovision seriously and to do well. i was completely distracted by what we are seeing, the semi—finals on the television. these are some of the television. these are some of the more normal ones. there are some white key acts out there.” the more normal ones. there are some white key acts out there. i do not know what you mean! is there anything strange about standing on a ladder wearing a course's head? we are so used to talking to you as our moscow correspondent but eurovision is your passion. absolutely. this reminds me of the swedish winner. you learn something new about people everyday. i did not realise he was atan everyday. i did not realise he was at an expert. his party pieces he can play on the piano anything that has won the eurovision contest over whatever that is, 60 years, he can play it on the piano. that is a level of devotion i was not aware of. it looked beautifully sunny there. this is what it is like in glasgow, looking lovely. a nice bit of sunshine. there is a bit of rain around this morning after a dry couple of weeks. the sun was shining on glasgow. we are flying the flag for gardeners and farmers because we desperately need the rain and it is in the forecast. if you are after rain, some of the showers could be heavy and fungi and in between it is going to feel quite humid. the weather is coming from the south. close working northwards. that is a cross east anglia. 0utbreaks northwards. that is a cross east anglia. 0utbrea ks of northwards. that is a cross east anglia. outbreaks of rain here for the rest of the rush—hour and the morning and pushing into northern parts of england. a few parts of rainfor parts of england. a few parts of rain for northern ireland. the driest weather in scotland. this afternoon in the sunshine the central highlands could be 20 degrees. rain for dumfries and galloway. brightening up for northern england before heavy showers moving for the evening rush—hour. under a showers for the midlands and east anglia which could be nasty and places. quite a lot of rain and a short space of time. feeling humid once the sun is out. western parts of cornwall we will see some rain on and off through the day and some of that will spread into the south west of wales this afternoon. across the rest of wales afternoon. across the rest of wales after a cloudier spell sunshine for after a cloudier spell sunshine for a time then heavy and thundery showers. showers not quite thundery in northern ireland but they will come and go throughout the day. tonight the showers will fade away especially the thundery showers across england and wales but it will turn dump across scotland, northern ireland and wales. temperatures foremost in double figures. saturday, scotland, northern ireland, northern england, predominantly cloudy, misty across the hills of scotland. things will slowly brighten up to sunshine and a few showers. much of england and wales it will be largely dry with some sunshine, one or two isolated showers. 0vernight rain spreading from west to east and on sunday sunshine and showers across the country, some heavy and thundery, particularly scotland, northern ireland and north—west england. feeling warm in the sunshine. save all your kisses for me because i have 25 degrees next week! somebody else with a detailed knowledge of your vision. i reckon somebody was not very early getting ready for those. —— with a detailed knowledge of eurovision. children as young as five years old have been found with weapons at schools across england and wales. out of the 45 forces in england and wales, 32 provided data. since april 2015 they found more than 2,000 weapons in schools. —— since april 2015 they found more than 2,500 weapons in schools. at least one in five were knives. 0thers included samurai swords. they have also heard about taxes and airguns being confiscated. we are joined in the studio by an anti—violence campaign barry mizen. and the national police chief's council's lead for knife crime, chief constable alf hitchcock. barry, you know about the unexpected consequences. tell us what happened to your son, consequences. tell us what happened to yourson,jimmy. consequences. tell us what happened to your son, jimmy. it was nine weeks ago today. he went to the ba kery weeks ago today. he went to the bakery in the morning. he was attacked by a well—known local person of violent character. he had a glass dish. he smashed it in his face. it went through his neck. he died within a few minutes. totally unprovoked. a totally innocent young man. horrible thing to have happened. when you hear these figures about the numbers of weapons, all kinds that have been found in schools, and children as young as five have had some of them, probably not even realise what could happen if you have these things. what goes through your mind when you contemplate what you've been through? we are focusing on the wrong area. absolutely fine, take the weapons away, but if we keep thinking about the end result rather than the beginning, why are young people carrying weapons, what is the need, what is the path some young people are going down? a lot of the perpetrators have an ever—growing history of more and more criminal behaviour, if you like. are we doing enough early enough? i don't think we are. we are focused so much of punishment. yes, there must be consequences, but what happened in their lies to get them to the way they are now? i hope you can hear what barry is saying. is it the case that once the knife is in the child's hand, or bag, going into school, it is simply too late, you have to start your work much sooner than that? absolutely correct. spot on. knife crime for us is an issue of parenting. it's an issue of peer group. those two factors in child psychology development will affect the child. once you get to the point where they are taking a knife to school you are too late. the police service in particular are right at the end of the process when everything else in society has failed, we deal with it. you have got to do as barry said, get in right at the start. you say it is parenting and peer groups, but it is also at issue of policing, what should the police be doing? the police work closely with schools. we work closely with the local councils. we in force. we have something called operation septa, which is a combination of intelligence, education, and enforcement. we are working very ha rd enforcement. we are working very hard in this area. we are at the end of the process, not the start. barry, you go into schools, you talk to young people about your experiences, jimmy, what your family has been through. what do you see change ina has been through. what do you see change in a young audience when you tell your story? how much impact can it have? the vast majority of young people, we should be proud of them, love them and nurture them. we get a great deal of empathy. there has been change in behaviour. the worry as we are focusing at the end result. what is going on in some young lives? what can we do? the worst thing we can do is ignore it and have an annual knife count and think that will solve the problem. such a big question. it is. it touches all part of life. absolutely. if we can change the narrative. 0k, absolutely. if we can change the narrative. ok, this has happened, we are annoyed, these are the consequences. but that isn't enough. what is going on in young people's lives to get to this point? from the report we hear that people as young as five are being spoken to. i know children at the age of eight and nine are having to learn more about knife crime and knife culture. in your experience, how bad is it? we have found from research that the peak offending pages used to be 16 to 17. what we have found with research more recently is that the peak offending age is moving downwards. we see the range going from 14, 15, 16, 17. that is the peak area. there are these outliers. sometimes the younger children are used to carrying for older children. they are learning from their siblings. they are learning from their peer groups. these cases are worrying. you don't catch those young people now, they will go on to be more serious offenders. thank you very much indeed. and barry, thank you for coming in and talking to us aboutjimmy. we have a business story now. it is saturday... it is friday... what did i say? saturday. sorry, i'm normally hear on a saturday. laughter not the weekend just yet. then his —— ben is here to talk about this. improbable, that is a firm you probably haven't heard about, but they create virtual reality software. it has attracted lots of interest. it has 180 staff. it is one of the biggest investments ever a tech start in europe. so let's speak to the chief executive of improbable herman narula. good morning. congratulations are in orderfirst. as we good morning. congratulations are in order first. as we said, people orderfirst. as we said, people may not have heard of you. we said you area not have heard of you. we said you are a virtual reality gaming company but it isn't just are a virtual reality gaming company but it isn'tjust about games, is it? not at all. what we are building could be the foundation of a new industry, the ability to make mass simulations for the world. to make better decisions, even doing your research. let's talk about that. i've been looking at some of what you do. ifind it fascinating. you may be looked at a city, think maybe we need to put in a new road, but what impact will it have, will it make the traffic worse? it is the everyday scenarios you can model out in this virtual world. absolutely. and things like economic policy. these are things large—scale simulation can make an impact in. this japanese firm have invested a lot of money in you, what will you do with it? our vision is eventually to enable the ability to create huge wealth millions of people can participate in. that won't be easy. it will involve a lot of technical investment, a huge amount of additional research, and a lot of people. this is about laying the foundations for a long—term journey. what does japan get out of this? we have a convergence of vision. they wa nt to have a convergence of vision. they want to make big progressive technologies to make an impact on the world. like a lot of investors out there in that space. this is a convergence of vision for us. you started in 2012. well, the firm did. forgive me, you look pretty young to have a £400 million investment. what does it mean for you and the company? for us it is a huge validation of the journey we started a few years ago just out of college. it is an indication that the market we perceive is bigger than we imagine. it is great for me to continue to bring together some of the best people in the world to make this happen. people like my co—founders have sort of helped to galvanise us. and the additional funding will help go further. thanks very much. it is also about confident in tech in this country. we've heard a lot about what companies are doing well. £400 million, one of the biggest investments into a british start—up company from japan. we are going to stay with technology, in a way. retro technology. everybody loves this. this morning we're talking about retro gadgets after the news that vodafone are going to stop making pagers. remember those? still being used by some people though. you had one, didn't you? idid you had one, didn't you? i did come as a reporter. ben had one when he was a student. yes, that bothers me. you've been sending in photos of your favourite bits of tech from years gone by. stuart sent in a photo of his 1983 apple computer, the first one apple made — and it still works! you can see that on the screen, it is still working. this is maria's vintage walkman brian still uses this phone, he got it almost 20 years ago! what is the music? labyrinth soundtrack. brilliant. brian still uses this phone. he got it 20 years ago. i bet he did not use it to send us the picture. we've had a message from abby, a junior doctor in kendal — she still carries three pagers every day! i wonder why three. battery life? one doctor earlier said in hospitals you cannot have your phone near imported equipment. the pager can still be used for communication. because it doesn't send out a signal constantly. i would love to hear more about that as doctors are still using them. we have been hearing about cassette players, minidisks, mobile phones as big as yourarm. my big as yourarm. my first computer was a spectrum. i don't even know if it did anything. commodore 64, was that one? we will continue. we will continue. we are going up to the we are going to get some rain over the next couple of days or so. we have drizzle working northwards and then a slow brightening coming through which will trigger quite a few heavy showers. this afternoon we could see some patchy rain returning to devon and cornwall which will dampen down the temperatures. otherwise, quite warm, 19 or 20, but some heavy showers, slow—moving, hailand some heavy showers, slow—moving, hail and thunder, mainly north of the m4. eventually for northern england behind the band of rain and light drizzle. showers at times for northern ireland, brighton around the middle of the day, the best of the middle of the day, the best of the sunshine in north—west scotland. every showers running into northern england this evening will fade away. in scotland it could be quite misty over the hills. quite a warm night. not as humid in the south as it was last night. wetter weather across the northern half of the uk on saturday morning with showery bursts of rain being confined to scotland. one showers for england and wales but most places enjoying some sunshine. still quite warm, temperatures into the high teens. there is some rain arriving in western areas around dusk on the weather front. it should western areas around dusk on the weatherfront. it should not last long. not a weatherfront. it should not last long. nota huge weatherfront. it should not last long. not a huge amount of rain and it moves through quickly and they may get cooler air on the south—westerly breeze on sunday. sunshine and showers sums it up. heaviest was the north. temperatures likely to be in the mid—teens. this is business live from bbc news with tanya beckett and rachel horne. zooming exports and crumbling classrooms. the paradox of germany's lopsided economy. live from london, that's our top story on friday 12th may. growth accelerates in europe's biggest economy but is germany becoming too reliant on exports? we'll get an expert view. has donald trump opened the door to trade with china? beijing gives the green light to certain us exports. we'll cross live to asia for the latest reaction.