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This is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all of the main news stories at the top of the hour straight after this news programme. across the uk, people are on strike. in england... there is a growing anger in this country. ..scotland... the workers united will never be defeated! ..northern ireland... horns sound ..and wales. how are people going to pay these bills? i workers spent more days on strike in 2022 than at any time since the 1980s. unions and bosses are further apart than ever. so why are they striking and is there an end in sight? these strikes are completely unnecessary. i'm...

The presenter and journalist, 71, launched the morning programme as Breakfast Time alongside Frank Bough in 1983.

As you can see, our home is very, very relaxed and informal and we really do think... the feel of the show was rather cosy. even the dress code. jumpers. yes. i am not sure that we said to frank, wear a jumper. i think frankjust decided to put on a jumper. i am sure there was disapproval. oh, i'm sure there was because people have an expectation. you know, this is a news programme, it is the bbc, therefore it will be formal, therefore it will be ties and jackets and all of that and it will be behind a desk. nevertheless, by the end of the show the champagne was... oh, my giddy aunt! ..explodin...

And the end product was not bbc suits and ties. as you can see, our home is very, very relaxed and informal and we really do think... the feel of the show was rather cosy. even the dress code. jumpers. yes. i am not sure that we said to frank, wear a jumper. i think frankjust decided to put on a jumper. i am sure there was disapproval. oh, i'm sure there was because people have an expectation. you know, this is a news programme, it is the bbc, therefore it will be formal, therefore it will be ties and jackets and all of that and it will be behind a desk. nevertheless, by the end of the show th...

And shouldn't cover in terms of those issues, such as what i would say is about raising awareness. i mean, look at kevin sinfield. it began two years ago as going out for a run with six people and ended up with 67,000 people and several million on television cheering him into the final, the rugby league world cup final, after he'd run seven ultramarathons in seven days. but what it did was focus and attention on that issue. we've done the same with prostate cancer. we had viewers contacting us about a guy called garry mccarthy who had run 365 marathons in 365 days because he wanted to raise aw...