27-year-old transport manager with London Underground, wins the first series of The Apprentice. His prize is a £100,000 job with Sugar's firm, Amstrad. 5–6 May – Coverage of the 2005 general election is shown on British television. The Labour Party attains a third successive General Election victory. 7 May – Family Affairs wins Best Storyline at the British Soap Awards for a story in which a couple discover a family friend has been abusing their daughter. 9 May – Corpus Christi College, Oxford wins the 2004–05 series of University Challenge, beating University College London 250–140. 13 May – To celebrate the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II in 2006, Rolf Harris is to create an oil portrait of her as part of a special edition of his BBC One show Rolf on Art, it is announced. The programme airs on New Year's Day 2006. 16 May – BBC Weather relaunches, changing from 2D to 3D graphics. ITV launches Love Island, a rival to Big Brother. This appears to be a ratings flop. 19 May – Eammon Holmes has signed a deal with Sky News to present their early morning programme Sky News Sunrise, it is reported. 21 May – Greece's Helena Paparizou wins the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest with "My Number One". 23 May – Over one-third of BBC staff join a strike in response to proposed job cuts at the corporation. 26 May – BBC One airs a special edition of Question Time from Paris, France, ahead of the French referendum on the European Constitution. 29 May – BBC One airs the final edition of Breakfast with Frost after a twelve-year run. 30 May – STV launches across Scotland replacing the previously separate services of Scottish and Grampian. Fifi and the Flowertots a new stop motion animated series for children created by Keith Chapman the creator of Bob the Builder begins its screening on Five. 31 May – David Easter, who plays villain Pete Callan in Family Affairs, is to leave the series in September, it is announced. June 18 June – Christopher Eccleston's final episode of the Ninth Doctor in Doctor Who, "The Parting of the Ways", is broadcast on BBC One. David Tennant becomes the Tenth Doctor in the same episode. 20 June – Former nightclub owner Fran Cosgrave and presenter Jayne Middlemiss win the first series of Love Island. 25 June – The Girl in the