After the window was put up in westminster abbey. We loved it here, and i suggested tojp this would be a great place to draw and paint the arrival of spring. There are apple, pear, cherry and plum blossom, with hawthorn and blackthorn. East yorkshire only had blackthorn and hawthorn. We found this house with a large garden that was cheaper than anything in sussex. We bought it. I began straight away, drawing on a japanese foldout book. I drew all around the house and then i drew the house itself. These were exhibited in new york in september 2019. Being a smoker, i do not care for new york, so i never went. We came back here to normandy on march the 2nd. I began drawing the winter trees on my new ipad. Then the virus started. I went on drawing the winter trees that eventually burst into blossom. This is the stage were at right now. Meanwhile, the virus is going mad and many people said my drawings were a great respite from what was going on. Why are my ipad drawings seen as a respite from the news . Well, they are obviously made by the hand, depicting the renewal that is the spring. I intend to carry on with my work, which i now see is very important. We have lost touch with nature rather foolishly, as we are part of it, not outside it. This will in time be over, and then what . What have we learned . Im 83 years old. I will die. The cause of death is birth. The only real things in life are food and love, in that order, just like our little dog, ruby. I really believe this, and the source of art is love. I love life. All my love, david h. That was David Hockneys letter to will gompertz. Time for a look at the weather. Heres darren bett. Hello. It should be frost free tonight. A lot of cloud spilling down across the uk. A few pockets of light rain and drizzle. Later, heavier showers returning to Northern Ireland and the north and west of scotland. Clearer skies or eastern scotland and north east england later but with the wind picking up, it should be frustrate. No frost across southern england because of the cloud so a different start to the day tomorrow. A lot of cloud again tomorrow, some sunshine here and there, showers coming in on a freshening breeze, some heavier ones further north and for a while, snow to quite low levels in scotland before the showers ease off during the afternoon. Some stronger wind on the afternoon. Some stronger wind on the way tomorrow, particularly in scotla nd the way tomorrow, particularly in scotland where we have gales or even severe gales in the north of scotland. That is really going to make it feel cold. Probably the best temperatures across eastern parts of england where it should be largely dry and bright. Tomorrow night, it becomes drier in many areas. The wind is dropping as well so we could start friday with a touch of frost across scotland and Northern England in particular. Through the day, cloud tending to increase. It may well lead to a scattering of showers, particularly across the northern half of the uk and just about cold enough for some wintry weather over the hills of scotland, where temperatures will peak at around seven or eight. Further south and back down to a high of ii or 12. Some big changes on this weekend. Light winds on friday because of that area of high wbr id wbr2050 pressure. That will move away into continental europe. On saturday, the breeze will be freshening, the wind direction changing to more of a southerly, really picking up during sunday, drawing in some warmer air head of that weather front which will eventually bring some rain. It should be generally dry on saturday. Those temperatures peaking at about 13 degrees. Some western parts will see some rain on sunday, windy weather, to but in the sunshine that is, we could get temperatures of 19 01 is, we could get temperatures of 19 or 20 celsius. Thats all from the bbc news at six. On bbc one, we nowjoin the bbcs news teams where you are. Goodbye. b good evening, with the latest news, are you forjoining us. It was feeling increasingly inevitable, now its been confirmed. Wimbledon is cancelled for the First Time Since world war ii. It was due to start at the end ofjune, but the entire Grass Court Season has now been abandoned because of the coronavirus pandemic. Wimbledons the latest major summer sporting event to be called off, with euro wbrid wbr2650 2020 and the Tokyo Olympics postponed for 12 months. Heres our sports correspondentjoe wilson. There is a particular poignancy to this shutdown. For many wimbledon is not just a sporting this shutdown. For many wimbledon is notjust a sporting event, it is frankly summer. One match could stretch towards five hours, while evening sunshine is essential. It is scheduled to play over the years longest days. And trying to rearrange the championships for later in 2020 would not be feasible a nyway later in 2020 would not be feasible anyway because they anticipate government restrictions continuing for many months. The people, supplies and services legally required to stage the championships will not be available at any point this summer, thus reeling out postponement, a statement explained. It is the right decision, all the guidelines, keeping people safe and in terms of the news it is not surprising that you know, there is also a part of me that hopes to play, it looks forward to play so it is saddening and a bit disappointing. There has always been a wimbledon, and only the war years. The tannish. In essence it always remained the scene Dominic Thiem so missing wimbledon will be like missing wimbledon will be like missing a friend. That familiar we long for us. Practically speaking there was no way to do it and be safe. Even against each other, it was too many unknowns at the moment, but what we do know is pretty scary. From grass courts to grassroots it is worth remembering all tennis is currently suspending the mexes ended. Even local ones are close down on government advice. Waiting patiently has always been part of wimbledon, there is the queue. Right now we stand together by staying apart. The year can fly and the Wimbledon Court is going nowhere. Im joined by the two time wimbledon doubles champion jamie murray. Thank you forjoining us. We have heard from others there, and how does it feel to have no wimbledon or grass currency season does it feel to have no wimbledon or grass currency season at all . Does it feel to have no wimbledon or grass currency season at alum does it feel to have no wimbledon or grass currency season at all . It is strange obviously but these are extraordinary times and i guess it was inevitable and they were going to ta ke was inevitable and they were going to take that decision. Martina navratilova was saying itll be a mental challenge for players now with no tennis for the forseeable future. How are you doing here dealing with this downtime . It is a big mindset shift, we are obviously travelling the world from january three to november and use to being in different cities every week, new surroundings and new people every other week and you kind of become institutionalized to that. So for example, even when i am touring and it is friday or saturday, your mind sta rts it is friday or saturday, your mind starts to be ready to move on to the next event. So suddenly to be told that youre going to be stuck at home forfive months in that youre going to be stuck at home for five months in a that youre going to be stuck at home forfive months in a row is that youre going to be stuck at home for five months in a row is a big mind set shift for sure. We are seeing shots of wimbledon at the moment and what we will be missing out on this year and have you made your piece a while ago, did you see this decision coming . your piece a while ago, did you see this decision coming . I think so. You know we have so many unknowns and restrictions in place as to what we can do and who knows when they are going to be relaxed, onto the that people can start to go back to normal life. Let alone hosting big sporting events or music events, Public Events and things like that. So for me it was kind of always on the cards sadly. Wimbledon means a lot to a lot of people but i think in these current times it is important that we do what we can to try to get over this virus and get the world back to normal. What are you preparing for and your mind . We have the us open scheduled to start at the end of august and the french openin at the end of august and the french open in september and you think it is realistic to see tennis again this year . It is very difficult for me to say. I do not know any more than you do in terms of everything thatis than you do in terms of everything that is going on in the world and when things will pass and then we will start to slowly move back and get back to normal lives. So, us open isi get back to normal lives. So, us open is i think supposed to be the last week of august for week of september and i think they are may be behind us in terms of where they are at in terms of the pandemic so when you put it back a few weeks you tell me a month after it decreases at we will be having events that have 100,000 people come and visit them, it is difficult to imagine that. But i guess that is what they are still planning for for the moment. Wejust have are still planning for for the moment. We just have to wait and see. We are in limbo like everyone else is. Jamie murray, thank you. Bournemouth manager eddie howes become the First Premier League boss to take a voluntary pay cut with football on hold because of the pandemic. But his gesture comes as bournmouthjoin a number of clubs like tottenham, newcastle and norwich who are using the governments Job Retention scheme to put some non playing staff on leave with a 20 wage cut whilst players continue to earn their full salaries. Its something thats been heavily criticised, including by the former tottenham manager Harry Redknapp who i spoke to earlier to be honest i do not think it is good. I think it is. I think platinum as you say, it has people there and access probably ten million a year, 12 million a year it may be in certain cases, that they cannot afford to keep their staff on. You know what i would like to see, i would like to see the players have a meeting between their selves, they can obviously not be together but on the phones or whatever and say listen, i think it will be a good idea, let us take a wage cut. Not deferred wages but say i think we can take a cut, 5 or 10 , whatever present they feel is fair. By whatever present they feel is fair. By giving from the heart because they want to get that. That is why giving is about, you do not because you give have to but you get to someone because you want you give have to but you get to someone because you want to and you wa nt to someone because you want to and you want to help somebody. All the premier li clubs and players and have the captains and leaders called together and say this is what we wa nt to together and say this is what we want to do, but as do that. The premier league clubs and players. the government is offering support, why shouldnt they benefit great but business is business and goodwill is goodwill. Take tottenham from one and since, if you have a club that is owned by one of the richest men in the world, spending hundreds of millions on their stadium and training ground, they can afford to keep these people on for the next three orfour months. All Champions League and Europa League matches have been suspended until further notice by uefa because of the global coronavirus pandemic. It follows a meeting on wednesday. All National Team games injune have also been postponed, including play off matches for euro 2020 which is being Held Next Year and qualifying matches for the womens euro 2021. A day after england wicketkeeper jos buttler put his world cup winning shirt up for auction its already had a bid of over 65 thousand pounds which would go towards the coronavirus response. Buttler broke the stumps to run out Martin Guptill and seal englands dramatic super over win over new zealand in the summer. Hes put the shirt he wore on ebay to raise money for two specialist heart and lung centres. We cannot really do much to help at the moment, doctors, nurses and nhs all meet everyones support as much asi all meet everyones support as much as i can. So it seemed like an easy thing to do an easy idea to set up and really help those need. And of course incredibly special shirts, and now being able to raise for this emergency appeal. The world cup final. Thats all from sportsday. Well have more throughout the evening. Until then goodbye. Thank you, lots of cancellations there and i want to recap what we heard at the Coronavirus Press conference from the government. Business secretary alok sharma said the government was looking at ways to improve the support being provided for businesses and that there would be further information on this from the chancellor in the next few days. The medical director of Public Health england, dr yvonne doyle said that testing of frontline staff will go from the thousands to hundreds of thousands within the coming weeks. Dr doyle also said that there had been an increase in motor traffic over the last couple of days and she re iterated the need to stay at home we have seen an uptick and Motor Vehicle traffic and so the message here really is that people do you need to stay at home. Most are doing the right thing as you can see from the right thing as you can see from the rapid decline in Public Transport use, so Everyone Needs to do that. The message here is that we need to save lives and protect the nhs. So please, stay at home. Need to save lives and protect the nhs. So please, stayathome. Those are the latest figures from the daily press briefing. Lets get more reaction to that press conference now with the shadow transport secretary andy mcdonald, who joins us from his home in middlesbrough. Lets start with the traffic figures, a slight increase when it comes to car usage and does like the message was getting across and know what is happening, people are getting bored of at home . You do wonder if people are just relaxing a little bit prematurely. We do not wa nt to little bit prematurely. We do not want to see people moving around these roads, we are seeing dramatic train, bus usage and on that tube and motor transport also reduced, but we saw from the graph that it is taking an upturn in the last several days. And i think those of us are going out and taking on our daily exercise will probably bear that out that the roads have become a little busy here in the last few days. And i would encourage people to stick to these guidelines that have been issued. We should stay at home and do walking from our homes and try to go out very rarely for shopping Interest Rate prescriptions. I am not thinking that upturn has from people doing those things so i think perhaps we need a recalibration because what we dont want to see an opening of Police Activity and we wa nt opening of Police Activity and we want people to police themselves so hopefully it will get through to them today. Beside consistent drop and transport over the past week since the lot down yet today we had a day of another significant rise of the number of people who have died of coronavirus in the uk. We are basically, eitherfigures becoming so basically, eitherfigures becoming so large when it comes to the deaths, and the cases of positive testing that we are forgetting these arguments, families, children and of christ we are the youngest, a 13 year old who died, are we missing the point here now . Ifear that is beginning to happen. And of course, youngest, a 13 year old who died. And it is coming a bit sooner than anticipating. And we have to play our parts and that is the guidelines that the government has issued. So we must stick to those religions flee and if we get to a situation where we can take the pressure off the National Health service and andy time, the restrictions are part of our daily lives is lifted. Now is not the moment. We have a long time to go and it is imperative that we all behave with the utmost responsibility. And respond to this in the right way. These are worrying figures today and the scientific officer was keen to point out that they are concerning and we were given other reassurances about the testing and so on and we want to see that rate increased. But we are far from seeing a recovery of perhaps even the green sheets that we have referred to and it will help all invested knuckle down and see these guidelines to the absolute latter. On the point of testing we carried testing levels a re on the point of testing we carried testing levels are increasing but we are still woefully behind germany, south korea and what is your understanding and why is that happening . We heard a number of things said and i am a little bit concerned that things born out in reality, we heard about the lack of materials and chemicals to actually produce lots of testing so on and so forth and the industry have said that that is not the case. You just ask estimate you need us to do and we can step up so i am concerned, if you look at those graphs again with the rates of testing particularly in germany which are far outstripping what is happening in the uk and no the ambition to get the hundreds of thousands of tests but we need to see that delivered by the end of april as have been outlined. But it isa april as have been outlined. But it is a concern that we appear to be so significantly behind germany or south korea who appeared to have suppressed the outbreak and the rate of increasing deaths markedly. Sadly art trajectory is much more akin to that of italy and spain so we do need the need to see these promises come to fruition and in the coming days and weeks. Thank you for your time. Youve been contacting us with questions about nhs supplies and Personal Protective Equipment for frontline staff treating covid 19 patients. Were going to do our best now to answer some of them now on the bbcs your questions answered. Lets speak now to david heymann, the former chief of the World Health Organisations Infectious Diseases programme and chair of Public Health england, whos in geneva. Thank you forjoining us at a busy time for you. Our travellers returned to the uk subjected to any type of testing for coronavirus . cannot answer that because i do not know exactly what is going on in the uk but what i can say is that in general people are being provided with information about where they should call if they develop signs and symptoms and the signs and symptoms are clearly described. So people arriving at the airport from international flights, people arriving at the airport from internationalflights, at people arriving at the airport from international flights, at one time we Re International flights, at one time were being screened but i have been in the uk now for many weeks and i am not sure what is going on any more. I was formerly chairman but no longer am. Nick rimmer. Ifa if a key worker is tested positive from having covid 19 and any of the tests are negative are they allowed to return to work and is there nothing stopping then catching the virus at work and transmitting it . What is the purpose of the test . I guess the whole point is if someone tested positive or negative can they get back to work . If someone has tested positive they will be asked to self isolate, if they are mild del where they are seriously ill they will be placed in the hospital. When the test becomes negative then it is assumed they are no longer infectious and they can work. they tested negative and go back to work and the still potentially can catch covid 19 . Work and the still potentially can catch covid19 . That is correct. If they are negative, we believe that if they are negative, now, a could be caught again but the problem is if the test is being done only tells whether there is a cute infection and if the Health Worker had an infection in the past or the past two months, that will not show up in this test which is currently being used. And must be an Antibody Test and an Antibody Test are becoming now more prevalent in many countries including the uk and we will be able to tell if the Health Worker has been infected in the past. Of the worker has been infected and there are antibodies, presumably at least for a are antibodies, presumably at least fora time, at are antibodies, presumably at least for a time, at least the person will be protected. Deke steell. The question they have is if they have not been tested and my family ori have not been tested and my family or i have the same symptoms, do we have to self isolate yet again because we are not aware if we had coronavirus previously. A lot of people will be worried about that after having self isolated. If that person should develop symptoms with chronic dry cough and fever then yes there should be self isolation again, for himself and the family, thatis again, for himself and the family, that is what the rules say. Marianne. If a person is tested and resulted negative or not detected for covid but still presents symptoms, when is this person retested . You know, i do not know that, they would have to call 111 and find out and described their symptoms at the time. Every symptom and every sign isa time. Every symptom and every sign is a little bit different and every patient has different signs and symptoms and therefore they should call 111 and find out what they should do. Kath barton. Could the lack of testing be distorting the true virus spread . Said the figures we are getting . The problem is you can only detect acute infections, there are likely many people have been infected in the past and cannot be affected by the current test, they have to be tested by antibody determination which is now becoming available in the united kingdom. Deborah ward. What if someone has symptoms, assumes that they have covid 19, isolates and recovers and then assumes they have immunity and start to help others but hasnt been tested yet . If they havent had covid 19, they are still vulnerable and surely should continue to take all measures to keep away from others . Absolutely. They should take measures if they are a Health Worker to protect themselves and that includes wearing Personal Protective Equipment based on what their hospital recommends. So if the person has had signs and symptoms that had a negative test it must be continuing to protect themselves. The former chief of the world health organisations Infectious Disease programme, thank you so much for answering some of the many questions we are getting here and she did bbc news room. Thank you of christ for your questions and do keep bringing them to us. Now its time for a look at the weather with darren bett. Hello there and good evening it should be frost free out there tonight and sell a lot of cloud moving down across the uk and bringing with it a few spots of rain and drizzle and after that we will see some heavy showers for the north and west of scotland. Clear skies developing and the winds are picking up developing and the winds are picking up so we should see temperatures remaining above freezing and no frost across something parts of england because of england because while the crowd. All that cloud. Freshening breeze and some heavier ones and scotland and snow to quite low levels for a while before showers tend to ease off a bit later on. It will be a windier day across the board but deals in the north of scotla nd the board but deals in the north of scotland and severe gales and the noise aisles and gusts of about 65 mph and that will really make you feel cold. Quite mild for Eastern England where it should be generally dry and bright that even here we get into the colder air overnight and the weather find, taking a shower southwards and lurking out in the atla ntic southwards and lurking out in the atlantic and starts to build and from the southwest. That will drop the winds overnight and it will be much less windy by friday morning but it could be cold enough for a frost and scotland and north of england. Now through the day we will probably find cloud amounts increasing steadily and thick enough to give a scattering of showers and the book will be across the northern half of the uk and snow over the Higher Ground and scotland. It will not be as windy as we have the area of High Pressure around and back down to a high of 11 or 12 of some parts of england and wales. Over the weekend things change significantly in the area of High Pressure and heads over towards continental europe. We cannot see our winds coming in from a southerly direction. A bit more clout across the western side of the uk and maybe some showers as well. Otherwise many places will have a dry day, send them sunshine at times and temperatures maybe 13 or 1a degrees but continues to warm up during the second half of the weekend and the southerly wind continues to strengthen and this weather find will bring some across the Western Areas will bring some across the Western Areas and further east in the sunshine and the temperature is widely 17 or 18, 19 or 20 in the southeast. This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. The uk has recorded its worst daily figure for deaths relating to coronavirus. 563 people have died a rise of nearly a third on the previous day. Amid growing criticism, the uk government promises to increase the number of co vid tests to the hundreds of thousands within weeks. Increasing Testing Capacity is absolutely the governments top priority. We are now at 10,000 tests a day. We are rolling out Additional Networks and testing sites. 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