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Wa nts been finding out what darlington wants from the balancing balancing of the books. Coronavirus takes its toll on the premier league. Tonights match at Manchester City is postponed after a coronavirus scare involving opponents arsenal. More than 120 british passengers from a virus hit cruise ship in california are on their way back to the uk. And in whether we almost hit 17 degrees in a couple of spots yesterday. The next few days do not look much cooler with a sunshine and wintry showers. All the details here on breakfast. Its wednesday the 11th of march. Our top story. The Health Minister Nadine Dorries has been diagnosed with coronavirus. She first showed symptoms last thursday, the same day she attended a reception with the Prime Minister. Ms dorries is now self isolating at home while Health Officials try to trace anyone shes been in contact with. Iain watson reports. I made a statement onjanuary 28. She is the first mp to contract coronavirus. Health minister who has trained as a nurse. She is self isolating at home and issued this statement late last night full as soon as i was informed i took all advised precautions, she said, Public Health england have started detailed Contact Tracing and the department of health and my Parliamentary Office are closely following their advice. The authorities are now trying to trace to the Health Minister has been in close contact with and told nadeem dorries first felt sticky pt on friday. Symptoms such as a dry cough appeared on friday last week and she was tested for the virus on monday. Last night she tweeted i hope i am over the worst of it now. I am more worried about my 84 year old mother, she is being tested tomorrow to she also thanked well wishers. The government and the speaker of the house of columns are reluctant to shut down government of the crisis worsens and there is so far no suggestion that westminster will close their doors. At the budget today, the chancellor will unveil methods to help business and individuals cope with the fallout from the outbreak. With an mp falling victim to the virus it is likely a reminder that things are likely a reminder that things are likely to get better before they get to get worse before they get better. Lets cross to downing street where our Political Correspondent nick eardleyjoins us. Quite a bit to ask you about this morning. Firstly the story around nadeem dorries and how that affects the business of parliament this morning. Good morning. At the moment there do not seem to be any signs that the commons authorities are about to ramp up what they are doing over coronavirus. As about to ramp up what they are doing over coronavirus. As you heard on that piece there is a reluctance to start shutting down parliament because somebody has contracted it. Nadine dorries has been around for the last few days, she was in downing street on thursday as you also heard so there is a lot of people for Public Health england to trace now and to say that name may need to think about self isolation. It will be interesting to see who they recommend that too. But there isa they recommend that too. But there is a reluctance to close down parliament when there is clearly much work to be done to contain the virus and to say to our viewers and the public at large that things are 0k. The public at large that things are ok. I would the public at large that things are 0k. Iwould not the public at large that things are ok. I would not expect parliament to be shut down just yet. Perhaps some extra measures over the next few days. An important day to day for the new chancellor. And it will be a budget where coronavirus is very much a feature. Many of his plans will have had to change over the last few days. I dont know if you can see behind me there is a light on andi can see behind me there is a light on and i suspect there is still somebody working, overnight, to for great exactly what measures they need to put in place to make sure that the economy is ready for any escalation in the outbreak. Some things to watch for today will be whether the chancellor puts in place extra measures to help individuals, to maybe make sure that nobody suffers if they are off sick, from financial hardship. For business as well there is a lot of concern about falling footfall in shops and people not Consuming Services in the way they normally would. I think there will be a lot of pressure to see what goes on there. Obviously with the nhs. It is notjust coronavirus, there will be money pumped into infrastructure as well and you will hear the term levelling up a lot today as he did during the election. Things like roads and railways, broad brand infrastructure, a lot of focus today will be on coronavirus still. Focus today will be on coronavirus still. Broadband infrastructure. But someone theyre trying to position himself for a camera shot. Budget day is always busy. Position himself for a camera shot. Budget day is always busym position himself for a camera shot. Budget day is always busy. It will be so busy there. That was quite a sajid javid power stands there. Tonights premier league game between Manchester City and arsenal has been called off because of concerns over coronavirus. Its after some arsenal players met with the owner of greek club, olympiakos, who has tested positive. Holly is here with us, what can you tell us . It isa it is a significant development. Absolutely. This is the First Premier League game affected by coronavirus. We have seen a few european matches affected with many games being played behind closed doors. As you mentioned, this stems back from a game arsenal played two weeks ago and the owner of the team they played against has been diagnosed with coronavirus. Two weeks ago, he was on the pitch with arsenal players and we saw him talking and shaking hands. We know there are a number of arsenal players sent into isolation, into their own home, this is precautionary, they are being tested and this is only come to light today but they have known about it so that 14 day isolation will end this saturday, that is good news for arsenal and they will be back to work at this saturday for their premier league game against burnley. But looking ahead it is more concerning. Libby argus adieu play wolves tomorrow night in the Europa League. They would like the game called off but uefa has refused and wolves have described it as an unnecessary risk. Other matches including chelsea rangers, manchester united, they will be played pine closed doors but a lot of questions about english football has been dealing with the coronavirus full of limp years liverpool will be playing tonight with thousands attending and the way some people have described it, it is just carry on as normal in english football. So more questions to be asked but the First Premier League game affected and that is huge news this morning. And the fans coming from madrid tonight would not be allowed to watch football at home at the moment. A difficult situation to be in right now stop thank you, holly. More information on the coronavirus outbreak can be found on the bbc news website. It includes the symptoms and how to reduce the risk of becoming infected plus advice for people with Underlying Health conditions. Thats at bbc. Co. Uk news or on the bbc news app. With the number of coronavirus cases in the uk expected to rise, nhs england says its scaling up its capacity for testing. It means 10,000 tests can be done daily compared to just 1,500 currently, and confirmation of any positive results will be accelerated. More than 380 cases have been confirmed in the uk so far. Six people have died. More than 120 british passengers from the grand princess cruise ship in california are on their way back to the uk. The liner was moored off the coast of San Francisco for five days after some passengers and crew tested positive for coronavirus. Those flown back to the uk will now self isolate for two weeks, as Chris Buckler reports. Four days they had waited for this moment, the chance to leave the grand princess, the cruise ship they boarded for a holiday in their win unable to leave because of an outbreak of coronavirus. But even this isnt the end of the journey. American passengers at spending 1a daysin american passengers at spending 1a days in quarantine on military bases, many of those from other countries are still to get home. The british passengers are now finally on their way back to the uk but ahead of boarding the flight in oakland, they were frustrated by a lack of information and the time it is taken to get them off the ship. |j dont want to be rude on air but they are treating us like mushrooms and feeding is bad food and keeping us and feeding is bad food and keeping us in the dark. That is the way i see it. There is no communication, no one wants to help nor give advice. British passengers on board the grand princess have been told to stay at home and away from other people for a period of two weeks. But after two high profile outbreaks of covid19 but after two high profile outbreaks of covid 19 on board ships, Cruise Line Companies have been told that they need to put in place measures to ensure that there is no such spread in the future. The former Vice President of the united states, joe biden, is a step closer to becoming the democratic partys president ial candidate. He beat his rival, bernie sanders, in at least three of the six states which held primaries yesterday. The final results are still being verified. Mr biden said the party was rallying around his campaign. That is quite a comeback therebyjoe biden. New rules could spell the death of a throwaway culture for products that are bought, used briefly, then binned. The regulations which are being presented by the European Commission will apply to a range of everyday items such as mobile phones, batteries and packaging. They aim to ensure products are designed and manufactured to last. It would make a big difference. The figure was Something Like 8 million phones are thrown away each year. What do you do with your phones . Do you recycle them . Yes. I pass them onto members as well. It is 11 minutes past six. Have you noticed that it minutes past six. Have you noticed thatitis minutes past six. Have you noticed that it is not quite as chilly as it was . Are we ready for the weather . No matt, not yet. It was almost 17 celsius yesterday across the south east although it will be cooler over the next few days. Were not done with wintry weather yet so a scattering of sunshine and showers. It wont all be horrendous, there will be bright dry moments and a bit of Damir Dzumhur into the start of next week. Out there at the moment the mild error is confined to southern counties of england and wales this morning with temperatures reaching double figures. Blue collar shows cold air in coldest wrapped around these clumps here, heavy showers pushing in later today and into tonight. Already some shower clouds on the cards for the morning across parts of scotland and Northern Ireland. England and wales will be dry for many, cloud across southern counties but that will break up. Stays jam dampen the Channel Islands through the day. And the showers will spread southward and eastwards into parts of england and eastwards into parts of england and wales. A few spots will stay dry but for all the blustery day with when close to gale force in many areas, perhaps down a little on yesterdays values. So it could reach around 15 celsius today compared to around seven celsius in glasgow and that colder air will gradually start to push in for many tonight and the northern half of the country, an increasing chance of snow and ice around. Evening rush hour has some showers in the west, this batch of showers which walks across england and wales across the first half of the night will introduce colder and colder air so by the end of the night, showers across scotland and Northern Ireland, a mix of rain, sleetand may be snow as well. Temperatures not far from freezing and the ground is damp so there could be icy conditions into the morning. Scotla nd conditions into the morning. Scotland and Northern Ireland, the showers come thick and fast turning increasingly snow covered in places and wind will pick up. Windy tomorrow compared with today, particularly in the afternoon we could see wind top 50, maybe 60 mile per hour and if you spot with an added chill to the wind as well so it will fill colder and temperatures 7 10 celsius. It will turn windy through the day but notice what happens. Low pressure pushes away and the isobars become fewer and the chance, as we go through into friday. That translates into lighter wind on friday and a dry day for most. There will be a breeze to begin with across eastern counties and after a sunny start the cloud will gradually build up but for most it stays dry during Daylight Hours and with light wind probably feeling a little milder thanit probably feeling a little milder than it will have done on thursday. Finishing the day was some rain pushing into the very far west of the country and that will work across us the country and that will work across us through friday night into saturday and that gives a flavour of the weekend. There will be dry moments with a bit of sunshine but some rain at times as well. The optimism comes into next week, particularly to the south and east of the country as tricia builds and many will be dry. Pressure builds. We will keep on hoping approaching 6 15am. Lets take a look at todays papers. Todays budget announcements dominate the front pages. The daily mail reports that the chancellor will unveil rescue packages forfirms hit by the coronavirus outbreak. The sun leads on claims that prince harry has been targetted by Russian Hackers pretending to be Greta Thunberg and her father. The times splashes on the news that Health Minister Nadine Dorries has tested positive for coronavirus. The paper claims the tory mp had attended a reception with the Prime Minister. And thats also the most read story on the bbc news website. It says the mp tweeted that it had been pretty rubbish, but she hoped she was over the worst of it. It does bring all sorts of questions, doesnt it . Absolutely. Im sure all those mps at that reception, they will try to track those people, and she had a clinic at the weekend, about 50 people saw her there at the weekend, so they need to be traced. A Commonwealth Service on friday that lots of people went to, a reception the night before, lots of people at that service on the next day. Very tricky. Will certainly focus the mind. Holly, what have you got . Corona on the back . Coronavirus on the back pages. The sun have a photograph of the olympiakos owner we were talking about earlier, the reason why Manchester City and arsenal has been postponed. He is also the owner of championship side Nottingham Forest as well. This will have a huge impact across english football. Lots of people worried about that. We havent mentioned tottenham yet, we will step away from coronavirus for a moment and return to sport, Champions League action for tottenham last night, 3 0 defeat. Really poor, didnt lug themselves at all. Weve heard from jo s a, not happy, we will hear from him later jose mourinho. Two blunders from hugo lloris have people on social media questioning his abilities. Who would be a goalie . Exactly, everything is your fault if you let them in, doesnt matter what anyone else does but really poor from him and as forjose mourinho at tottenham, bad time for spurs fans. We hope we will hear a bit of his interview later. Yes, we will. Controversial. Very prickly at the moment. How would you feel about being compared to yourself 20 years ago . Good or bad . I think you would do well i do thanks in the mail today, they have done this with friends. You would also look good. Thanks, you just took a bit too long well done they all look better. Ahead of the friends reunion where they are giving an interview all together, they could have had their pictures taken. Theres more down there. Heres the thing, everyone is going to compare them and think who is the best. |j everyone is going to compare them and think who is the best. I think they all that are now. Look at jennifer aniston, they all that are now. Look at jenniferaniston, ridiculous remember Courteney Cox in masters of the universe with dolph lundgren. She is in the bruce bring steen video, dancing in the. I didnt know that one thats the difference between us, you remember a Bruce Springsteen video and i remember a terrible film with dolph lundgren. Theres this phone call from russian pra nksters theres this phone call from russian pranksters with prince harry pretending to be Greta Thunberg and her dad. They have got through to eltonjohn, bernie her dad. They have got through to elton john, bernie sanders, president ial candidate in america, president ial candidate in america, president and one of turkey and joaquin phoenix. A long list of people they have managed to do over the years president erdogan. How did they get through . You can say it is Greta Thunberg and she wants to speak to prince harry, but surely theres more layers how do they even get the number in the first place . How do they have prince harrys phone number . Thats a good question, but im sure you can go through to the palace. Can i speak to harry, please . Through to the palace. Can i speak to harry, please . Apparently the queen, remember when she was paid by someone who was pretending to be the canadian Prime Minister in the 19905 she was on the phone for 17 minutes di5cu55ing everything from halloween to the referendum in back at the time, so its been before. One final one for you. If you catch a fish in this country and you want to prove it is this country and you want to prove it i5a this country and you want to prove it is a big fish, not only do you have to sign and affidavit if there i5 have to sign and affidavit if there is no witnesses but you have to have a picture of you with the fish. Thi5 i5a a picture of you with the fish. Thi5 is a tiny picture so you might struggle. Thi5 is a tiny picture so you might struggle. This is a minnow, but it could be the biggest minnow ever caught. Is that a pair of glasses . It is. It is three inches in length. Caught by a guy called kevin sims in e55ex, three inches long, the weight ofa e55ex, three inches long, the weight of a slice of bread but by some margin its the biggest minnow ever caught but it wont be official because he hasnt got a picture of him holding it. He has it next to sunglasses. He has a signed affidavit. The weights and measures certificate must be produced and you need the picture of you holding it. He has caught the biggest minnow ever but it isnt official. He has caught the biggest minnow ever but it isnt officiallj he has caught the biggest minnow ever but it isnt official. I dont think i would tell anyone its not the one that got away, is it . Thank you. The chancellor of the exchequer will unveil his first budget later, the big financial event of the year when the governments Spending Plans are set out, but this year tackling the coronavirus is top of the agenda. You can explain why darlington this morning. Nina is in darlington with more. Dan, im going to show you something on the Breakfast Menu this morning that you in particular will like. What is it, alex, what is the darlo special 40 . A mixture of white pork seasoning with pork sausage meat, onions, sauteed, and then mixed with salt and pepper and serve hot in a bread bun. Hot on a lovely white bun, cant wait, we will have that later served. A huge challenge for the new chancellor, he is 39 and less tha n for the new chancellor, he is 39 and less than a month into the job and hes only been an mp for less than five years so it is massive to take on not only the budget but the budget under a cloud of coronavirus. He represents a constituency next door to darlington that have a lot to prove in this part of the world, bases like darlington, redcar, Bishop Auckland fell to the conservatives for the first time in decades in december and theyve got to impress here but its not going to impress here but its not going to be easy. A fallen break in labours red wall of the north, in december darlington dared to turn tory for the first time in nearly 30 years. The pressure is on the Prime Minister, whose promised to reward them by levelling up the country. Adrians been looking for work since christmas. What does he expect from the budget . Well, not a lot. |j christmas. What does he expect from the budget . Well, not a lot. I dont generally trust anything thats said about the north east with funding and things. It cant be taken remotely seriously to be honest. It seems like theyve dangled it as a carrot and a stick to try to get voters, whereas then they dont follow through with any of the rest of it. When they talk about levelling up the north, think its going to happen . No, not really. Unemployment in darlington is higher than average, income is lower. If big investment is coming, they feel entitled to a cut. Now, it was supposed to be a £100 million major infrastructure plan contained in the budget as part of the promise to make things fairer across the country, but the chancellors already said that that will have to wait. But, after a decade of austerity, some are expecting the new chancellor to turn on the public spending caps. Conservative promises have included 30,000 new Police Officers and a 3. 4 year on year increase in nhs spending. And that is music to heathers ears, a conservative councillor for heathers ears, a conservative councillorfor more heathers ears, a conservative councillor for more than 40 years, shes watched as the local police force lost a third of its budget and 700 Council Employees lost their jobs. Would you like to social care funding go up directly . How much of a difference with that make to you and your counsel . It would make an awful lot of difference because social care funding and Childrens Services are the two main pressures that we have within our budget, so it doesnt leave us much flexibility for the other things people would like to see. Like so many high streets, the big names have disappeared from darlington. As rates have gone up, julie says the number of businesses has gone down. She wants the chancellor to review Business Rates. A lot of people cant manage, and, as you can see in here, there is a lot of businesses gone, theres a lot of businesses gone, theres a lot of businesses gone, theres a lot of e m pty lot of businesses gone, theres a lot of empty spaces. People have been here a lot longer than i have and theyve had to go because they cant afford it, they cant afford the Business Rates or the rate they got to pay, plus the water rates, then the electric, then thats before theyve done any wages. But whatjulies even more worried about is coronavirus. If events are shutdown, so is her business. Really worrying time forjulie and lots of Business Owners weve been speaking to in darlington. Let speak tojojasmine, speaking to in darlington. Let speak to jo jasmine, you employ speaking to in darlington. Let speak tojojasmine, you employ 22 people in two Small Businesses . Thats right. Is coronavirus on your radar, is that your biggest worry ahead of the budget . It is a concern because the budget . It is a concern because the government need to be clear about the advice they are giving. They are saying potentially if people have a cold or a sore throat they have to self isolate and that will impact our business usually because were in the service industry, you cant work from home and that will have a knock on effect for our suppliers. If were not selling stuff, they arent supplying, so it will have a big effect. You want a crystalclear promise you will be supported financially, and its at a time when Small Business is under enormous pressure. What are the pressures and what do you want to change . M pressure. What are the pressures and what do you want to change . It is difficult at the moment. The town centre isnt as busy as it should be, it would be lovely to see the Council Getting more funding so they can invest into the town centre to make it a really desirable place to be and people will come in and stay for a length of time as well rather than just for a length of time as well rather thanjust popping for a length of time as well rather than just popping in for a length of time as well rather thanjust popping in and getting one thing and going. It would be nice to make it look a bit more attractive and help fill some of the empty shops at the moment. Joanna, you work for durham business school, for the last ten years weve been under austerity pressure, local councils especially, lots of rumours about whether the chancellor will turn on the taps with public spending and support local authorities in a new way. How much does that need to happen . Its absolutely critical. That kind of investment, notjust a short term putting money into the syste m short term putting money into the system to compensate for some of the we hope short term problems with the coronavirus is critical but a longer Term Investment in Small Businesses, reducing red tape and increasing the Government Support and giving us the opportunities in universities to help them innovate and theres lots of things the chancellor needs to do to add to the bottom line of uk plc. In terms of an urgency measure is to make sure businesses like jasmines and slightly larger ones will be looked after, what promises can he make today . Im sure there will be a tax holiday somewhere but that simply puts off problems for people like jasmine. There needs to be a pot of money where Small Businesses like hers can get so they can compensate for the problems she has identified with staff coming into work my she cant work remotely when shes making coffee there needs to be proper Financial Support for businesses like that. The Prime Minister won seats up here with big promises to level up but this party has strict fiscal rules on how much they can spend, are they going to have to rip up their own rulebook . I hope they dont because the promise to level up was critical toa the promise to level up was critical to a lot of the political change you describe. If the levelling up turns out to be all talk and no action, there will be a significant backlash. Joanna, what is the one thing you would like to hear from the chancellor today . Sorry, jasmine it was lovely to see the 80 reduced to 17. 5 , im not sure that will happen vat. A promise to help if coronavirus hits like it potentially could, in the service industry. We expect the budget at 12 30pm in the house of commons today and shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell has said the chancellor cant use coronavirus as an excuse not to keep the big manifesto promises. Nina, thanks very much, and we will be talking much more about the budget through the morning. And coverage through the day on bbc. Earlier hour clock disappeared on bbc breakfast, apologies, but dont fear, it is back and hopefully it will stay for the duration of the programme. Fingers crossed time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. Good morning, im alice salfield. A londoner coming back from italy says she wasnt given enough information when she arrived in the uk. The government advice for those returning from the country which is in lockdown because of coronavirus is to self isolate for fourteen days. Butjess nicholls says she had to take public transport when she arrived in london as her rescheduled flight wasnt to the same airport where she left her car. Ijust i just arrived back ijust arrived back in the uk from rome. The pilot asked us to identify if we went feeling well, went through the arrivals hall to passport control through the gates, there was a sign if you came from northern italy to self isolate and contact 111. Theres nothing about this covering the whole of italy. A school in south london is reopening today after a member of staff tested positive for coronavirus. Wimbledon College Closed to pupils for two weeks when the staff member contracted the virus after a trip to italy. The school said they had not had any contact with pupils. But as they had worked with a number of teachers, staff were told to to self isolate for a fortnight as a precaution. Two missing london men have been found safe and well after their names and faces appeared on the backpacks of deliveroo riders. Its part of a campaign with the Charity Missing People to raise awareness of those who have disappeared. More than 500 riders across the country are involved. Lets take a look at the travel situation now. It all looks like its running well on the tube so far, except for the overground, which is suspended between euston and watford junction for Emergency Engineering works. There are also minor delays between Willesden Junction if we look at the roads now. In marble arch, the a5 edgware road is closed in both directions between seymour street and connaught street because of an accident. And in camden, chalk farm road is closed southbound at the junction with hartland road because of a police investigation. One lane is closed for gas works on the highway westbound towards tower bridge. Now heres sara with the weather. Good morning. Yesterday, temperatures were up near 17 celsius, well above average for the time of year. Another fairly mild day for you, actually a pretty nice one as well. Mild, breezy, yes, but generally dry and we have something to talk about later. Cloud at first, attem pts to talk about later. Cloud at first, attempts at ten for some to start the day so a mild start. Through the day, good spells of sunshine coming through, breezy and a top of 15, 59 in fahrenheit, again, well above average. Tonight we see the cloud thicken in, bringing patchy rain through the middle part of the night and a weak weather front clearing us. Behind it, clearing skies into tomorrow morning and enough of a breeze to prevent too much of a frost but we could have pockets of ground frost towards the suburbs. A much chillier start tomorrow an lot sunshine but well some showers whipping through on a fairly gusty wind. We could see 40 high 40 mph and it will be colder in theale too. A cold feel in the next few days but a lot of dry weather as well. Im back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. Now its back to sally and dan. Bye for now. Hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and sally nugent. Well bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment, but also on breakfast this morning. Would you leave your baby to cry it out . New Research Says it does no harm for kids under 18 months. Well discuss itjust before seven. Just before eight oclock this morning. Let us know what you think. Also this morning, well catch up with louise as she prepares to compete against itv, channel 4 and sky in a boat race for sport relief. And after it was named the best selling digital single of 2019, well find out what makes this song bad guy by Billie Eilish so successful. Good morning. Heres a summary of todays main stories from bbc news. Health officials are urgently trying to establish how far the coronavirus outbreak has reached within government after the Health Minister, Nadine Dorries, revealed she has tested positive. She first showed symptoms last thursday, the same day she attended a reception with the Prime Minister. Ms dorries is now self isolating at home while Health Officials try to trace anyone shes been in contact with. Rishi sunak will deliver his first budget as chancellor today, with the economic challenge posed by coronavirus set to dominate. It comes just days after Global Financial markets underwent some of their biggest falls since the 2008 financial crisis. Spending announcements on road and rail are also expected. With the number of coronavirus cases in the uk expected to rise, nhs england says its scaling up its capacity for testing. It means 10,000 tests can be done daily compared to just 1,500 currently, and confirmation of any positive results will be accelerated. More than 380 cases have been confirmed in the uk so far. Six people have died. More than 120 british passengers from the grand princess cruise ship in california are on a flight back to the uk. The liner was moored off the coast of San Francisco for five days after some passengers and crew tested positive for coronavirus. Those returning to the uk will be asked to self isolate. The former Vice President of the united states, joe biden, is a step closer to becoming the democratic partys president ial candidate. He beat his rival, bernie sanders, in at least three of the six states which held primaries yesterday. The final results are still being verified. Mr biden said the party was rallying around his campaign. New rules could spell the death of a throwaway culture for products that are used briefly and bend. The regulations, presented by the European Commission, will apply to a range of everyday items like mobile phones, batteries and packaging full up phones, batteries and packaging full up they aim to ensure that products are designed and manufactured to last. Those are some of the main stories around on this wednesday morning. Holly is here with sport and if people wanted a Manchester City arsenal game tonight, it is no longer happening. Tonights premier league match between mancheter city and arsenal is off due to concerns over the coronavirus. Its after some arsenal players met with this man the olympiakos owner evangelos marinakis. He has been diagnosed with the coronavirus. The owner was on the pitch with the players and in the direct box and chatting with senior players. So those players are in isolation in their own home as a precaution. None have been diagnosed and they are being tested. It is the first game to be affected in this way. We have seen it in other games across europe with many games being played behind closed doors. The good news is that in 14 days, that is the isolation period, that ends on saturday which means the game against brighton on saturday will go ahead. This has been happening as a precaution. This man, this is the owner. He also owns Nottingham Forest. So there are issues about where he has been on who he has been talking to and who needs to be tested. Many matches, like i said, are being played beyond closed doors. Pep guardiola has been speaking about this. He says that they should not be played behind closed doors and he would much rather they were postponed. This is for the people. Like an actor going to the theatre and there is nobody in the theatre to act for. It is for the people. It makes no sense. It is interesting and many people have opinions. It is hard to imagine that we have the liverpool Champions League match tomorrow night affected. It is hard to picture a match of that size being played behind closed doors without fans, that alone thinking about them winning the premier league, for example. But if it was going to come down to Public Health decision i think the government would be clear that they would make that decision but at the moment the feeling is is that if everyone then went to watch it on the television at the pub that is probably as much if not more of a risk. Somebody asked me who was to stop people standing outside the stadium . It is difficult to stop this and it will be interesting to see how it develops. Wolverhampton have a match tomorrow against olympiakos that they have asked for it to be olympiakos have said no. People can complain and say what they like but there will be problems that do not go away anytime soon. That was the First Premier League game to be affected but the coronavirus has disrupted football right across the world. We have already seen it in the Champions League. The first game in that competition to be played behind closed doors due to the outbreak took place in spain last night as valencia took on italian side atalanta. Quite weird pictures there. Nobody there at all. Josip ilicic scored four goals for atlanta as they won 4 3 on the night and 8 4 on aggregate. Remarkable. To last years runners up tottenham, and Managerjose Mourinho is blaming injuries for their 3 0 to rb leipzig the tie finishing 4 0 on aggregate to the german club. Spurs have been on a horrible run of form and havent won in six games the longest winless run in mourinhos career. If they are to play in the Champions League next season, theyll need to turn things around. They are curently seven points off the top four in the premier league. We have our problems and our problems do not end in injuries but no team in the world would cope with the injuries for such a long time. You can cope for a couple of matches but not three or four. It is too much. After initial fears it could be affected by the coronavirus, the Cheltenham Festival went ahead as planned with extra precautions put into place. Favourite, epatante was the winner in the big race on the opening day. She ran out a convincing victory in the champion hurdle to give owner jp mcmanus the ideal present on his 69th birthday. Hgppy happy birthday to him. There was another grade 1 victory forjockey Rachael Blackmore aboard honeysuckle in the mares hurdle. Blackmore started the week as third favourite to be the meetings leading jockey. Katie ormerod has become the first british snowboarder to win a world cup title after the competition was called off due to the coronavirus. Shes been leading the standings in the slopestyle with one event remaining, which was due to take place in the czech republic. This was ormerods first season back after suffering a serious injury to her heel she says its been the best of her life. And finally, one rider at the paris nice cycling event found he had more thanjust other riders to worry about after taking the lead. His efforts were thwarted as he was forced to stop at a level crossing due to a local train passing through. 0h, oh, no it is frustrating but what else can you do in such a situation . It is frustrating for anyone caught ata it is frustrating for anyone caught at a level crossing, let alone. Come on it may be a much needed break. You spoke about the liverpool game tonight. The match against dortmund being played behind closed doors. Mbappe has been tested but he has been cleared for coronavirus. Chancellor of the exchequer rishi sunak is due to present his first budget today, less than a month into thejob. Funds to tackle the spread of coronavirus are expected to feature prominently, alongside major infrastructure announcements. Were joined now by ed davey, the acting co leader of the liberal democrats, from our westminster studio. Good morning to you. Firstly, your reaction to the news about Nadine Dorries that emerged overnight . Our thoughts are with her in wishing her a speedy recovery and i think it shows that the coronavirus can hit anyone. And that is why in the budget today we are looking for the government to reach out to everyone in the country, particularly those self employed and Small Business, people on zero our contracts. The advice has been that if they have symptoms they need to self isolate and they must be wondering how they will put food on the table or pay bills if they dont work. Today, the government has got to give millions of people the reassurance that if they have to self isolate they will be looked after. Moving on to what might happen in the budget but before we move away from the situation with Nadine Dorries, will staff and government, can government function properly with this situation . The staff and government and parliament will have to follow not only rightly the medical advice andi not only rightly the medical advice and i know there are plans being drawn up in parliament and no doubt across at whitehall as well. But i think need to reassure people. We need to ensure that if we followed the advice of the experts we can get through this. But for many people who follow this advice they will not have money come through. We need to encourage people to self isolate and the people are not worried about finance. What would you like to see in the budget today . Some sort of big emergency fund. The possibility of holidays, greater support with things like universal credit. I remember what happened when we had the financial crisis in 2008. The government of the day was willing to spend tens of billions of pounds to pfp up spend tens of billions of pounds to prop up the banks. I think now when people out there who are on much lower incomes and struggling, they need to know the government will be behind them full stop that is what the liberal democrats will be looking for in the budget today. How would you suggest paying for these extra measures . We cannot afford not to pay for the coronavirus challenge because if we are not careful the economy could be so severely hit it goes down into a spiral. So we need to make sure we stop the epidemic in its tracks and the best way to do thatis its tracks and the best way to do that is to reassure people about their financial future. That is to reassure people about theirfinancialfuture. Honestly, many businesses out there are already struggling with unfair Business Rates. So it is not as if the economy is as strong as we would like going into this. Just briefly, how would you pay for that . There has to be latitude with borrowing and there could be rain export taxes, the liberal democrats last time said because social Care Services and Health Services needed more funding, we asked for a pay on income tax to fund that. One of the reasons was for the last five years the conservatives havent invested properly in our Health Service or the social care system, thats why we have a record shortage of nurses according to the Royal College of nursing. S why we have over 100,000 vacancies in the care sector, and that actually worries me. Because of the conservatives failure here, the chickens are coming home to roost as we get into this epidemic so the lib dems have strongly argued against this. If it comes today, fine, but it is too late. We are seeing things progressing, we are seeing the next stage of the virus and having an impact on everyday life, for example, Manchester City against arsenal will not be played. Would you suggest other big sporting events, other big Public Events should be cancelled or postponed at this point . I dont think it is the job of politicians to try to make advice like that. I think we have to follow the advice of the chief medical officer, chris whitty and, or those who do understand how viruses can spread and can give us the best quality advice to make sure we protect people in our country. I would follow the medical advice. Whoever you are and whichever party, we have to follow the experts. Ed davey, thanks very much, from westminster. Heres matt with a look at this mornings weather. How is it looking . Good morning, very changeable yet again and it is looking cooler as well. We saw temperatures almost approaches 17 in parts of east anglia and the south east, but over the next few days, away from that, we stuck to a mixture of sunshine and showers and those showers in the northern half looking increasingly wintry as well. The warmest air we have had has been pushed into central europe, the orange and yellow 5, colder air pushing to the south of iceland with these clusters of showers, moving in particularly later today and tonight and across the scottish mountains, a good covering of snow. Cloud in southern areas and here for the morning commute it is reasonably mild, attem pts commute it is reasonably mild, attempts between nine and 11 and further north, not desperately cold but chillier than this time and yesterday. Scotland and Northern Ireland, showers for the journey to work and school. Mainly rain at the moment and those will push into northern and western parts of england and wales through the day. South and east, away from the Channel Islands, which is damp throughout, most places will be brighter than yesterday but still fairly blustery with winds close to gale force if not a bit more in some areas. Temperatures this afternoon, not changing a great deal from this morning in the likes of glasgow, colder air pushing in. Could get to 15 in the south east corner, and feeling pleasant in the sunshine. Step towards colder conditions will ta ke step towards colder conditions will take place tonight, increasing chance of snow and ice in the north. Rain showers spreading across england and wales in the first half of the night, that will allow the colder air of the night, that will allow the colderair in an of the night, that will allow the colder air in an sleet and snow flurries in parts of scotland and Northern Ireland. Scottish mountains will will have a good covering over the night into tomorrow and indeed over the next few days. Clear skies in central and eastern areas, chilly start to tomorrow morning, cold commute, rain showers in southern counties of ingrown wales initially and then brightening up. In england and wales initially. Hill snow in the north. Temperatures around seven and 11 on the thermometers, colder than that because the wind will strengthen once again. 50 or 60 mph in Western Areas as we finished the day and go into the evening. A windy start to thursday nine. Things will turn much quieter as we head into friday. Low pressure clears. A bug of high pressure. Friday, breezy start in eastern areas admittedly but the winds light for many, lovely and sunny, frosty for the majority, a bit of cloud building in the day but most will be dry before the rain arrives to take us through friday night and into the start of the weekend. Back to you. Bit of rain at the weekend in. Thanks very much, matt. At the weekend. As the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise here in the uk, many might consider what best action to take to protect themselves. Some are choosing to self isolate, but what exactly does that mean . And what are some of the key things to be aware of . Breakfasts john maguire has been finding out. Hello. Hello. How are you . Im fine, thank you. Thank you very much indeed. You are a community pharmacist. We are people, thinking about people self isolating, those things first, should you let a visitor in . The answer is no and its quite important we understand that self isolation itself means you are trying to exclude people from being in close proximity to you, but what you can do is look at planning ahead for visitors. That can either be the use of props, so they can call you when they leave items there, and there will be people doing what they normally do, the post man and delivery person, there are practical steps to take but its really important you dont expose people to yourself. So shall we have a look around . Lets go for it. There are things to think about in the kitchen, arent there . Yes, lots. Rubbish, we need to think about rubbish . When were thinking about rubbish . When were thinking about rubbish . When were thinking about rubbish we are considering the fa ct if about rubbish we are considering the fact if you are infected, that rubbish you have becomes clinical waste. The advice is to take that waste, put it in a bag, two black bags my then you keep it separate from the normal domestic waste. The advice would follow true whether you need to pass it as clinical waste and you get instructions about that, or you should carry on disposing of it as normal waste. Recommending that rooms are ventilated, windows open . Yes. How do people cope with that amount of time . Thats very important, people might think 14 days staying at home could be great fun, after a while you start to feel the effects of that. Public Health England has some resources about looking after your Mental Health. Its a good time to keep engaging with that, making sure people keep in touch with you. You may be aware from the world but it is nice to know you are still part of the world and still valued. People will be living with other members of the family or in a shared house, its one of the golden rules, we are in the bathroom, for example . One of the golden rules, we are in the bathroom, for example . M one of the golden rules, we are in the bathroom, for example . It is a good thing to remember here about hand washing, you do that for 20 seconds and using happy birthday to you twice. In a shared bathroom, you have to think about how do you first of all make sure that you are still self isolating, so youre not sharing the space with people youre living with, you can use prompts and sharing information it is wise if the person using the bathroom last is the person self isolating. The key m essa g e is the person self isolating. The key message is cleanliness after, you clean up so other people coming into the environment are protected. Thanks for your time. Thank you very much. I wish you well. No problem, thanks. Great advice from ade, the community pharmacist. Key things to remember, one, you dont need to self isolate until youve been told to do so and secondly, if you do have to, try to make life as normal, as enjoyable as possible. Of course there will be restrictions on your normal, everyday life. Interesting some handy advice there. Dont let people in your house information is crucial at the moment. Really good. Let us know any measure you might be taking at home, any thoughts or questions you have we might be able to answer. Youve just got a cold . Ive just youve just got a cold . Ivejust got a youve just got a cold . Ive just got a cold, i youve just got a cold . Ivejust got a cold, i have been checked,in ivejust got a cold, i have been checked, in fact it is the common cold we are sitting closer than we did yesterday you were like that most of the time. Thats just natural heres a question. Would you leave a baby to cry . Not for very long. How long is that . Less than a minute, im rubbish at that because it makes me too anxious. It stresses you out . It does. Would you . Yes, not for ever but. How long . As long as it takes sometimes. What if it is half an hour . Long as it takes sometimes. What if it is halfanhour . I dont. It is an interesting discussion point. Its a dilemma faced by most new parents when your baby cries, should you rush in to check theyre all right, or leave them to self soothe . New Research Suggests that letting a baby aged 18 months or less cry it out will have no adverse effect, and could actually make them cry less as they get older. There you go i know, im reading the words. Apparently well discuss this more in more detail in around an hour, but first, lets find out what you think. Hear what you think, isnt it . I think it is all right to leave him to cry. I watched him leaving him to cry to what he does. I have seen him problem so and so i would say leaving him to cry is the better thing to do, but not for too long. |j think its ok to let your baby cry if it is controlled crying, maybe a maximum of 20 minutes at a time but any more i think its not really fairto the any more i think its not really fair to the baby. I think that they need to learn to, like, whats right and wrong. I personally cant leave my baby alone for a minute because i feel like its very distressing on them, andl like its very distressing on them, and i feel that, like its very distressing on them, and i feelthat, like, the same like its very distressing on them, and i feel that, like, the same as if we were to cry, im sure we feel like weve got a headache. We get headaches and we get really stressed out, whereas i think that would be the same for the baby i think. There we go, you see that research is from Warwick University, by the way. And infants development and attachment to their pa rents development and attachment to their parents isnt affected by being left to cry it out and it can decrease the level and duration of crying. Im sure the relationship with the pa rent im sure the relationship with the parent isnt affected because they are little and they wont remember but it is distressing. This is why it is an interesting point of discussion. You can e mail us at bbcbrea kfast bbc. Co. Uk. That is the little hash tag. You can do that as well, on social media. Im sure you will engage with that topic of discussion in the next hour. Im clearly soft. Ridiculous orjusta hour. Im clearly soft. Ridiculous orjust a nice person. Maybe what does it make you . Horrible time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. Good morning, im alice salfield. A londoner coming back from italy says she wasnt given enough information when she arrived in the uk. The government advice for those returning from the country which is in lockdown because of coronavirus is to self isolate for 14 days. Butjess nicholls says she had to take public transport when she arrived in london, as her rescheduled flight wasnt to the same airport where she left her car. I just arrived back in the uk from rome. The pilot asked us to self identify if we werent feeling well, travelled through the arrivals hall to passport control through the electronic gates. There was a sign if you came from anywhere in italy to self isolate and contact nhs111. Thats it, theres nothing about this covering the whole of italy. A school in south london is reopening today after being closed for two weeks, after a member of staff tested positive for coronavirus. Wimbledon college said they had not had any contact with pupils. But as they had worked with a number of teachers, staff were told to to self isolate for a fortnight as a precaution. In other news this morning two missing london men have been found safe and well after their names and faces appeared on the backpacks of deliveroo riders. Its part of a campaign with the Charity Missing People to raise awareness of those who have disappeared. More than 500 riders across the country are involved. Lets take a look at the travel situation now. It all looks like its running well on the tubes so far, except for the overground which is suspended between euston and watford junction for Emergency Engineering works. On the roads, there are delays because of roadworks on the euston road from kings cross towards euston. In marble arch, edgware road is closed in both directions between seymour street and connaught street because of an accident. And in shadwell, one lane is closed for gas works on the highway westbound towards tower bridge. Now heres sara with the weather. Good morning. Yesterday, temperatures were up near 17 celsius, well above average for the time of year. Got another fairly mild day for you, its actually a pretty nice one as well. Mild, breezy, yes, but generally dry but we do have rain to talk about later. Cloud at first, temperatures at ten for some to start the day so a mild start. Through the day, good spells of sunshine coming through, breezy and a top temperature of 15, 59 in fahrenheit, again, well above average for the time of year. Tonight we see the cloud thicken up, bringing patchy rain through the middle part of the night and a weak weather front clearing us. Behind it, clearing skies into tomorrow morning and enough of a breeze to prevent too much of a frost, but we could have pockets of ground frost out towards the suburbs. So a much chillier start tomorrow and a lot sunshine, but well some showers whipping through on a fairly gusty wind. We could see gusts of 40 45 mph and it will be cooler in feel too. A cooler feel in trend for the next few days but a lot of dry weather as well. Im back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. Bye for now. Welcome to breakfast with dan walker and sally nugent. Our headlines today Health Minister Nadine Dorries tests positive for coronavirus the mp attended a reception n downing street on the day she started feeling ill. It comes as the chancellor prepares to deliver a budget in the face of the economic challenge posed by the virus the chancellor has already said therell be extra cash for the nhs and support for Small Businesses. Local authorities and leisure centres like this hope he will turn on the spending caps for them. Im here in darlington to find out what people here want to hear today. Coronavirus takes its toll on the premier league. Tonights match at Manchester City is postponed after a coronavirus scare involving opponents arsenal. More than 120 british passengers from a virus hit cruise ship in california are on their way back to the uk. And almost 17 celsius yesterday across the uk. It will be colder for the next 48 hours with sunshine and showers. Its wednesday the 11th of march. Our top story. The Health Minister Nadine Dorries has been diagnosed with coronavirus. She first showed symptoms last thursday, the same day she attended a reception with the Prime Minister. Ms dorries is now self isolating at home while Health Officials try to trace anyone shes been in contact with. Iain watson reports. I made a statement onjanuary 28. She is the first mp to contract the coronavirus. She is a Health Minister who has trained as a nurse. She is self isolating at home and issued this statement late night as soon as i was informed i took all advised precautions, she said. Public Health England have started detailed Contact Tracing and the department of health and my Parliamentary Office are closely following their advice. The authorities are now trying to trace to the Health Minister has been in close contact with and were told Nadine Dorries first felt peaky on thursday. Symptoms such as a dry cough appeared on friday last week and she was tested for the virus on monday. Last night she tweeted i hope i am over the worst of it now. I am more worried about my 84 year old mother, she is being tested tomorrow. She also thanked well wishers. We wish her a speedy recovery and we think this shows that the coronavirus can hit anybody. The government needs to give millions of people reassurance that if they need to self isolated that they will be looked after. The government and the speaker of the house of commons are reluctant to shut down government if the crisis worsens and there is so far no suggestion that westminster will close their doors. At the budget today, the chancellor will unveil methods to help business and individuals cope with the fallout from the outbreak. With an mp falling victim to the virus, it is a reminder that things are likely to get worse before they get better. That is one of this mornings main stories and we are also looking at the budget stop interesting news about uk Interest Rates. They were cut in an emergency move by 0. 5 this morning, that news breaking this morning, that news breaking this morning, that news breaking this morning on breakfast for you. Lets cross to downing street where our Political Correspondent nick eardleyjoins us. We need to start by talking to you about Nadine Dorries and the news that she has tested positive to the virus. The first minister to and first mp to test positive. Now we need to figure out who she has been in contact with over the last few days and who needs to be tested, who needs to self isolate. She was at number 10 on thursday night for a function. Boris johnson was number 10 on thursday night for a function. Borisjohnson was there as well. We do not know how much contact they had but one of the things Public Health england will look at to see if she had much contact with many people at that function. The question of what happens in parliament would be on many and is to shut parliament down and mp5 are against that idea. But dramatic measures should be taken quickly because they do not want to see as being panicked in a crisis. I would not be surprised if we see some extra measures over the next few days to look at how parliament deals with a potential outbreak. And just in the last few moments the government has cut Interest Rates by 0. 5 in orderto government has cut Interest Rates by 0. 5 in order to shore up business and the economy in this situation. What other measures do you think we may see come to light in the budget . We will see a lot. The budget will focus on the coronavirus out rake with attention on whether the chancellor introduces measures to help businesses such as tax breaks. Perhaps a reduction seen in footfall and business would collapse because of what is going on but there has been attention on measures for individuals and, potentially, increasing sick pay allowance for some people, making sure those in the casual economy get that as well. The lights were on all night in number 11 with a lot of last minute work going on to make sure the budget contains many measures to look at coronavirus. The Interest Rate cut this morning down to 0. 25 . Not everyone was expecting such a drastic cut today, that is to try and get the economy moving. To make sure that if there is a slowdown because of coronavirus that it is temporary rather than long term. Thank you very much and things are clearly changing quickly this morning. Lets bring you that breaking news once again. The bank of england has announced a surprise drop in Interest Rates, thought to be in response to the canonic damage caused by coronavirus. Economic damage. Nina, this is something that has happened in australia and the us and the uk are following suit. That is absolutely right. The us had a similar measure eight days ago. And and the fears about the global recession. This is the lowest the rates have been and just an explanation as to why these measures are taken. The idea is that Interest Rates are lower than we are likely to spend, we do not worry about debt and we will not save because we will not accrue interest. That worked in 2008 then it was a cash flow problem but things are different now. People are not spending because they do not wa nt to are not spending because they do not want to spend. There are questions about whether or not this will make any difference at all. What it does do is give us an indication of the scale of the crisis, the frank that the bank of england is working with the bank of england is working with the government on budget day to take measures to help contain it economically. Thank you, nina. We will have plenty more from her in darlington today. Our coverage will continue across wednesday. Tonights premier league game between Manchester City and arsenal has been called off because of concerns over coronavirus. Its after some arsenal players met with the owner of greek club, olympiakos, who has tested positive. Holly is here with us, what can you tell us . An interesting development. The First Premier League game to face theissues First Premier League game to face the issues that they have had in europe recently. We have seen so much of this in europe. The Champions League match last night being played behind closed door that this is the first directly affected premier league game and that is due to one man, the owner of olympiakos. He was in attendance at a crucial match between arsenal and olympiakos two weeks ago and he was there and shaking hands with players, hugging staff and he was on the pitch, sitting in the directors box, so a number of players have been isolated for 14 days as a precaution. None are diagnosed but they have been in isolation. That 14 days is nearly up at that news is only breaking here today. They will be ready for the game on saturday against brighton. They say all fans will be refunded but there are concerns now about the owner and where he has been and travelled to. He also owns Nottingham Forest so people are wondering if he has been there or in contact with people. Wolverhampton we re contact with people. Wolverhampton were meant to play olympiakos tomorrow night and they have wanted the game to be postponed but uefa say no. We may see more of this. The english football approach has been described as keep calm and carry on but this is the first match to be affected so who knows what happens after this. And, tonight, there is a Champions League match with a team from madrid. It is a constantly changing situation. Some important decisions to be made. Matt has got the changing situation. Some important decisions to be made. Matt has got the weather for us. Not a bad start for many. This is nottinghamshire looking over the moment and reasonably what that meant mild there. Are temperatures for your morning commute, similar to those yesterday. Cooler further north and we have showers spreading across scotla nd we have showers spreading across scotland and Northern Ireland with the odd rumble of thunder. It will turn cooler from the north through the day, we will see showers spreading to Northern England and wales as we go through to the afternoon. Still damp across the Channel Islands but between we will see sunshine and spots staying dry. Seven, eight across the north, a few good degrees there on yesterday across the south east corner. Coming home from work still raining on and off and sunshine continues. Few showers through wales and spreading to the east of the pennines but heavy showers across Northern Ireland towards the isle of man and the temperatures will drop so turning increasingly to sleet and snow and across the board it will be a blustery game day once again. Showers will spread through the night clear skies and then into tomorrow morning you get a good covering over the hills and the commute tomorrow will be cold for all. Tomorrow a day of sunshine and wintry showers. Thank you very much, matt. The bank of england has announced a surprise drop in Interest Rates. Joining us now is the Shadow Health secretary. Morning. Im sure you appreciate that there are many things we would like to talk about including the budget but surrounding the major story of coronavirus, particularly as sally just story of coronavirus, particularly as sallyjust mentioned, the bank of england cutting Interest Rates by 0. 5 . What are your views on that . It follows similar meshes in america and australia. I know why they made the decision, it needs to be a decision that is complemented by a fiscal stimulus which is what we will be looking for in the budget. We need to know if he will put money into public service, if he will inject cash into nhs which is now desperately needed to deal with the coronavirus out rate. Social Care Services, will he deal with issues around universal credit and sick pay . Not only is that cash injection important for services to continue to operate there is also an impact on economic growth. |j to operate there is also an impact on economic growth. I wanted to ask about the budget later but also the breaking news yesterday about Nadine Dorries testing positive for coronavirus. How has that affected daily life . Obviously best wishes to nadeem, we hope she has a speedy recovery. Obviously our thoughts are with everybody out there who has sadly contracted the virus and of course sadly weve had six deaths, i think that the latest eggers. This is obviously a very serious and worrying time. In terms of how this has affected mp5, the medical advice is if you show symptoms ring 111 or check out the 111 website, to self isolate, but. There is no, sort of, advisor to close down parliament or anything like that and its important mp5 continue to scrutinise ministers and continue to speak up on behalf of our constituents in parliament. Im not sure if you saw yesterday the Interesting Press conference given by the dutch by minister who talked about not shaking hands and immediately after he announced that he shook hands with the guy next to him and forgot the process. Are you shaking hands with fellow mp5 . Are you going for the wuhan foot touch orare you going for the wuhan foot touch or are you using elbows . How is it practically affecting you day to day . Im shaking hands because if youre a naturally polite person, thats the instinctive thing we all do. Im making sure i am washing my hands as often as possible for 20 seconds. I know. For people in may sound slightly curious were telling people to wash their hands co nsta ntly, people to wash their hands constantly, as it were, but this is how the virus spreads because the virus spreads through droplets from coughs or whatever that land on services and then you touch the surfaces and then at some point of having touched the surface with those droplets on your hand, you touch your mouth and nose and thats how you catch it. For everyone watching, this insistence on washing hands of four many times a day for 20 seconds is so important and im doing my bit and i hope the viewers are doing their bit. Our viewers are regularly asking us about the measures the government are taking and things they are seeing in other countries, and sporting events are very much in the public eye because Manchester City against arsenal is postponed tonight because the arsenal players are in self isolation, weve seen football matches play behind closed doors or postponed in other countries in europe, do you think thats a step that will have to be taken for large sporting events at some stage in the uk . As i said, the game tonight has been postponed because of the players, theyve been in contact with someone who has the virus. Its not been postponed because thats the medical advice. At the moment, government, i believe, are following the advice of the chief medical officer and the chief scientific advice, theyre doing what the clinicians and scientists are telling them to do and that the correct approach. I have no reason to think the government are not following that advice. Our scientists, and our experts, and we do have some world leading experts working on this, are advising us and theyre not advising us at the moment to be cancelling large scale events. There may come a moment where that has to happen, that is still on the table, government ministers say, but for now the scientific advice is we dont need to cancel large scale scientific advice is we dont need to cancel la rge scale events. Scientific advice is we dont need to cancel large scale events. I think the important thing is politicians like me need to be guided by what the scientists are telling us. Just to return to the budget, it is budget day and with finally getting round to it, theres so much to talk about with you this morning, im sure you, as you mention, will be looking for some of those election promises the conservatives said they would make the financial changes on, but do you concede given coronavirus, this is going to be a budget very difficult to what we would normally see from rishi sunak . I think thats right, and one of the things ill be looking for is if they give the nhs and social is Care Services the funding they need. We know the nhs has been run down for ten years, cutbacks, losing 7000 beds, short of 100,000 staff. Our Public Services could be much better prepared for this coronavirus outbreak had they not been underfunded and back for ten years. Ill be watching this budget carefully to if the chancellor puts the levels of investment into our nhs and social care it needs, not just to deal with the coronavirus what it needs for the future as well. Well see what he says later. Thanks for your time this morning, jonathan ashworth. To reiterate the news we have brought you, the bank of england has dropped Interest Rates from 0. 75 to 0. 25 , they are saying to help support firms to keep them in business and to keep people injobs. Straight to nina, who has the latest for us and all the expectations of what we might expect from the budget coming later today. Good morning, nina. Good morning, sally and dan. Im in darlington this morning, part of labours red wall of the north, which crumbled, didnt it, in december with the conservatives sweeping seats in the north east and north west because of big promises made to level up this part of the world. Events, dear boy, took over, didnt they . Coronavirus is likely to cloud this entire budget, theres been promises made for increased spending on the nhs but we dont know the support of the Small Business package. Youre right, sally, in the last half an hour Interest Rates have been cut to their lowest ever point from 0. 75 to 0. 25 . Lets chat about that impact on our spending and on the wider economy. Good morning, sarah. Youre a personal finance expert. Is this going to make us and more . Youre a personal finance expert. Is this going to make us and more7m is tricky, it has mixed effect on different people so if you are a savour, it is bad news and you had a lot of that over the last decade, though its making sure you get the best rate. If youve got a mortgage and it is variable, that will fall, so good news for people with mortgages and theres a problem if youre getting an annuity, for example, because annuity rates are going to fall in the near future so it is worth properly shopping around and consider things like enhanced annuity rates. Mixed effects on different people. It is more partly about giving a strong message that something is being done about this and the major beneficiary will be the government, because government borrowing now is incredibly cheap and it has fallen to the extent in some cases where people are paying the government to take their money. It might have an impact on the way the government treats borrowing and we could see borrowing going up much higher than over the last 30 years. Welcome news for lots of people who have suffered after ten years of austerity, these big plans around infrastructure, cheaper borrowing is great news. How important is it the government re addresses what we call the dream book, the cost analysis of where they spend and how much they spend . The way the green book, they wont spend unless they think it is value for money and theres all sorts of exciting maths involved. The rules around that will change, so projects that might not have been considered before will be considered more value for money. Some of the projects people have been crying out for, changes to road infrastructure, things like that, those things are likely to be in the pipeline for the government to spend money on. Eyes and ears listening out for that nicola, you are a northern policy expert. When you heard the Interest Rate cuts you literally squealed and jumped into the air. Brilliant, because the money is free for the government to spend. We were worried as a policy community that the coronavirus would dominate the budget but it looks like with the Interest Rate cut of 0. 5 , the levelling up agenda is on and the lights are burning brightly for the north. Theres lots of reasons to invest in infrastructure but not least because the thing you we re but not least because the thing you were describing, the green book appraisal, Government Spending does appraisal, Government Spending does a numberof things appraisal, Government Spending does a number of things at once and theres a significant multiplier is associated with Infrastructure Projects. The key is to see if by putting place and places like this in darlington to the four, would decisions be made differently . Devolution, we are hoping to see from the chancellor, deals for leeds, manchester, liverpool, more metro mayers, would there and analysis of where things should go and why be different to a centralised one . The combination of Infrastructure Spending and devolution could be potentially powerful and transformative for the north. Boris johnson said when he won the election he would not let down the people of the north who had lent him their vote. We shall see if that transmits to anything in the budget. Ive never known a budget like this for a chancellor who is less tha n like this for a chancellor who is less than a month in the job, less than five years as an mp. Good luck nina, thanks very much indeed elsewhere, italy is entering its second day of lockdown, as unprecedented measures continue to be enforced right across the country in an attempt to tackle the spread of coronavirus. The number of confirmed cases has now risen to more than 10,000 and 631 people have died. Italy now faces growing isolation, thousands of flights in and out have been cancelled, with some airlines planning to schedule rescue flights to get people back to britain. Public gatherings are forbidden and tourist sites are virtually deserted. Doctors have sent stark advice to the public. Stay at home and be prepared for a kind of war, because we are facing a war now here. Lets speak now to william george, who runs a b b in verona. Good morning to you, william george. First of all, how are you doing . What is life like for you there at the moment . Well, we are all at home all the time. Basically we cant go out. We we re time. Basically we cant go out. We were allowed to go out for food. The b b is obviously not working because everybody cancelled and then whether they cancelled or not, they still cant come now anyway because youre not allowed to move around. So except for essential requirements, and staying at a b b is not essential. So our main worry actually is about money, because there is no income. But, you know, there is no income. But, you know, the house is nice, were sitting around and having some family time. So, the situation for the business currently is looking bleak. How far ahead have you been taking bookings and going into spring and summer, do you still have bookings confirmed . We are on lake garda, where most of the people who book with us but quite late, because theyre going to the theme parks which are in this area on the lake, on lake garda voronin aside. We dont normally have a great deal of people booking a long time in advance. We have got bookings all summer but people are cancelling arent cancelling yet. What kind of support are you getting and is there support for Small Businesses . Theres a bit of support, there is talk about the possibility of some support but there is no. I dont know what form the support could take, because theyre talking about investing or improving the tourist facilities in the area, if they put flowers in the town or something its not going to help if you havent got any visitors. This must be an incredibly stressful time for you . It is stressful because obviously you need an income if youve got a family. Fortunately we recently finished our mortgage, although there is a sort of mortgage holiday now being talked about, which wont affect us because weve just finished paying it after 30 yea rs. Just finished paying it after 30 years. So, you know, we did, like most people, bought a load of pasta and rice and things like that. You mention family, i know that your family. Everybodys back with you, how are you managing and how are you keeping yourselves busy . |j how are you managing and how are you keeping yourselves busy . I also do translations. And fortunately ive still got some of them that keep me busy. Im actually translating a document at the moment on coronavirus for the government, which is out of date. Every time i try to do it gets changed. So there will be a Little Something that comes from that. The kids. My son is at university here, the university is closed, and also hes missed some exams. My daughter is doing at school some conference classes on her computer, which is quite well organised. Well, william, we wish you and the family and the business well. William george in the rhona. Clearly in tricky circumstances. He says he has work coming through because of coronavirus but it must be incredibly stressful. Breaking news through the morning this morning, about half an hour ago the bank of england announced it cut Interest Rates 0. 5 , falling from 0. 75 to 0. 25 , taking it back to the lowest borrowing costs with ever had in this country. Those measures all in response to trying to shore up the economy in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. More information on the outbreak can be found on the bbc news website, it includes symptoms and how to reduce the risk of becoming infected, plus advice for people with Underlying Health conditions. That is at empty more analysis on what the Interest Rate cut could mean to you this morning. We will bejoined by sean on the sofa and also we will speak to sean on the sofa and also we will speakto nina sean on the sofa and also we will speak to nina in darlington, sean on the sofa and also we will speakto nina in darlington, and sean on the sofa and also we will speak to nina in darlington, and all this on budget day as nina said, rishi sunak, a few weeks in the job and a few years as an mp, so big day for rishi sunak and the Government Spending for the weeks and months ahead stop er where you are. Good morning, im alice salfield. A londoner coming back from italy says she wasnt given enough information when she arrived in the uk. The government advice for those returning from the country which is in lockdown because of coronavirus is to self isolate for 14 days. Butjess nicholls says she had to take public transport when she arrived in london, as her rescheduled flight wasnt to the same airport where she left her car. I just arrived back in the uk from rome. The pilot asked us to self identify if we werent feeling well, travelled through the arrivals hall to passport control through the electronic gates. There was a sign if you came from anywhere in italy to self isolate and contact nhs111. Thats it, theres nothing about this covering the whole of italy. A boys school in south london is due to reopen today after a member of staff tested positive for the virus following a trip to italy at half term. Wimbledon college says they hadnt had any contact with pupils but as a precaution the staff were told to self isolate for a fortnight. In other news this morning, two missing london men have been found safe and well after their names and faces appeared on the backpacks of deliveroo riders. Its part of a campaign with the Charity Missing People to raise awareness of those who have disappeared. More than 500 riders across the country are involved. Lets take a look at the travel situation now. Good news on the tubes, all lines seem to be running a good service at the moment. Thats after some problems on the overground cleared up. On the roads, in the west end, there are lane restrictions for roadworks at the junction with high holborn and shaftesbury avenue. In marble arch, edgware road is closed in both directions between seymour street and connaught street because of an accident. And in shadwell, one lane is closed for gas works on the highway westbound towards tower bridge. Now heres sara with the weather. Good morning to you. Yesterday, temperatures were up near 17 celsius, well above average for the time of year. Got another fairly mild day for you, its actually a pretty nice one as well. Mild, breezy, yes, but generally dry but we do have rain to talk about later. Cloud at first, temperatures at ten for some to start the day so a mild start. Through the day, good spells of sunshine coming through, breezy and a top temperature of 15, 59 in fahrenheit, again, well above average for the time of year. Tonight we see the cloud thicken up, bringing patchy rain through the middle part of the night and a weak weather front clearing us. Behind it, clearing skies into tomorrow morning and enough of a breeze to prevent too much of a frost, but we could have pockets of ground frost out towards the suburbs. So a much chillier start tomorrow and a lot sunshine, but well some showers whipping through on a fairly gusty wind. We could see gusts of 40 45 mph and it will be cooler in feel too. A cooler feel in trend for the next few days but a lot of dry weather as well. Im back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. Now its back to sally and dan. Bye for now. Hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and sally nugent. In the last few minutes, the bank of england has announced a surprise drop in Interest Rates. Its thought to be in response to the damage to the economy caused by the coronavirus. Sean is here to tell us more. Lets start with the first question, why has this happened . To reduce borrowing cost. That is the idea of reducing Interest Rates. It does hit save rs reducing Interest Rates. It does hit savers but the point at the moment with the economy taking a hit, there are many businesses and individuals out there who find times financially more difficult than they were expecting. So at the moment, today is the day when the budget happens and the chancellor will make some announcements linked to helping business there and the bank of england, it seems to be a effectively co ordinated effort is doing what it thinks it can to try and help alleviate some of those financial struggles that business and individuals have. Much of it is to do with business having access to finance over the coming months, going to banks and being able to get the loans that they need. And if they are getting loans, getting them at the lowest rate that they can possibly get. A big part of this is the reliance upon the relationship of the bank of england and the high street banks, that they will pass on this reduction in Interest Rates to people and business it lends to. And if that happens, what impact will we feel . For many people, if you are on a variable mortgage, a classic easiest way to think right, what is the knock on effect of a reduction in Interest Rates for borrowers. So a million or so people have that mortgage. If you are on fixed rate this will not make a difference but with a variable mortgage, your costs drop. If you are a business with a loa n drop. If you are a business with a loan ona drop. If you are a business with a loan on a variable rate, your cost will go down. The point is that people will see low borrowing cost but the bank of england is notjust talking about that this morning, it has spoken about helping and encouraging banks get finance to business. It told the banks to generally keep money, capital, aside for a generally keep money, capital, aside fora rainy generally keep money, capital, aside for a rainy day but right now we are allowing you to use those rainy day reserves and free up that cash to lend to business. There is a range of things that the bank of england is doing to keep the system moving for those who need finance. The test will be whether the banks actually carry it out and people can get those rates. This is the joint lowest it has been in history at 0. 25 . But it is not in isolation because this us and australia have done similar measures. Central banks around the world have the power to do this and they are acting. We also talk about it being at a record low like the ones we saw in the aftermath of the financial crisis. But then we were seeing Interest Rates move from 5 to nearly zero and they have never really returned to the level we had before. So the impact ofa to the level we had before. So the impact of a change like this, ten yea rs or impact of a change like this, ten years or more ago we were used to that all the time. The overall impact will not be as big a jolt as people would think that it is a little bit to help from the bank of england, doing what they think they can do to help the economy. Thank you for explaining that. He has such a busy day today. It is budget day and we have plenty of coverage of that through the day. People have been calling it a coronavirus budget so it will be interesting to see what measures rishi sunak brings in. Health officials are trying to determine how far within government the outbreak has reached after Nadine Dorries revealed she tested positive. She first had symptoms on thursday, a day she attended a function with the Prime Minister. She is now in self isolation at home as officials tried to trace her contact. More than 120 british passengers from the grand princess cruise ship in california are on a flight back to the uk. The liner was moored off the coast of San Francisco for five days after some passengers and crew tested positive for coronavirus. Those returning to the uk will be asked to self isolate. Heres the moment one passenger, neil hanlon from tauton, joining us from taunton arejune and kevin hanlon, the mum and brother of neil hanlon, a passenger on the ship. And here in the studio is linsey, whose mum has also been onboard the ship. Kevin andjune, kevin and june, firstly, have you heard anything from your son . Last night we heard a correspondent from the government saying he would be on a flight home and land in the uk at quarter to three this afternoon. How has the last week been . It must have been a testing time. It has been difficult. Worst since thursday when they were isolated to their cabins. Not knowing what is going on and it has been hard for all of us. Lets bring lindsay in. Your mother, margaret, is returning on this flight margaret, is returning on this flight and you have not seen her for one month. How strange to see your mother but not hug her. What will you do . It will be hard on my children will want to hug her but they cannot. But we were getting around last night with facemasks so all hands on deck. How is your mother, was she concerned . It was hard for them. As soon as they knew what was happening it was easier so the worst day was sunday and saturday but sunday they were told that they would be flown out so that eased it a little bit not massively because they were still confined. Their biggest concern is that they have not been tested and they have been put on a flight with 120 people, none of whom have been tested and the test on the ship, those over 45 of the people tested came back positive. So why would they not test, why wouldnt the Foreign Office test them . They tested the people on the diamond princess. June, i know that you have Underlying Health conditions and your granddaughter has diabetes. How worried are you about that and neil coming back . To be honest it is a worry. And the fact that they have not been tested and they are returning to the uk, and they will not be tested here, that is what we have been told that they would yourself isolate the so i am worried for my mother and my granddaughter who has type 1 diabetes. So it really is about keeping those people away from neil. And can you help at all with any self isolation plans because that is what they will have to do now . That is the other problem. We are talking to relatives and it looks like we will put them with someone else in the family to isolate themselves for two weeks. Just to come back to you, lindsey, i see you are working through what your mother will now need to do when she returns. You say she has not been tested so i imagine at some point there will be a test, but that shejust point there will be a test, but that she just returned home, point there will be a test, but that shejust returned home, did she point there will be a test, but that she just returned home, did she live on her own, where will she go . She isa on her own, where will she go . She is a widow and she lives on her own. She is a huge help to me with my two children so we need to handle the logistics of that again and she looks after my dog and now she cannot. So we have those logistics to deal with but my mother did say that she was concerned that the self isolation, with so many people on the ship in quarantine for six days, that they will return to the uk, self isolate, get to day five, not show symptoms, no coughing fit whereas these people have been highly exposed to the virus and they area big highly exposed to the virus and they are a big risk and passengers are worried that they have not been tested. We will put some of your questions to the Foreign Commonwealth Office and they said the british nationals would be provided onward transfer arrangements upon arrival in the uk to return them to their homes. People have been tested in quarantine and this is for Public Health england to define. As they advise on that self isolation process. The us will screen passengers before embarkation to the us Repatriation Flight and anyone requiring hospital treatment will receive treatment in San Francisco. I had 70 questions from those state m e nts i had 70 questions from those statements released by the Foreign Office. This morning i wanted to know how the transfer from birmingham to my mothers house, is it by caror birmingham to my mothers house, is it by car or coach . They did not know. It is simple and a fundamental logistics question and theyjust said of us a couple of hours and we will get back in touch. And then i asked them also what the differences between the diamond princess and the grand princess and they said once on british soil it becomes the Public Health england responsibility. I tried to get in contact with them but it has not yet been successful. It seems like you are asking the right questions but in a situation thatis right questions but in a situation that is changing all the time it is ha rd to that is changing all the time it is hard to find the right answer. M that is changing all the time it is hard to find the right answer. It is very difficult. Because the Foreign Office come across that they do not know and cannot give you the answer or the phrases that the us authorities are leading on this. It isa authorities are leading on this. It is a fast moving situation. That does not give answers to fundamental questions that they should be prepared and planned to answer because they are not difficult questions. Kevin, june, do you have a similar situation . Have you had any more answers . No. Exactly the same position. The answers are very sparse. Very Little Information and that has been a problem all along, trying to understand what is happening. And we just do not get much feedback at all. Briefly, if there was one question you needed answered, what is your most important concern . For us . How at risk aware, really . How safe is it for them to be back in the uk self isolating . What is the risk to other people . A difficult time, thank you very much and we will try to find an a nswer to very much and we will try to find an answer to that for you. Sorry we cannot answer all your questions, lindsay, we will all keep trying. General outbreak questions, you can find on the bbc news website stuff about symptoms and reducing the risk of being infected as well as advice for people with Underlying Health concerns. I know kevin and june had some of those questions. That is at our website or you can find some of that information on the news app. Like lindsay was saying, her mum is coming back. Two children to look after. Quite a few people have the virus on the bocce has been on, she hasnt been tested yet so she doesnt know whether she has the virus, then she comes straight back to her home. How long does she self isolate for . Kevin and jun are worried about how much of a risk is it for them and their families, which you can completely understand. And the basic practical stuff, if you havent seen your mum for a month you dont know whether you can hug her or not. Dont think you can tricky situation and hopefully we will answer as many of your questions as possible through the programme this morning. Lets have a look the sport. Normally it is light relief but again coronavirus is affecting the football and the premier League Tonight . Weve seen the effect it has had on quite a few sporting events, from the six nations to european football, with serie a not knowing if their league will finish this season. This is the first time in the premier league we have seen an impactand in the premier league we have seen an impact and this is the game between Manchester City and arsenal in the premier league, it has been cancelled. Their centres around one man, the olympiakos owner, evangelos marinakis, and the reason they are concerned is arsenal played npr cost in the Europa League two weeks ago, anyone watching would have seen him down the pitch, hugging the players, speaking to senior members of staff so any players in direct contact with him, hes been diagnosed, are in isolation in their own homes. They havent actually been diagnosed with the owners, though. The good news is those players and the four arsenal staff, this is a 14 day isolation process, thats coming to an end very soon isolation process, thats coming to an end very soon so isolation process, thats coming to an end very soon so they will be ok to play in the premier league very soon but this owner isntjust the owner of olympiakos, hes the owner of Nottingham Forest and they played m illwa ll of Nottingham Forest and they played millwall last week and he was at that game. Again he was speaking to players and staff and both clubs have released a statement on this today, they have said the efl has beenin today, they have said the efl has been in contact with Nottingham Forest and they say they are trying to ascertain the set of circumstances that existed when he visited and then they will determine what measures if any are taken. M illwa ll what measures if any are taken. Millwall says senior Club Representatives are also self isolating as a precaution, as well as their board members, theyre all staying at home so theyre taking this very seriously at the moment, as you might imagine. It asks a lot of questions about what else can happen within english football. Weve seen it in the Champions League last night with a match played behind closed doors, and its been put to a lot of managers about what would happen within the premier league in the championship, would you prefer the game to be postponed or played behind closed doors . The Manchester City manager was asked about this before the game tonight, he feels strongly about it, and he said he would prefer it is postponed instead of being behind closed doors. This is for the people. Like an actor going to the theatre and there is nobody in the theatre to act for. It is for the people. It makes no sense. Wolves are meant to play olympiakos in the europa League Tonight. A massive issue for wolves. Wolves have releaesd this statement after their request was rejected by uefa. They said some things were more important than football and it was an unnecessary risk to players, staff, supporters and the families of those travelling. Some huge words. Weve seen the impact on the likes of the 6 nation, indian wells cancelled, olympic qualifiers, and formula 1 six nations. The new formula one season starts this weekend in melbourne. In the last hour, two developments there one member of the mclaren team has been tested for the coronavirus and is in self isolation as a precaution, as are two members from the haas team. Having a huge impact on sport. When you hear some of the people youve been speaking to have been impacted directly, it takes it all into consideration, but the important thing is. The spread and thats why these measures are being taken, whether football or formula 1. Halting the spread. Heres matt with a look at this mornings weather. Good morning. We could all do with a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, looks like it is there here, double rainbow, captured by a weather watcher, indication of the conditions heading our way, sunshine, showers with some rainbows thrown in. Turning colder but not desperately chilly if youre heading to work or school very shortly, temperatures and ten. Mild in the south after whats been a warm 24 hours. Further cloud and outbreaks of rain in the Channel Islands through the day but heavy showers in scotla nd through the day but heavy showers in scotland and Northern Ireland will go to england and north and west wales, maybe some thunder but only rain at the moment but they could turn wintry, the showers, in scotla nd turn wintry, the showers, in scotland in the afternoon mainly over the hills. Blustery day and a few will stay dry, especially in southern and eastern part, but Gale Force Winds making it feel colder with temperatures up to 15 suggesting but temperatures closer to where they should be for scotland and Northern Ireland later. Colder air pushes in through tonight and a batch of showers pushes across england and wales of rain and rain, sleet and snow showers in scotland and Northern Ireland and the north of england, leading to icy conditions into tomorrow morning. Tomorrow mornings commute will be colder than this morning with the best of the brightest weather in the east. Showers in the west, wintry in scotla nd east. Showers in the west, wintry in scotland and Northern Ireland, lots to come through the day with winds taking up. A few showers further south but the bulk of it will be dry and the snow will mount up over the hills in scotland over the coming days, and everyone tomorrow, especially with Gale Force Winds, will start to feel colder. Thats how its looking. Back to dan and sally. Thank you very much indeed. Its a dilemma faced by most new parents when your baby cries, should you rush in to check theyre all right, or leave them to self soothe . Research by Warwick University suggests that letting a baby aged 18 months or less cry it out will have no adverse effect, and could actually make them cry less as they get older. Well discuss this more in a moment, but first, lets find out what you think. The researcher behind this report, dieter wolke, joins us now from the university of warwick, and on the sofa we have parenting blogger leyla preston, with her 6 month old ayla. She looks a bit cross with me this morning, is everything ok . She looks a bit cross with me this morning, is everything 0k . She was listening to your comments earlier we will speak to dieter wolke in a moment but how many children have you got . I have got three. Have you been a self soother or do you let them. Do you go to them . Ive never actively ta ken them. Do you go to them . Ive never actively taken the road to get them to cry it out. She is a self soother so i dont have to do anything with her at all, my eldest was quite difficult to go to sleep and my second was very clingy and naturally i flopped towards my second one more because he needed it more and i ended up leaving my eldest anyway. I didnt have a choice, so he ended up having to self soothe. Its sunny, they are also different and one size doesnt it all, it depends on the child. I really think that. Dieter wolke, what are the Main Findings of your research . Yeah, ithink research . Yeah, i think most important, good morning, most important is really for 50 years theres been a discussion between those for attachment theory saying you have to intervene immediately with a baby and you need to continue doing this to reassure the baby so you get a good attachment and a good relationship. The other extreme was the behaviourists basically said, well, if you intervene immediately you reinforce the crying, you give them attention so it would be better to leave it. What leyla said on the sofa was what we found, intuitively parents, 65 of parents, said they would not leave their baby to cry it out ever in the first few weeks and at term, but by three months, six months, it swung around that about 60 of parents occasionally let their baby cry it out or let them cry it out often. We found weather the parents. The 30 who continued to intervene immediately, or the ones that let them cry out a few times or often, we found no differences at 18 months in the mother child interaction, in the quality of attachment and in the behaviour of the children. Babies are very adaptable. Weve had so many comments on this and ill read you a couple. Both sides of the debate, arent they . Amy says if you should never leave your baby to cry and if theyre crying you need to find a way to calm them. Lucy says she has a seven month old and she leaves them depending on the type of the cry, she can always tell if it is distress or a whinge. Summers day they put a hand on the baby matt duffie some say. Others have the guilt of standing outside and listening not wanting to go in. Some say. I understand this research are saying you should leave the baby are saying you should leave the baby a bit to cry, but we need a middle ground, i couldnt do it myself, but theres a middle ground and you learn what the cry is for. Yeah. Im the same, i cant hear a baby cry, i really cant. I get this feeling that that is their only form of communication and if we dont respond to that then they learn to. Their parents will not come to them and sometimes i find that quite sad. Having said that, because we naturally had to leave our eldest to self soothe because my second one needed me more, he is a bit more independent. I just think needed me more, he is a bit more independent. Ijust think that it really depends on the child. You have to learn what the cry is. If they are not said, if theyve had a appy they are not said, if theyve had a nappy change, if they want a cuddle sometimes its ok. You just have to know your childs pride. Its really important i think. Dita, cani important i think. Dita, can i ask you, when you did this research, was there any difference between the amount you let them cry . 30 seconds, a minute, 15 minutes . How long . Childs cry. It is very important to an pa rents a re cry. It is very important to an parents are very intuitive about it because in the first three to four months, babies double their weight and crying is the only way to alert the parents because they cant, like a cast, walk behind the cow and feed themselves so theyre completely dependent on the caretaker half. It is important to intervene quickly early on you can try out to leave them for one to two minutes to if they can self soothe. You have to see. It is like with homework, if they child comes back home and you can do the homework for them, start right at the beginning, or you can leave them alone, the best is presumably to help them a little bit but they still have to solve it themselves. Actually to learn to soothe yourself is the first concept of yourself. And really from about six months onwards, a lot of babies can do this. It would be very important to wait a little bit. As you already mentioned, sometimes it is more the problem of the parent who feels a babyis problem of the parent who feels a baby is stressed if it cries a lot rather than helping them to learn how to self self soothe. Rather than helping them to learn how to self selfsoothe. Dieter wolke, thank you very much indeed. And dieter wolke, great to you, thirst appearance on tv and leyla, thanks for coming in first appearance. We will try to get space to read more of your comments out, very busy today, but it is one that splits right down the middle. In practical terms, most people are somewhere in the middle, they do a bit of both. Really tricky louises documentary about sport relief is on tonight but shes not doing just that. Trees outside the studio to tell us more. Good morning shes outside. How lovely to be in the cold and not the 43 of namibia im outside the studios at salford quays, there will be the sport relief boat race later this afternoon. The bbc against itv against channel 4 against sky news. Eight of us, nine including the coz ina eight of us, nine including the coz in a boat. Cox. He is showing us where we need to go. Im terrified. I have had one days training, the boat looked narrow, so easy when you see James Cracknell and helen glover, our trainers, see James Cracknell and helen glover, ourtrainers, rowing in the olympics. Its not easy at all, it is very difficult it is teamwork. I havent even rode with my team yet and they will be here later on bbc brea kfast. And they will be here later on bbc breakfast. It is a lovely day. Pine for the news, weather and travel wherever you are and well see you shortly good morning, im alice salfield. A londoner coming back from italy says she wasnt given enough information when she arrived in the uk. The government advice for those returning from the country which is in lockdown because of coronavirus is to self isolate for 14 days. Butjess nicholls says she had to take public transport when she arrived in london, as her rescheduled flight wasnt to the same airport where she left her car. I just arrived back in the uk from rome. The pilot asked us to self identify if we werent feeling well, travelled through the arrivals hall to passport control through the electronic gates. There was a sign if you came from northern italy to self isolate and contact nhs111. Thats it, theres nothing about this covering the whole of italy. Meanwhile, passenger numbers at heathrow fell by almost 5 in february. The airport said it was because coronavirus had impacted travel to asia and europe. It also said demand had continued to go down in march. A boys school in south london is due to reopen today after a member of staff tested positive for the virus following a trip to italy at half term. Wimbledon college says they hadnt had any contact with pupils but as a precaution the staff were told to self isolate for a fortnight. In other news this morning at least five people have been arrested in a series of dawn raids across london and the Home Counties targeting county lines drug running. Thats where gangs recruit vulnerable people, often children, to deliver drugs from big cities like london to smaller towns. Lets take a look at the travel situation now. Good news on the tubes minor delays on the waterloo city line at the moment but a good service elsewhere. But on the trains theres disruption to london northwestern and Avanti West Coast services heading out of euston to northampton and birmingham. Its because of the repairs to the overhead wires. And on the roads, this is shadwell, where one lane is closed for gas works on the highway westbound towards tower bridge. Now heres sara with the weather. Good morning to you. Yesterday, temperatures were up near 17 celsius, well above average for the time of year. Got another fairly mild day for you, its actually a pretty nice one as well. Mild, breezy, yes, but generally dry but we do have rain to talk about later. Cloud at first, temperatures at ten for some to start the day so a mild start. Through the day, good spells of sunshine coming through, breezy and a top temperature of 15, 59 in fahrenheit, again, well above average for the time of year. Tonight we see the cloud thicken up, bringing patchy rain through the middle part of the night and a weak weather front clearing us. Behind it, clearing skies into tomorrow morning and enough of a breeze to prevent too much of a frost, but we could have pockets of ground frost out towards the suburbs. So a much chillier start tomorrow and a lot sunshine, but well some showers whipping through on a fairly gusty wind. We could see gusts of 40 45 mph and it will be cooler in feel too. A cooler feel in trend for the next few days but a lot of dry weather as well. Im back with the latest in half an hour. Bye for now. Good morning, welcome to breakfast with dan walker and sally nugent. Our headlines today an emergency cut in Interest Rates is announced by the bank of england to shore up the economy in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. It comes as the chancellor prepares to deliver a budget in the face of the economic challenge posed by the virus. He has already promised coronavirus cash for the nhs and Small Businesses, but where does that leave transport and Infrastructure Projects and levelling up the north . We ask for the big challenges for a new chancellor. Health minister Nadine Dorries tests positive for coronavirus the mp attended a reception in downing street on the day she started feeling ill. Coronavirus takes its toll on the premier league. Tonights match at Manchester City is postponed after a coronavirus scare involving opponents arsenal. And sunshine, showers and the odd rainbow thrown in. That is the story for the next few days, but also turning cold after hitting almost 17 celsius yesterday. Its wednesday the 11th of march. In the last hour, the bank of england has announced a big drop in Interest Rates in response to the damage to the economy caused by the coronavirus. Nina is in darlington and can tell us more. We will talk to her in a couple of moments about the implications for local businesses and people paying mortgages. We heard sean talk earlier about how people ink variable rate mortgages are a good thing, but not good for savers. Nina, why are they cutting Interest Rates right now . Yeah, to the lowest they have ever been, 0. 25 . The idea behind cutting Interest Rates is that it behind cutting Interest Rates is thatitis behind cutting Interest Rates is that it is a stimulus to spend. If we are not accruing any interest in the bank, we are more likely to spend. If we are not building up any debts if we borrow, we are more likely to spend. There are global fears because of this economic slowdown linked to coronavirus that there will be a recession, so this isa there will be a recession, so this is a big encouragement in the hope that we will spend more. Is it going to work . That is the question. It worked in 2008 when there was a recession, but the issue at that time was the availability of cash. That is not the issue at the moment. People dont want to spend or go to concerts and restaurants. The supply chains have been slowing down because people havent been going to work and there is a projection that there will only be an increase in that sort of consumer and manufacturing behaviour. So there are questions around whether it will work, but also, at 0. 25 , does it leave the bank of england any wriggle room if things do get worse . No, hardly any. A big issue for chancellor rishi sunak when he delivers his budget later. I will be talking about that shortly. Well, following this mornings announcement by the bank of england, the chancellor of the exchequer will unveil his first budget. Lets cross to downing street where our Political Correspondent nick eardleyjoins us. Lets talk about that Interest Rate announcements. It seems like a joined up announcement today, with the budget to come in a few hours time . It doesnt normally happen on budget day. We were not expecting it this morning and it hasnt happened for 25 years or so that you have had an Interest Rate cut on the same day that you have had the budget. But it seems like the government and the bank of england are getting ready for some pretty big announcements today. Part of that is about getting businesses ready for coronavirus potentially getting worse and a slowdown in the economy. The chancellor will be on his feet at about 12. 30. It will be interesting to see how much emergency cash is therefore the nhs and what protections there are four individuals, people who might have to be off sick. Are they going to increase the number of people who are eligible for statutory sick pay, perhaps those in the gig economy . All of that will be crucial. The government also wants to talk about levelling up, as nina was saying. There will be a lot of cash for infrastructure, things like roads, trains, housing, broadband. But the focus will be on getting the economy ready. Another thing people are talking about is this positive coronavirus test for the Health Minister Nadine Dorries. Let me shimmy over to number ten because one of the interesting things about this story is that Nadine Dorries was ina this story is that Nadine Dorries was in a reception in number ten downing street last thursday. As she started to show those symptoms for coronavirus. We dont know whether the Prime Minister has been tested. A government source told me this morning that all the response to this will be guided by the science and that the process is now for Public Health england to figure out who she was in close contact with and get them tested to make sure they are ok and if not, get them into self isolation. Mp5 spend a lot of time moving about, notjust in government, but in parliament as well, chatting to mp5 and their constituents. I spoke to house of commons authorities this morning. They say that as things stand there are no plans to shut parliament down. If there were any changes to how it functions, that would be a matter of discussion between the speaker and government and mp5. There are questions over whether protection here needs to be ramped up protection here needs to be ramped up after that positive test from the Health Minister Nadine Dorries. Thank you. Tonights premier league game between Manchester City and arsenal has been called off because of concerns over coronavirus. Its after some arsenal players met with the owner of greek club, olympiakos, who has tested positive. Holly is here with us, what can you tell us . Until now, we have seen this in other european matches. There was a huge game played behind closed doors last night. We have seen it in the six nations, the tennis and formula 1 but english football has not been affected until now. This is the first cancellation between Manchester City and arsenal. It stems from the owner of olympiakos. He was at the match between olympiakos and arsenal in the Europa League two weeks ago. Anyone who was at this match will have seen him there shaking hands with players. He was in contact with staff and any of those who were in contact have been self isolated for 14 days. The good news is that they will be ready in time for the match between arsenal and brighton in the premier league, but the problem now is whereas this man has been. He is also the owner of Nottingham Forest and he was at the game between Nottingham Forest and millwall last week, again shaking hands with players, talking to senior staff. The afl have put out a statement saying they have beenin out a statement saying they have been in contact with both clubs and they will determine what measures are taken. Senior representatives from millwall are already self isolating. It will be the First Premier League game to have a direct impact because of coronavirus. We will see what happens by the end of the season. Lets see if we get to the season. Lets see if we get to the end of the season. Matt has this morning 5 weather. A fairly pleasant start today. It is a bit murky across southernmost counties of england, but these are the maddest conditions for your morning commute. Plenty of showers at the moment. Some of them are wintry over the tops of the mountains. They could spread into Northern England and parts of wales after a bright start. Sunshine and still some showers but turning colder across the northern half of the country later. Many parts of england and wales should stay dry away from the Channel Islands and parts of kent. Closer to normal across parts of scotland and Northern Ireland. For all of us, it will be a blustery day. Still quite murky towards the coast of kent and sussex. Showers start to turn increasingly to sleet and snow not just over the hills. Winds could touch 60 miles an hour through the day. Temperatures will drop widely and tomorrow morning a greater chance of frost and ice around in what will be the start of another day of sunshine and showers. It will feel colder in blustery winds. Lets get more on todays budget announcement from nina whos in darlington. We can also talk about the Interest Rate news from an hour ago. Yes, just in darlington, adam and the lads are on their way to cheltenham races. I wonder what is in the bag, fellas jasmine is on her way to leeds. She was telling me this service is sometimes reliable, but sometimes not. What people in darlington are hoping for from today because my budget is investment in transport, specifically the station. We they get it . We dont know, because coronavirus is expected to dominate this budget. There is a huge cloud over all of it. The chancellor has already promised extra funding for the nhs and Small Businesses, but there were political promises made in this part of the world before the last election. They promised they would level up the country and now they have to prove it. But it wont be easy. A fallen brick in labours red wall of the north. In december, darlington dared to turn tory for the first time in nearly 30 years. The pressure is on the Prime Minister, who has promised to reward them by levelling up the country. Adrians been looking for work since christmas, what does he expect from the budget . Well, not a lot. I dont generally trust anything thats said about the north east, with funding and things, can be taken remotely seriously, to be honest. Theyve seemed like theyve dangled it like a carrot and a stick to try and get voters, whereas then they dont follow through with any of the rest of it. So, when they talk about levelling up the north, you think its going to happen . No, not really. Unemployment in darlington is higher than average. Income is lower. If big investment is coming, they feel entitled to a cut. Now, there were supposed to be a £100 billion major infrastructure plan contained in the budget as part of that promise to make things fairer across the country, but the chancellor has already said that that will have to wait. But after a decade of austerity, some are expecting the new chancellor to turn on the public spending taps. Conservative promises have included 30,000 new Police Officers and a 3. 4 year on year increase in nhs spending. And that is music to heathers ears. A conservative councillor for more than 40 years, shes watched as the local police force lost a third of its budget and 700 Council Employees lost theirjobs. Would you like to see social care funding go up directly . How much of a difference would that make to you and your councillors . It would make an awful lot of difference because social care funding and Childrens Services are the two main pressures we have within our budget, so it doesnt leave us much flexibility for the other things people would like to see. Like so many high streets, the big names have disappeared from darlington. As rates have gone up, julie says the number of businesses has gone down, and she wants the chancellor to review Business Rates. A lot of people cant manage and as you can see here, theres a lot of businesses gone, theres a lot of empty spaces, um, people have been here a lot longer than i have and theyve had to go because they cant afford it. They cant afford the Business Rates, or the rent that theyve got to pay, plus the water rates, and then the electric, and thats before theyve even done any wages. But whatjulie is even more worried about is coronavirus. If events are shut down, so is her business. Darlington had its first confirmed case of coronavirus last night but politically, the chancellor and Prime Minister have a lot to prove this part of the world where they have made some big promises. And there are two finance experts on this bench you work in executive recruitment. You are slightly concerned that investment in big infrastructure will be Collateral Damage to coronavirus spending in this budget, arent you . Damage to coronavirus spending in this budget, arent you . Absolutely. There are two big areas from our point of view and they are the continued support from Central Government of the big Infrastructure Projects that are going on, and we are good at doing things ourselves in the north east, as we have done with teesside airport. But we do still need investment from Central Government to enable those large projects in infrastructure with the roads and the port. There is also the small area where i am involved, supporting smaller businessmen. That will be of particular interest when it comes to tax breaks and support with coronavirus, but also the entrepreneurs relief, and the r d tax. There are huge other areas. Particularly relevant to me as well is the ir35. Promises have been made. They are starting to come through, but it is a real challenge to follow through. And rumours of bringing a Big Department from the treasury to the north east. Would that make a difference . It would make a huge difference. There is tale nt make a huge difference. There is talent around here and a lot on offer. It would be an economic benefit for the region and for the government. It is cheaper to live and work around here. And it would be evidence that they meant it about levelling up. Lets talk to nicola, a policy expert for the north of england. You literally jumped a policy expert for the north of england. You literallyjumped up and down with news of Interest Rate cuts. Why is that so important . Well, there is the big politics of it, but i quite like budget day. I am one of those nerds. I remember watching the Money Programme with my dad. A lot of the chat about fiscal rules that we operate under become very narrowly focused. In election campaigns, we have often had one stat or another becoming the motor for the campaign. The stat i want to focus on today, the oecd say that if you have aspirations to grow, you should spend 5. 5 of gdp on infrastructure every year. That is a Global Think Tank talking about how to make your economy competitive. We do not spend like that in this country, so any growth we have is predicated on weak Infrastructure Spending. Sol predicated on weak Infrastructure Spending. So i have been waiting my whole life for Infrastructure Spending commensurate with our ambition. There are parts of the uk outside the south east and london that have enormous potential if the infrastructure is right. People say, what is a fast train to me . But when the government spend, the spend is multiplied through the economy. So you have a fast train, but you have surveyors, architects, environmental consultants. You have skilled jobs, so infrastructure becomes a stimulus in its own right. And sometimes that is about thinking long term rather than the immediate benefit. Sorry that is all right, you are giddy about Interest Rates the chancellor may say he is boxed in slightly by coronavirus spending. Let me remind you that this chancellor is less than a month into the job, you that this chancellor is less than a month into thejob, less you that this chancellor is less than a month into the job, less than five years as an mp. This is the one day that one member of the house of commons is allowed to have an alcoholic drink while delivering the budget. If i were him, i think i would need it. Absolutely we want more guests like that, jumping up and down. Very excited about budget day. Lets get some more on that announcement from the bank of england now it has announced a big drop in Interest Rates of 0. 5 in response to the damage to the economy caused by the coronavirus. Simon french, chief economist with Investment Banking Company Panmure Gordon co, is in our london newsroom. Explain to us the rationale behind this move today with the Interest Rates . This move today with the Interest Rates . I clearly need to be as giddy as nicola about Interest Rates, dont i . The major decision to cut Interest Rates was because Profitable Companies are struggling with cash flow. And what you want in a vibrant economy is for the Good Companies to see through events like this and come out the other side still investing and still employing. An Interest Rate cut provides them with the Credit Facility to see them through what we still expect to be temporary disruption. We are in unprecedented times, as our correspondent was saying earlier. This is the first time he thinks in a quarter of a century that there has been an Interest Rate announcement on the same day as the budget. That is about reinforcing confidence. If your viewers are thinking, are the bank of england and the treasury on the same side, pulling together to support us with our businesses, then it is a powerful statement that on the same day, both the chancellor and the governor of the bank of england say, we are going to provide support. We mustnt overstate this. This is a confidence measure to encourage businesses to keep investing and for consumers to keep spending. It is necessary but not sufficient. At what point will we be able to say whether this has been a positive step and has worked . Classically, when you change Interest Rates, it is probably about 18 months to two yea rs before you is probably about 18 months to two years before you see the full impact of that. There are some measures that will not grab as many headlines in terms of some of the reduction in capital that some of our retail banks have to hold against their loa ns. Banks have to hold against their loans. It isnt glamorous, but it is material in terms of impacting retail banks still lending to businesses. That will probably happen quicker. But to answer your question, hopefully by the end of the year, we will get a sense as to whether credit in the economy got to those small and mid sized businesses who are seeing disruption to their cash flow. You mentioned nicola, who was excited not only about budget day, but also the cut in Interest Rates. But who wont it work for . Who would be in opposition to this job . There will certainly be some of your viewers who are living off their savings, who will now expect a further cut to the interest that they can get from banks, and that will not be popular. But we are not yet at a stage where those losers are outweighing the people who will gain from the more supportive conditions for their mortgages and loa n conditions for their mortgages and loan books. Finally, on budget day, there were some news coming out at seven oclock this morning about this drop in Interest Rates. What else might move the needle today when rishi sunak steps forward and tells us about his budget . Rishi sunaks tells us about his budget . Rishi suna ks challenge is tells us about his budget . Rishi sunaks challenge is not so much the amount of money. The amount of money he releases into the economy will grab all the headlines, but it is whether the agencies that engage with businesses, communities and consumers, the arms of the state like hmrc, the department for work and pensions, citizens advice, whether those are resourced to do the sort of micromanagement in ensuring that the big money that he will announce gets to the people who need it. That is what i will look for because that will ultimately determine the success or otherwise of this package. Simon french, thank you. That was a chief economist giving us his run through those Interest Rate cuts which came out this morning, down 0. 5 . It is one of those very busy days where we are trying to fit in as much as we can. We will be speaking to louise a bit later. Bear in mind that her programme about taking on the sport relief challenge of going across the desert in namibia, and she has been through a lot of challenges and she says it is the hardest, physically and mentally, challenge she has ever come across. That programme is an eight oclock tonight on bbc one. She and the number of other celebs are raising money for Mental Health charities in particular. Louise will be talking about another challenge she is taking on board, which is a rowing challenge with the bbc, itv, channel 4 and sky all taking on each other. And Something Else we have talked about today is whether you let a baby cry. We differ on this. I would find it impossible to leave a baby would find it impossible to leave a ba by to would find it impossible to leave a baby to cry for very long. Maybe a couple of moments. I am a father of three. We have tried it and it has worked, but it is difficult at times. We have had so many comments. Amy says you should never leave your baby amy says you should never leave your ba by to amy says you should never leave your baby to cry. If your baby is crying, you need to find a way to calm your baby down. Gillian says if they cant depend on you to soothe them, who can they depend on . Judy, if you have more than one child, you have to leave them to cry as you are invariably dealing with another child. That is why younger siblings are child. That is why younger siblings a re often child. That is why younger siblings are often easy going, being used to being left on their own more. We have been inundated with your comments. We will be hearing, the bank of england before we finish at 9. 15 this morning on the Interest Rate cut which was announced an hour ago. Now for the news, travel and weather where you are. Hi, there, good morning. It probably felt like spring was in the air yesterday across east anglia and the south east of england, temperatures got to 16, 16. 5 degrees celsius. It stayed quite mild overnight, because weve got quite a bit of cloud across southern areas of england, this morning. Further north, more showery cloud, thats bringing in showers or longer spells of rain across scotland and Northern Ireland, wintry over the Higher Ground here. One or two showers into wales and Northern England, but further south, well, well start off this morning with some cloud, a bit of patchy rain and drizzle. Thatll tend to clear away and itll turn brighter into the afternoon. Quite a breezy day, again, those wind gusts up to 40, 45 miles an hour. And those temperatures across the south, again, in the mild category, about 12 15 degrees, a bit chillier than that in parts of scotland, 7 or 9 celsius here. And thats because weve got that colder air, which eventually will move its way a bit further south as we go into thursday. Those temperatures in the south east will eventually start to drop away. Its going to be quite a chilly start on thursday morning, therell be some snow and ice across scotland, Northern Ireland, the far north of england perhaps. Clear skies, a much colder night across southern areas, but therell be some sunshine throughout tuesday, thursday, sorry. A few showers moving their way through, those could still be wintry over the Higher Ground across scotland, quite frequent showers and also some strong winds around southern scotland, Northern Ireland and irish sea coasts. Temperature about 8 11 degrees. Temperatures about 8 11 degrees. And thats because we got this area of low pressure bringing strong winds and its going to gradually move away as we get into friday. Weve got a small ridge of high pressure, so fridays weather not looking too bad for many of us. Again, quite a chilly start to the day, but plenty of sunny spells. The cloud tending to increase later in the day and with that, therell be some outbreaks of rain into wales, the south west of england by the evening. Elsewhere, though, itll stay dry and maximum temperatures on friday up to about 7 11 degrees celsius. Thats all from me, goodbye. This is worklife from bbc news, with Sally Bundock and karin giannone. Cutting rates to battle covid 19. The bank of england takes Emergency Action ahead of whats being dubbed the coronavirus budget. Live from london, thats our top story on wednesday the 11th of march. The uk Central Bank Cuts Interest Rates to the lowest level ever as it tries to ease the Economic Impact of the outbreak. Its its made its move. This comes as the chancellor prepares to deliver whats being dubbed the coronavirus budget, well look at what measures