Shops in Northern Ireland deemed non essential have reopened, ahead of the other uk nations, as coronavirus restrictions start to ease. Its part of a number of lockdown measures lifted by the executive, because death rates have been falling for the last six weeks. In england, non essential shops will be allowed to re open on monday. No date has been set for scotland or wales. Our ireland correspondent chris page reports. The coronavirus closure is over. Retail is being unlocked. In Northern Ireland, the shop shutters are up but there is a new set of rules. Cleanliness is now about more than adding sparkle, it is vital to keep people safe. Retailers are glad to get going. We have to figure out a way, its not perfect but nobody wa nted a way, its not perfect but nobody wanted this so we have to be optimistic and see that this is a way to move our businesses forward and hopefully improve. It isnt quite as busy as a friday in normal times, there are queues outside some shops but they tend to be short. However, this looks more like a city centre than at any time over the last three months. The ghost town feel has gone. Browsing and buying oui feel has gone. Browsing and buying our back, and shoppers have missed the experience. I think its great, theres a bit of atmosphere back in theres a bit of atmosphere back in the town as well. I think it is brilliant, lifted up peoples spirits, because it has been a long few months since march. It might feel as though the events of this year belong on the pages of a novel, but real life has entered a new era. This bookseller thinks it may take time to restore business. This bookseller thinks it may take time to restore businessli this bookseller thinks it may take time to restore business. I think we have all been affected by this so deeply in so many different ways and i think deeply in so many different ways and ithinka deeply in so many different ways and i think a lot of people will be reticent and cautious about going into places where they are going to be meeting people and things like that, so i think manage it. Our main aim is to make it as comfortable as possible for people to come in. Or shops in england will be able to open on monday and no date has been set for scotland and wales. The journey ahead will be massively challenging. Now on bbc news, its the travel show. This week, a tiny glimmer of hope. Europe start to slowly reopen for travellers. But how will they keep us travellers. But how will they keep us all apart . Also coming up, lucy tests the gadgets claiming to keep you safe on your travels and we are on one of the worlds most famous beaches as it reopens fully for the First Time Since lockdown. We are back on the road this week, a modest two hour drive to the resort town of margate. For more than 250 yea rs, town of margate. For more than 250 years, holiday makers have come here, rain orshine, years, holiday makers have come here, rain or shine, to experience the chipped around the edges lets of the Great British seaside. There has been a renaissance here, new hotels and has been a renaissance here, new hotels a nd restau ra nts has been a renaissance here, new hotels and restaurants and restored vintage attractions have brought cool young london types here by the bucketful. But as resorts throughout europe start to reopen, blinking into the summer sunshine, what kind of future will they face . Across the world, we are seeing the first signs of tourism adapting to the new scheme of things. Theres lots of talk of borders being lifted and special air bridges or corridors being formed within countries with low infection rates. While in many cities, galleries, museums and landmark attractions are up and running again. In italy, the first country in europe to enter lockdown, the coliseum, the Leaning Tower of pisa and the ruins of pompeii have already opened, and in france, people can once again wander the grand halls of the palace of versailles. Hotels in europe are also gradually reopening as well. Backin also gradually reopening as well. Back in april we spoke to have your in spain who had just been forced to shut down his hotels. We are going to sell in less capacity than ever, and because we have to keep social distance, this will help people to have a more exclusive experience. If were talking about profits, we will have less profits than last year, sure. Here in england, in line with government guidance, many hotels are hoping to reopen in earlyjuly. That includes the cave here in kent. They had only been open for a few months when the virus struck, following a £12 million development. It was a huge shock stopping no one would ever wa nt to huge shock stopping no one would ever want to launch a Brand New Hotel or any business and then four months later close it down, and we literally closed it down overnight. Jonathan had already put in place some coronavirus safety jonathan had already put in place some coronavirus Safety Measures, offering us a glimpse into what our future hotel stays might look like. If you could stand in front of the camera please and look into the camera please and look into the camera s0 camera please and look into the camera so we can take your temperature. Authenticated. As you are authenticated, please sanitise your hands and help yourself to mask and gloves if you would like. And if you go to the reception desks, we have got the screens up so the staff are completely protected as our guests. And you will be saying to guests. And you will be saying to gu ests to guests. And you will be saying to guests to take their own luggage . We will be not offering that service for the time being to minimise contact with the guests. You have limited access to the hotels communal areas. You can limited access to the hotels communal areas. You can book a 20 minute slot at the Swimming Pool and the restaurant delivers to your room. We have taken the tables out ofa room. We have taken the tables out of a fire pit restaurant including the chair that we have set them up in all rooms, every room type. Like you are in a restaurant kind of dining someone delivers it . Your doorbell will bring and outside a tray for you to bring an yourself. If you would like you can order via whatsapp and it will be delivered pretty instantly but without any contact whatsoever. Are you confident you will get people here at . I believe we will see an upsurge of domestic terrorism. We have seen bookings forjuly, a booking occupancy is around 30 a0 . At the moment, on the basis that we are able to open. As an independent boutique resort, cave hotel has been able to be relatively nimble, incorporating coronavirus Safety Measures. But what about the larger chain hotels, with hundreds of rooms and a high turnover of guests . These cleaning specialists have been advising big hotels about how they can keep both customers and their staff protect it. I have taken a look at the large number of the Big Hotel Chains and there are a lot of different variety of things they are doing, ranging from what they call room seals, effectively when someone has cleaned a room they completely seal it with a notice. Some hotels have started to remove items that you might touch such as tissue boxes, removing the magazines. Some of them have been doing a lot and some of them, interestingly, have been doing nothing so it is a mixed bag. After months cooped up at home many of us will be desperate to get away for a few nights. But with corporate and International Travel still pretty much at a standstill, the future for many hotels, whether they have thorough Safety Measures 01 they have thorough Safety Measures or not, remains uncertain. What hotels you think will survive and what kinds will fail in this new time . Whether you are budget or the top end, the hotels who are proactive in understanding the challenges that are going to come and prepare for them, challenges that are going to come and prepare forthem, i challenges that are going to come and prepare for them, i hope will nourish through it. So, once all those perspex screens are installed, travel should be back on the cards, shouldnt it . Well, lets find out from the man who has all the a nswe is , from the man who has all the answers, oui from the man who has all the answers, our global guru simon calder. 0k simon, i am going to put you on the spot because back in march when we first talked after covid 19 hit, you said, we will see injune covid 19 hit, you said, we will see in june Something Like covid 19 hit, you said, we will see injune Something Like normal travel beginning again but it will be on a smaller scale and even if there is huge amounts of pent up demand from you and i desperate to travel, it wont be anything like the normal summer wont be anything like the normal summer that we would be looking forward to at this time. How would you like to revise that . forward to at this time. How would you like to revise that . I think i would just a little because a underestimated how nonnormal it would be. Certainly there will be parts of the mediterranean, north america, asia, where it will at least have a reasonable number of tourists showing up, but it is going tourists showing up, but it is going to feel very different. We have already seen the Big Travel Companies that have got to come up with new ways of reducing risk when we are flying, and new ways of working particularly really big hotels, which are used to effectively processing us by the thousands, so there will be a new normal. 0ne thousands, so there will be a new normal. One thing, though, are absolutely wasnt expecting was the uks sudden introduction of quarantine for all arrivals from the eighth ofjune onwards, which of course has had the, i guess, double effect of stifling all Inbound Tourism to the United Kingdom for some unspecified period, and together with making it very difficult for any travel firms to sell Outbound Travel because, it is great to have a weekend in barcelona 01 great to have a weekend in barcelona or rome, but if you are then going to have to spend two weeks stuck in your flat or your to have to spend two weeks stuck in yourflat or your home, to have to spend two weeks stuck in your flat or your home, that is going to take the edge off it rather. When can either go on holiday . Well, it all depends where you are. At the moment, of course every country and many regions within countries have their own rules, so, for example, if you happen to be in new york and you think you would love to go to florida, you are going to have to self isolate for two weeks when you get there, but in general, the european union, 27 member countries, are saying 0k, were going to reduce that from the 15th ofjune and that is going to be a soft opening, followed on the first ofjuly with a much more general opening and certainly the traditional mediterranean destinations all the way from turkey, greece, croatia, italy, cyprus and malta of course, france and spain, not forgetting portugal, they looked as though from the first ofjuly they will all be backin the first ofjuly they will all be back in action and indeed some countries, in particular portugal and croatia, are already saying, come here, we are ready for you but of course the Foreign Office in the uk is still warning against all but essential travel. What about regions outside europe . For instance the middle east or asia . We have seen different degrees of lockdown and we have seen some really strange things going on. For example, the fourth of june was when the caribbean island of antigua decided it was opening up but many other islands are very much closed and in general i think we can see a pattern where small islands with very few cases of covid 19 are going to be generally quite slow and opening. Argentina, which is very much a southern summer destination, has said no internationalflights until the first of september, and it is of course this terrible tension between countries wanting to do whats best for their population in terms of avoiding infection as much as possible, and the economic reality that so many places are absolutely dependent on tourism. Simon, a pleasure to speak to you again, thanks very much. Gadgets and tech can make travellers lives a whole lot easier but in a time of covid 19, how can they keep us healthy . Well, you can tell you there are things on the market right 110w there are things on the market right now that let you do just that, like this. Even if your travel is just a stroll around your neighbourhood. This is the hygiene hook. A Pretty Simple gadget but something that solves that classic covid 19 dilemma, how to open a door without touching it. Shortly after it became a bit more obvious about the covid 19, driving into work i thought, actually, i could just make a hook to open doors. And we got machinery, 3d software, and later we had 15 hooks. For everyone they sell they give another one away to healthcare workers. It is a pretty nifty solution to a problem that a lot of us are facing right now although you can probably tell from the design that it doesnt necessarily work with all kinds of doorhandles. Yes, doorknobs, im talking about you. But i think the burning question here is what i actually use one of these. And i have been to quite a lot of questionable places in my travels over the year and it could have done with this but it is quite chunky so it is not going to be to everyones taste, but it wouldnt hurt to chuck it in your bag or suitcase just in case you it in your bag or suitcase just in case you need at. Now in italy at sites like florences 20 cathedral which normally welcomes about 4 million tourists a year it has been trialling a new system to help encourage proper social distancing for the smaller number of visitors they will be allowing him. As someone they will be allowing him. As someone enters they are given a device to wear around their neck which alerts them when they are less than two metres from someone else. But even if you are not venturing to any tourist sites anytime soon, tech can help you keep your distance. A new online tool from google for Android Devices called sodar uses augmented reality to let you know what is and is not to metres away. So it is superimposing a ring onto my phone screen. I can see that my cameraman simon is definitely to metres away, outside the ring. Two metres. It keepsjumping around a little bit so im not entirely sure how accurate this is but it gives you a good idea, gives you some rough guidelines as to how far you should be keeping your distance to other people and objects. I think it is quite fun of course there we re it is quite fun of course there were gadgets on the market before covid 19 that were designed to help stop any nasties from getting into your system. And you may have noticed the ultraviolet light is used quite a lot of them. Take this water bottle. The Larq Bottle Movement uses uv light in the cap which it says will minimise 99. 9 of harmful bacteria in 60 seconds and the Smartphone Sanitiser and sanitise bag also uses uv light is up sanitise bag also uses uv light is up away 99. 9 of the curia and viruses, although they say it is not yet been tested for its effectiveness against the coronavirus. Generally these gadgets are portable, practical and easy to carry around with you when you are out and about and at times like this they can prove hugely reassuring as well. But without seeing any visible signs of cleanliness it is difficult to ascertain if it actually works and whether they are doing what they say on the packet. What we do know is that uv is being used in this pandemic. It has been filed for disinfecting the newer public transport system for example but with strict Safety Measures in place because certain forms of uv are dangerous. But in scotland, St Andrews University and nine wells hospital have been researching the possibility of disinfecting big public spaces with people in it. Like airports. The idea that we have got, and other groups around the world, is to use fire uv sea radiation which is safe for humans but we have really got to use a Clinical Trial to ensure that it is safe and we will got a Clinical Trial starting in the next couple of weeks and if this is successful, the goal is that we can roll this out into large public spaces such as trains, airports, Food Production lines. And the ultimate goal is to go towards bringing all of our lives back to normal. Now if regular viewer of the show you may remember that three years ago, i was one of the first members of the public to ride red force, yours fastest and tallest ever roller coaster. At port aventura in spain. It will come as no surprise that the theme park has been closed since lockdown and it is hoped to reopen sometime injuly. Although elsewhere, other theme parks are already starting to open their doors. With new social distancing regulations in place. Disney parks in china up and running again and flying in the face of and some might say fun flying in the face of and some might sayfun in flying in the face of and some might say fun injapan, flying in the face of and some might say fun in japan, people flying in the face of and some might say fun injapan, people are being asked not to scream while they are writing roller coasters in an effort to stop the potential spread of coronavirus. Disney parks in america say they hope to reopen injuly and universal 0rlando has already opened. 0ne universal 0rlando has already opened. One part marking its 100th anniversary this year is margates much loved dreamland. Following yea rs of following years of decline, dreamland got a £25 million revamp in 2017 and now, you will find it spritz up vintage rides including the oldest Scenic Railway in the uk. Alongside the event spaces for major artists and festivals throughout the summer. Artists and festivals throughout the summer. Dreamworld had enormous plans to mark its centenary, the hundredth year this year, and it is devastating that we have not been able to follow through with those because we have huge Music Festivals plans and all sorts of different science of entertainment and were going to push some of it into 2021, we are 100 until 2021 injuly so hopefully we can do it next year instead. This is obviously an Amusement Park and theme park with so Amusement Park and theme park with so many amazing rides but how can you practise social distancing with these rights . We think that opening ride this Summer Season is going to be almost impossible. It is just not viable to put people on vintage rides like the ones behind me. We just cannot see a way to get people on and off those rides safely with the guidelines as they are. We are watching very closely what parks are doing in different countries. We can ta ke doing in different countries. We can take best practice and we can adopt but here in the uk. Of course america is the real home of the big scale theme park. It will social distancing for the time being at least ta ke distancing for the time being at least take some of the fun and the thrills out of writing the role is there . I mean im one of those people that as soon as the theme parks reopen, especially the ones near me, i will be there on day one and the different measures they are using i think are so fascinating and the one place i have not visited since reopening is universal 0rlando and they are probably the strictest that i have seen, at least here in america, with all of the precautions that they are taking. I have, you know, some fantastic rides and their social distancing on the actual attractions. And i saw a line that was 80 minutes for a ride that is usually 20. B 15. Was 80 minutes for a ride that is usually 20. B15. Maybe 15. And arrive at gets several hours of line is now completely booked the day because they have done electronic, like, reserve your spots. Now many beachesin like, reserve your spots. Now many beaches in europe are now gradually beginning to allow people back. But in australia, they have been one step ahead. Since early may, they have been trying to get things back to normal but it is only in the last week that the authorities have managed to reopen the world famous bondi beach. Bondi is extraordinary. I think you can get 30 or 40,000 people on a beach. It is, what, a one kilometre stretch and to have so many people in that stretch of sand is quite extraordinary. We no doubt saw those images that went all around the world on the 20th of march, 2020, where we should have been practising social distancing but its like, it was taking people quite a bit of time to actually understand the implications of not doing that so it led to us actually closing the beach the very next day. The closing of the beaches, though, was really emblematic ofjust how serious this whole thing was. And that people could die from it. And that people could die from it. And that was a message that took a little while for people to get through. The actual real challenge with the process, it is not to close the beach, i mean, that was hard, the beach, i mean, that was hard, the real challenge is to keep a closed and maintain that. We got thousands of people down here every single day, regardless of the weather, and they use the water every single day. You know, we have big fences up and we employed a Security Companies to manage those fences and we had to kind of police the situation and that was really difficult for us because it is the thing we are here to do, we want people to enjoy the water and enjoy the area so we had, like, a real moral issue with that and it was sort of against what we here for. How are you . I came up with this notion of safe access corridors to the water. People were trying to access the ocean via dangerous rocks. Because the ocean actually was not off limits, it was just the sand. So these corridors allowed people to access the water safely and they were extremely busy and we we re and they were extremely busy and we were having a total of about 1500 people and our using those corridors, going and coming. People and our using those corridors, going and comingm people and our using those corridors, going and coming. It was a monday morning and we all came down and opened the gates and just let them out. It was a classic coming down here because just like a line of blokes with their surfboards, guys and chicks, just ready to get out there and it was to see humans, too, like humans like to do, you know . It was a happy moment for the lifeguards. When the beach shut down it was when things were pretty, pretty serious and, you know, we we rent pretty, pretty serious and, you know, we werent sure where everything was going to go and then slowly as it opened but you had to do little walkways to get into the sea so do little walkways to get into the sea so it still felt a bit weird and now that, i dont know, it is all opening up and the rules are relaxing it is kind of representing what is going on around australia and we can go out and travel around the state and, yeah, just enjoy life andl the state and, yeah, just enjoy life and i think people appreciate it, having it ta ken and i think people appreciate it, having it taken away from you you realise how lucky you are just to have this on your doorstep. The people of bondi beach. A long, long way from the kent coast. Coming up next week, and he looks back at some of his adventures in dubai and gets an update and have a lot down is easing their adi. In the meantime, keep safe, keep planning your next adventure, and well see your next adventure, and well see you soon. Hello. There are some big thunderstorms in the forecast for this weekend but it is not going to be raining everywhere all the time. In fact, there will be some sunny spells. And in any sunshine, it will feel quite warm and pretty humid but some thundery downpours are likely, all driven by an area of low pressure. You can see this swirl of cloud on the satellite picture. 0ur area of low pressure has been spinning around across the bay of biscay. Its been throwing lumps of cloud and rain in our direction a process which continues on through saturday. We can follow the different lumps of wet weather. This area of rain moving across north east england through the morning and then up into scotland. I think its going to stay quite grey and murky for some of these northern and eastern coasts. Northern ireland should brighten up a little bit with some sunshine, but some showers. And then down across england and wales, we will see some sunny spells developing, but some very heavy downpours and thunderstorms breaking out here. A more persistent area of wet weather likely to push towards the south west of england as we head through the afternoon. And then you can see these scattered downpours and thunderstorms across parts of the midlands, wales and up into north west england particularly. But it will be warm temperatures there for liverpool, for example 23 degrees. The odd shower for Northern Ireland and some outbreaks of rain continuing across some parts of scotland although i think north west scotland will see a decent amount of sunshine. North east Scotland Holding onto some of that coastal cloud, mist and murk. So, as we go into saturday night, we continue to push our various lumps of wet weather northwards and westwards across the british isles. There will be some clear spells. Equally, some fog patches and i think its likely to stay very murky for some of those eastern coasts of scotland and england but a very mild night. Temperatures as we start sunday morning between 11 14 degrees. Then for sunday, well, really it is more of the same. A lot of cloud for these eastern and northern parts. Elsewhere, some spells of sunshine, yes, but a scattering of showers. They will be quite hit and miss but where they do crop up, they could well be heavy with some hail and thunder thrown in for good measure. And its another warm day as well with temperatures widely 21 24 degrees. A little bit cooler, though, where we keep cloud, close to some of those north sea coasts. Now, our area of low pressure will still be with us as we head into monday, but it does weaken. It becomes quite flabby not many white lines on the chart, youll notice not many isobars, so not much of a wind, but any showers that do crop up will be heavy and slow moving. And it stays unsettled, showery and rather humid throughout next week. Good morning. Welcome to breakfast with Charlie Stayt and naga munchetty. 0ur headlines today britains top Police Officer tells protesters on all sides to stay away from the streets of the capital this weekend, ahead of more planned demonstrations. Please express your voice in a different way, and dont come physically to the streets of london. Support bubbles come into effect across england today, reuniting friends and family who were cut off during lockdown. Well, i know im just going to burst into tears, i know i am. Yeah, im getting teary thinking about itjust now, because it has been so long. No footguards, no carriage ride and no flypast