Across the uk, landmarks including the blackpool tower, Wembley Stadium and the london eye illuminate in his honour. This morning well have reaction and tributes from those he loved, helped and inspired. And the World Of Sport, that captain sir tom loved so much, has been paying tribute. The former Olympic Champion Jessica Ennis hill said he will forever be a hero to many people. She presented him with a special award in december. And scientists discover the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine is 76 effective during the three months after the first dose. Good morning. Today we have got some rain, sleet and mostly hill snow moving across Northern Ireland, Northern England and scotland. Southern england are seeing some heavy rain, but in between some heavy some sunshine and showers. Details later. Good morning. Its wednesday, the 3rd of february, and todays breakfast is a special programme to celebrate the life of a man who gave us so much of his time over the last ten months captain sir tom moor
Flags are lowered over Downing Street and borisjohnson describes captain sir tom as a National Inspiration, and a beacon of hope for the world. The uk variant of coronavirus has mutated again the Health Secretary says hes seen cases of concern in bristol and liverpool. Meanwhile, 80,000 people in england are tested to stop the spread of the Virus Variant from south africa. Scotland is to introduce Travel Quarantines for overseas arrivals and plans are put in place to open scottish schools later this month. Travel disruption in parts of the north of england and scotland as heavy snow brings chaos. Good afternoon. In the last hour, its been announced that captain sir tom moore has died. Captain tom, who was 100 years old, and had raised almost £33 million for the nhs, was taken to hospital earlier this week, with coronavirus. The army veteran, originally from keighley in West Yorkshire, came to prominence by walking 100 laps of his garden in bedfordshire, during the First National lockd
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after the spectacular pageantry in london, the day ended at windsor the home of the queen since childhood. crowds gathered to watch the queen being accompanied to her last resting place. in the last act of a day laden with ceremony, the wand of the lord chamberlain was broken, symbolising the end of the late queen s reign. of the late, most and most excellent monarch, elizabeth ii. the queen was then lowered into the royal vault and buried next to her husband, the duke of edinburgh. queen elizabeth has made herfinal journey from london to windsor, and has been buried with her late husband, the duke of edinburgh. it follows a day of the highest ceremony not seen in this country for nearly 60 years, mixed with private sorrow as the state funeral was held in westminster abbey, the building in which queen elizabeth was married and crowned. king charles, along with other members of the royal family, walked behind her coffin as it was taken into the abbey from westminster hall
we report from one town deserted by russian troops. over here on the wall, one interesting detail a single word which someone has written in broken english. sorry. hello and welcome. queen elizabeth ii is lying in state tonight, beneath the ancient timbers of westminster hall. this is the scene live, in the oldest part of the palace of westminster. for the past six hours, thousands of people have been filing past her majesty s coffin to pay their final respects to a remarkable monarch. the queen will now lie in state for four full days, until monday, the morning of herfuneral. in a few minutes, we ll cross live to westminster to hear from some of those who ve been queuing to bid their farewells to the queen, but first, our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell, has the story of the day. in a setting that is so familiar, where so often and so recently there has been celebration, today an event of the greatest solemnity. on the pavements around the palace and along the mal