which would be a breach of the uk data privacy code designed to protect young people. good morning and welcome to the bbc news channel. the former health secretary, matt hancock, has denied claims he failed to follow covid testing advice during the early days of the pandemic. thousands of whatsapp messages leaked to the telegraph show mr hancock was advised in april 2020 to test everyone going into care homes. but a message reportedly from mr hancock to an aide said he would rather commit to just testing those going into care homes from hospitals. lord bethall was a junior minister in department of health and social care back in 2020. this morning, he was asked whether matt hancock should have taken the advice of the chief medical officer to test everyone going into care homes. no, ithink no, i think the key phrase here is this is obviously a positive step. it was absolutely crystal clear that we wanted to test everyone who went into social care. that was the ambition. gettin
calling the allegation defamatory. sight loss charity guide dogs says it s had a record number of people volunteering to raise puppies following a bbc story that highlighted a a shortage of dogs. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. officials in greece say at least 36 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a train crash. a cargo train collided with a passenger train near the city of larissa in the thessaly region. conditions for the rescuers are described as very difficult. the army has been mobilised to help and dozens of fire and ambulance staff are at the scene. stephanie prentice reports. it s been described by local authorities as a powerful collision and a terrible scene. while passengers said the crash felt like being in an earthquake. translation: we heard a big bang. it was ten nightmareish seconds. we were turning over in the wagon till we fell on our sides and until the commotion stopped. and there was panic, cables everyw
i m martine croxall in the studio in london. also in the headlines this morning. more than 60 people are now confirmed dead including 12 children after a boat carrying migrants sank off the southern coast of italy. fresh calls for the uk government to stop energy bill rises in april as the energy regulator announces a new price cap. early results from the nigerian elections show support for the governing party is holding firm. observers say it s still too early to predict who ll win the presidency. and big wins ahead of the oscars for the fantasy adventure film everything everywhere all at once, at the screen actors guild awards in hollywood. hello and welcome to bbc news. we are in windsor, about an hour outside london, not in westminster, which has seen of course so much of the brexit drama, but we are here today because we are told that ursula von der leyen and rishi sunak will be here in a couple of hours time, also, in orderto will be here in a couple of hours time
June 15, (THEWILL)- President Bola Tinubu has appointed a former governor of Osun State and pioneer chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bisi Akande, as the chairman of the Governing Council of the University of Ibadan (UI), Oyo State. Akande made the list among others, as the Federal Government released the fresh list of
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Community Engagement, South East, Mrs Chioma Nweze has tasked Nigerians to shun all dialectical, geographical a