the government s urged to officially apologise to thousands of unmarried mums who were forced into giving up their babies for adoption. and more struggles for tiger woods on the second day of the open. and coming up on the bbc news channel, the open leader board bunches around those contenders still to start their second round, but rory mcilroy remains in the picture ahead of his afternoon tee off time. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the met office has issued a rare extreme weather warning for parts of england on monday and tuesday. the uk health security agency has also increased its heat health warning from level three to level four the government says that meets the definition of a national emergency. for the first time ever, temperatures could hit a0 degrees. the highest recorded temperature in the uk was 38.7c in cambridge in 2019. the warning covers manchester, the midlands and london. a met office red warning means there is a potential danger to l
worrying for employers with absences, for example in the nhs and social care. not necessarily so worrying for hospitals in terms of numbers of seriously ill people, because we know that omicron is milder when it comes to making people seriously ill. worrying in a different way for someone who has an underlying health condition, a compromised immune system, who is going to be cautious about coming out. there are groups that feel a bit left out of the debates and the fact that covid is spreading and writing quite fast is a worry. so, the numbers are up 29%, 3.5 million in the week to last weekend, up from 2.7 million. largely fuelled by these new sub variants of omicron which tend to spread more rapidly. if you look at the uk numbers, scotland has the highest case rate level. one in 16 had the virus, england one and 19, wales and