The week in parliament. Hello and welcome to the week in parliament a week when Boris Johnson celebrated the arrival of a vaccine, lifted a lockdown and faced his biggest tory rebellion as Prime Minister. All we need to do now is hold our nerve until these vaccines are indeed in ourgrasp and are being injected into ourarms a week when the economic crisis deepened with the collapse of debenhams and arcadia. Thats put 25,000 jobs at risk and caused huge anxiety to families at the worst possible time. Also in this programme, advice for tough times. In my day, something bad happened, you stayed home, got drunk and bit on a shoe. Laughter. I think that is quite a good metaphor for the times we live in. But first, Boris Johnson has had worst weeks as Prime Minister, britains medicine regulator approved a coronavirus vaccine, the first country in thr world to do so englands four week nationwide lockdown was lifted and mps approved new covid rules, are tough and system of regional tiers to rep
A lot of precipitation in a short amount of time. A couple of places over Higher Ground in eastern scotland saw close to four centimetres of snow in just a few hours. The blanket of snow muffled the thunder, which might explain why it sounded like an explosion. There was also lightning, which appeared brighter than normal as it reflected off the snowflakes. So, it may sound like a 70s pop group, but thundersnow is a meteorological phenomenon, though we might have to wait a while until we see it again. Very dramatic, that takes us to the latest weather prospects, wherever you are. Everything this morning, rain, sleet, snow. And lightning. Has been significant snowfall, impressive accumulations behind me in the edinburgh area. It wasntjust scotland, parts of northern and Eastern England is well done to lower levels, we saw accumulations of snow in suffolk and more than that over the pennines. Tied in with this area of low pressure, massive area covering western europe. It has been draggi
Hello and welcome to the week in parliament a week when borisjohnson celebrated the arrival of a vaccine, lifted a lockdown and faced his biggest tory rebellion as Prime Minister. All we need to do now, mr speaker, is hold our nerve until these vaccines are indeed in our grasp and are being injected into ourarms a week when the economic crisis deepened with the collapse of debenhams and arcadia. Thats put 25,000 jobs at risk and caused huge anxiety to families at the worst possible time. Also in this programme, advice for tough times. In my day, something bad happened, you stayed home, got drunk and bit on a shoe. Laughter. I think that is quite a good metaphor for the times we live in. But first, Boris Johnson has had worst weeks as Prime Minister, britains medicine regulator approved a coronavirus vaccine, the first country in the world to do so englands four week nationwide lockdown was lifted and mps approved new covid rules, are tough and system of regional tiers to replace that l
Hashem abedi, brother of the Manchester Arena bomber, admits his involvement in the conspiracy for the first time. And the days of snowball fights and snowmen could be over for much of the uk by the end of the century, according to the latest met office research. Hello, good evening. Its 5pm, were in downing street awaiting the outcome of the telephone call between the Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission president ursula von der leyen, who are assessing whether a post brexit trade deal can be salvaged. The government says negotiations have reached a critical moment and that though an agreement is preferable they are prepared to leave on australian style terms if compromises cannot be found. Earlier, downing street said that although time was in very short supply, the uk would stick at the discussions if an agreement was still possible. No one outside the talks really knows where theyve got to. But the mood music suggests theres still considerable discord. Well, lets ju
On the basis that the eu understands that the uk is a sovereign nation and an independent nation. The cold war spy novelist, John Le Carre, has died at the age of 89. And coming up this hour, the nine year old running two kilometres every day to raise money for the hospital treating his best friend for leukaemia. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Covid vaccinations will start being given to patients from gp surgeries in england as part of the next stage of the roll out of the programme. Gp practices in more than 100 locations will receive their first deliveries of the vaccine later today, with another 100 to 200 over the course of this week. Some will start giving the vaccinations to patients from today, with people over 80, along with health and care staff, top on the list for the vaccine. 0ur science correspondent, pallab ghosh, has this report. Dr Ammara Hughes is getting her surgery ready for the next phase of the nhs vaccination campaign. In the heart of london, bloomsbury sur