and music has been a real casualty of this so much has been cancelled, music festivals are off, the venues are closed, and it s hard to imagine when we d next be going to a concert. true, but musicians are not giving up so easily. this is not your typical gig venue. but earlier this month, more than 700,000 people logged in live to watch helsinki s annual may day concert performed in this virtual arena complete with digital fireworks. fans far away as the usa and germany jammed online with finnish rappers jvg. now, virtual gigs aren t new. last year 10 million people watched dj marshmello headline the first concert held inside the game fortnite. then in stomped rapper travis scott to smash that record in april when 12.3 million players logged in
applause it s eight o clock on thursday evening, the time of the week when, for the seventh week in a row, across the uk, we show our support and appreciation for nhs staff, for key workers and for carers. joining in tonight these key workers at the royal mail distribution centre in nottingham.
supermarkets, on the tarmac at we ll bejoined glasgow airport. people right across by nicola stonehouse, professor of molecular virology at the university of leeds the uk spending the time to reflect and dr rita issa, a gp registrar. you can send your questions on how some families lives have in to us, using the twitter hashtag bbcyourquestions, been changed forever, because of or emailing yourquestions@bbc.co.uk. or this pandemic. remembering nhs e mailing yourquestions@bbc.co.uk. workers who have died. care workers now it s time for a look who have died. radiologists, nurses, at the weather with matt taylor. the sun may be out in parts of gps, care assistants, surgeons, scotla nd the sun may be out in parts of scotland and northern ireland. but for england and wales we have midwives, hospital cleaners, care replaced the blue skies with grey skies and persistent rain. easing a co ordinators, nurses, paramedics, bit this afternoon in southern ca re rs co ordinators, nurses, paramedics
with the virus, joined by the prime minister and senior politicians. our lighter and patchier. still some coverage continues now on the bbc news channel and bbc two. for now we cloud and drizzle around in the say goodbye to viewers on bbc1. morning. in the north and east the chance of some france. frost. wednesday one system gets out of way and many start dry. but another speu and many start dry. but another spell of wet weather will sweep across england and wales and northern ireland. that was the minute s silence that has been observed across the country and a round of applause to mark the end of it, paying tribute to all of those key workers who have lost their lives in this crisis so far. a rising number of deaths linked to coronavirus in care homes across the uk has pushed the overall numbers dying with the virus to a record high, according to the latest figures. there were 24,686 total deaths registered in the uk in the week of the easter bank holiday. that s 12,832 - or 108%
a wonderful structure, a lovely process that gets you to focus on something to escape from, and just the relationship it has with music helps you express certain feelings and just makes you feel better. and this is all about silver swan is for people who are 55 and over, and darcy, can you start taking up ballet when you are a similar age to me, to be honest with you? not quite yet. but yes. 55 and over, silver swa n yet. but yes. 55 and over, silver swan is launching online, as you said and of course you can start doing ballet at any age. they have delivered a brilliant plan that builds slowly so you don t have to have experience in dancing to take up have experience in dancing to take up ballet and builds up slowly so you get your rewards on the way but