This evening and overnight. Clear skies across england and wales with a mistand skies across england and wales with a mist and fog patches and temperatures overnight typically in the range of 4 8dc. For Easter Sunday we have a frontal system to deal with, High Pressure drifting eastwards. We have more cloud and patchy light rain but the chance of heavy thundery showers across england and wales. A bit of a split. For Northern Ireland and scotland, more in the way of cloud, some patchy rain at times. Elsewhere across england and wales, some spells of sunshine and increasing cloud and a greater chance of heavy and thundery showers, could bring quite a lot of rain in a short amount of time. Still warm crossed Eastern England but coolerfurther north and west. This is bbc news. The headlines, as the death figures in the uk rises by 917 doctors are warning they are still not getting the protective equipment they need to treat patients with coronavirus. No doctor, no health care worker, should
State in york says that it is remaining stabilising but remains at a horrific level. Charities are wearing that almost a quarter of youth clubs that have been close and i walked on will not reopen after restrictions are lifted. Italy thousands of youngsters with nowhere to socialise. Anna adams has been talking to teenagers and youth workers to see how they are coping. Normally you would have 30 50 young people here. He is showing me around the dump clubs in south london. It is been close as in what ways are you having to change the way you were . Trying to meet them where they are, we are using instagram, trying to recreate the youth club and playground experience as best we can ina playground experience as best we can in a virtual environment. Missing you, how are you doing . She is a youth worker chatting online with kids who would normally be here. How do you think you would feel if your not be able to come here for three months . I think people will start sneaking out. This club i
In the number of people attending accident and Emergency Departments in england. Some Health Charities fear that people with serious conditions such as heart attacks or stroke are avoiding or delaying going to a e for fear of coming into contact with coronavirus. Our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes has more. Accident and Emergency Departments are normally the busy front door to your local hospital. But the coronavirus pandemic is changing all that. Fears of contracting covid 19 seems to be keeping people away. Thats what stopped the father of two year old myra here from north london who had to go back to a e to have a cut on my head redressed. Do we want to be anywhere near a hospital at the moment . We had to do it the day before if you can avoid it, then we should, so after thinking long and hard about it and weighing up if the nhs have enough on their plate already, we decided to not go and we sought help elsewhere. The latest figures from Public Health england cover more than e
Good afternoon and welcome. Six weeks into lockdown and many of us want to know when we can return to work as normal. We dont have a date for that, but the bbc has seen details of the new workplace rules being proposed by the government to help businesses when their staff do eventually return. Employers would need to stagger start times and limit the amount of desks and equipment that needs to be shared. Employers should consider providing ppe, or barriers if the two metre social distancing rules cant be observed. In other developments, small and medium sized businesses in the uk are able to apply for loans of up to £50,000 today, in a scheme backed by the treasury. This afternoon, the Prime Minister will host a Global Online summit aimed at raising more than £6 billion to develop vaccines and treatments for covid 19. With more details on the plans for the workplace, heres our economics correspondent, andy verity. This manufacturer in fleckney, leicestershire, is fighting coronavirus
Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are kate andrews, the economics editor at the spectator. And the writer and broacaster, dawn foster. Lets take a look at tomorrows front pages. More than half of all adults are now paid by the state reads the telegraph, as chancellor, rishi sunak, warns that the cost of the governments furlough scheme is unsustainable after 6. 3 Million People sign up. The times leads on government plans to urge uk citizens to download a tracing app which will initially be piloted on the isle of wight this week. The app is part of plans to ease lockdown restrictions. Its a gap year reads the front page of the sun. The paper says its learnt that social distancing measures could last as long as 12 months. And the guardian leads on warnings from trade unions that workers could refuse to turn up to work unless the government can guarantee their safety, amid what the paper describes as anger over guidance designed