Renowned british mathematician, professor sir Roger Penrose, is one of the winners of the nobel prize for physics for his research into black holes. And coming up red nose day goes plastic free, after schoolchildren persuaded comic relief to switch to a natural alternative. The uk has seen a sharp rise in the number of new coronavirus cases, according to the latest government figures released in the past hour. There were 14,542 new infections recorded today thats up from 12,594 yesterday, an increase of nearly 2,000. A further 76 people have died within 28 days of testing positive with the virus. That takes the total number of deaths across the uk to 42,445. 0ur health correspondent, nick triggle, is with me. Nick, i think you were focusing very much on the number of hospital admissions in particular in these new sister . Yes, we know the number of cases have been rising, and that has translated to a gradually increasing number of hospital admissions per day. Of what weve seen over the