Hello, youre watching afternoon live im simon mccoy. Today at 2 a third case of coronavirus is confirmed in the uk the patient is being transferred to an Infectious Disease centre. Meanwhile, chinas ambassador to britain urges countries not to panic about the virus. Hours before hes due to deliver scotlands budget finance secretary derek mckay steps down after sending personal messages to a 16 year old boy on social media. Derek mckays conduct fell far short of what is expected of a minister. Indeed, he offered his resignation to me and i accepted. It was not an option for him to remain in government. An end to automatic release of terror prisoners the government says it wants to change the law within three weeks. And a new record is set by astronaut Christina Koch, whos spent more days in space than any other woman. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with huw ferris. Five changes for englands six nations match against scotland on saturday, including scrum half ben youngs dropp
End result is. Applause. The day after he is acquitted in his peep the day after he is acquitted in his peep impeachment the day after he is acquitted in his peep impeachment trial, the day after he is acquitted in his peep impeachment trial, donald trump hits back at the democrats, accusing them of a. Im spartacus. Im spartacus. Tributes to the hollywood legend kirk douglas, whos died at the age of 103. First, a look at whats coming up this evening on bbc news. At 7pm is beyond 100 days. We will have them lead us from washington as donald trump comments since being released from his impeachment trial. More on the coronavirus as a third person tests positive in the uk. China imposes more restrictions to stop the spread of the disease. We will ta ke the spread of the disease. We will take a look at tomorrows front pages at 10 a0pm and 11 30pm tonight. My guests tonight are metal and grantand tonight. My guests tonight are metal and grant and former labour adviser. Thats all i had on bbc
System that will bring some Stormy Weather through the second half of the weekend to our shores. It will be carried across by a fast moving jet stream arriving as storm ciara through the second half of the weekend. The met office has named that storm storm ciara and it is the winds that we are particularly keeping an eye on. It looks like we will see strong, damaging and potentially destructive winds across the uk later saturday and on sunday. More on that in a moment. First, todayis more on that in a moment. First, today is the calm before the storm. Beautiful sunshine in this photo sentin beautiful sunshine in this photo sent in by a weather watcher earlier. There will be patches of mist and fog slow to clear, but are generally dry and fine afternoon. Good spells of sunshine and areas of cloud. Temperature is around 6 iidc. This evening and overnight, it remains settled, we see clear spells, patches of cloud. Again, a few patches of mist and fog reforming. More low cloud for eastern
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