Apparently, i died three times. Im alive. Ive been shot at, ive been blown up, all sorts of things. But that, that is scary. Steve was Poole Hospitals first ever covid patient. No wonder they are proud. It has been an unbelievably busy time both in preparation and treating the patients and actually to see our first patient survive and come out in good spirits has been a huge morale boost for the whole team. Steves gratitude for the nhs is now matched only by the love for his favourite beverage. The nhs, it gets knocked, it gets hit. It is probably the best thing we have in this country. I am not a student, i am nothing like that. I am just a normal bloke. I want to see people be happy, people do well. Oh, and drink tea. Duncan kennedy, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather. Heres helen willets. Turbulent skylines in places today and this shower cloud sent in from the isle of wight. Hopefully we will see skylines more like this over the weekend because it looks as if the showers will
Three us states allow some businesses to reopen, as the number of deaths from coronavirus there tops 50,000. And, well, we cant go to the zoo at the moment, but weve got the next best thing a virtual tour round Edinburgh Zoo, courtesy of its keepers. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. First, as countries in europe start to end their lockdown, belgium has come out with a timetable for gradually lifting its restrictions. Most shops will reopen across the country on the 11th of may and schools will reopen a week later. In other developments, in the uk, the former chancellor Philip Hammond has called on the government to begin easing the coronavirus lockdown to restart the economy. The British Public is also being urged to seek medical care when they need it and not be put off by the coronavirus outbreak. In the United States, three states georgia, oklahoma and alaska have allowe
The mail on sunday has won the first round of a legal battle against the duchess of sussex over the publication of a letter she wrote to her father. And coming up well be speaking to the founder of a challenge to run 5k, raising money for Nhs Charities whos been recognised with an award from the Prime Minister. Ministers says they are confident that they have hit their target for the number of daily coronavirus tests to be carried out as the Prime Minister told the nation yesterday that the uk was now past the peak of the outbreak. The government had pledged that 100,000 tests would be done every day by the end of april. Over 81 thousand tests were carried out on wednesday according to the figures from the department of health and social care and well get the updated figures later. Coronavirus continues to have a big impact on the Aviation Industry, as one of the worlds biggest Budget Airlines ryanair announced today that they are cutting up to 3,000 pilot and cabin crewjobs as they re
A. Through the dark night of a pandemic. Christopher bobyn, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather. Heres helen willets. Thank you. The april showers arrived right right at the end of the month, they have lingered into the start of may, and we have seen lots of photographs like this one here from coll chest e the double rainbow. There is a lot of instability, turbulence in the atmosphere because of this area of low pressure which often will yield showers at this time of year. If present. But it is slowly going to slip out testify way for the weekend. For the time being, what remains of today will bring plenty more shower, heavy as you can can see, but i wouldnt like to rule out the odd heavy shower with thunder and light anyone and just about any way. Temperatures have nudged up a degree. The wind arent as keen as they were, but with that low pressure close by to the Northern Isles of scotland, it will probably be rain on and off through the rest of today and overnight. Those showers
Channel coast. They will develop elsewhere. There is thundering as in the band of rain where it is cooler than recent days but you have a high humidity, lots of miss misty low cloud until fog. Few humidity, lots of miss misty low cloud untilfog. Few showers humidity, lots of miss misty low cloud until fog. Few showers for Northern Ireland, an abundance for sunshine in highland scotland, potentially 23 or 2a but a little cooler for the north east coast including shetland because weve got that misty low cloud which again rolls back in overnight. The rain moved north into Northern Ireland and southern scotland as well, hanging around in southern areas with some mist and fog elsewhere. Its going to be another warm night for most of us under rather grey, cloudy start tomorrow, but the sunshine should come out in eastern areas. However, the rain is with this in the south and west again but it will gradually thing and break up, turning into showers and again as weve seen in recent days torren