The uk Health Secretary, matt hancock, has said a sharp rise in the number of new coronavirus cases recorded in the last 2a hours is concerning and urged young people in particular to be mindful of social distancing. The latest daily figures showed nearly 3000 new infections as our health editor, hugh pym reports. Bolton today, coming to terms with a sharp increase in coronavirus cases. Almost all amongst those aged under 50, with the infection rate now the highest in england. Joint action by the council and the government has resulted in new restrictions. Local people have been told only to use public transport for essentialjourneys and not to mix with other households, indoors or outdoors. Some are frustrated at another change in the rules. People make plans. We cantjust keep stopping our lives and going backwards. Its just confusing. I think its everyone, i dont think itsjust young people in general, ijust think its everyone. You cant put, you know, an age on it, really, i dont thin
New coronavirus cases on sunday, a new Civil Servants in global daily record. England are being urged by the government to return a rare and dangerous heat wave to work in their offices. Is hitting california. In a letter seen by the bbc, temperatures could hit 49 the government wants 80 degrees celcius in some areas. Of Civil Servants to be and, the bolshoi ballet at their workplace at least is back treading the boards once a week by the end of the month. After shutting down unions have described the governments attitude during the pandemic. As outdated. Our political correspondent, chris mason, has more. Usually vibrant, bustling, dynamic, and yet for much of the last six months many of our city centres have looked like this. Its time for that to change, says the government. The head of the civil service, sir mark sedwill, says the Prime Minister believes. This is whitehall, home to loads of government departments. Its actually relatively busy here today but still pretty quiet on wee
Its been a confusing day for british tourists, struggling to work out whether they will need to quarantine themselves when they get back from holiday. From today, scotland, wales, england and Northern Ireland are imposing different quarantine periods for travellers who arrive from portugal and greece. 0ur europe ccrrespondent gavin lee reports from southern portugal. Back to britain from faro airport this morning. Where youre going back to now dictates whether you have to self isolate. Theres been no clarity from the government as to what we were doing. Karen and mick are heading to birmingham. They dont need to quarantine, but they bought early tickets home because they thought they did. Obviously not very happy. We feel as though weve lost two days of our holiday. Its cost us an arm and a leg and. Were just very disappointed. As more and more british tourists return home, its clear to me how confusing many people find the new rules. For example, if youre an english traveller flying t
In the fa cup, Manchester United will face chelsea, while arsenal take on manchester city. They knocked out Newcastle United with the help of a brilliant goal from Raheem Sterling, as Katie Gornall reports. St james park empty, it stands eerily silent. Without its passionate tsunami behind them, newcastles challenge felt even greater. Manchester citys grip on the premier league may have ended but they remain fa cup holders, and seemed in no mood to linger on the disappointment. In such a one sided half, city really didnt need any help but fabian schars push brought Kevin De Bruyne to the spot and a goal their dominance deserved. While it remained 1 0, newcastle were in with a chance, theyjust had to take it. Commentator pulls across oh, that had to go in. Dwight gayle making even an empty stadium sigh in disbelief. Minutes later, they were reeling at the other end as city through sterling sauntered to a second. Commentator and that is Raheem Sterling all over newcastles best cup run in
The mother of two sisters who were found stabbed to death has accused the police of dehumanising her children and treating them as if they were nothing. Bibaa henry, who was a6, and nicole smallman, who was 27, were found dead three weeks ago in a park in london. Yesterday, two Police Officers were arrested and suspended, on suspicion of sharing inappropriate photos from the murder scene. 0ur religion editor Martin Bashir reports. 0n the first friday injune, at fryent park in north london, social worker bibaa henry, along with her sister nicki and some friends, celebrated her 46th birthday. But by the morning, they couldnt be contacted. So i then phoned the police. I said we dont even know if theres been foul play here. We have no idea. Were now 36 hours on and they havent turned up. Impatient with the police response, nickis boyfriend adam went to the park. Then adam says, mina, mina, weve found a knife. Mina, mina, im going to need you to sit down. Ive found them, ive found them but