The travel show. Coming up this week elephants, iceland, and a splash of heavy metal, african style. Band plays heavy metal. Hello and welcome to the travel show with me, Christa Larwood. Well, if you were watching last week, you would have seen ade in venice on the very first overseas travel show trip weve been able to do in a really long time. Hopefully, well all be back out on the road sometime soon. But in the meantime, here are some more of our favourite travel show stories from the archive. They might even inspire your next trip, wherever that might be. Well, im not going to lie, working on the travel show is a pretty sweet deal. Not only do we get to travel the world, see amazing places, but we also, from time to time, get to meet truly inspirational people. And thats the focus of this weeks programme. Including the man whose family have pretty much dedicated their life to icelands enormous imposing glaciers, but who is now charting their decline. But lets kick off with a woman
Car involved in dragging to his death pc Andrew Harper in berkshire last summer, has beenjailed for 16 years for manslaughter. Two passengers in the car, who are both 18, were jailed for 13 years. The teenagers were attempting to steal a quad bike when pc harper responded to the 999 call. Helena wilkinson was in court and her report contains some flashing images. Andrew and lissie harper were married for less than a month when he was killed. Today, she was in court with family to see those responsible jailed for their crimes jessie cole, henry long and albert bowers. This is cole and bowers laughing after their first court appearance. Ive got four masked men outside my house and theyve got weapons. Theyre stealing my quad bike. This is the 999 call about the theft of a quad bike that pc harper had been responding to with a colleague. The officers soon came across the teenagers car. Jessie cole quickly unhooked the bike. Through the rear view camera, you can see his legs as he tries to
Slight chance of catching a shower here. Otherwise, it is looking like a dry day. Lets take a look at the big picture into next week. Monday mainly dry. To say, low pressure moving in so spell of rain for some of us. Tuesday, it will be windier. There will be some rain around. Temperatures for many of us in the teens. After we start the week of that, with much chance of seeing rain, it looks much warmer by the end of the week. Hello this is bbc news with carrie gracie. The headlines thousands of beauty salons, bowling alleys and wedding venues in the uk are facing at least another fortnight of closure following the governments plan to squeeze the brake pedal on easing restrictions. The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in mexico has overtaken the uks. Its now the third highest in the world. Companies in the uk whose staff have been receiving up to 80 of their salary through the governments furlough scheme will have to start paying some contributions from today. Cracks in the mur
Companies across the uk must contribute to job schemes. Some businesses have seen their reopening plant postponed by the government and say they will not be able to pay their workers. Beauty salon is open but not as Business Owners at hope. My team isjust in shock. I dont even know what to tell them. Today beauticians were due to start offering facial treatment but yesterday the government changed its mind and put the brakes on lockdown measures easing. Now this salon has an appointment book full of cancellations. 8096 is to do with facials. We are renowned for it. I left extensions, we cannot do that. The future also looks uncertain for nightclubs. Normally, in summer, this venue would be heaving instead of the sound systems have been silent for the past four months. Cleaners, cloakroom staff, they have all lost theirjobs. Now another worry. From today, employers must start paying National Insurance and pension contribution for their furloughed stuff. Fabric laid off 50 workers. The f
Small business and Community Leaders discuss how the covid19 pandemic impacted their business and organizations during a listening session with the Federal Reserve board of governors. The discussion as part of an initiative called the fed listens which aims to hear from americans about how Monetary Policy impacts them. Why dont we get started . Good afternoon. Welcome. Its a great pleasure to see you all here in person after a long time of virtual events. Its also, this is the first time weve had a full board of governorsa in nine years, so to have the seven of us are its the first time were convening like this in seven years, in nine years. These sessions started just a few years ago in 2019 in what turned out to be a very different time. They were valuable then and we continue to benefit from them as we have navigated the pandemic shutdown to the path of recovery. H we started with listening sessions around the country that brought together people and organizations representing busin