Good evening. John swinney looks set to become scotlands new leader after the woman expected to challenge him decided to back him instead. Kate forbes confirmed she would not be standing for the snp leadership after humza yousaf s resignation. Instead, mr swinney, scotlands former deputy First Minister and party leader, has offered her a significant role in his government. Our scotland editor, james cook, reports. Please show your appreciation forjohn swinney. The snp is in trouble divided, distracted and struggling to govern. John swinney says its time to get a grip and he is the man for the job. I could have stood back and hoped others would sort things out. But i care too much about the future of scotland, and the Scottish National party, to walk on by. Youve said there you cant walk on by because, essentially, your party is a disunited mess. What specifically is wrong with it . Well, the party is not cohesive just now. We are not together, we are not operating as one big unified te
in the leicester squad. a number of clubs have called for the fixture programme to be paused but the premier league is resisting that. british tourists are being banned from france from saturday as the borders are closed to most travellers from the uk. business trips are being halted too. the french government says only people with compelling reasons can enter the country. it has meant thousands of people having to cancel their christmas holidays. our transport correspondent katy austin has more. thejones family had planned the trip of a lifetime. 11 of them, four generations, together at disneyland paris for christmas. now that trip is off. they are trying to get a hotel refund but don t expect to get back thousands they paid for a minibus and driver. it s devastating because as a family you want to spend christmas together, but, yes there is uncertainty, but when i booked this there was nowhere near as much uncertainty as there is now. my mum and dad are 85 and 86 so it would be ni
nobody wants to get 0micron and be unwell and be forced to isolate. and the queen is leading by example, cancelling a pre christmas lunch for extended family due to take place at windsor castle. fergus walsh, bbc news. the conclusion from those soaring uk covid infections the r number, which indicates how many people each infected person will go on to infect, is now estimated to be between 3 and 5. the uk is not alone in seeing surging covid infections. italy, germany and france are all experiencing something similar. the french government is now imposing new restrictions on some travellers from the uk. here s our transport correspondent katy austin. thejones family had planned the trip of a lifetime. ii of them, four generations, together at disneyland paris for christmas. now that trip is off. they are trying to get a hotel refund but don t expect to get back thousands they paid
they are trying to get a hotel refund but don t expect to get back thousands they paid for a minibus and driver. it s devastating because as a family you want to spend christmas together, but, yes there is uncertainty, but when i booked this there was nowhere near as much uncertainty as there is now. my mum and dad are 85 and 86 so it would be nice to go. under the new rules from 11pm uk time tomorrow travellers will have to give a compelling reason for coming to france. they will have to provide a negative covid test result less than 24 hours old and isolate for at least two days upon arrival until they receive a second negative result. the move is being blamed on the uk s high number of 0micron cases. tourism businesses were already worried that the uk s travel testing requirements were making some customers rethink their winter plans. many people will have been preparing to go to france for christmas, including on the eurostar from london st pancras, so the announcement by france co
take a look at this giant swell quite a ton tras con fras fr contrast from the life threatening seas yesterday. they worked so hard in convincing people that it was okay to come back our hotel room tonight, our hotel is virtually empty except for the remaining tv crews that are here. it is really, really hard to try to convince somebody who got their hotel refund and went back home 200 miles to washington or the 250 to baltimore or philadelphia say hey kids let s pack up the car again and go back to ocean city after we missed a wonderful weekend. it s not going to happen. the economic impact of what happened here will be very, very substantial even though the damage was not. they have the labor day weekend you know it will be a big hit to many businesses in ocean city, maryland. can i ask you a question, did