New zealands recovery. A Police Officer poisoned in the salisbury novichok attack quits, saying he can no longer do thejob. And coming up in half an hour, sportsday will bring you a round up of all the days sport, including leeds nail biting win over salford in the challenge cup final at wembley. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Millions more people have seen covid 19 rules tighten, as areas including london, york and essex have moved up englands new three tier alert system. But theres still stalemate between politicians in Greater Manchester and the government over the introduction of stricter coronavirus measures there. Local leaders have denied a claim by downing street that talks have been arranged to resolve the row. Latest government figures show that 150 more people have died in the uk after testing positive for covid 19 in the past 28 days. Daniela relph reports. This is one of prestons oldest pubs. It doesnt serve food, so under the new restrictions, it will now shut. If you see
Lancashire hasjoined liverpool in tier 3 the very high alert level while a four week Circuit Breaker has begun in Northern Ireland, meaning all hospitality venues good evening. Are now closed, except there is further confusion to provide take aways. In Greater Manchester tonight as local leaders deny and london and essex are among eight downing streets claim that talks parts of england to be have been arranged to resolve a row banned from mixing indoors over covid restrictions. It comes as more than 28 million with other households. People in england have spent their first day prosecutors in france say a history teacher who was murdered under tighter restrictions. In an apparent islamist terror and in Northern Ireland, attack was identified its been more than 2a hours to his killer by School Pupils. Since a four week so called circuit brea ker lockdown was introduced, meaning samuel paty, who was a7, all hospitality venues are now closed, except to was targeted on the outskirts provide
The eus chief negotiator tells the European Parliament time is running out to reach a brexit trade agreement. And, after bugs, glitches, and crashes, one of the years biggest video games cyberpunk 2077 is pulled from both the playstation and microsoft store. Roughly one in every 100 people in england, scotland and wales had coronvirus last week with the number of cases now rising significantly. Thats the warning from the office for National Statistics as the virus begins to spread faster again. The Prime Minister says hes hoping to avoid a Third National lockdown in england. But borisjohnson said rates of infection had increased very much over recent weeks. The labour leader, sir keir starmer, has called for the government to change the arrangements over christmas amid concerns about the effect of relaxing restrictions for the festive period. The uks r number or reproduction rate of coronavirus is on the rise again. Last week, it was thought to be between 0. 9 and 1. 0. It is now estim
I will take the difficult decisions, not hand them over to individuals. And the r number across the uk has gone up, another indication of the rapid rise in covid cases. Also on the programme. Headteachers say the last minute demand for the testing of secondary schoolchildren across england, is a shambles. The chief constable of Greater Manchester police says hes stepping down, after his force is placed in special measures. A brief visit to the Eu Parliament for the uks chief brexit negotiator, as the two sides continue to try to hammer out a trade deal. Like father like son. Wayne rooney announces his 11 year old has signed with manchester united. Good evening. The reproduction rate of coronavirus across the uk is going up again. The r number now stands at1. 1 to1. 2, which means that every ten people will on average infect between 11 and 12 other people increasing the spread of the virus. The governments advisory commikttee sage says this represents the average situation over the past
Britains olympic skateboarders as money for sports like rowing and swimming takes a dive. Six. Five. Four of us. By myself, so one. And how many will be around your christmas table next week . We ask if people are changing their plans. Coming up in sport on bbc news, callum smith towers over Saul Canelo Alvarez as the two fighters go head to head at their weigh in ahead of their world title bout in texas this weekend. Good evening. Hospitals across the south east of england have begun cancelling non urgent operations, with some struggling to cope with double the number of Covid Patients than they had in the spring. It comes as government sources confirmed tonight that there is concern about the new variant of covid 19, amid fears it could be making the virus more infectious and harder to contain. Today, the Prime Minister said he was hoping to avoid a Third National lockdown in england, but acknowledged that rates of infection had increased very much over recent weeks. New data suggest