The drive to get more laptops to children to help them with Home Schooling. And how all these lockdown video calls from home have prompted an unexpected boost in business for books. And coming up on bbc news. West bromwich albion Contact Police over alleged online racist abuse of romaine sawyers. Hes the Third Premier League player to receive abuse this week. Good evening. Yet another new vaccine has been shown to be effective in major trials in just 2a hours. The latest is the janssen vaccine. Its 66 effective overall and only needs a single dose. And crucially its 85 effective against severe disease. Last night novavax announced uk trials had shown its vaccine to be 89 effective. And crucially that vaccine protects against the new more contagious uk variant. If approved the uk has millions of doses of both vaccines on order though they wouldnt be available until later in the year. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Covid Vaccine Trials keep delivering results beyond all expecta
Heres susan powell. Increasingly cold in the days ahead, and along with the cold, we will also see a greater risk of some disruptive snow, particularly come the weekend. Here we are at the moment, with the coldest air sitting across scotland. But look what happens in the days ahead. There is a little bit of a battle there on friday with a milder air from the continent. Saturday and sunday, though, that Colder Siberian Air sinks all the way across the uk. This evening and overnight, snow largely confined to scotland, to the hills and mountains, some at lower levels but more a mixture of rain or sleet here. Some snow working further south into the pennines, quite wet across Northern England and for Northern Ireland. A widespread frost for scotland and Northern Ireland, but notably milder to the south of the uk. Through thursday, more snow across scotland. It tends to retreat from the pennines, which looks quite wet across Northern England, a further risk of flooding here, more rain for N
In the year tojuly. Competition among renters is pushing the prices up with as many as 20 requests to view each available property, up from six in 2019. Data shows there was a 5. 5 increase in rents in london this was the sharpest increase in rent since 2006, and thats despite london being the only region where house prices had fallen. In scotland the average rent was up 5. 7 ina year. And there was an even bigger rise for tenants in wales up 6. 5 . Ben twomey, the chief executive of generation rent, hejoins me now from london. Thank you for coming on the programme. What do you make of those numbers . , ,. ,. , numbers . Sadly, its not a huge Surrise Numbers . Sadly, its not a huge surprise that numbers . Sadly, its not a huge surprise that we numbers . Sadly, its not a huge surprise that we are numbers . Sadly, its not a huge surprise that we are seeing numbers . Sadly, its not a huge| surprise that we are seeing rents going up. Forso surprise that we are seeing rents going up. For s
Local Authorities Say 80 of the Coastal Community is gone. From above, you can see even more of the broad stretch of destruction. Homes, businesses, cars have been destroyed. These pictures were about to show you will put all of that into perspective. These are before and after pictures from lahaina. At least 270 buildings entire neighbourhoods have been reduced to ash. The town was home to about 12,000 people. Lets Hearfrom One Man who made it to safety, but lost everything. I lose my home, all my papers too, everything. Thats only i can. I only have my wife, my son, and my car, i dont have time for the rest of my stuff. My passport or ids, anything. Fires like the one you see here consumed roads and exit points. Flames moved with such speed, that some tourists were forced to jump into the sea nearby and were left to tread water or cling to sea walls for long periods of time. Theyve been talking about their experience. The ocean almost sucked my kids away a few times. But yeah, here w
round after beating frenchman alexandre muller in straight sets. andy murray follows him on centre court where he ll resume his match against stefanos tsitsipas. we can join chetan pathak who s there for us. the 20 year old alcaraz is looking very impressive, a slight wobble in the second set, though? yes, a little bit. understandably so, i suspect. yes, a little bit. understandably so, isuspect. he yes, a little bit. understandably so, i suspect. he will figure out on grass. at the end of the third set, as he was looking to serve it out, slight lack of concentration lack of concentration. carlos alcaraz is formidable and it s the first time i ve seen him in person and he is an extraordinary talent, explosive on all sides, extraordinary talent, explosive on allsides, his extraordinary talent, explosive on all sides, his servers almost perfect. serve. alexander millar was not going to be making much of a. alcatraz in straight sets and many people saying he is the biggest