Held as the military takes control. Thousands ofjobs to go online retailier asos buys topshop and three other brands but doesnt want their stores. Well wishers Around The World send messages of support to captain sir tom moore, who remains in hospital with covid 19 and pneumonia. Over the last ten months youve been our inspiration, youve been at the nations heartbeat. We all thinking of you. And coming up on bbc news. Liverpool could be the busiest club on Transfer Deadline Day with the Managerjurgen Klopp looking at two defenders in their bid to retain the Premier League title. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Tens of thousands of people in parts of england are to be urgently tested, after more cases of the highly transmissible South African Variant Of Coronavirus were discovered. Two cases were found in surrey, and testing kits will be delivered there this afternoon. Testing will also take place in london, kent, hertfordshire and walsall. Previous cases in the uk we
In scotland, despite a massive surge in support will be cold enough at times to see for the snp in the general election. Some of the show as fall as snow, journey times are being cut, more services and new routes added particularly in the northern heals. As part of major timetable changes more on that coming later in the on britains railways. Programme. And in sport, and christmas comes its saturday, 1ath december. Early for liverpool fans as managerjurgen klopp signs a contract extension, our top story keeping him at the club until 202a. Boris johnson will visit the north of england today after his party won a number of traditional labour heartland seats to secure a majority in parliament. Some areas voted conservative for the first time in thursdays election, helping to achieve and ahead of tonights strictly the largest conservative victory final well ask for more than 30 years. Our very own magic mike bushell there are flashing images in this which couple he thinks will waltz report
Tributes pour in for botanist and broadcaster David Bellamy, who died last night at the age of 86. And coming up. A salvage operation to recover parts of Hms Invincible the eighteenth century warship which changed the face of the royal navy and in sport just after 9. 30 a hat trick for manchester citys gabrieljesus as his team secure another comfortable win good morning 7 and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Police in new zealand have confirmed that theyre planning to head back to white island tomorrow to recover the bodies of those killed by a volcanic eruption on monday. At least eight people are known to have died, and another nine are missing, presumed dead. The salvage operation has been hampered by ongoing volcanic activity on the island. In a News Conference earlier this morning, police admitted that the operation would be risky but said they will do what they can to find any unidentified bodies on the island. Tomorrow will be more about, we know exactly where they are, there six p