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
A Government Expert says its a big step forward. It means that we can spread the vaccine around, it means that we can really start to impact on this pandemic notjust here but right the way across the world. Some Primary School children in wales could be back in the classroom after half term, if Infection Rates continue to fall. And the trailblazing African American actress cicely tyson has died at the age of 96. And coming up in sport on bbc news, Dina Asher Smith makes a winning return to International Athletics as she storms to 60 metre victory at the World Indoor Tour event in germany. Good evening. The Prime Minister says the European Union must urgently clarify its intentions over its decision to temporarily override part of the brexit deal as the row intensifies with astrazeneca over a shortfall in supplies. The eu has introduced new controls giving Member States the power to block exports of the Coronavirus Vaccine to countries including the uk should they want to. Under the bre
Over his treatment escalates. Edelweiss, edelweiss. Tributes to the actor Christopher Plummer star of The Sound Of Music who has died at the age of 91. No, they cant, because the vice chair s here. I take charge. And the perils of parish politics. Read them and understand them meet Jackie Weaver the woman who went viral after their rather heated zoom meeting in cheshire. And coming up in sport on bbc news a fairy tale in chennai. Joe root scores a century in his 100th test appearance, as england take control in india. Good evening. Almost half the uk population 32 Million People should receive their first dose of Coronavirus Vaccine by may. The government says it expects all adults over the age of 50 as well as the clinically vulnerable and those working in health and social care to be offered their first jab by then. Almost 11 Million People have now had their first injection. The uks medicines regulator says the latest Research Shows side effects from all the approved vaccines are mi
To 50 centimetres for the highest ground. That is mainly to the north of the central belt and down to this slow moving weather front. More of the central belt and down to this slow moving weatherfront. More hill snow to come in scotland through tonight, and at lower levels it will fall as rain to the south east and North East England will see some as well. Elsewhere, the showers tend to ease away a bit overnight and we are set to see a bit of mist and fog in the south. Tomorrow brings more showers for parts of northern ireland, western england and wales, North East England also seeing some rain and scotland again will continue to have that fairly heavy snowfall over Higher Ground. Still reasonably mild, 2 10 , but things will turn much colderfor reasonably mild, 2 10 , but things will turn much colder for all of us heading into the weekend and there is some snow in the forecast, but italy by the time we get to sunday. On saturday, still snow in parts of scotland can increasingly at low
Were discovered in a wealthy suburb today, amid fighting with Machete Wielding militias, trying to protect their own neighbourhoods. Its been over two weeks since we saw these scenes, the aftermath of a jailbreak, which triggered a State Of Emergency in the caribbean nation, with few resources for the police to properly fight back. And now, caught in the middle, are hundreds of thousands of people, Made Homeless by the fighting, amid dire shortages of food. America is hopeful a Transitional Council, might be able to restore order, along with the deployment of international troops, but for now the violence continues. Will grant, is live in the port city of cap haitien, for us tonight. Yes, it has been another day of shocking violence here in haiti. Armed gangs have shaken the capital city to its outer core. The problem is, however, of the Security Collapse are just some of the challenges that people here face. A warning that some people may find the images in my report upsetting from th