Liverpool move to plug a hole in their defence. The premier League Champions bring in ben davies from preston, as well as a loan signing on a quiet transfer deadline day. Its not quite with the weather today, and Weather Warning for heavy snow across parts of Northern England. Valid until lunchtime. Widely three to eight centimetres above 200 metres we can easily see 15 centimetres to Sow Destruction is likely. All the details later in the programme. Its tuesday the 2nd of february. Our top story. Urgent tests are being offered to 80,000 people in england after cases of a new South African coronavirus variant were found, with no links to travel. People across eight areas are being asked to take tests, whether they have symptoms or not, after the government said the uk must Come Down Hard on the variant. Andy moore reports. 10,000 Home Testing Kits delivered to a fire station in woking in surrey. From today, the operation to deliver them door to door will begin. Across england, 80,000 p
Flags are lowered over Downing Street and borisjohnson describes captain sir tom as a National Inspiration, and a beacon of hope for the world. The uk variant of coronavirus has mutated again the Health Secretary says hes seen cases of concern in bristol and liverpool. Meanwhile, 80,000 people in england are tested to stop the spread of the Virus Variant from south africa. Scotland is to introduce Travel Quarantines for overseas arrivals and plans are put in place to open scottish schools later this month. Travel disruption in parts of the north of england and scotland as heavy snow brings chaos. Good afternoon. In the last hour, its been announced that captain sir tom moore has died. Captain tom, who was 100 years old, and had raised almost £33 million for the nhs, was taken to hospital earlier this week, with coronavirus. The army veteran, originally from keighley in West Yorkshire, came to prominence by walking 100 laps of his garden in bedfordshire, during the First National lockd
Fire following unrest over covert 900 Safety Measures. And we explore new york city from sunrise to sunset to find out what life really is like under on lockdown. Welcome to the program the u. K. Government is defending itself against criticism its mishandled the coronavirus pandemic the death toll continues to rise rapidly more than 16000. 00 people have died in hospitals across the country and the sunday Times Newspaper points the finger directly at Prime Minister Boris Johnson it accuses him of wasting precious time in stopping the spread paul brennan reports now from central london. The accusations of complacency a misjudgment to spread across 4 pages the headline a damning assessment of government failure to prepare the quotes alleged 5 weeks of missed opportunities and political in nashua the british Governments National Crisis Committee is called by the acronym cobra Prime Minister Boris Johnsons failure to attend any of the 1st 5 coronavirus koger meetings is singled out for pa
Australias Prime Minister apologises for holidaying in hawaii as wildfires continue to sweep across three states. If the queen attends a Church Service in sandringham while the duke of edinburgh spent a second night in hospital receiving treatment for a pre exisiting condition. And coming up, rhe bbcs media editor meets the editor of private eye magazine at 17 30. A walk through the year in media with ian hislop. Hello, good afternoon. A six Year Old Girl has opened a pack of Tesco Christmas cards to find a message saying they were packed by prisoners in china being forced to work against their will. Tesco says its stopped production at the factory while it investigates. Greg mackenzie reports. Ready . Uhhuh. It was six year old schoolgirl florence widdecombe whod sat down at home to write out her Christmas Cards to her friends and family when she discovered one of the cards had already been written out. We were writing in them and about on my sixth or eighth card, there was. Somebody