For three more weeks at least but children could return to schools there after the february half term. Exhausted. The Duchess Of Cambridge talks candidly about the challenges of both Home Schooling and Home Hairdressing her children. The rspb launches its Big Garden Birdwatch where members of the public are asked to spend one hour counting and recording the birds they see from their home and coming up this hour well meet a nurse who gave birth nearly three months ago while seriously ill with covid 19 who has held her daughter for the first time after being discharged from hospital. Good morning and welcome. A new Coronavirus Vaccine has been shown to be 89. 3 effective in large scale uk trials. The novavax jab is the first to show it is effective against both the uk and South African Variants of the virus, as you can see from this graph. The uk has secured 60 million doses of the jab, which will be made in stockton on tees. The doses are expected to be delivered in the second half of t
The teenage motocylist hit by a car in august, now extradition proceedings begin after an American Woman is charged with causing his death by dangerous driving. Hampering the christmas getaway flooding closes the m23 in sussex as parts of southern england are inundated. And big discounts on the high street as retailers try to make the most of last minute christmas shoppers. And coming up on bbc news. Mikel arteta is announced as the new head coach of arsenal. The clubs former captain will be the youngest manager in the premier league. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Three and a half years after the uk voted to leave the eu, mps have resoundingly voted in favour of the governments brexit bill. It paves the way for borisjohnson to deliver his promise that the uk will leave the eu at the end of next month. The Prime Minister won the vote easily by 358 votes to 234. Six labour mps rebelled and voted with the government. The Withdrawal Agreement, now approved in principle b
Underwater motorways heavy rain and floods put the brakes on the christmas getaway. Buckingham palace confirms that the duke of edinburch is in hospital. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with connie. Waiting for announcement from arsenal . Were waiting for confirmation that mikel arteta is the new arsenal manager. Up until this week he was assistant coach to Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and in the last hour or so hes confirmed that arteta has left the club and hes in london. Chris has all the weather parts of the country flooded . We will be looking at how much rain has fallen over the last couple of days, bringing flooding seems like these, but also crucially as the Christmas Holiday getaway gets under way, we will be looking at what the weather has in store over the next few days. Thanks, chris. Also coming up. Three, two, one and lift off a new era in human space flight. Could this capsule one day take paying passengers into space . Hello, everyone this is afternoon liv
You might find something that you have been wondering about. Mostly all we wanted to be is to be a joyful hour. And ive been to catch up with terrence, to reflect on the overwhelming impact of his personaljourney, highlighting loneliness at christmas. Good morning, Merry Christmas. Its Christmas Day, wednesday the 25th of december. Our top story. The queen will lead members of the royal family at their traditional Festive Service in sandringham this morning. Yesterday, the duke of edinburgh rejoined his family at the norfolk estate after spending four nights in hospital. Its not yet known if Prince Andrew, who recently stepped back from royal duties, will attend todays event. Charlotte gallagher reports. Prince philip arrives back at sandringham by helicopter after spending four nights in a Central London hospital. He walked out unaided and without a stick a huge relief for his family that he is home to spend Christmas Day with them. This hasnt been the smoothest year for the royals. S