That simply wasnt made to last. Raac was a postwar solution, now causing a headache for 21st century britain. More than 100 schools in britain have been told they need to close. Labour has announced it will force the government to reveal a complete list of affected schools, and now calls for transparency on the scale of the problem and for fast solutions. Its been known for a while and what we have also known for a while is there is a squeeze on school funding, and my committee has highlighted that repeatedly, and my committee has highlighted that and when you dont invest in maintenance and improvements in schools you get these problems arising but with raac its a systemic failure of the actual material used to build them. Hospital buildings and Court Buildings among those impacted and internal documents obtained by The Sunday Times suggest hospitals could be at risk of catastrophic collapse. The concerns about this have been swirling around for so long. Trusts have been trying to cope
I will take the difficult decisions, not hand them over to individuals. And the r number across the uk has gone up, another indication of the rapid rise in covid cases. Also on the programme. Headteachers say the last minute demand for the testing of secondary schoolchildren across england, is a shambles. The chief constable of Greater Manchester police says hes stepping down, after his force is placed in special measures. A brief visit to the Eu Parliament for the uks chief brexit negotiator, as the two sides continue to try to hammer out a trade deal. Like father like son. Wayne rooney announces his 11 year old has signed with manchester united. Good evening. The reproduction rate of coronavirus across the uk is going up again. The r number now stands at1. 1 to1. 2, which means that every ten people will on average infect between 11 and 12 other people increasing the spread of the virus. The governments advisory commikttee sage says this represents the average situation over the past
Rules will make it more difficult to find staff for the care sector thats the warning from care providers. And a major study of the Atlantic Ocean has discovered species previously unknown to science. Good evening. Across the United Kingdom theres compelling evidence of the pressure on hospitals and nhs staff. More than 40,000 new covid infections were reported in the past 2a hours thats a record as the new variant of coronavirus spreads rapidly. In the south of england, doctors are reporting that the level of patient need is incredibly high. Conditions in many welsh hospitals are said to be very challenging while doctors in scotland say theres a danger that Health Services will be overwhelmed. The Royal College of emergency medicine has warned its now difficult to find beds for patients in some parts of the uk. Our health editor, hugh pym, has the latest. There was a stark message today from this east london hospital. Nurses and doctors are incredibly stretched caring for very sick pa
Been sentenced to four years injail. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. All 27 eu ambassadors have unanimously approved the provisional application of the eu uk post brexit trade deal that was agreed last week. On wednesday, the president of the eu council, Charles Michel, and president of the Eu Commission ursula von der leyen are expected to officially sign off on the trade agreement. But this has to be ratified in a European Parliament vote early next year. Also on 30th december, uk mps will vote on the deal in a special sitting of parliament. It all means that tariff free trade will be provisionally allowed after britain leaves the eu Single Market at the new year. Borisjohnson has described the trade deal as a new starting point for our relationship with the eu. Our europe correspondent Kevin Connolly is in brussels. He spelled out the next steps for the deal. The ambassadors approved it today. It has to be signed formally by member state government