That the future of the space once occupied by the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston must be decided on by the people of the city. The space has been replaced by the figure ofjen reid, a black lives matter protester. The installation was not done with permission as our correspondent jon kay reports. Undercover and before sunrise, artist marc quinn and his team erected their statue without permission. On the plinth where slave trader Edward Colston stood until last month, they installed a resin replacement of a local womanjen reid. It was inspired by this photo of her taken during the black lives matter protests. Out with the old and in with the new. And i think thats that statue, putting aside it being myself, it definitely says colston is no more and its time for change, time to move on. People of my colour walking past that statue and knowing that change is happening and it will continue to happen. When crowds pulled down colstons statue and threw it into the citys docks, it p
The mayor of bristol has insisted that the future of the space once occupied by the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston must be decided on by the people of the city. The space has been replaced by the figure ofjen reid a black lives matter protester. The installation was not done with permission as our correspondent jon kay reports. Undercover and before sunrise, artist marc quinn and his team erected their statue without permission. On the plinth where slave trader Edward Colston stood until last month, they installed a resin replacement of a local womanjen reid. It was inspired by this photo of her taken during the black lives matter protests. Out with the old and in with the new. And i think thats that statue, putting aside it being myself, it definitely says colston is no more and its time for change, time to move on. People of my colour walking past that statue and knowing that change is happening and it will continue to happen. When crowds pulled down colstons statue and th
Through his momentous day. Through his momentous day. Good morning. Good morning. Another warm day in another warm day in prospect across the south of the uk. Prospect across the south of the uk. Sunshine and showers and a cooler feel in the north of the uk sunshine and showers, and a cooler and in between cloud bringing feel in the north of the uk. And in outbreaks of rain. The forecast for wherever you are spending your saturday later between, cloud bringing outbreaks of on here on breakfast. Rain. The forecast for whatever you are spending your saturday later on here on breakfast. Wherever. Its saturday the 18th ofjuly. Our top story its saturday the 18th ofjuly. The government is standing our top story the first by its vision of a return of the latest changes to coronavirus restrictions come into effect today, to normality by christmas, after the Prime Minister expressed as the latest changes to coronavirus restrictions the hope of a return to normality by christmas. In england com
In the number of women trying to find places at refuges after suffering Domestic Abuse during the coronavirus lockdown. More than 40,000 calls and contacts were made to the helpline run by the Charity Refuge during the first three months of the pandemic, most from women who said they were suffering abuse. Our Home Affairs Correspondent june kelly has more. Home, for most their safe haven under lockdown. But for others, a place of fear and torment. Lockdown has affected my whole life, and made the abuse more obvious than ever before. When it would happen and when we we re it would happen and when we were on lockdown, things became worse. My husband, he pulled my hair, he threw me against the wall. Victims finally free to speak out about their lives under lockdown. For tanya, lockdown was the point. She finally fled her violent husband. When covid happened, he started drinking from early on in the morning. When he was drinking, he was getting very aggressive. He was actually hitting me,
The other non singing aspects of those meetings that caused the problems. And now with a number of scientists raising questions about possible transmission in the air through breath, this is vital research. We know that, when you speak, much the same as when you cough or sneeze, you generate a lot of very small particles. These are called aerosols. But you also generate some big droplets. So big droplets are around the diameter of a human hair and they settle out into gravity very quickly, within one to two metres, but the much smaller respirable particles can be airborne for minutes to hours. It has implications. We wont be seeing a mass singalong at the last night of the proms this year, butjust how many people can they safely have onstage . The current guidelines say singers should be standing side to side with a three metre gap, but that would mean the traditional chorus could stretch out of the royal albert hall, down to the Natural History museum. And, for smaller venues, social