Years poppy appeal. The british legion has launched the appeal this year with a series of photographs taken on doorsteps and through windows reflecting the impact of covid i9 on the armed forces and veterans. As many poppy sellers are themselves elderly or shielding, the charity has come up with alternative ways people can show support this year, including donating for poppies to be sent to you in the post, or downloading a printable poppy to display in a window. Supporters are also encouraged to do a virtual poppy run or walk, to help raise funds. Time for a look at the weather. He is darren bett. Thank you very much indeed, its a quiet, drier day today, theres even some sunshine around here and there. Still pretty wet underfoot. The cloud and rain we had yesterday has swept up towards scandinavia. Weve got a brief respite today, because this is where all our weather is coming from, one band of cloud and rain followed by another so it will be turning very unsubtle. Earlier on we did h
Coronavirus restrictions in england. South yorkshire is the latest region to move into the top tier of the alert system, with mixing of households now banned. If everyone does their part, the sooner we get it over and done with, the quicker well be on the other end, i think. Im fed up with it but it never should have happened in the first place. We should have stayed in lockdown all them months ago. Theres confusion and anger over rules banning supermarkets from selling non essential items, as wales completes its first full day of a nationwide lockdown. Thousands sign a petition demanding an end to the ban. Also on the programme tonight. For a guy named trump. President trump casts his vote in the us election in the key state of florida after coronavirus cases in the country hit a record daily high. European champions and in rugby, a historic double for exeter after beating wasps in the premiership final. Good evening. Millions more people are now living under the highest level of coro
Lhu aid \ ruuf wig moving eastwards. Behind its guys brighten up. It stays quite wet gcioss brighten up. It stays quite wet across the north west of the country. But widespread gales wherever you are, gusting up to 70 miles an houraround wherever you are, gusting up to 70 miles an hour around some irish sea coasts, likely to cause some disruption. Despite that the wind and the rain, there will be quite a lot of milder air and the rain, there will be quite a lot of milderairaround, temperatures around mid teens celsius. It might not feel like that because of the strength of the wind. Another feature for part two of the weekend, almost back to square one. Another round of rain and gales, clearing away from the north and east of the country and then its a widespread windy day with sunshine and blustery showers, these showers merging together through sunday afternoon produced longer spells of rain in the west. Tending to stay sunnier in the east. Mild in the south east, cooler further sunn