Of thousands of jobs as the economy struggles against covid 19, leaving an estimated 1. 7 Million People out of work. Our Business Correspondent sarah corker caught up with some of them. Three people who all lost theirjobs because of the pandemic. 0lympia, rebecca and heather were facing the toughestjobs market for a generation. Weve got no money coming in, so well survive as long as we can. I first met 0lympia and herfamily back in may. She was touring as part of a circus troupe when the first lockdown restrictions came in and they were stranded on morecambe seafront for months. With no money coming in, it was a real struggle. Its fear. Fear that. That i might not ever be able to do what i love again, which is perform, in the circus, because we might not recover. Since then, things have got better. 0lympias moved in with her mum in rotherham to save money, and wait until they re allowed to perform again. Financially its been a big strain. Its been massive. Like i say, we normally work
Will close to most pupils from later today until the february half term due to the lockdown, and summer exams will mostly be cancelled. Our education editor bra nwen jeffreys reports. Some schools did not reopen today staff too worried about the new variant of covid. Tonight, the Prime Minister accepting the virus spreads in schools. And i want to stress that the problem is not that schools are unsafe for children. Children are still very unlikely to be severely affected by even the new variant of covid. The problem is that schools may nonetheless act as vectors fortransmission, causing the virus to spread between households. For secondary schools and teenagers, another massive u turn. Gcses and a levels will be cancelled. Emily, due to sit seven gcses, and her mum nicola were stunned. I was just really shocked and really upset. I feel like ive done so much work. The gcses have been like my whole entire goal for two whole years. I dont know how the teachers are going to. I dont know wh
Quite harsh again in the north, perhaps a little lighter, the frost, further south, but nevertheless a frost, a cold start. Slightly changing the distribution of the showers for tomorrow because we are picking up more of a north easterly compared with the northerly today, and a bracing north easterly as well, which will accentuate the chill. More showers in central and eastern areas. But cold wherever you are. The warnings are on the website. Hello this is bbc news. The headlines pressure grows to shut more schools. Unions are demanding an immediate two week closure of all primaries and secondaries in england. A new warning over hospitals in parts of the uk. The president of the Royal College of physicians says some are now facing a worse situation than at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic. The government is to open ten additional covid testing centres across england for hauliers heading to france, to speed up processing at ports. India begins a nationwide mock drill to test i
At least four people have been killed in flash floods in the bolivian city of sucre. The flooding was made worse by blocked drains. A number of vehicles including buses were swept away. The president offered his condolences to the victims. We have covered the story of the disappearing glaziers in the disappearing glaziers in the bolivian amount is which are an important source of water for populated cities and for crops and agriculture generally. Scientists are now saying that these glaziers are disappearing much faster than thought. They are one of the wonders of bolivias majestic mountains but rising temperatures are eating away at them. This glacier, predicted to last until 2025, is melting so quickly it could disappear at any time. Scientists who monitor the glacier say it has been reduced to just a square kilometre. Where once there was an icy field, now there are rocks, some exposed for the first time. Translation the glacier has been shrinking by between 25 and 30 metres each ye
Its a title given to up and coming musicians, and in the past has identified future superstars. Adele, sam smith and celeste have all won it. This years bbc sound of 2021 has been named as 23 year old rapper, pa salieu, his hard hitting lyrics about life and death in his home city of coventry impressed thejudges, as lizo mzimba reports. Never let them draw out the energy theyjust want you fall cos theirjealousy protect your energy the 23 year old dubbed the uks most inventive rapper in years was given the news on radio one by annie mac. You are the winner of the bbc sound of 2021. You won you serious . He laughs that is crazy. So much gratitude, man. They dont know about the block life still doing mazza inna front line his music reflects his experiences. He himself once survived a shotgun attack. His growing success means things are now very different to a year ago. A yearago, surviving, man. People round me caged, people around me turned crack fiend, you know . I come from real life,