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Now on bbc news, adam fleming, Laura Kuenssberg and fergus walsh discuss the latest on the coronavirus crisis. Were going to start tonight with an e mail you got tonight, laura, from mo, whos been part of the brock park as family for years. Listens to us all the time. Part of the podcast family for yea rs. She got in touch with us to tell us about her mum eileen who died a couple of days ago of covid 19 in the care home, and mo has given us permission to read some of the e mails. She has. It starts, my mum was 93 on the 15th of april. We couldnt celebrate with her due to lockdown. The fantastic care home staff made a cake and gave her a party. We hadnt seen her for six weeks. On the 17th of april, we had a call to say she had a temperature and was a bit pearly. We thought it was a recurring infection. On the 19th, we were told she wasnt too bad and the worst place she could be was in hospital. She had alzheimers and vascular dementia. Our hearts were breaking as we felt she would think
It takes her now to australia, to quarantine and then the grand slam. Not to prove people wrong but to show what can be done. Joe wilson, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather, heres susan powell. Good afternoon. It has been a wet start across the uk with many of us are seeing rain. Now the concern is what happens to the rain across of the cake as it bumps into cold air. For scotland and Northern Ireland the met office have issued an amber warning this afternoon running until tomorrow morning. Scotland and Northern Ireland across the highest ground could see 20 centimetres of snow across Higher Ground and perhaps even ten centimetres at
lower levels. Here is the weather front bring in the rain this morning, a big bank of cold air across scandinavia at the moment extend to the east of the uk and as that interacts with the cold air this afternoon we will notice there was blue areas turning white across central scotland. It is cold as well, to a three degrees, barely above freezing for