The stigma is that its a place for naughty children. Theyre not naughty children. Theyre wonderful, bright, intelligent, just amazing children, but theyve made poor choices, and thats a big, big difference. This morning, weve been given incredible access to this school, some of its pupils, some of their mums and dads and to the teachers here. And the reason were here is because we can exclusively reveal that theres been a big rise in the numbers of Primary School children being educated in pupil referral units. Morning, welcome to hawkswood primary pupil referral unit in Waltham Forest, north east london. Were broadcasting to you live here all morning. This is where children come when theyre kicked out of Mainstream School or in danger of being kicked out. It isa it is a pretty small screw, this is the main corridor, the main thoroughfare, a0 pupils, and it is at capacity, and this is a place where children come when they have been kicked out of mainstream education, or where they are
To close two Nuclear Reactors. And tributes for George Martin, the man known as the fifth beatle. In sport, russia is racing out of time to compete at the rio olympics. Looks as if they have simply changed chess pieces on the board. The country told not enough has been down to remove drug cheats from athletics dozens of refugees are continuing to arrivaling at an overflow arrive at an overflowing camp on greeces boarder of macedonia. Despite the closure of the balkans group. Slovenia brought in entry requirements banning all but those that plan to seek asylum, and people with humanitarian needs, leading to a domino effect of routes. Hungary is making plans to build a fence along a boarder with police and soldiers put on patrol. The bottle net getting worse in macedon why. Hoda abdelhamid is there, where 14,000 refugees are stranded. From there, she sent us this report. Reporter they were pushed out of their homeland only to end up in a puddle of mud along the closed boarder. Now taking
Wed love to hear your thoughts on the tier review. Are you hoping your area is moved down a tier . What effect would moving up a tier have on you . Should the government be reviewing the tiers at all . Do get in touch with me on twitter Annita Mcveigh and use bbcyourquestions, and ill try to read out some of your comments. The french president Emmanuel Macron tests positive for covid 19 after showing symptoms and will isolate for seven days. The World Health Organisation is given the green light to visit wuhan in china to investigate the origins of the virus. 32 years after the lockerbie bombing, authorities in the us are understood to be preparing fresh charges. And toy shops in britain face stock shortages beause of delays at uk ports. Some orders will now miss christmas, costing businesses thousands of pounds in sales. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Coronavirus appear
Through as rain. Theyll be most frequent for eastern scotland and eastern good morning. Areas of england. Winning in a winter wonderland. Arsenals turnaround continues but ill have a full forecast coming with a confident victory at west brom thats three league up a little bit later on. Wins in a row for the gunners. Good morning. It is a day of its sunday the 3rd of january. Our top story sunshine and showers. And although some councils and Teaching Unions it is not going to feel at the air isa it is not going to feel at the air is a tiny bit less cold today so in england are continuing to pile many of the showers will come through as rain. They will be most pressure on the government, calling for primary frequent for eastern scotland and schools to be kept closed to the majority of pupils eastern areas of england. I will after the christmas holidays. Have a full forecast coming up a Teaching Unions have told little bit later on. Primary school staff it is unsafe to return to work beca
We we this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. 90 year old grandmother, Margaret Keenan, becomes the first person in the world to receive the pfizer covid 19 jab, following its clinical approval. Applause. She was given the vaccine at her local hospital in coventry. 800,000 doses are currently available in the uk with up to four million more expected by the end of the month. It was fine, it was fine. I wasnt nervous at all, it was really good, yeah. Shes protecting herself, but shes also helping to protect entire country. Across the whole of the uk this morning, that is happening in scotland, Northern Ireland
and wales, in england, people are having the vaccine for the first time. Let us know your thoughts on the start of the Mass Vaccination Programme in the uk on twitter im geetagurumurthy or its bbcyourquestions. The rest of the headlines. Borisjohnson heads to brussels later this week for face to face talks saying a post brexit trade de