Has been in the situation before, my partner, and he is sadly used to it. Lockdown restrictions continue to be eased around the uk. The five mile travel restriction is lifted in wales, in Northern Ireland nail bars and tattoo parlours can reopen and well be live in a bar in scotland in the next half an hour. The Online Fashion retailer boohoo says it will investigate one of its suppliers following reports of working conditions and pay at its leicester factory. Well be speaking to the deputy city mayor of leicester this hour. Music the good, the bad, and the ugly theme and the great Ennio Morricone one of hollywoods most iconic film score composers dies at the age of 91. Good afternoon. The audience loved it it had urgency, understanding, and sympathy and, most importantly, it had money £1. 5 billion of it. The governments support package for the arts industry has been broadly welcomed by a sector which has been ravaged by the covid pandemic. The money will come in the form of grants a
You are watching bbc news. Lets get more on the £1. 5 billion Emergency Support package to save the uks galleries, theatres, museums and music venues hit by the coronavirus pandemic. While the money will help out many in the arts and entertainment industry, some venues are to close, including the nuffield theatres in southampton. James ingham has more. Plush red seats covered up to protect them from dust. Winchesters Theatre Royal has been mothballed. Its auditorium on stage standing empty. Nobody has sat in these seats since march 16 when the theatre was
Chinas secret brainwashing camps bbc panorama goes inside the network of high Security Prisons where inmates are indoctrinated and punished. And coming up at 8 30 a bbc investigation finds Vulnerable Children are increasingly being placed in unregulated homes. Thats in britains care scandal exposed. Good evening. Borisjohnson has launched the conservative partys election manifesto, promising to get his brexit deal passed by parliament, as soon as possible after the election, if he wins. In a speech in telford in shropshire, he offered what he called a route map to take the country forward. For the nhs in england theres a pledge to add 50,000 more nurses, and restore nursing grants, thats on top of an existing promise to pump tens of billions more into the health service. He said thered be no rises in income tax, National Insurance and vat for five years. And he pledged to raise the threshold at which people start paying National Insurance to £9,500, a saving of £85 a year, per person
And coming up look at the sport with gavin. We are awaiting an update on the condition of chris froome the time time Tour De France champion badly injured after a crash in france, more on the story and what it means for him and his team later on. Thanks gavin. Good weather for that duck . Yes, another day with heavy rain in june. Further localised flooding today with whether staying on the rubbish side as we head into the weekend. Well also look further afield in india for we are watching carefully for the arrival of a cyclone about to hit the north west of the country. Also coming up, the critically endangered bermuda snails released into the wild with the help of the british zoo. Boris johnson has emerged as the clear frontrunner in the conservative leadership election to determine the next Prime Minister, with more than a third of the votes cast by tory mps in the first ballot of the contest. The field of ten conservative mps has been narrowed to seven with the former cabinet minist
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