a mutual security pact with sweden, pledging support should the military come under attack. more could be done to help you with long term chronic pain, specialists say, is a bbc survey suggests a quarter of uk adults live with the condition. doesn t matter how hard i tried, or how much i wait or how much i pray, it most likely isn t going to change. downing street says its target of building 300,000 new homes in england per year still stands after the housing secretary michael gove has said the government was no longer trying to meet it. mr gove said ministers were now focusing on building homes people can be proud of and said that people in england would be given the right to vote on proposed property extensions in their neighbourhood as part of its new levelling up and regeneration bill which has been introduced in parliament today after yesterday s queens speech. labour has said the queen s speech didn t contain enough measures to help people with the rising cost of living
They should have kept us locked down. The chancellor prepares to set out the british governments Spending Plans for the coming year. The Spending Review will give a boost to the health service, but expect a sting in the tail for Public Sector workers in england and private pensions. France gets a partial reprieve from its strict coronavirus lockdown, as president macron announces his country has passed the peak of the second wave. Britains spending watchdog says ppe stockpiles in england were inadequate for the covid pandemic, with a surge in price costing the taxpayer around £10 billion. Its late but its sincere. Us president Electjoe Biden says the Trump Administration is cooperating across the board with the transition of power. 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. The duchess of sussex has revealed she had a miscarriage injuly. Meghan markle said that prince harry was wi
A 250 Million Pound rescue package for Lower League Clubs in england to stop them from going out of business due to the pandemic. Welcome. The grim milestone was reached on the day that the first doses more than 60,000 people have now died in the uk with coronavirus. The grim milestone was reached on the day that the first doses of the newly approved Pfizer Vaccine are expected to arrive in the uk from belgium. The first phase of the roll out should begin next week. Englands deputy chief medical 0fficer, professorjonathan van tam, says 99 of covid 19 deaths could be prevented, if theres a very high uptake ofjabs in the most vulnerable groups. Heres our Health Editor, hugh pym. He was the soulmate to my grandmother, he was my best friend. He put a smile on anyones faces he met and he brought sunshine on the rainy days. 0livia remembers happier times with her grandad, gary. He died in hospital with covid. He did have Underlying Health issues but he was just 61. It was his funeral on tues
Get time, back in time as to how we get to where we are, you could go all the way back to january. I would like to go back to the ebola crisis. This is bbc news. The headlines in the ebola west african crisis the Prime Minister will fly to brussels later in what could be which i was heavily involved in as the final attempt to salvage talks pa rt of on a post brexit trade deal. Which i was heavily involved in as part of the department of international, one of the things cabinet minister michael gove says that was clear was that there were the government wants a deal but the eu would need to temper its demands. Vaccines that had not been properly we are going to maintain high progressed, and therefore we had to standards in this country but we are manage the ebola crisis in west also going to be a sovereign country africa in support of the government and we need to be in control of our of sierra leone, very much entirely own rules and regulations, our laws and ways of doing things. The r
Tonight at 6 more than 60,000 people have now died in the uk with coronavirus. Yet another family left grieving 79 year old Mickey Morris died within a week of falling ill. Its going to take us as individuals, as Family Members, as a country and a whole world, a long time to recover from Something Like this. Rolling into the uk from belgium the first doses of the newly approved Pfizer Vaccine are expected today. Well have the latest on who will get it and how quickly. Also tonight. Four people have been killed after a blast at a Water Treatment site near bristol this Morning Police have declared a major incident. This is a tragic incident and our thoughts and sympathies go out to them. Those officers will continue to provide them with all the support
they need at this difficult time. A levels and gcses will go ahead in england next summer, but therell be more generous marking and advance notice of exam topics to make up for all the disruption. And the panto will go on last minute rehea