In the sunny skies and the south east, 22 or 23 degrees. That will be tempered by the strength of the wind, particularly when the around the pennines. Goodbye. Hello this is bbc news. The headlines. A major easing of the coronavirus lockdown comes into effect in england with pubs, restaurants, hotels, and cinemas all able to re open. Some hairdressers in england have been open since midnight businesses will need to have new rules and procedures in place. A local lockdown comes into force in the city of leicester hospitality businesses arent allowed to open and social gatherings and overnight stays are banned. Spains catalonia region reintroduces some local restrictions for an area of more than hundred thousand people after a spike in Coronavirus Infections. Now on bbc news, live sport is returning to our screens though the pandemic is farfrom over. How has this happened . Patrick gearey has spoken to those at the centre of whats been called project restart. for 100 days, sport was froz
Live sport is returning to our screens, even though the pandemic is far from over. Patrick gearey speaks to those at the centre of project restart. For 100 days, football was frozen. This was an earlier thaw than some thought possible. The day the English Premier League returned, 1,115 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the uk. So, how had sport re emerged amid a pandemic . What are the risks and in the strange echoey bubble sport now sits in, what on earth comes next . London, on the morning of monday 9 march. The headlines are dominated by talk of supermarket rationing and the coming pandemic. Andthe culture secretary is being asked if sport can go on much longer. At this stage, we are not in the territory of cancelling or postponing events and i dont expect that to be the case after today. Those words aged within the week. The cheltenham festival, liverpool versus Atletico Madrid would be the final scenes of sport as we knew it. Tonights premier league game between Manchester
Test in southampton. The remarkable story of british pilot Stephen Cameron who spent two months on life support in vietnam with coronavirus and is now on his way home. Good morning. It is going to be a warmer day for us today. Most places will be dry with sunny spells. Rain into the north west of the uk later on. Join me laterfor all the details. Good morning. Its sunday 12th july. Our top story the government is to spend more than £700 million on increased security and border checks in preparation for the end of the brexit transition period at the end of the year. Therell be 500 new staff, and new inland border posts where existing ports have no room to cope with the extra checks that will be required. Heres our Political Correspondent iain watson. Dover is the busiest channel port. It will be on the front line of new regulations from the end of the year. When the bread the transition period comes to a close, new checks will be necessary. There are new facilities built inland. Uk wil
Ceremonies have been held in bosnia today to mark the 25th anniversary of the srebrenica massacre. Thousands of muslims were murdered by bosnian serb foces in 1995. It was the largest mass murder of the war in former yugoslavia and the worst in europe since the second world war. Campaigners say relatives of the victims would not tire of battling those who deny genocide. Guy de launey reports. Its taken a quarter of a century, but these victims of the srebrenica massacre are finally being laid to rest. Surviving family members are here to pay their respects, as their loved ones are buried in the cemetery, alongside 7000 other people and there is still room for around 1000 more victims whose remains have yet to be identified. Coronavirus limited attendance at the commemoration, so World Leaders offered their thoughts via video message. For many, a sense of shame persists that bosnian serb forces committed genocide in the presence of international peacekeepers. A quarter of a century ago,
other rucu luff other staff who are our other staff who are going out and working art doing so not at risk to themselves. In the country look on enviously in terms of what the uk has in terms of the nhs, it would seem honest impossible to set something up like this now, 72 years on, but is the nhs at its current funding model sustainable do you think for the future . I think what we need to remember is that the nhs was founded in the aftermath of the second world war, when we were facing huge amounts of national debt. Moving forward i think we really need to think about how we use at this moment, this terrible moment, to build back better, to ta ke moment, to build back better, to take that wartime spirit to think 0k, what do we need to for the next 72 years moving forward . I think in the short term that means how do we respond to the shocks that are going to come on the horizon, a second wave or winter crisis, and then more long term, how do we respond to the future shocks . I think