Good afternoon. Borisjohnson has been defending the latest restrictions aimed at tackling the rising number of coronavirus infections. As some critics warned that not enough was being done to help business as furlogh comes to an end. The labour leader accused him of being out of touch. Sir keir starmer said the Prime Minister had lost control of testing and that, he said, was a major reason he is losing control of the virus. It followed the announcement of tighter restrictions in all four uk nations. With stricter measures in scotland and Northern Ireland where households are not allowed to mix. The Prime Minister warned the changes could last up to six months. In england, people are being told to work from home if they can. Pubs, restaurants and other hospitality venues will have to close by 10pm from tomorrow night. The number of people allowed at weddings has been halved to 15 from monday. Meanwhile, the fines for breaking the rules will also increase to £200 on the first offence.
We will inevitably have already reduced the number of people working in our shops reduced the number of people working in ourshops and reduced the number of people working in our shops and expect that to continue over the next five or six yea rs continue over the next five or six years as the demand for retail goes down but we are taking on people in oui down but we are taking on people in our call centre, training new recruits and our call centres and warehousing. Shoppers could face higher prices at the tills in the event of no brexit trade deal with the eu, according to a leading retail group. As royal finances are hit by the pandemic, new figures show harry and meghans last royal visit cost almost a £0. 25 million. And coming up on bbc news second practice is just starting, ahead of sundays russian grand prix. Valtteri bottas was found fastest in the first session, with Lewis Hamilton 19th. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. A Police Officer has been shot dead at a
Its theirs. Of course, its very important that the young people should be concerned about this and they are, in increasing numbers. Its extraordinarily touching and i feel privileged that they should listen to what an old bloke like me is talking about. Sir David Attenborough talking to louise minchin. Time for a look at the weather. Heres susan powell. Good afternoon. A lot of cloud to the north of the uk at the moment, pretty grey skies across yorkshire, the cloud coming down low over the hills, bringing a bit of drizzle. It isa hills, bringing a bit of drizzle. It is a very different story either side of the weather front of that stretches the uk. Further east, into the south east of england, some sunshine through the morning and there should be more of that to come this afternoon as this band of cloud pulls off into the continent. This line here is our weatherfront stretching from scotland currently, into wales in the south west of england and that is slowly progressing eastwards f
To a £35 million shortfall. A magnificent seven from liverpools youngsters as teenager curtisjones scores twice in their thrashing of lincoln city as the manager describes him as an Exceptional Talent. Good morning. An autumnal day to day, risk northerly wind and heavy rain around the east coast of england, more details on about ten minutes. Its friday the 25th of september. Our top story. A new plan to safeguard what the chancellor calls viable jobs has been criticised by some of the Industries Hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic. Some retail, hospitality and performing arts businesses say rishi sunaks new emergencyjobs scheme doesnt go far enough. Jon donnison reports. In these tough economic times, drowning their sorrows last night but across england, it was early doors as the new nationwide 10pm cu rfew for doors as the new nationwide 10pm curfew for pubs and bars kick in. The last hour. Make the most of it. Early night, watch a movie. As a student, it is a bit annoying, fresh
Good evening. Welcome to bbc news. The government has defended its decision to allow hundreds of thousands of students in england to return to university for the new term, despite several outbreaks of coronavirus on campuses. Thousands of students have had to be confined to their rooms, but the culture secretary, oliver dowden, says its important their studies arent sacrificed because of the virus. But a member of the governments advisory body modelling the spread of the pandemic, says the consequences of allowing students back have been entirely predictable. Dan johnson reports now, from manchester. For the student in need, theres one Emergency Service that always delivers. Parents have stepped in when supermarket slots ran out. Its just really rough at the moment, and were really disheartened by the whole entire situation. These first year Nursing Student say theyre already rationing food. People wanted to drop out, were not getting the right uni experience. And were not talking abou