32 years after the lockerbie bombing, authorities in the us are understood to be preparing to charge a new suspect. Liverpool win the biggest game of the premier League Season so far. A late headerfrom Roberto Firminho, defeats tottenham, and sends liverpool, to the top of the table. Marcus rashfords mum mel talks for the first time about her familys struggle with poverty, and her pride about her sons campaigning work. I had threejobs, and iti i had threejobs, and it i didnt do that, one of the neighbours would cook a pot of food. It was a bit difficult, so marcus is only telling the story from how easy is it in the words he has been saying, they come from the bottom of his heart. The weather much quieter than yesterday with a lot more dry conditions, a few showers, some sunshine, but later strengthening winds and more rain coming into the west and i will have all the details in ten minutes. Its thursday december 17th. Our top story. Tens of millions of people across england will find out this morning if a change to local coronavirus restrictions is on the way. Several areas in the north are hoping to move down from the strictest tier 3 measures to tier 2, because of a significant drop in infection rates. However, nhs bosses have warned against easing restrictions prematurely. Simonjones has the story. Just over a week until christmas. The decorations are up, but for many businesses, what sort of festive period they will have remains unclear. This hotel in burnley is fully booked for the big day, but u nless fully booked for the big day, but unless the area goes from tier 3, the highest level of restrictions, into tier 2, nobody will get to stay and it will remain closed. Weve probably and it will remain closed. Weve pro ba bly lost and it will remain closed. Weve probably lost 7 million in sales this year and the problem is we have no certainty that we can start to trade again in january, no certainty that we can start to trade again injanuary, february or march. Many areas of Northern England believe infection rates have come down enough to justify easing restrictions, but hospital trusts are warning that they are still treating a high number of coronavirus patients. In hornsea on the yorkshire coast, opinion is divided on whether the area should move down into tier 2. No, stay in tier 3. Tier 3. Say for everybody, without a doubt. A coastal area like this, people keep their distance like everyone else is doing, i hope and pray we do go into tier 2 for the economy and industry, really. The red areas on the map show the places that have been in tier 3 since the last lockdown ended. Already this week, london, large parts of essex in parts of hertfordshire have been added and towns like hastings on the south coast where infection rates have risen by 140 in the past week fear they are heading the same way. Tier 1 they are heading the same way. Tier i was manageable. We could actually manage to work with that, where people could meet up and be sociable, but in a controlled way. But tier 2 has been very difficult and tier 3 will be awful, but at least we will know what we are doing. Government officials met last night to decide on their conclusions will be revealed today. Simonjones, bbc news. Lets speak now to our correspondent tim muffett, who is in crawley this morning. Crawley currently in tier 2 and concerns about moving into tier 3. Yes, thats right. Crawley in west sussexis yes, thats right. Crawley in west sussex is in tier 2 and here infection rates more than doubled in the week up to december the 9th, so real concern that this could potentially be moved into tier 3. Worthing, also in west sussex, a similar increase and those are the sort of things the government says it will look at when deciding whether to move one place into another tier along with the age groups of those particularly affected and the pressure on local nhs trust. Worth recapping that Greater London, parts of hertfordshire and essex yesterday moved from tier 2 into tier 3, so the tougher restrictions already in place there and as we saw in the report, there are many places which hope it will be reduced from tier 3 down to tier 2. Greater manchester, for example, andy burnham saying there is a strong case for that to happen. There are some places, herefordshire, where there are low infection rates and hopes that they could move into tier i. We will have to wait and see. In terms of the time frame, we expect an announcement from 1130 and it is thought matt hancock will address parliament and if there are changes they will kick in from december the 19th, saturday. But bear in mind it will only be in place for a few days before the christmas relaxations kicking over the Christmas Period which will allow three households to mix and on the 28th of december, the tier system will kick back in, so potential changes and we will have to wait and see and a lot of people paying close attention because it could have a very, very big effect over the Christmas Period. Could have a very, very big effect over the Christmas Periodm certainly will. Thanks very much. We should say we will be talking a lot about the tier system and the announcement coming later this morning at about 1130, but we will talk to priti patel and andy burnham, who is looking after Greater Manchester, and we will talk to mark dra keford, Greater Manchester, and we will talk to Mark Drakeford, the first minister of wales. And we have experts later on if you have questions that remain unanswered in your head, there is no such thing as a stupid question at the moment because almost everyone is asking the same one way or another, so keep them coming in and we will do our best a nswer them coming in and we will do our best answer all of them for you. 11,000 positive covid tests have been left off the official figures in wales, meaning the number of cases for the week to tuesday could be twice as high as previously thought. Public health wales has blamed the error on planned maintenance of some of its it systems. More than 100,000 people have tested positive in in the country since the pandemic began, meaning the additional cases will make up more than a 10 of the new total. The conservatives called the news staggering. Authorities in the United States are believed to be close to filing charges against a libyan man suspected of making the bomb that blew up pan am flight 103 over lockerbie in 1988. Us media says prosecutors will soon press for the extradition of abu agila mohammed, who is reportedly being held in libya. Heres our washington correspondent lebo diseko. 270 people were killed in a terror attack over the scottish town which took days place before christmas and all 259 people on the flight were killed, most of them americans returning home from the christmas holidays. A large section of the plains fuselage fell to the ground, destroying homes and killing a further 11 people. The suspect is said to be a libyan Intelligence Officer by the name of abu aglia mohammmed. He is alleged to have helped build the bomb that brought the plane down. The victims families have found themselves caught up in one of the worlds longest and most sprawling terrorism investigations. He isa sprawling terrorism investigations. He is a long time suspect in the case and is said to have been the subject of discussions among us and foreign officials since at least 2015. It is not clear what the likely hood is of him being brought to the us for trial. Neither the Us Justice Department or the libyan authorities have publicly commented on the issue. So far only one man, the libyan Abdel Basset Ali Al megrahi, has been sent to prison for the bombing. He was convicted in 2001 but subsequently allowed to return home after it emerged that he had terminal cancer. He died in 2012. A chinese spacecraft has returned to earth with the first samples from the moon in more than a0 years. The robot craft, which didnt have any crew on board, spent three weeks in space, gathering rocks and soil. The capsule carrying the samples touched down in the Northern Region of Inner Mongolia earlier. Scientists hope the material will help them understand more about the structure and history of the moon. A chinese flag was planted on the lunar surface. That is not the lunar surface, because those are people Walking Around without spacesuits. Just be clear, they didnt break any precedence. I thought, clear, they didnt break any precedence. Ithought, there clear, they didnt break any precedence. I thought, there are loads of people there. That was inner not space. Just to clear that up. Inner mongolia. Its very rare to find new plants and funghi in the uk but a humble toadstool growing by heathrow has topped the list of kew gardens discoveries from across the world. Most new species are from remote parts of the rainforest, but this toadstool was discovered by chance on a walk by the airport. Other highlights on the list include this orchid dubbed the ugliest in the world which was found in madagascar. That cant be that one, it must be the picture before. That picture before looks like an alien, you know, the film failure. Whereas whatever that was, that looked lovely. I dont think you should dub anything ugly the film, alien. We will swiftly move on. The weather todayis we will swiftly move on. The weather today is quieter than it was yesterday but we are in between two systems and we have a ridge across the uk of High Pressure, so today bright and breezy and for some a little bit cooler than it was yesterday but currently across the south coast temperatures are still around 10 degrees. Today there will bea around 10 degrees. Today there will be a lot of dry weather, a fair bit of sunshine, just one or two showers and its later on the day that we see the clouds thicken towards the west and then showery rain will arrive in the wind. To pick up, particularly in the evening through the irish sea. These are the daytime temperatures, between nine and 13 degrees. Through the evening the wind will really strengthen across the irish sea and areas adjacent to it and the rain moves from the west towards the east with some heavy bursts as well. There will be a lot of low cloud, ill fog across the moors and through wales, cumbria and the Southern Uplands but as we go through the night, after an early dip in temperatures, they will rise and if you look at these, they are not too dissimilar to what we are looking at during the day and for some they will be higher, so once again we have this range between nine and 13 degrees. Through the course of tomorrow we start with hill fog, some cloud around as well and then we have the next system coming in from the west which is likely to produce heavy rain, particularly across South West England and wales as you can see through the flashes of green. It is falling on saturated ground so could lead to issues with flooding and these black circles represent the strength of the wind gusts, so it would be quite a windy day again, especially with the exposure through the irish sea. In the south eastern corner, a fair bit of cloud and we could see drizzle from that and the rain continuing across parts of scotla nd rain continuing across parts of scotland away from the north east but here it will be pretty windy. Temperatures tomorrow between ten and 1a degrees, but some, like North East Wales, you could even see 15, way above average for this stage of december. It is warm, isnt it. Very mild tomorrow but then as we head into the weekend it will turn cooler again with temperatures closer to average. Not particularly cold, just cooler than this. You will tell us more than half an hour. Thank you, karen. Thank you carol. Lets take a look at todays papers. The independent reports on the landmark ruling that pollution contributed the death of nine year old Ella Kissi Debrah in 2013. This comes after a Long Campaign by ellas mum rosamund, and we are speaking to rosamund on the programme in ten minutes time. Many of the newspapers are looking at the relaxation of rules over christmas, due to begin next week. The daily mail describes the Prime Ministerss comments on having Little Christmas as a partial u turn, and that families have been asked to drastically cut back their christmas plans. The times scotland highlights the different approaches the nations are now taking to the festive season. It reports that first minister Nicola Sturgeon is begging scottish people to stay home this christmas. And the duke and duchess of cambridge have released their annual christmas card, showing the couple with their children in the grounds of anmer hall. A winter classic, classic comfort food is featuring. I am disappointed with having to do this story because, you know what, we need some iy because, you know what, we need some joy and for me, food brings complete iy joy and for me, food brings complete joy so i dont need to hear that one of my favourite things, although i do like pilots, the flatter versions of crumpets, but this story now says that crumpets have loads and loads of salt and one can have as much as 0. 81 g, almost the same as two small portions of fries from a leading fast food chain or two slices of white bread. Is that with or without adornment . Without adornment. The nutritionist, action on salt says you could try different healthy toppings, no added salt Peanut Butter or eat it with a scrambled 999 butter or eat it with a scrambled egg to make one crumpet more substantial. I dont think you can ever eat just substantial. I dont think you can ever eatjust one. Substantial. I dont think you can ever eat just one. Thats substantial. I dont think you can ever eatjust one. Thats the problem. Lashings of butter. What is your favourite topping for a crumpet . Butter. I know they talk about marmite and Peanut Butter, which doesnt appeal to me. Cheese. Cheese for me. I think people eat them anyway and its one of those things, its a winter comfort food and its one of those things. In moderation, enjoy. For most of us the difference between being able to eat in a restaurant or grab a takeaway might not seem a lot. But for millions of businesses it is the difference between survival and failure after an incredibly tough year. Ninas at a cafe in trafford for us where todays tier review means a lot. Currently in tier 3 and it has been for months. Good morning. It is one of these cafe is that serves an all english for six quid, and that is including your fried bread, two pieces of toast and a brew. We are talking treble carbs, but unfortunately i cannot have brea kfast but unfortunately i cannot have breakfast here and neither can any other customers. 46 covers with nobody sitting at them. Lets remind ourselves of the tiering system and why it mean so much to businesses. As things stand, 98 of hospitality firms are in tier 2 or tier 3. And what does that mean . We look at the move that london went into from two to three yesterday on the estimated difference in terms of impact on jobs at risks is about 40000 and on top of that, the estimated impact on revenue is about £600,000. You can imagine the impact it is having on the cafe here. Apart from anything else, this part of manchester in trafford is where hauliers come through from all around the world but because of the reduction of movement they have been hit enormously. Lets grab, notjanet, no, she is hiding behind the polystyrene packets. Come out. A comedy entrance. We like it. How are you doing . What does taddei mean to you doing . What does taddei mean to you going from tier 3 to tier 2 . Today. Its a massive deal and we have cut business by half during the lockdown and this place is normally completely full with people having a final english full english and we are just praying and asking that a father christmas could bring it it would be the best thing. It would literally double your revenue overnight. How have you got through this difficult period . We have had a brilliant support from Trafford Council and we would like to thank them because we couldnt have kept open or done what we did without that, so its been a massive help. Mariella cant last forever coming. Mark webber no, it cant. We will go and talk to another guest outside because we dont have any masks and people who dont work here cant come in. This is chris and before the first lockdown he opened a new pub in stretford another part of trafford, but you barely have the chance to serve customers. How much would it mean for you to get back into tier 2 today . To be honest, it would be like winning the lottery. We are currently taking about 5 on takeaways and we have so many people booked in over christmas and it is a case of everything that has been thrown at us, it is a case of surviving now. If we dont get this, it will be so difficult for us. So it will be so difficult for us. So it is literally life or death depending on the decisions today. It is literally life or death depending on the decisions todaym has got to that stage. In terms of the support you have had from the council, has that got you over the edge . Originally, yes. At the moment no one knows where they stand with the grants or anything like that, and the council have been great to us, but how long is this going to go on for and when will we know what is going on . For us, this is like winning the lottery. The best Christmas Present in the well. And in trafford in particular there is a sense of injustice because the rates here are lower than the National Average and lower than a neighbouring borough in tier 2. Definitely. The thing is, when we have opened, we are so coronavirus safe and every establishment has got all this in place and in terms of christmas, we are so much geared up better to support that and say ten people going into a small terraced house and mixing like that. We have had to deal with this dull time and we have set up to be basically a Coronavirus Restaurant bar and they are not allowing us to do that and keeping the general public say. And thatis keep