sunshine and warmth for many of us, because of some high pressure, which will stay with us this week, but a change in direction will bring quite a dramatic change in the weather story over the next few days. there will be quite a lot of low cloud and fog around. this is the story for sunday, the high pressure centre that was us, now veering towards the near continent and allowing ali south easterly flow that has been drawing on cloud off the north sea. it has been rather murky across parts of eastern england down into south east england. you can see where we have the best of the sunshine so far, not too bad across scotland, north west england and parts of northern ireland, and although the fog will lift and that low cloud will thin and breaking places, if you are under it, it will have quite an impact on the feeling of the weather. temperatures underneath a cloud sitting at a maximum of around seven celsius, but where we see sunshine we will see double figures. going through
hello and welcome. president biden will arrive in belfast, beginning a four day trip in northern ireland. he s marking the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement, a deal that brought three decades of conflict, known as the troubles, largely to an end. when he lands, he ll be greeted by the british prime minister. a huge security operation is now in place. but the visit is going ahead in the absence of a devolved government in northern ireland is the power sharing deal ushered in collapsed. he says his already is to keep the peace. he is currently airborne on already is to keep the peace. he is currently airborne on his already is to keep the peace. he is currently airborne on his way - currently airborne on his way to northern ireland. we expect to arrive here in a little over three hours. so, when he arrives, he ll be greeted by the british prime minister. he will have one public engagement, which will be opening our university and the new campus there, so you can
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those two cases were on the 30th and sist those two cases were on the 30th and 31st of january and there would almost certainly be more. the central point according to these minutes is that government had a plan to deal with illness. yes. you didn t in fact, plan to deal with illness. 133 you didn t in fact, within the department of health and social care, commission until the 10th of february the plan, the battle plan as you describe in your statement, or the action plan as it was published on the 3rd of march. and therefore, what plan was it that you were referring to cabinet colleagues too, to deal with the illness? firstly, we had the pandemic flu strategy set out in 2011, but by this point we had a whole series of different plans for expanding different plans for expanding different areas. so we had a plan for the expansion of testing within the hd. that plan didn t go fast enough and i had to take serious action to change that in the middle of march. we had a plan for