No one should call this one too early. You wouldnt call a premier League Football match after about 30 minutes. And theres a lot more people whove got their view, too. Except you are at The End Of You are at the end of a government term. Thats fair. But people make a choice at the election, a very clear choice. Whos going to walk through the door of number ten the following morning. In dorset, the conservatives lost control of the council to the liberal democrats, who are second in terms of the number of seats won overall. But in some places, Labourface A Challenge from the greens. This is bristol, where they became the Biggest Party on the council, picking up every single seat in what will be one of their top target constituencies. These are huge steps forward for the green party. Theres now nine councils across the country where were the largest party. Large numbers of councils where greens are part of the ruling administration, often working with other parties, which were very happy
The latest official covid figures on the pandemic show that in the past 2a hours, six deaths were reported and there have been 7,540 new infections, which means an average of 5,984 new cases per day in the last week. nearly 137,000 people received a first dose of the vaccine in the latest 2a hour period, meaning more than 40.7 million people have now had theirfirstjab over 77% of uk adults. more than 313,000 have had their second jab in the past 2a hours, meaning more than 28.5 million have had both doses. over 54% of uk adults are now fully vaccinated. our medical editor fergus walshjoins me now. the prime minister was sounding more downbeat about lifting restrictions? it was just a week ago boris johnson it was just a week ago borisjohnson said he could see nothing in the data that suggested we couldn t go ahead with the final lifting of
To make her comeback last year. she s been named in the team gb pair, alongside olympic silver medallist polly swann. 37 of the 45 strong british team will make their debut at the games. that s all the sport for now. we ll have more for you on the bbc news channel later on. thank you very much. the latest official figures on the pandemic show that, in the past 2a hours, six deaths were reported, and there have been 7,540 new infections, which means an average of 5,984 new cases per day in the last week. nearly 137,000 people received a first dose of the vaccine in the latest 24 hour period, meaning more than 40.7 million people have now had theirfirstjab that s over 77% of uk adults. the number of people who ve had their second dose of the vaccine in the latest 24 hour period, is over 313,000. more than 28.5 million have had both doses, meaning over 54% of uk adults are fully vaccinated.
There is a big opportunity that comes with a big risk as well. at any get together like this there is always a kind of risk of diplomatic spats overshadowing things. number ten will not want that to happen at all, whether on brexit, northern ireland or anything else. but there is a potential of a clash of the two visions of the impact of britain leaving the eu, it is still something borisjohnson will have to deal with in the next few days. it feels a bit squally here tonight, downing street will hope that metaphorically as well as in reality the sun might come out before too long. the latest official figures on the pandemic show that in the past 2a hours, six deaths were reported, and there have been 7,540 new infections, which means an average of 5,984 new cases per day in the last week. nearly 137,000 people received a first dose of the vaccine in the latest 24 hour period, meaning more than 40.7 million people have now