Archbishop desmond tutu. Tackling the Cladding Crisis in australia what can the uk learn from down under . And right now in australia, theyre celebrating the arrival of 2022 amid heightened covid restrictions. Welcome to the bbc news at one. New figures show that covid related absences in Acute Nhs Trusts in england went up by more than 40 during christmas week. An average of more than 25,000 Health Workers were off sick or isolating each day. London was again the worst hit with about 4 of staff in acute trusts absent, up by nearly 60 on the week before. It comes after latest estimates from the 0ns survey suggest one in 30 people in the uk tested positive for covid heading into christmas, a new record high for infections. Hospitals in northampton, sheffield and rotherham have temporarily suspended visiting due to the high number of omicron cases. 0ur Health Correspondent Anna Collinson has more. While most of us are looking forward to celebrating this new years eve, its a different sto
Elsewhere some spells of sunshine. It stays windy and extraordinarily mild. And for sunday still unsettled with stronger spells of rain. A shift in the wind direction, coming in from the west and still very mild but not quite as mild as it is right now. A bigger change as we get deeper into next week. Low pressure still close by so it will still be quite unsettled as the slow moves eastwards as we get into tuesday, it opens the door to this northerly wind with single digit temperatures. These temperatures stay low through the week and it stays unsettled. When we get there, happy new years eve. 0urtop when we get there, happy new years eve. Our top story this lunchtime, the number of nhs staff off work in england because of covid went up by a0 during christmas week. Hello. I hope the year has been kind to you. The Media Industry is defining a new normal, and coming to terms with the second year of a global pandemic. Print and distribution costs are growing pretty much everywhere. But so
England continuing across scotland. england and wales, particularly further east, seeing spells of sunshine. the wind will be an increasing feature, increasingly windy especially up west. as we head through the evening many places will be dry but we see a band of rain working across northern ireland, into south west scotland and north west england by midnight, some could be quite heavy. confirmation of the extraordinarily high temperatures as we get to midnight. the wind continuing to pick up as well. gusts of up to a0 or 50 mph, pick up as well. gusts of up to a0 or50 mph, may be pick up as well. gusts of up to a0 or 50 mph, may be even strongerfor some exposed western coasts. as we start january the 1st, low pressure is in charge, moving to the north west of the uk. lots of white lines and isobars are squeezing together showing we will still have brisk wind to take us through new year s day. one weatherfront, a band of cloud and rain working east out of wales into england, not necess