To try to reboot america s economy. Music plays. Another lost summer for uk musicalfestivals a report by mps blame the government for not backing an insurance safety net for organisers. And in half an hour click heads to a race track with a dashboard device which might help you drive like lewis hamilton. Hello, good afternoon. Thousands of fans are descending on the portuguese city of porto for this evening s champions league final between chelsea and manchester city. 16,500 supporters will be allowed into the stadium to watch the all english affair the venue was switched from turkey, when the country was put on the uk s travel red list . Our sports correspondent, laura scott, reports from porto. The morning after the night before, and while the clean up job began for some, for fans the party in porto is onlyjust getting going. Thousands of chelsea and manchester city supporters have now arrived, including a large number on special charter flights this morning, and they only
Shortly. In other football news, brentford are finally promoted to the premier league for the first time in their history. They beat swansea two nil. In other news a teenager appears in court charged with conspiracy to murder, following the shooting of sasha johnson, the black lives matter activist. The 6 trillion dollar plan. President biden pushes the biggest spending programme since world war two to try to reboot america s economy. another lost summer for uk music festivals a report by mps blame the government for not backing an insurance safety net for organisers. And at quarter to seven click heads to a race track with a dashboard device which might help you drive like lewis hamilton. Thousands of fans have descended on the portuguese city of porto ahead of tonight s all english champions league final, between chelsea and manchester city. Up to 16,500 supporters will be allowed into the stadium to watch the game and fans with tickets are being told to take up to th
And the long running bbc medical drama, holby city is ending after 23 years, with the final series to air in march 2022. The man put in charge of the government s plans to help schoolchildren in england recover from the effects of the covid lockdown has resigned. In a letter announcing his decision to step down, sir kevan collins severely criticised the level of support that the government has said it will provide. It s proposed spending £11; billion to help children catch up on missed edcuation. But sir kevan said that was not enough, writing: the support announced by government so far does not come close to meeting the scale of the challenge , and adding that a half hearted approach risks failing hundreds of thousands of pupils he went on: the package falls far short of what is needed. It is too narrow, too small and will be delivered too slowly, and said that it betrays an undervaluation of the importance of education for individuals and society. Let s talk to our political corres
Hadn t been widely shared. Daniel sandford, thank you very much. And you can see much more on that over the course of the afternoon on the bbc news channel. Time for a look at the weather. Here s tomasz shafernaker. Hello, and good afternoon, i am so delighted to bring you a forecast full of optimism, we have been advertising for days that the weather is set to improve and, indeed, it is, it will be increasingly sunny and warm. But not at the moment, there is a bit of a blip in the weather, across central and western areas of the uk. There is a weather front here and currently, it is stuck. The reason why it is stuck is because it is riding up against this area of high pressure and there are a number of weather fronts. Pressure and there are a number of weatherfronts. And pressure and there are a number of weather fronts. And as they approach the high pressure, they slow down. Think of the high pressure as a mountain so as a weather front approaches with a building area of high pressur