time for a look at the weather. here s helen willetts. i m showing you the signs of spring, simon, but interspersed with the sunny spells we have showers today and it s a rather unsettled picture over the coming few days as well. we ve got the scattered showers around as well as the sunny spells. some areas faring better for sunshine than others. the showers are more numerous across northern and western are more numerous gci’oss northern and western areas are more numerous across northern and western areas and we ve recently had showers here in london, if you are stepping out for a bit of exercise. so through the rest of the afternoon sunny spells, showers, pretty much as it is at the moment but it s relatively mild. we ve got temperatures 10 14 c, just a smidgen above where they should be for this time of year, feeling pleasant in the spring sunshine. but change is afoot and as we go through the evening and overnight we keep the showers. they merge in the north to a longer
in a rip roaring cameo as a coke addled producer. personally, i could have lived without the somewhat hackneyed staged interviews, and for all its excesses, there s little sense that this gets under the skin of its la rger than life subject. but, like many of the bands that mcgee champions, this is entertainingly bolshie fare. loud, brash and absolutely full of itself. creation stories is on sky cinema from saturday. it s a book. it s a little more than that. open it. you bought drugs from yourself? i had to beta test it. sticking with substance fuelled lifestyles, silk road retells the story of self proclaimed dark web pirate ross ulbricht who made a fortune setting up what was effectively amazon for drugs. a site where narcotics could be bought, sold and even customer rated, all under the anonymity of bitcoin currency. that s 1.2 million a day. likeable love simon star nick robinson plays the real life entrepreneur whose libertarian dreams of changing the world lead him int
faces questions about the scottish government s handling of complaints against former first minister alex salmond. and coming up this hour. a congregation in herefordshire are shocked to discover an ordinary looking painting of the last supper is actually a long lost masterpiece. the figures speak for themselves and they paint a picture which suggests the battle against covid is on the turn. the number of weekly registered coronavirus deaths in england and wales has fallen by more than a quarter in a week to the lowest level since the start of the year. the figures from the office for national statistics suggest that the latest national lockdown and the sucessful vaccination programme are working. there s good news too on hospital admissions down by 80% for those aged over 80 who ve received a single dose of vaccine. the results have been described by the head of the oxford vaccine project as stunning . the government says there s no cause for complacency and stick
threats from spies. a sunday times investigation looks at hereditary peerage in the house of lords with two candidates for lords speaker saying the system has to change. shameful, say the mirror, whose special investigation claims sexism, sleaze and bullying is rife in the police force across the country. the sunday express report that the prime minister is being urged by mps to promise that all our liberties will be fully restored and protected once the pandemic is over. the mail on sunday say the eu is losing the plot on covid vaccines, as the bloc threaten to stop exports of the jab. let s start our chat, jo and nigel. nigel, could you start with the front of the sunday express, a plea to protect our freedoms? front of the sunday express, a plea to protect ourfreedoms? yes. front of the sunday express, a plea to protect our freedoms? to protect our freedoms? yes, this is centred around to protect our freedoms? yes, this is centred around the to protect our freedom
the prime minister is urged to swiftly clarify how many covid vaccine doses the uk is prepared to donate to poorer countries. the un demands international action to stop a shocking wave of brutality against civilians in myanmar. i am terrified of what is going to happen. i think this could be just the beginning of a wave of brutality that is going to be just even more shocking than what we have seen today. the latest attempts to dislodge the ship that s stuck in the suez canal have failed officials say efforts will continue around the clock. 5,000 people attend a trial rock concert in barcelona the latest test of how viable large cultural events are during covid. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the government says it s on track to ease the lockdown in england and deliver on its vaccination targets. the culture secretary 0liver dowden says he s confident a further lockdown can be avoided as long as people don t treat the easing of restrictions as a complete