Now on bbc news, the week in parliament. Hello again, and welcome to the week in parliament. Going anywhere nice for your holidays this year . A Health Minister has some travel tips. Travelling is dangerous, and that is why we tell people, donT Travel. Also in this programme angry exchanges as labour accuse borisjohnson of breaking the rules. Time and again, ministers act like the rules are for other People None more so than the Prime Minister himself a charge rejected by ministers. It is based not on fact, but on speculation,. Innuendo and smear. And social Care Reform mps are warned its not only needed for older people. You can fall down the Stairs Tomorrow and have a serious Brain Injury at 30 and need lots of care. All that to come, and more. But first, the battle against covid. The Health Secretary portrays it as a race between the virus and the vaccine. And, with the spread of whats known as the indian variant, its not always been clear whos winning. The lifting of some covid res
Haverfordwest and the wales title might live Election Debate. The wales live Election Debate. Applause good evening and welcome to the pembrokeshire county showground in have rfordwest pembrokeshire county showground in haverfordwest for a special live Election Debate, and welcome to viewers beyond whilst watching on the bbc news channel. Over the next hour, we will be testing the pledges and ambitions of five Political Parties in wales. I will be chatting to our audience, who have a wide range of viewpoints and are very keen to quiz our panel of politicians on a range of subjects, not just brexit, to politicians on a range of subjects, notjust brexit, to get the answer is that matter to wales. You at home canjoin in on social media. The hashtag is on screen. We asked the five main parties to nominate a leading representative to take part in the debate. For the lib dems, their leader in wales, jane dodds, for the conservatives, david tc davies. For plight comrie for plaid cymru,. And f
Im joanna gosling. The other main stories on bbc news. The three main Health Screening programmes in england for bowel, breast and Cervical Cancer fail to meet government targets. Tsb records losses of over a £100 million as it counts the cost of last years it meltdown, which caused chaos for thousands of customers. Major commitment problems. I imagine every time he said, its not you, its me. They had a trial separation, which involved a very brief trial and a long separation. The comedian jeremy hardy has died of cancer at the age of 57. Good morning and welcome to bbc news live from chippenham in wiltshire. It is still a blizzard by the motorway in wiltshire. It has been snowing heavily throughout the morning in many parts of the southern United Kingdom today. That has caused major travel disruption overnight. You can see the motorway behind me, there are cars and lorries travelling on it but snowploughs have been in constant action. We have been watching them over the last few minu
Theresa may meets her cabinet this morning, as mps are stepping up their efforts to influence the Brexit Process ahead of a vote on a modified version of her brexit withdrawal plan next tuesday. A number of amendments have been put forward, including an official labour party amendment, which says mps should be able to vote on options such as the partys preferred outcome of a closer relationship with europe, with a permanent customs union. It also asks mps to decide whether they should hold a further referendum on whatever brexit plan is approved by the house of commons. An amendment from labour politician Yvette Cooper aimed at preventing a no deal brexit has the backing of remainer conservative mps. It directs the Prime Minister to seek a deadline extension if a brexit deal is not agreed by 26th february. Yesterday, the Prime Minister told the commons she was focused on securing concessions from the eu on the plan to avoid a hard irish border. 0ur assistant political editor, norman sm
At a key point in the pandemic, the government signed a £107 million deal to buy ppe from a Northern Ireland Sweet Company. Lyndsey telford investigates what happened next. It might not look like much, but last year, this box was worth an awful lot of money. During the global scramble for ppe in the early stages of the pandemic, the cost of protective gear shot up astronomically. This box is part of a Ppe Deal Worth over £100 million. This involved a Northern Irish Sweet Company. People were dying. It was almostjust buy as much as you can. It may not be worth its weight in gold any more, but today this box gives us a window into the pandemonium that surrounded Ppe Purchasing Last year, because it arrived in the uk at such great expense, Health Officials could not even agree what these items were or how they could be used in hospitals. Government thought it was buying a rolls royce but it was getting a ford fiesta. Perhaps that is why a box from the very same shipment, a box that cost