or email at yourquestions@bbc.co.uk from today people in england are being asked to work from home if they can but businesses are worried it will hit the crucial christmas market. rescue teams search for survivors after the string of tornadoes in the united states that have killed almost 100 people. i m martine croxall in north shropshire, where people will head to the polls this thursday to elect an mp. traditionally traditionally a safe seat for the conservatives but this has become a tight race in recent weeks. a bbc investigation finds networks of breeders are offering to mutilate puppies, to follow a social media trend. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news. borisjohnson says at least one person has died in the uk with the omicron variant of coronavirus with the government warning the new variant is spreading at a rate not seen before . last night, the prime minister announced an expansion of the vaccination booster programme. england s deputy chief medical off
countries should pay to help. after scoring the dreaded nil points last year, the uk s eurovision hopes are put into the hands of the team behind stars like dua lipa and ellie goulding to select next year s entry. and coming up this hour. putting your faith into artificial intelligence. from prayer apps to smart rosary beads the rise of robots in religion. pressure is growing on the government to re impose some covid restrictions in england, amid a surge in cases. it comes as the british medical association has accused ministers of being wilfully negligent . it says measures such as compulsory face coverings and social distancing should be brought back in now, to protect the nhs as we head into the winter months. daily uk infections have been above 40,000 for eight days in a row. the health secretary has warned daily cases could soon rise to 100,000. speaking this morning, health minister edward argar acknowledged that the nhs is under pressure, but said he believed it is
falling to civil servants, and elected officials to decide how northern ireland can balance his books and in a recent budget published by the government in london, there are cuts on the table. so it s really down to senior officials in the light of the packed department of health and the department of health and the department for education who are going to have to decide exactly where cuts are made. officials think that on the whole, northern ireland is going to have to find savings of about £800 million over the next financial year. so what they head of the northern ireland civil service is going to want to talk to politicians about is to get their take on this and if there is going to be a restoration of the devolved government, she would also want to know where politicians were planning on taking policies for the departments that are facing these financial pressures and many pundits and commentators certainly think that after the elections for the local councils which we
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