And our Sunday Morning Edition of the papers is at 9 35 this mornings reviewers are Shyama Perera, thejournalist and author, and dave wooding, whos Political Editor of the sun on sunday. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Trials ahead of so called covid passports will get underway in england later this month, as the government looks to restart Mass Gatherings and indoor events safely. The first pilot event will be a comedy night in liverpool later this month where Audience Members will be tested for covid before and after the show. The pilots will last until mid may and include the Fa Cup Semi Final and final, the World Snooker championship in sheffield, and several events in liverpool including an evening at a nightclub. Downing street also confirmed countries will be in a risk based Traffic Light System when foreign holidays resume. The Prime Minister is expected to lay out more details tomorrow. Our political correspondent, nick eardley, has this rep
Step towards the Premier League title with a 2 0 win at leicester. They had to wait until almost 60 minutes before defender Benjamin Mendy made the breakthrough. A quarter of an hour later, that superb pass from kevin de bruyne, eventually, helped gabrieljesus make it 2 0. City have a 17 point lead over second placed Manchester United and it only seems a matter of time before they are crowned Premier League champions. I dont know how many titles or what we are going to win, what we have done so far is incredible. In this year, like a lockdown without spectators, like, you need the emotion sometimes to lift, to be on the game, and every game we were there, every single game. And we won a lot of games, and in this period its quite, quite remarkable. I will never forget this season, these players have done for our club, never. The shock of the day came at Stamford Bridge where relegation threatened West Bromwich albion thumped chelsea 5 2. Callum robinson scored twice as did matheus perei
But the final is being used to pilot how these kinds of mass events might work in future. The opportunity to get back to full capacity, i think, is something that is so prevalent at the moment and underpins so many of the hopes that the Events Industry and the Entertainment Industry has, so this scheme, we feel, is the right way to go. Plotting a path to reopening society, trial events will also look at ventilation as well as testing before and after, along with so called Vaccine Passports, an idea that has met some resistance. It would be proportionate and it would be time limited. But we are just looking at these as options at the moment, hence the Pilot Programme. In the Pilot Programme we will be testing these options and the evidence gathered will then help inform long term Decision Making and government policy. Vaccine passports or covid State Certification could include proof Covid Status Certification could include proof someone has been vaccinated, had a recent Negative Test,
And a scaled back Easter Sunday, although the choir was able to perform here. While at the vatican, the pope called for vaccines to be shared with the worlds poorest countries. And coming up. The media show. The government is to trial measures in england, including covid passports, to allow the safe return of sports matches, major events and nightlife. Theyll show if a person has been vaccinated, had a recent Negative Test or has antibodies. The pilot will include the fa cup final, and will last until mid may. Heres our political correspondent, jessica parker. The fa cup final, 2019. It wont be so packed this year, but the final is being used to pilot how these kinds of mass events might work in future. The opportunity to get back to full capacity, i think, is something that is so prevalent at the moment and underpins so many of the hopes that the Events Industry and the Entertainment Industry has, so this scheme, we feel, is the right way to go. Plotting a path to reopening society, t
Some wintry showers down the east coast into east anglia, some in Northern Ireland and some over the irish sea. In some inland areas, quite sunny in the afternoon, all areas windy, strong to gale force winds, up to 70mph in the north of scotland. Temperatures will be lower, three degrees the low, but when you add the strength of the wind, probably feeling more like the middle of winter, despite the sunshine. With clearer skies overnight, a widespread frost early on tuesday, icy patches in the wintry showers, most of the snow sitting across the north of scotland still. A few more wintry showers around northern and western coasts but some wintry showers heading inland into scotland and northern england, later wales and the midlands too. Temperatures on a par with monday, still windy and still feeling cold. It is april after all, so worth pointing out that any impact from snow is more likely to be felt across northern scotland, where were more likely to have snow lying and blizzards becau