for the covid delayed year as uk city of culture 2021. radio jingle: bbc cwr! good morning, happy saturday! this is rachel new. i hope you ve had some caffeine in you already, because today is going to be a very big day. the start of a summer weekend in coventry but this is no ordinary saturday. today, the whole city will be become a giant stage, to mark the start of a big year. ..as the uk city of culture. stay with us all day, because we re going to make sure that you do not miss a moment of this. cove ntry. it s been a long time coming. coventry won the honour back in 2017. cove ntry! ..way before covid forced artistic directorjustine themen to change all her plans. you see the track? it s down here. because we can t be bringing audiences together in large numbers, or even participants, we have had to think very differently. for a start, what is about to take place on these streets has had to be kept a complete secret. there s one of you that isn t. ..to avoid large crow
hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. the queen has welcomed the us presidentjoe biden at windsor castle. the g7 summit concludes with member states agreeing to deliver more than a billion coronavirus vaccinations to poorer countries and raise a hundred billion dollars to help them cut carbon emissions. but there is also being a continuing row over the northern ireland protocol. doctors confirm denmark s christian eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest during a match at the european championship. and a sterling effort from england as they beat croatia i o in their opening game of the european championship at wembley. we ll be back at the top of the hour with more news. now on bbc news, we re in coventry as the city s streets are transformed into a giant stage and the celebrations finally begin for the covid delayed year, as uk city of culture 2021. good morning, happy saturday! this is rachel new. i hope you ve had some caffeine in you already, because today is going to be a ver
streets are transformed into a giant stage and the celebrations finally begin for the covid delayed year as uk city of culture 2021. radio jingle: bbc cwr! good morning, happy saturday! this is rachel new. i hope you ve had some caffeine in you already, because today is going to be a very big day. the start of a summer weekend in coventry, but this is no ordinary saturday. today, the whole city will be become a giant stage, to mark the start of a big year. ..as the uk city of culture. stay with us all day, because we re going to make sure that you do not miss a moment of this. cove ntry. it s been a long time coming. coventry won the honour back in 2017. cove ntry! ..way before covid forced artistic directorjustine themen to change all her plans. you see the track? it s down here. because we can t be bringing audiences together in large numbers, or even participants, we have had to think very differently. for a start, what is about to take place on these streets has had to be
celsius in aberdeen. a warmer day for northern ireland. and across the midlands towards the south east, temperatures could make a humid 28 or 29 celsius. as we head into monday, for much of the country it will turn cooler from the north. not so in the south east temperatures could make 30 celsius perhaps in the london area. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. shock at the euros this evening as denmark s christian eriksen collapses on the pitch during their match against finland. uefa have released a statement saying he has been transferred to hospital and stabilised the match between denmark and finland has now resumed, with finland leading i o. the lifting of england s remaining coronavirus restrictions could be delayed by up to four weeks as the prime minister says it s a race between the spike in cases and vaccines. you ve got to be cautious in order to deliver what we want to see, which is an irreversible road map, but we re looking at the data today and again y