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now, if you spent any part of lockdown dancing alone in the kitchen, this show is for you. now, for many of us, dancing offers a shortcut to happiness and escape. over the years on the travel show, we ve picked up some pretty nifty dance moves all over the world and have failed miserably at others. so here, for your entertainment and our eternal embarrassment, are our attempts to remain co ordinated under pressure and in front of a camera. let s kick off with my trip to south africa back in 2018, when i tried to keep up with a truly talented group of performers who have made news all over the world thanks to an energetic form of dancing known as pantsula. they set the bar a little high for me, though. fast-paced singing. this is pa ntsula. this style of dancing is absolutely incredible. it s fast paced, it s energetic, and it s technical. but for young south africans, it s so much more than this. it s a movement that encapsulates storytelling, fashion and social expre ....
gathering. the remains of a wealthy roman trading town have been unearthed in a remote field in northamptonshire by archaeologists working on the construction of the h52 rail network. they say it s one of the most impressive sites they ve found so far. our correspondentjo black has been looking at what they ve uncovered. it is the high speed line which divides opinion, but as hs2 develops, some of the excavations along the route have provided opportunities for us to see how we used to live. this 12 hectare site in northamptonshire has not only revealed an iron age settlement, but also a roman town. it s not thought to be a story of roman invasion, but more a progression between the two eras. i ve been working for ten years now and never come across anything of this scale or even this quality. we will be working incredibly hard to understand what we have on site and to tell that story. archaeology is telling stories, it s pulling together the physical evidence on the gro ....
michael gove, says he wants developers to pay up to £4 billion to fix dangerous cladding on medium height blocks of flats identified in the wake of the grenfell fire. mr gove says if they fail to cooperate, they could be taxed. until now, the government had committed money to repair only taller buildings. the new proposals do not address other fire safety defects, though, such as missing firebreaks and flammable balconies. our business correspondent sarah corker has more. removing dangerous cladding the grenfell tragedy exposed the scale of building safety failures across britain. the government says it will pressure the construction sector to pay and protect innocent leaseholders. secretary of state gove! the housing secretary had strong words for property developers today pay up or we will force you to. to those who mis sold dangerous products, like cladding or insulation, to those who cut corners to save cash as they developed or refurbished people s homes, and ....
living in flats in england may no longer face the cost of paying to replace dangerous cladding on their properties under new government proposals. the plans, set to be announced monday, would instead ask developers to pay up for work on buildings of around four to six storeys high. 0ur political correspondent ben wright reports. for around 500,000 homeowners living in potentially unsafe and unsellable flats, the fall out from the grenfell tower fire has been traumatic and costly. leaseholders having to take out loans to strip out cladding and repair medium sized blocks of flats. me and my neighbours know we re living in unsafe clad flats so the main cost has been sleepless nights, worrying about that, but also worrying about the potential bill that is going to land on our doorstep of tens of thousands of pounds. but on monday the minister responsible for housing, michael gove, is expected to say the government will expose and pursue companies responsible for the crisis ....
now it s time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello. more of you spending today dry, certainly compared with yesterday, but we do have some heavy showers around. they are going to be mainly across parts of central, southern scotland, northern ireland as we go into the first part of the afternoon. easing a little bit here, but then spreading in across northern parts of england. to the north of it, dry with sunny spells, to the south of it, most places dry, wind is falling a little bit later through the day. mike lighter through the day. a good deal of sunshine, but cloud increasingly towards channel islands, devon, cornwall and south west wales, bringing outbreaks of rain later in the afternoon and something a bit milder. chilly end to the day, though, in eastern areas, where we could see a widespread frost for the first half of the night. 6 may be in eastern scotland. but as this cloud spills its way eastwards through the night, temperatures will gradual ....