20 year old daunte wright. as people head home for christmas, industrial action and staff sickness causes disruption on the railways. and coming up the student with cerebral palsy who gets his very own voice for christmas. hello and welcome. a glimmer of christmas hope may be on offer from new cononavirus data, suggesting that the omicron variant may be less likely to lead to serious illness than the delta variant. that s according to a uk senior health official. but drjenny harries from the uk health security agency warned it definitely isn t yet at the point where we could downgrade the serious threat of omicron and that more data is needed, particularly about the impact on elderly and more vulnerable patients. it comes as 200,000 first, second or booster appointments are being made available over the festive period across england as people are urged to getjabbed. in his christmas message, borisjohnson describes the jab as a wonderful gift that people can give to ke
somewhere for them to live. as this home counts down to christmas, in the midst of celebration, they have created this memorial pathway to remember the ten who died. but among the sadness, there is new hope that next year will be better. fiona lamdin, bbc news. cheering. alone here is to a better christmas for them. now on bbc news, review 2021, we remember. prince philip, una stubbs, charlie watts, sarah harding, captain sir tom moore, christopher plummer and jimmy greaves. just a few of those whose lives are celebrated in this year s programme. # we re all going on a summer holiday.# why doesn t he stop honking his horn? there s plenty of room to park! we are not going on a london bus if that is what you had in mind! well, you re not going to get very i far on your holiday in this thing. i we re not on our way on holiday. we re going to an engagement! i don t wish to impose upon you. my pleasure. in that case, you might as well do the laundry while you are about here, and d
but dr harries cautions that more information is needed, particularly about the impact on elderly and more vulnerable patients. 200,000 first, second or booster appointments are being made available over the festive period across england as people are urged to getjabbed, as omicron continues to spread rapidly across the country. earlier i spoke to the university of cambridge s professor ravi gupta about the latest covid data. he told me what he believes is behind the high infections. i think that of course the number of infections is remarkably high and it is probably due to the virus being highly infectious and replicating really well in the upper airways and the nose and that is why it is spreading so quickly. we think it has taken a potential hit in other parts of its profile and it may be less prone to infecting the lower airways and causing severe lung disease so although the numbers of cases is incredibly high it may not translate into more severe disease, as we were di