sides in the champions league quarterfinals. chelsea join liverpool and manchester city in the last eight, after a convincing win over the spanish league leaders atletico madrid. keeping beauty spots beautiful when the covid restrictions lift why landowners want more people to pay attention to the countryside code. good morning. today once again is going to be fairly cloudy for most with some patchy rain coming down the east of the country. the best of the east of the country. the best of the sunshine in the south west and also central and eastern parts of scotland. i will have all the details later in the programme. it s thursday the 18th of march. our top story. people under the age of 50 are unlikely to get their first dose of a covid vaccine before the end of april because of what nhs england is calling a significant reduction in supply. it s understood to have been caused by a delay in the manufacture of millions of doses of the oxford astrazeneca vaccine in india.
clots were reported in a small number of people. hundreds of patients may have had do not resuscitate decisions placed on them during the pandemic, without them or their families knowing the care regulator calls for urgent action. people seeking asylum in the uk could be sent abroad while their cases are being processed, under a plans for a major overhaurl of the immigration system expected to be set out next week. and coming up this hour keeping beauty spots beautiful why landowners want more people to pay attention to to the countryside code. good morning and welcome to bbc news. the government is facing questions over why there s to be a significant reduction in covid vaccine supplies from the end of this month. it is understood a delivery of millions of doses of the oxford astrazeneca jab, produced by the serum institute of india, has been held up by four weeks. after opening up appointments to all over 50s on wednesday, nhs england says jabs should now not be off
weather front at the moment and that s how it s going to stay, broadly speaking, across most of the uk. for many of us it s going to be chilly actually, that s not entirely true because in one or two spots across the country it has turned very mild, even warm, despite most of the uk being shrouded with cloud. what s happening is high pressure is located just to the west of ireland. it is influencing our weather. the winds are coming in from the north but the clouds have been breaking up across parts of eastern and south eastern scotland, so this is where we ve had the highest temperatures. in fact, around perth at the moment, it s around 17.8 celsius, making it the warmest day of the year so far for scotland. elsewhere you can see much thicker cloud, colder, temperaturesjust cloud, colder, temperatures just about cloud, colder, temperaturesjust about into double figures this afternoon and this evening the cloud will thicken and produce some rain, just like in the last 2a hour
of its programme making out of london, over the next six years. a remarkable collection of handwritten letters from diana princess of wales to a friend are being sold at auction to raise money for arts charities. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. ministers have sought to reassure people about the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine, amid a reduction in supply which means most people in their 40s will now have to wait till may for a jab. the government insists it will still offer all adults their first dose by the end ofjuly but in the commons earlier today the health secretary confirmed supplies would become tighter in the weeks ahead. the bbc understands a delay in the delivery of 5 million doses of the oxford astrazeneca jab from india is one factor. but matt hancock said no vaccine appointments booked would be cancelled and people would still get their second dose as planned. katharine da costa reports. this vaccination centre in south west london is one of hundreds