In paris, workers are finally preparing to begin the huge Restoration Project. This is one of the thousand Oak Trees that have been specially selected for Notre Dame. Smaller Tree Trunks will be used to rebuild the medieval rafters. Big ones like this will go to reconstruct the spire. And while the Coronavirus Pandemic has kept most of us Locked Down its given the Animal World loads more freedom. We thought that animals for example, penguins in South Africa have survived perfectly well, we think. But in fact, when we retreated we discovered that the penguins actually normally would be doing very much better than they have been doing for decades. Good Afternoon And Welcome to Bbc News. The number of people waiting to start Hospital Treatment in england has reached a Record High of 4. 7 million people. The figure, from The End of february, is the highest since records began in 2007. There were also nearly 388,000 patients waiting more than a year for non urgent surgery compared with 1,60
England. We will see some of that patchy cloud bubbling up elsewhere when it should be dry with some spells of sunshine. Temperatures typically 11 to 13 degrees, higher in western scotland, but chilly are feeling in the showers in the south east in the breeze. Those will fade. High pressure in charge keeping those high temperatures at bay for the time being. The cloud will build up and probably spread out More over and mined areas of the best of the sunshine is likely to be around. Out into the afternoon and it should be a dry day with temperatures not changing a great deal on friday. Into the weekend We Saw weather fronts lurking in the North West and they will push More Cloud Into Scotland and Northern Ireland and in the far North West we could see some Rain On Sunday but for the weekend as a whole it looks generally try and fine with some sunshine. Temperatures recovering a bit across the eastern side of england and hopefully it will not be quite as cold at night. Thats all from the
For the first and second dose is being expanded to include new vaccines and more volunteers. An inquest into the death Of Jack Merrick and Saskia Jones has heard from another victim who was also stabbed at Fishmongers Hall in 2019. Climate talks between the worlds two biggest polluters us envoyjohn kerry hopes to persuade beijing to agree new targets on cutting Greenhouse Gas emissions. And the countdown is on its 100 days until the opening Of the Summer Olympic Games in tokyo. Hello, good afternoon. Mps will vote this afternoon on whether there should be a parliamentary inquiry into the Lobbying Activities Of the former Prime Minister David Cameron. Labour says a Government Investigation into Mr Camerons work for the collapsed firm, Greensill Capital, is insufficient. A debate in the commons is under way and at Prime Ministers questions Boris Johnson admitted it wasnt clear the boundaries between Whitehall And Business had been properly understood. The labour leader, sir keir starmer,
On dorset sJurassic Coast have collapsed, including 300 metres of Cliff East of seatown. Mps have voted against a parliamentary inquiry into the lobbying activities of the former Prime Minister David Cameron. Calls to examine the relationship between civil servants, politicians, and private firms have intensified in the past week following revelations about mr camerons efforts to influence ministers on behalf of Finance Firm Greensill capital, which recently collapsed. The Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer called for the investigation. Speaking in the commons this afternoon, he said the Grensill Scandal was just the tip of the iceberg with, in his words, dodgy contracts, privileged access, jobs for their mates, this is the return of tory sleaze. But borisjohnson said the tories had been consistently tough on lobbying. The Prime Minister said the governments proper, independent review would examine the Issue And Report back by The End ofjune. So what is the connection between Grensill Capi