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good morning. the eat out to help 0ut scheme launches. more than 72,000 businesses have signed up to offer half price meals paid by the government. will it be enough to save struggling hospitality firms? i m in watford to find out. a major incident is declared in greater manchester as officials ramp up their response to a rising number of covid i9 cases. good number of covid i9 cases. morning. the most dramatic ending to a formula i race the world champion can remember. lewis hamilton crosses the line at silverstone on three wheels to win the british grand prix for the seventh time. splashdown! a safe landing for the first astronauts to splash down in us waters in 45 years. and we saw out last week with our third highest temperature ever recorded. this week, the heat is back by friday but we start on a rather cool note. i will have all the details here on breakfast. it s monday the third of august. our top story: millions of new tests for coronavirus that can give a res ....
good morning. last year was the hottest late august bank holiday on record. this year, it could well be the coolest. the forecast is a largely dry one. after a bright start, more cloud develops, but i will have all the details coming up. good morning. it s monday august 31st. our top story: labour is calling for next year s gcse and a level exams to be delayed to give pupils more time to catch up on the work they ve missed during the pandemic. teaching unions say the idea is worth considering, but warned that it could cause problems for university admissions. our political correspondent, helen catt, has more. it has only been a few weeks since this year s students got their final grades, but what to do about next yea r‘s grades, but what to do about next year s exams grades, but what to do about next yea r‘s exams is grades, but what to do about next year s exams is a question that s already testing politicians, and it is 1 dayer under pressure not to flunk. labour ....
in an infringement procedure. how italy once the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic has managed to get its infection rate lower than many european countries. save the whales! the operation to clear a loch of a pod of whales, before huge naval exercises get under way. the empire windrush brings to britain 500 jamaicans. and, at the start of black history month, its organisers say it s more important than ever in the wake of the black lives matter movement. and coming up on bbc news. they ve said they re sorry, but will phil foden and mason greenwood be named in the england squad today after breaking quarantine rules in iceland? good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. restrictions on households mixing indoors, already in place in parts of the north east of england, are to be extended to liverpool, warrington, hartlepool and middlesbrough. the announcement from the health secretary, matt hancock, means about a third of the uk is now under stricter measure ....
the eu begins legal action against the uk government because of its plans to override parts of the brexit withdrawal deal. the commission has decided to send a letter of formal notice to the uk government. this is the first step in an infringement procedure. how italy, once the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, has managed to get its infection rate lower than many european countries. and at the start of black history month, we hear from the director of the uk s leading race equality think tank on why this year it s more important than ever. hello, thanks for joining hello, thanks forjoining us. restrictions on households mixing indoors already in place in parts of the north east of england are to be extended to liverpool, warrington, hartlepool and middlesbrough. the announcement from the health secretary matt hancock means about a quarter of the uk is now under stricter measures to try to curb the spread of coronavirus. it comes as official figures show the govern ....
which changes the situation. to india, where there has been an outburst of anger over violence against women, as a second woman has died after being gang raped. both deaths have occurred this week in the northern state of uttar pradesh. the family of the latest victim, a 22 year old, told the bbc she was dragged into a vehicle after going to apply for admission at a local school. this happened in balrampur district, that s 500km from hathras district where a 19 old women died on tuesday, a fortnight after being gang raped. that case has sparked protests. these pictures are from new delhi. as you can see, police tried to disrupt this protest. much of the outrage has been focused on a dispute over the police decision to quickly cremate the victim s body. this is her mother. under indian law, we cannot show you herface. translation: i spent the whole night crying. i didn t know what had happened. they could have shown us her body and let us conduct the last rites. one does ....