Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me arejennie bond, a royaljournalist and ex bbc royal correspondent and duncan larcombe, the former royal editor of the sun. Tomorrow s front pages starting with. The times, like many of the papers, has this image of the queen and the duke of edinburgh taken in balmoral in 2003, which has been released ahead of tomorrow s funeral. The mirror says the thoughts of the nation will be with the queen and the loss she will now bear to the end of her reign. The same image on the i, which also reports on pregnant women in the uk being given the green light to be vaccinated for covid. The telegraph says there ll be no eulogy or sermon at prince philip s funeral, and no members of the royal family will give readings. A message of support from the express, which opts for a different photo of the couple. The queen will say a private goodbye to her husband, before his coffin leaves for the funeral, accor
good morning. the education secretary nadhim zahawi has sought to reassure parents that the government s priority is to keep schools open. speaking this morning, he said a variety of mechanisms are being put in place for pupils as well as masks including on site testing, more ventilation and the potential for merging classes. and mr zahawi said he doesn t want students to wear masks in the classroom for a day longer than necessary. his comments come just 2a hours after new guidance was issued for secondary school pupils to return to face coverings in england s schools again. jon donnison reports. this time a year ago, schools across the country were forced to close to most pupils. 12 months on, the government says it wants to do everything it can to avoid a return to empty classrooms and home learning. in england, all secondary schools have been asked to provide on site covid tests for pupils before they return from the christmas break. the move has been cautiously welcom
emphasizing they re trying to reach out to passengers before they come to the airport so they know there is a cancellation or they know there is a delay, they won t come. so they re trying to reduce the bottlenecks. all of this is due to the covid numbers, employees calling out sick and to weather problems. looking ahead there in the forecast, there is some troublesome weather across the country in the coming week, and i think the numbers of covid cases are also rising slightly in places. if you put all that together, and with new year s coming, you would think there would be more travel as the week goes on. probably we re in the middle of this. i don t think we re at the end of it, we re not at the beginning of it, obviously, so we re probably in the middle of this. the best advice is to check with your airline before you go to the airport to make sure your flight is taking off, when it s taking off and if there is a delay or cancellation. this study of a fourth vaccine do
hello and welcome to bbc news. the united nations and the international red cross are continuing their efforts in ukraine to rescue more civilians from the besieged city of mariupol. on friday, 50 more people, including children, were evacuated from a huge steel factory complex. these are the latest pictures of some of those who ve got out. the azovstal plant is under siege by russian forces. dozens are still trapped inside. the city, in the country s south, has been under constant shelling by the russian military. the steelworks has become the last holdout of ukrainian forces who are fighting to defend mariupol. our correspondent laura bicker has sent this report from dnipro. the russian attacks continue despite promises of a cease fire, according to this unverified footage released by the ukrainian azov unit. kremlin backed troops are still firing on this vast steel plant, according to uk intelligence, while ukrainian soldiers and hundreds of civilians shelter inside. they