actors are having to come up with new ways to ensure the show does go on this christmas! one company has even started staging performances from long running west end shows in people s front gardens! as our arts correspondent david silito has been finding out. this is normally the busiest time of year in theatreland. but this year, it s not going to be so much, it s behind you , more, it s on your doorstep. they re coming up the road now. hey, guys, i m elder cunningham. we ve got a surprise for you! come to the door! # there s a song in the air. bert and mary poppins are in the front garden of number 1a. meet doorstep productions. this is the real west end, real west end performers, coming to doorsteps. that s right. i mean, look at this theatre, it s closed. the palladium. i mean, it s heartbreaking. all the shows are shut. all my friends are unemployed. some of them have lost their homes. and i thought, hang on a minute, i could get some people some work. #supercalifra
translation: i had jotted down the dates when the probe adjusted its orbit. if there is a hayabusa 3 or 4 or even 5, i d like to be involved in the mission. that next mission on this mothership, having launched its first capsule, will boldly go examining near earth asteroids where no one has gone before. mark lobel, bbc news. now it s time for a look at the weather with tomasz schafernaker. it is going to be another chilly day especially across the south and south east of the country, frost outside of town mainly. frost is still what is across much of the uk and parts of central and western through the night she was a scattering of showers but primarily a dry night. the frost on the fog, the freezing fog across southern areas of the uk. the temperature to between 2 and plus two. the weather forecast tomorrow, fog may linger through the morning and afternoon gci’oss through the morning and afternoon across southern through the morning and afternoon across southern areas thr
workers at windsor castle to thank them for their work this year. windsor was the final stop on the duke and duchess of cambridge‘s tour of britain which has provoked some criticism from ministers in scotland and wales. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell‘s report contains flash photography. it is the season to say thank you, most particularly if you re a member of the royal family charged with expressing a nation s gratitude to all of those who ve made the difference in this most difficult year. and so, on the quadrangle of windsor castle, the queen was joined by members of her family for some festive cheer seasonal music from the salvation army, and gratitude, widely sprinkled to people who ve done so much during the pandemic. the cambridges, william and kate, were there. they ve spent the past 48 hours on the royal train, meeting key workers in different parts of great britain. a simple enough idea, you might think, except that england, scotland and wales all h
two women have been describing how they were surrounded by police in derbyshire, read their rights and fined 200 pounds after they drove 5 miles for a walk by a reservoir. current guidance says you can travel for exercise in england as long as it is in your local area . derbyshire police said they are reviewing the fines issued in this period. phil mackie reports. eliza moore and jessica allen, friends whose businesses have shut because a lockdown, decided to brave the cold and go for a socially distanced walked to try to keep their spirits up. u nfortu nately, their trip to a nearby reservoir has earned them each a £200 fine. derbyshire police have been stopping people who were driving to beauty spots because they say it is a breach of government regulations. jessica says she thought they were following the rules to the letter. we take these guidelines really seriously. my brother is a doctor who works on a covid ward. my parents have both had it was not we are trying to
to stay vigilant about scams in which criminals offer covid vaccines for a fee. in one case, a pensioner was injected with a fake covid i9 vaccine, and charged £160 by a man pretending to be a health worker. people have also been sent text messages taking them to a fake nhs website with a booking link. the bbc‘s jayne mccubbin reports. moments before this image was captured, this man injected a 92 year old with a fake covid vaccine. he claimed to be from the nhs. and then administered a jab in the arm in what has been described as a dart like instrument, charged £160, took the money from the lady and then disappeared. and just to add insult to that injury, then re attended several days later to try to solicit an extra £100. so this has been a horrendous experience for the victim. it s not known what was injected into the pensioner but a hospital check found her unharmed. this was an absolutely disgusting crime, utterly unacceptable assault and fraud, and it will not be