now on bbc news, it is the travel show. coming up on the show getting up close to an american icon in new york. now for the the piece de resistance. the original torch. wow! cooking up a michelin star takeaway in singapore. so this is the chef extraordinaire, hawker chan. and i m on the hunt for london s fast disappearing red phone boxes. if you say london , it is the telephone it s the red telephone box. hello and welcome to the travel show with me, christa larwood, still here at home in london. but as you can see, some things are starting to return to normal and fingers crossed we will be back out on the road sometime soon. until then, this week, let s take a look at some of our favourite trips to the world s most vibrant cities here on the show. well, new york is always one of our favourite attractions. maybe it s the sheer noise, bustle and knowledge that, under normal circumstances, it really does feel like the city that never sleeps. and back in 2019, lucy was luck
cases across the uk, with levels back to those seen at the end of last summer. the office for national statistics estimates around one in 1,000 people had the virus last week. 0ur health editor hugh pym reports. the spires of oxford, with the mood matching the weather. there s not been a single reported covid death in the city for 60 days. quite lucky. and local people i spoke to today said they were more encouraged about the way things were progressing. people seem a lot calmer in themselves. they re not so. yeah, and i think when you re out in town it just feels a bit like, a bit more normal. i ve been taking him to baby groups and i wouldn t have dreams of doing that a few months ago. dreamed of doing that a few months ago. we both stayed in for 14 months and we re glad to be out. - it feels like we ve got more freedom, we can do more things, and yeah, we can socialise more because of the vaccines and everything, so, yeah. case rates continued falling last week in all t
aren t they wonderful pictures? if you want to read more about james journey, his latest book is called its all mental: a story of resilience and determination, in your mind. those pictures reminded me of the late great wing commander ken wallace who took his autogyro around the world. and it was seen in the james bond film you only live twice. now it s time for a look at the weather with ben rich. showers eventually developed at the tail end of april and we brought them with us into the start of make them with us into the start of make the sunshine and showers for the most of the weekend. a continued risk old and frosty nights as well. through the rest of the day, showers becoming quite widespread into the afternoon with some heavy, possibly thundery and a very slow moving as well because the winds will be light but as always in the scenarios, laces and avoid all the showers and stay completely dry with temperatures struggling at 8 11; c at best and those temperatures will
that in the next few hours. those are the headlines. now on bbc news: the travel show. coming up on the show getting up close to an american icon in new york. now for the the piece de resistance. the original torch. wow! cooking up a michelin star takeaway in singapore. so this is the chef extraordinaire, hawker chan. and i m on the hunt for london s fast disappearing red phone boxes. if you say london , it s the telephone it s the red telephone box. hello and welcome to the travel show with me, christa larwood, still here at home in london. but as you can see, some things are starting to return to normal and fingers crossed we will be back out on the road sometime soon. until then, this week, let s take a look at some of our favourite trips to the world s most vibrant cities here on the show. well, new york is always one of our favourite attractions. maybe it s the sheer noise, bustle and knowledge that, under normal circumstances, it really does feel like the city that
who was in charge of the man who carried out the fatal attacks at fishmongers hall in london has told an inquest that he had no indication he was being deceived by usman khan. but he admitted there had been some prison intelligence that khan might return to his old ways . daniel sandford has more. the disastrous consequences of allowing a recently released, high risk convicted terrorist travel alone to london. the battle on london bridge, with usman khan, who had just stabbed two people to death. saskia jones and jack merritt had been involved with learning together, a prison education organisation whose events khan had been attending. khan had been a difficult prisoner, involved in violence against other inmates and radicalisation. he had improved his behaviour but there was intelligence suggesting that he might go back to his old ways. the inquests into the deaths of saskia jones and jack merritt have heard that it was usman khan s probation officer, ken skelton, who auth