Populations at very low risk. Police prepare to excavate a cafe in gloucester, searching for mary bastholm she disappeared in 1968, and it s thought she may have been murdered by the serial killer, fred west. When mary went missing in 1968, she was wearing a blue coat, a blue and white dress and a blue bag. From looking at the material, i can t say if it s a bag or a coat or dress but what i can say is, it s a blue bit of material within a void. Palestinian protestors and israeli security forces clash in the west bank town of bethlehem president biden hasjoined calls for a ceasefire in the conflict between israel and hamas. Hospital admissions for obesity related treatment in england reach a record high of more than a million a year. And coming up, kiyan prince the teenage footballer who was killed in a knife attack 15 years ago is honoured virtually with an appearance in computer game fifa 21. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The prime minister says he will be able to t
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 the uk nation
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 drop weekl
launched to raise money to build a memorial in st paul s cathedral to those who ve died as a result of coronavirus. costing £2.3 million, it would be the first new structure of its kind inside st paul s for 150 years. charlotte wright reports. for centuries, st paul s cathedral has been a place to reflect on significant international events, which is why campaigners say it s a fitting site for this, a covid memorial. designed by an architect who himself lost his mother during the pandemic. there are now over 100,000 other families who will have gone through that same sense of dislocating anguish. and, for us, i think a memorial could not be more important. the plan is to build the memorial here at the north door, the site of a porch that was bombed during world war ii. and visitors will walk through to an area of reflection, where there will be a digital book of condolence and they can call up entries, including photos and epitaphs. more than 7,300 names have already been up
eileen had never met. hello, eileen. diane was her telephone friend throughout the pandemic and today they were able to meet face to face at last. i think it makes a big difference that somebody cares. how much difference having someone you could talk to? terrific. we ve had a good laugh, haven t we? we just realised that we at the same sense of humour i think and i would tell her tales and it would make her laugh, so i would tell her some more and i would stop you. just worked out really well. eileen has been on her own since losing her husband but there s many like her and age uk has lottery funding to maintain the telephone service. we found we had a lot of people volunteer to wanted to do it you have been furloughed and a lot of customers wanting to come on board who needed some extra support, so that is how the project snowballed. and those like diane who volunteered with the telephone service found the rewards flowed both ways. it must have been important to you as well