brighter weather. temperatures slowly starting to pick up. that s how it s back to a blustery day with a mixture of sunny skies followed by those downpours. temperatures maybe lifting a little bit on recent days with tuesday a ridge of high pressure building, notice future showers on the map. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. after more than two weeks of thrilling sporting action, the tokyo olympic games end with a spectacular closing ceremony. more gold medals for team gb lauren price wins the women s middleweight final, and cyclist jason kenny, becomes the country s most decorated olympian. another provincial capital in afghanistan falls to the taliban as they continue to make ferocious assaults against key northern cities. thousands flee their homes in greece as forest fires burn out of control. the country faces its most intense heatwave in more than 30 years. new changes to the uk s covid travel restrictions come into force. double vaccinated people travelling fro
hear a tale we don t do ourselves any favors by underestimating the cultural penetration these little songs had in this culture. whatever happened to the tv theme song? you re gonna make it after all outside of your own songs, what s your favorite team theme? ever? ever. i loved green acres because i grew up in a town called green acres. green acres is the place to be fun living is the life for me land spreading out so far and wide, you can keep manhattan, just give me the countryside you are my wife, goodbye city life. green acres, we are there outside of your own amazing show which i love, i have to say that, what is your favorite tv theme song? the brady bunch. here s the story of a lovely lady who is bringing up three very lovely girls because i like when the song tells the story of the serioes. and i was very influenced with that growing up. it s the story of a man named brady who was busy with three boys of his own
thousands of pro palestinian protesters marched to the gates of the israeli embassy. wreath laying services have been held across the uk and around the world to mark the centenary of the royal british legion. leicester city lift the fa cup for the first time as youri tieleman s stunning long range goal earned the foxes victory over chelsea at wembley. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are geraldine scott, the westminster correspondent at the yorkshire post and conservative commentator, tim montgomerie. tomorrow s front pages. borisjohnson is under pressure to reconsider monday s relaxation of coronavirus restrictions due to the indian variant, says the observer. but the sunday express says the prime minister cannot afford to panic , with mps and business urging him to stick to the roadmap. the sunday telegraph says that the government wants to vaccinate as many as a million people a day in order to beat the varia
of a much bigger roman villa complex from the third or fourth centuries. excavations were carried out this summer in a farmer s field in rutland, but the discovery was made in 2020 by the farmer s son, jim irvine. it was amazing, really. i mean, the level of preservation. he found some pottery fragments, then checked satellite imagery and noticed the outline of what looked like ancient buildings. and this is the the mosaics in this section, all of this. so the family came back on a sunny day with some spades and started digging. you can only tell so much from a map and from some crop marks. until you actually dig a hole, you don t really know what s in it, so that was a good day out. we didn t really know what we had. so i expanded the hole up a bit until we came across what was obviously rare roman mosaic tiles, at which point things went a bit silent in the group and we realised what we had. late roman pottery gives us a date of third, fourth century ad. the university of l
are again being asked to work from home where possible as part of a tightening of covid measures. northern ireland has the highest infection rate in the uk, and it s been climbing in recent days, with ministers at stormont saying that hospital admissions are up and will increase further in the coming weeks. scotland s first minister today said the vaccine passport system for entry to hospitality venues would not be extended, as cases there have fallen slightly. but all four uk nations are on alert in the face of rising covid numbers across europe. our health editor hugh pym reports. there s a stronger message on working from home in northern ireland, so businesses like this restaurant in belfast fear they ll lose out, with fewer people going into the city centre each day. we ve worked really hard, and now it seems to be that people are cancelling. we re getting all of our stock in, getting ready. we have all of our staff organised, and unfortunately now, it may not look like