now, many of us remember the tv drama grange hill for its gritty storylines and very catchy theme tune. it first aired in 1978, running for 30 years, and now it is going to be turned into film with some of the original characters expected to return as grandparents. jayne mccubbin has been chatting to some of the original cast members. grange hill theme music plays. there was the theme tune. bom bom bom bom, ba na ba na nah nah, bam ba na ba na na, bow bow bow. there was the gritty realism. move your arm, fat man. it was just like a real british show, wasn t it? showing, like, kids in their natural habitats, so to speak. yeah, cheeky and naughty. what s he talking about? it s not true. controversial storylines. did you just say no in school? idid. good girl. just say no! now, like an unheard of decent school dinner, there is going to be a second helping. my name is neil mattocks. i am a higher level teaching assistant. i run a podcast about grange hill called sausage on a fork
it may be a wet and windy start to the weekend for many, but as we go into the afternoon across many western areas we should see a bit more sunshine at times. it s saturday, the 8th of january. our top story: up to 500,000 flat owners across the uk will no longer be liable for the cost of replacing dangerous cladding on their properties, under new government proposals. the plans, set to be announced by the housing secretary michael gove, would instead see developers forced to pay up to an additional $4 billion to help resolve the crisis, which has left many unable to sell their homes. our policy editor lewis goodall has more. it s estimated that more than half a million people are caught up in britain s fire safety crisis. and we can exclusively reveal the government s latest plans to deal with it. up up until now, the government s approach breakdown as follows. dangerous cutting removal would be paid for by the building safety front only for buildings of 18.5 metres in heigh
vaccination status. and the tributes pouring in for a legendary oscar-winning trailblazer. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening many of us have taken some comfort in the belief that illness from the omicron covid variant is generally mild while that s true for many, some eye opening numbers tonight from the cdc offer important perspective. children under the age of five are being hospitalized at the highest rate since the start of the pandemic. the group of course not yet eligible for vaccinations, but the unvaccinated in general are driving overall hospitalizations to the highest level in a year over 126,000 this evening president biden seeking to assure us that covid as we re dealing with it now is not here to stay we re going to begin tonight in a place where all the numbers we talk about every night here translate to people, patients and medical workers whose lives are being upended by this virus. i want to warn you some of this may not be easy
much criticism after recommending you should isolate for five days instead of ten. overseas tonight, the president of kazakhstan now delivering shoot-to-kill orders with anti-government protesters, and what the u.s. is now saying tonight. and this evening here, we celebrate the trailblazing actor and civil rights activist sidney poitier. the first black man to win the oscar for best actor. tonight, that moment with denzel washington. what oprah winfrey said just today. and sidney poitier in his own words tonight. what his mother always told him. good evening. and it s great to have you with us as we near the end of another week together, and we begin with that powerful moment in court today, the judge in the ahmaud arbery case. today he sentenced the three men in the killing of arbery in brunswick, georgia. all of them facing life in prison, but the judge had to decide whether any of them deserved a chance at parole decades from now. the judge in court carefully choosin
justices raise serious questions about whether the biden administration can mandate that america s largest companies require a covid shot. remembering sidney poitier: reactions pouring in tonight after the death of the first black man to win the oscar for best actor. you think of yourself as a colored man. i think of myself as a man. o donnell: the world s top tennis player stuck down under. tonight, what his rival rafael nadal is saying about the consequences of djokovic s vaccination status. and on the road. the heartwarming acts of kindness helpitlight this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. we are following several big stories on this friday night and we want to begin with the sentencing of three men convicted in the murder of the ahmaud arbery case. it garnered national attention after video surfaced of the men chasing and shooting