The drive to get more laptops to children to help them with Home Schooling. And how all these lockdown video calls from home have prompted an unexpected boost in business for books. And coming up on bbc news. West bromwich albion Contact Police over alleged online racist abuse of romaine sawyers. Hes the Third Premier League player to receive abuse this week. Good evening. Yet another new vaccine has been shown to be effective in major trials in just 2a hours. The latest is the janssen vaccine. Its 66 effective overall and only needs a single dose. And crucially its 85 effective against severe disease. Last night novavax announced uk trials had shown its vaccine to be 89 effective. And crucially that vaccine protects against the new more contagious uk variant. If approved the uk has millions of doses of both vaccines on order though they wouldnt be available until later in the year. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Covid Vaccine Trials keep delivering results beyond all expecta
A Government Expert says its a big step forward. It means that we can spread the vaccine around, it means that we can really start to impact on this pandemic notjust here but right the way across the world. Some Primary School children in wales could be back in the classroom after half term, if Infection Rates continue to fall. And the trailblazing African American actress cicely tyson has died at the age of 96. And coming up in sport on bbc news, Dina Asher Smith makes a winning return to International Athletics as she storms to 60 metre victory at the World Indoor Tour event in germany. Good evening. The Prime Minister says the European Union must urgently clarify its intentions over its decision to temporarily override part of the brexit deal as the row intensifies with astrazeneca over a shortfall in supplies. The eu has introduced new controls giving Member States the power to block exports of the Coronavirus Vaccine to countries including the uk should they want to. Under the bre
absolutely clear that the scottish government remains committed to supporting and empowering the lgbtqi plus community, including trans people. we will continue to build on our work across government to strengthen this. we work closely with the lgbtqi plus stakeholder group to ensure the voices of those with the experience helps improve outcomes for these communities. we are also delivering the non binary equality action plan to improve conditions for non brenktey community in scotland and the plan includes actions on their way, such as meaningfully including non binary people in decision making. are committed to consulting on an into conversion practices for both sexual orientation and gender identity detailed proposals for legislative change will be published in the new year for the conversion practices which aim to change or suppress a person s sexual orientation or gender identity are destructive acts which violate human rights. we remain committed to our work with nhs sc
have improved touch. but making ends meet still the biggest for families and firms. i can t give them the things you would like to give them, like the new books. i can t afford to do it any more. with a new promise from labour to help keep a lid on bills, we have one big question this morning is rishi sunak keeping his promise to run a professional government for us all? to answer that, james cleverly, the foreign secretary. the woman who d be your chancellor if labour win the next election rachel reeves is here. and the latest of our leaders interviews for 2023 we ll hearfrom nicola sturgeon, scotland s first minister. with me at the desk to help make sense of what that lot of have to say, the chair of tesco and imperial college, john allan, the lbc presenter and journalist, racheljohnson, and iain duncan smith tory mp who used to lead his party. good morning, thanks for being with us. it s not been a great week for the government, with a feeling that rishi sunak ca
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