The world health organisation says it believes the coronavirus pandemic will go on for a year longer than it needs to, because of the unequal distribution of vaccines. after scoring the dreaded nul points last year, the uk s eurovision hopes are put into the hands of the team behind stars like dua lipa and ellie goulding to select next year s entry. sport now, with mike bushell. good morning. once again, just when manchester united needed him most, it was christiano ronaldo who dug them out of a hole on a night when it was raining goals. four for chelsea, who swept aside malmo in london, while the latest european rescue mission at manchester united has taken them to the top
Including alzheimer s and cancer and everything else. so, you ve been on the drug for a while now. what kind of difference is it making? the difference is astronomical. we re not in pain any more and not feeling sick. and able to predict life, not having to wait for attacks to happen, which means you re generally more dependable, you re not dependent on opiate based pain relief and that leads to things like being able to succeed in a job. and sue7 i think being so much - stronger, not being in pain, being able to sleep. just being able to plan life a little bit, being able - to be a mother better, j being able to be a wife better and just live life. liz and sue are some of the first people to benefit from gene silencing medicines, but they won t be the last. james gallagher, bbc news. you may remember this year s eurovision song contest ended in humiliation for the uk whenjames newman s song embers was the only act to get the dreaded nul points .
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Well, in fact, no uk entry has made the top 10 for more than a decade, but there are hopes all those years of glorious failure may now be coming to an end. the management team behind british stars like dua lipa and ellie golding will choose our next entry for the song contest. steve holden reports. # out of the embers. # you and i gonna light up the room. the united kingdom, zero points. james newman received the dreaded nul points at this year s contest in rotterdam. # it s bigger than everything we see, yeah. it was the uk s second last placed finish in a row, after michael rice also came bottom in the previous event, in 2019. and if we re honest, british results this entire millennium haven t been great. duo gemini kickstarted the miserable run back in 2003. their song crybaby ended
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British entries to Eurovision should be picked in public talent show and nul points WASN’T Brexit revenge, says minister
Nick Gutteridge
Updated: 24 May 2021, 11:23
BRITAIN s entries to Eurovision should be picked in an X-Factor style talent show with the public voting for their favourite, a top minister has said.
Trade secretary Liz Truss insisted a radical overhaul of how our performers are picked is needed if we re ever going to win the song contest again.
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Britain s entry to this year s Eurovision flopped with Nul PointsCredit: Getty
And she insisted the Nul Points picked up by this James Newman this year wasn t down to the continent getting revenge on us for Brexit.